EVER since the creation of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Railway (BR) was treated in a step-motherly way. Nearly 85 per cent of the public development budget in the transportation sector was spent on developing the road networks. This fund denial for...
THE weekly public holiday on Friday should be unchanged in the greatest interest of the people. I think people in general in Bangladesh would support my proposal.Habibur Rashid IsmailJamea Rahmania Fadil MadrasahChoitenyar Hat, Chittagong
FOOD sellers are reportedly using poisonous chemicals in food items to make them more attractive and saleable. This is a crime that goes on unabated, despite sporadic drives against its perpetrators by mobile courts.Mixing harmful colours in food items has...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid In the last decade, mobile telecommunication networks have grown rapidly in Bangladesh. As of July 2008, there are approximately 44 million subscribers of mobile phones, which roughly represent a penetration rate of 30 per cent. At this...
Billy Ahmed There are many reasons why bottled water is bad. The problem lies in the water it uses for bottling as well as in the fact that tap water used by many fresh water bottlers must meet more rigorous...
Jorge HeineAt a dinner party a few days ago a columnist and former diplomat asked me, --Has Chile joined the Left-ward trend in Latin America?" I replied, "Chile has been ruled by a Centre-Left coalition for 17 years, and its...
Dr. Mohammed HossainAN article on the above-captioned issue was published by the Canadian Journal of Political Science 23 years ago. It presents an interesting reading. Michael M. Atkinson and Maureen Mancuso, two researchers of McMaster University and Oxford University, interviewed...
Syed Fattahul Alim The world is observing the 7th anniversary of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre, Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Had the disaster taken place in any of the major cities...
Simon Cameron-Moore Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri might allow themselves a mirthless smile at the thought of U.S. President George Bush unleashing U.S. commando raids in Pakistan without Islamabad's approval."They'd be gleefully looking at this as a great...
Cris ChinakaZimbabwe's power-sharing deal faces a tough credibility test to determine whether it is enough to kick start the country's emergence from catastrophic economic collapse.President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to share power on Thursday in a...
Enayet RasulThe international conference on climate change specially organized by the British government in cooperation with the Bangladesh government to help the latter to cope with the adverse affects to be faced from global climate change, has started in London...
Shi YongmingOn July 24, North Korea signed the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), marking the strengthened relations between North Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The question now is, how much will North...
Tony HalpinSouth Ossetia has never made any secret of the fact that it wishes to reunite with its ethnic brethren in North Ossetia. It has said this consistently since breaking away from Georgia in the early 1990s - and, given...
Ed DaviesMud tourism is about the only thing that is flourishing in Porong, an East Java suburb that two years ago became a disaster zone when hot volcanic mud began spewing from the site of a gas exploration well.Today, the...
Sanjeev MiglaniThe irony is hard to miss. Just as Pakistan is struggling with the fallout of the first known breach of its territorial sovereignty by U.S. ground troops and all the odium associated with it in a proud nation, India...
Rizal SukmaPeople often say it is natural for relationships between two close neighbours to experience ups and downs. The relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia is no exception. While bilateral relationships are generally good, disputes over a variety of issues occasionally...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe year-on-year turnover of around 255 local drug manufacturers grew nearly 10 per cent in the fiscal year (FY) 2007-08 with top ten companies marketing high quality new products, industry insiders said on Thursday. Of the total sales worth around...
M Azizur RahmanThe country's billion dollars steel sector is now passing through a hard time as local sales dropped significantly despite the price fall of scrap vessels in the international market, traders said.They said the country's steel sector has tremendous...
FE ReportOver 100,000 Bangladeshis are expected to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia by next three months, foreign adviser said Friday."We have come to know that a further 100,000 Bangladeshis will be able to leave Dhaka with jobs for Malaysia...
Kayes M SohelSome 17 Z-category companies out of 28 surveyed by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have been found inoperative for years, putting investments worth millions of Taka at risk.The 17 listed companies raised a total of Tk 540.49 million...
Liquid assets of the scheduled banks stood higher at over Taka 483.81 billion as of end June, 2008, against over Taka 448.40 billion as of end June, 2007, marking a rise by over Taka 35.40 billion or 7.9 per cent,...
BNP standing committee members M Saifur Rahman and Mahbubur Rahman met with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Friday afternoon, reports bdnews24.com. The two leaders, known as 'reformists', went to Khaleda's Shaheed Moinul Road residence in the city at 4:00pm to meet...
BNP leader Hafizuddin Ahmed, in a dramatic U-turn within 24 hours of the release of party chief Khaleda Zia, has announced that he accepts Khandaker Delwar Hossain as the secretary general of the party, reports bdnews24.com. He told the news...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's date market is worth Tk 2.0 billion with the consumption gradually increasing in both urban and rural areas, importers told the FE Friday.Bangladesh imports around 40,000 tonnes of date annually of which more than 90...
Harvey Morris at the United NationsFT Syndication ServiceDespite almost a decade of intensified international efforts to improve the lives of the world's most disadvantaged, the number of those living in extreme poverty is on the rise in the poorest regions,...
HOUSTON, Sept 12: A sprawling and strengthening Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico Friday on a track toward the nation's fourth-largest city, where authorities told residents to brace rather than flee. Ike's 105-mph winds and potential 50-foot waves...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 12: Rajshahi University (RU) will reopen on October 12 after it remained closed for 53 days following a clash between students and residents of nearby Binodpur area. Residential halls, however, would be opened on October 11. The decision...
Mahmuda ShaolinThe Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) will start providing passport processing services from tomorrow (Sunday) in the capital to help ease the trouble that the applicants have to undergo to obtain the travel document."The government has permanently engaged the post...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed has said there is no doubt that the stalled general election will be held on schedule, reports UNB. "I'm optimistic and confident. The election will be held right on schedule," he said in an...
FE ReportThe government will start negotiating with the World Bank (WB) on September 17 for a $355 million loan to finance an integrated energy and power sector development project in Bangladesh, an official said Friday."We'll sit with WB on September...
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