Paul BettsTHE recent meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, was described as "difficult". In retrospect, that seems to have been a gross understatement. Relations between Paris and Berlin have rarely been worse, in spite...
A team from the European Union (EU) is expected to arrive in Bangladesh in the middle of October to have field-level experience on how compliant the shrimp exporters in Bangladesh have become in respect of exporting shrimp in healthy conditions....
Any sensible person, on surveying the conditions for the private sector in Bangladesh, would realise that the monetary and fiscal policies of the country are yet to be geared up adequately in the interest of its development under the private...
Amy YeeIndia's chaotic cities may have little in common with the manicured landscapes of Singapore, but the city-state of 4.5m is imparting its signature orderliness in new development zones sprouting up across the subcontinent.Companies such as Ascendas, Surbana, Jurong Consultants,...
Fiona HarveyThe spectacle of US President George W Bush exhorting other countries to follow his lead in tackling climate change came as a puzzle last week to many. Since a 2001 speech in which he questioned the science of global...
Katka KrosnarRadim Jancura came up with the idea for his travel company while standing outside the gates of Buckingham Palace. As a student in the early 1990s, he was sightseeing in London when he got talking to a group of...
Lynette Lee CorporalIn sharp contrast to the lack of information during the 1988 military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Burma, streams of graphic accounts of the biggest uprising in two decades continue to come from within the country, aided by...
Thomas OmestadAs a plan to declare and disable North Korea's nuclear facilities by the end of the year moved forward, the leaders of North Korea and South Korea met Tuesday in Pyongyang in a historic summit aimed at symbolizing a...
Arun Sarin's quest to overhaul Vodafone's (NYSE:VOD) wireless empire is far from over. With Vodafone's U.S. stock up nearly 30% in 2007 and near six-year highs, though, Sarin and shareholders already have reaped rewards for what he's done so far.Sarin,...
George Smith Alexander & Gayatri NayakIndia may be a long way from melting polar ice caps, but its economy will be among the worst affect on account of climate change. According to a report by Lehman Brothers India's GDP would...
Michael HeathThe death toll from monsoon floods in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan rose to more than 4,000 people and the humanitarian crisis could worsen without more aid, the United Nations said. Floods in the June to September monsoon season...
Enayet RasulThe Chief Adviser (CG), Fakhruddin Ahmed, gladdened the hearts of all Bangladeshis possessing the minimum morality and good of the country in their hearts, when in his recent address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), he urged the...
Dr Nezamuddin Ahmed"We all must die but that I can save a man from days of torture that is what I feel is my great and ever new privilege. Pain is an even more terrible lord of mankind than death...
Yasmin Rimi Anamika, a meritorious sociology student, is a lively woman. Teachers like her because of her creativity. Classmates adore her as she is friendly to them. She is now in trouble. One day Anamika (not her real name) receives...
Syed Fattahul AlimSecret of the early universe is still a subject of great controversy and debate among the scientists. That the universe as we see it started from a singularity through the Big Bang is now a well-established theory. But...
Anna Mudeva and Thomas GroveA major Kremlin-backed gas pipeline may have a better chance of supplying Europe with new gas than the much-touted EU-backed Nabucco project, designed to ease the bloc's dependence on Russia, analysts say.Although both projects are riddled...
Rashada Akther Shimul At 4, Saquib looks half his age and sickly. The parents are worried about their only child. The boy's physical growth has been slow and his mother blames it on the child's lack of appetite. The boy's...
FE ReportThe council of advisers is likely to take a further look at the corporatisation process of three nationalised commercial banks, still caught in bureaucratic tangle.The finance ministry has taken the move to obtain the final say, if any, from...
Jasim Uddin HaroonThe government has decided that foreign companies vying for taking over the management of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) will have to form joint ventures with local companies. The foreign operator will have 62.5 per cent shares...
SAVAR, Oct 5 (bdnews24.com): Workers Friday vandalised a garment factory at the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) in Savar demanding payment of arrear salaries and Eid bonus. Similar protests were reported from another factory. Savar Police Station sub-inspector Moniruzzaman said...
S M JahangirThe relevant government agencies are expected to start signing agreements with the selected bidders from this week in phases on the installation of 10 small power units under private initiative."The draft of the contract documents will get clearance...
The first batch of about 3,000-4,000 Bangladeshi workers are likely to leave for South Korea under the Employment Permit System (EPS) by the end of this year, reports UNB.Bangladesh and South Korea signed an MoU on the EPS during Foreign...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington, at a hearing on the complaints against violation of labour rights has asked all stakeholders to submit further clarifications and documents in support of their statement within October 19.The hearing...
Doulot Akter MalaThe ongoing countrywide tax survey being conducted by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has slowed down recently as shopkeepers at city markets are busy in dealing with a huge rush of Eid shoppers, an NBR high official...
BNP rebel leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Friday said corruption cannot be rooted out through jail or repression only, it needs social movement to do it, reports UNB.Talking to reporters at his Gulshan residence, he said a corruption-free society would have...
Awami League Friday demanded release of detained party president and ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ahead of Eid, reports UNB."It's good that Eid-ul-Fitr is approaching… it'll be more joyful for us if we get our president Sheikh Hasina amidst us," said...
Jo Johnson in New Delhi and Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad, FT Syndication ServiceBenazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani premier, and General Pervez Musharraf, the president, were finalising a deal that will enable the former prime minister to return home without fear...
The Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) Friday rejected the research report of the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) that has branded the NGO sector as a highly corrupt area.Conducting the survey on 20 NGOs-one international, eight national and 11 local...
The well-marked low over west central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay persist over the same area. It is likely to intensify further and move in a northwesterly direction, said a Met office bulletin. All fishing boats and trawlers over north...
A boy, who was injured by bullets in a gun attack, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital (DMCH) early Friday. The dead was identified as Kamal Hossain, 15, son of Abul Hashem, resident of Katasur in Mohammadpur...
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