President Iajuddin Ahmed has greeted Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the occasion of the King's birthday and the National Day of that country, reports UNB.In a message to the King, the President said, "Bangladesh and Thailand share excellent bilateral relations....
The 45th death anniversary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy will be observed today (Friday) in a befitting manner, reports UNB.Various organisations chalked out elaborate programmes and messages were given by President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed to pay glowing...
Six Ulema Anjumane Al Bayenat activists, who were arrested while vandalising the 'Balaka' sculpture in Motijheel, were taken on two-day remand Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.Metropolitan judge AKM Emdad granted the remand plea of investigation officer SI Jamal Uddin.The accused were Mostaq...
FARIDPUR, Dec 4 (UNB): A section of BNP activists on Thursday held a meeting in front of district press club protesting the nomination of Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujaheed as four-party alliance candidate in Faridpur-2 (Sadar) constituency.Later, they...
Chief Advisor's Special Assistant for Power and Energy Ministry Dr M Tamim today (Thursday) said political understanding and consensus are imperative for the development of the country's energy sector, reports UNB."If there is no political consensus, it will be very...
FE Report Finance Adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam Thursday said the issuing companies need to diversify their products to tap the full potential of the country's capital market. "The capital market stakeholders should concentrate on diversifying the market with various...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 4 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here Thursday underscored the need for forging a social movement to establish the rights of children, especially the underprivileged ones, for building sound and healthy generations.In this context, they called for keeping...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Thursday advised the poor meritorious students who defied the pangs of poverty and achieved glorious results in this year's SSC examination to continue to strive to climb the peak of professions to lead the...
FE ReportA total of 19 establishments have been awarded the 8th ICAB National Awards for Best Published Accounts and Reports 2007. The awards were handed over by Finance Adviser Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam at a function at Bangladesh-China Friendship...
Our correspondentFARIDPUR, Dec 4: About 60,000 children from the chars and rural areas of Bhanga, Nagarkanda, Sadarpur, Madhu-khali, Alfadanga, Boalmari and Sadar upazilas of Faridpur district have been deprived of the universal right to primary education because of poverty, ignorance,...
The 10th joint governing body meeting of National Defence College (NDC) and Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) was held Thursday at Bangabhaban in the city with President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed in the chair, reports BSS. The President,...
A 24-day Eid-ul-Azha and winter vacation of the Dhaka University (DU) began Thursday, reports BSS.Offices, however, will remain closed from December 6 to December 12, university sources said.
US Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia, Ms Margot Ellis, will arrive in the city Sunday for a three-day visit, reports UNB.A release of the US embassy said Ms Ellis' first visit to Bangladesh would provide...
FE Report A group of garment workers went on rampage and damaged over 20 motor vehicles in the city's Mahakhali area Thursday morning following the death of a fellow worker in a road accident. Several hundred workers staged demonstration at...
RANGAMATI, Dec 4 (BSS): A three-day programme on the occasion of funeral of Rajguru Agrabangsha Mahathero, a famous monk of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, has been launched Thursday at the Rajbari compound at the town.The body of the Rajguru will...
The High Court (HC) Thursday rejected a writ petition, filed by the Dhaka city mayor, challenging the notice of Election Commission (EC) disqualifying mayors of city corporations and municipalities from taking part in the general elections as office of profit,...
IT is important to identify the points of strength and weakness in our entire economic system. A small basket of export items, where garment products dominate, and the remittances sent home by the expatriate wage earners, provide us with the...
Enayet RasulSouth Asia, a fast growing area in the economic sense, is about to fall in a ditch. Even amid the worldwide economic gloom, specially in the developed countries, South Asian economies have been maintaining their heads well above the...
Rezina SultanaHE looked thoroughly professional and seemed to be brimming with confidence with his made-to-measure suit and neck tie. He seemed to have the likeness of the ultimately successful go-getting corporate official. But his confidence level started to dwindle as...
BANGLADESH is an important destination for Indian exports. Through such bilateral trade, the businesses in both the countries have otherwise been gaining.The freight costs or per unit costs of the delivery of an Indian product is cheaper for Bangladesh than...
NOT only solar power, it is time to popularise other non-conventional energy sources to reduce dependence on expensive diesel or gas to produce power. It would also reduce external dependence. Besides, alternative energy like solar power, biogas, wind energy and...
Ahmed Hafiz KhanTHE global outsourcing business has seen a tremendous growth in past years. The outsourcing in software and information & communication technology (ICT)-enabled services (ITES) created an immense interest in Bangladesh seeing the success of the developing countries like...
Dr. M. Mizanur Rahman The world economy is in the grip of a financial crisis. The crisis originated in the United States with plunging house prices, stock price declines, and a severe credit crunch (falling credit availability), and then spread...
Mahfuzur RahmanRanju Mia, a spirited young man of a sleepy village in Gaibandha district, still cannot forget the day when he had to stop going to school due to poverty. Things could have been different in his life, had he...
LONDON, Dec 3 (PTI): A senior public policy adviser has predicted that China and India are going to propel the economic growth of the world in the 21st century. Releasing his book 'An Asian Century Manifesto-Global Political Economy of the...
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (AFP): The US Treasury's new 700-billion-dollar financial rescue programme has serious accountability and transparency problems, a congressional watchdog said yesterday. The Troubled Asset Relief Programme (TARP), which has poured billions of dollars into financial institutions and through...
LONDON, Dec 3 (AFP): The Bank of England (BoE) will slash Wednesay British borrowing costs for a second month running in an bid to spur economic growth as the country teeters on the brink of recession, analysts said. Also Thursday,...
HONG KONG, Dec 3 (AP): China's sovereign wealth fund, which last year poured five billion dollars into Morgan Stanley, is reluctant to plow more money into foreign banks until governments hash out coherent policies to cope with the global economic...
JAKARTA, Dec 3 (AFP): Billionaire Indonesian tycoon Aburizal Bakrie has pulled back from the brink of losing his political and business empire to the global credit crunch, but has come out badly battered, analysts say. Formerly a powerful backer of...
NEW DELHI, Dec 3 (PTI): India's trade with Arab League nations is witnessing rapid growth and could top USD 100 billion in the next four years, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa said here yesterday. India's trade with Arab countries...
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