SIXTEEN northern districts of Bangladesh have shown once again how hard-working and resilient people can be in the face of adversity. A decade after Adamjee Jute Mills was shut down, farmers of this versatile fibrous plant, grown on some 1.5...
Shahiduzzaman KhanFRESH increases in prices of the major essential commodities are putting pressure on the limited income group. Such rises are also negating the ruling party's election pledges. Controlling the prices of essential commodities was the number one priority in...
M A RashidWe have a rather skewed system of education at primary and secondary levels that impacts very differently on the pupils and creates varying degrees of competence. The three prevailing, different streams of education at these levels in the...
BANGLADESH needs more medical colleges to produce more doctors as many hospitals are run without physicians. To reach medical service to the country side, there is no alternative to having more doctors.The under-construction Mugda Hospital would be ideal for opening...
IT appears our political leaders will never behave responsibly. When they are in opposition, their stand is different. It is sad that they are not prepared to understand the hard realities of the prevailing situation. The parliament has lost many...
Time and tide wait for none. Nineteen years after Koyoto Protocol, the world leaders assembled in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark. This involved millions of dollars of public money, valuable time and energy.The hopes of billions of the world were dashed...
Md. Zahirul IslamWE are nowadays living in an outstandingly hi-tech as well as high-tech economic world order with significant changes occurring incessantly. Notwithstanding remaining even in an adolescent period still now, the capital market of Bangladesh has been playing a...
Peter KrauthGold's price has quadrupled since 2000, yet this is just the beginning of a historic rise. Seven major forces are set to push gold past $2,500 - and we're not talking about the tired old inflation story…We've all heard...
Chak De IndiaOn SONY SET Sunday at 5-30 pm. Kabir Khan lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his widowed mom in Delhi, India, and is the Captain of the Indian men's hockey team. He fails to score at the last...
DRAGUIGNAN, Jan 2 (AFP): Around 30 paintings, including works by Picasso and Rousseau, valued at around a million euros (1.4 million dollars), have been stolen from a private villa in the south of France, police said Saturday.But a Modigliani initially...
NEW DELHI, Jan 1: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has received lots of compliments for his performance in "Paa" and the latest to join the bandwagon is Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar."Sachin Tendulkar called to personally compliment me on 'Paa'," the...
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TOKYO, Jan 2 (Bloomberg): Asian stocks rose for the second week, capping the MSCI Asia Pacific Index's biggest annual gain since 2003, after China raised its economic growth figures and Japan said industrial production increased. Hitachi Ltd., Japan's fourth-largest company...
BANGALORE, Jan 2 (Economic Times): The Company Law Board in Chennai has asked Nilgiris Dairy Farm not to allot shares to those participating in the company's ongoing rights issue till its further orders, and postponed hearings on the dispute to...
KARACHI, Jan 2 (Business Recorder): Some thirteen banks have failed to meet the State Bank of Pakistan's (SBP) Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR) of Rs 6 billion by the end of calendar year 2009 due to slowdown in economic activities and...
TOKYO, Jan 2 (Reuters): Japanese airline All Nippon Airways is considering taking over the international routes of struggling rival Japan Airlines Corp, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said Friday.All Nippon is looking to increase its overseas flights by targeting profitable routes...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Jan 2: Peoples Jute Mills in Khulna has formally been returned to Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) recently. Sources said BJMC retrenched 294 workers and employees from People's Jute Mills during the caretaker government on July 11, 2007...
LONDON, Jan 02 (AFP): Commodity prices rallied in 2009 on keen demand and signs of global economic recovery, with oil soaring and gold striking record levels, while copper and sugar surged. Many raw materials also rose this week in thin...
NAIROBI, Jan 02 (Commodity Online): Kenya's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) warned that food shortage and high maize prices is expected to hit the country by April.In a report issued here it said, with the long rains and...
BEIJING, Jan 02 (Commodity Online): Commodities have outperformed stocks in the last one decade and the country that is leading the commodities boom rally is China.There is a rush to investing in commodities in China these days that people are...
MUMBAI, Jan 02 (Commodity Online): Even as the world is recovering from the recession impact, global steel market is witnessing a surge in demand and 2010 is all set to give a big boost to the iron ore and steel...
NEW YORK, Jan 02 (Bloomberg): Cattle futures rose for the first time in three days on speculation that beef supplies are declining after winter storms last week in the US curbed animal weight gains. Hog prices declined.On average, cash-market steers...
Wheat futures market remained range bound negative during December month on slack buying interest due to higher prices. It is to be learnt that wheat price climbed to nearly Rs 1450 per quintal during first fortnight of December due to...
PESHAWAR, Jan 2 (AFP): Investigators sifted through rubble Saturday after a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-filled vehicle in a crowd watching a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 93.Friday's bombing marked a bloody start to 2010 for...
LEGASPI, Philippines, Jan 2 (AFP): Tens of thousands of Filipinos evacuated from the shadow of a volcano that began spewing ash and lava prepared to head home on Saturday after the alert level was lowered.The lowering of the alert level...
HONOLULU, Jan 2 (AP): President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaeda affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist attack that has prompted a top-to-bottom review of how the nation's intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a...
LUCKNOW, Jan 2 (AFP): At least four people were killed when four express trains collided in separate incidents in the fog-bound northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Saturday, police and railway officials said.In the first incident, an inter-city express rammed...
TOKYO, Jan 2 (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has launched a blog and started using Twitter in a New Year bid to reach out to the public at a time when his ratings have tumbled.Hatoyama began using the micro...
TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AP): Iran is warning it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel in exchange for Tehran's enriched uranium by the end of January.Foreign Minister Manouchehr...
KABUL, Jan 2 (AFP): Afghanistan's parliament Saturday began voting on President Hamid Karzai's cabinet nominees, nearing the end of a long process that should fill the political vacuum with a government, officials said.Parliamentarians began casting secret ballots for 24 ministerial...
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