Mahmudur RahmanChildren are often taught to connect dots as part of the learning process. At that stage it is understandable that they are given no rationale to do so. The object is to stimulate their thinking and allow their minds...
FE Report Bangladesh's air travel sector has rebounded even as most of the countries across the world are feeling the pain of aviation downturn, a top travel trader said Thursday. "Our recovery is really outstanding. Air passengers travel is now...
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Thursday staged a countrywide human-chain demonstration against what they said government 'attempt to hide the real culprits' involved in staging the carnage at the BDR Headquarters and demanded that the mystery behind the mayhem be...
Siddique Islam The foreign exchange dealer banks have been requested to maintain a benchmark for quoting foreign currency exchange rates to the overseas exchange houses, which are engaged in remitting money to Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association (BAFEDA)...
Police would launch a crackdown on criminals, snatchers and illegal arms from Thursday midnight to curb growing lawlessness in the capital, top Dhaka cop said.Dhaka police commissioner AKM Shahidul Haq admitted that there have been increasing number of crimes in...
FE Report Bangladesh Pipe and Tube-well Merchant's Association (BPAT) Thursday demanded withdrawal of the case filed by the Jagannath University authority against nearly 300 businessmen of the old part of Dhaka. The association leaders claimed that some students ransacked their...
As many as 520 BDR men were rounded up from Chittagong, Brahmanbaria, Satkhira, Khulna, Chuadanga, Feni, Jessore, Kushtia and Khagrachhari districts Wednesday night and Thursday morning as mass arrests of the suspected mutineers in the border force went on at...
IT is deeply regrettable that the export-oriented readymade garments (RMG) industries, which earns 76 per cent of the country's foreign currencies and employs some 3.5 million workers, should continue to be threatened on a large scale by the reappearance of...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanTHE agricultural minister was frank and candid in what sounded like a confession to the media on Monday that the government's foodgrain procurement activities are not going as well as these should be in the background of the...
Imran AhmedMICRO-credit was identified long ago as a powerful tool for the purpose of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. This realisation also led to a major expansion of micro credit operations in the country during the last two decades. Several ministries...
NEWSPAPERS have reported about crime points in the capital city time and again. People passing through these points, specially at night and early in the morning, fall victim to snatching. The snatchers take advantage of the lonely roads at night...
PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina told in a public meeting held at the Paltan Maidan on May 01, that the BNP-led government had plundered Tk. 200 billion (20,000 crore) in the name of generating electricity.How can it be correct when total...
Floods and erosion cause extreme poverty as people lose their land and homes.Mega floods are more frequent now due to climate change. In 2004, mega floods destroyed 80 per cent of the country's crops, killed 747 people and left 30...
Davis Hanson TODAY'S Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance and defend themselves in ways unrivalled elsewhere.Lately we have forgotten that and instead seem to expect others to do...
Salahuddin Ahmed THE national budget for the fiscal year 2009-2010 is expected to be one of the most high value budgets of all times. Consequent to that, the government of Bangladesh is surely up against a huge challenge of formulating...
Md. Abdul Halim, Bar-at-Law The judgment in 5th Amendment case declaring the 5th Amendment to the Constitution illegal delivered in 2005 by a Division Bench of the High Court Division has so far raised little hue and cry until May...
NEW YORK, May 13 (AFP): Oil prices topped 60 dollars a barrel for the first time in six months Tuesday, boosted by a plunge in the dollar that made greenback-priced oil cheaper for buyers armed with stronger currencies. New York's...
Janata Bank Limited awarded prizes to its nine beneficiaries by a lottery from the remitters of its four branches in UAE Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and AI-Ain, says a press release. Acting Chairman of the bank M Zarziul Islarn handed...
TOKYO, May 13 (AFP): Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has signed an agreement with Japanese partners to build a pipeline that will supply Japan and other Asian countries with natural gas from northern Sakhalin Island. The pipeline will at first "secure...
NEW DELHI, May 13 (Bloomberg): India, the world's biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may import a record quantity in the year to Oct. 31 because of higher demand and duty-free purchases amid a decline in local oilseed output....
SINGAPORE, May 13 (AFP): Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) reported today a 35 per cent annual increase in regional mobile phone subscribers despite the global economic downturn. Southeast Asia's biggest telecom firm said 64 million new mobile phone customers were added, raising...
Earning through the internet by sitting at your home is not a dream any more. Any one can earn lots of Dollar by this e-working. If a person is educated and have some basic knowledge on computer than he/she can...
Copper Bid/Ask 2.0713 -2.0758 Change +0.0159 +0.77% Low/High 2.0554 -2.0939 Nickel Bid/Ask 5.8309 -5.8763 Change -0.0113 -0.19% Low/High 5.8309 -5.9783 AluminumBid/Ask 0.6774 -0.6819 Change 0.0000 0.00% Low/High 0.6774 -0.6864 Zinc Bid/Ask 0.6842 ...
Commodity Prices Month Last WTI Light Crude Jun '09 59.6800 Brent Crude Jun '09 58.7900 RBOB Gasoline Jun '09 1.6679y Heating Oil Jun '09 1.5070y Nat Gas (NBP) Jun '09 29.4500 ...
MUMBAI, May 13 (Bloomberg): India's stocks fell, led by Infosys Technologies Ltd., as investors raised concerns of political uncertainty as no political party appeared likely to emerge as a clear winner in the last day of elections. Infosys, the country's...
LONDON, May 13 (Bloomberg): European stocks and US index futures fluctuated as disappointing earnings from ING Groep NV and Bulgari SpA offset better-than expected results at Dexia SA and K and S AG. ING, the largest Dutch financial-services company, fell...
WASHINGTON, May 13 (AFP): The global financial crisis is taking an increasing toll on Asia's corporate sector with the region's economies now among the world's hardest hit, a senior IMF official warned yesterday. "Corporate risks are rising and market indicators...
WASHINGTON, May 13 (AFP): China may not be able to sustain its economic expansion in 2010 if there is no recovery particularly in the United States and Europe, a senior World Bank official said yesterday. China posted growth of 6.1...
Microsoft Bangladesh announced an additional funding of US dollar 54,000 to create IT-enabled sustainable l of the country Monday in the city, says a press release.They will also provide software and curriculum for enabling IT skills training to underserved people...
FE ReportA small weight of tea on offer met with a stronger demand particularly the clean, good liquoring varieties, which fetched higher rates. Blenders were more active whilst there was stronger interest from the loose tea buyers. Export buyers were...
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