Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 21: The newly elected first vice president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters' Association (BGMEA) Nasiruddin Chowdhury and its directors assumed their charges at the Chittagong regional office of the association here Wednesday.BGMEA arranged a function on...
AK Mohammad Siddique has been promoted as deputy managing director of NCC Bank Ltd, according to a press release. Prior to this promotion, he worked in the same bank as senior executive vice president and in-charge of Chittagong area.Siddique completed...
TOKYO, March 21, 2009 (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso made another gaffe on Saturday after saying share traders were regarded as untrustworthy by some Japanese, local media reported."If you are dealing stocks, you can be somehow regarded as...
WASHINGTON, March 21 (AFP): A new forecast yesterday showed US economic rescue efforts would push the budget deficit to the biggest per centage of the economy since 1945, as EU officials pledged aid to Eastern Europe but balked at boosting...
There is no doubt the current recession will be the worst in a generation and migrants are changing their destinations as a result, reports BBC.The hike in oil prices in the 1970s and 1980s caused a recession in the industrial...
SINGAPORE, March 21 (AFP): Singapore's recession-hit economy may take up to six years to recover in a worse-case scenario, influential founding father Lee Kuan Yew said. "The optimistic scenario is, two to three years, we're out of this," Lee told...
LA LANTEJUELA, (Spain), March 21 (AFP): On the outskirts of this town of white-washed houses, dozens of warehouses where building materials were once produced have been idle since an economic boom came to an abrupt end last year. During the...
WASHINGTON, March 21 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund said yesterday that the European Union's pledge to lend it some 100 billion dollars was a key step toward stabilising the teetering global financial system. "I welcome the announcement today by the...
WASHINGTON, March 21 (AFP): New forecasts that the US deficit will hit a record 1.845 trillion dollars will not trim President Barack Obama's objectives or thwart his plan to halve the shortfall by 2013, the White House said yesterday. "None...
LONDON, March 21 (AFP): Britain's police said yesterday they would be stretched to cope during next month's G20 summit with the world's top leaders-and thousands of protesters-due to descend on London. Global summits are regularly targeted by violent protesters and...
WASHINGTON, March 21 (AFP): The US government will unveil on Monday a three-step plan to sell toxic assets weighing down the financial system, thinking that investors will be attracted to the combination of discount prices and government assistance, The Wall...
LONDON, Mar 21 (AFP): Commodity prices rallied this week as the US Federal Reserve's decision to pump more than a trillion dollars into the ailing American economy weakened the greenback, leaving investors to seek out havens. "The Fed's decision to...
BEIJING, Mar 21 (Reuters): China will concentrate more power in the hands of fewer auto and steel companies, the government has said in unveiling its most concrete plans yet for reform of the two industries.The State Council, or cabinet, said...
LA PAZ, Mar 21 (AFP): Bolivia is home to the largest global reserves of lithium, with some five billion tonnes of the soft metal that can be used in electric car batteries, the Mining Ministry said yesterday. The reserves, which...
GENEVA, Mar 21 (AFP): The World Trade Organisation Friday said it would rule on a trade dispute between Thailand and the United States over anti-dumping measures applied by Washington against Thai plastic bags."The panel was established," a WTO spokeswoman said,...
Our CorrespondentFARIDPUR, Mar 21: Children in the char areas of Faridpur are being deprived of education as they are forced to engage themselves in income generating activities due to abject poverty of their families.Their parents send them to work for...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Mar 21: The potato growers of the district have become frustrated due to lower price of potato than the production cost.Farmers of eight upazilas of Rangpur have been cultivating potatoes in their lands for years. But they are...
Our CorrespondentGAIBANDHA, Mar 21: The construction work of Durgapur WAPDA embankment -- Chapadaho Kisamat Balua road under sadar upazila in the district has begun.Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is implementing the work at the cost of Tk 7.8 million under...
MUMBAI, Mar 21 (Reuters): The Indian business of mobile phone group Vodafone plans to put its mobile phone towers and infrastructure along with the stake in a tower firm into a separate firm, the Economic Times said Saturday. Citing two...
The government has planned to strengthen the country's community clinics to make them functional again alongside Upazila health complexes to ensure people's primary healthcare, reports UNB.Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhul Haque stated this while speaking at an inaugural function of...
DU CorrespondentThe students of Political Science Department of Dhaka University (DU) Saturday kept their department office under lock and key demanding immediate publication of results of honours final examination. The disgruntled students of the academic year 2003-04 told reporters that...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, the water is our most precious natural resource, reports BSS."More than ever we need to work together to use it wisely. While the world's growing population is consuming more freshwater, climate change is...
Our CorrespondentKUSHTIA, Mar 21: The Welfare Association of Kumarkhali upazila distributed educational appliances among poor and bright students of high schools here Friday morning.The chairman of BRB Group Industries Ltd. and industrialist Alhaz Mozibur Rahman was present as chief guest...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 21 (BSS): Speakers at an advocacy discussion on "Tuberculosis and Smoking" here Saturday revealed that the smoke of cigarette and bidi contain over 4,000 harmful chemical substances. Likewise, they also said around 5.4 million people are dying every...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Mar 21: At least five workers were injured in an attack on the office of a stevedore at Mongla in the evening on Friday. The injured persons are Julfikar Mollik, Moin Uddin, Wohab Sarder, Anwar Sardar and Khalil....
State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak Saturday said the government has undertaken steps to procure modern fire-fighting equipment and provide high standard training to firefighters, reports BSS. The state minister was distributing rice and cash among the...
Sifat SiddiqueOrganising tendency is very important for students to prosper in both education and life. Where there is organization, there is every chance of progressing at a much faster rate than otherwise. 'Ahhh! It's 9 o'clock at last!' Saying this,...
FE SpecialSHUTTING academic institutions sine die due to political conflicts between rivals of student wings or for any other reason is rather a very common phenomenon in Bangladesh. Students have to leave university/institute dormitories in a few hours. Students usually...
The country's economic lifeline, Chittagong port, saw a big improvement in its operations during the two-year rule of the immediate past caretaker government. Businesses and other stakeholders are unanimous in their assessment that following a set of reforms initiated by...
Shahiduzzaman KhanIT is very encouraging to note that the government was going to formulate a policy for manpower export soon to make the entire process transparent and hassle-free. Labour, Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, while addressing a...
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