Adviser for Women and Children Affairs Rasheda K Chowdhury stressed the need for improving the standard of Bangladeshi handicraft products to get an easier access to the global market.brThe adviser said this after inaugurating a six-day Fifth Women Entrepreneur Trade...
The government is pledge-bound to rehabilitate the children engaged in hazardous work.brAdviser for Labour and Employment M Anwarul Iqbal said this while speaking at a meeting arranged for strengthening the credit distribution programme under the Child Labour Eradication Project (2nd...
SYLHET, Sept 7 (UNB) An Imam of a mosque was killed and 23 others, including a journalist, were injured in separate road accidents here Friday night.brImam Moulana Abdul Jalil (40) died on the spot and three others were injured when...
DU CorrespondentbrDhaka University (DU) set up a cyber centre in its central library with 27 computers costing Tk 1.6 million from the university's own fund.brWe have launched the centre to keep our teachers, students, researchers, officials and employees updated with...
KUTUBDIAPARA, Bangladesh, Sept 7 (AFP) Jafar Alam hammers a nail into a rickety wooden boat, repairing the vessel that will help his family earn a living.brAlthough the fisherman depends on the ocean for his livelihood, he has mixed feelings about...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a midnight raid in a mess of the city's Mirpur area detained four suspects for their involvement in recent hacking of its website, reports UNB.brInformed sources said main suspect Shahee Mirza and three others were...
COMILLA, Sept 7 (UNB) Elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested three people along with fake currency notes and 100 bottles of Phensidyl syrup in the district Saturday.brTipped off, RAB members raided a hotel in Laksam Upazila...
FE ReportbrThe caretaker government Sunday conditionally eased trade union activities across the country, allowing labour groups to hold rallies indoors with a maximum crowd of five hundred people, a home ministry order said.brUnions in factories, commercial organisations and ports have...
M Azizur RahmanbrWeeks after dropping its extensive exploration programme in Magnama and Hatiya structures in the offshore, the UK-based Cairn Energy has now decided for a well work-over plan in the operational Sangu gas field.brWe have recently submitted an investment...
Shakhawat Hossain brThe Chief Adviser's Office (CAO) in a letter has asked the Ministry of Finance and the Energy Division to look into certain costs before fixing prices of petroleum products for the local market, ministry officials said Sunday.br'I suggest...
Bangladesh wants rich nations to pay the billions of dollars it says it needs to help fight the effects of climate change because they are the biggest environmental culprits, reports Shafiq Alam of AFP from Dhaka. brThe impoverished South Asian...
Siddique Islam brThe Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked 11 commercial banks and development financial institutions (DFIs) to inform details about the steps taken to reduce their non-performing loans (NPL) immediately. brThe banks have been selected on the basis of the...
FE ReportbrDhaka stocks gained Sunday led by insurance, power and energy issues, with significant increase in the turnover.brThe total turnover led by Titas Gas and Beximco Ltd increased to Tk 3.04 billion against previous day's Tk 2.36 billion with the...
BNP has skipped Sunday's scheduled dialogue with the Election Commission (EC) on party registration, saying that such talks would not be fruitful keeping other newly-framed 'unconstitutional' laws and rules in force, reports UNB.brIn a letter delivered to the EC, BNP...
Tarique Rahman applied for a UK visa Sunday. Process of the visa application has started, Tarique's lawyer advocate Ahmed Azam Khan told bdnews24.com at the British High Commission at Gulshan. Tarique's wife Zobaida Rahman and daughter Zaima Rahman have also...
Though belated, the government has realised the need for giving a real thrust on efforts for developing skill of the country's workforce, particularly of those who are interested in taking up jobs abroad. It has, thus, decided to create a...
Shahiduzzaman KhanbrThe commerce ministry was reportedly surprised at the reports that prices of some food items had increased so abruptly. Despite hectic preparations and lobbying by the commerce advisers and officials, process of some essential commodities jumped ahead of Ramadan...
Fazle Rashid from New York brThe Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) is in a quandary. The steady fall in the price of petrol has precipitated the emergence of two diametrically opposing views. The petrol price in...
Government can reasonably spend out of borrowings from the financial system if the borrowings are spent on productive activities and the level of the same also remains within safe limits. In that case, such borrowings and their spending can be...
The issues related to early marriage in Bangladesh were discussed at a recent discussion meeting in the city. Participants at there stated that the trend of early marriage, especially of females, was still found to be strong among the rural...
Every year, the two Eid festivals bring both joy as well as apprehension for the people. There is no need to explain what joy we get. On these big occasions, people get together with their near and dear ones, take...
Jitesh Arora brRing tone related activities, like browsing the net for the choicest ringtones, downloading them and personalizing them in the hand set has reached frenzied levels these days. The present day caller tones come in various types. brCapabilities of...
FE reportbrThree leading private universities in Bangladesh – American International University of Bangladesh (AIUB), BRAC University (BRAC), and Daffodil International University (DIU) – will integrate the Oracle Academy into their computer science programmes.brAs a result, more than 400 students from...
Marguerite ReardonbrRingback tones, those songs that play on the line while you wait for someone to pick up, are music to the ears wireless operators. And the tune is only going to get sweeter, according to a new report last...
Mobile phone, one of the world’s most popular electronic gadgets, has changed the way we communicate. It made our world seems small. In U.S. alone there are more than a hundred million cellphone users, this open up a new Industry,...
Gartner Inc has reported that worldwide mini-notebook shipments are expected to reach 5.2 million units in 2008 and 8 million units in 2009. As an emerging category of mobile computing devices, the mini-notebooks market is expected to experience strong growth,...
Preston GrallabrGoogle has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft, and it could affect how you use Google's cloud...
Daniel TerdimanbrOne of the biggest selling points of Nintendo's Wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowest-priced of the trio of next-generation machines, which also includes Microsoft's Xbox 360 and...
Ina FriedbrAiming to react quickly to Google's Chrome announcement, Microsoft focused on how Chrome stacks up against Internet Explorer. brThe browser landscape is highly competitive, but people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they...
FE SpecialbrBangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, country's apex hospital university, needs a rapid change in order to survive and hold its image.brThe university located in Dhaka city's busy area Shahbag started its journey in 1998. People had great expectations from...
© 2026 - All Rights with The Financial Express
