LONDON, Dec 29: Oil prices rose above $40 a barrel on Monday, up nearly 8 percent on the previous session, after violence between Israel and Hamas served as a reminder of tensions that could threaten crude supplies from the Middle...
Jasim Uddin Haroon City's elderly citizens received unprecedented care from law enforcing agencies and officials when they arrived at the polling centres to cast their votes in Monday's parliamentary elections.They did not wait in the queue as they were guided...
FE Report For Akhlakh Miah, the elections day was a boon.The 32-year-old hawker, who scratches out his living by selling jhal muri and chanachur at New Market area, has made a windfall, with his sales surpassing Tk 1300.His site selection...
FE Report An international research organisation conducted Monday an exit poll on 150 constituencies during the ninth parliamentary election.Nielson Bangladesh, formerly known as AC Nielson, conducted the exit poll after the International Republican Institute (IRI) recommended the Election Commission (EC)...
LONDON, Dec 29 (AFP): A top British business leaders' network said today it was calling for the national minimum wage not to be increased in 2009 due to the faltering state of the economy. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)...
FE ReportA number of voters in the capital could not cast their votes in the ninth parliamentary polls that was held Monday as their names were missing from the voters' list.Despite having the national ID cards, many of them could...
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (Bloomberg): Warfare between Israel and Hamas will put pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to fulfill a campaign pledge to focus on the Palestinian conflict at a time when his agenda will already be overflowing with Iraq,...
There were errors in the lead news titled "Nation goes to polls today" published in our Yesterday's (Monday) issue. The date of lifting emergency was mistakenly written as September 17, 2008. Actually, the emergency was lifted on December 17, 2008....
The upazilla (sub-district) election that will be held next month at the very beginning of the tenure of the new government to be formed on the basis of the people's mandate expressed through Monday's national polls, will be a milestone...
Syed Fattahul AlimWith the acknowledgement of the equality of all people so far as their rights as citizens of a state are concerned, the struggle for democracy starts. The great philosophers, thinkers and writers of the Enlightenment era in Europe...
Anwarul IqbalINDISCRIMINATE use of chemical pesticides in agriculture over past three decades is causing serious health and environmental problems in many developing countries. According to the surveys by the UN bodies, pesticide poisoning affects between one and five million agricultural...
The government has a great responsibility for ensuring the development of quality human resources. Such resources are the prime assets of a country. Our earnings from remittances could have increased if more skilled or qualified workers were sent abroad. Private...
We have a tendency to destroy our previous achievements when a new government comes to power. It is true, everything the outgoing caretaker government did was not good, but it deserves credit for some of the work. It made the...
THE fresh occurrence of the deadly avian flu has been reported in the country. After the H5N1 virus had affected 47 out of the country's 64 districts in 2007, the authorities had to kill more than 1.65 million birds. Though,...
Equity Partners LimitedThe year 2008 was perhaps one of the worst years after the great depression for a global equity investor. In the first part of the year, the global credit crisis took its toll and equity prices had started...
Muhammad Quamrul IslamSOME of my friends who visited me at hospital recently asked me to write about my experience to share it with the readers and the authorities concerned. I was hesitant to write about it because the doctors, for...
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (AFP): President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan is an urgent matter that will favour long-term infrastructure and job creation projects over tactics aimed at boosting consumer spending, two of his top aides said yesterday. With the United...
LONDON, Dec 29 (Internet): Next year will be the worst for jobs for almost 20 years, with a net reduction of at least 600,000 people in employment, according to a report published today. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development...
DUBAI, Dec 29 (AFP): Leaders of oil-rich Gulf countries assembling in Muscat today will focus on how to use their wealth to shore up their economies, after a discussion Sunday on the bloody situation in Gaza. The annual two-day Gulf...
SINGAPORE, Dec 29 (Reuters): Crumbling home and auto sales pushed three Japanese insurers into merger talks and Koreans plan to cut spending on children's education, signs the global economic slump is reshaping business and lifestyles around the world.Economic reports this...
BEIJING, Dec 29 (Xinhua): China concluded its annual two-day central rural work conference yesterday with a pledge to give priority to maintaining steady and relatively fast rural and agricultural development, ensuring supplies of farm produce and facilitating income increases for...
MANILA, Dec 29 (Xinhua): In recent months, the ripple effects of the global financial crisis have reached the Philippine shores and started taking its toll on the country's economy. In its latest report, the Philippine National Statistics Office said that...
BEIJING, Dec 29 (AFP): China will this week raise export tax rebates on hundreds of products, the government said today, in its latest effort to help exporters struggling amid the global economic meltdown. The boost for 553 machinery and electronic...
SINGAPORE, Dec 29 (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asian trade today on evidence that Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members have begun complying with agreed output cuts, rebounding slightly from four-year lows before the Christmas break. New York's...
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 (PTI): India is not a suitable country for low-cost airline operations as it not only lacks infrastructure like low-cost secondary airports but also the cost of their staff is at par with full service carriers (FSC),...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 (AFP): Malaysia and India are to sign a labour accord Saturday to govern the recruitment and welfare of their workers in each other's country, a report said today. Malaysia's Human Resources Minister S Subramaniam said the...
YANGON, Dec 29 (AFP): Military-run Myanmar has signed a deal with South Korean and Indian companies to pipe natural gas from the energy-rich nation's offshore fields to China, state media reported today. The Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise inked the...
LONDON, Dec 29 (AFP): British house prices fell by an average 8.7 per cent in 2008 and will likely plunge a further 12 per cent next year, property information firm Hometrack said today. The company's research director Richard Donnell warned...
MOSCOW, Dec 29 (AFP): Time is running out for Russia and Ukraine to reach a last minute deal by midnight at New Year to prevent a Russian cut of gas deliveries to its neighbour and a possible bitter diplomatic conflict....
FE ReportGas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) earned Tk 2.73 billion as pre-tax profit in the fiscal year 2007-08.The company earned Tk 4.17 billion on account of transport of gas and condensate which is 18.26 per cent up against the previous...
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