The students seeking admission either to Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University or Bangladesh College of Textile Engineering and Technology (BCTET) are going to miss one of the admission tests since the two exams have been scheduled for...
FE ReportMs Malka Shamrose has recently joined as Business Development Director of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, a 450-bed super specialty hospital poised to deliver advanced tertiary care of international standards to the people of Bangladesh.Prior to joining Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, she...
BAGERHAT, Nov 12 (UNB): Forest guards arrested four deer poachers along with firearms and ammunition from Nangli area of the Sundarbans under Shoronkhola Upazila Monday.Acting on secret information that some miscreants entered into the Sundarbans to hunt deer, the forest...
FE ReportBangladesh's earnings from merchandise exports fell short of target by 17.65 per cent during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal over the corresponding period of the last fiscal.The country exported products worth US$ 3077.09 million during the...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Salehuddin Ahmed said Monday the country's exports will remain unaffected by a slight appreciation of taka against US dollar. Nor will inflow of remittance be hampered for any reason thereof, he maintained."The Bangladesh Bank...
FE ReportEnergy and Power Adviser Tapan Chowdhury Monday saw the Public Procurement Regulation (PPR) as a stumbling block to expeditious decision making by the government. The immediate past BNP-led alliance government adopted the PPR at the insistence of the multilateral...
A Dhaka court Monday sent BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser ASM Hannan Shah to Dhaka Central Jail after his three-day remand ended in a case filed under the emergency rules, reports bdnews24.com.Magistrate Habibur Rahman Siddiqui of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's...
FE Report A committee formed under the ministry of finance is expected to finalise its recommendations on the proposed special financial benefit to some 1.55 million government officials and employees at meeting next Thursday.The special financial benefit, according to sources,...
FE ReportThe developed countries need to make commitment to provide duty-free and quota free access to all products of the least developed countries (LDCs) within a time frame. Unless it is done, there is every possibility that most important export...
FE Report Importers have blamed the problem in distribution at the field level for the crisis of fertilisers in many districts. Farmers in many districts, including Munshiganj, Narsingdi, Gazipur, Tangail are now facing crisis of fertilisers during the ongoing Aman...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued their rally for the fourth consecutive day Monday as banking shares gained amid buying by institutional and retail investors.Marker operators said currently, the market is buoyant with the investors expecting...
FE ReportTwo leading mobile companies of the country -- Grameenphone (GP) and Aktel -- will go public by the middle of next year."We are confident that both the telephone companies are going to float shares within the said timeframe and...
Javier Blas and Roula Khalaf , FT Syndication ServiceRIYADH: Opec will this week seek assurances from some of the world's biggest oil consumers that they will maintain their demand as the members of the oil cartel come under intense pressure...
IT has been argued in recent years that the traditional jute mills are destined to die a natural death and there was no economic sense in wasting fresh resources to revive an industry the fortunes of which have dipped below...
Shamsul Huq Zahid THE ban on exports of essentials such as rice, wheat, lentil and onion by neighbouring India has put Bangladesh in real difficulty. India says the restriction that has been imposed due to shortfall in production of the...
Victor MalletJOSEPH Estrada is lucky to be Filipino. In September, he was jailed for life for plundering the Philippines when he was president between 1998 and 2001. Today the cheery Mr Estrada is a free man, pardoned by his successor,...
Gideon RachmanPEOPLE facing alarming birthdays often say things like: "Forty is just a number." You could say the same about "$100 oil". But such benchmarks concentrate minds. As the oil price threatens to break through $100, politicians all over the...
The country's networks of roads and highways have expanded a great deal over the last three decades. Compared to the pre-independence period, the network of highways all over the country has now become extensive. Especially, the road networks have much...
THE University Grants Commission (UGC) sometime ago submitted a report. It disclosed that only about 12 per cent of the budget of the public universities are spent on education and the rest goes mainly to pay salaries and other allowances...
Tom Engelhardt in the first part of his two-part articleAS I was heading out into a dark, drippingly wet, appropriately dispiriting New York City day, on my way to the "Fall Out Against the War" march -- one of 11...
Larry Jagan from BangkokOn his second visit to Burma since the brutal crackdown on demonstrators, in September, United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari held talks with senior members of the Burmese military regime. But there are few signs of a...
Simon ClarkThe U.K. economy had been the envy of Europe, outpacing Germany and France almost every quarter from 2001 through 2005. Germany surged past the U.K. last year, and for 2008, Europe's largest economies are forecast to run in a...
Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman Sunday demanded of the caretaker government and the Election Commission to declare the political parties of 'war criminals' ineligible for participating in the election and deny them registration.The AL acting president made the...
Saifur-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed Sunday urged all party leaders and activists to remain united and get prepared for the next polls to the local government bodies, including the city corporations.Hafiz made the...
Bangladesh expressed the hope for early resolution of the current problems in Pakistan, saying stability in the country was important for peace and welfare of South Asia and the world.Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this while talking...
The Supreme Court (SC) Sunday turned down government plea for leave to appeal against High Court (HC) orders that had discharged two corruption cases against detained Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, reports UNB. After hearing both sides,...
SATKHIRA, Nov 11 (UNB): A married man of 40 caught in compromising position with a woman has been fined Tk 50,000 in arbitration by the elders.According to the arbitrators, Advocate Azizur Rahman, also a Jamaat leader, came out of home...
Norway and Sweden have expressed their eagerness to accept Bangladesh as a strategic partner to increase economic and political cooperation. Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this while briefing journalists at his foreign ministry office in the city...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 11 (BSS): Speakers at a view-sharing meeting underscored the need for taking collective efforts to make the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act effective.They expressed their apprehension that if the law failed to achieve its objective, the consequence...
KHULNA, Nov 11 (UNB): Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Sheikh Tayebur Rahman, facing 8 criminal and corruption cases, was sent to jail when produced before the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) court Sunday at the end of police remand in an...
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