Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanUltra portable subnotebooks or netbooks are rapidly gaining popularity in the country's vibrant PC market as evident from the latest bout of the annual ICT fair currently being held in the city. Despite lacking some basic features like...
Nazmul AhsanThe Ministry of Finance (MoF) has decided to maintain the status-quo as far as the ownership structure of the Bangladesh Commerce Bank (BCB) is concerned until 2010. Besides, a move has been taken to increase its paid-up capital as...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanDemand for labour is growing in export-oriented sectors as the production for export items has been rising in the country.In October, production of export goods went up sharply as the country exported 21,269 twenty-feet equivalent containers of goods...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The local tanners expect brisk business of hides and skin this Eid-ul-Azha as the demand for crust and finished leathers have been rising over the past few months after a along slump.Most of the tanners were reluctant...
FE ReportJute millers, severely hit by raw jute scarcity, will seek the government's immediate intervention in addressing the problem for the survival of the local units.Voicing deep concern at a sudden supply shortage of raw jute, what the millers term...
The Armed Forces Day will be observed today (Saturday) with due solemnity and enthusiasm, reports BSS. The day's programme will begin with the offering of Munajat (special prayers) after the Fazr prayers in all mosques at army garrisons, naval bases...
The heightened security measures over the final verdict on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's murder trial would be there until the execution of the killers, said Home Minister Sahara Khatun, reports bdnews24.com. The home minister told reporters Friday that the bomb attack...
The Primary Centre Examinations under the new system begin throughout the country today (Saturday). About 2.0 million students of Class-V will appear in the final examinations. The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has completed all preparations to hold the...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 20: The Bangladesh Railway authorities are going to launch a new intercity train service on Rajshahi-Dhaka route from Monday next (23 Nov) to fulfil the long cherished demands of the people. The train Dhumketu Express will depart from...
Ga-Unit written test for admission into first year honours classes under the Faculty of Business Studies for the academic session 2009-2010 of Dhaka University (DU) was held Friday in the city peacefully. A total of about 28,000 candidates sat in...
Monira MunniPrices of different local and imported spices have slightly increased at the retail level in the local markets as the demand for the same has started going up ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.The retail traders blamed wholesalers for the increase saying...
FE ReportDhaka and Ankara have agreed to establish direct banking and air links between to further widen trade, investment and economic cooperation between the two countries. The agreement was made in the third session of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Cooperation for...
FE ReportThe benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) jumped more than 20 per cent, first time in a week, supported by the country's telecom giant Grameenphone's impressive debut.In the week that ended on Thursday, the benchmark DSE General...
Chittagong OfficeCHITTAGONG, Nov 20: The outer ring road and town protection dam undertaken by the CDA (Chittagong Development Authority) was finalised in the economic relations department (ERD) under the ministry of finance yesterday.Under the project proposal CDA will construct a...
FE ReportReadymade garment (RMG) workers Thursday warned trade bodies, the government and the factory owners of untoward situation if they are not paid Eid bonuses, unpaid wages and half of the salary of the current month by November 24.The warning...
FE ReportUnknown gunmen killed a trader at Mirpur in the city in the early hours of Friday, police said.The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam Azad alias Raju (40), a motor parts-cum-fruit trader. He hailed from Magura district.Sub-Inspector (SI) of...
FE Report International Road Dynamics South Asia (IRDSA) will instal two WeighinMotion Systems and a toll collection system at Bangabandhu Bridge (Jamuna Bridge) at a cost of 1.1 million Canadian dollars. The project is expected to be commissioned by April,...
IN a departure from its traditional role as a financial sector regulator, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to play a proactive role in employment generation at the grassroots level. Thus, the country's central bank will, as the report said,...
H. SiddiquiA global news service sometime ago had a report on corruption in Bangladesh. It noted that an entrepreneur who wanted to start an export company last year had to wait more than a year for getting the necessary licence...
Mujibul HaqueBangladesh needs to take a well-defined strategy to participate in international trade fairs to promote exports. As it is, due to participation in a limited number of trade fairs abroad, the products of Bangladesh are not known to the...
During the closing days of Sheikh Hasina's first administration, 1996-2001, a novel Tk. 10 note printed in some sort of plastic was introduced as it was supposed to be longer lasting and did not become dirty quickly as paper notes...
I have noticed that people are increasingly less sensitive to the suffering of others specially when it is happening right before their eyes and when sometimes they themselves are the cause of that misery. People beat up child servants without...
EMPOWERMENT of local government (LG) bodies to promote uniform development throughout the country continues to be treated casually. For non-empowerment, the country's elected upazila councils, remain unable to serve the local people, the way they should. Empowered upazila parishad could...
Unfortunately, the success stories of Bangladesh are rather sought to be hidden from view by the pessimists as they emphasise always, as if with a chronic mind-set, the negative sides to the country. But even these negative sides are not...
People, in Bangladesh, are facing severe shortage of safe drinking water. They have a few accesses to safe drinking water. Recently water demand has tremendously increased due to economic and population growth. Arsenic has been found in ground water. Thousands...
There are three stages of economic conditions -- poverty, solvency and abundance. Our dearest Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) prayed to Allah for the solvency of his followers. This is because, in poverty they will be busy to pray to the Almighty,...
HONG KONG, Nov 19 (AP): Asian stock markets turned in a mixed performance Thursday as signs of weakness in the US economy aggravated worries about the strength of the global recovery.It was the second day of middling trade in Asia...
KARACHI, Nov 19 (Business Recorder): The KSE-100 index Wednesday lost 60.22 points to close at 9,144.76 points level due to selling mainly by local investors on their concerns, analysts said. The market opened on a positive note and the index...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (AP): Shares of Malaysia's top mobile phone company Maxis Berhad jumped 9.2 per cent on their return to the bourse Thursday following the biggest share sale ever in Southeast Asia.Maxis, owned by Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan,...
NEW DELHI, Nov 19 (The Economic Times): Shareholders of Hero Honda Motors, who have received at least Rs 177 per share as dividends in the last decade, could look forward for another windfall payout soon, as India's top two-wheeler maker...
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