During the course of her three-day visit to Bangladesh, HRH The Countess of Wessex has been talking of the need for effective partnerships in order to win the fight against avoidable blindness in the country, said a press release.Visiting Bangladesh...
FE ReportCommerce Minister Lt. Col. (retd) Faruk Khan Monday said the government is serious about ensuring computer literacy among the primary and secondary students within the next one decade.The commerce minister was speaking as the chief guest at the closing...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 30 (BSS): Speakers at a rally here today called for running the community clinics properly to ensure healthcare service for all, especially for the poor and disadvantaged.Population Services and Training Centre (PSTC) under its Health Rights Movement (HRM)...
THE local government (LG) system in Bangladesh is pretty old but, unfortunately, it has failed to deliver goods up to the desired level. There have been occasional experimentations with the system either to expand or squeeze it. But no government...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Lots are being told, these days, about the activities of the militants (Jangis). The print and electronic media do carry stories or organize talk-shows almost everyday on militants, their outside links and possible sources of funding. The...
Md AmanullahHUNDREDS of thousands of cases have been pending in the lower and higher courts of Bangladesh for years. The slow process of giving final judgement on a case, the similar lengthy process spent on its revision or appeal, etc.,...
ALMOST everyday some newspapers make terrorism their headline. Too much talk on terrorist issue only tarnishes the country's image abroad. This may give the impression that the country is going towardsan uncertain future. Public may be panicky at home. It...
FOOTBALL is a traditional game in our country. For our fathers and grandfathers, it was an interesting game. It was famous in our country. But for sometime this game was dead. We didn't see any worthwhile football match for a...
BANGLADESH Krishi Bank (BKB) is going to open its branch at Koraish Munshi Bazar under P.S. Dagunbhuiyan, Dist. Feni onApril 01, 2009. The opening of this branch will mark the fulfillment of the desire of the people of the command...
Maswood Alam KhanYOU and I cannot inflict torture on an animal, let alone on a human being. But, there are people who don't waver to slaughter an animal, gash a man's cheek with a screwdriver, drill a hole on a...
Kalindi Sheth of WFS writes from MumbaiA year ago, a 43-year-old homemaker from Mumbai started writing about her everyday life, and whatever touched it. Nothing extraordinary about it, except that her 'diary' was online, or was what is popularly known...
VINA DEL MAR, (Chile), March 29 (Xinhua): Leaders from Latin America, Europe and the United States yesterday appealed for preventing the economic recession from becoming a social crisis and urged a bigger role of governments in addressing the financial crisis....
PARIS, March 29 (AFP): Trillions of dollars lost, millions of jobs gone and more bad news to come but the 'Green Shoots' of recovery may just be showing in the wreckage of the worst global slump since the 1930s Great...
LONDON, March 29 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of people marched in capital cities across Europe Saturday to protest about the economic crisis and urge world leaders to act on poverty, jobs and climate change at a G20 summit next week.Chanting...
DUBAI, March 29 (AFP): Sales of luxury and leisure vessels are on the rocks in the Middle East, where owning a boat for cruising, entertaining or fishing is seen as a status symbol, industry officials say. Marine consultant Mike Derrett...
The Human Resources Department of BanglaTrac Ltd organised a day-long workshop on 'performance management and its alignment to business' in the city recently, said a press release. The main objective of the seminar was to introduce the concept of Balance...
NEW DELHI, Mar 29 (AFP): India's diamond industry has shed 50 per cent of its labour force as export orders dry up with the global financial crisis crippling demand for precious stones, trade officials say.Eight out of 10 of the...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Mar 29: Several thousand workers of Akij Jute Mills Ltd, the biggest jute mills at Nawapara industrial area in Jessore, observed a token hunger strike from 10am to 6pm Sunday protesting the closure of the mills. The...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Mar 29: The five-day Brahmanbaria Krishi Mela-2009, an agriculture-based fair, began at Poura Mukto Mancho in the town Friday. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), District Fisheries Department and District Livestock Department jointly organised the fair. Member of...
FE Report Annual conference of project and divisions of Prime Islami Life Insurance Limited (PILIL) was held at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh in the city recently, said a press release. PILIL Board of Directors Chairman MA Wahhab was...
FE Report BB Saha Roy recently joined as managing director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Elite Paint Group of Companies, said a press release. Before joining Elite Group, Mr Roy served Ber Paints Bangladesh Limited for 20 years. He...
CHICAGO, Mar 29 (Internet): United States (US) corn and wheat futures firmed Thursday, rebounding slightly from sharp downturns earlier in the week ahead of the release of a key US Agriculture Department planting report, traders said.The soybean market was choppy,...
KATHMANDU, Mar 29 (Xinhua): A private firm is set to launch a wind power project with a view to lighting remote parts of Nepal, The Himalayan Times reported Sunday. "We have started working on the project. We have set up...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanSpecial economic zone (SEZ) helps to increase export as well as domestic production as it has larger scope of operations.Export oriented industries can only be set up in export processing zone (EPZ) to get certain benefits but for...
The first SME Center of AB Bank was inaugurated at the bank's Principal Branch at Dilkusha in the city Sunday.Mr. Kaiser A. Chowdhury, President & Managing Director of the bank inaugurated the SME Centre. Other senior officials of the bank...
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate was steady Sunday, as the central bank intervened in the market to maintain demand-supply balance. The US dollar, however, eased against Bangladesh taka (BDT) in a moderately active inter-bank foreign exchange market on...
FE ReportThe 703rd meeting of the board of directors of Pubali Bank Limited was held at its head office in the city recently. Chairman of the bank Hafiz Ahmed Majumder presided over the meeting, says a press release.The board approved...
FE ReportThe government borrowed Tk 2.5 billion (250 crore) Sunday through auctions of treasury bills. It will result in withdrawal of Tk 2.5 billion from the market in the week.The central bank conducted auctions of 182-day bills on the day....
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Mar 29: Creating employment opportunity for poverty alleviation, legalislation of undisclosed money and other programmes of the present government will be given importance in the up coming national budget 2009-2010. National Board of Revenue Chairman and Secretary of...
Professor Ayesha Shireen Rahman has recently joined Southeast Bank (SEB) Foundation as project director, said a press release. She has been appointed in the position to augment the pace of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of the bank through the...
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