Southern California is sunny, the French Riviera is sunny, but NASA says the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the Sahara Desert in Niger are the sunniest and the information could be worth money. America's space exploration agency has located...
Martyn SlomanTHE development of professional workers in organisations has become a growing priority in the past few years. The acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills of employees, if properly harnessed and directed, has become a crucial difference between organisations. It...
Michael SkapinkerTHE UK is next year introducing a points-based immigration system to attract the world's most skilled migrants. Had either the young Bill Gates or Steve Jobs decided to set up in Britain rather than the US, they would not...
Joe Leahy PRIVATE equity firms are expected to be investing nearly $20bn in India annually by 2010, according to a new study.The report by Evalueserve, a research firm, estimates that India will attract $13.5bn in private equity funding this year,...
David HaleTHE recent decline of the dollar is not a by-product of traditional concerns about the US current account deficit. The US economy is in the midst of an export boom that could reduce the deficit from more than 6.5...
Simon TilfordOne of the arguments in favour of establishing the euro was that it would quickly come to rival the dollar's status as the world's principal reserve currency and make it hard for the US to abuse its "exorbitant privilege":...
Martin WalkerThe most dramatic demographic shift in human history appears to be taking place in today's Iran. Thirty years ago, as the shah was being driven into exile and the Islamic republic was being established, the fertility rate of Iranian...
Geoff MulganTo the rest of the world China looks like an environmental car crash, a superpower superpolluter that along with the US has become the most obdurate barrier to action on climate change. Every self-respecting green knows that it is...
Philippa Fogarty In Tokyo's Harajuku district, a steady stream of people are visiting the Meiji Shrine. Parents with small children dressed in traditional kimono stand in front of the shrine, clap twice and then bow, before turning to pose for...
SHANGHAI, China -- A housing-market meltdown may be wracking the U.S. economy and shaking the financial markets, but in Asia, the question is how to cool things down.From China and South Korea to India and Singapore, housing prices are soaring...
FE Report Prices of rice have registered an upward trend at the wholesale markets in the city on receipt of information of poor government stock of the same during the last week that ended Friday, market operators said. Prices of...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Salehuddin Ahmed urged LankaBangla to contribute meaningfully to the economic development of the country taking into consideration its social values and moral ethos. He also urged it continue to serve the society as well as...
FE ReportThe 66th branch of the IFIC Bank Limited was inaugurated at Rifat Square Plaza, Jamgora, Ashulia under Savar Upazila of Dhaka recently. Chairman of the bank Mohammad Lutfar Rahman inaugurated the branch. Directors of the bank Abu Tahir Mohammad...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate maintained its steady level last week despite withdrawal of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills and Bangladesh government treasury (BGT) bonds, fund managers said.The demand for...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Nov 30: Speakers at a seminar demanded landport at Chilahati and speedy extraction of coal and mineral resources discovered in Rangpur, Dinajpur and Jaipurhat under a comprehensive plan of development for the northern region of the country. The...
Commercial Bank of CeylonNovember 25 - November 29, 2007 The local call money market experienced a stable tone last week and the average inter-bank call money rate drifted between 6.50 per cent and 6.60 per cent against 6.60 per cent...
The third Bangladesh Knitwear Exhibition will begin at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel tomorrow (Sunday).Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will inaugurate the exhibition as the chief guest.About 50 companies are participating in the exhibition. Foreign buyers are also expected to take part in...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (AP): Pakistani opposition leaders were divided Friday on whether to contest parliamentary elections under President Pervez Musharraf, a day after he bowed to international pressure by saying he would end emergency rule ahead of the ballot. Former...
LAKE FOREST, California, Nov 30 (AP): Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton used an appearance at one of the nation's largest evangelical churches Thursday to sketch a broad agenda to take on disease around the globe, calling it 'the right thing to...
SYDNEY, Nov 30 (AFP): Australia's prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd Friday said that Australia's 550 combat troops in Iraq would be withdrawn by the middle of next year. Rudd was elected in a landslide Saturday which ousted veteran conservative prime minister...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass, Nov 30 (AP): Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies....
CAIRO, Nov 30 (AP): Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States (US) in the war in Afghanistan, according to a new tape released Thursday. Bin Laden said it was unjust for the United...
TOKYO, Nov 30 (Reuters): Japan's defence ministry, hit by a bribery scandal involving a former top official, has provided its officials with wallet-sized plastic cards spelling out activities that would run foul of ethics rules. "If you have questions, don't...
RIYADH, Nov 30 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend next week's summit of Gulf Arab leaders, the first time that Tehran has been invited to the meeting, a senior Gulf official said Friday. The official, who declined to...
BEIRUT, Nov 30 (Reuters): A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Friday was delayed for a sixth time to December 7, the parliament speaker said, giving more time for talks focusing on the army chief's nomination for the vacant post. Parliament...
BARGUNA, Nov 30 (bdnews24.com): Communications Adviser and Chief Relief and Rehabilitation Coordinator MA Matin has warned against gaining political mileage out of the distress of Sidr survivors. "Anybody attempting to capitalise on the distress of the people for political gain...
President Prof Iajuddin Ahmed has urged the country's cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to launch massive public awareness programmes to check high incidence of heart disease, reports UNB. "Every year, the number of deaths are alarmingly increasing due to cardiovascular diseases,"...
The Awami League (AL) leaders said Friday there is no difference between Awami League and Sheikh Hasina and the party is united under her leadership."There is no reformist and anti-reformist in Awami League and here none is against Sheikh Hasina....
COMILLA, Nov 30 (UNB): Three JMB activists out of five who made an attempt to escape from the district jail Sunday night were sent to Dhaka Central Jail Friday morning for security reason.Jail authority said Nabil Rahman, the detained son...
KOLKATA, Nov 30 (PTI): Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen Friday said she was withdrawing some controversial lines from her autobiographical novel 'Dwikhandita' as those evoked strong protests from "a section of people in India." "I am withdrawing controversial lines in 'Dwikhandita',...
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