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Getting the most out of class notes

2010-02-07 00:00:00

M A IslamTAKING class notes properly is important for any student. The teacher discusses important points of the lessons in the class. Anyone who is prudent usually takes note of those important points in their note books. They take notes...

Frugal eating at night to help studies

2010-02-07 00:00:00

FE SpecialFOOD habit is important for anyone to lead a better life. In order to succeed in student life, students need also take utmost care of their food habit. The more control students will have over their food habit the...

quotable quotes

2010-02-07 00:00:00

" All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France" It was one of...

BASIS SoftExpo, 2010 kicks off February 10

2010-02-07 00:00:00

FE ReportBASIS SoftExpo- the annual mega exposition of the country's software and Information Technology, is poised to become a major IT event of the South Asian region within a few years, organizers of the event said Saturday."The yearly expo has...

Trading of DBH First Mutual Fund starts today

2010-02-07 00:00:00

FE ReportTrading of the DBH First Mutual Fund unit is going to be started from today (Sunday) on both the stock exchanges of the country.It will be the 22nd mutual fund in 3the country's growing stock market.DBH, the leading home...

Price drops of farm produce

2010-02-06 00:00:00

There is, no doubt, great merit in price stabilization of kitchen commodities to help the common people to keep on consuming nutrients cheaply. But there are also the other vital aspects to be considered such as keeping the farmers motivated...

Demand for a health rights commission

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Nerun YakubConcerned health activists recently called a press conference and faulted the government with shortchanging the people in the name of finalizing a new health policy. For, apart from a few fine words, it is largely the same old system...

Pharmaceutical sector's development

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Firoz Ahmed The government should immediately recognise the merit of accepting and working on the proposals that have been made by the Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (BAPI). The BAPI has demanded giving of cash incentives to export-oriented pharmaceutical industries....

For pushup in Internet use

2010-02-06 00:00:00

It should be realized that service charges by the providers which are still not low enough to create greater incentives for users, a telecommunication system with supporting infrastructures remaining undeveloped, government policies not yet fully conducive to rapid increase in...

Vegetable production in all seasons

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Vegetable is one of the essential food items for growth and maintenance of health of human beings. In the months of December to March varieties of vegetables are available throughout Bangladesh. But in the rest of the year frequently people...

Curtailing subsidies

2010-02-06 00:00:00

The highest priority of the government should be to bring law and order situation under control. The next in priority should be containing the spiralling up of the price of food and daily necessities. And the government should turn its...

In search of safe edibles

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Maswood Alam KhanTHE best business in Bangladesh like in the rest of the world is to deal in food or medicine -- two items that meet the basic physiological needs of humans, the first of five fundamental needs described in...

US dollar fall: gold seems safe again as reserve

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Shihabul Arefin Khan Dominance of US dollar is weakening fast in the currency market, thanks to ever widening of US American trade and fiscal deficits. The US currency dominance riding on the disastrous fallout of World War II and subsequently...

HIGHLIGHTS

2010-02-06 00:00:00

ChaalbaazOn Zee TV Saturday at 5:00 pm. Anju and Manju, identical twins separated at birth. Born to a rich father who is paralyzed, they are brought up in totally contrasting environments. Anju is brought up in her father's house, bullied...

Saturday

2010-02-06 00:00:00

ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Talking Point08:00 Sangbad08:30 Children Prog- Chonde Anande09:00 Atn News09:15 Asian City Vision 202010:00 aniW South Asian Gams T-20 Cricket11:00 News Bangla12:00 Sangbad Bulletins 01:00 News02:00 News02:40 Bangla film- Ferari Ashami03:00 News05:00 Gram Ganger Sangbad05:10 Kande Amar...

WTO dispute system robust, keeps global trade open

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Jonathan LynnA spate of disputes at the WTO this week, far from suggesting the world is on the brink of a trade war, shows the global trading system is alive and kicking.The biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression led...

Asian sugar demand to hold up despite price surge

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Lewa PardomuanSugar market bears hoping prices above 30 U.S. cents will melt demand from Asia could be disappointed as dwindling stocks on shrunken domestic crops will force India, Indonesia, Pakistan and others to buy the sweetener regardless.Several consumers in Asia,...

Appalachia shadows Obama's clean energy dream

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Yang LeiPresident Barack Obama touted his green energy policy throughout 2009, but now it appears the much-maligned coal has not been forgotten.On the night of January 27, during his first State of the Union address, Obama advocated "clean coal technology",...

Social harassment, psychological pressure behind suicide in Palestinian society

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Ali Daraghma and Saud Abu RamadanAsmaa, a 30-year-old Palestinian young woman, was lying in a recovery bed at Nablus National Hospital in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, where her life was saved after she drank a toxic substance...

Defining the parameters of economic growth

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Enayet Rasul BhuiyanStudies by donor agencies from time to time have repeated the point of how economic growth in Bangladesh is getting shaved off as a consequence of corruption. According to such studies, the country could probably add another 2...

Possible discord surfaces between S Korea, US on inter-Korean summit

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Kim JunghyunDespite fledgling hopes here for a summit between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the country is now left to try to decipher a senior U.S. official's remarks, speculated to be hinting at subtle differences...

Avatar steps into Pakistan as cinema catalyst

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Yangtze Yan"After 20 years, this is my first time to watch a movie in cinema," Khalid told Xinhua when coming out of the Cinepax, the only cinema in Pakistan's twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.Khalid finally brought his whole family...

Rationalising market holidays

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Ameer HamzaA cabinet decision recently has taken yet another initiative to ease the traffic situation in Dhaka and conserve energy. This time it seeks to experiment by rationalizing market holidays. It claims to have taken all the stakeholders on board,...

Capital machinery import sees a turnaround in H1

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Doulot Akter MalaImport of capital machinery rose by 4.0 per cent in the first half of current fiscal indicating higher investment in domestic industrial sector after a sluggish first quarter.According to data of Chittagong Customs House (CCH), capital machinery worth...

Agrani Bank holds zonal heads’ confce

2010-02-06 00:00:00

The Zonal Heads' Conference 2010 of Agrani Bank Ltd was held at a city hotel Wednesday.Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman inaugurated the conference, said a press release. Dr Khondeker Bazlul Hoque, chairman of the board of directors of...

DITF-'10 likely to draw Tk 300m spot order

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Sonia H MoniThe organisers of the 15th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF-2010) hope that they would draw the highest ever spot order worth Tk 300 million (30 crore) at the end of the annual fair.Fair Director M Abdur Rahman told...

Prices of rice, sugar, onion up, fish, vegetables steady

2010-02-06 00:00:00

FE ReportPrices of rice, onion, sugar and poultry bird went up while oil, fish and vegetables remained steady last week, according to sources at different city markets.The Minicate variety of rice was selling at Tk 42 per kg, up from...

Steps to attract women entrepreneurs to bourses stressed

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Feb 4: Speakers at a workshop here put emphasis on the need for greater participation of women in the share market and said that steps should be taken to attract greater number of the women to the stock...

ICB AMCL declares NAV of two unit funds

2010-02-06 00:00:00

The ICB Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared the Net Asset Values (NAV) of its two unit funds, said a press release.ICB AMCL Unit Fund: The total NAV of ICB AMCL...

Commercial Bank of Ceylon

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Bangladesh Taka (BDT) marginally depreciated by 0.13 per cent against US dollar in the last two weeks following a rise in demand for the greenback in the market. BDT had been under pressure following an increase in demand for USD...