FE ReportA leading consumer watchdog Sunday demanded tough regulations for pharmaceutical companies, a coordinated council with real teeth and a sophisticated testing lab to ensure quality of food, medicine and cosmetics in the country.The Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) made...
Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan on Sunday said the government would minimise the net of VAT (value added tax) gradually, but the income tax net would be expanded, reports UNB."It's not possible to waive all types of taxes...
FE ReportDr. Sadiq Ahmed has joined the Policy Research Institute (PRI) of Bangladesh as its Vice Chairman.A leading Bangladeshi economist, Dr. Sadiq Ahmed has taken early retirement from the World Bank (WB), to team up with his economist colleagues at...
FE ReportThe newly-appointed state-minister for power and energy Brig Gen (retd) Enamul Haque said Sunday that he would try his best to improve the country's power supply situation for betterment of the economy. "My main objective is to overcome the...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has fined six companies for failing to submit their un-audited half-yearly accounts to the bourse within the July 31 deadline, says a DSE press release Sunday.The defaulting companies are Bangladesh Electric Meter Company, German...
Ba'al - The Storm GodOn HBO Movies Monday at 10 -30 pmBizarre storms wrack the US while simultaneously gruesome murders are occurring. Two scientists find a Sumerian statue of the storm god Baal and conclude that the storms and murders...
Directed by Tahmineh Milani, IranTwo women who have been close friends and classmates in the College of Architecture, are detached for various reasons - one of them Cultural Revolution in Iran. They find each other after 15 years and review...
The latest directive given by the Prime Minister seeking a report from the Ministry of Communications on the on-going road and bridge construction projects at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) was a move...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Dhaka's traffic system is in a total mess. May it be noon or midnight, main road arteries of the city remain clogged with vehicular traffic. Following a heavy to moderate rain or movement of a VVIP, the...
Md AsaduzzamanJubok, a non-government organisation (NGO), pretended as a bank, took money from its depositors with the lure of interest rates high above the market rate and then failed to keep its commitments. The arrest of the chief executive of...
MohabbatenOn SONY SET Sunday at 9-30 pm. In India, open romance is forbidden, as is showing affection in public. A college principal named Narayan is a strong believer in this, aware that a male student named Vicky is in love...
MUMBAI, July 31 (AFP): India's Hindi-language film industry has traditionally been a tight-knit affair, with generations of actors, producers and directors forging careers in what was effectively a family business.But a number of "new wave" directors are now breaking the...
LOS ANGELES - Steven Miessner, the motion picture academy's devoted "Keeper of the Oscars" who each year donned his signature white gloves to get the golden statuettes ready for their closeup before a worldwide audience, is dead at age 48.Miessner...
Given below is the story in brief (kahini shongkhep) of "Keyamot" (Götterdämmerung) released some time ago: It so happens that Amin Khan accosts a soothsayer on the road and demands the man foretell his future whereupon the man exclaimed: "Explore...
THE news last week that the pass rate of over 70 per cent was maintained in the Higher Secondary Examination (HSC), was not an unmixed one. There is satisfaction and also anxiety, for even the star performers in these examinations,...
Shahiduzzaman KhanAGAINST the backdrop of the dismal performances of the Board of Investment (BoI), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the BoI had to start afresh with the aim of bringing momentum to investment. Presiding over the 24th meeting of...
Avik SenguptaTwenty-five children recently died after taking paracetamol. Following this tragedy, the government formed a probe committee which examined 300 samples of paracetamol and vitamin syrup produced by 10 pharmaceutical companies. The probe committee has found the presence of poisonous...
Every year, before Ramadan we hear a lot of promises to the consumers that the prices of essential commodities will remain stable but much of the times the traders get away with raising prices-and we suffer. Sure we see mobile...
In the modern world women have proved that they are not lagging behind men in all the fields of work and other activities. Their role as a mother or wife is not all. Their working as teachers in different academic...
South Asian peculiarities pose a challenge to Bangladesh as to how we can maintain a delicate balance in our relations with China and India. A perceived tilt toward one could send misgivings on the other. An imbalance in the bilateral...
Fakhrul Islam Education, as we all know, is a key to development, for a nation as well for an individual. Higher education is inevitable for development of a nation as a whole. By the term higher education, in Bangladesh we...
M A Islam THERE are many students who lack in confidence that is required for success in studies. If they had confidence, they could do much better. Confidence is a must while reading a difficult text, after performing poorly in...
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. -Lou Holtz A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like...
MUMBAI, August 1 (PTI): Encouraging global picture and robust corporate earnings outlook for the fiscal year 2010, propelled Indian bourses aiding the Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share benchmark, Sensex, to hit a 13-month high of 15,670.31 amid end of quarterly earnings...
KARACHI, AUGUST 1: Bullish sentiments were witnessed at the Karachi stock market on the last trading day of the week Friday on support from intense buying activities as State Bank of Pakistan hinted at discount rate cut in the next...
NEW YORK August 1 (Bloomberg): Corn rose to a three-week high and soybeans gained on speculation that recent dry, cool weather stunted crops in the US, the world's largest grower and exporter.Parts of the Midwest got less than 25 per...
LONDON, August 1 (Bloomberg): European stocks slipped, trimming the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index's steepest monthly gain since April, as results from Air France-KLM Group and Eni SpA that trailed analysts' predictions overshadowed a smaller-than- forecast contraction in the US...
NEW YORK, August 1 (Bloomberg): US stocks rose, extending the Dow Jones Industrial Average's best monthly gain since 2002, as better-than-estimated gross domestic product spurred speculation the economy is recovering from the recession.General Electric Co., Bank of America Corp. and...
NEW YORK, AUGUST 1 (Bloomberg): Steel prices in the US rose 13 per cent in July, the first gain in a year, after distributors began restocking their inventories.The average price of hot-rolled steel sheet, the benchmark product used in cars...
ANKARA, AUGUST 1 (Bloomberg): Gold sales in the form of old jewelry and other used pieces of metal probably dropped to about 350 metric tonnes in the second quarter as some owners declined to sell at lower prices, GFMS Ltd....
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