FHM Humayan KabirGovernment agencies have spent 41 per cent of the total development budget in the first nine months of the current fiscal, officials said Monday.The agencies have spent only Tk 104.95 billion during July-March period against total allocation of...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanBangladesh Bank will pursue the present strategy and continue with the 'accommodative monetary policy', said Atiur Rahman, the governor-designate of the central bank Monday."The central bank will maintain the accommodative policy and also encourage banks to adopt pro-poor...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday directed the country's missions abroad to be fully active in solving the problems of Bangladeshi expatriates, as many migrants aired grievances about the state of diplomacy, report UNB and BSS.She also instructed the ministries concerned...
Siddique Islam Around 2,500 applications have been submitted to the central bank seeking equity assistance under Equity Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) to set up agro-based industries across the country. The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), the country's lone state-owned asset management...
FE ReportDhaka stocks inched down in the continued fluctuating market Monday with significant increase in turnover.The market opened on a positive note as the benchmark index rose 18 points in the opening hour but trimmed the gains on profit taking...
A record high temperature in the country in decades Monday exposed life to miseries also affecting power and water supply systems in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, reports BSS.Meteorologists said they feared the country to witness the current heat...
A desk will be open this week at Zia International Airport (ZIA) to screen visitors coming from outside the country, especially countries affected by swine flu as part of a pre-cautionary step to prevent spread of the influenza, officials said,...
A rising businessman and son of former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Karim Uddin Bharasa was shot dead in the city Monday, reports UNB.Police said Khairul Islam Bharasa alias Kajal (30) was gunned down allegedly by his elder brother inside his...
The government has constituted a three-member prosecution team with Anisul Huq, a Supreme Court lawyer, as its head to conduct the paramilitary BDR massacre case. The two other prosecutors are advocates Syed Haider Ali and Mosharraf Hossain Kajol. Law Ministry...
Dr M Sayeedur Rahman Khan, Professor of the Department of Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering of Rajshahi University, has been appointed Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK and Northern Ireland. Dr Khan joined the Applied Physics and Electronic Dept of...
Five people were killed and eight others injured in a head-on-collision between a human hauler and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Rajendrapur in South Keraniganj thana on Monday. Of the deceased, three were identified as Ibrahim, 35, driver of the auto-rickshaw,...
A Z M AnasBangladesh is bucking for attracting global chains to run upscale hotel Dhaka Sheraton as it opens the financial offers for the management contract early next month.But a top official said the government would not ditch talks with...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has awarded South Korean Daewoo company the contract for supplying pipes to two major projects for installation of gas transmission pipelines at a cost of around US$ 75 million.The state-owned Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) has...
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...
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