Maswood Alam KhanNOW I realise why my mother was so desperate a few months before her death to meet her relations and acquaintances and why after her emotional reunions with her missing soul mates she used to be more desperate...
Enayet RasulMembers of a family at the grass roots of existence from Gopalganj in the Faridpur district were in the office of the Dhaka Reporters Unity to draw attention to murder and demand justice . The father of the slain...
Ishrat FirdousiMehena was born to a poor family at Chilmari Char under Chilmari Union in Chilmari Upazilla of Kurigram district. Her days were spent in near starvation. Even though she wanted to she could not study beyond Class-3; there was...
The sequencing and comparison of 12 fruit fly genomes -- the result of a massive collaboration of hundreds of scientists from more than 100 institutions in 16 countries -- has thrust forward researchers' understanding of fruit flies, a popular animal...
Syed Fattahul AlimOur darling green planet Earth has been travelling in space for billions of years alone. The silence of its loneliness, however, is broken by the humming of life. It has long been an issue of profound debate, if...
Rashada Akther Shimul The Physics class at a college in Dhaka is interrupted by a musical ringer from a mobile. The teacher discovered the mobile in the hands of one of her students _ a gift from his parents for...
It's always hard to know what military dictators really think. So it's worth examining closely a recent public statement by one of Burma's leaders on the occasion of United Nations Envoy Ibrahim Gambari's visit to the country. There is some...
Moshe AmiravNEXT month US President George W. Bush proposes to host an international conference in Annapolis, near Washington, in the hope of advancing a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. The failure of previous attempts -- in Madrid in...
Clive CrookIn its new World Economic Outlook the International Monetary Fund looks at the politically freighted question of globalisation and inequality. Scanning press accounts of the document I thought for a moment there must be two such publications. The study...
Nassim Nicholas TalebLAST August, The Wall Street Journal published a statement by one Matthew Rothman, financial economist, expressing his surprise that financial markets experienced a string of events that "would happen once in 10,000 years". A portrait of Mr Rothman...
Jon AltermanCONDOLEEZZA Rice, the US secretary of state, is bringing the wrong people together in Annapolis, near Washington, this month. Belatedly deciding that the time has come for the Bush administration to put energy and focus into Arab-Israeli peacemaking, her...
Kaushik BasuUntil a few years ago, the suggestion that India could grow as fast as China belonged to the same category as other incredible pronouncements by 'fact-proof' politicians. There was little by way of hard data to back up such...
Cecil Johnson Madame Tien, wife of former Indonesian President Suharto and partner to her husband in taking kickbacks, picked up the nickname ''Madame Tien Percent'' in business circles, writes longtime South Asia watcher Joe Studwell in his fascinating new book,...
Jonathan ManthorpeAsia's stellar economic growth in the last 40 years has produced serious and associated problems of socially divisive wealth disparity and dangerous levels of environmental degradation, says the director general of the Asian Development Bank.Speaking in Vancouver last week,...
Mohammed Tauheer, a poor office helper, fought back tears as he was shown the door at a police station where his sons were being questioned after a rescue operation for child workers."Believe me, they are my sons. Where are they...
Jane Perlez and David Rohde The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, making no concessions a day after seizing emergency powers, rounded up leading opposition figures and said Sunday that parliamentary elections could be delayed for as long...
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 9: (Reuters): A group of former world leaders including Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter has denounced Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency rule and suspending the constitution. Army chief Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup,...
YANGON, Nov 9 (Agencies): Detained Myanmar opposition head Aung San Suu Kyi is "very optimistic" about prospects of the U.N.-promoted process for reconciliation between the military government and pro-democracy forces, top members of her party said Friday. Three executive members...
ANAK KRAKATAU, (Indonesia) Nov 9 (Agencies): Sending a boom across the bay, the offspring of the fabled Krakatau volcano unleashes another mighty eruption, blasting smoke and red-hot rocks hundreds of feet into the sky. Even on its quiet side, the...
BANGALORE, (India), Nov 9(Agencies): A 2-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs regained consciousness Friday, wiggled her toes and smiled at her parents, 48 hours after massive surgery removed the extra limbs, doctors said. Lakshmi, who has...
Lithuania nuclear plant shut down after short circuit VILNIUS, Nov 9: Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power station was shut down Thursday due to an electrical malfunction but there was no danger of any radiation, officials said. The Ignalina nuclear plant has...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Many businessmen have withheld their business expansion plans for the time being. They have, apparently, adopted the 'wait and see policy.' This is evident from the decline in capital machinery import and private sector credit in recent...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been intensifying its monitoring to prevent entry of imported products without pre-shipment inspection (PSI), sources said.They said the NBR has information about a number of products being imported without the PSI.The...
A Z M AnasThe Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) is on the look-out for commercial funding to set up new industrial parks, as the government has thrown cold water on its proposal seeking public money to establish such ventures....
BNP (Saifur-Hafiz faction) Acting Secretary General Hafizuddin Ahmed said Friday neither any development will take place in the country, nor its law and order improve if the heads of law enforcers assist the corrupt persons, reports UNB."Three of the four...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9 (Agencies): Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad villa, and reportedly rounded up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency rule.Meanwhile,...
FE ReportThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made a set of recommendations including removal of existing subsidies, reduction of systems' losses and enhancement of managerial capacity for the development of gas sector in Bangladesh.The country also needs to enhance the...
The government would install four more special judge's courts to quicken the trials of high-profile graft suspects, officials said, reports bdnews24.com. The planned courts would start working next week and the judges for the courts had also been finalised, the...
Imports increased by about 17 per cent to US$ 5,930 million during the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY) comparing that of the same period in the last FY. Letters of credit (L/Cs) opened during the July-October...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 9: Western Marine Shipyard Limited, a local shipbuilding enterprise, has received the National Maritime Award-2007 for its outstanding contribution to the country's shipbuilding industry. Shipping Adviser MA Matin handed over the award to the company's chief naval architect...
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