FE ReportBRAC, the largest non-governmental organisation (NGO), has started an agricultural research to develop a paddy that can be grown in a short period and in varied conditions, its top official said."We're mainly focusing on development of seeds that will...
The country's apex trade body has said the businesses urged former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to sit together for the sake of business, reports bdnews24.com."I think he (Syed Ashraful Islam) is right. Businesspersons should do business and...
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 25 (AP): Pakistan's army says its troops fired warning shots when two helicopters crossed the Afghan border and that the helicopters returned fire before re-crossing the frontier.The US-led coalition has confirmed that its helicopters were fired on Thursday,...
Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury called upon Commonwealth countries to focus on ensuring food security for its citizens, reports UNB .He said this while addressing the Special Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (SCHOGM), held at the United Nations Headquarters Wednesday...
Thirty-one more corrupt persons have applied to the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) for referring their names to the Truth and Accountability Commission (TAC) for clemency in return for their ill-gotten money to avert getting caught on the dragnet under the anti-graft...
The Election Commission (EC) is readying over 40,000 polling centres countrywide, ahead of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) and Upazila polls in December, with some 4,000 'political stronghold' centres facing dissolution and replacement, say election officials, reports bdnews24.com.Of the total number, an...
The Truth and Accountability Commission (Tac) Thursday heard pleas of 10 corrupt individuals who have applied for clemency in return for their ill-gotten wealth, reports UNB.Tac sources said those heard Thursday were employees of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and...
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) advisory council member M Kamruzzaman passed away at the city's Central Hospital Thursday evening. He was 80, reports UNB.M Kamruzzaman, a great organiser of the 1971 liberation war, had long been suffering from old age complications,...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) advised people Thursday to remain alert about consuming three China-produced powder milk - Iasli-1 and 2, and Baby Sweet - as these products had already been banned in China in the wake of melamine...
Our CorrespondentFARIDPUR, Sept 25: The Boro paddy procurement drive has totally failed in Faridpur.Only one per cent of the target had been achieved till the closure of the 135-day long drive on August 31 last, sources said.Mr Abdur Razzak, district...
FE ReportNational Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) has urged the authorities to keep the banks open on Saturday and Sunday to help the garments workers draw their salaries.In a statement Thursday, NGWF president Sahida Sarker and general secretary Amirul Haque Amin...
BRAC chairperson Fazle Hasan Abed has received David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award 2008 for his innovative activities to empower the poor and help them secure human rights, reports bdnews24.com.A statement from the world's largest NGO Thursday said David Rockefeller handed...
FE Report The government of Bangladesh and UNICEF Thursday held the Mid-Term Review of the Country Programme of Cooperation for Bangladeshi Children and Women covering five-year period from 2006 to 2010. The overall aim of the programme is the progressive...
FARIDPUR, Sept 25 (UNB): Two "notorious terrors" condemned for the killing of a journalist and a student leader were killed in an encounter with tough-going RAB crime-combatants in the town early Thursday.The deceased were identified as Babu Kosai (40), and...
A foreign national, who recently took a room at a city hotel, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Thursday, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Khalicho (26), a Nigerian citizen.DMCH sources said Khalicho had rented room no. 207...
The offices of the American embassy, including the Public Affairs Section, the Archer K Blood American Centre Library, and the Student Advising Centre will remain closed on September 28 on the occasion of holy Shab-e- Qadr, BSS reports.
Today is the 1st death anniversary of Rafiqul Islam Khan, former Managing Director of National Bank Limited. He died last year on this day while he was on a visit to India, said a press release.A milad mahfil has been...
FE ReportAtanu Kumar Nath has obtained PhD in 'E Commerce' from Luleo University, Sweden recently. The title of his thesis was "A trust privacy model of customers' willingness to be profiled and to transact online: theoretical model and empirical estimation."...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is coveted by the developing countries like Bangladesh for understandable reasons; their investments from domestic sources are found to be insufficient to meet their needs of high economic growth, to create enough jobs and incomes for...
Jahangir Bin AlamInvestment, both domestic and foreign, is vital for economic development of a country, irrespective of its development status. It is more so for a developing country like Bangladesh. Investment and development are interdependent phenomena. One cannot flourish in...
Amirul IslamALL of these factors point to the need for the country to increasingly encourage enterprises with an essentially export dimension or an export-led economic growth strategy to take care of its needs of resource earnings, employment and income. The...
Md ShahiduzzamanTAKA six lakh and 24 thousand were snatched from businessmen in a span of six hours in Dhaka city in four separate incidents in a single day early this month. Four businessmen suffered bullet injuries from the muggers in...
On April 20, the daily Prothom Alo published an advertisement of the ministry of education inviting applications from interested candidates for appointment of vice-chancellors of seven public universities in Bangladesh. Another advertisement was published in the Daily Star of August...
THE government deserves appreciation for approving, at long last, the right to information ordinance. This law was demanded for long in the interest of good governance in the country. But the political governments had only been evasive in this regard.So...
Transport fares go up during Eid. Some dishonest persons are involved in it. On the day before the Eid, the passengers are compelled to pay excessive fares. Such harassment of the passengers must be stopped.Habibur Rashid Ismail Jamea Rahmania Fadil...
Jorge HeineThe collapse of the Doha Round, the first post World War II multilateral trade round has brought to the fore the issues that need to be moved forward for trade liberalisation. This has coincided with the publication of an...
Mohammad A SattarTHE question that disturbs many now is whether Bangladesh would revert to the past politics of irresponsible utterances and erratic conduct of leaders. Many of them tend to forget that it is the responsibility of the politicians to...
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters): Congress looked close to reaching a deal to approve a $700 billion plan to bail out the US financial system and President George W Bush called an emergency meeting for Thursday to hammer out details.The move...
TOKYO, Sept 25 (AFP): Japan reported today its first trade deficit in seven months as exports to the United States plunged, dousing hopes of a quick recovery in Asia's largest economy. The gloomy data added to fears of a recession...
FRANKFURT, Sept 25 (Internet): The European Central Bank (ECB) renewed Thursday its offer of 40 billion dollars (27 billion euros) in one-day loans, it said in a statement.The ECB and the US Federal Reserve have established a currency swap to...
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