David Chartier As if there was any doubt in regard to what direction the computer industry's collective form factor was headed, research firm iSuppli issued a report recentlt which confirms that the trend towards notebooks has finally arrived. Thanks in...
NVIDIA has announced plans to pair Intel's Atom processor with a real mobile GPU, the 9400M. It's no secret that Intel's integrated graphics processors stink across the board, and they're the biggest weakness in the company's ultramobile platform. But by...
Jacqui Cheng When online payment services like PayPal were first launched over a decade ago, the sudden and disturbing ease with which regular people could electronically transfer money between each other online was nothing less than miraculous. Not only was...
M A IslamIT is very common to see that students keep their study works pending day after day, week after week, sometimes month after month. They think that when the submission time for the assignment or exam will come, they...
Md. Mahbubur Rahman Bulbul'Education is the backbone of the nation'. This is the universal truth. But the education policy of our government is very weak. For this reason, the quality of our education is not that satisfactory. Most of the...
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. — Denis Waitley" Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and...
Let's save Atika CherrySee the snakeheads of fire-The way that is roaring…O, Mumbai is burning!The fire is not far away from my doorFrom your window. My little dad used to play in the greenWith butterfliesI got no field, nothing…And I...
The incidents of intrusion into Bangladesh territorial waters by neighbours like Myanmar and India have been on the rise since Bangladesh invited bids from the international oil companies to conduct exploration work in the hydrocarbon blocks within its territorial waters...
Moazzem HossainTo-day's anniversary issue of the FE, marking its stepping into the 16th year of publication, is a befitting occasion for making a brief review of the state of economic/business journalism in Bangladesh. The coverage of financial, business, economic and...
Syed Ashraful HasanTHE greater amounts of remitted foreign currencies can boost up the country's foreign exchange reserve. This will, in turn, strengthen its import operations in support of economy-expanding activities or for undertaking developmental projects. The remittances will help the...
THE actions by the mobile courts must not be limited to only examining the foods and warning the offenders -- food adulterators. They will have to be subjected to notable penalties such as cash fines in big amounts and they...
THE respected voters of Bangladesh are now ready for election to be held tomorrow (Monday, December 29, 2008. What will be the shape of the government after the 29th? What is the meaning of "digital" Bangladesh? These are the questions...
Shakhawat Hossain The country's trade gap surged to US$ 3.08 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal, despite sliding international commodity prices, accelerated by global economic downturn, commerce ministry officials said late last week.The deficit grew by...
Moazzem HossainThe nation is at a crossroads. The country has been through an extra-ordinary time -- a 23-month period of a state of emergency. It was 'lifted' in the middle of this month. And the nation is now on the...
Professor Lutfor RahmanZircon is unknown to most people in the country. Recently the name of Zircon along with other several minerals has come to the priority list of election manifesto of one of the political parties. We know that natural...
Shahjahan KhanWe are living in a global information society where the flow of information is ever increasing. Statistics plays a major role in shaping and providing scientific information that is useful in almost every aspect of human life. It has...
Anuradha BhasinNew technologies and globalisation of business are having their own impact on the way young Indians are finding life partners. In the last decade, the innovative harnessing of the Internet to perform a traditional matchmaking role has spawned a...
BANGLADESH has had some notable successes in reducing its poverty from maintaining a steady growth rate of 5.0 per cent or above during the last decade and the present one. In the last two years, this growth rate, according to...
Khurshid AzamIT is absurd that some 2.5 billion tonnes of high grade coal remain unutilised under the ground when energy shortage keeps the Bangladesh economy slow.Economic growth becomes the casualty of such indecision, prompted by creation of unnecessary controversies. But...
Amirul IslamBangladesh in the past was home to four or five hundred species of fishes. The number has dwindled down to two hundred and fifty such species, with the others becoming extinct. But even the supplies of the species which...
Muntazir ZaidiTHE Board of Investments (BOI), according to earlier reports in the media, received 1,217 project proposals, including around 953 for textile and apparel industries, in the first 10 months of this calendar year. Of such proposals, 643 are for...
THE most important political right of every adult citizen of a democratic country is 'voting'.In ancient Greek city-states, all people sat together and decided the affairs of the state. With the increase of the size and population of the states,...
WE will appreciate it if the outgoing caretaker government cuts the prices of major fuels, matching the sharp drop in their prices in the international market. It has, of late, made some downward adjustments in administered prices of fuel. But...
The government owes the people a statement whether or not Bangladesh could eliminate tetanus by 2007 for which a campaign was launched a few years back to vaccinate three million women. Though the year 2008 has come to an end,...
CONAKRY, Dec 26 (AFP): Guinea paid its final respects Friday to the late dictator Lansana Conte as the military junta that seized control in the wake of his death planned a charm offensive to gain international legitimacy. Supporters and even...
BEIJING, Dec 26 (AFP): An anti-piracy task force of the Chinese navy has set sail for Africa, state media said, in the nation's first potential combat mission beyond its territorial waters in centuries.The three vessels, decorated with coloured ribbons and...
LOS ANGELES, Dec 26 (AFP): At least eight people were killed after a man dressed as Santa Claus burst into a Christmas Eve party and opened fire before later killing himself, according to officials.The body of Bruce Pardo, 45, was...
JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (AFP): The spectre of a military invasion is hanging over the Gaza Strip as militants fired another volley of rockets despite Israeli warnings that failure to stop the attacks would lead to bloodshed.The latest violence came amid...
Just one extra hour of sleep a day appears to lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease, according to ABC News. A study published this week in the Journal of the American...
QUETTA, (Pakistan), Dec 26 (AFP): Two Pakistani girls were killed Friday when a bomb exploded in their home in a remote village in restive southwestern Baluchistan province, police said. Unknown attackers, apparently targeting the girls' male relatives, planted the bomb...
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