FE Report Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque Monday said the government will take move for setting up an API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) industrial park shortly to boost drug production.He said this to the leaders of Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Monday said the name of the new Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor would be announced today (Tuesday) after completing necessary formalities, reports UNB.He, however, declined to disclose the name before the official announcement. Someone from among economists,...
FE ReportFrench textile machinery manufacturers will be regularly visiting Bangladesh to explore marketing opportunities among the apparel producers, a top French business leader said Monday. Evelyn Cholet, secretary general of the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association, said that Chinese, Japanese,...
Power-supply situation slightly improved in and around the capital, while improvement in Chittagong region may be in sight from tomorrow (Wednesday), following some urgent government interventions, reports UNB.According to official sources, Dhaka city and adjacent areas started getting additional 100-MW...
Local and foreign staff members of UNICEF, IFRC and WFP have left their local offices following threats from the militant outfit JMB, reports UNB.Regional coordinator of UNICEF Tawfiq Ahmed Monday said all officials and employees, except himself and his security...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 27 (UNB): Hundreds of CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers enforced a wildcat strike in the port city Monday to press home their five-point demand.The auto-rickshaw drivers stopped plying their vehicles on the roads at about 9:00am, causing immense sufferings to...
The BNP said Monday it would take further legal action if the government does not reply to the notice issued by the party chief Khaleda Zia over her vacating Dhaka Cantonment house, reports bdnews24.com.Law Minister Shafiq Ahmed told reporters just...
It was reported in a contemporary last Friday that 11 men and women had been affected and three children had died from a 'mysterious' disease in Dhaka's Dhamrai Upazila over the past 20 days or so. Medical experts visiting the...
Shamsul Huq ZahidSometimes, two events, opposed to each other in contents and in policies, do take place simultaneously. A few of those who take notice of such happenings express surprise at such events and most others ignore the same. It...
Mahbubur RahmanThe media in the country have been noted for carrying intermittent reports during the last one month--coinciding with the crime wave--about reappearance of dons of the underworld who were not spotted for nearly twenty-four months as a sequel to...
Everyday, the media in Bangladesh produces a large number of investigative reports that relate mainly to corruption, underperformance in government organisations and an assortment of other ills. But hardly anything punitive and corrective are seen as done by the government...
THE recent advertisement 'stunt' announcing that television star and model Joya Ahsan had disappeared and her phone was turned off, was half-witted, insensitive, trite, and in extreme bad taste. What is about thousands of people who had not understood that...
Recently, a bridge has been constructed on Road # 11, joining Banani and Gulshan.This is a very important alternate road as traffic on Kamal Ataturk Avenue was unbearable.Recently it has been noticed that the pavement in the centre of Road...
FE Desk ReportBangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Turkey are foreseen to buy less after harvesting good crops, according to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)'s latest forecast. In contrast, Afghanistan, China mainland, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, the Democratic Republic...
LAGOS, Apr 26 (AFP): The idea of bringing Nigerian gas by pipeline across the Sahara to Europe is looking ever more attractive as Europe, whose gas requirements are set to rise, seeks to lessen its reliance on Moscow.The European Union...
BEIJING, Apr 26 (AFP): China's gold reserves rose 75 per cent from 2003 to 2008, state media said, reporting that Beijing now had the world's fifth largest holdings of the precious metal. China had 1,054 tonnes of gold by the...
Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, Apr 26: The volume of dry fish processing has declined in the district devoid of modern production and storage system, proper government guidelines and running capital.All the five upazilas of the district -- Kashiani, Muksedpur, Kotalipara, Tungipara and...
KARACHI: A sizeable amount of $250 million outflow took place from the equity market during the current calendar year 2009, according to Daily Times.Since the removal of floor, country' stock market witnessed rapid outflow of foreign portfolio investment because of...
FE Report ICB Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), recently announced Net Asset Value (NAV) of its two unit funds, said a press release. The total NAV of ICB AMCL Unit Fund stood...
MADRID, Apr 26 (AFP): Faced with declining sales due to Spain's worst recession in a generation, Spanish clothing retailers like Zara have launched a fierce price war that has contributed to the risk of deflation.The official summer sales period only...
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 26 (AFP): Malaysia has approved plans for a power cable linking the controversial Bakun hydroelectricity project in Sarawak state on Borneo island to the mainland, according to a report Sunday.Energy Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui told the...
SEOUL, Apr 26 (AFP): South Korean car exports fell sharply in the first quarter to March due to weak demand amid the global economic downturn, an association of local carmakers said Sunday.The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association said in a report...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 125 points at 8083, within 50 points of turning positive for the seventh consecutive week, helped by gains in two of its components that posted results late Thursday. Microsoft was up 8.4pc despite...
SYDNEY, Apr 26 (AFP): Australian taxpayers may be delighted as the government doles out billions of dollars of spending money, but some economists and politicians are critical of Canberra's stimulus policy.A total of 7.7 billion dollars (5.5 billion US) in...
MUMBAI, April 26 (PTI): The country's 10 most valued firms added nearly Rs290 billion to their market capitalisation last week, with Bharti Airtel alone accounting for nearly half the valuation.Private sector telecom services provider Bharti Airtel added Rs13,164 crore to...
COLOMBO, April 26 (AFP): Sri Lanka rejected Sunday a ceasefire declared by Tamil Tiger rebels, as the United Nations said the ongoing fighting was preventing essential aid from reaching thousands of trapped civilians.Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse said there was no...
BEIRUT, April 26 (AP): US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reassured the Lebanese people Sunday that Washington supports "voices of moderation" and will never make a deal with Syria that undermines the country's interests.Clinton spoke on a surprise visit...
MEXICO CITY, April 26 (AFP): Mexicans took new precautions amid fears that a new flu epidemic believed to have killed up to 81 people in the country could reach "pandemic" proportions and spread to the United States and worldwide.Mexican Health...
ISLAMABAD, April 26 (AP): The Pakistani military launched an operation against militants Sunday in a district covered by a peace deal between the government and the insurgents, further casting doubt on that pact's survival.The offensive in Lower Dir, which neighbours...
REYKJAVIK, April 26 (AFP): Iceland's interim leftist government won a resounding victory in this weekend's general election as voters punished the conservatives they blame for the country's economic meltdown seven months ago.The conservative Independence Party, in power for 18 years...
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