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...
WASHINGTON,DC, Feb 7 (Commodity Online): Washington will develop a comprehensive strategy to speed development of carbon capture and storage technology for the coal industry, the US President said. US President Barack Obama announced the creation of an Interagency Task Force...
SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Commodity Online): Gold prices edged up in Asian trade Friday but remained highly volatile after posting huge losses overnight.Gold for immediate delivery was seen trading at $1063.38 an ounce at 11.30 am Singapore time while US gold...
BEIJING, Feb 7 (Commodity Online): Output value of China's petroleum and petrochemical industry this year is expected to soar between 13 per cent and 15 per cent year on year.According to China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, the revenue of...
DUBAI, UAE, Feb 7: One of the world's most visited countries, Italy, has been brought closer to international travellers after Emirates' flights to Rome went double daily, said a press release.As of today, the airline's 12 times a week service...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Feb 7: Janata Bank Limited (JBL) disbursed Tk 0.24 million (Tk 2,46,300) among 13 poor farmer-families directly through JBL Akhaura Branch at Basudeb Union Parishad complex auditorium recently. JBL Assistant General Manager (AGM) and Brahmanbaria Zonal Head Md...
NAIROBI, Feb 7 (Commodity Online): Coffee Board of Kenya said profile of country's coffee in global market is set to rise following the launch of an identity that will distinguish it from coffees grown in other countries.The Coffee Board of...
February 07, Sunday The following were the commercial banks' rates to public for some selectedforeign currencies with Bangladesh Taka in cash transaction Sunday.Selling rates to public (outward remittance)BankUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSCBsSonali Bank69.450095.3989108.87740.785565.024565.322660.6119Agrani Bank69.450095.2243108.80590.787764.981065.267760.4104FCBsStanChart69.65101.86113.440.7869.0268.3264.94HSBC 69.607098.5627112.72440.791966.477966.080862.2296Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of Ceylon69.540099.3475113.68660.795567.136566.171964.0811PCBsUttara Bank69.500095.8300109.15320.793464.840765.334660.6143AB Bank69.500097.0376110.44950.7966NANANABuying rates from public (inward remittance)SCBsUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSonali...
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AP): Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic agency Sunday to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, in a move that's likely to deepen international skepticism about the country's real intentions on the crucial issue...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb 7 (AP): Clouds prevented space shuttle Endeavour from blasting off Sunday on the last planned nighttime shuttle launch, delaying its trip with a final few building blocks for the International Space Station.The band of low clouds...
NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (AP): India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile Sunday that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, an official said.It was the fourth test of the Agni III missile, the official at...
Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Washington DC and nearby states after a blizzard blanketed the area with record snows, reports BBC. Electricity was cut to at least 300,000 homes as the snow felled trees, and cut...
MUNICH, Feb 7 (AFP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that he was mulling a return to a conscript army, as he seeks to build his insurgency-hit nation's security forces over the next five years."This will be philosophically one of...
Sajan Ghar Jaana HaiOn STAR PLUS Monday at 08-30 pmThe story revolves around how a simple and sweet girl gets married in difficult situations and yet cannot be with her husband. Watch to find out what will Dhaani do and...
ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Positive Bangladesh08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Shongbadpotro08:30 Drama Serial- Mike09:00 News Bulletins09:10 Kande Amar Ma09:15 Tatka National Dance Star10:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show - Hello Bangladesh11:00 Sangbad 11:05 Asian City Vision 202011:30 Notun Chobir Gan12:00 Sangbad Bulletins12:15 Motamot01:00 Sangbad...
Southeast Bank Limited (SEBL) held a workshop on 'Implementation of Supervisory Review Process under Pillar two of Basel two at its training institute in the city recently, said a press release. Deputy Managing Director of the bank Syed Imtiaz Hasib...
ICB Asset Management Company Ltd (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, announced Net Asset Value (NAV) of eight mutual funds recently. The total NAV of ICB AMCL First Mutual Fund stood at Tk 31,70,99,821.08 on the basis of...
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications will issue four new types of licences under the amended International Long Distance Telecommunications Services (ILDTS) policy for checking all illegal VoIPs in the country, reports BSS. Post and Telecommunication Secretary Sunil Kanti Bose Sunday...
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