Bangladesh is considering to open a mission in Sudan, Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said Wednesday. "Sudan wants Bangladesh to participate in its economic progress," the Foreign Ministry quoted Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Elsamani Elwasila Elsamani as...
Md Ashraful Alim has been appointed chairman (current charge) of Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB). Alim, promoted from board member for maintenance and operation, took up his new assignment Wednesday. Alim joined BTTB as an assistant divisional engineer in...
Biman has leased a Boeing aircraft from the Nigeria-based Kobe Air, bringing its fleet size to 13, officials said. The 582-seater Boeing 747-200 plane was added Wednesday to the national flag carrier's aged fleet to fly mainly on the Middle-East...
FE ReportThe government is expected to raise local fuel prices after the current irrigation season concludes to offset the losses caused by skyrocketing petroleum rates prevailing in the international market and help reduce the subsidy to this sector, said special...
Siddique Islam Prime Bank Limited, a leading private commercial bank, plans to open more branches and diversify its investment portfolios focusing mainly on retail and small and medium enterprises (SMEs)."We have planned to open 12 more branches by the end...
Syed Ishtiaque Reza Export of pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh declined marginally to US$ 35 million in 2007 from US$ 39.46 million in 2007 due to exchange rate fluctuations and fall in prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in the global...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government might continue the tax holiday facility, which expires in June this year, to enable the local industry sustain themselves in the competitive global market which is experiencing an economic slowdown.A high-powered committee is meantime scrutinising the...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam, FCMATHE National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started its works for the preparation of the national budget for the next fiscal. Over the last one year, we have seen many changes in our national life....
Tunku Varadarajan JUST when the American public, in an inversion of the old saw about economists, was thinking that the Bush administration professes to know the "value" of everything but the "cost" of nothing, along come Joseph Stiglitz and Linda...
Michiyo NakamotoJapan has often used strange arguments for keeping its markets closed to foreign goods.One of the most bizarre reasons for opposing the liberalisation of US beef imports in the late 1980s was provided by Tsutomu Hata, the then agriculture...
THE National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to exempt the import of poultry feed ingredients from customs duty and mandatory pre-shipment inspection (PSI). The latest NBR action, as the developments suggest, is aimed at providing some relief to the...
Air Commodore Muhammad Zakiul Islam, Ndu, Acsc (Retd)THE year 2008 is the year of elections. And let us add that it is also the year of many actions. Just look, how many election events have been, or are, lined up...
Heba SalehHANDS holding banknotes push through the narrow opening above the counter at the entrance to the bakery in the poor Cairo district of Imbaba. A cacophony of voices rises as people try to attract the attention of the worker...
Md HamidullahThe government bureaucracy in Bangladesh spawns a great deal of corruption. What would be the institutional checks to the same? No doubt, individuals in the civil services are to blame for taking bribes and other immoralities. But had there...
NOT a day passes without matters of politics in the newspapers and the electronic media. This leader is in jail, this leader has been arrested or those leaders have got bail in their cases. Then there is the jostling within...
AS the president of an exporting company at Miami USA, I have tried and asked many members of the steel mills owners association of Bangladesh to request Bangladesh Ministry of Commerce to end PSI (Pre-shipment Inspection) assigned by Government of...
LAHORE, mar 11 (AFP): Two suspected suicide car bombings killed at least 25 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore Tuesday, posing a fresh challenge to the US-allied country's incoming civilian government. The deadliest blast demolished much of the federal...
PENANG, Mar 11 (Reuters): The newly elected opposition took power in Malaysia's industrial heartland Tuesday and immediately said it would kill one of the nation's sacred cows -- affirmative action for majority ethnic Malays. "We will run the government administration...
JERUSALEM, Mar 11 (AFP): Israel and Hamas held their fire around the Gaza Strip Monday as Egypt worked to broker a comprehensive deal to end violence and lift the blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory. Palestinians said the two sides...
DHARAMSHALA, India, Mar 11 (AFP): Police late Monday banned about 100 Tibetan exiles in India from going ahead with a historic trek to their homeland as part of pro-independence protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics. The ban came hours after...
BAGHDAD, Mar 11 (AFP): Eight US soldiers were killed in separate attacks in Iraq, according to the US military. The attacks all occurred Monday, making it one of the deadliest days for the US military in several months.In one attack,...
NEW YORK, Mar 11 (AFP): New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat known for his moral crusading, issued a public apology but stopped short of resigning over reports he had hired a high-end prostitute. Spitzer, a father of three who...
TOKYO, Mar 11 (Reuters): Japan has failed to bring child pornography under control, leaving children around the world at risk, UNICEF said Tuesday as it launched a campaign to stamp out exploitation of minors. Japan's government is inching towards a...
MANILA, Mar 11 (Reuters): Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, under pressure from a bubbling graft scandal, said Tuesday she would ask Congress to pass an anti-corruption reform act this year. "On our part, we will hold officials accountable, if they...
BATTICALOA, Mar 11 (Reuters): Government-backed former Tamil Tiger rebels accused of abductions and killings have won a landslide in a Sri Lankan local election that critics say was unfair because they remain armed, officials said Tuesday. The TMVP, made up...
Bangladesh face South Africa in the 2nd ODI of the Warid Cricket Series today (Wednesday) at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNS), aiming to square the three-match series, reports UNB.For the 2nd ODI, Bangladesh made two changes. Vice captain...
KARACHI, Mar 11 (AFP): Australia have scrapped their upcoming cricket tour to Pakistan over security fears, their cricket boards said in a statement Tuesday, after bombs killed 20 people in the eastern city of Lahore."I can confirm they have conveyed...
MILAN, Mar 11 (AFP): While Inter Milan have been celebrating their centenary in the build up to Tuesday's crucial Champions League last 16, second leg clash against Liverpool at the San Siro, the visitors from Merseyside will have their own...
Misbah-ul-Haq, the Pakistan batsman, and India's Under-19 World Cup-winning captain Virat Kohli have been bought by the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second round of the Indian Premier League's player auction in Mumbai on Tuesday. Misbah, who nearly took Pakistan...
NEW YORK, Mar 11 (AFP): World number one Roger Federer enjoyed a special moment here on Monday when he beat Pete Sampras in an electrifying exhibition match in New York's Madison Square Garden.Sampras and Federer, considered two of the greatest...
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