FE ReportThe country's hotel and restaurant workers have demanded to the authorities to pay all arrears and festival bonus at least a couple of days before the Eid."Hotel owners are depriving the workers by not paying their due salary and...
Our CorrespondentMANIKGANJ, Sept 14: Baliati Palace, the most ancient relic of Saturia Upazila under the district, is on the way to extinction due to multifarious problems and corruption.The landlords of Baliati were divided into five Zaminders. After putting an end...
NOAKHALI, Sept 14 (UNB): Two people were killed and seven others injured as a truck rammed into a three-wheeler tempo near Choumuhani bazar in Begumganj Upazila Monday.The deceased were identified as tempo passengers Saiful Islam, son of Nurul Huda, hailed...
Sachin Tendulkar rolled back the years, and then some more. He stroked, ran and yearned for runs like it was the 1990s but, unlike those days, he didn't need to take any chances or risks on the way to his...
Newcomers Feni Soccer Club tasted their first victory in the Citycell Federation Cup Football Tournament with a goalfest outplaying Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP) by 7-0 goals in their 2nd match at the Army Stadium in Banani Monday, reports UNB.The...
ZURICH, Sept 14(AFP): Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, who cost Real Madrid over 150 million euros, aim to lead the Spanish giants to a 10th European title this season, with their campaign starting in the humble surroundings of FC Zurich Tuesday....
NEW YORK, Sept 14 (AP): Clijsters made history Sunday night, capping a comeback from two years out of tennis to become the first unseeded woman to win the Open-and the first mom to win a major since 1980-with a 7-5,...
NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Internet): Serena Williams faces an anxious wait to see if she is to be banned from future Grand Slam tournaments following her controversial outburst at the US Open.Williams was levied with a $10,000 fine by the...
Doulot Akter MalaExporters and importers will have to bear the cost of inspection of their goods at the Chittagong seaport after the authorities slapped a fee of US$5.0 on scanning every container.The fees would come into effect in the current...
FE ReportThe government on Monday appointed two new chairmen and eight directors to the boards of four state-owned commercial and specialized banks and one financial institution, sources in the finance ministry said.They have been appointed for a period of three...
FE ReportA half-day hartal called by left-leaning political organisations has ended peacefully Monday noon with an ultimatum to the government to the government to fulfill their five-point demands by October 15.The National Committee for Protection of Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources,...
FE ReportDhaka stocks rose sharply Monday as bargain hunters snapped up energy heavyweights on a series of latest government moves to boost up power and gas output.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) added 42.28 points or 1.43 per cent to...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanThe government is going to engage intelligence agencies to find out the unscrupulous businessmen, who are responsible for the unusual price rise of sugar."I talked to the intelligence officials today and asked them to find out the culprits,"...
FE Report Bangladesh faces significant challenges in improving corporate governance despite the improvements undertaken in the recent years, a workshop held in Dhaka was told Monday last. The workshop organised jointly by the World Bank, Global Corporate Governance Forum of...
FE Report The government floated tender Monday for installing ten furnace oil-run power plants, including one having dual-fuel facility with natural gas to generate a total of 830 megawatts (mw) of electricity in the public sector.State-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) and all scheduled banks of the country will remain closed on Sept 18 on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Qadar and the holy Jum'atul Wida and September 20, 21 and 22 on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr....
Police recovered the body of a housewife, Shirin, who had gone missing for the last seven days, from a manhole at South Dhania in the capital, police said. After being informed by locals the police recovered the decomposed body of...
A Z M AnasUse of contraceptive in Bangladesh has almost doubled in two decades, helped by increased application of modern family planning methods, according to a new survey. A wide-ranging survey by state population research group NIPORT found that some...
FE ReportThe government will launch public private partnership (PPP) initiatives this month to bring back vibrancy in the economy, said finance minister AMA Muhith in parliament on Monday.In reply to a supplementary question of Abdul Mannan, he said the government...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government-formed high-powered taskforce on global recession monitoring would sit tomorrow (Wednesday) to assess the impact of the global economic meltdown on the country's economy and suggest possible financial support to weather the fallouts, officials said Monday.The committee,...
FE Report The central bank has strengthened its monitoring on disbursement of farm loan through introduction of new reporting system aiming to ensure credit to the real farmers across the country. Under the new system, the banks will have to...
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate continued to maintain an upward trend Monday ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, treasury officials said. The call rate ranged between 3.00 per cent and 7.50 per cent on the day against the previous...
FE Report Speakers at a dialogue said Monday that the existing regulatory problems being faced by new entrepreneurs should be removed to allow the growth of more small and medium enterprises in the country for alleviation of poverty and employment...
FE ReportThe country's poultry hatchery owners are still charging higher prices for chicks despite the Commerce Minister's ultimatum of importing chicks if their prices are not reduced, alleged the poultry farmers.The hatchery owners are still charging Tk 36-40 for each...
Political parties will lose their registration if they fail to hold party council and submit party's amended constitution within the stipulated timeframe of one year fixed by the Election Commission (EC) under a freshly amended law, reports UNB.The strict provision...
Every year, before Eid, village home-bound people leaving large cities, specially Dhaka, are confronted with a great misery. They usually leave the city in great numbers. For example, nearly half of the people of Dhaka city go to their points...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The government has reconstituted the boards of three state-owned banks and the BASIC Bank late last week. And many have raised their eyebrows at the appointment of a few ruling party followers as directors to the boards....
Md Selim BhuiyanACCORDING to an estimate, 41 thousand tons of powdered milk, worth $150 million, was imported by Bangladesh in fiscal 2007-08. By boosting the domestic dairy industry, such drainage of resource could be avoided.Even in the mid nineties, Bangladesh...
A group of people calling themselves, the committee to save oil, gas and ports, are trying to whip up agitation against the government's move to lease out off-shore blocks to two international oil companies (IOCs). They would want to be...
We are told a minority -- one-fourth of the total global population -- is consuming three-fourths of the total wealth of the world. In this context a picture, published in almost all dailies, got me thinking. The picture showed a...
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