M Azizur RahmanThe energy ministry has asked the foreign ministry to demarcate disputed areas of offshore gas blocks to sign contracts with the bid winning foreign firms and conduct oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal, officials said...
FE ReportA nor'wester accompanied by a brief shower lashed the capital Monday evening marking an end to a long dry spell and providing the city-dwellers the much-needed respite.The sudden but much-awaited rainfall came after days of sweltering weather conditions in...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank has asked the commercial banks to close the operation of Exchange Equalisation Account (EEA), the balance of which might be shown as their capital, officials said."There is no need to maintain such account while there is...
The Petrol Pump Owners Association and the Tank Lorry Owners Association will start an indefinite strike from May 9, if their eight demands are not met, reports bdnews24.com. Tank Lorry Owners' Association president Syed Sajjadul Karim Kabul declared the programme...
Nazmul AhsanThe fifth EU-Bangladesh joint commission meeting will be held in Dhaka on May 31 this year. The war crimes trials, extra-judicial killings, reforms in GSP, climate change and current human rights situation in Bangladesh are among the issues that...
Mashiur RahamanState-run Biman's first special flight between Dhaka-London-Dhaka took off Sunday with capacity passenger, but returned the next day with only one passenger on board, Biman source said.Out of three special flights Biman Bangladesh Airlines is operating to ferry nearly...
The key people behind the mutiny at BDR's Pilkhana Headquarters came from 44th Rifles Battalion, the special BDR court in Dhaka heard Monday, reports bdnews24.com.Prosecutor Lt Col Kazi Aniruddha made this claim at the resumption of the trial of 675...
FE ReportTwo more young men were arrested by the law enforcers from Dholaikhal in the capital Monday for their suspected links with the killing of the second officer of Bangshal police station, RAB sources said. The arrestees were identified as...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Apr 26: French ambassador Charlie Causerett today called on city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury at the latter's office.They exchanged views on bilateral issues. Mohiuddin asked the envoy to open nursing training course and diploma courses on hospital and...
DU CorrespondentThe third-year honours examination-2008 and the honours part-3 examination-2007 (special) under the National University (NU) will begin May 17 instead of May 12.The revised examination schedule has already been sent to the colleges concerned. The fresh timings is also...
The fourth convocation of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) will be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city today (Tuesday), says a press release.President Md Zillur Rahman will inaugurate the convocation at 10.30am. Education Minister Nurul...
The 48th anniversary of death of eminent politician and social worker Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed today (Tuesday) with due respect, reports UNB.President M Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave separate messages to pay tributes to...
On this day in 1971, Shaheed Capt Aftabul Qader, Bir Uttam, embraced martyrdom in a direct confrontation with the occupation Pakistani forces at Mahalchhari of Khagrachhari district. Captain Qader is the first Bangladeshi army officer who was on holidays in...
NAOGAON, April 26 (BSS): The country's first digitised software has been launched for modernised system of allocation and management of agriculture khaslands in Naogaon with a view to building the country a medium income country by 2021.Naogaon district administration launched...
DINAJPUR, Apr 26 (UNB): A cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Daudpur border under Birampur Upazila early Monday.The victim was identified as Shahidul Islam (18), son of Abdul Sattar, of Daudpur of the upazila.BDR...
Former general manager of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Shamsul Haq (58), died of cardiac arrest Sunday, said a BEPZA press release. He was buried at his village in Narshingdi district. He left his wife and a daughter to...
Fazal M. KamalWHAT has been described as a grass-roots movement has been sweeping the United States since Barack Obama ascended to the highest office in the land. It's known as the Tea Party movement, obviously named after the famous Boston...
Belal AhmedWORLD Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and its member states celebrate World Intellectual Property Day with activities, events and campaigns, each year. These seek to increase public understanding of what intellectual property (IP) really means, and to demonstrate how the...
The existence of an underworld facilitating all kinds of crimes is not a new phenomenon in Bangladesh. Only what ought to concern those who are now in charge of governance of the country is its current vast spread. The underworld...
Shamsul Huq ZahidBangladesh has been losing its manpower market in the Middle East at a fast pace during the last 15 months, raising serious concern among the recruiting agencies and the government policymakers. What is more worrying is that there...
Merle David Kellerhals Jr. in Washington President Obama and four other world leaders wrote an open letter to the members of the Group of 20 (G20) industrialised and developing economies warning that it is essential to follow through on reforms...
Mahmood RashidThe manpower sector in Bangladesh which earns a lion's share of the country's foreign currency appears to be shot through with very great crimes, corruption and the consequent tragedies. This has been happening year after year when Bangladesh's competitors...
Congratulations for the editorial in your April 22 issue on "Pre-IPO placement of shares". This is the single-most important factor which has been creating distortions in the market for quite some time now but I have hardly heard any professional...
Depending upon the lens through which one analyses Bangladesh's current economic development, people will arrive at different conclusions. This is similar to the parable of four blindfolded humans who touch different parts of an elephant and conclude that it is...
Recently campus violence has been a matter of great concern for all of us. It is not only ruining the academic atmosphere but claiming the lives of many promising students also. We, as concerned citizens, earnestly request all students to...
NEW YORK, Apr 25 (Reuters): US stocks rose to a 19-month high Friday as Merck eased concerns about the impact of healthcare reform, saying its costs will be relatively low.Energy shares lifted the broad market after oil rose 1.7 per...
MUMBAI, Apr 25 (Economic Times): Banks have once again started pumping money into mutual funds with loans dipping in the first week of April. According to latest RBI data, banks have invested an additional Rs 500 billion during the fortnight...
HONG KONG, Apr 25 (AFP): French cosmetics group L'Occitane said Sunday it could raise as much as 812 million US dollars in a Hong Kong share offering.The company said it would offer 364.12 million shares for between 12.88 and 15.08...
DUBAI, Apr 25 (Bloomberg): Dubai's benchmark index climbed to the highest in almost a week after Emaar Properties PJSC, the measure's biggest company by weighting, said quarterly profit more than tripled and oil rose above $85 a barrel. Emaar, the...
NEW DELHI, Apr 25 (PTI): Realty major DLF today said its subsidiary Caraf had consolidated holding in DLF Assets Ltd (DAL) through purchase of convertible shares from private equity firm SC Asia for Rs 30.85 billion.Caraf, which was recently merged...
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