THE country is now face to face with one of its worst predicaments on the energy front in history. In fact, an ambience of complacency was created earlier by some quarters who were advocating export of gas based on the...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
Export earnings from the country's apparel sector increased during the first seven months (July '08- January'09) of the current fiscal year over the same period of the previous fiscal despite the ongoing global recession.The earnings from export of woven garments,...
SINGAPORE, Mar 12 (AFP): Oil prices rebounded in Asian trade today as the market awaited the OPEC cartel's decision on output cuts, analysts said.New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, gained 62 cents to 42.95 dollars...
NCC Bank Limited executives and officers have been urged to procure low cost deposit in the locality and also increasing investment in new profitable sectors.Chairman of the bank Tofazzal Hossain made the appeal while speaking as the chief guest at...
K.M.Mukta | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
CRIMINAL administration of justice is a great challenge all over the world. This is more so, specially in a developing country like Bangladesh for multi-dimensional causes like prolonged colonial legacy, judicial bureaucracy, complex procedural mechanism, lack of judicial activism, over-powerful...
Royal Bengal, presently a domestic carrier, is participating in the Dhaka Travel Mart (DTM)-2009 as a premium partner of the international tourism fairThe airliner started commercial operation February 10, 2008, with plans for going international.It is now operating on Chittagong,...
Abdur Razzak, the Bangladesh left-arm spinner who had been suspended for a suspect action last November, has been cleared to bowl in international cricket by the ICC. Razzak appeared for a reassessment of his action at the Australian Institute of...
TEHRAN, Mar 12 (AFP): Members of the regional Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) meeting at a summit in Tehran Wednesday urged the rapid rebuilding of violence-wracked Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip."The ECO urges its members to increase the speed of reconstruction...
FRANKFRUIT, Mar 12 (Internet): European markets opened lower again, as some important companies posted disappointing results. US futures also moved lower overnight ahead of the retail sales reportFertiliser producer K+S declined the most on the German Dax,-10.15 per cent, after...
SANTIAGO, Mar 12 (Xinhua): President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Luis Alberto Moreno said Wednesday that the world economic crisis is affecting Latin American and Caribbean countries, but he could not agree to the protectionism."The crisis is reducing the...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Limited (CRAB) conducted a training session on implementation of BASEL II for executives of Bank Alfalah Limited at its Gulshan office in the city recently, said a press release.The session was organised with a view...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
The World Food Programme (WFP) will provide US$ 180 million food aid to Bangladesh to help feed some five million hard-core poor who are victims of high global cereal prices and natural disasters, officials said.The government and the United Nations'...
BEIJING, Mar 12 (AFP): China's industrial output has slowed dramatically, the government said today, confirming a bleak picture painted by data issued this week of an economy being hit hard by the global crisis.Production at the factories of the world's...
Sangakkara SL skipper for World Twenty20Kumar Sangakkara has been named captain of Sri Lanka for the World Twenty20 tournament in England this year while Muttiah Muralitharan has been appointed Sangakkara's deputy in the provisional 25-member squad announced by the national...
MELBOURNE, Mar 12 (AFP): Australia's unemployment rate rose to a four-year high of 5.2 per cent in February as the number of full-time jobs slumped, according to official data released Thursday.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the figures showed the government...
The global economy may shrink 1 to 2 per cent this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said, as revised Japanese data confirmed the world's No. 2 economy suffered its deepest slump since the oil shock of 1974, reports Reuters.The...
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (AP): Retail sales fell in February for the seventh time in the past eight months. While the decline was less than expected, economists are still looking for continued weakness given the battering households are taking from a...
BAGHDAD, Mar 12 (Agencies): A Baghdad court sentenced an Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at former US president George W Bush to three years in prison Thursday.Muntazer al-Zaidi worked for Al-Baghdadiya television, and earned instant worldwide fame when he...
The annual general meeting (AGM) and Re-union of Dhaka University Economics Department Alumni Association (DUEDAA) will be held on April 03, 2009 at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city, said a press release.
Syed Jamaluddin | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
The human tragedy of BDR Headquarters is enormous. Not only the officers were killed but even some of the members of their families met the same fate. The number of officers killed at BDR Headquarters is far higher than those...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
It has begun. Albeit in a trickle, the traffic of Bangladeshi labourers is on the return. One would hope that this will not be an exodus but that may be fanciful thinking. Malaysia has announced that it will be seeking...
MANCHESTER, Mar 12(AFP): Amir Khan believes he has been transformed in less than six months working with trainer Freddie Roach and on Saturday plans to show that improvement when he boxes Marco Antonio Barrera.The English lightweight faces his toughest opponent...
FE Report | 2009-03-13 00:00:00
The sale offerings, which mostly comprised of end of season types met with a strong demand at dearer rates: Blenders were selective but there was strong interest from the Loose tea buyers. There was less interest from Pakistan. Good liquoring...
BEIJING, Mar 12 (AP): China criticisd the United States Thursday for damaging bilateral ties and meddling in its internal affairs by passing a resolution recognizing the plight of Tibet's people and their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.It was the...
CANBERRA, Mar 12 (AFP): Iraq has agreed to buy more Australian wheat after cutting imports over bribes paid to former president Saddam Hussein's regime, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today."I'm pleased to note the statement made by the Iraqi trade...
PARIS, Mar 12, (AFP): French supermarket giant Carrefour, ranked world number two, said today its 2008 net profit slumped nearly 45 per cent as second half demand fell away in face of the global economic downturn.Net profit fell 44.7 per...
INDIAN WELLS, Mar 12(AFP): Roger Federer, bested by Rafael Nadal in a five-set final at the Australian Open in January, is keen to renew his rivalry with his Spanish foe at the Indian Wells Masters series.Federer's appearance in the California...
NEW YORK, Mar 12 (Reuters): Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates is the richest man again, overtaking investor Warren Buffett, as the global financial meltdown wiped out $2 trillion from the net worth of the world's billionaires, Forbes Magazine said on...
Law Minister Shafiq Ahmed Thursday said he expects passage of a law on separation of the judiciary within a week, just a day after the High Court questioned the legality of judicial magistracy in absence of the law, reports bdnews24.com.The...
BEIJING, Mar 12 (AFP): China plans to lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organisation over what it calls "discriminatory" US legislation targeting Chinese poultry imports, a government statement said.The complaint would be filed in response to the US spending...
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