Traffic jam is a common scene in Dhaka city. Everyday it kills our valuable time. All city dwellers are victims of jam. It is really bothering and disturbing. We can not do our work timely. This jam is not a...
Whether the government wants to acknowledge it or not there is a serious crisis of water and electricity in much of the capital city. The chill of winter is gone and the weather is much warmer. In fact it is...
A report, titled "Begging business using children is run by a criminal group" was published in a national daily on March 17, 2009. A group of criminals are reportedly using children in well-arranged begging business in Dhaka city, though it...
Ameer Hamza GAPS between the poor and the rich will always be part of human societies everywhere, though the degrees of deprivation or wealth may differ from place to place. But never in the history of the world have there...
Salahuddin A Khan and M Bakhtear U Talukdar concluding their two-part articleCOMMODITY futures contracts, which can eventually include everything from orange juice, raw hides, precious metals to even treasury bonds stock indices etc., for trading purpose. Some of these items...
Salahuddin AhmedDEVELOPMENT requires participation from all categories of people. Countries like Bangladesh face tremendous obstacles to ensuring involvement of all people in the development process; especially, women in Bangladesh face social and economic impediments to contributing to its development process...
FE ReportPrices of vegetables, potato, eggs and sugar increased at the city's retail markets during the past week while prices of onion, garlic and atta declined.Prices of other essential commodities, including rice and different brands of edible oil remained almost...
The nation celebrates its 39th Independence Day today. It is a day of great joy and merriment, because the nation was born on this day. As in the life of a person, the day of a nation's birth is not...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanBangladesh is no more a young nation or a new nation. It is observing today its thirty-eighth independence day which should remind all of its coming of age. But this maturity leaves a lot to be desired. Bangladesh...
Dewan Faruque AhmedCoal can be a very useful and effective source of energy to ensure Bangladesh's future energy security and help develop the national economy. But to utilise the country's coal reserve potential, a bold decision and its immediate implementation...
An MP is all powerful. They always remain surrounded by so many people. An MP can do whether he or she wants, particularly if he or she belongs to the ruling party. An MP can even beat a journalist. Thus,...
THE security guards, those that are privately employed or through security agencies, work for an average salary of Tk 3000 per month. When you tell this to tenants or even the owners of the houses or flats (they are supposed...
THE government is going to set-up a sculpture in front of the General Post Office (GPO). It is a piece of good news because after completing it, the GPO and its adjacent areas as well as Dhaka city will be...
Bangladesh is a country full of natural resources. Fish alone can earn billions of taka a year. Actually we are not poor. Our population can easily be turned into wealth as China has done.We got our flag after much sacrifice....
Salahuddin A Khan and M Bakhtear U Talukdar in the first of a two-part articleDUE to lack of any market-based supervision and regulation mechanism; volatilities in the prices of essential commodities, whether produced domestically or imported from abroad, became the...
Shaikh A. HamidTHE towering trees of Peelkhana would in the past envelop a visitor with a feeling of tranquillity. Its lush green blooming fields were a feast for the eyes. It is a most unlikely site for calculated carnage, macabre...
Md. Mahbubur Rahman BulbulNOWADAYS a dairy farm is a very profitable business in Bangladesh. Such farms are changing lifestyle of a huge number of women, especially, those that want to become self-reliant in their life. In town or village, everywhere...
Abdur RashidA revolution in food grain production can occur in Bangladesh if only the areas under higher yielding seeds are expanded to cover some 60 per cent of the farmlands instead of the present 20 per cent or so now...
WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund yesterday launched a line of credit without conditions in a major overhaul of lending practices to tackle the worst global economic crisis in 60 years. One week before a Group of 20...
WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (AFP): Top US economic policymakers called yesterday for new regulation of giant financial firms like AIG to avoid a repeat of the worst economic slump in decades, as leaders geared up for a Group of 20 crisis...
The country's leading cement manufacturer Lafarge Surma Cement Limited organised a 'Halkhata' programme in the city recently, says a press release. Halkhata, which means to open a new book of accounts closing the old one, has been a local tradition...
GENEVA, Mar 25 (AFP): The ILO yesterday called on authorities to adopt a "jobs-oriented" strategy in the economic crisis, noting that 90 million new jobs must be created by 2010 in order to absorb new entrants to the market. "We...
HANOI, Mar 25 (AFP): Vietnam said Tuesday that inflation was almost 14.5 per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2009 as consumer prices continued to ease from a record high seen last year. Much of the 14.47 per cent...
SINGAPORE, Mar 25 (AFP): Oil prices fell in Asian trade today after rising to four-month highs on hopes of a US economic recovery, analysts said. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, shed 67 cents...
TOKYO, Mar 25 (AFP): Japan announced today another record fall in exports as the global economic downturn crushes demand for its cars and high-tech goods and pushes the country deeper into recession. The sharp decline reinforced fears that the world's...
FE Report Speakers at a discussion urged all to create awareness against marketing of junk foods for the greater interest of the country's next generation.The speakers said this at a discussion on 'Junk Food Generation: CI's Campaign to Stop Marketing...
STRASBOURG, Mar 25 (AFP): A top European economic official said yesterday that the dollar would remain unchallenged as the top reserve currency, after China called for the greenback to be stripped of its privileged status. "The relative economic powers are...
BEIJING, Mar 25(AP): China denied Wednesday that it rejected Coca-Cola Co.'s bid to buy a Chinese fruit juice maker to keep a local brand out of foreign hands and insisted it acted to preserve competition.In its first detailed explanation of...
FE ReportTextile and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui has urged jute researchers to develop better quality jute seed for producing finer fibre aiming to restore the past glory of the cash crop."Once 70 per cent of the country's total foreign...
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate remained steady due to smooth flow of cash in the market. The US dollar, however, posted significant gain against Bangladesh taka (BDT) in an active inter-bank foreign exchange market on strong demand for...
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