Sheikh Shahariar ZamanShip-breaking industry is back to business as the government has permitted the ship-breakers to import about 20 ships after a break of eight months.Department of Shipping has issued no-objection certificate in the current month for importing scrap vessels...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has viewed that there was no legal bar for the government to execute the High Court verdict in evicting BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia from her Dhaka Cantonment house on Saturday, reports UNB.Briefing newsmen Sunday he said...
In the FE's issue on Sunday (November 14), there was an error in the third line of the front-page report under the title -- Khaleda leaves cantt house. The day was wrongly published there as Sunday in place of Saturday....
Export earnings from USA, the largest market for Bangladeshi goods, registered a robust growth in July this year totaling US$ 446.61 million, which is 24.57 per cent of the country's total export income for the month, reports UNB.The export earnings...
FE ReportThe sellers of various cattle food items, like straw, grass and jackfruit leaves, are making windfall profit on the eve of the Eid-ul-Azha."This year the business of these items is very good, as the pace of cattle sale is...
FE Report Bangladesh government would upgrade the Lalmonirhat-Burimari Road under the $1.0 billion Indian credit for boosting business between Bangladesh and India through the Burimari landport, officials said Wednesday.Finance ministry officials said Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has undertaken a...
Munima SultanaBangladesh will have to develop a number of container depots to get the benefits of the connectivity among member countries covered by Asian highway and trans-Asian railway. The country has only one standard container depot at Kamalapur Railway Station.The...
Jobsbd.com, the pioneer job portal of the country, is going to arrange an advanced workshop on "Wireless Technology (WiFi and WiMAX)".The workshop will be held on November 26, 2010 (Friday), according to a press release.The workshop has been initiated in...
FE Report A three-day international multi-industrial exhibition, organised by ExpoNet Exhibition (Pvt) Limited, will begin in the city in January next, said a press release.A large number of international companies will take part in the exhibition. In this connection, a...
Net Asset Value (NAV) of ten Mutual Funds (MFs), managed by ICB Asset Management Company Ltd (AMCL), was announced at the close of business operation on November 9.ICB AMCL First MF has reported NAV of Tk 808.83 per unit on...
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,...
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