Adviser for Foreign Affairs Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of three Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, reports BSS.In a condolence message,...
Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed Saturday visited Combined Military Hospital to see the injured journalist and cameraman of private television channel ETV, reports UNB.The two were shifted to the CMH from Bogra Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital Friday evening.The...
Engineer Faizul Islam Selim was re-elected president of the Gulshan club for the year 2008-09, reports UNB.The election was held Thursday at the club premises.Ten members of the executive committee elected are Sabera Ahmed, Naveed Alam, Riaz ur Rahman, Nahar...
Our CorrespondentFARIDPUR, Dec 20: Infectious diseases like chicken pox, coughing, influenza and skin ailments are spreading at an alarming rate in the district after their breakout four weeks ago. Sources say that 20 in every 100 in the district are...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board has sought the Chief Adviser's (CA) intervention in removing all hurdles to fresh recruitment of customs and VAT (value added tax) officials.Expressing deep concern over the prevailing situation, the board officials said that the customs...
Shakhawat Hossain Falling prices of rice in international and local markets might discourage farmers in their bid to bring more areas under Boro cultivation, which could lead to production target shortfall in the current season, said a government report Saturday....
Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina Saturday urged people to eliminate the "corrupt, terrorists and plunderers" in the next general election, reports bdnews24.com. "The people will have to choose for themselves who they vote for - the corrupt, terrorists and...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has been on whirlwind electioneering, has accused the caretaker government (CG) of trying to make the country a vassal state and blamed Awami League (AL) for supporting such activities, reports UNB."They (caretaker government) wanted to...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government is likely to cut the domestic oil prices at a range of two to five taka per litre within this week because of its dramatic slip in the international markets, top officials said Saturday."We'll reduce prices...
FE Report Chief election observer of the European Union (EU) Alexander Graf Lambsdorff has urged all political parties to accept polls result if it comes in a free, fair and credible manner."I hope the political parties will be fair and...
FE ReportBangladesh is expected to receive donor funding in excess of US$ US$ 2.0 billion in the current fiscal year (FY), official sources said."An estimated $ 2.14 billion worth of foreign assistance is to be available for the current fiscal,"...
Over 40,000 army personnel were deployed across the country Saturday to assist the law enforcers in the run-up to the December 29 general elections, the home ministry and the Election Commission said. According to a decision of the home ministry,...
More than 200 class-4 employees of Rajshahi University (RU) went on a strike for an indefinite period from Saturday, the first day of reopening of the university after 17-day closure, demanding regularisation of their jobs. Campus sources said the employees,...
THE debate on how Bangladesh will fare amid the global financial crunch is still on. The global lending institution, the World Bank (WB), for example, has come up with its unsettling report of how the economic slowdown in the Middle-Eastern...
Jahangir Bin AlamIn free market economies, most domestic investments - be it in the trading, services or manufacturing sector, derive from incomes generated mostly through collective or individual corruptions in various forms. This has been the practice over the centuries...
Foyasal KhanEVERY year an unprecedented number of approximately 83 million people are added to the world's population. Almost all of this net population increase is in developing countries. But the problem of population growth is not simply a problem of...
FOR the first time, we are going to cast our votes, having also national identity cards. It is certainly a great moment for us. In the past, many governments had tried, without success, to introduce the ID cards. In the...
THE governments in Europe and America are becoming bankers either by nationalising the banks or by injecting funds as equities to transfuse blood into thus anemic financial institutions to prevent a repeat of '30s economic depression.Such bottle-feeding might keep the...
ONE of the most hazardous acts I almost performed recently was getting down from the bus right in the middle of the street, all because of the intransigence of the driver to stop by the roadside. As other vehicles were...
Equity Partners LimitedTHE banking sector is one of the most important growth engines for any country. To an extent, it's a gauge to estimate the growth potential in the short term and in the long term. According to Ross Levine,...
Paul Betts President Nicolas Sarkozy would dearly like to end France's rotating presidency of the European Union (EU) on a high note by brokering a deal on a grand European response to global warming and energy efficiency. The ultimate plan,...
Karar Mahmudul HassanThere are some common talks and high thoughts heard from the experts both national and international and bureaucrats-turned consultants and scholars or both, some of them in the meanwhile managed doctoral degree, who love to give prescriptions on...
Mure Dickie and Robin HardingFOR Taro Aso, the Japanese prime minister, the multi-trillion yen "Emergency Measures for the Defence of Livelihoods" he unveiled late last week are a vital effort to shield his nation from worldwide financial and economic turmoil."The...
Mark KonynA few years ago I met a rival chief executive of a major financial services company who was bemoaning the dearth of talent available in the Asian fund management industry. He correctly identified the genesis of the problem being...
Umesh PandeyAsia has become the hotbed for clean development mechanism (CDM) projects that are playing an increasing role in helping the world come to grips with climate change. To date about 65 per cent or 774 out of 1,186 CDM...
John Aglionby in JakartaNON-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Indonesia are threatening to resist a new rule requiring state approval of foreign funding.They argue that the interior ministry regulation revives the authoritarianism of the Suharto era, which ended in 1998.Activists fear that...
Syed Fattahul AlimAfter destruction of the natural environment over the last three centuries, man has come to realise what he has done. He made bold claims that the forces of nature were under his control. But his claims have no...
Md Layes UddinEstablishment of this mosque is quite miraculous. It is learnt from the local people that at about 275 years ago the inhabitants of the area heard that somebody was reciting the verses of the Holy Quran from inside...
Annika BreidthardtFreight derivatives are falling out of favour as traditionally conservative ship owners and brokers back out of the sort of speculation on volatile freight rates that has just claimed its highest-profile victim.Speculative capital has evaporated, and the economic crisis...
Rujun Shen and Eadie ChenChina's dramatic economic slowdown is paying an environmental dividend, slashing emission levels from the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter as its highest-carbon industries begin to contract.The question Beijing will soon face is how it will manage...
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