OUR capital city of Dhaka is becoming crowded everyday. One of the main reasons is the rise of private cars. Because of poor public transport system, even the lower middle class families started buying cars. A private study, a reported...
Justine Lau | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
Christopher Cheung first experienced problems with his vision last May. At that time, he thought it had something to do with his eyes, perhaps deteriorating myopia.After a few visits to the doctor, Mr Cheung realised it was actually a brain...
SATKHIRA, Jun 27 (UNB): A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kakdanga border in Kolaroa Upazila Friday morning.The dead was identified as Mithu (30), son of Abdur Razzak, of Gobindakati village in Sadar...
Bolt targets double Olympic goldWorld 100m record holder Usain Bolt believes he can win an individual sprint double at the Beijing Olympics. The 21-year-old will compete in both the 100m and 200m at the Jamaican trials in Kingston this weekend....
COLOMBO, June 27 (AFP): Sri Lankan security forces killed at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh ground battles, the defence ministry said Friday.The rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed in separate clashes on Thursday...
FE Report | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
EXIM Bank Foundation held its 4th executive committee meeting in the city recently. Foundation Chairman Md Nazrul Islam Mazumder presided over the meeting.Secretary General of EXIM Bank Foundation Muhammad Nurul Fazal Bulbul delivered a brief speech on corporate social responsibility...
RANGPUR, Jun 27 (BSS): After attaining huge success in combating Monga (near famine situation) through expanded farming of short duration BRRI Dhan-33, experts of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), have now been cultivating another short-duration variety of paddy BINA Dhan-7 for...
Mark Sherman | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The Supreme Court embraced a personal right under the Constitution to have guns for self-defense. But in its historic examination of the Second Amendment, the justices left unanswered whether gun rights extend beyond the home or how far.The court split...
KHAGRACHHARI, June 27 (UNB): Law Adviser AF Hasan Ariff, his APS, two gunmen and driver were injured in a road accident in Manikchhari Upazila here Friday afternoon.The accident occurred at around 4:45 pm at Mahamoni when the Adviser' s car...
Leslie Crawford in Madrid | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
There are solar panels on the grounds of the Spanish prime minister's 18th century palace, and abstract art on the walls. The rooms are modern, uncluttered and bathed in Madrid's bright morning sunlight."This is the image of Spain we want...
UNITY, (New Hampshire), June 27 (AFP): Senator Hillary Clinton was reaching out with a show of unity in Unity, bestowing a warm endorsement on her Democratic rival, now the party's presumptive White House hope, Barack Obama. The former primary adversaries...
RAJSHAHI, June 27 (BSS): Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque has said political partisan is responsible for journalism without morality.He said freedom, accountability and transparency of the newspapers and journalists should be ascertained for the welfare...
THE High Court (HC) recently gave a ruling making installation of speed governor seals in all modes of motorised vehicles mandatory by March 10, 2009. The HC had also instructed the relevant authorities to publish notices in various newspapers to...
Sri Lanka secured their second big win in two days, this time over UAE, to progress to the second round of the Asia Cup with two points in the bag. Chasing 291, UAE looked like they would make a match...
SYLHET, Jun 27 (UNB): Some 300 bottles of liquor were seized by the police from a boat in Lamanidighir haor under Goainghat Upazila Wednesday afternoon.Acting on a tip-off, a police team of Goainghat thana raided the waterbody and found the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The communist revolution in the first half of the twentieth century followed by the second world war created what was called communist Eastern Europe with Soviet Russia as if its family head. It also marked a kind of political division...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
Only 60 per cent of the annual development programme (ADP) was implemented until May, and the possibility in making any considerable progress is remote as only one month is left in the current fiscal to accomplish the job.The ADP was...
Naim-Ul-Karim | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) will overhaul its six factories at a cost of over Tk 10 billion to produce an additional 0.5 million tonnes of urea fertiliser.The corporation has decided to modernise the factories as the government has raised...
Martin Wolf | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
TWO storms are buffeting the world economy: an inflationary commodity-price storm and a deflationary financial one. Last week I argued that exchange-rate regimes were a link between these distinct events. This week, let us look at how to sail on...
Khurshid Azam | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
THERE are countries which greatly sustain their economy by exporting flowers. Holland, for example, is the world leader in floriculture and export of flowers. There is a big demand for flowers in many resourceful countries which do not grow flowers...
Michael Kavanagh meets Zaher BarakatZaher Barakat grew up in war-tom Lebanon - an experience that made him determined to succeed in business.As peace returned, he witnessed the role played by the World Bank, Unicef and Lebanese ex-patriates in building his...
FE Report | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The government might drop the proposal on imposition of 15 per cent duty on children's pictorial and drawing books in the budget for fiscal 2008-09 following requests from different quarters, official sources said.In his budget speech on June 9, finance...
President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Vetez has commended the progress of Bangladesh in alleviating poverty and micro-credit programmes, saying Bogota would like to benefit from Dhaka's experience, reports BSS.President Uribe said this during an interaction with newly accredited Bangladesh Ambassador...
LONDON, Jun 27 (Reuters) : Oil leapt to a new record high near $142 a barrel Friday, extending gains after surging nearly 4 percent in the previous session, as tumbling global stock markets triggered a wider commodities rally.US light crude...
BAGHDAD, June 27 (Reuters): The Iraqi government is trying to entice back hundreds of doctors who fled the country because of rampant violence and says improved security is already leading some to return. Rasheed al-Nassiri, head of the government's "Committee...
John Kay | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
Some literary journals invite their readers to compete in the invention of new words to describe activities or concepts that have not yet acquired a label. In current markets, what we need is a term for the opposite of a...
Catherine Belton, Neil Buckley and Ed CrooksMIKHAIL Fridman, the baby-faced Russian tycoon, is on the warpath. Inside his loft-like office in the Moscow headquarters of Alfa Bank, Mr Fridman is planning to take on BP, the UK energy group, over...
Convener of Unity for Political Reform (UPR) ASM Abdur Rab asked for Upazila elections to be held by October, at a press conference Friday, saying all local government polls should be held before national elections in December, reports bdnews24.com.People want...
Sarwar Zahan | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate was in an easing mood last week slipping over the days and responding to central bank's intervention. The demand for cash remained strong and the market appeared to possess sufficient liquidity to meet the constant...
FE Report | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to witness downtrend for the second straight week that ended Thursday.The prime bourse opened negatively fearing market cooling measures taken by the DSE but finished positively as the investors went easy.The market barometers --...
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