Kamayani Bali-Mahabal in MumbaiMOHANDAS Karamchand Gandhi was one of the few in his generation who recognised the central role of women in society. Yet, he was no feminist. He perceived women as playing a distinct but nevertheless a complementary role...
Xia WenhuiTen days after a catastrophic earthquake shattered Haiti, the relief effort has been gradually shifting from searching for survivors to rebuilding the country.That's a daunting task for the ravaged Caribbean island nation and the international community.Despite complaints about the...
Alistair LyonYemen, a land of startling beauty and often engaging people, has gained an evil public image since an al Qaeda group based there claimed a failed Dec. 25 attack on a U.S. airliner.But the West and its Arab allies...
Kim JunghyunMichelle, a Filipino woman who married a South Korean, is among tens of thousands of interracial couples in South Korea. As her son approaches pre-school age, her concerns are slowly growing. "My son hasn't encountered any explicit discrimination yet....
Yu Maofeng, Song Zongli, Wei DafangThe exit of President Viktor Yushchenko, the figurehead of the 2004 Orange Revolution, in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election is evidence of waning enthusiasm for the movement, analysts say.The election, the first since...
SHORTAGE of gas has badly hit many parts of the country, particularly the port city of Chittagong. Industries that are already operational or are on the way of being set up or on trial production, in and around the port...
Nerun YakubJyoti Basu, the great Bengali Marxist of India, left this mortal world last Sunday, aged 96, bringing to an end a phenomenal political career dedicated to the weal of the common people. His aura ---- when he lived, as...
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...
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