THE price, availability and marketing of fertilisers, the vital inputs for the Boro crops in the fields, continue to be a persistent problem. Farmers are in a resentful mood for not getting the fertiliser on visiting the appointed shops or...
Trained or skilled manpower can be exported to earn more foreign currency. But that should be done following a systematic process taking care not to create a shortage of professionals or skilled manpower for the country's needs. There has to...
THE bureaucracy in Bangladesh spawns a great deal of corruption. What would be the institutional checks to it? No doubt, many individuals in the civil services are to be blamed for taking bribes and other immoralities. Institutional checks could restrain...
Enayet RasulAlong and eagerly expected bill is nearing the endorsement stage at the US Congress. Among other things, the aim of this proposed law is to extend quota free and duty free access of goods from the least developed countries...
Tarannum Sobnom At 14 Dulal works at a bus. His job is to shout incessantly to bring in passengers and then struggles to send them into the bus. Locally known as "helper" he has never thought about going to school....
Ishrat FirdousiAccording to BBS report- 2000, 20 percent ultra poor of the country's 14 crore population live below the poverty line. After Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, different government and non-government organisations (NGOs) began carrying out their different poverty alleviation...
Syed Fattahul AlimCharles Darwin was the first of the naturalists to provide a solid ground in favour of the evolutionary idea on the development of the animal kingdom. Earlier, the secular and scientific notions on the evolution of life had...
Rifat Fatima The young men and women sit inside a brightly-lit cafe, their eyes glued to the computer screens. The level of concentration suggests as if they are far from the city's hustle and bustle outside their small cafe, where...
Just as Russia has aggressively increased its economic presence in Armenia, impending presidential elections that have aggravated relations with its neighbouring states have seen the political leadership leaning toward the West. Armenia is perched high in the Caucasus Mountains flanked...
Takashi ShiraishiIn mid-January, the Japan-Mekong Foreign Ministers' Meeting took place in Tokyo, involving Japan as host and the five Southeast Asian nations through which the Mekong River runs: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. In the talks, Japan agreed to...
Makoto Ota The crowds of Vietnamese trying their luck at the casinos that have sprung up in the southeastern border town of Bavet are a tangible example of the widening social divisions in their home country. While some of the...
Japan's closely watched machinery orders fell for the first time in five years in 2007, official data showed Friday, sparking fears that a US slowdown may pull Asia's largest economy down.The data raised renewed concern about Japan's economic recovery, which...
Patrick CollinsonWhen turmoil engulfed stockmarkets in London and Wall Street in January, it turned to panic outside Jeejebhoy Towers, India's stock exchange. The Mumbai market fell faster than at any time in its history, dropping 10 per cent in a...
Richard DuncanIt is clear from Alan Greenspan's autobiography, The Age of Turbulence - chapter 18, "Current Accounts and Debt" - that the former Federal Reserve chairman misunderstood the causes and underestimated the consequences of the extraordinary growth in the US's...
Richard Layard and Iain Vallance A revolution is in the making. For years we have tried to close the skills gap through more and more full-time education. This has worked well for half the population, but for the other half...
Denis MacShaneWill Tony Blair re-enter politics as the European Union's first president? This tantalising idea has been dangled in front of Europe's leaders by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. Immediately, the ancient mariner of EU politics, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, stepped...
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg The findings of the recent US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran have rekindled debate on Iran's nuclear ambitions and on the appropriate international response to its nuclear programme. It must be stated without illusions, however, that a...
Frank Partnoy Last Thursday night, when Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, signed a letter announcing its proposal to acquire Yahoo, he probably knew the markets would punish his company's shares. When bold acquisitions are announced, the acquirer's shares...
Syed Shamsul AlamWHILE economic gains may be sufficient in themselves "assuming a reasonably fair distribution of those gains" to improve conditions in health and education, the opposite tends to happen with transport. Market economies support transport investments and infrastructure that...
Mahmuda BegumThere are one-fifth population in the world living in South Asian region. Poverty is one of the main problem in this region. Most of them earn in here less than a dollar a day. Several studies have shown that...
Mohammad Shahidul IslamGROWING popularity of cricket in Bangladesh can reshape its tourism and hospitality industry. Cricket and style go together. So should the cricket fans and their tours. That cricket boosts tourism can be seen from the instances of the...
Mohammed Ashraf HossainRAPID economic development is a must for generating employment opportunities for a maximum number of the country's existing unemployed or underemployed workforce. This development results from expanded activities in areas of trade, commerce and industry. All production-oriented activities...
FE ReportPrices of some essential commodities including edible oil and sugar have marked rise again while prices of rice and flour remained almost unchanged at the retail shops in city markets during the last one week, market operators said.In the...
FE ReportHong Kong-based Chinese investors will set up two textile industries at the Dhaka Export Processing Zone with an investment of US$ 105 million.The one hundred per cent foreign owned companies, Goldex Limited and Queen South Textile Mills Limited, will...
FE ReportBRAC Bank Limited has officially inaugurated its Dohar branch in Dhaka district recently. BRAC Bank Director Muhammad A (Rumee) Ali formally inaugurated the branch.Deputy Managing Director and CEO Kaiser Tamiz Amin, Head of Retail Banking Zabed Amin, Head of...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate eased last week because of improvement in liquidity position that evidently neutralised withdrawal of cash from the market through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo) and treasury bills, fund managers said.The market experienced pressure...
FE ReportThe Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has declared Net Asset Value (NAV) of its two unit funds and re-fixed their sale and repurchase prices.The total Net Asset Value (NAV) of ICB AMCL Unit Fund stood at Tk 60,85,29,663.60 on...
Commercial Bank of CeylonFebruary 10 - February 14, 2008US dollar lost its value against Bangladesh taka as the local foreign exchange market was provided with remarkable support of USD 25 million last Tuesday to facilitate essential commodity payments. Last week's...
FE ReportTwo new Singer Plus shops were formally inaugurated at Senbagh in Noakhali and Chhagalnaiya in Feni recently. Singer Bangladesh Ltd Marketing Director Sajidur Rahman Khan formally opened the 236th and 237th Singer Plus shops at Senbagh and Chhagalnaiya respectively....
DEKALB, Illinois, Feb 15 (AP): A former student dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing five students, wounding 16 and setting off...
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