The 45th convocation of Dhaka University (DU) would be held on December 12 on its physical training premises at 11:30am. The registered graduates have been requested to collect academic costume and gift on December 9-11 from 10.00am to 5.00pm from...
KISHOREGANJ, Dec 5: The government will give Tk 30,000 to each family of victims of Friday's boat capsize as one more body was recovered from the Daira River Saturday raising the death toll to 48. — bdnews24.com
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's footwear manufacturers see a bright future for their products mainly because of the prospect of procuring hide and skin at cheaper prices this year.Rawhide and skin were sold between Tk 25 and Tk 30 per...
FE ReportMultinational companies thriving on the global remittance industry should do business in a socially responsible way, caring about the remitters and their families, said a top migrant activist Saturday. Syed Saiful Haque, chairman of the WARBE Development Foundation, said...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Dec 04: Marshall plan was unveiled after the World War 11 to rebuild the war ravaged Europe. China, awash with money, in collaboration with the World Bank, will soon launch its version of the " Marshall...
FE ReportMetropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) has introduced awards for journalists and entrepreneurs to honour their contribution to minimising river pollution and at the same time ensuring that productions are not hampered or employment threatened.This was disclosed...
Siddique Islam The central bank is going to appoint two more commercial banks -AB Bank Limited and National Bank Limited - as primary dealers (PD) aiming to brining dynamism in the secondary securities market."We've started the processes to appoint the...
FE ReportThe government has a plan to build Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Airport outside the capital, said Civil Aviation and Tourism secretary Shafiq al Mehedi Saturday.The secretary said "It will be an international airport and a team has been...
MUMBAI, Dec 4 (Internet): Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra bagged the best actress award for Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Fashion' at the Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards here Friday evening.Priyanka's father Ashok Chopra received the award on her behalf. "Oh, I...
WelcomeOn SONY SET Sunday at 9-30 pm.After the passing away of his dark-skinned wife, from who they sired Uday, Dubai-based criminal don, Shankar Shetty re-married a fair-skinned woman, who gave birth to fair-skinned Sanjana. After the couple's passing, Uday takes...
ONLY two months in office, President Barack Obama unveiled his first strategy on the Afghan war in a speech from the White House on March 27, 2009. He updated his strategy in ten months' time, on December 01, in a...
Shahiduzzaman KhanTHE much-talked-about relocation of the tanneries from Hazaribagh in the capital to the proposed leather estate at Savar is still in limbo, with tannery owners blaming bureaucratic tangles for the unusual delay in the process. They are also bargaining...
Abul HashemGeneral dismay is noted about the prevailing political situation in Bangladesh. According to many, there is nothing but sterility in the country's politics and, thus, they despair about its future.However, there are others and they are a minority, who...
Everybody in this country still remembers the scandal involving duty-free vehicles of the MPs, imported during the previous regime. In the process, the country lost revenue earnings worth millions of takas. This created a big uproar across the country which...
It is time for piety in Islamic rituals to be reclaimed. The spirit of sacrifice in the way of Allah, for example, should mean overcoming sinful instincts and habits, greed for unearned wealth and power, and all forms of dishonesty....
Recently, the member states of SAARC have agreed to establish road and railway links to boost intra region economic cooperation.We hope that connectivity would help solve the problems to speed up economic cooperation and trade within the region.But unless the...
M A IslamTHIS is the month of December and the new year 2010 is going to begin soon. Most of the schools have already finished their annual exams and students are passing leisure time. It is high time for students...
S.E.VEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty. It does this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership...
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. A...
Road accidents take up to 30 lives each month in the capital, mostly due to poor traffic regulation on Dhaka's roads, the DMP chief said Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. "Metropolitan police is taking action to enforce greater discipline," AKM Shahidul Haque,...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 5 (BSS): Scanty rainfall and excessive extraction of groundwater has created an alarming situation among the barind people and others about irrigation in the forthcoming IRRI-boro season. According to the sources concerned, the situation may cause an adverse...
FE ReportThe government would provide 10 million (1.0 crore) land phone connections across the country by 2012, Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju said Saturday. "The government would take WiMAX facilities to the district level within two years," he...
The troubled state of the private sector-led economies of the western world must not be interpreted out of proportion in Bangladesh as capitalism dying. The developments there in the wake of the global economic crisis that still lingers on in...
Nerun YakubAt a time when environmental awareness is supposed to be growing, with the Prime Minister herself being concerned -- and seen and heard across the world holding forth -- politically empowered people have reportedly been getting away with sheer...
Farid AhmedBangladesh has been blessed with 'relative' political stability for nearly the last three years. Relative in the sense that business losses in the form of work days lost, production stoppages, snags in distribution processes, et cetera, that usually have...
E. R. BhuiyanAGAIN, the joyous occasion of the Eid festival has been punctuated by the sadness of the tragedy of a launch capsizing. The incident led to confirmed deaths of 77 persons and reported missing of about hundred persons. The...
There should be no grudge against the entrepreneurs in the garments sector for the life style they are enjoying after years of toil. Their toil is different form the workers. As entrepreneurs they had to take risks and face many...
The death toll in the launch mishap on Friday night has already crossed 76 and many more passengers are still missing. It was the kind of disaster that we have been watching on a regular basis whenever there is a...
The government has taken a praiseworthy decision by according VIP status to the freedom fighters, the best persons of Bangladesh. They are, indeed, very important persons in our national history. The government also decided to provide them the facilities due...
David PillingM. Chandrapala may not be your typical Sinhalese Sri Lankan. Dressed in an ankle-length lungi and standing outside his modest home in Trincomalee, on the east coast of this beautiful but tragic island, he tells me that Tamil citizens...
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