FakhruddinChief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed said Wednesday the stalemate over announcing the 6th Wage Board award for the news industry will be resolved, reports UNB.Fakhruddin said this when a delegation of journalists' united forum met him and apprised about the state...
Refayet Ullah MirdhaSmall investors in the stock market are at risk of incurring huge losses due to the delay in signing of the final deal for handover of ownership of the largely state-owned Rupali Bank to Saudi prince Bandar Bin...
Krishna Guha, FT Syndication Service WASHINGTON:Governance has improved significantly in Serbia, Algeria, Tajikistan and Rwanda since 1998, but Thailand and Argentina have fallen back on several key measures, according to a World Bank report published on Tuesday.The Governance Indicators report...
FE ReportA project for enhancing governance and capacity of the country's insurance sector through re-drafting of the laws and by-laws relating to the insurance companies has been initiated recently. Manila-based donor agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) is financing the project...
Sarwar ZahanCooking and cleaning are to become more expensive in coming days because of global shortages of raw materials for cooking oil, margarine and soap, importer and business sources said."Consumers are already burdened with escalating grocery bills, and might have...
FE Report The FBCCI Reform Implementation Council (FBCCI-RIC) Wednesday said it wants direct elections for the posts of president, vice presidents and directors to bring transparency in the country's chamber body. The leaders of the FBCCI-RIC said this at a...
FE ReportThe US dollar was steady against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Wednesday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with stable demand for the greenback, fund managers said.Increased supply of dollar kept the greenback steady with slight upward bias.The exchange rate...
FE ReportStock prices of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rally for the second consecutive day amid a hefty turnover and market capitalisation Wednesday.Market operators said the stock market is gaining momentum because of investors' confidence and hopes of...
Senior Awami League (AL) leader Abdul Hamid said Wednesday party president Sheikh Hasina cannot take unilateral decision on reforms, report agencies. The former Jatiya Sangsad speaker told reporters at a briefing in his NAM flat that the council would finalise...
Anticorruption Commission chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury has said the anti-graft net will widen far beyond politicians to capture all sorts of corrupt people.
Former communications minister Nazmul Huda, a barrister, Wednesday quizzed the witnesses in the trial of a Tk 2.4 crore extortion case against himself and his wife, Sigma.
Antara Huda, one of the two daughters of former BNP minister Nazmul Huda, Wednesday threatened a police officer with dire consequences in the special judge's court at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
THE prices of essential commodities have been shooting up without let up for too long. Successive governments have tried in vain to arrest the soaring prices. But without success. The intransigence of the upward spiral of commodities prices has confounded...
Qazi AzadTHE sudden imposition of ban on Hilsa fish export for ensuring an abundant domestic supply and driving its exorbitant local price down was not seemingly fair. Although the item is non-agricultural, as a food product it has some proximity...
Rebecca Knight WHEN greeting a new Japanese client for the first time, how should you present your business card? When a Russian colleague asks you to give a toast after the second round of dinner drinks, what exactly should you...
Muhammad IshaqTHE government or the Privatisation Commission should not any more pursue the Saudi prince for the sale of the state-owned Rupali Bank to him. The apparent ebb-tide in his interest in buying the bank, marked by the placement of...
IT was published in different newspapers that the Local Government Ministry would construct a four-lane aesthetically attractive bridge connecting Banani Road # 11 with Gulshan Road # 41 over Banani Gulshan Lake to ease out traffic congestion at Road #...
IN the recent days, law and order situation has deteriorated. There has been an increase of incidents like robbery, snatching etc., in the capital city. A number of robbery cases in broad daylight and snatchings done at places nearby police...
Farid HossainTHE 11th day of this July marks the 50th anniversary of the Aga Khan's becoming the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Ismailies all over the world, including those in Bangladesh, are celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the Aga...
Barin Masoud from New YorkTwo U.S. corporations that have operated in Colombia -- Chiquita Brands International and Drummond Company Inc. -- stand accused of aiding far-right paramilitary groups with alleged ties to the Colombian government.They are facing charges in two...
Jim Lobe from WashingtonThe lives and well-being of hundreds of thousands of civilians are threatened by a rising tide of violence and lawlessness in Central African Republic (CAR), according to Amnesty International, which called Tuesday for the immediate deployment of...
Antoaneta Bezlova from BeijingThat 'Nanking', the powerful new United States documentary on the rape of the city of that name, has been approved for domestic screening in China reveals the fact that the ghosts of the gruesome events 70 years...
Eighteen shortlisted firms were announced in June from São Paulo, Brazil in Living Steel's 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing. One of the largest architectural design initiatives in the world, the competition was designed by Living Steel to inspire...
Thanks to global warming, nuclear energy is hot again. Its promise of abundant, carbon emissions-free power is being pushed by the president and newly considered by environmentalists. But any expansion won't come cheap or easy.The enormous obstacles facing nuclear power...
FE Report Tracing the history and evolution of the bathtubs can be quite interesting.>From time immemorial bathing in tubs has been considered more than cleansing the body. Ancient healers used tubs to reduce the symptoms of illness and pain induced...
Lucia DoreThe use of pre-cast building systems over conventional construction methods could see construction costs in the UAE fall significantly as well as relieving bottlenecks within a tight construction industry.An entire pre-cast build can save developers at least 40 per...
ISLAMABAD, (Pakistan) July 10: (Agencies) Pakistani troops raided Islamabad's Red Mosque Tuesday and attempted to flush out the remaining militants entrenched inside a women's religious school in fierce fighting that left at least 50 militants and eight soldiers dead, the...
KABUL, (Afghanistan) July 10 (AFP): A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a crowded marketplace in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, killing 17 civilians, officials saidAt least 30 people were among the wounded, including seven Western soldiers, officials said.The attack -...
BAGHDAD, July 10 (AFP): Sunni extremists attacked an isolated village northwest of Baghdad in a fierce battle with residents that reportedly left dozens dead, the deputy governor of Iraq's Diyala province said Tuesday. Residents of the village of Sherween called...
WASHINGTON, July 10 (AFP): A "western" diet heavy on red meat, starches and sweets is linked to a rise in breast cancer among post-menopausal Chinese woman, according to a study by US and Chinese researchers released Tuesday. Examining data and...
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