FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzak Tuesday said the government will resume the open market sale (OMS) system to supply rice to garment workers at a reduced price."Similar steps targeting poor people of other areas such as 'chars' and...
World Bank (WB) Country Director Xian Zhu Wednesday suggested Bangladesh to lay emphasis on labour-intensive light engineering industries and diversify export to keep it away from current global financial crisis, reports UNB."I think Bangladesh should concentrate on labour-intensive light engineering...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
The dock workers at the Chittagong port are now regrouping in the name of various labour unions after getting registration. The workers came out the other day on the streets in the port city, tending to threaten the normal operations...
Top seed Novak Djokovic got off to a winning start at the Dubai Championships with victory over Italian qualifier Flavio Cipolla, reports BBC.The Serbian, 21, eased through 6-3 6-2 to set up a clash with Jan Hernych, who beat Mikhail...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday informed the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) that the present government had no plan to make Sunday the weekly holiday, reports BSS.In a written reply to a question from treasury bench member Meher Afroz (Gazipur-5), the Prime...
JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (AFP): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pressing Israel to stop blocking aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and will raise the issue during a visit next week, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday.US Middle East envoy...
SINGAPORE, Feb. 25 (Xinhua): Singapore's public housing estates are expected to consume 10 per cent less electricity in the next five years by using solar energy, local media reported yesterday.TV broadcaster Channelnewsasia said a scheme named Energy Save Program, initiated...
Warid Telecom has teamed up with Air Asia to launch a special offer, under which all Zahi post-paid subscribers can avail Tk 2,000 discount on purchase of Air Asia's Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka tickets, said a press release.The offer is available for...
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (AP): President Barack Obama is expected to order all US combat troops to leave Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, closing the door on a war that has led to the death of 4,250...
FLORIDA, Feb 25(AFP): Mardy Fish survived a scare from Canadian qualifier Frank Dancevic to win 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the ATP Delray Beach International Tennis Championship Tuesday.The top-seeded Fish is looking to become the first American to...
THE issue of inefficiency in the project implementation agencies of the government has again been identified as the main hindrance to the timely utilisation of the development assistance as well further inflow of foreign aid in the country. The view...
Low turn-out of visitors marked the 25th day of the month-long Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises Wednesday due to an untoward situation at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the capital, reports BSS.Despite the poor attendance of...
BEIJING, Feb 25 (AFP): President Hu Jintao has warned of a deteriorating economic situation in China and called for more "powerful" measures to reverse the tide, state media said."The world economic situation is austere and complicated, the global financial crisis...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Normal life, business and academic activities in surrounding areas of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters came to a halt Wednesday following the daylong clashes in and outside the command centre of the country's paramilitary border guards.Movement of all mode of...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
THE immediate past caretaker government brought some significant reforms in the local government laws, but the upazila election could not be completed during their tenure. This election was held under the elected government amidst irregularities and violence. The caretaker government...
Pakistan vows to 'defeat | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
terror' with ObamaWASHINGTON, Feb 25: Pakistan, under fire in Washington, vowed to work with President Barack Obama's administration to "defeat terrorism" as it opens three-way talks Wednesday with Afghanistan to draft a new strategy. The talks came as a top...
Enayet Rasul Bhuiyan | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
The last time that Bangladesh was rocked by terrorism was in 2006. Bombs were detonated in most of the country's 64 districts all on one day in that period that signaled the existence of a widespread network of an Islamist...
TOKYO, Feb 25 (AP): Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will construct two nuclear power plants in the US.Toshiba's U.S. subsidiary signed an agreement to build the plants for the South Texas Project _ a nuclear power facility...
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25 (AFP): Microsoft is tossing lifelines to people in the United States (US) lacking technology skills needed to win jobs in the Internet Age.Microsoft teamed with political leaders in a set of US states to launch an...
RANGAMATI, Feb 25 (UNB): Reformist tribal leader Chandra Shekhar Chakma, the former secretary of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity, was shot and wounded in the hill-district town Wednesday morning.He was taken to General Hospital from where he was shifted to...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
The central bank purchased $12 million more Tuesday from two private commercial banks (PCBs) to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange market stable."We've bought the US dollar from the PCBs at Tk 68.90 per unit to help the banks comply with...
Moghbazar Ispahani Girls' School upset Viqarunnisa Noon School & College beating them by 3-2 goals in the KFC Pizza Hut 5th Mini Girls' Handball Tournament on the 3rd day of the meet at the Outer Stadium handball ground in Dhaka...
HANOI, Feb 25 (Reuters): Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of $290 million in the first two months of the year, due in part to steep falls in the value of fuel and steel imports, the government said Wednesday.Total imports slumped...
TOKYO, Feb 25 (Reuters): Honda Motor Co plans to produce more of its new Insight hybrid cars from April, having received orders for almost three times its monthly sales target for the gasoline-electric model it launched on Feb. 6 in...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Mrs Umme Kulsum, mother of managing director of Nassa Group Md. Nazrul Islam died due to old age ailments at Square Hospital in the city Tuesday afternoon. She was 93.She left behind three sons, five daughters and many relatives to...
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) organised a day-long workshop on credit proposal for its designated officers in the city recently, says a press release.A total of 28 (twenty eight) officials from its branches attended the workshop.Additional Managing Director of the bank...
Technomedia Ltd in a clarification on a FE report titled 'Technomedia seminar on NCR payment system solutions', appeared on February 17 said the company was not at all engaged by the Bangladesh Bank to develop the relevant technology for the...
According to a recent newspaper report, the arrested elements with links to the JMB at Nilphamari have admitted to the police they had taken arms training at a Teesta shoal, near Ansarer Haat of Jaldhaka.Besides, the JMB has also trained...
SEOUL, Feb 25 (AFP): South Korea's football body said Wednesday it has accepted Japan's proposal to resume annual friendly matches this year after an 18-year lapse.The Korean Football Association (KFA) said the first friendly was slated to be held in...
A glass of wine each evening is enough to increase your risk of developing cancer, women are being warned, reports BBC.Consuming just one drink a day causes an extra 7,000 cancer cases - mostly breast cancer - in UK women...
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