Asma Hoque Parveen Akhter, a resident of Mirpur-10, has been without tap water for three days. Every morning she sends her maid to bring water from a mosque nearby. The maid brings the water-filled plastic containers to the ground floor...
Enayet RasulBANGLADESH today can be compared to a traveller standing at a junction of two roads in the opposite directions. Travelling on one may take it to the cherished destination. The opposite of failures and pitfalls could be the outcome...
Nick AssinderAs Gordon Brown's first appearance before the Commons liaison committee came close to breakfast time - thanks to an early start to allow him to travel to his one-man EU treaty signing - it was a battle to stop...
Ishrat FirdousiA national workshop titled "The combined role of the Livestock Division of the Government of Bangladesh and BRAC on improving the lifestyle of the ultra poor" was organised by BRAC Advocacy and Human Rights Unit (BAHRU) was held recently...
Fred Bergsten The world economy faces an acute policy dilemma that, if mishandled, could bring on the mother of all monetary crises. Many dollar holders, including central banks and sovereign wealth funds as well as private investors, clearly want to...
John-Paul SmithAs I watch the wild gyrations rocking the world's capital markets, I wonder what it was that I ever liked about this job. I have been an investment manager for nearly a quarter of a century and can recall...
Rachel SpenceNext weekend the new Gagosian Gallery throws open its palatial doors in Rome. The Eternal City, in spite of its magnificent riches from the ancient past, has for decades hardly bothered with new art, but the opening of an...
Geoffrey Wheatcroft Looking on the bright side, Gordon Brown might say that if a "lollipop lady" can write a cheque for £25,000 to the Labour party, then growth and redistribution of income must have been truly remarkable in the decade...
Ary Hermawan and Wasti AtmodjoA traditional boat floated still over a diving site in waters off Pemuteran beach. Its single passenger, intently watching the sea, raised the suspicions of five men wearing Balinese traditional black and white sarongs. They were...
David HarveyThis is the 21st century, and many people all over the world perceived that this century will be a very ``special'' era in human history. During the 20th century, the world was embroiled in two world wars, a cold...
Opposition by anti-whaling nations will not stop Japan from pressing ahead with its upcoming hunt, which will take humpbacks for the first time in 40 years. The hunt, which is now underway, has drawn criticism from Canada, the United States,...
Welcome to the Qingping market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, where everything from turtles to insects are sold alongside fowl and freshly caught fish.An outbreak of the SARS virus in 2002 resulted in a local gourmet favorite --...
According to a survey released ahead of European Union leaders' visit, China is trying to avoid fully carrying out its free-trade pledges. The report by the European Chamber of Commerce in China adds to mounting complaints that Beijing is violating...
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (AFP): A United Nations (UN) human rights envoy Thursday told US lawmakers not to send any delegation to monitor the upcoming election in Pakistan, claiming that it was already rigged by President Pervez Musharraf. "There is no...
BALI, Indonesia, Dec 14 (AP): The United States (US) and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the United Nations (UN) climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global...
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec 14 (AP): Defence Secretary Robert Gates is asking European allies for more troops to help stabilize Afghanistan, where the government is weak, the insurgency is relentless and casualties are mounting. He got encouragement Thursday from a reliable...
NEW DELHI, Dec 14 (AFP): At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed Friday when a passenger train smashed into a school bus at a crossing in the northern Indian state of Punjab, officials and reports said. A...
RANGPUR, Dec 14 (BSS): Price of onion marked a significant fall in the northern districts in recent weeks following the arrival of local and imported onions. Market sources said consumers had been purchasing imported Indian onion at Tk 55 to...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 14: Meter related complicacies in the CNG-driven auto-rickshaws plying on the city streets will go.All four stroke three wheelers will have to realise fare from the passengers through meters with effect from December 16,. Otherwise, drastic action...
All the seven Birshreshthos-war heroes’ posthumously conferred with the highest gallantry award for their role in the freedom struggle-are now in Bangladesh on the eve of this year's Victory Day celebrations, reports bdnews24.com. The nation has been pining since December...
FE Report Prices of rice and powder milk of some brands registered an upward trend at the retail level in the city markets over the last one week compared to their previous prices, market operators said. During the last one...
FE ReportETV, a private television channel, will telecast live the trading of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) from the very beginning of the next year.To this effect, the private channel Thursday inked a deal with the DSE, first of its kind...
Commercial Bank of CeylonDecember 09 - December 13, 2007The local call money market experienced a wavy pitch in the last week. The call money rate was stable in the first two days but gradually it went up to its peak...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate posted sharp rise last week mainly due to higher demand for cash influenced by business momentum ahead of Eid festival. The withdrawal of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh...
S M JahangirThe government drive against tax-evasion and innovation in tax collection have paid some dividend at a time when the nation requires large amount of fund to cope with the economic losses caused by cyclone and recurrent floods. The...
FE ReportThe 'Bangladesh Better Business Forum' (BBBF) is moving forward with target-specific and result-oriented approach as the high-profile body gathers today (Saturday) to hold its first meeting.The 36-member public-private forum, with this in view, will fix the number of working...
FE ReportThe coal policy review committee Friday finalised the draft coal policy without bringing any change in line with consensus reached at its meeting last Sunday on royalty issue, coal export and open-pit mining method.It recommended in the final draft...
The nation paid tribute to its brightest sons, who were killed by the anti-liberation forces, including Al-Badr Al-Shams on the eve of the fall of Dhaka to the allied forces, by observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day Friday. However, the commemoration...
The World Bank (WB) has offered assistance to the government's agricultural rehabilitation programmes in the country's cyclone-ravaged regions, reports bdnews24.com. Praful C Patel, the bank's South Asia vice president, made the offer at a two-hour meeting with Agriculture Adviser CS...
Peter Garnham, FT Syndication ServiceWASHINGTON: The co-ordinated effort by global central banks to step up liquidity support for financial markets has prompted some in the markets to speculate that co-ordinated currency intervention to support the dollar could be next.The short...
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