Siddique Islam The Banglaseh Bank (BB) has started reviewing the guidelines on risk-based capital adequacy for banks aiming at helping all commercial banks comply with the Basel-II framework. "We're now reviewing the guidelines considering the bankers' recommendations on different issues...
FE ReportTension was prevailing at Proshika, a non-governmental organisation, as alleged hired men of ousted chairman Kazi Faruque took over the NGO headquarters at Mirpur in the city Monday midnight.Officer-in-Charge of Pallabi police station Iqbal Hossain told the FE they...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Jan 12: Another "First" for China. China's race to become the topmost nation in the world moves on inexorably. China yesterday toppled the United States to become world's largest automobile market. The World Bank has confirmed...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) clarified Tuesday the index calculation method followed by the country's two bourses.The existing method followed by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) in index calculation is not at...
Garbage disposal in Dhaka, a city of well over 12 million people, remains archaic and, therefore, very inefficient to say the least. According to one reliable estimate, 5,000 tonnes of domestic refuses are created every day in Dhaka. Another estimate...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanThe former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohammad, has commented that overpopulation is not a burden, rather it can be turned into an asset for a country if the people are provided with proper education, training and...
M. Azizur RahmanFor social and economic progress Bangladesh needs to educate its population to create human resource. Human resource plays a key role in national development. Equal opportunity for education, irrespective of the individuals' economic or social status, can ensure...
The emergency caretaker government left police reforms in the half way. If the task was completed, the new government would get a reformed police. But the caretakers wasted two years only to raise the hopes. It amounted to doing nothing....
The Awami League government has passed one year. Do we have freedom of the press and right to information? If yes, call spade a spade. No yellow journalism, please. Why no autarky but wastage of public money and misuse of...
Climatologists predict that by the middle of the next century temperature could rise by 4-degree Celsius to make food production difficult. The climate change could severely damage biodiversity and raise the sea level to inundate coastal farmlands in several countries....
'Bishwa Estema' is held every year at Tongi on the banks of the Turag river. It should not be compared with the holy Hajj. The comparison could mislead people.Habibur Rashid Ismailhabibur.rashid.ismail@gmail.com
Md. Masum BillahIT may not be unknown to most teachers that a safe, clean, comfortable and attractive classroom can stimulate learning and help build classroom community. But many teachers seem not to be bothered about it. Absenting from the class...
Edward Probir MondolCORPORATE Social Responsibility (CSR) -- the way companies integrate social, environmental, and economic concerns into their values and operations in a transparent and accountable manner -- is integral to long-term business growth and success. It also plays an...
Pyar Ka BandhanOn SONY SET Wednesday at 11-00 pm Four siblings… four different destinies… separated by fate but bound by blood… will the calling of blood bring them back together? Pyaar Ka Bandhan is an emotional story of four siblings,...
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: 'Paa', '3 Idiots' and 'Luck By Chance', all from the stable of Reliance Big Pictures, bagged 14 awards at the 16th Star Screen awards, held this weekend.The three films bagged total 14 awards this year in...
ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad07:30 Positive Bangladesh 08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Sangbadpatra08:30 Drama serial- Kothay Pabo Tare09:00 News Bulletins09:10 Drama - Kande Amar Ma10:00 Sangbad10:30 Hello Banglades11:05 Asian City Top Spin 12:00 Sangbad Bulletins12:15 Computer Based Prog. IT ZONE 01:00 Sangbad Bulletins01:25 Band...
SINGAPORE, Jan 12 (Reuters): Asian stocks fell Tuesday, a day after hitting a 17-month high, on investor jitters about tighter monetary policy in China, while the dollar rose after a Chinese sovereign fund official said the currency has bottomed.Shares in...
Mashiur RahamanThe owners of small industries have protested the order on mandatory installation of costly Power Factor Improvement (PFI) equipment and demanded extension of the deadline that ended in October, 2009."Installation of an average-quality PFI equipment costs about Tk 75,000...
FE ReportBangladesh Railway (BR) signed an agreement Monday with the Hyundai Rotem Company of Korea for procurement of nine meter-gauge diesel electric locomotives.TA Chowdhury, additional director general (rolling stock) of BR, and Woo Dong IK, director (overseas sales) of the...
KARACHI, Jan 12 (Business Recorder): The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Monday launched the first Electronic Bond Trading Platform (E-Bond) for trading of government securities to develop a secondary debt market. In the first phase, government securities, including Government of...
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters): US taxpayer profits from bank bailout investments are being offset by estimated losses from American International Group (AIG) and automakers and mortgage payment cuts for struggling homeowners, a US Treasury report showed Monday.The Treasury estimated net...
NEW DELHI, Jan 1 (Economic Times): Private equity major TA Associates has picked up a minority stake in domestic handset maker Micromax for about Rs 2.25 billion, a top company official with the cellphone company told the reporter. While the...
SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (Reuters): Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz unit said it sold 77 per cent more cars in China in 2009 compared with a year earlier.Mercedes-Benz, which competes with BMW among others globally, sold a record 68,500 cars in China last...
BEIJING, Jan 12 (AFP): China has scrapped restrictions on the use of foreign parts in wind power turbines, state media reported, as the nation seeks access to more advanced technology to meet its clean energy targets. The decision by the...
AHMEDABAD, Jan 12 (Commodity Online): India's copper producers have opposed the value addition norms of the government and demanded a change in the export-import policy.The industry imports raw copper and exports finished products. As per the norm fixed by the...
DELARAM, AFGHANISTAN, Jan 12 ( Agencies): Six international soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, Nato officials say, making Monday the deadliest day for foreign troops there in two months.Three Americans and a British soldier were killed in the south and...
KARACHI, Jan 12 (AFP): Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Pakistan's financial capital Karachi on Monday to protest at a security crackdown after dozens of people died in political violence.Security officials say up to 48 political party workers...
An Indian paramilitary soldier has been killed in firing from the Pakistani side on the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Kashmir, Indian officials say, reports BBC.Indian army officials said Pakistani troops opened fire on the Indian positions in Poonch.A...
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will take her message to Fox News as a regular commentator, reports AP."I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News,'' Palin...
Iranian professor dies in Tehran bomb blast An Iranian university professor has been killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran, Iranian media say. They say that Masoud Mohammadi, a professor of nuclear physics, died after a remotely controlled...
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