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...
FE ReportOracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison Wednesday unveiled the HP Oracle Database Machine, a system designed for extreme performance data warehouses through a keynote address to nearly 43,000 OpenWorld attendees in San Francisco.The HP Oracle Database Machine consists of...
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (AP): Government data show the number of new applications for unemployment benefits jumped last week to its highest level in seven years due to the impact of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and a weak economyThe Labour Department...
MANILA, Sept 25 (AFP): The Philippines trade deficit for the first seven months of 2008 soared more than 200 per cent year-on-year on the back of higher oil, rice and steel costs, official data showed today. Figures from the national...
SINGAPORE, Sept 25 (AFP): Oil prices edged higher in Asian trade today as investors worried a stalemate over the US government's bailout plan for the ailing financial system will further damage the economy, dealers said. New York's main contract, light...
FE ReportThis was the last sale of the Holy month of Ramadan where a fair weight of tea was offered but owing to a little less demand from all sections of the market, prices eased slightly resulting in some withdrawals....
SEOUL, Sept 25 (AFP): South Korea has banned the import of all products containing Chinese powdered milk after discovering the harmful chemical melamine in some snacks, officials said today. The Korea Food and Drug Administration said in a statement the...
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (UNB): Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed said Wednesday that his government was carrying out efforts to make business and investment procedures in the country simple and easier as well as introducing online services to this end to...
FE ReportPubali Bank Limited has approved 02 (two) bonus shares for every 05 (five) ordinary shares (40 per cent bonus share) as dividend for its shareholders for the year 2007. The approval came at the 25th annual general meeting (AGM)...
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