Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed left for New York Saturday night to attend the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in the UN headquarters. A VVIP flight of the Emirates Airlines, carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage, took...
Unloading of goods from ships in Chittagong Port was disrupted Saturday following a restriction on the movement of lighter vessels due to bad weather. The Port Authority suspended the movement of lighter vessels following a depression over the north-west Bay...
FE ReportThe government will import 50,000 tonnes of rice from the international market in order to meet any possible crisis arising out of the recent floods that washed away the country's Aus and Aman plantations, official sources said.The ministry of...
M Azizur RahmanThe Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) will appoint a consultant to prepare documents for the planned international bidding for a fresh round of hydrocarbon exploration in the Bay of Bengal."The consultant will prepare documents in line with...
Shakhawat HossainThe central bank has suggested the government to provide additional assistance to the country's informal sector in order to overcome the financial challenges currently being faced by the national economy, said a Bangladesh Bank (BB) review report.Identifying high rate...
Over 100 fishermen were feared drowned as 12 trawlers capsized in the surging Bay Friday night as a monsoon depression turned the sea rough, reports UNB.Meantime, the depression intensified into a deep depression over the northwest Bay and adjoining areas,...
FE Report The World Bank (WB) is set to invest in Bangladesh's higher education sector to help develop the capacity of both public and private universities, which lack modern day education system. The global development lender has fielded a mission...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Saturday arrested six persons, including former Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), in connection with a corruption case filed with Tejgaon police station September 2, reports UNB. The arrested are : former CPA Chairman ASM Shahadat Hossain,...
Bernard Simon, FT Syndication ServiceTORANTO: A US government department has been forced to eat humble pie for apparently advising its 67,000 employees to buy Japanese or South Korean cars.The climbdown by the US Department of Health and Human Services demonstrated...
New BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday played down his expelled predecessor Mannan Bhuiyan's current role, as he said the dissident is no threat to his party, reports UNB.Likening Bhuiyan's meeting with some BNP leaders in Singapore to romance...
The deadline for submission of Expression of Interest (EoI) to buy the problem-ridden Oriental Bank expires today (Sunday) with a number of local and foreign investors showing interest to have its shares, reports UNB."A number of local and foreign investors...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Saturday arrested six persons, including former Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), in connection with a corruption case filed with Tejgaon police station September 2, reports UNB. The arrested are : former CPA Chairman ASM Shahadat Hossain,...
New Zealand's least-favourite claim to fame is their status as cricket's most reliable semi-finalists. In five of the nine World Cups they have reached that stage of the tournament and gone no further, and that pattern was repeated in the...
Two consecutive floods have ruined nearly two-thirds of the country's handlooms, putting the weavers in dire straits, reports bdnews24.com. Bangladesh Handloom Board (BHB) said, a total of 2,24,000 weavers in 70 upazilas of 25 districts have been badly hurt by...
The Awami League Sunday said it was disappointed with the Supreme Court agreeing to hear appeals of the five detained death convicts. It said the ruling had fallen short of their expectations. Acting AL president Zillur Rahman told reporters: "I...
IF an economy rises advancing through the steps of a well-laid staircase of a development blueprint, its decline in the process of reversal would also involve the same journey, and this time the direction would be the opposite. The descent...
Qazi AzadAPPARENTLY, there are worries within the government and in the informed circles about the immediate prospect of the economy. The hints in this respect are coming from both the country's government leaders and bankers. Law and Information Adviser Barrister...
Kazi Saifuddin AhmedTHE term, social compliance, is very familiar these days, especially in the readymade garment (RMG) sector. The users of garments in the European countries and in America viewed that the garments manufactured in unethical working conditions in the...
Vincent BolandA few days after Abdullah Gul became president of Turkey at the end of last month, all of Ankara's society turned out for his first reception at the presidential palace -- with two glaring exceptions.One was Mr Gul's wife,...
TRADITIONAL agriculture -- centering mainly on the production of food grains -- has served a purpose, no doubt, in feeding the growing population of Bangladesh. But this singular emphasis on food grain production is also costing dearly the country in...
WHILE our magnetically levitated train (MLT), as dreamt of by ex-Communication Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda, still rumbles in the Ionosphere offering us no opportunity to board and travel by it, the ground reality of shabby trains moving on the worn-out...
M. A. Rouf Chowdhury THE principle challenge facing Bangladesh today is the escalating prices of essentials be it rice, wheat, daal, edible oil, chola, onions, brinjals, green chillies, other vegetables, beef, mutton, in fact almost everything. Almost 90 per cent...
Maswood Alam KhanLIKE a giant ship cruising on an ocean, our Earth, while rotating on her own axis, is revolving around the sun and continental landmasses of the earth, afloat on some plates called the tectonic plates, are also moving...
Michiyo Nakamoto from TokyoYasuo Fukuda, the leading contender to succeed Shinzo Abe as Japanese prime minister, vowed at the weekend to carry on with a reform programme and indicated he would consider raising the consumption tax in order to meet...
Syed Fattahul AlimIs the West with the US in the lead considering bombing out Iran into the Stone Age-to use the threatening phrase president George W. Bush applied to scare Pakistan into toeing his line in the war on terror?...
Yasmin Rimi Information Technology (IT) is an attractive ofession for the country's young people. Many aim to become networking, graphics, software engineers and web designers. At the beginning, IT in Bangladesh was male-dominated like any other fields. But those days...
A weakening dollar may be just what the US economy needs to limp through a housing downturn without tumbling into a full-blown recession. The tricky part is striking the right balance between spurring export demand, which bolsters US economic growth,...
Enayet RasulThe publication of a derogatory cartoon of Prophet Mohammed (SM) has led to the very understandable outpouring of wrath from Bangladeshis who are generally pious Muslims and sensitive like all other Muslims everywhere in relation to ill motivated actions...
Nasrin Sultana When Tajrin's husband asked her permission to take a second wife after 15 years' of their marriage, he had only one point: Tajrin has failed to give him a child. A shocked Tajrin protested but few in the...
Television producers in Iran have a difficult task and are under fierce pressure to compete with international broadcasters while placating the Islamic clergy. Almost half of the 70 million Iranians have access to more than 500 foreign satellite channels that...
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