FE Report The auction of treasury bills (T-bills) will be held today (Sunday) in the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to borrow net Tk 72.53 billion from banking system by the government during fiscal 2007-08. The central bank has already issued the...
FE Report All commercial banks remained open Saturday, the last working day of the current fiscal, to facilitate government transactions, including revenue collection.Clearing house and related departments of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) also functioned to facilitate the banking activities across...
BAGERHAT, June 30 (UNB): Some 40 fishermen went missing as 14 trawlers capsized in the Bay since Friday noon until early Saturday amid inclement weather.Sources said the 14 trawlers with 155 fishermen were overturned during the period by squalls triggered...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government will soon invite the authority concerned of Australia to visit Bangladesh to explore the possibility of manpower recruitment, sources said.Besides, the government is also planning to invite authorities concerned of some European, North American and Scandinavian countries, which...
Date of N Korean reactor closure depends on six-party talks A UN nuclear inspector says the date when North Korea shuts down it nuclear reactor depends on discussions between Pyongyang and five other countries that signed a disarmament agreement, reports...
BANDARBAN, June 30 (UNB): DANIDA project officer Hossain Shahid Sumon kidnapped by tribal miscreants six days ago has been located and his rescue is now a matter of time, claimed law enforcing agencies Saturday."The miscreants are now in Jinnahpara, Hindumukh...
The caretaker government is likely to invite international tenders in July for setting up three large independent power producer (IPP) plants, each with 450 megawatt (MW) capacity, reports UNB. The proposed plants, with about 1,350 MW total capacity, are 450...
FE ReportSpeakers at a roundtable discussion Saturday urged the government to continue the drive against corruption without creating panic among the businessmen for maintaining the sustainable economic growth.The participants said even small traders should not be panicky due to ongoing...
Seven more districts are going to come under the mobile phone network of Warid Telecom, raising the number of districts Warid brought under its coverage to 42 from 35, reports UNB. The new districts to be brought under the network...
Two reports released late last week highlighted the problem of fast urbanization in Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated countries. While releasing the State of the World Population 2007, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in...
Shahiduzzaman Khan writesBiogas, an alternative to conventional fuel oil or wood, is being increasingly used in Bangladesh. It is being used for cooking and other household purposes in mostly rural areas of the country. The consumers are now using it...
Wolfgang Munchau"Competition as an ideology, as a dogma, what has it done for Europe? Fewer and fewer people who vote in European elections and fewer and fewer people who believe in Europe."Nicolas Sarkozy at the recent EU summitAs European Union...
M M AhmedTHE rivers that flow through and past Dhaka city are in extremely burdened conditions from the carefree discharge of all forms of untreated effluents in them. Recent newspaper photos highlighted prominently the very degraded water quality of these...
A fair election commission(EC) is the prerequisite for a free and fair election. These incidents point to the fact that since 1991, results of all the national elections were rejected by the losing party alleging that those were rigged. The...
Qazi AzadIT was interesting to hear newly appointed Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman Dr. Sadat Hossain answering some difficult questions in an interview programme of a local TV channel last Monday. He could not come up with satisfactory answers to...
Sundeep TuckerPROTECTIONIST legislation and management culture are the most serious obstacles to continuing growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a survey published recently.More than 80 per cent of senior executives of major companies...
Shamsuddin AhmedEVENTS of the past should be recalled by any serious nation in order to avoid repeating mistakes. Let us recall some such events here. An official move was made during the tenure of the first BNP government after 1990...
It is delightful to see the new website of the Financial Express. The design and information now being provided in the site are noteworthy and appreciable. Particularly, the initiative to let the visitors of the FE on the web to...
EVEN coarse rice is now selling unthinkably at Taka 22-24 per kg. The prices of such varieties of rice were between Taka 16-18 last year. Thus, the hardships of poor people know no bounds.It is well known that the price...
The trend of early marriage , specially of females, is still found to be strong among the rural people in Bangladesh in a situation where the population of the country remain preponderantly rural. The greater number in the population consider...
Pradeep S Mehta and V. V. Singh GOOD intentions of the government in pushing reforms anywhere are often thwarted by vested interests. Thus any policy to be adopted for accelerating growth must concomitantly identify the opposition, their concerns and solutions.The...
Shireen Scheik MainuddinEQUITY capital that is made available to companies or investors, but not quoted on a stock market is termed private equity. More accurately, private equity refers to the manner in which the funds have been raised, namely on...
Emad Mekay from WashingtonThe United States and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are joining forces to coax Asian nations to switch to cleaner forms of energy, in hopes of averting a predicted spike in carbon emissions by the world's fastest-growing...
Talwa J Ahmad from the UKTHE 250th anniversary of the Battle of Palashi which saw the fall of the last Independent Nawab of Bengal, Siraj Ud Daula and the beginning of British occupation of India passed off on June 23...
Enayet RasulEmployment creation needs to be a very important objective in every economy for the simple reasons that unemployed persons pose a burden at every level in society. First of all, they are burdens on their families. Unemployed ones eligible...
Michael Hierholzer Mr. Hollein, does the museum at the beginning of the 21st century have duties that go beyond the three traditional areas of activity - collecting, conserving, educating?Those continue to be the fundamental duties of the museum. However, education...
Ashrafi Ferdousy BithiFuneral is an occasion when friends and foes get together. But it did not happen so when Sonia died because she was a sex worker. Even her fellowmen in Faridpur had to wait for three days to secure...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe ideologies of democracy, socialism, communism, or even the ideology of the welfare society aim to serve society, or in other words, all the people taken together. The various institutions humans have created to look after the welfare...
Barbara LewisThe discovery of five murdered female sex workers in Ipswitch, eastern England, triggered not only a massive police investigation, but also renewed debate on the nation's attitude towards women who earn their living by selling sex and the need...
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