Gregory R. Copley IT is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so that they can adequately prepare equipment and doctrine ideal to meet the threat. Evidence, however, shows that...
Sabbir Ahmed Osmani"WELCOME to 'nowism,' the age of real time conversations and reviews", began Colvyn Harris, CEO of Jwalter Thompson India, speaking about the marketing requirements of the day. Economies are waking from an unforeseen slumber. The need for instant...
Residents of Dhaka city with about 15 million people are exposed to environmental hazards and this situation is worsening day by day. But unfortunately, neither of the two main political parties said anything of substance in their recent election manifestos...
Although nearly a year has passed since the passage of the Consumer Protection Act in parliament, activities towards putting the mechanisms in place to enforce the law effectively have hardly started. So, it will be not irrelevant to wonder if...
Rasem N. Kayed and M. Kabir HassanAlthough each country is faced with typical obstacles that hamper the development of entrepreneurship, and despite the uniqueness of the problems in their quest to establish businesses there are certain difficulties shared by the...
Md Salim UddinIn Bangladesh, it was not statutorily required to report and disclose all the requisite information on corporate governance before the promulgation of SEC’s notification in February, 2006. But after promulgation of SEC notification it is now mandatory to...
Airports in India were put on high alert today after intelligence reports of a terrorist plot to hijack a plane, reports PTI.The Indian government also directed airlines to deploy sky marshals on a number of routes between countries in south...
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22 (PTI): US has no intention to control or grab Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and was not seeking any military bases in the country, American defence secretary Robert Gates has said.Rounding off his two day visit here, Gates who...
COLOMBO, Jan 22 (AFP): A key opposition activist in Sri Lanka was targeted at home by a bomb attack Friday, police said, as violence escalated ahead of next week's presidential election.The blast destroyed a car and severely damaged the home...
PARIS, Jan 22 (AFP): High levels of vitamin D are linked with a lower risk of colon cancer, according to a comparison of more than half a million Europeans, published online Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Patients with...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - With food, cash and medicine starting to flow, Haiti's government and aid workers are turning to the mammoth task of feeding and sheltering hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors still living in the capital's rubble-strewn streets and...
Scores more bodies recovered after Nigerian clashesKURU KARAMA, (Nigeria), Jan 22,: Volunteers recovered scores more bodies in Nigeria's troubled central Plateau state as the death toll from inter-religious clashes rose and the army was ordered to step up security. Scores...
FE ReportFine rice, egg, sugar and local ginger became a bit dearer while the price of onion fell last week, according to sources at different markets in the city. The minicate rice was selling at Tk 40 per kg up...
Sonia H MoniStall holders at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF-2010) demanded for time expansion as the foggy weather seriously interrupted sales during the first half of the fair.The country, including the city had experienced a cold wave in the first...
FE ReportExtensive training on human resources management and development fitting to the need of the time was underlined by the speakers at a launching ceremony of two training programmes on Human Resources Management (HRM) and Development organised by A4 Consultants...
FE Report Prime Bank Limited distributed winter clothes and blankets among the cold-affected poor people at different parts of the city Thursday, said a press release.Prime Bank Senior Executive Vice-president (SEVP) and head of Corporate Marketing and HR Division Md...
Bangladesh Taka appreciated by BDT 0.01 against the greenback during the second week of January. Bangladesh received US$876.33 million in remittances from workers abroad in December, up 15.61 per cent from a year earlier but down from a record high...
Shamsher ChowdhuryIT was during 1963/64 I was then doing my Masters at the University of Karachi. About that time I met some of the Ayub Regime's student cadres under the banner of a student body known as NSF (National Students...
Mahmood AhmedTHE Bangladesh Bank (BB) announced a supportive monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal year (FY), aiming to increase investment in the productive sector and to help contain inflationary pressure. To achieve these goals, the central...
Md Salim UddinCorporate governance gained considerable prominence in the last decade as it had become a widely discussed and debated issue. Corporate governance is simply the rule of the game for a company in its relations with its shareholders, its...
The cabinet committee on government purchase late last week gave final approval to awarding the machine-readable passport (MRP) and machine- readable visa (MRV) project to a Malaysian firm. The approval has come almost at the last moment as only two...
Mir M. Ali A quake of the magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale hit Bangladesh in the morning of September 4, 2009. It shook the entire country. Its epicenter was located at 450 kilometers north-east of Dhaka. A tremor...
Mujibul HaqueBorrowers of micro-credit in the first place should be the poor or the hardcore poor. But studies conducted by responsible developmental agencies from time to time showed a notable number of the recipients of micro-credit are well above the...
BANGLADESH, like other countries, observed the World Anti-corruption Day last month with all the enthusiasm and fanfare. The emergency caretaker government's anti-corruption drive lost credibility due to its excesses. The reckless actions of the caretaker administration, using draconian emergency powers,...
The disasters on the water and land are the results of the activities done by humans. The recent devastating earthquake in Haiti is indeed one of them. All of us should take a lesson from this incident. We know that...
Lift Kara De On SONY Ent TV (SET) Friday at 8-30 pm.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...
ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad07:30 Positive Bangladesh08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Sangbadpatra08:30 Islam Ki Bole Amra Ki Kori09:00 News Bulletins09:20 BCS IT Zone10:00 Sangbad10:30 ATN Rannaghar11:05 Youth Parliament12:00 Sangbad01:00. Atn News 02:00 Sangbad02:30 Islami Program03:00 News03:15 Bangali Film- Tomar Jonno Pagol04:00 News05:00 Gram Ganger...
LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters): Developed and emerging equity markets diverged Thursday with the latter falling on worries China will take more measures to temper growth after reporting its fastest quarterly growth in two years.Bourses in Europe and Japan, however, put...
KARACHI, Jan 21 (Business Recorder): After opening in positive, the Karachi share market witnessed support at low levels during mid-session, and KSE-100 index once again breached 10,000 psychological level Wednesday. However, the index closed at 9,904.74 points level, with a...
BANGALORE, Jan 21 (Economic Times): ICICI Bank, India's No 2 lender, reported a smaller-than-expected 13.4 per cent drop in quarterly net profit, as demand for retail loans helped offset the impact of a drop in treasury income. ICICI said its...
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