Japanese PM reshuffles cabinetTOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters): Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked familiar faces for key posts in a sweeping reshuffle of his cabinet Monday, but analysts doubted whether the changes would do much to revive the Japanese leader's badly...
FE ReportThe US dollar was stable against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Monday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with moderate demand for the greenback, fund managers said.The greenback repeated its previous day's single exchange rate of Tk 68.70 in the...
The Dhaka Tobacco Industries in a rejoinder to a report published in the FE last Sunday titled 'Philip Morris, Dhaka Tobacco strike deal to produce Marlboro locally" claimed that the information given in the report that the Dhaka Tobacco might...
FE ReportThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and seven other donors will provide US$50.4 million worth of fund to the Election Commission (EC) for preparing the voters' roll with photographs for holding a credible election.To this effect, a tripartite loan...
THE results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations held under seven education boards were announced Sunday last. More than 64 per cent of the examinees -- the highest in last seven years -- have come out successful, the...
Qazi Azad writesA big nation in a small country, like Bangladesh, has to believe that comparative advantage for production is a misnomer. It can only be part of wrong education, which would keep a country like ours nearly stagnated in...
Jamil AnderliniWHEN China was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, a crucial sticking point was whether it would open the country's insurance sector to foreign companies.Beijing agreed to allow foreign property and casualty insurers to operate...
Benedict ManderPRESIDENT Hugo Chávez's tightening grip over Venezuela's economy is generating distortions that economists fear could, paradoxically, eventually lead to a loss of control.Price controls, currency controls and negative real interest rates are just some of the elements that have...
Mother Teresa experienced 'emptiness' at some stages of her life as a human being of flesh and blood, not as an angel made of fire. I wonder why people the world over have raised an uproar on such human and...
Rising from the underground train station at Charring Cross in London, one morning I set on a concrete bench at the Trafalgar Square. A lot of pigeons, the hallmark of the British capital, were intermittently flying low and descending to...
Vernon SilverOn Dec. 23, 2006, the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran's maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles. Known as SHIG, the Iranian firm produces the Shahab...
Aliza MarcusRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will propose tax breaks to help Americans pay for health insurance and incentives for states to craft their own programs to make sure everyone gets coverage. Romney, who as governor of Massachusetts supported legislation...
President Iajuddin Ahmed told the Belgian envoy to Bangladesh that the next parliamentary elections would be held within the timeframe set by the Election Commission, reports UNB.Patrick Beyter, the outgoing ambassador of Belgium, based in New Delhi, made a farewell...
The Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman Monday expressed his disappointments over the Supreme Court (SC) order staying High Court (HC)-granted bail to his detained party chief and ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB.He said not only the party-men but...
The Anti-corruption Commi-ssion (ACC) Monday said the Appellate Division verdict staying the High Court's earlier order and asking former premier Sheikh Hasina to submit her wealth statement within seven working days proves that the issuance of notice to her by...
Law and Information Adviser Mainul Hosein Monday billed the present caretaker government as a national government backed by the army that rescued the nation from an impending civil war, reports UNB.During a meeting with editors of the electronic media at...
RANGPUR, Aug 27 (BSS): The process of preparing voter list with photographs and national identity (ID) cards gained further momentum each passing day as hundreds of common people were rushing to the registration centres in Rangpur pourasabha.A total of 60,309...
Acting United States (US) Ambassador Geeta Pasi Sunday hosted a party that brought together senior politicians of different hues and business leaders, reports bdnews24.com. One of the leaders said the get-together was intended to introduce two new US diplomats --...
Former premier Khaleda Zia's parliamentary affairs adviser Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury was transferred from Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute (ICHRI) to Kashimpur jail Monday afternoon, reports bdnews24.com.His son Hummam Qader Chowdhury told the news agency that authorities informed the family...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has greeted newly appointed Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura on his appointment, reports UNB."Bangladesh and Japan have always enjoyed strong and friendly relations. I am confident that these bonds will gain strength and...
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed called on President Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban Monday, when post-flood rehabilitation and food-rationing plans were discussed among other issues, reports UNB.The President called for concentrated efforts to make sure that the people can lead a normal...
A tougher competition awaits the students who will seek admission to the public universities as a record number of them has passed this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations under the seven education boards, reports BSS.The pass percentage in the...
The Australian High Commission in Bangladesh will provide over Tk 2.0 million to Save the Children, UK and Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Samity under its Direct Aid Programme 2007-08 for quick distribution of relief to the flood victims of Sirajganj, Gaibandha...
Cancer is no more a killer disease, rather it can be termed a serious disease. Cancer does not mean inevitable death. The media can play an important role in publicity in this connection and journalists should study in-depth and focus...
RANGPUR, Aug 27 (BSS): The government has allocated Tk 158.9 million (Tk 15.89 crore) for post-flood agri-rehabilitation in 10 flood-hit northern districts.Under the programme, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) will help small and marginal farmers recoup their losses in...
SYLHET, Aug 27 (UNB): Four people were killed in separate incidents in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts Friday and Saturday.In Sylhet two minor boys were killed in separate road accidents at South Surma and Comanyganj upazilas Friday and Saturday.In South Surma,...
The World University of Bangladesh (WUB) resumed its academic and official activities from August 26 as per normal schedule.Scheduled exams of the university will take place on and from August 28, according to a revised time table.Orientation of the new...
JOYPURHAT, Aug 27 (UNB): Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized Indian contraband items worth over Tk 1.4 million and arrested two persons from different frontier areas of the district Sunday.The sources of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) said they seized a private...
Nari Unnayan Shakti (NUS), a national organisation for women and children development, organised a workshop with media people at Dhaka Reporters Unity Saturday.Objective of the workshop was sharing experience with the media people on combating sexual abuse and domestic violence...
A man was crushed under the wheels of a passenger bus at Sayedabad bus stand in the city Monday morning, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ratan (40). Police said the Gabtali-bound bus ran over Ratan while he was...
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