Gideon RachmanPEOPLE facing alarming birthdays often say things like: "Forty is just a number." You could say the same about "$100 oil". But such benchmarks concentrate minds. As the oil price threatens to break through $100, politicians all over the...
The country's networks of roads and highways have expanded a great deal over the last three decades. Compared to the pre-independence period, the network of highways all over the country has now become extensive. Especially, the road networks have much...
THE University Grants Commission (UGC) sometime ago submitted a report. It disclosed that only about 12 per cent of the budget of the public universities are spent on education and the rest goes mainly to pay salaries and other allowances...
Tom Engelhardt in the first part of his two-part articleAS I was heading out into a dark, drippingly wet, appropriately dispiriting New York City day, on my way to the "Fall Out Against the War" march -- one of 11...
Larry Jagan from BangkokOn his second visit to Burma since the brutal crackdown on demonstrators, in September, United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari held talks with senior members of the Burmese military regime. But there are few signs of a...
Simon ClarkThe U.K. economy had been the envy of Europe, outpacing Germany and France almost every quarter from 2001 through 2005. Germany surged past the U.K. last year, and for 2008, Europe's largest economies are forecast to run in a...
Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman Sunday demanded of the caretaker government and the Election Commission to declare the political parties of 'war criminals' ineligible for participating in the election and deny them registration.The AL acting president made the...
Saifur-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed Sunday urged all party leaders and activists to remain united and get prepared for the next polls to the local government bodies, including the city corporations.Hafiz made the...
Bangladesh expressed the hope for early resolution of the current problems in Pakistan, saying stability in the country was important for peace and welfare of South Asia and the world.Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this while talking...
The Supreme Court (SC) Sunday turned down government plea for leave to appeal against High Court (HC) orders that had discharged two corruption cases against detained Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, reports UNB. After hearing both sides,...
SATKHIRA, Nov 11 (UNB): A married man of 40 caught in compromising position with a woman has been fined Tk 50,000 in arbitration by the elders.According to the arbitrators, Advocate Azizur Rahman, also a Jamaat leader, came out of home...
Norway and Sweden have expressed their eagerness to accept Bangladesh as a strategic partner to increase economic and political cooperation. Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this while briefing journalists at his foreign ministry office in the city...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 11 (BSS): Speakers at a view-sharing meeting underscored the need for taking collective efforts to make the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act effective.They expressed their apprehension that if the law failed to achieve its objective, the consequence...
KHULNA, Nov 11 (UNB): Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Sheikh Tayebur Rahman, facing 8 criminal and corruption cases, was sent to jail when produced before the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) court Sunday at the end of police remand in an...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 11 (UNB): Two siblings allegedly involved in outlawed Jamia'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activities were arrested from a remote village in Shaghata Upazila Sunday.Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Wazed Ali (31) and Abdur Rab (27) from Basantapara village. They...
The first formalin test centre was opened at Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) in the city Sunday as part of the government's anti-adulteration movement, reports BSS.Ministry of Science and ICT Secretary ASS Ahiduzzaman inaugurated the centre as...
Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Masayuki Inoue visited Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla Sunday, reports UNB.During the visit, the Ambassador went round the classrooms, conference rooms, library and cafeteria to gain practical experiences of BARD infrastructure.The envoy lauded...
Fire broke out on the third floor of the Secretariat building in the city Sunday afternoon creating panic among the officials.Fire brigade sources said the fire originated in the toilet of building no. 6 of the secretariat from a burning...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Adviser Major General (Retd) MA Matin left Dhaka for London Sunday to attend a conference on Tourism and Climate Change, reports UNB.The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has organised the Minister-level conference on November 12-14...
HONG KONG, Nov 11 (AFP): Previous troubles in the US economy have caused Asia to skid badly-but analysts think the region has matured enough to get through any bleak days ahead for the United States. In the past, woes in...
MOSCOW, Nov 11 (PTI): Observing that Indo-Russian bilateral trade is far below its true potential, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought its diversification to high value items and investments in sectors like machinery and agriculture. "Currently, India's exports to Russia...
BRUSSELS, Nov 11 (AFP): Eurozone finance ministers will size up looming threats to growth at a meeting Monday as evidence mounts that the record strength of the euro and oil prices are weighing on the economy. The ministers are to...
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (AFP): A wave of recalls in the United States, including the withdrawal from sale of several products aimed at children, has sparked a surge in the number of product safety tests which are uncovering yet more dangerous...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 11 (AFP): Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass produced in China as US nonprofit One Laptop Per Child strives to deliver on its promise. The first of the...
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (AFP): Five months after the United States and South Korea signed a free trade agreement, there is little urgency among lawmakers to approve the most commercially significant US deal in 15 years. Signed after 10 months of...
HANOI, Nov 11 (AFP): There's a real estate boom happening in communist Vietnam, where prices are soaring on properties yet to be built and investors are camping in the streets to get first chance to buy. Western-style suburbs and apartment...
COPENHAGEN, Nov 11 (AFP): Denmark's bullish economy is one of the strongest in Europe, charging full-steam ahead with record low unemployment, moderate inflation and a budget surplus, but it risks overheating, economists say. With a rosy global economy to lean...
FE Report The Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) launched a new Small and Medium and Enterprise (SME) deposit product Sunday styled "EBL Shubidha" which would pay interest on daily basis. The EBL organised a press conference at a city hotel to...
FE ReportTelekom Malaysia International Bangladesh (TMIB) has recently agreed to compensate Bangladesh Government for the 'lost revenue' attributed to the misuse of some of TMIB subscribers, said a press release. TMIB, the release said, had already paid Tk. 725 million...
FE ReportA team of Union De Banques Arabes Et Francaises (UBAF), led by its Management Board Chairman Patrick Legat, paid a call on Pubali Bank Ltd Managing Director (MD) Helal Ahmed Chowdhury in the city recently.Western Financial Institutions General Manager...
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