FE ReportSome 50 solar and renewable energy entrepreneurs have formed a new platform named 'Bangladesh Solar and Renewable Energy Association (BSREA)' aiming to popularise the usage of solar power across the country.Founding Chairman of Bright Green Energy Foundation Dipal Barua...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has requested the visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to introduce direct banking channel between the two countries to accelerate bilateral trade.The request to the Turkish Prime Minister was made when he met him at...
The country's consumer rights protection department Saturday conducted drive against adulteration of food in three city markets and realised fine worth Tk 119,000 from traders.The monitoring team members of the consumer rights protection department conducted the drive under the Consumers'...
Trading of carbon credit is nothing but giving opportunity to some developed countries and their multinational companies in running carbon emission at the same or higher rate in a legal way, said speakers Saturday.Moving to this trading would hamper the...
NEW YORK, Nov 13: The much vaunted G20 summit, as anticipated earlier, ended yesterday failing to grapple with the twin problems of trade imbalances and currency adjustments. President Obama even failed to clinch the free trade agreement with trusted ally...
A dialogue on health and education some months ago, while conceding that the crisis in human health is a worldwide problem and that there is no easy solution to it, concluded that the most effective way to tackle ill health...
THE government has fixed a target to generate 10 per cent of total electricity from renewable energy by 2020. It is exploring all possible options for increasing power generation. Use of renewable energy will have to be increased to meet...
The trend of drug addiction is no more limited within the students and youth at the university level, it has spread to young boys and girls of schools and colleges. According to a number of studies and also reports published...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the only regulatory body of the capital market. The main function of the body is to protect the interest of the investors.The SEC verifies many factors related to the capital market and then...
Where is our sense of values in Bangladesh? We have ignored the salutary human endeavor of Musa Ibrahim who in his first effort climbed Mt. Everest, against a cruel environment totally unknown in Bangladesh! It is an example of determination,...
Introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat that diabetes as imminent epidemic, World Diabetes Day (WDD) is celebrated every year on November...
A knowledgeable teacher of finance told this writer to consider 10% as cost of capital while facing a dilemma or difficulty. Clearly it is a naive but handsome method. But this rule can not be applied all the time whether...
A CorrespondentHABIGANJ, Nov 13: Agar cultivation has been increasing at two upazilas in Habiganj district. There are 145 hectares land has been cultivated for plantation of Agar tree at Putijury Forest Range under Bahubal Upazila in the district. At lest...
Our CorrespondentGAIBANDHA, Nov 13: An official of Fire Service and Civil Defence Department (FSCDD) in a function here Friday evening said properties worth TK 9.28 million were saved from 78 fire incidents in the district in last nine months till...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Nov 13: Blacksmiths in the district are passing their days in acute economic hardships with the slump in their business. Already many of them have left their traditional profession due sharp fall in their income.Aidul Mondol (52),...
RANGPUR, Nov 13 (BSS): Three persons, including a life-term convict, were killed in separate incidents at different places in the district during the past 48 hours till Saturday morning, police sources said. Life term convict in a murder case Ramzan...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Nov 13: The medical centre of Rajshahi University (RU) is gripped with multifarious problems including scarcity of medicines, lack of modern equipment and short age of doctors, ambulance, beds and fund constraints.The RU medical centre was established...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Nov 13: Agriculture loan distribution and recovery programme by Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) Sarail branch was held at Jaidharkandi village on Thursday. BKB Deputy General Manager (DGM) and Chief Regional Manager for Brahmanbaria AF Hossain Ahmed distributed the...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 13 (UNB): A worker of a steel mill was killed and six others were injured in a boiler explosion at Panchlaish Thana in the city Friday.The deceased was identified as Jakir Hossain (30) of Tanore Upazila in Rajshahi...
Two killed in road mishapsA motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured in a road accident at Sutrapur in the Bogra district town Friday night. The deceased was identified as Bidyut, (25), son of late Aminul Karim Dulal,...
LONDON, Nov 13 (Agencies): Chinese shares led world markets lower Friday amid mounting concerns Beijing will raise interest rates to cool its overheating economy. Investors also found scant cheer from a meeting of global leaders in South Korea that did...
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Nov 13 (AFP): Russian President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the signing of a one-billion-dollar deal with Japanese and Chinese firms for a fertiliser plant, despite diplomatic tensions with Tokyo.Russian government-affiliated Ammoni signed a contract with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...
SHANGHAI, Nov 13 (AFP): Chinese stocks closed down 5.16 per cent Friday, as investors scrambled to bank profits before the government introduces any new monetary tightening measures, dealers said.The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, was...
NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Commodity Online): Gold and oil plunged at weekend close Friday after the greenback strengthened amid a Chinese move to raise key rates.Gold futures on the Comex Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange suffered a sharp...
ROME, Nov 13 (Commodity Online): The global cereal production would be 2239 million tons for the year 2010-11 which is one per cent lower than the 2261 million tons for 2009-2010, said Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN arm...
DAKAR, Nov 13 (Commodity Online): West African country Senegal is expecting the 2010-2011 peanut harvest to be its most productive in 35 years and is forecasting good yields for millet and rice.According to country's agricultural ministry, the harvest will exceed...
MUMBAI, Nov 13 (PTI): The BSE benchmark sensex declined sharply by 848 points and the Nifty by 241 points following all-round selling led by realty, banking, PSU and metal segments due to weak industrial output data amid distinctly sluggish global...
MINSK, Belarus, Nov 13 (Commodity Online): Belarus said it would cut the amount of oil it gets from Russian in 2011 by 50 per cent as it looks to other suppliers, the country's president said.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday...
MECCA, Nov 13 (AFP): Muslim pilgrims dressed in white robes descended in their hundreds of thousands on Mecca for weekly prayers on Friday, two days ahead of the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.All streets leading to the grand mosque...
KABUL, Nov 13 (AFP): The Taliban Saturday launched a pre-dawn attack on a NATO base while eight people, including six civilians, died in a separate motorcycle bombing, the latest deadly violence in Afghanistan.Eight militant fighters were killed in a firefight...
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