It may have brought the world aspirin, rocket science, quantum physics and the diesel engine, but Germany's days of scientific glory are long gone and it is now hunting for a new generation of Einsteins. Decades of underfunding and a...
Neil Buckley Russia, say supporters of President Vladimir Putin, must find its own way to democracy. The country needed strong rule to recover from the chaos of its 1990s dash to the market. Its vastness, cultural diversity and complex history...
Lucy Kellaway EVERY unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. Every unhappy worker is unhappy in much the same way.The first, a dubious generalisation, made by the greatest of novelists, Leo Tolstoy. The second, a slightly less dubious one,...
Sami Mahroum In 1998, investigating the brain drain from Europe to the US for the European Commission, I found that the US was indeed attracting European scientists and engineers, but many more were coming from Asia and elsewhere. More worryingly,...
John KayAli Baba has always been associated with the 40 thieves. But Ali has decoupled from the robbers: a Google search for "Alibaba" will take you to a Chinese e-commerce platform. The company's recent initial public offering has made it...
Anthony BubaloAT the British military headquarters at Kandahar, there is a pretty mural of the Afghan countryside with the following quote beneath it: "It is better to let them do it themselves imperfectly, than do it yourself perfectly. It is...
Nagesh KumarAsia becoming the most dynamic economic region in the world, with China and India as its growth engines, Japan's recovery from a decade of recession and the emergence of the continent's middle class as consumers were among the striking...
Dan Issacs The Indian government is to hold talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, in Vienna on the controversial India-US civil nuclear deal. It is the next stage in the approval of the agreement which has run into...
As China's appetite for coal is booming, American investors and businesses are cashing in.American pension and mutual fund money is being invested in the Chinese coal industry.The biggest Chinese coal company is China Shenhua Energy Co. of Beijing, which produces...
When Flavia was 10, a teacher at her primary school told her she had no future in Japan. She had been in the country for a year and was struggling to get to grips with the language. She remembers the...
The findings of a recent study report by the World Bank (WB) about only about 32 per cent of the adult population in Bangladesh having access to financial services illustrate amply well the need for expanding the coverage thereof. This...
Amirul IslamCompetitiveness has always been the key to business operations and this competitiveness for Bangladesh, especially in the sphere of its cargoes related to its export trade, has come to mean largely the speed and efficiency with which cargoes can...
Md Azizur RahmanSOME pockets of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lamonirhat districts are known as Monga-hit areas. Without any exception, the Monga hits the working people of those areas, especially during the lean months. Mostly labourers, they have no regular source...
Dino MahtaniWITH the world's big oil companies locked out of Saudi Arabia and unlikely to invest in the near future in Iran or Iraq, many oilmen look at Africa as the most attractive oil frontier, especially given the nationalist fever...
There are now Bangladeshis in many parts of the world and they have good incomes and savings. Many of them are truly patriotic and although they live in foreign lands, they retain their love for, and attachment to, Bangladesh. They...
THE launching of a special Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in the cyclone-hit coastal districts of the country is a piece of welcome news. The operational aspects of this VGF programme should be meticulously dealt with so that its coverage...
THE caretaker government took a wise decision to shut down shopping centres at 7pm, later extended by an hour, which was relaxed for the month of Ramadan. The relaxation was logical as the month of Ramadan provides the peak seasons...
Hasan MahmudTHE historical contour of the development discourse posits that during the great depression of the 1930s in the US, Keynesianism emerged as the dominant economic policy. With its success in the US, it was applied to the reconstruction of...
Abu RawsabBangladesh achieved national independence through liberation war, preceded by a long political movement and struggle. It involved sacrifice of a lot of lives. However, when we began to understand our national history, we came to realise that many contentious...
Mohammad Shahidul IslamReams of paper have gone into writing about the prospect of tourism in Bangladesh in all the mediums of reporting. For last three decades, we are endeavouring to develop tourism but the expectations are not always met. The...
FE Report Prices of most of the essential commodities, excepting of few newly arrived seasonal vegetable items, have remained almost unchanged over the last one week in the city markets compared to their previous prices, market sources said.At the wholesale...
FE ReportA memorandum of understanding (MoU) was singed between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) and Advanced Chemical Industries Limited (ACI) in the city Wednesday.BSMRAU Vice Chancellor (VC) Lutfor Rahman Khan and ACI Executive Director (Agribusinesses) FH Ansarey signed...
FE ReportMercantile Bank Limited (MBL) has recently signed a Tk 200 million deal under treasury term agreement with Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IIDFCL).MBL Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dewan Mujibur Rahman and IIDFCL Managing Director...
FE ReportThe staff of all the offices of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) took a decision to donate their one day's salary for the cyclone-affected people.Staff of the head office and different branches of the bank are distributing relief among...
FE ReportChittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has recently held a certificate awarding ceremony after the completion of a four-week comprehensive training course on "Basic Knowledge in Capital Market."Bangladesh Bank General Manger SK Sur Chowdhury awarded certificates among the participants as the...
FE ReportThe 446th meeting of the board of directors of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) was held at its head office in the city recently.Chairman of the board of directors of the bank SA Chowdhury presided over the meeting. BKB directors,...
RANGPUR, Nov 23 (BSS): Crushing of sugarcane at Shyampur Sugar Mills (SSM) in Rangpur and Joypurhat Sugar Mills (JSM) in Joypurhat began Friday with a production target of 19,880 tonnes of sugar by crushing 0.265 million tonnes of sugarcane during...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate marked slight rise last week with 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 market experienced a...
Commercial Bank of CeylonNovember 18 - November 22, 2007The local call money market experienced an upward bias last week and average inter-bank call money rate drifted between 6.60 per cent and 7.50 per cent against 6.60 per cent to 6.70...
Amidst scrambles for food, scarcity of pure water and spread of skin diseases in the cyclone-hit coastal districts, the current relief operation is expected to be intensified with the pressing of US helicopters into operation and availability of more relief...
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