FE Report The commerce ministry will sit with the country's business leaders this week to discuss the steps needed to prop up exports, import and private investment that could give a boost to the economy, sources said."The meeting is being...
Senior leaders of BNP without its chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman by placing wreaths and offering fateha at his grave in the city Saturday as the party observed its 29th founding anniversary in a modest...
Justice Habibur Rahman, head of the one-member Judicial Inquiry Commission formed to probe the Aug 20-21 incidents on the Dhaka University campus, Saturday said no proof has so far been found that teachers provoked the student unrest. "No proof has...
FE ReportThe government has decided to provide internet protocol (IP) telephony licenses to help reduce the costs of international calls substantially and augment legal calls through internet.The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will provide the IP telephony licenses only to...
LONDON/ISLAMABAD, Sept 1 (Reuters): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said talks on a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return to Pakistan very soon even without an agreement. "No understanding has been arrived...
Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Sitakunda Country's ship breaking yards in Chittagong are passing idle time as the import of old ships declined sharply in recent months. Ship-breaking industry insiders said importers of old ships are not procuring old ships...
FE ReportA World Bank (WB) mission will arrive in Dhaka on September 10 for holding talks with the government on a proposed US$100 million transitional budgetary support to Bangladesh.The WB fund, if provided, will help the government minimise deficit financing...
FE ReportOffices of all the government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions will function between 9:00am and 3:30pm from Sundays to Thursdays during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.Besides, there will be a 15-minute break for prayer from 1:15 to 1:30pm...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 1 (bdnews24.com): British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury expressed the hope that the ban on indoor political activities would be lifted soon. The British high commissioner said this while exchanging views with district election and administration officials at a...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 1 (bdnews24.com): The three Rajshahi University (RU) teachers, ordered to jail after an eight-day remand, were rushed to the jail hospital upon arrival Saturday. "The arrested teachers have fallen sick," said major Hafizur Rahman, DIG (prisons) for Rajshahi....
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) bounced back in the week ended Wednesday amid fresh buying by investors.The trading in the week was cut short by one session as the market was closed on Thursday last due...
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), despite being refused earlier, has decided to pursue the government into extending a contract on the Agrani Bank management as its consultant, which expires on September 30, reports bdnews24.com. "We'll push for the extension again," Agrani Bank...
The flood situation in Sylhet district has started improving and is expected to improve further during the next 24-72 hours, Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said Saturday in its latest observation report, reports BSS.However, it warned that the major...
THE country's pivotal readymade garments (RMG) industry is faced with a serious regression as have been assessed by the ones involved in it. Growth in this sector has been without a pause for years, may be with some variations or...
Enamul HaqueTHE total demand for fabrics in the country is estimated to be about 1676 million metres. Sixty three per cent of this requirement or 800 million metres are produced by the local handloom operators who make clothes used by...
Anatol LievenEVEN western observers who criticise human rights groups for naivety or irresponsibility generally give them credit for purity of intentions - and, of course, this noble character is indeed true of many groups such as Amnesty International and Human...
Alec Russell TOMMY Zhang is the very model of a new-age Chinese businessman in Africa. Aged 23, he says he was at his home in Fujian province when a friend asked if he wanted to help set up a small...
SUCCESSIVE governments formed by the major political parties back- pedalled on privatisation notwithstanding the broad agreement among them about privatisation. The parties have feared the pressure of trade unions, employees to be affected by privatisation and the vested interest groups...
A local TV channel showed in its evening news last Tuesday that a variety of South American fish, which eats, among others, the human flesh and for the obvious reason attacks an individual found close by in water, has arrived...
Qazi Azad A discourse, half complete, is at best useless or it may be food for confusion. Having read one Mr. Maswood Alam Khan's letter on Mother Teresa in the FE issue of last Tuesday this scribe was impelled from...
Kamran T. RahmanLest we forget, the jute industry was the life blood of our economy for several decades and continues to be one of the mainstays of our rural economy even today. About 15 million farmers are involved in growing...
Martin Wolf"At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money . . . At intervals . . . the money of these people -- the blind capital, as we call it, of the...
Syed Fattahul AlimConsciousness is the attribute that draws the line between the world of the living and the non-living. But one may question whether the very primitive forms of life such as the protozoa possess what is usually understood by...
Many people have the impression that polls produce highly discrepant findings that simply do not add up. However scholars of public opinion have found that by organizing public opinion research across studies and carefully reading the wording of questions there...
Shanu Mostafiz Shefali spends much of her time taking care of her younger brother. She also has to fetch drinking water for her family from nearly a half-mile away every morning when girls her age go to school.Shefali, a seven-year-old...
Enayet Rasul Lots of things are said at talk-shops such as seminars, symposiums, roundtables, etc. But the flurry of words produce nothing in the end because the authorities running this country are always found to be extremely cooperative in only...
As Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf heads towards an election that is expected to secure him another five-year term, his alliance with the United States in the war on terror is increasingly alienating members of his cabinet and the ruling party....
V Radhika In a world that is still witnessing a great deal of Islam-bashing, the recent Id celebrations in a Toronto mosque made history quietly. A young woman, Maryam Mirza, 20, led part of the Id sermon; and another woman,...
Steve JohnsonA headlong rush by pension funds into active currency management has resulted in losses for many investors.And strategists are warning of further losses to come if the carry trade - the practise of borrowing in low-yielding currencies and buying...
Richard ParkhouseFund management firms had a great year in 2006.The latest research on global fund management shows operating profit margins are at record levels, while cost/income ratios are at their lowest recorded level. And even though performance-based pay went up...
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