A few days ago, I went to Dhaka and stayed with my friends and relatives for about two weeks. I found that the gas stoves in all the houses burn all day long and this troubled me. I get up...
THERE can be no objection to export of trained or skilled manpower. But it should follow a systematic process. First, the requirements of the country should be met. Only the surplus manpower can be allowed to go abroad.But there seems...
RECENTLY there was a piece of news in the papers that shocked me, not that other reports of the criminals and their world are less shocking but this one was shocking because our law enforcers seem to get quite near...
AS we know, justice with regard to the atrocities of the events surrounding the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 has been delayed for thirty eight years. As enshrined in international law, anyone accused of a crime, 'shall be entitled to...
A recent press report -- based on a seminar -- informs us that in Dhaka city alone, air pollution, on an average annual basis, leads to some 74,000 cases of bronchitis, about 7.0 million cases of restricted activity days, 14,000...
THIS letter is a humble response to the view expressed by Mr. Habibur Rahman published in your esteemed daily on August 1, 2009. As the view expressed may tend to create confusion among the worshippers, may I take the opportunity...
THE government is going to hold public examinations, instead of scholarship examinations, for grade five students this year, like that of Secondary School Certificate (SSC). Undoubtedly, it will help to promote quality education in primary level.Quality teachers are also essential...
ONCE, the railway, established by the British, was the only means of communication between Lalmonirhat and Burimari land port. Now, goods and machinery are imported and exported through the Burimari land port. Many people in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh...
The government, it seems, is taking a host of measures, with the holy month of Ramadan about three weeks away. The month fasting calls for austerity, restraint, discipline and even certain hardships by people. Therefore, the citizens expect that no...
FASTING, the third pillar of Islam, means abstaining from food and drink as well as legitimate sexual relationship from dawn till sunset.Fasting, according to Islam, is primarily a spiritual discipline and consequently it inculcates moral discipline. It is, indeed, the...
Nowadays different organisations often organise tourism fairs in Bangladesh, in which mainly outbound tour packages are sold. Sending tourists from Bangladesh to other countries cannot be treated as the development of tourism in our country.These fairs are sellers' fairs in...
GUADALAJARA, Aug 9 (AFP): US President Barack Obama attends his first North American leaders summit in Mexico Sunday with the economic crisis and swine flu on an agenda overshadowed by Mexican drug violence.Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and police deployed in...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9 (AP): Senior Taliban commanders denied their leader was killed in a CIA missile strike in Pakistan while conflicting reports emerged of a clash between rival factions during a meeting to choose a successor.Interior Minister Rahman Malik said...
NEW YORK, Aug 9 (AFP): Nine people were believed dead Sunday after a helicopter carrying Italian tourists crashed mid-air with a light airplane over New York's Hudson River."Three victims have been recovered," said Debbie Hersman, head of the National Transportation...
COLOMBO, Aug 9 (AFP): A party that backs the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels won a council in elections near Sri Lanka's former war zone, results showed Sunday, in a sign that separatists still attract popular support.The Tamil National Alliance, a...
KABUL, Aug 9 (AFP): A British soldier and three Afghan troopers have been killed in suspected insurgent bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, the military said Sunday, as security forces braced for the August 20 elections.The British soldier, who was serving...
BEIJING, Aug 9 (AP): Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly one million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.Twenty-nine people were missing...
Landslide kills 46 in India LUCKNOW, Aug 9: A police official says 46 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in northern India. Paramilitary force commander SM Shamim says 20 bodies have been pulled from the debris...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman Sunday mounted pressure on the country's banks and financial institutions to cut lending rate down to single digit in an effort to boost growth and investment."The interest rate should go down further," he said,...
Zaidi Sattar Since December 2008, it was a roller-coaster ride for our exports. Following a phenomenal start with a 40% growth in the first quarter despite a global environment of doom and gloom, exports eventually lost steam by the end...
FE ReportThree construction workers died as the hanging scaffold they got on for cleaning window glasses of the 15-storey BEL Tower, the corporate headquarters of Beximco Group, fell down with them Sunday morning at Dhanmondi in the city, police said.The...
FE ReportEconomic adviser to the Prime Minister Dr AKM Mashiur Rahman on Sunday said one way to mitigate the risk of lending by banks is to have a strong capital base. He was speaking at a dialogue on Globalisation of...
FE ReportThe country's securities regulator has fixed the minimum size of mutual funds (MFs) at Tk 500 million by amending mutual fund rules."No mutual funds having size below Tk 500 million will be allowed to float in the stock market...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) will start a door-to-door survey from next week in the city hoping to net in 0.4 million new taxpayers for increasing income tax collection in the current fiscal.The external survey will continue for...
Nazmul AhsanBilateral issues involving barriers to trade, transit and free trade area are expected to figure prominently in the three-day Bangladesh -India Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting scheduled to begin in New Delhi from August 27 next, sources said.Dhaka, according...
FE ReportDhaka stocks finished in the black for the fourth straight session Sunday with the turnover crossing the Tk 7.0 billion mark for the first time in a month.The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), DSE General Index (DGEN),...
A Jamaat-e-Islami man and a lawyer Sunday filed two writ petitions seeking a High Court (HC) ban on the ongoing single largest army pullout from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) since a peace accord was signed in 1997, report bdnews24.com...
A brilliant century by Mohammad Ashraful enabled Bangladesh to ease to an eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first of the five-match GrameenPhone Cup ODI Series at Bulawayo's Queens Sports Club Sunday, reports bdnews24.com. Tiny Ashraful stood tall to remain...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 9: Commerce Minister Faruk Khan said here Sunday that market monitoring would start to curb any attempt by the traders to raise prices of daily necessities ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. "There are no possibilities of...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 9: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan has assured businessmen of a 'rational' cut in tariff and charge at Chittagong port. "It was not right to raise the tariff and charge of the port 300 times after 21 years," the...
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