FE ReportBangladesh will intensify efforts to secure additional aid to implement its key anti-poverty strategy linked to the five-year development plan as donors descend on the capital next week, a top aid official said Monday. After a lapse of almost...
The Supreme Court (SC) Monday stayed a High Court (HC) order for a new warrant of precedence placing district judges above generals, reports bdnews24.com. Appellate Division chamber judge Justice Md Muzammel Hossain stayed the order for six weeks on a...
FE ReportMore 500 employees of state-controlled banks (SCBs) and financial institutions claiming themselves to be freedom fighters have applied for raising their retirement age from 57 to 59 years, sources in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said.They have applied to...
Six foreign companies have expressed their interest in manufacturing mobile phone sets and laptop computers in partnership with the state-owned Bangladesh Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (Teshish) as a joint venture. Managing Director of Teshish Ismail Hossain told BSS that the letters...
President Zillur Rahman administered the oath of office to Chief Justice M Fazlul Karim at Bangabhaban Monday morning. Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, former chiefs of the caretaker governments Justice Habibur Rahman and Justice Latifur Rahman, outgoing...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has moved to lift ban on the activities of International Islamic Relief Organisation (IIRO) in Bangladesh after three years upon recommendation by a six-member high-power committee. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has issued a directive to...
FE ReportThe government will allocate plots for the women entrepreneurs at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Sylhet to ensure their financial empowerment, Industries Minister Dilip Borua Monday said."The women entrepreneurs will also get plots in a special quota in...
FE ReportHundreds of garment workers Monday jolted Tongi Industrial Zone once again for arrears and other financial benefit by suspending traffic movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway for nearly four hours.With the latest violence, the industrial hub had witnessed three major workers'...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Feb 08: Rising government debts has become a growing concern in Europe and the United States but the economies of the Asian nations have remained resilient even buoyant to underpin how economic might is shifting from...
Bangladesh regained the coveted football gold medal of the SA Games after a span of 11 years with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Afghanistan in the final held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city Monday, reports BSS.Atikur...
Indian swimmers maintain their supremacy grabbing all the four gold medals including a new meet record to finish their campaign in the 11th South Asian Games in style at the National Swimming Complex in the city Monday, reports BSS.India also...
Mohammad Jewel Ahmed Jony and Mohammad Abdur Rahim brought smile for country's sports lovers as they won gold in light weight 60 kg and light welter weight 64 kg in the 11th South Asian Games boxing, reports BSS.In the 60kg...
Mesbahuddin of Bangladesh ignited a wild celebration in the Sylhet BKSP winning the gold medal of the men's nanquan and nandaou all round taolou an event of Wushu Monday, reports BSS.Meshabuddin followed the feat of his female teammate Eti Islam...
Shehan Saearuwan Abeypitiyage of Sri Lanka and Naseem Hamid of Pakistan set Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) track afire today emerging as the fastest man and woman of the 11 SA Games winning the 100 metre sprint with a timing of...
Those 22 yards never mattered less. With one of the most lethal and joyful spells of pace and swing seen in India, a red-hot Dale Steyn took the pitch out of the equation and led South Africa to the verge...
Having been kept to 183 by New Zealand's tidy bowling attack, Bangladesh were drubbed by the broad bat of Ross Taylor as they surrendered the series to the hosts at the University Oval in Dunedin. Another cheap Brendon McCullum dismissal...
FE ReportThe government has assigned two Chinese firms Monday as turnkey contractors to build two gas-fired power plants to generate a total of 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2011 next.The state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) signed separate contracts Monday...
There are two sides, basically, to improving higher education in Bangladesh. One involves expansion of educational opportunities or the quantitative factors. The other is the need for ensuring the quality of higher education. While the quantitative needs are lacking, the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid In Bangladesh conditions, giving someone the discretionary power tends to create more problems than resolving the same. This has again been proved in the area of taxation. The taxpayers for long had been grumbling about the discretionary...
Maswood Alam KhanA practice I never really liked was offering me to sit on the chair of an office-head who happened to be junior to me by rank or by pay-scale and I always hated the weird protocol of hanging...
The government in the first year of its tenure has done poorly in a very vital area where circumstances dictated it to work on a war footing. All of the government's ambitious plan of drawing foreign investments and in enthusing...
Bangladesh's rural banking as well as mobile banking grew in the 1960s. The audit for its introduction should go to the then United Bank Limited (UBL). Though it saw almost instant success, the scheme was discontinued following a sudden change...
Mubashar Hasan AVIATION has drastically cut down travel time and transportation of goods. It added speed to movement and connectivity. Despite globalisation, 'free trade', the internet and economic integration, technology - the aviation industry, stifled by set of rules, does...
Sayed Javed AhmadThe foundation of the share market consists of companies that are actively in business. Only a company that comes to the stock exchanges to raise capital for the business from public investors is listed. Initially, they arrive at...
Philip H. de LeonGAZPROM faces regular opprobrium for its bullying ways of using energy as a pressure and political tool. Seen by some, mostly Russians, as the symbol of a successful and strong Russia, others see it as a dominating...
MUMBAI, Feb 7 (PTI): The past week, during which benchmark index Sensex dipped below the psychological 16,000-level, saw all the top 10 valued firms losing over Rs 670 billion from their market capitalisation. During the week ended February 6, state-run...
TOYOTA CITY, Japan, Feb 7 (Reuters): Toyota Motor Corp, which has recalled more than 8 million vehicles around the world for problems with unintended acceleration, has decided to recall its new Prius hybrid in Japan to fix a braking software...
MUMBAI, Feb 7 (Business Standard): Customers who missed the Nano bus in 2009 will have something to cheer later this year, when Tata Motors reopens bookings for the world's cheapest car, perhaps before December.The company had got 100,000 bookings in...
SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Bloomberg): DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Southeast Asia's biggest bank, will focus on growing its operations in China and India without pursuing acquisitions as the lender seeks to reduce dependence on its Singapore home market. DBS aims for...
KARACHI, Feb 7 (Business Recorder): The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency (Pacra) has assigned a stability rating of 'AA (f)' (Double A - fund rating) to Atlas Money Market Fund (AMF), an open-end money market fund. The fund's rating denotes a...
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