Arafat Hosen Khan Bar-at-LawTHE abortive attack on Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh, MP, has to be seen in a proper perspective. He was lucky to survive the bomb attack outside his office in the capital's downtown. But it left at least...
M.S. Siddiqui Over the past few years, a series of riots spread across the Third World countries. Furious mobs have raged against skyrocketing food and energy prices, stagnating wages and unemployment in India, Senegal, Yemen, Indonesia, Morocco, Cameroon, Brazil, Panama,...
Shah Mohammed Saifuddin THE strategic and security policy of Bangladesh, governed by the principles of friendship with all and enmity with none, stresses preventive diplomacy to engage in constructive dialogue to reduce the risk of conflicts and resolve disputes in...
TOKYO, Nov 12 (Bloomberg): Japanese and US government bonds rose after central bank officials signalled inflation doesn't pose a threat and Japan reported a 10th month of declines in producer prices. Asian stocks fell, reversing earlier gains. Japan's benchmark 10-year...
HONG KONG, Nov 12 (Reuters): Chinese property developer Longfor Properties Co raised $912 million, pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top end of an indicated range Thursday, according to two sources close to the deal.Billionaire investor George...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Nov 12: Potato growers of greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts are frustrated as they are facing acute crisis of quality potato seeds at the very onset of the cultivation season.According to sources, Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) has...
KARACHI, Nov 12 (Business Recorder): Silkbank board of directors has in principle approved right shares issue at a discount to meet the minimum capital requirement of the State Bank of Pakistan. However, the issue is subject to all regulatory approvals....
NEW DELHI, Nov 12 (PTI): Delhi Metro Thursday achieved another milestone when a brand-new train chugged into the satellite city of Noida for the first time paving the way for thousands of commuters in east Delhi and adjoining areas to...
FE Report Banglalink, a leading mobile phone operator in the country, has appointed Nizar EI-Assaad to act as its IT director, according to a press release.Mr EI-Assaad was graduated in 1992 from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, with a...
THE incumbent government is promise-bound to provide employment to one member of each of the families by the year, 2014. It has already taken up a programme, styled, the national service scheme (NSS) and recruitment under the same, according to...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanThe Women and Children Repression Prevention (WCRP) Act, 2000 was hailed generally as a welcome addition to the laws in force in Bangladesh. None should protest the intended purpose underlying the introduction of this particular legislation : the...
Ehsanul KabirTHERE should be a broad consensus on privatisation. Only the left political parties, which have no seats in parliament, are opposed to privatisation. There was otherwise no valid reason for Bangladesh to go slow on privatisation. It is ironic...
ON the roads of Dhaka city, no driver seems to be following traffic signals.Bangladesh is possibly the lone country where traffic police has to be deployed to regulate traffic, side by side with the traffic signals. We have problems with...
BY reshaping the policy, Bangladesh can send more workers abroad to increase remittance earnings. The scene is entirely dominated by private manpower exporters, keen to make quick money. They pay no attention to the national economy or the poor job...
According to media reports, of the khas land distributed in Sylhet district, 47 per cent were given to undeserving persons, while 53 per cent have been kept pending. The locally influential groups influenced the distribution to benefit those close to...
THE Jute Diversification Promotion Centre (JDPC) has recently invented an environment-friendly jute geo textile, in co-operation with India and the United Nations (UN). Synthetic geo textile, used for making roads across the world, is more expensive and less effective compared...
Sudeshna SarkarIn 1967, India got its first woman head of state - Indira Gandhi. Daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, she stepped into her father's shoes a few years after his death. It took another two decades for...
Shabbir A BasharUndergraduate students in universities not only gather basic academic knowledge but also learn how to learn. The post-graduate courses are designed to stimulate questions about methodologies, styles and deeper understanding of subjects, so that some of the students...
Abu Nasar AbdullahThe global impact of the environment on human livelihoods is creating a new kind of casualty: environmental refugees. Rising sea levels, increasing desertification, flooding, and more frequent natural disasters like cyclone have become a major cause of population...
TOKYO, Nov 11 (AP): Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after figures from China and Japan showed the region's two biggest economies were on track to recovering from the global downturn. European shares also traded higher.But Asia's advance, its...
VibroPower Corporation, an internationally famed generator producer, has started its operation in Bangladesh through a launching ceremony at a city hotel Wednesday, said a press release. Earlier, the company had been selling generators in Bangladesh through Siemens. While their operation...
FE ReportPrices of rice soared by around four per cent in October despite bumper food production and adequate stocks in the government and private warehouses, Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) said Tuesday. The private market watchdog said the price of...
FE Report Kazi Emdadul Haque, managing director (MD) of Premier Leasing and Finance Limited (PLFL) and vice-president of Asian Leasing and Finance Association (ALFA) left Dhaka Wednesday to attend the 55th governing council meeting of ALFA scheduled to be held...
NEW DELHI, Nov 11 (Business Wire India): Mauryan Capital Advisors ("Mauryan"), the recently launched New Delhi-based private investment firm has announced its intention to make growth capital private equity investments in small companies. Mauryan will target investment sizes of Rs...
TOKYO, Nov 11 (Bloomberg): Toyota Motor Corp may shoulder almost all the costs to shut a California joint-venture plant as the owner of the former General Motors Corp's 50 per cent stake doesn't plan to fund expenses including worker severance...
Md Abu Taher Chowdhury has been unanimously elected Chairman of Central Insurance Company Ltd in its 164th board meeting recently, said a press release. A renowned business personality Taher Chowdury is Proprietor of M/S AT Corporation. Chowdhury had been elected...
Karmasangsthan Bank, Keranigonj branch, Dhaka has arranged a meeting of the entrepreneurs Tuesday on its new premises, said a press release. Managing Director of the bank MA Yousoof inaugurated the activities of the branch on the new premises as the...
SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (AFP): Crude prices were mixed in Asia Wednesday as oil operations resumed in the Gulf of Mexico and following forecasts of a rise in world oil consumption next year, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Nov 11: The availability of different varieties of fresh water fish in the district has been declining over the years due mainly to gradual drying up of water bodies and application of chemical fertiliser to croplands.Indigenous species of...
Commercial banks across the country are being encouraged to distribute agricultural loan through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for accelerating the pace of activities of agricultural extension programme of the government, said a press release.As part of this programme, Dhaka Ahsania Mission...
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