Maswood Alam KhanLAST Thursday leaders of the world's Muslim states while attending in Dhakar, the Senegalese capital, the triennial convention of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), vehemently criticised a burgeoning trend of "Islamophobia" in the West. Delegates of the...
Dr. M. Mizanur RahmanIslamic banking practices which started in early 1970s on a modest scale, has made tremendous progress during the last 35 years. A number of Islamic banks have been established during this period under heterogeneous social and economic...
The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has concluded its 11th Summit in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. The motto of the just concluded OIC Summit was 'Islam in the 21st century'. The theme of the present summit has its...
Shamsul Huq ZahidFOLLOWING the proclamation of the state of emergency by the incumbent caretaker administration in January last year, the law and order situation turned better than anytime before. But in recent months, there has been a marked deterioration in...
Amirul IslamIT would be irrational to raise tariffs across the board on some imported commodities the next year's budget. These tariffs have been high in the present fiscal year despite imploring by business bodies that the same should be lowered...
John KayTHE news that Warren Buffett is now the world's richest man led to the predictable round of stories about his frugal habits - the cherry Coke, the well-done steaks and the bungalow in Omaha that has been home for...
ROAD traffic in of Dhaka is far from satisfactory. The roads have become stagnant. The traffic authorities don't know exactly how many vehicles should ply on the city roads. The roads are proving to be totally inadequate to meet the...
BANKING in the context of Bangladesh, cannot be entirely divorced from the needs of extending its services in the neglected rural areas. Besides, while mobilising resources from the rural areas -- where the country's vast majority of population live --...
THE regulatory commission, set up by the government, to update regulations, should be able to draw expertise from different available sources. The composition of the commission indicates that it would need the services of specialists. Most of its current members,...
BEIJING, Mar 16 (AFP): Police opened fire on Tibetan protesters as anti-Chinese rallies spread outside of Lhasa Sunday, a witness and activists said, amid warnings from the Dalai Lama of a "rule of terror" in his homeland. The fresh outbreak...
TEHRAN, Mar 16 (Reuters): Conservatives were set to keep their hold on Iran's parliament, early election results showed, but the legislature may still give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a harder time ahead of next year's presidency poll. Conservatives have taken 120...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 16 (AFP): Islamist militants behind a wave of recent attacks in Pakistan have changed tactics to target foreigners, officials said Sunday, after a bomb at an Islamabad restaurant killed a Turkish woman. The Turkish aid worker died and...
MAKUHARI, Mar 16 (AFP): The world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters agreed Sunday to work together to draft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol but rich and developing nations remained divided on their roles. Envoys from the 20 countries, which...
PARIS, Mar 16 (AFP): France went to polls Sunday for the final round of local elections that look set to inflict heavy losses to President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party as the left vies for control of the top four cities....
JAKARTA, Mar 16 (Reuters): About 500 Indonesian Muslims took to the streets of the capital to demand the government bring down food prices after media reports of cases of starvation. The protesters, from the Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, marched...
PATTANI, Mar 16 (Reuters): Bombs killed two men and wounded 18 people in two separate attacks in Thailand's troubled Muslim deep south, police said Sunday. A 20-kg (44 lb) remote-controlled bomb, hidden in a car near the entrance of a...
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (AFP): With a global credit crisis mushrooming and financial market turmoil unabated, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce another hefty rate cut Tuesday to help confidence and liquidity. Even after new efforts to pump liquidity into...
BANGKOK, Mar 16 (AFP): Thai jewellers are buying highly coveted rubies and jade at an official auction this week in Myanmar, which supplies stones for the kingdom's booming, multi-billion-dollar jewelry industry. But once they cut and set the gems, they...
NEW DELHI, (Internet): The civil aviation ministry has termed the imminent strike by the employees of Air India (AI) on March 18 "illegal."The joint action committee (JAC), which comprises eight employee unions including Indian Airlines Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) and...
HONG KONG, March 16 (AFP): Asian currencies ended the week mostly higher against the dollar on fears the United States is headed for a recession, with the Federal Reserve expected to cut interest rates at its meeting Tuesday. JAPANESE YEN:...
SINGAPORE, March 16 (AFP): Runaway oil prices, rocketing food costs and a feeble US economy will hurt Asia- Pacific economic growth prospects this year and create social problems especially among the poor, analysts said. Oil touched unchartered territory at 111.00...
The Supreme Court on Sunday censured government law officers, including the Attorney General, for staying away from the court at the start of an important case that would decide the fate of a great lot of other cases under the...
Du CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) students demanded reasonable rearrangement of the existing quota system in government services before issuing application form for the 28th Bangladesh Civil Service examination on March 30."We urge the government to reach a decision about rearrangement of...
Awami League (AL) has chalked out a two-day programme marking the birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB.The programme begins today (Monday) with hoisting of national and party flags atop all party offices across the country at about...
CHITTAGONG, March 16 (bdnews24.com): Adviser CS Karim urged the nation's industries Saturday to build up and make use of a local knowledge base. He said that industrial entrepreneurs were hiring less meritorious experts from abroad to solve the problems faced...
FE Report The government borrowed Tk 9.00 billion (900 crore) Sunday through auctions of treasury bills. It will result in withdrawal of Tk 9.00 billion from the market in the week.The central bank conducted auctions of 28-day, 91-day and 182-day...
BRAHMANBARIA, Mar 16: The officials and employees of customs, excise and VAT (value added tax) departments of Brahmanbaria district realized Tk 74.40 million (Tk 7.44 crore) as revenue during the period from July, 2007 to January this year, official sources...
FE ReportHer Majesty The Queen officially opened Friday British Airways' exclusive new £ 4.3 billion home Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, according to a press release.Built on time and on budget by airport operator BAA, the new terminal will open for...
Our CorrespondentChittagong, March 15: Two top businessmen of Chittagong exchanged their views with the members of the press at Chittagong Press Club recently.Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) President Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and Badsha Shilpa Gosthy Managing Director Isha Badsha...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Mar 15: Tax Ombudsman Khairuzzaman Chowdhury has said, tax-related cases will be resolved in the district headquarters and the people will not need to visit Dhaka for any hearing of the tax related cases. However, he mentioned, only...
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