Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Oct 18: Jewellery shop owners in the district have been carrying on their business without valid licence for a long time, sources said.According to market sources, there are about 17000 jewellers in the district and most of them...
FE ReportDepartment of Insurance and Bangladesh Insurance Academy (BIA) will jointly organise a two-day workshop on 'life insurance management: problems and issues' on October 23 and 24 on the premises of Jiban Bima Corporation in the city, said a press...
The government has fixed the export target for the current fiscal year at US$ 14.5 billion marking a rise over the target that was set for last year by 19.07 per cent. But the target for this year may appear...
Jainanb AkhterWHY are currency values so important to us? It is important for the simple reason or in most cases from the concern of millions and millions of people who are not wheeler-dealers and know no way of doubling, trebling...
M Azizur RahmanWHAT do we want in life? How do we achieve the goal and objective in life? We would like to simply be happy in life. We are selfish by birth. We want to have more of every thing...
Ziaur RahmanFOLLIES abound in Bangladesh and none can tell where the next round of absurdity will hit the ground in Bangladesh. During this festival -- Eid and Puja -- season, the center stage has been stolen by grandiose escalation of...
There are just too many defeatists and escapists in Bangladesh society today. They are very good at shifting blame on this or that to make a case for their misdeeds like wasting foreign scholarships, contributing to the brain drain and...
ACTIONS against food adulteration and sub-standard foods have turned out to be on and off actions, here and there -- and now and then. Enough fears are not there in the minds of the offenders that they are at risk...
Nick Turse Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as director of the...
Harvey Morris THIS year has seen an "alarming upsurge" in opium production in Burma, once the apex of the notorious south-east-Asian Golden Triangle that supplied most of the illicit heroin on the streets of western cities, United Nations officials said...
Richard McGregorCorruption costs China as much as 3.0 per cent of its economic output, or $86bn in 2003, and poses a "lethal threat" to the country's economic development, according to a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.The report...
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (AFP): The turmoil in financial markets of the past few months and heightened exchange rate tensions will be prominent on the agenda as Group of Seven (G7) financial leaders meet Friday in Washington. US Treasury Under Secretary...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (PTI): Concerned over the growing transfer of resources from the poor to rich countries, India has said creation of an economic and financial environment conducive to development is the need of the hour. Addressing a UN...
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (AFP): A shortage of quality skilled labour could thwart India's rapid economic expansion, its central bank chief Y V Reddy warned yesterday, calling for urgent education reforms to solve the problem. "The sustained acceleration in the services...
PRETORIA, Oct 18 (AFP): The leaders of emerging powerhouses India, South Africa and Brazil pledged to work together yesterday to ensure a better deal for developing nations as they seek a common voice on the world stage. South African President...
BRUSSELS, Oct 18 (AFP): Russia must show a real political willingness if it is to secure membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said yesterday. "We have arrived at a point where only political...
FRANKFURT, Oct 18 (AFP): Four German economic think-tanks have raised their growth forecast for this year to 2.6 per cent but the government said yesterday there were now greater risks to progress due to the strong euro. The think-tanks' estimate...
FRANKFURT, Oct 18 (AFP): The Eurozone current account showed a deficit of 1.4 billion euros (2.0 billion dollars) in the second quarter, as trade with countries like China and Japan outweighed surpluses with Britain and other EU members, the European...
SINGAPORE, Oct 18 (AFP): Oil prices eased in Asia today after US officials issued a stronger-than-expected report on energy stockpiles against the backdrop of tensions in the oil- rich Middle East. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for...
TOKYO, Oct 18 (AFP): The dollar remained under pressure in Asian trade today, hit by weak US housing data and jitters ahead of a meeting of world finance chiefs where currencies will be on the agenda, dealers said. They said...
TOKYO, Oct 18 (AFP): Japan has suspended beef imports from a US meatpacking plant that violated a bilateral accord aimed at limiting the threat from mad cow disease, the government said yesterday. The farm ministry said part of a consignment...
GUANGZHOU, Oct 18 (Xinhua): Exporters from nine of the world's less- developed countries have joined China's biggest trade fair, known as China Import and Export Fair, being held in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. "The fair has provided...
NEW YORK, Oct 18 (AFP): The United Nations today officially launches "International Year of the Potato 2008," an initiative mocked in private by some diplomats but enabling governments to raise much- needed funds for agricultural research. The move to "increase...
MANILA, Oct 18 (Xinhua): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will cooperate with China in developing a market-based system to manage water pollution, said the bank in a news release today. A policy study on market-based instruments for water pollution control...
Centuries from Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers and four wickets for Makhaya Ntini gave South Africa a 45-run win in the Lahore day-nighter. In the first of a series of five one-day internationals, Pakistan allowed the tourists to rack...
Holders Dhaka Division take on Khulna Division in one of the three opening four-day matches of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS) in the city today (Friday), reports UNB.Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President...
Four Indian cricket fans have been charged for allegedly racially abusing Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds by making monkey gestures, police say. The four fans were evicted from a one-day international match in Mumbai (Bombay) Wednesday, reports BBC. Symonds is the...
MUNICH, Oct 18 (AFP): The Czech Republic made a mockery of Germany's unbeaten record in Euro 2008 qualifiers with a thumping 3-0 away win at Munich's Allianz Arena to seal their qualification. Having already qualified for Euro 2008 thanks to...
In a dramatic about-turn Marvan Atapattu, the former Sri Lanka captain, has been included in the Sri Lanka squad for the tour of Australia following a request made by the sports minister Gamini Lokuge, reports Cricinfo. Atapattu will join the...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 18 (UNB): The Acme Baby Zink Tennis Competition, jointly organised by Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation and Jafar Imam Tennis Complex, will begin on October 23 in Rajshahi.Six events will be held in the five-day meet. The events are...
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