RANGAMATI, May 8 (BSS): US Ambassador to Bangladesh James F Moriarty is likely to inaugurate a sanctuary and eco-park at Sukbilash forests under Razasthali Upazila of the district tomorrow (Sunday).The Ministry of Environment and Forests has been implementing the project...
The inaugural ceremony of Driving Instructor's Training Programme organised by Accident Research Institute (ARI), BUET will be held today (Sunday) at 10 am in the seminar room of Civil Engineering Building, says a press release.
RAJSHAHI, May 8 (BSS): Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen Friday said that housing areas would be built on both sides of the major rivers after dredging and river training to help increasing water flow in the rivers as well...
Our CorrespondentChittagong, May 8: The sector commanders' forum in Chittagong asked the people to foil conspiracy against trial of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1971.Several hundred people including women, children and freedom fighters formed a human chain and...
Syed Fahim Munaim recently joined Maasranga Television, a concern of Square Group, as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Editor, says a press release. He served English newspaper 'The Daily Star' as its executive editor prior to his new assignment....
The government is preparing to observe vitamin A+ campaign on May 29 to feed over 20 million under-5 children vitamin A capsules and de-worming tablets, reports UNB.The national vitamin A+ campaign is observed twice every six months with a view...
FE ReportThe government must roll out a master plan for fixing the country's nagging energy crisis in the upcoming budget if it wants to win local and foreign investors' confidence in the economy, an influential chamber leader said Saturday. Dhaka...
Nazmul AhsanThe final draft of the ' Expatriate Welfare Bank Act, 2010', submitted to the Ministry of Finance last week, has proposed fixation of the initial paid-up capital of the bank at Tk.1.0 billion. According to the draft act, the...
FE Report Thousands of launch crew left water for high-land Saturday as their indefinite strike over wage hike snapped communications in some of the country's remotest coastal districts, stranding passengers at the main river terminals.People travelling to and from southern...
S M JahangirA 0.5 per cent cut in the interest rate on the state-run savings instruments and reduction of the investment ceilings are under study of the government, officials said. A high-profile committee recently in its report recommended the cut...
BNP chairperson and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia said Saturday that the protest and uprising against injustice, misrule and autocracy of the government would ensue from Saturday's rally, reports UNB."I sincerely believe that the protest and uprising...
FE ReportCitigroup has forecasted that the 12-month average Consumers Price Index (CPI) inflation might exceed the budgetary target and hit 7.0 per cent by the end of this fiscal. "We expect the CPI to average 7.0 per cent year on...
FE ReportThe European Union has urged the government to allow 'independent' functioning of the anti-graft watchdog, saying it is an important element to democracy and development. "The Anti-Corruption Commission should be independent-financially and politically," Stefan Frowein, head of the EU...
LONDON, May 8, 2010 (AFP) - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg held talks with his party's lawmakers Saturday as he mulls over a power-sharing deal with the Conservatives to solve Britain's political impasse.The Liberal Democrats, the third-biggest party, are responding...
A mother and her four-year-old daughter were found dead in their residence at Shanir Akhra in the city's Kadamtoli Saturday, police said. The police recovered the bodies of Yasmin Begum (26) and her daughter Tanha Akter at about 7:30am after...
In a fresh move, the government is going to release 1,000 prisoners under five categories. The decision was taken Saturday evening when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sat in a meeting with jail authorities where Home Minister Sahara Khatun was also...
Mahmudur RahmanThe stiff upper lip has given way through the decades but the British General elections continue to present a boring spectacle in many ways. As analysts tried to decipher the implications of what appears to be a hung parliament,...
Petrol pump and tank lorry owners and workers will go for an indefinite strike from today (Sunday) to press home their 13-point demand, reports UNB.The demands include raising commission on the sale of petrol from the present 2 per cent...
FE Report More than 10 per cent women entrepreneurs discontinues their businesses as a sequel to corruption in obtaining licences having access to credit and marketing their products.This was expressed at a meeting on "engaging women entrepreneurs in anti-corruption reform...
FE ReportThe World Bank (WB) has approved to provide US$ 257 million under its Investment Promotion and Financing Facility (IPFF) project for facilitating local infrastructure development, especially for building small power plants.The fund would help implement several Private-Public Partnership (PPP)...
A Z M AnasThe government has stepped up efforts to accelerate overseas recruitment and cut migration costs in a strategy aimed at curbing the dominance of private recruiters, officials said Friday.Officials at the Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry acknowledged...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, May 8: Stock markets in the US, Europe and Asia experienced another day of turmoil amid fears that a debt default by Greek "could paralyse the world's financial system."European Union monetary affairs commissioner painted a very...
BRUSSELS, May 8 (AFP): European air traffic faced growing disruption Saturday as an ash cloud from an Iceland volcano threatened to close airports as far east as Spain's Barcelona or Marseille in France, controllers warned."During the day, the area affected...
Monira MunniLocally-made specialised steel furniture for hospital use has grabbed a significant portion of the market share of the growing health service in the country.The manufacturers are now supplying at least 40 per cent, which is worth Tk 500 million,...
FE ReportPrices of fish and vegetables saw an upward trend, which sources blamed on short supply in the city's kitchen market last week.A pair of small Hilsha fishes were selling at Tk 500-Tk 600 while shrimp was priced at Tk...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of its two unit funds, said a press release.ICB AMCL Unit Fund: The total NAV of ICB AMCL Unit...
Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanA Chittagong-based IT research institute Thursday unveiled plans to assemble low-cost cell phones in the country to tap into the fast- booming mobile handset market.The Premier University IT Institute, which is a subsidiary of Chittagong City Corporation, would...
Banglalink and Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) have signed an agreement to enable mobile-based water and sewerage bill payment. CWASA Secretary Md Moksedur Rahman and Banglalink Chief Commercial Officer Asher Yaqub Khan signed the agreement on behalf of...
Banglalink and Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) have signed an agreement to enable mobile-based water and sewerage bill payment. CWASA Secretary Md Moksedur Rahman and Banglalink Chief Commercial Officer Asher Yaqub Khan signed the agreement on behalf of...
The country's export earnings are gradually coming out of a negative trend (July-March, 2009-10, -0.80 per cent) as the export earnings in March marked an 18.38 per cent growth compared to the corresponding month of the previous fiscal (2008-09).But, the...
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