FE ReportMain roads and connecting lanes around major shopping centres in the city remained clogged on Friday weekend for hours as people thronged in large number for Eid shopping.Entire Pantha Path, Naya Paltan road, Mirpur road, Malibagh road, Subhan Bagh...
Fazlur Rahman The mushrooming growth of glitzy shopping malls and supermarkets in the city is killing the residential character of its once-sleepy posh areas and destroying its own business prospect.There are now 30 big-sized malls and 350 supermarkets in the...
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said Friday Bangladesh and India have agreed to resolve all outstanding bilateral issues as well as newer ones in a package, reports UNB."We're hopeful about solution of the problems as we've got positive response from the...
FE ReportUnidentified gunmen shot and killed a businessman at Bhashantek in the city Friday noon.The incident took place hours after gunmen shot a student dead in Mirpur Thursday night. An officer of Kafrul police station told the FE that five...
FE ReportHundreds of garment workers staged a rally in the city Friday with black flags held aloft demanding payment of wages including arrears and Eid bonuses by September 16.The workers under the banner of National Garments Worker Federation staged the...
DINAJPUR, Sept 11: Around 1,000 workers of Barapukuria Coalmine here went on strike Thursday night for an indefinite period to press home their 14-point demand. The authority concerned said the production in the coalmine was suspended at 11pm as the...
BOGRA, Sept 11: Four people were killed and 20 others injured in a road crash on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway in Sadar Upazila early today (Friday). The police said a timber-laden truck hit hard a Panchagarh-bound bus coming from Dhaka in...
A 24-member committee has reportedly finalized and submitted a set of uniform guidelines to the Directorate of Health so that hospitals, doctors and health workers countrywide may be relieved of indecision and confusion with regard to treating swine flu patients....
Syed JamaluddinPrivatisation Commission is facing difficulty in disinvesting 30 industrial units. These industrial units have already incurred a loss of Taka 100 billion (10,000 crore). These units are now formally listed for privatisation. Work on privatisation of these units is...
Shabbir KarimBANGLADESHI entrepreneurs need to increase 'productivity' per worker to be competitive in the international market. Quality and quantity output from workers translate into more competitiveness. The entrepreneurs, specially in the readymade garments (RMG) sector, the country's biggest foreign currency...
Some media people and others grudge the fine houses and the life style of the owners of garments industries. But let me say that they are enjoying these things after long years of toil (although toil in a different form...
NEWSPAPER readers in Bangladesh cannot avoid coming across advertisements of a new university being set up in Dhaka or in other big cities. But higher education is not only about quantity and more important is quality. And more and more...
OUR Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has been on a visit to India to discuss several bilateral issues before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit later this year. We expect the visits to be fruitful for Bangladesh as India is one of...
Mostagousul HaqueIT was a dilemma whether or not to act on the news alert on swine flu outbreak. I was not sure whether it is a real danger or a mere hype created by certain quarters. Precautions like the security...
Shah Md. Abu Raihan AlberuniBeing one of the poorest agro-based countries in the world in the early sixties, the Republic of Korea (RoK) or South Korea took up massive economic development programmes in earnest since then. An outward oriented economic...
In today's days of scientific and technological advancement, the globe is flooded with the development of Information Technology. Contesting with the race of advancement of information technology (IT), we, the Bangalee nation, is trying to the best of our ability...
ONE of Britain's most eminent scientists, who is an atheist, has said that the world may have to turn to religion to save itself from catastrophic climate change.According to a report in the Telegraph, Lord May, the president of the...
Boogie WoogieOn SONY SET Friday at 9-30 pm.The original dance show, only one of its kind, to hit Indian Television, Sansui Boogie Woogie, recently completed 10 glorious years. The dance show, that continues to rock the small screen with its...
Asha Bhosle is considered as one of the most versatile South Asian singer. Noted Ashaji has sung around 13,000 songs and this is an achievement of all times.This September she'll turn 76, but her voice still has great intensity and...
MUMBAI, Sept. 10 (Bloomberg): India's benchmark stock index gained for the fifth day, led by software exporters after Nomura Holdings Inc. raised its rating on the industry. Commodities companies advanced on expectations the nation's demand for steel may rise.Infosys Technologies...
LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters): Benchmark world stocks hit a fresh 11-month high Thursday while emerging stocks extended gains to a new one-year peak, levels last seen before the collapse of Lehman Brothers.The MSCI world equity index rose 0.4 per cent...
KARACHI, Sept 10: The Karachi stock market witnessed a bullish trading session, on Wednesday as investors took positions in blue chips while oil crossed $70 per barrel changing the fundamentals of the oil sector to positive, according to Daily Times.The...
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (Bloomberg): Soybeans advanced as rising crude oil prices and a decline in the dollar bolstered investors' confidence in improved global commodity demand.The oilseed gained as much as 0.6 percent after crude climbed for a fourth day...
LONDON, Sept. 10 (Bloomberg): Sugar exporters in some African, Caribbean and Pacific nations may get higher prices at home than under preferential sales to the European Union, said Patrick Gomes, Guyana's ambassador to Brussels.ACP sugar exporters will get no less...
KARACHI,Sept. 10 (Bloomberg): Trading Corp. of Pakistan, a state- run company, plans to sell 330,000 metric tons of imported wheat to domestic users and exporters of wheat-products.Trading Corp. will sell 100,000 tons of wheat, stored at its warehouses in Karachi,...
FE ReportLocal and foreign private commercial banks have launched special product offers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest festival of the Muslims, to facilitate consumers in their shopping, officials said Wednesday. Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has launched a special campaign for...
FE ReportSoutheast Bank Ltd (SEBL), Motijheel branch (Islamic Banking) organised an Iftar party for its clients on the branch premises recently.Managing Director of Southeast Bank Ltd Mahbubul Alam, Khatib of Baitul Mokarram National Mosque and Chairman of SEBL Shariah Council...
FE ReportThe lottery for distribution of units of ICB AMCL Second Mutual Fund was held Thursday at the auditorium of National Sports Council in the city.The lottery was held in three categories. The result of the lottery is available on...
FE Report Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) opened its 20th SME service centre at Sonargaon of Narayanganj Wednesday, said a press release.Chairman of IBBL Executive Committee Md Eskander Ali Khan inaugurated the new SME service centre as the chief guest....
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate remained almost stable Thursday as there was injection of fresh funds by the central bank in the market ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, treasury officials said. The call rate ranged between 2.50 per cent...
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