WASHINGTON, June 20 (Agencies): The world's population will reach 7 billion in 2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its appetite for natural resources, according to a new government projection.There are 6.7 billion people in the world today....
RAJSHAHI, Jun 20 (BSS): The West Zone of the Bangladesh Railway will implement various development projects at an estimated cost of Tk 26.70 billion (Tk 2,670 crore) in phases.According to the official sources, the projects had been undertaken around 15...
The UK Minister for International Development, Shahid Malik, visited a BRAC primary school located in the Korail slum area of Dhaka city Thursday, as part of a three-day tour to Bangladesh.The minister spent time talking and interacting with the students...
Enayet Rasul | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
The markets in Bangladesh can indeed defy all economic laws and dictums. The simplest of the economic laws says that the more the supplies of a commodity the less would be its price as abundance of the good in the...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Rupali Bank Limited (RBL) Managing Director Md Abdul Hamid Miah stressed the need for extending credits to prospective and viable sectors and for increasing import-export and foreign remittance business of the bank for achieving the targets set by the head...
WASHINGTON, June 20 (AFP): China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Bangladesh have been identified as among the worst violators of refugees' rights in a global survey on the occasion of Friday's World Refugees Day.They joined Iraq, Kenya, Russia, Sudan and Europe...
ACCOUNTING in many areas of business in the country continues to be done in the traditional fashion for which it is nothing more than book-keeping or taking stock of routine expenditures and returns. But modern accounting is much more dynamic....
A cook of BIRDEM Hospital was crushed under the wheels of a bus when the conductor pushed him down on the road in the city's Shahbag area Friday afternoon following bargaining over the bus fare, reports UNB.The deceased was identified...
Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid condemned Friday the announcement of election schedule for four city corporations and nine municipalities, reports UNB."The demand for holding the national election first has become a national demand. The government and the Election...
Jonathan Guthrie and Robin HardingNodding politely, a mechanical doll created by Toshiba founder Hisahige Tanaka totters across a tabletop and offers a visitor a cup of tea at the company's research and development centre near Tokyo. Ingenious and intriguing, the...
Zhang Yanyang | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Some analysts view the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas as a special opportunity while others consider it a stopgap measure for both sides as it is unlikely to halt a collision course. The "tahadiyeh" (Arabic for temporary truce) proposed...
BRUSSELS, June 20 (AFP): EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal Friday.But the document, prepared...
BADEN, Austria, June 20 (AFP): Italian defender Andrea Barzagli was ruled out of the rest of Euro 2008 Thursday after injuring his left knee in training, the Italian Football Federation said Thursday.The 27-year-old VfL Wolfsburg defender - capped 23 times...
MYMENSINGH, June 20 (BSS): A team of the European Union (EU) visited the zonal election office here Thursday evening.They held meeting with Deputy Election Commissioner Mohammad Ekram at his office and discussed matters relating to preparation of the voter list...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Prices of rice and baby food of a brand marked rise while flour prices declined slightly in the past one week at retail shops in the city markets, traders said Friday.During the same period, they said, prices of most other...
SYDNEY, June 20 (AFP): Australian captain Ricky Ponting will deliver the oration at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late cricketing great Don Bradman, Cricket Australia said Friday.Ponting, who is now leading Australia on its...
THERE can be no denying that the current macro-economic stability of Bangladesh stems mainly from its sending out of workers with the overseas jobs in growing number. The country's forex reserve recently surpassed $6.0 billion, thanks to a record number...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) organised a workshop on 'Small and medium enterprises (SME) finance and development' at the BKB head office in the city Wednesday.BKB Managing Director Md Mukter Hussain inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest.ICICI Bank Chief Representative...
Only two international bidders are likely to submit the final bids for the proposed 450MW Bibiyana Power Plant, a priority project of the government, in mid-July next, reports UNB.According to official sources, the Power Cell, which invited the international tenders...
John Gapper | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
LONG-running feuds often go quiet for a while but it takes only one incident to make them flare up again. So it is with the argument between exponents of organic farming and those who prefer technology-intensive, industrialised agriculture.The latest provocation...
CHICAGO, June 20 (AP): Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods' victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory - remarkable."The fact that he had surgery two months ago and seemed...
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said his coalition partner Asif Ali Zardari risks losing popular support after failing to honour an agreement to reinstate judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf, reports Bloomberg."I am disappointed and dismayed that he did...
SATKHIRA, Jun 20 (UNB): Shrimp cultivators in the district incurred huge losses this year due to virus attack in their enclosures and low price of shrimp.About 31,000 tonnes of shrimp were produced in the district and Tk 14 billion (Tk...
Crespo Sebunya | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
The Ugandan government recently announced several regulatory measures for beauty salons. In Kampala, the Ugandan capital, officials visited numerous beauty salons to warn the owners that they now need to follow rules in their business. "We have been told that...
Sarwar Zahan | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate marked fluctuations last week easing gradually over the days with injection of fresh cash. The market experienced a strong demand for cash and the central bank appeared alert to maintain a reasonably stable market, fund...
Awami League has demanded withdrawal of the election schedule of four city corporations and nine municipalities, announced by the Election Commission Friday, reports bdnews24.com.Awami League acting president Zillur Rahman, speaking to reporters at his residence after the EC's announcement, called...
Naim-Ul-Karim | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
A government body set up to monitor the compliance issues in the country's apparel sector has stopped functioning as none, except its chief, is available to work, a senior official said Thursday.The government formed the body--Compliance Monitoring Cell (CMC)--under the...
Vaclav Klaus | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
TEN years have passed since the founding of the European Central Bank (ECB) but it seems as if it was yesterday. This was the last crucial step towards the introduction of the euro, a currency that was adopted by many...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Farmers in Bangladesh who are battling outbreaks of leaf blight and insect pests are now getting expert help from Southeast Asia's first plant disease clinic, co-founded by Robert Wick of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to a Newswise report.The...
Zafar Iqbal | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
LAST year, The World Economic Freedom Index listed Bangladesh in the 143rd place among 157 nations sampled by it. This was notwithstanding the fact that Bangladesh had been fast liberalising its trade and seemed to be a front runner in...
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