FE ReportThe caretaker government (CG) has started to evaluate the donor community's commitment to aid effectiveness, while also harmonising the external assistance regime."We've started the exercise … It's important that the government evaluate the donors' commitment in making aid work...
M Azizur RahmanDecreasing gas supply from some gas fields is forcing closure of a number of electricity generation units and hampering fertiliser production in Chittagong.Power Division sources said generation of at least 150 megawatts (MW) of electricity is being affected...
NARSINGDI, July 14 (UNB): A teacher and 50 students of a local high school in Raipur Upazila under Narsinghdi district were admitted to Sadar Hospital in the area Saturday morning after being affected by an unknown and mysterious disease. School...
After failing to reach a final decision on the 100 MW Chandpur power plant project, the Power Ministry has sought legal opinion of the Law Ministry in this connection, reports UNB.The Power Ministry move would cause further delay in deciding...
NARAYANGANJ, July 14 (UNB): Flour mills at Netaiganj, country's biggest flour-producing hub, are on the verge of coming to a halt following wheat crisis in the wake of its latest price rises.Sources said importers are not showing interest in wheat...
The police Saturday attached some movable property, including two tables, three chairs and two sets of sofa, of Beximco group Chairman Sohel F Rahman following a court order, reports UNB. Sohel along with his detained younger brother Salman F Rahman...
FE Report The country's money changers said Saturday the government should allow them to deal in the currencies of 19 countries where most Bangladeshi expatriates live.Currently, the money changers are allowed to transact three currencies like euro, sterling pound and...
Joe Leahy in Mumbai and Stacy-Marie Ishmael in London, FT Syndication ServiceIndian companies are on track for another active year on London's Alternative Investment Market (Aim) even as one of the country's most prominent bankers cautioned that it should not...
The Chief Adviser's Office (CA) has asked the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to review its imposition of a flat duty on import of all grades of lubricants in the current budget after a similar request from the Energy Ministry,...
Accurate statistics is one of the critical needs for proper planning, be it by the government, the private sector or the individual. Flawed statistics may adversely influence decision making --including vital ones involving expenditure and investment-- leading to undesirable outcome....
Qazi AzadWHEN two diagnosis centers offer radically different opinions on the ailment of a seriously sick patient, the victim's relatives go for the third opinion at an additional cost. Surely, we are in a similar situation.Two individual write-ups on the...
James WilsonA week at a business school should always prove illuminating for the executives who take up such opportunities. So it was for Arthur Francis -- in spite of the fact that most of his weeks are spent the same...
Mostafa AminTHE Dhaka University teachers, who taught and tell us that absolute power corrupts absolutely, have reacted sharply through their association against the government proposed Umbrella Act 2007 for the country's 28 public universities. Their association has branded it as...
THE postal department is gradually losing its attraction. E-mail and Internet and SMS by mobile have become too easy to communicate. In such a situation, the government is beginning to restructure the long-neglected postal department. The restructuring had in fact,...
THERE is a sad but interesting political tale in a parliamentary constituency outside Dhaka. The workers of a particular widely known person used to visit people at their residential addresses in that area to seek votes for him whenever he...
ON having bowed out of office to let his Chancellor of Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to replace him as the British Prime Minister on June 27, Tony Blair has taken up the odd job of a mediator in a region where...
Khan Ferdousour RahmanA passport is a travel document issued by a national government that usually identifies the bearer as a national of the issuing state and requests that the bearer be permitted to enter and pass through other countries. Passports...
Forrest CooksonTHERE is an important ongoing effort to prepare the National Coal Policy. Reports on this activity have "stakeholders" agreeing on a royalty rate in the range of 16-30%; much higher than the current level of 6%. These proposed higher...
Rob BarryIT is no secret that the predominantly African-American Newhall neighbourhood, in south Hamden, grew up on top of a number of toxic dump sites. Children at the old Hamden Middle School on Newhall Street used to be told they...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe military raid on the Lal Masjid compound in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad is over. General Musharraf's government is gloating over the success of the raid styled 'Operation Silence' since, it claimed, civilian casualties could be kept to a...
Taslima Hossain Shikha Ayan, an O level student, is a regular smoker. His looks have lost charm. He looks older than his age of 17. Black spots on his teeth, lips and below the eyes have compounded his ugliness. Ayan...
Lucy Hornby and Vivi LinAn elderly Japanese swordmaker painstakingly forges his final masterpiece in the opening sequence of "Yasukuni", Chinese documentary filmmaker Li Ying's exploration of a controversial Tokyo shrine.The enigmatic swordmaker, Naoharu Kariya, is the last craftsman at a...
Enayet RasulThe reconstituted caretaker government has been in power for the last six months . Every day, prior to the takeover by this government, people in Bangladesh woke up from sleep in the morning with anxieties and worries filling their...
Shikder Sohana Ferdoush Nigar Nazneen, who works at a car company, is a regular borrower of books from Biswa Sahitya Kendra library in Dhaka. It has become a habit for her to visit the library on her way back home...
Simon GardnerFirst there is a blazing back-flash, then a thunderous explosion -- squeezing the trigger of his rocket-propelled grenade launcher, Tamil Tiger fighter S. Kadalarasan imagines future kills.Lying in a 'foxhole' during a practice assault where Tiger fighters learn jungle...
FE ReportThe interim government has asked the World Bank to process a transitional budgetary support credit, which it requires to fund the country's deficit financing in fiscal 2007-08. "We've requested the bank to prepare groundwork for processing the interim budget...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government, ending a long wait of fourteen months, is going to announce this week the fate of Indian business conglomerate Tata's $3.0 billion revised investment proposals excepting the one involving the Barapukuria coalmine."We will let them know our decision...
FE Report The growth of Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to remain around 6.5-7.0 per cent over the medium term, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.The growth will be led by an expected higher agriculture production again in...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan have little difference over reforms in the party, Joint Secretary General Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said Friday, reports bdnews24.com."Both the chairperson and the secretary general want reforms to take place and...
S M JahangirThe government has taken up step to carry out a detailed financial assessment of the newly corporatised Bangladesh Airlines to help initiate the necessary corrective measures for turning the national flag carrier into a viable entity.Simultaneously, a comprehensive...
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