Tim Frank, General Manager Middle East and Subcontinent Associates, TNT Express will be visiting Bangladesh from today (Sunday) to December 7.Tim Frank is visiting Bangladesh in the context of aggressive growth strategy undertaken by TNT Express Bangladesh in recent times.During...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is likely to continue maintaining a tight monetary policy to defuse inflationary pressures on the economy, the Citigroup has said." … While both the policy rates and the cash-reserve ratio have been raised over...
Main opposition BNP will not join the parliament session that begins today (Sunday), the party's front ranking leader Moudud Ahmed MP said Saturday, reports UNB.The ninth parliament will go into its seventh session at 4.0pm today. The last session was...
Nazmul AhsanThe Group of the least developed countries (LDCs) unanimously elected Bangladesh as their coordinator at a meeting held at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters, Geneva on the first day of the current month, a top trade official said.The...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government would finalise the draft five-year plan by the middle of this month, revising some macro-economic indicators in line with the Finance Ministry's upward resources income projection, officials said Saturday.Planning Ministry officials said they have taken the...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith hinted Saturday that agriculture subsidy in the current fiscal might be increased from the proposed Tk 40 billion (4,000 crore), reports UNB. "Agriculture subsidy might not be contained at Tk 40b during the current fiscal. There...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government plans to set new criteria for selection of Commercially Important Person (CIP) in the field of industries, in a bid to award the status on the basis of volume of contribution to the industrial sector.The CIP...
FE ReportAt least 10 people, including two policemen, were injured following a clash between the law-enforcers and garment workers that jolted Ashulia industrial area Saturday.Hundreds of riot police members, guarding the factories at the country's key apparel hub, lobbed tear-gas...
The biennial elections of the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), one of the largest chambers in the country, has been postponed following gross allegations of fake voters inclusion in the voters list, reports UNB.Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong has...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 4: Country's former fastest runner and gold winner of SAF Games Mahbub Alam has been killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Narayanganj. Kanchpur highway police station chief Shahriar Hossain said Mahbub died on the spot...
COMILLA, Dec 4: Local people lynched three suspected robbers at Eliotganj Bazar near Daudkandi in Comilla early Saturday, police said. They said, quoting local people that the unidentified victims were running away after killing one Sirajul Islam, 48, from Telia...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over many places of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Sunday). Light fog may occur over the river basins...
Khalilur RahmanDespite stern warnings issued by the government from time to time, prices of essentials, particularly flour, onion and edible oil, continue to maintain rising trend. The Financial Express in its issue of Saturday reported that even after the fixation...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 4: Shares of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation worth Tk 627.4 million will be offloaded through the capital market with next three months.Declared price of each share will be Tk 100 and premium will be added to the price,...
FE ReportAn international study has disclosed that arsenic toxicity deleteriously impacts labour supply of Bangladesh which affects the struggling economy of the country.Word Health Organisation (WHO) called it "largest mass poisoning of a population in history".According to the research, published...
KATHMANDU, Dec. 4 (Xinhua): Nepali government has forwarded the Electricity Trade Agreement dossier to India seeking a free power market. According to Saturday's Republica daily, if India endorses this agreement, Nepal will be able to trade power in free market....
FE ReportDhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) President Shakil Rizvi Saturday urged investors to be cautious about investment decision in the capital market. He made the caution while speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of Pearl Institute of Financial...
Monira MunniThe government will sit today (Sunday) with the oil refiners to fix prices of pet bottled and brand edible oil to rein in the recent unusual hike of the essential item in the local market, officials said.The price of...
FE ReportPeople of Bangladesh along with other nations of the world protested in Cancun, Mexico Thursday against the role of the developed countries and demanded to keep the World Bank (WB) out of climate financing.The people under the banner of...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 4 (UNB): Dhaka-Chittagong highway was blocked for two hours following death of a local in road accident at Lolati in Sonargaon early Saturday.The deceased was identified as Mojibur Rahman, 55, son of Abbas Ali of Lolati village at...
Household belongings of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from her vacated Dhaka Cantonment house had been shifted for the second day (Saturday), reports UNB.The goods were shifted in presence of her representatives from 11 am to 6:55 pm.Wives of Sayeed Eskender...
Distinguished discussants at a seminar with its theme, Bangladesh: The Next Investment Destination, in a city hotel last Wednesday observed many positives and negatives about the investment situation in Bangladesh, particularly for foreign direct investments (FDIs). But the bottom line...
There are many kinds of knowledge and there are many kinds of ignorance, said one development philosopher sometime in the 1980s. A national workshop conducted by BARCIK (Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge) last Sunday (November 28, 2010), brought home...
Sometime ago the immediate past chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told the media that regular drug addicts are to found even in the ranks of the police these days. This observation of the erstwhile DMP chief underlined how...
IN 1950's and 1960's a person could meet his food, accommodation and miscellaneous expenses within Taka 100/- to 200/- only in Dhaka. But in 2010 no person can anyhow live and survive in Dhaka if the source of his or...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Ltd, BTCL has raised its overseas call charges, at least in case of the UK for sure, by as much as three and a half times the previous rate. Since mid-August, 2010, they are charging at...
Inward flow of foreign remittance to our country is fluctuating for the last few months. The last financial year has passed bagging 13.25 per cent growth over the previous financial year. Foreign remittance is the major source of foreign currency...
It is a tragedy that people in Bangladesh like in many other developing countries could never really choose the right men or women to be elected as their right representatives in the parliament because they could never have a chance...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 (agencies): At least 40 people were killed in what officials described a historic "firestorm" near Israel's port city of Haifa Thursday.A bus loaded with police and prison guards heading to a security prison near the conflagration lost...
WARSAW, Dec 3, 2010 (AFP) - Sub-zero weather claimed 17 victims in Central Europe over the past 24 hours, including 12 deaths in Poland alone, raising the week's weather-related death toll to 45 across the region, officials said.Thirty of those...
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