Nazmul AhsanBangladesh does not have any plan to sign a free trade agreement with Malaysia despite Kuala Lumpur's offer to extend duty free access to Dhaka's major export items, officials said Saturday.The South-East Asian economic giant last month made the...
Zaidi SattarThere is more to tariffs than meets the eye. This was clearly evident in 18th century mercantilist Britain when Adam Smith, the father of economic science, learnt this by opting to take an assignment as a customs commissioner before...
FE ReportThe pass percentage in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations has almost hit double-digit growth this year with one in 11 students came out best scorer, results published Saturday showed. A total of 79.98 per cent candidates...
FE ReportBangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation withdrew nationwide indefinite water transport strike Saturday afternoon after the government assured them of fulfilling their demands.The withdrawal came on the eighth consecutive day of the waterways strike after Nur-e-Alam Chowdhury, chairman of the parliamentary...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to take legal action against small businesses that don't pay value added taxes as per their income, officials said Saturday.Since 2002 small businesses such as shops have been paying VAT...
FE ReportAt least ten students of Dhaka University were injured during a clash between them and BIRDEM security guards at the city's Shahbagh intersection Saturday over a trifle matter, police and campus sources said. Traffic movement through Shahbagh intersection came...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left the city Saturday afternoon for Bangkok by a Thai Airways flight en route to Seoul on a five-day visit to South Korea and Malaysia, reports UNB.The plane carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage left...
Resumption of the two power generating units, that went out of order last week, have increased production significantly. The two plants - a 200 megawatt (MW) unit of the Ghorashal plant and the 450 MW Meghnaghat plant - that were...
Two students drowned at a waterbody in the city's Aftabnagar area under Badda thana Saturday noon. The victims were identified as Kaiser (14), son of Yusuf Ahmed and Tusar (15). Both of them were students of class X of Moghbazar...
FE ReportThe central bank has revised its schedule of charges asking the commercial banks not to impose any maintenance fee on savings account with deposits of up to Tk 5000, officials said.However, the banks will be allowed to levy Tk...
FE ReportApparel manufacturers Saturday welcomed the government decision to withdraw the ban on yarn import through Benapole land port, saying that the move would help stabilise the price of yarn in the local market."We welcome the government move to open...
Monira MunniSales of sweetmeats shot up manifold Saturday, as city dwellers rushed to the sweetmeat marts after the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examination results were published.The demand of the items increased as the guardians, whose children came out...
Munima SultanaA strong lobby is active to withdraw the provision of minimum educational qualification of drivers of all motorised vehicles and validate the fake driving licences by giving the holders basic training.Officials said motorised vehicles owners and workers association raised...
BANGKOK, May 15 (AFP): Raging violence in the heart of the Thai capital claimed eight more lives Saturday as the embattled premier vowed no turning back and the army threatened a crackdown on thousands of protesters.Two days of street battles...
The national budget for the fiscal year (FY), 2010-11, will be announced early next month. It would be placed in the Jatiya Sangshad to be scrutinized, debated and finally adopted. The budget makers, as in other years, are now holding...
Nerun YakubA roundtable discussion on ' Social security and the non-formal sector' at the Press Club last Tuesday had the eminent economist Professor Muzaffar Ahmed pointing out that the situation of the labour movement in Bangladesh is particularly fragile at...
Nuruddin Azam The Brahmaputra river (Yarlung Sang-Po/Zangbo in Tibetan/Chinese) originates on the Gyaimanezong Glacier in Zongba County on the northern slope of the Himalayas in Tibet, China and is a river with the highest altitude in the world. It flows...
Having no liquid fuel, Bangladesh has to import it out of necessity. Finite natural gas reserves are reducing day by day. Meanwhile, proven and possible resources of gas, remain unexplored even today! Coal is there; but we do not extract...
Sayed Javed AhmadIn the 70s and 80s, when we were young and upbeat to take up pretty much any challenges in life India was seen as a nation with strong patriotic feelings that is capable of making anything from a...
Hafizul Islam MianProfit and loss sharing: Islam formulates profit and loss sharing as the tool of trade contracts instead of interest. The motivation behind is the cooperation amongst the people. In profit sharing there are different types of financing such...
Lift Kara De On SONY SET Saturday at 8-30. How many times in life have you thanked that one person, who came at the right time to give the much required boost in your hindered existence? How often have you...
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Enayet Rasul BhuiyanTHE becoming of a member of the British parliament (MP) by one RushanAra Ali of Bangladesh origin is making waves. The media in Bangladesh is making much ado about it as if it is like a triumphant feat...
Ameer Hamza According to a recent report in a contemporary, most of the people who had caught a nasty disease, allegedly from a sick bull ------ which they were obliged to slaughter and turn into beef on 23 April 2010...
Tithe Farhana "A paragon of other nomenclature Made from bits of sorrows / As if they were shocked dear ones of grief/---- fragmented fossil". (Poet Dilwar , Shodokar er Matir Jogotay, Translated by Professor Suresh Ranjan Basak)Shobdokars are a marginalized...
Chen JipengThe world capital markets responded positively over the past few days to the huge rescue plan tailored to help European countries out of the debt crisis and stabilize the euro zone, but analysts warn that such a plan may...
Shamsher ChowdhuryYOU left Bangladesh, as far as I can recollect, sometime in April 1989. You were then a young man of 22. For days and years since you left home your mother and I passed our days in anxiety driven...
Matthew RuslingIn spite of a show of unity this week between Washington and Kabul during Afghan President Hamid Karzai's four-day visit to the United States, hurdles remain over whether and how to bring the Taliban to the negotiation table.The Obama...
Remie Ann Mables stood in line for two hours, endured heat and boredom, and was extremely frustrated with the Philippines' first ever automated vote-counting polls. But the 31-year-old housewife didn't give up. She wanted to vote for a Philippine President...
FE Report The government will start handing out lower-wattage lights to households next month, officials said Wednesday, as part of a nationwide drive to replace traditional lamps to save energy.In the first phase, a total of 5.5 million imported compact...
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