FE ReportJapan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) in the city's Dhanmondi area tried to ensure proper health security for the mass people by taking various initiatives during the holy Eid-ul-Azha vacation, said a press release. "The health hazards or accidents occuring...
PATUAKHALI, Dec 13 (UNB): Two people were killed and 30 others injured when a bus rammed a human hauler and fell into a pond beside Golachipa-Patuakhali Highway at Sharikkhali in Sadar Upazila Saturday.The deceased were identified as Khalil Miah (35),...
Shakhawat Hossain Bangladesh taka is unlikely to depreciate to any significant extent soon as the central bank is opposed to any such move due to high inflation in the country and recession in major global economies.The Policy Analysis Unit (PAU)...
Immediate-past premier Khaleda Zia announced her party's election manifesto to seek re-election at the December 29 polls with the clarion call 'Save the Country, Save the People" from what she said a deep crisis stemming from two years of misrule...
S M JahangirThe government's renewed move to streamline the process of debt servicing by the state-owned enterprises (SoEs) has yielded little result due to indifference of the latter, sources said.The non-payment of large amount of arrear debts by the SoEs...
FHM Humayan KabirThe aid flow to Bangladesh from the bilateral donors has shrunk a lot as the donor countries are busy to weather their economic plunge in recent months, officials said."The global economic recession has hit most of the developed...
M Azizur RahmanNew industries in the fuel-starved Chittagong region has finally started getting gas supplies from early December after a halt for over a year, officials said Saturday."Several industries have got new gas connections and many others are waiting to...
The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day today (Sunday) to mourn for the Bengali intellectuals and professionals brutally killed on this day in 1971 by the then Pakistani occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of Bangladesh...
Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina fell sick Saturday at her Sudha Sadan residence and cancelled her day's election-related programme, while her younger sister Sheikh Rehana arrived in the city from London early Saturday, report UNB. "Sheikh Hasina was suffering...
A large number of candidates filed nomination papers Saturday for contesting the election to 481 upazila parishads scheduled for January 22. Reports reaching from the districts said candidates ranging up to 15 filed nomination papers for the post of chairman...
Armed miscreants stormed into Taiking Chinese restaurant in the city's New Eskaton area early Saturday and looted cash and valuables, injuring four of its employees. Mahbubur Rahman, manager of the restaurant, said the miscreants, numbering about 20, forcibly entered the...
MUMBAI, Dec 13: The gunman captured in last month's Mumbai attacks says in his confession to police he originally intended to seize hostages and call the media to make demands. In a confession statement obtained by The Associated Press, Mohammed...
Siddique Islam The country's overall balance of payments (BoP) continued to maintain a surplus position during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal mainly due to higher surplus in current account balance. The current account balance recorded a larger...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Dec 13: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is crying off from convening a ministerial level meeting in December aimed at thrashing out an outline in the troubled global trade talks which has been running for past...
NEW YORK,Dec 13 (Reuters): Investors scrambled to assess potential losses from an alleged $50 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff, a day after the arrest of the prominent Wall Street trader. Prosecutors and regulators accused the 70-year-old former chairman of the...
Naim-Ul-KarimDhaka and Beijing have agreed to double the number of air flights between the two countries in a move to boost trade, commerce and investment, officials said Saturday.They said senior officials of both Bangladesh and China reviewed their bilateral Air...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia beginning election campaign in Dhaka city from Mohammadpur (Dhaka-13) Saturday pledged to resolve water and power crises and create employment opportunities, if voted to power, reports UNB. She introduced the party candidate of the constituency, Syed...
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters): A General Motors bankruptcy would push the US economy deeper into recession and cause a labour market catastrophe, highlighting why the government has signaled it could step in to prevent an outright collapse. The embattled No....
KHIMKI, Dec 13 (AP): Former chess champion Garry Kasparov and other prominent liberals launched a new anti-Kremlin movement in Russia on Saturday.The organization, called Solidarity after the victorious Polish anti-communist movement, aims to unite the country's dysfunctional liberal forces and...
Lenley HensarlingRegardless of language, culture and industry, the business needs, goals and challenges of midsize organisations are remarkably similar. Every day midsize companies strive for a solid financial foundation, high customer satisfaction and positive business growth. It doesn't matter if...
FE ReportAS the hackers are now targeting social networking sites to steal information or infect computers, facebook users in Bangladesh must get alert.According to website information Facebook's millions of users are in the crosshairs of a computer virus dubbed Koobface...
FE ReportChina has introduced Internet police a few years back. Under the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, the country has however been providing internet police training facility to Bangladesh as well.China Digital Times reported from inetcop.com.cn website information that: on...
After the tiny but very capable Wind mini notebook, MSI is back with a notebook from the opposite side of the spectrum - a big all-in-one gaming notebook with some pretty impressive specifications. The GX620, as it's called, is based...
Brendan B. ReadGetting the mobile channel to where enabling CRM through accessing applications or web sites a.k.a. mobile CRM is as seamless from desktops is akin to taking young children on a long ride who then inevitably ask: "are we...
M A IslamMOCK tests, popularly known as 'model tests', favourite in recent years especially in the urban areas of Bangladesh. Be it for primary school admission, primary scholarship examinations, SSC, HSC, O level, A level, university admission or even semester...
FE SpecialDECEMBER is the month when most of the schools enjoy vacation since the annual examination is over. Students are free from their routine classes, they enjoy completely free time. December is their own month-no activity of going to school,...
BANGLADESH desperately needs substantial investments, domestic and foreign, to help create more jobs and reduce poverty. Domestic private investments, both in manufacturing and services sectors, increased consistently for over the last one and a half decades. The same was not...
Shahiduzzaman KhanIN an interesting revelation, the People's Commission on Jute Industry -- a private citizens' watchdog body -- has found the chief executives of the governments, executives of jute ministry, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, chairmen and directors of state-owned...
Kabir AhmedPETROBANGLA, according to recent reports appearing in a section of the media, is now in a position to supply gas to only three of the proposed plants - 450MW Bibiyana independent power plant, 150MW Sylhet and 150MW Bhola plants.Reportedly,...
High procurement costs in international markets are often cited as one of the major reasons for rising prices of commodities sold in local markets when the global markets remain overheated. But free market principles do also in no way justify...
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