FE Report The Awami League (AL)-led grand alliance was leading in 76 constituencies and its rival BNP-led four-party alliance in 14 seats in the ninth parliamentary elections, according to initial counts of results announced by the Election Commission until filing...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board's move to appoint an audit agency for pre-shipment inspection (PSI) companies encountered a glitch as the proposal has failed to get the approval of the Council of Advisers. The purchase committee of the Council of...
FE ReportThe President, the Chief Adviser, two contending ex-prime ministers, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Army Chief joined the jubilant nation by casting their votes at their respective polling stations in the capital in Monday's voting to elect...
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina asked the workers of Awami League and its front organisations to refrain from taking out any victory procession until the final results of the national elections are announced, reports UNB.Hasina's press secretary Abul Kalam Azad...
Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said the polling in Monday's general election has been fair so far as she witnessed in the city's Adamjee Cantonment College Centre and heard from elsewhere, reports UNB."It seems to me that...
At least 300 Bangladeshis and some Myanmar nationals bound for Malaysia for jobs are feared drowned near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, foreign media reported Monday, reports BSS. Chittagong Port Authority officials said they were...
FE ReportOver 80 percent of about 170 million first-time voters exercised their right of franchise amid huge enthusiasm with high hopes of real changes in the country.The turnout of the fresh voters, both girls and boys, in every polling centre...
LONDON, Dec 29: Oil prices rose above $40 a barrel on Monday, up nearly 8 percent on the previous session, after violence between Israel and Hamas served as a reminder of tensions that could threaten crude supplies from the Middle...
Jasim Uddin Haroon City's elderly citizens received unprecedented care from law enforcing agencies and officials when they arrived at the polling centres to cast their votes in Monday's parliamentary elections.They did not wait in the queue as they were guided...
FE Report For Akhlakh Miah, the elections day was a boon.The 32-year-old hawker, who scratches out his living by selling jhal muri and chanachur at New Market area, has made a windfall, with his sales surpassing Tk 1300.His site selection...
FE Report An international research organisation conducted Monday an exit poll on 150 constituencies during the ninth parliamentary election.Nielson Bangladesh, formerly known as AC Nielson, conducted the exit poll after the International Republican Institute (IRI) recommended the Election Commission (EC)...
LONDON, Dec 29 (AFP): A top British business leaders' network said today it was calling for the national minimum wage not to be increased in 2009 due to the faltering state of the economy. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)...
FE ReportA number of voters in the capital could not cast their votes in the ninth parliamentary polls that was held Monday as their names were missing from the voters' list.Despite having the national ID cards, many of them could...
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (Bloomberg): Warfare between Israel and Hamas will put pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to fulfill a campaign pledge to focus on the Palestinian conflict at a time when his agenda will already be overflowing with Iraq,...
There were errors in the lead news titled "Nation goes to polls today" published in our Yesterday's (Monday) issue. The date of lifting emergency was mistakenly written as September 17, 2008. Actually, the emergency was lifted on December 17, 2008....
The upazilla (sub-district) election that will be held next month at the very beginning of the tenure of the new government to be formed on the basis of the people's mandate expressed through Monday's national polls, will be a milestone...
Syed Fattahul AlimWith the acknowledgement of the equality of all people so far as their rights as citizens of a state are concerned, the struggle for democracy starts. The great philosophers, thinkers and writers of the Enlightenment era in Europe...
Anwarul IqbalINDISCRIMINATE use of chemical pesticides in agriculture over past three decades is causing serious health and environmental problems in many developing countries. According to the surveys by the UN bodies, pesticide poisoning affects between one and five million agricultural...
The government has a great responsibility for ensuring the development of quality human resources. Such resources are the prime assets of a country. Our earnings from remittances could have increased if more skilled or qualified workers were sent abroad. Private...
We have a tendency to destroy our previous achievements when a new government comes to power. It is true, everything the outgoing caretaker government did was not good, but it deserves credit for some of the work. It made the...
THE fresh occurrence of the deadly avian flu has been reported in the country. After the H5N1 virus had affected 47 out of the country's 64 districts in 2007, the authorities had to kill more than 1.65 million birds. Though,...
Equity Partners LimitedThe year 2008 was perhaps one of the worst years after the great depression for a global equity investor. In the first part of the year, the global credit crisis took its toll and equity prices had started...
Muhammad Quamrul IslamSOME of my friends who visited me at hospital recently asked me to write about my experience to share it with the readers and the authorities concerned. I was hesitant to write about it because the doctors, for...
WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (AFP): President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan is an urgent matter that will favour long-term infrastructure and job creation projects over tactics aimed at boosting consumer spending, two of his top aides said yesterday. With the United...
LONDON, Dec 29 (Internet): Next year will be the worst for jobs for almost 20 years, with a net reduction of at least 600,000 people in employment, according to a report published today. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development...
DUBAI, Dec 29 (AFP): Leaders of oil-rich Gulf countries assembling in Muscat today will focus on how to use their wealth to shore up their economies, after a discussion Sunday on the bloody situation in Gaza. The annual two-day Gulf...
SINGAPORE, Dec 29 (Reuters): Crumbling home and auto sales pushed three Japanese insurers into merger talks and Koreans plan to cut spending on children's education, signs the global economic slump is reshaping business and lifestyles around the world.Economic reports this...
BEIJING, Dec 29 (Xinhua): China concluded its annual two-day central rural work conference yesterday with a pledge to give priority to maintaining steady and relatively fast rural and agricultural development, ensuring supplies of farm produce and facilitating income increases for...
MANILA, Dec 29 (Xinhua): In recent months, the ripple effects of the global financial crisis have reached the Philippine shores and started taking its toll on the country's economy. In its latest report, the Philippine National Statistics Office said that...
BEIJING, Dec 29 (AFP): China will this week raise export tax rebates on hundreds of products, the government said today, in its latest effort to help exporters struggling amid the global economic meltdown. The boost for 553 machinery and electronic...
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