M A Islam WHEN I was a student of class seven, my class teacher often said to us in the class: "Toder ichcha nai, agroho nai, ki jey hobey toderkey diey" (you do not have will power, you do not...
Ashequl IslamWHILE making a sea journey from Japan to South Africa via Sri Lanka, I became intimate with a sailor who was from the Philippines. I was impressed with the capability of the Philipinos in using English language. I was...
Fakhrul Islam PABLO Ruiz Picasso is indisputably a brilliant name in the field of 20th century art and painting. He is the first one who introduced a realistic strain in painting and gave more stress on the abstract than merely...
Della Bradshaw IT is a rare business school programme that invokes in its participants a similar fervour to that experienced in a revivalist religious meeting. But this would appear to be the case with Srikumar Rao's elective course, Creative and...
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) jointly have arranged an essay competition. Six awards will be granted to the top papers as judged by the awards committee: gold award US$20,000, silver awards, each US$10,000 and 3...
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Shakhawat Hossain The comfortable forex reserve requirement of the central bank of Bangladesh has increased nearly to US$ 5.0 billion (500 crore) against the previous requirement of $3.0 billion, which is needed to meet the country's import bills of three...
Siddique Islam The country's overall balance of payments (BoP) situation continued to maintain a healthy trend in the last fiscal mainly due to improvements both in current and financial accounts. The current account balance recorded a surplus in the fiscal...
FE Report President of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICC-B) Mahbubur Rahman Saturday urged all concerned to make allout efforts for not only exploring new markets for apparel export but also diversifying export products.He noted that Bangladesh with a narrow export...
Detained former prime minister and Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina Saturday said her party's working committee would decide whether or not to go for dialogue with the Election Commission (EC) on electoral reforms, reports UNB.Advocate Khandaker Moniruzzaman, tax lawyer...
FE Report The commerce ministry will sit with the country's business leaders this week to discuss the steps needed to prop up exports, import and private investment that could give a boost to the economy, sources said."The meeting is being...
Senior leaders of BNP without its chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman by placing wreaths and offering fateha at his grave in the city Saturday as the party observed its 29th founding anniversary in a modest...
Justice Habibur Rahman, head of the one-member Judicial Inquiry Commission formed to probe the Aug 20-21 incidents on the Dhaka University campus, Saturday said no proof has so far been found that teachers provoked the student unrest. "No proof has...
FE ReportThe government has decided to provide internet protocol (IP) telephony licenses to help reduce the costs of international calls substantially and augment legal calls through internet.The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will provide the IP telephony licenses only to...
LONDON/ISLAMABAD, Sept 1 (Reuters): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said talks on a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return to Pakistan very soon even without an agreement. "No understanding has been arrived...
Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Sitakunda Country's ship breaking yards in Chittagong are passing idle time as the import of old ships declined sharply in recent months. Ship-breaking industry insiders said importers of old ships are not procuring old ships...
FE ReportA World Bank (WB) mission will arrive in Dhaka on September 10 for holding talks with the government on a proposed US$100 million transitional budgetary support to Bangladesh.The WB fund, if provided, will help the government minimise deficit financing...
FE ReportOffices of all the government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions will function between 9:00am and 3:30pm from Sundays to Thursdays during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.Besides, there will be a 15-minute break for prayer from 1:15 to 1:30pm...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 1 (bdnews24.com): British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury expressed the hope that the ban on indoor political activities would be lifted soon. The British high commissioner said this while exchanging views with district election and administration officials at a...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 1 (bdnews24.com): The three Rajshahi University (RU) teachers, ordered to jail after an eight-day remand, were rushed to the jail hospital upon arrival Saturday. "The arrested teachers have fallen sick," said major Hafizur Rahman, DIG (prisons) for Rajshahi....
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) bounced back in the week ended Wednesday amid fresh buying by investors.The trading in the week was cut short by one session as the market was closed on Thursday last due...
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), despite being refused earlier, has decided to pursue the government into extending a contract on the Agrani Bank management as its consultant, which expires on September 30, reports bdnews24.com. "We'll push for the extension again," Agrani Bank...
The flood situation in Sylhet district has started improving and is expected to improve further during the next 24-72 hours, Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said Saturday in its latest observation report, reports BSS.However, it warned that the major...
THE country's pivotal readymade garments (RMG) industry is faced with a serious regression as have been assessed by the ones involved in it. Growth in this sector has been without a pause for years, may be with some variations or...
Enamul HaqueTHE total demand for fabrics in the country is estimated to be about 1676 million metres. Sixty three per cent of this requirement or 800 million metres are produced by the local handloom operators who make clothes used by...
Anatol LievenEVEN western observers who criticise human rights groups for naivety or irresponsibility generally give them credit for purity of intentions - and, of course, this noble character is indeed true of many groups such as Amnesty International and Human...
Alec Russell TOMMY Zhang is the very model of a new-age Chinese businessman in Africa. Aged 23, he says he was at his home in Fujian province when a friend asked if he wanted to help set up a small...
SUCCESSIVE governments formed by the major political parties back- pedalled on privatisation notwithstanding the broad agreement among them about privatisation. The parties have feared the pressure of trade unions, employees to be affected by privatisation and the vested interest groups...
A local TV channel showed in its evening news last Tuesday that a variety of South American fish, which eats, among others, the human flesh and for the obvious reason attacks an individual found close by in water, has arrived...
Qazi Azad A discourse, half complete, is at best useless or it may be food for confusion. Having read one Mr. Maswood Alam Khan's letter on Mother Teresa in the FE issue of last Tuesday this scribe was impelled from...
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