FE SpecialIN order that we want to acquire mastery of any course, we can apply various strategies -reading the course, writing on various issues from the course, listening to teachers and fellow students about various chapters from the book, and...
SEOUL, April 25 (AFP): North Korea said Saturday it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods to make weapons-grade plutonium, in an apparent response to international punishment against its controversial rocket launch.The statement came hours after the United Nations slapped sanctions...
BAGHDAD, April 25 (AFP): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met top American military commanders in Baghdad Saturday on a surprise trip to assess and discuss the country's fragile security situation with Iraqi leaders.America's top diplomat landed in the Iraqi...
KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 (AP): Malaysia's prime minister vowed to investigate a scathing report by US lawmakers saying thousands of Myanmar refugees were handed over to human traffickers with some ending up working in Thai brothels. The US Senate Committee...
PORT LOUIS, April 25 (Reuters): Up to 250,000 children are at risk of malnutrition and disease in southern Madagascar as a political crisis and tropical cyclones exacerbate severe food shortages, the UN children agency said.UNICEF said that the rains had...
ANC to fall short of two-thirds votePRETORIA, April 25: South Africa's ruling ANC will fall just short of the two-thirds of votes needed to ensure a parliamentary majority big enough to make sweeping changes unchallenged, election results showed Saturday. The...
KOLKATA, April 25 (Reuters): Rahul Gandhi, scion of India's most powerful family dynasty and touted as a future prime minister, Saturday said he would refuse to accept the top job if it was offered to him after the April/May general...
KANDAHAR, April 25 (AFP): Three suicide bombers detonated at the gates of a government compound in southern Afghanistan Saturday, killing five policemen, an official said.The bombers struck at the governor's compound in the city of Kandahar, said Ahmad Wali Karzai,...
SRINAGAR, April 25 (Reuters): India's army accused Saturday Pakistani forces of helping Muslim guerrillas attempting to sneak into its disputed Kashmir region from the Pakistani side.The Indian army produced a man they said was a Pakistani national who was among...
SYDNEY, April 25(AFP): A boat carrying more than 50 refugees was intercepted Saturday off Australia's coast, little more than a week after an explosion on another vessel killed five people, the government said. The boat carrying 54 passengers and two...
Maswood Alam KhanA few weeks back as I was roving around Kolarua in Satkhira on an official visit, I felt amazed by the dizzy pace of the businessmen in churning out from furnaces of dozens of new and old factories...
Billy I AhmedWith the explosion of Somali piracy, America is reaping what it has sown. In many ways, there is nobody to blame but Somalis' for the emergence of high seas crime threatening to disrupt important lanes of trade.America's supports...
Md Anwarul IqbalWith the advent of Internet technology, in the early part of the last decade, the developed countries coined the concept of e-governance. Policy makers of the developed countries utilised the new developments in ICT and especially the TCP/IP...
WASHINGTON, April 25 (AFP): The Group of Seven major economies said yesterday that they expected global economic activity to begin to recover later this year after the worst global slump in decades. "Recent data suggest that the pace of decline...
WASHINGTON, April 25 (AFP): The global economic crisis means up to 90 million more people will remain trapped in extreme poverty this year while the chronically hungry could top one billion, a World Bank/IMF report said yesterday. The report, entitled...
LONDON, April 25 (Xinhua): The British economy shrank 1.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, which was much worse than expected and was the biggest quarterly decline in GDP since the third quarter of 1979. The economy was...
WASHINGTON, April 25 (AFP): The G7 major economies yesterday hailed the contribution of "many countries," including China, in the fight against the global economic crisis and pledged to work toward increasing their clout in international financial institutions. "Many countries are...
Janata Bank gave special rewards to seven outstanding loan recovery performers. The bank assigned thirty-five executives, officers and employees to recover classified loan last year, said a press release. Chairman of board of directors Suhel Ahmed Choudhury distributed the award...
LONDON, Apr 25 (AFP): New York crude oil prices charged higher this week, winning support from resurgent equity markets and the flagging US currency, while gold burst back above 900 dollars per ounce. The weak greenback stimulated demand for dollar-priced...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Apr 25: BP Organic Product Co Ltd of Dimla upazila invented a technological device to produce lubricating oil from the fruits of castor tree. They demonstrated it in the recently held agriculture fair in Nilphamari town.Owner of...
WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (AFP): The US Treasury yesterday announced it had loaned General Motors an additional two billion dollars to help the troubled auto giant operate until a June 1 deadline for submitting a new restructuring plan. The government said...
BEIJING, Apr 25 (AFP): China's top five oil companies saw profits rise by 13.2 per cent in March from a year earlier, despite falling production and sales revenue, state media reported today. Profits in March rose to 28.25 billion yuan...
At the end of each fiscal year, the implementing agencies of the government have to come in for a lot of flak from higher government authorities, the press as well as from the donors. For the delays in project implementation...
Nerun YakubIn 'Imagine: A Socialist Vision for the 21st Century', a passionate and powerful book on what is really wrong with a world that serves only Mammon, the god of wealth ----- for Mammon's sake, and nothing else ------- one...
Md. Joynal AbdinCURRENTLY the world economy is experiencing a serious financial crisis. The largest economies of the world have failed to tackle it. Due to their inherent weaknesses, the smaller economies may face more problems than the highly industrialised and...
DHAKA city has an area of about 816 square kilometres. For most of the year it is warm with bright sunshine. During the monsoon it gets heavy rainfall. Per capita solid waste generation is quite low. But solid waste management...
According to a recent FE report, a revolution in food grain production can occur in Bangladesh if only more areas are brought under cultivation of higher yielding seeds. The coverage should increase to 60 per cent of the farmland from...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanIt is a huge surprise that the top foreign currency earner that earns annually on average 75 per cent of the country's hard currencies from exports and employs the greatest number of workers in the organized industrial sectors,...
Ashok Mehta, security analyst for the Institute of Defence Studies, New DelhiAl Jazeera: Is the military war over?It was over a long time ago. The war was over when the LTTE administrative headquarters of Killinochchi fell almost four months ago....
Peter Janssen Thailand - a country whose recent history has included 18 coups and several bloody showdowns between troops and protestors - has a reputation for resiliency as a cohesive society that manages to muddle through its political crises with...
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