TRAFFIC congestion spoil our valuable time. As a result, our work suffers. Ambulance and the fire fighters cannot move for which people in risks suffer much.The authorities should take necessary steps and soon to solve the chaos on the roads.Habibur...
Nafisa Zabeen Ovi of Vendor Support NetworksThe recent exuberance noticed all around for Small & medium enterprise (SME) development in Bangladesh is indeed gratifying for an academic and a passionate researcher like me to express my views on this subject....
SIRAJGANJ, Mar 13 (UNB): A truck driver was killed and another eight people were injured in a head-on collision between two trucks at Jhaol near western side link road of Jamuna Bridge in Kamarkhand Upazila Friday.The deceased was identified as...
The government has dismissed media reports that Malaysia deported over 300 workers Friday after cancelling 55,000 Bangladeshi visas Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com.According to the officer-in-charge of the Immigration Department at Zia International Airport, only 25 workers were sent back as they...
MOSCOW, Mar 13 (AP): A large part of Russia's fighter jet fleet has been found unsafe during inspections made after a MiG-29 plane lost part of its tail on a training flight, the air force said Friday.The air force grounded...
Sarwar Zahan | 2009-03-14 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate was steady last week due to constant intervention by the central bank to ensure stability in the active market, fund managers said.The call rate in extreme range moved mainly between 7.50 per cent and 12.0...
Emeritus Scientist Dr Kazi M Badruddoza Friday called upon the scientists to work together for strengthening country's food security and alleviate poverty, reports BSS.He made this call while addressing as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the two-day...
FE Report | 2009-03-14 00:00:00
General Secretary of Jatiya Sramik League (JSL) Roy Ramesh Chandra is hospitalised at LabAid Cardiac Hospital in the city by attacking mild cardiac arrest, said a press release.Mr Ramesh, also the executive committee member of ITUC-AP and vice-chairman of ITUC...
FE Report | 2009-03-14 00:00:00
Feeder and main line operators said they need discount on port charges to face the global economic recession.They said formal proposal will be placed at a meeting with the shipping minister scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday)."We need lower rate of charges...
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman | 2009-03-14 00:00:00
Three Bangladeshi companies have qualified to be enlisted in the Dow Jones index from South Asian region, an achievement that will help to elevate the image of Bangladesh."The Dow Jones SAFE 100 index was launched on Wednesday but we still...
Bangladeshi IT companies have been successfully competing in the global market as the demand of software developed by local firms has been increasing rapidly, reports BSS.According to Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Service (BASIS), about 20,000 IT engineers and...
The High Court has strictly prohibited forthwith publication of any photograph or name and identity of a child accused or offender in any print and electronic media, reports UNB.Reminding all concerned, including the government, of the imperative for complying with...
With disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff now behind bars, attention has turned to whether others were involved in his estimated $50bn (
PIROJPUR, Mar 13 (UNB): Indiscriminate catching and selling of hilsa fry 'Jatka' is going on in the district violating the government ban.The government imposed ban on catching hilsa fry below nine inches and has been provided subsistence to the fishermen...
Najmuddin A Shaikh | 2009-03-14 00:00:00
In Pakistan, we are so taken with the domestic political turbulence that little or no attention is being paid by our media and particularly by our analysts to developments in Afghanistan, and even more importantly to the hints that have...
THE country is now face to face with one of its worst predicaments on the energy front in history. In fact, an ambience of complacency was created earlier by some quarters who were advocating export of gas based on the...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
Export earnings from the country's apparel sector increased during the first seven months (July '08- January'09) of the current fiscal year over the same period of the previous fiscal despite the ongoing global recession.The earnings from export of woven garments,...
SINGAPORE, Mar 12 (AFP): Oil prices rebounded in Asian trade today as the market awaited the OPEC cartel's decision on output cuts, analysts said.New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, gained 62 cents to 42.95 dollars...
NCC Bank Limited executives and officers have been urged to procure low cost deposit in the locality and also increasing investment in new profitable sectors.Chairman of the bank Tofazzal Hossain made the appeal while speaking as the chief guest at...
K.M.Mukta | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
CRIMINAL administration of justice is a great challenge all over the world. This is more so, specially in a developing country like Bangladesh for multi-dimensional causes like prolonged colonial legacy, judicial bureaucracy, complex procedural mechanism, lack of judicial activism, over-powerful...
Royal Bengal, presently a domestic carrier, is participating in the Dhaka Travel Mart (DTM)-2009 as a premium partner of the international tourism fairThe airliner started commercial operation February 10, 2008, with plans for going international.It is now operating on Chittagong,...
Abdur Razzak, the Bangladesh left-arm spinner who had been suspended for a suspect action last November, has been cleared to bowl in international cricket by the ICC. Razzak appeared for a reassessment of his action at the Australian Institute of...
TEHRAN, Mar 12 (AFP): Members of the regional Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) meeting at a summit in Tehran Wednesday urged the rapid rebuilding of violence-wracked Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip."The ECO urges its members to increase the speed of reconstruction...
FRANKFRUIT, Mar 12 (Internet): European markets opened lower again, as some important companies posted disappointing results. US futures also moved lower overnight ahead of the retail sales reportFertiliser producer K+S declined the most on the German Dax,-10.15 per cent, after...
SANTIAGO, Mar 12 (Xinhua): President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Luis Alberto Moreno said Wednesday that the world economic crisis is affecting Latin American and Caribbean countries, but he could not agree to the protectionism."The crisis is reducing the...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Limited (CRAB) conducted a training session on implementation of BASEL II for executives of Bank Alfalah Limited at its Gulshan office in the city recently, said a press release.The session was organised with a view...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
The World Food Programme (WFP) will provide US$ 180 million food aid to Bangladesh to help feed some five million hard-core poor who are victims of high global cereal prices and natural disasters, officials said.The government and the United Nations'...
BEIJING, Mar 12 (AFP): China's industrial output has slowed dramatically, the government said today, confirming a bleak picture painted by data issued this week of an economy being hit hard by the global crisis.Production at the factories of the world's...
Sangakkara SL skipper for World Twenty20Kumar Sangakkara has been named captain of Sri Lanka for the World Twenty20 tournament in England this year while Muttiah Muralitharan has been appointed Sangakkara's deputy in the provisional 25-member squad announced by the national...
MELBOURNE, Mar 12 (AFP): Australia's unemployment rate rose to a four-year high of 5.2 per cent in February as the number of full-time jobs slumped, according to official data released Thursday.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the figures showed the government...
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