The High Court Monday issued rule upon the government to explain why the CHT peace treaty signed with the erstwhile Shanti Bahini leaders in 1997 should not be declared without lawful authority. After a brief hearing on a Public Interest...
M Azizur RahmanThe Power Division is drafting a comprehensive plan to increase power supply in the country by exploring all possible avenues to meet the mounting demand for electricity."Installing new coal-fired power plants, importing electricity from power-surplus neighbouring countries and...
Shakhawat Hossain The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to start implementation of internet and interconnectivity project to facilitate taxpayers to submit income tax returns through online, official source said.The project, to be implemented over a period of three...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rally for the second consecutive day Monday amid buying spree by the investors.Market operators said the stock market has been showing buoyancy in recent time due to higher flow...
Bangladeshis and Bangalees over the world observed Monday the 31st death anniversary of national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam, reports bdnews24.com.Almost a century past, Nazrul, also the rebel poet, had written a Bangla lyric which, roughly translated, reads, "I'll...
FE ReportThe central bank will soon ask all commercial banks to bring transaction of the savings instruments under automation system, sources said.They said the purpose of automation of such transaction is to check forgery and make the process easier and...
FE ReportSpeakers at a workshop in Dhaka Monday underlined the need for devising strategies soon to reduce economic disparity among different regions of the country.They felt that problems of the less-developed regions and districts needed to be identified first before...
Refayet Ullah MirdhaThe Essar Group of India has shown keen interest in setting up a hot-strip steel mill under joint venture with similar local companies in Bangladesh to meet the growing demand for raw materials for the local steel and...
Japanese PM reshuffles cabinetTOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters): Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked familiar faces for key posts in a sweeping reshuffle of his cabinet Monday, but analysts doubted whether the changes would do much to revive the Japanese leader's badly...
FE ReportThe US dollar was stable against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Monday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with moderate demand for the greenback, fund managers said.The greenback repeated its previous day's single exchange rate of Tk 68.70 in the...
The Dhaka Tobacco Industries in a rejoinder to a report published in the FE last Sunday titled 'Philip Morris, Dhaka Tobacco strike deal to produce Marlboro locally" claimed that the information given in the report that the Dhaka Tobacco might...
FE ReportThe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and seven other donors will provide US$50.4 million worth of fund to the Election Commission (EC) for preparing the voters' roll with photographs for holding a credible election.To this effect, a tripartite loan...
THE results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations held under seven education boards were announced Sunday last. More than 64 per cent of the examinees -- the highest in last seven years -- have come out successful, the...
Qazi Azad writesA big nation in a small country, like Bangladesh, has to believe that comparative advantage for production is a misnomer. It can only be part of wrong education, which would keep a country like ours nearly stagnated in...
Jamil AnderliniWHEN China was negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, a crucial sticking point was whether it would open the country's insurance sector to foreign companies.Beijing agreed to allow foreign property and casualty insurers to operate...
Benedict ManderPRESIDENT Hugo Chávez's tightening grip over Venezuela's economy is generating distortions that economists fear could, paradoxically, eventually lead to a loss of control.Price controls, currency controls and negative real interest rates are just some of the elements that have...
Mother Teresa experienced 'emptiness' at some stages of her life as a human being of flesh and blood, not as an angel made of fire. I wonder why people the world over have raised an uproar on such human and...
Rising from the underground train station at Charring Cross in London, one morning I set on a concrete bench at the Trafalgar Square. A lot of pigeons, the hallmark of the British capital, were intermittently flying low and descending to...
Vernon SilverOn Dec. 23, 2006, the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran's maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles. Known as SHIG, the Iranian firm produces the Shahab...
Aliza MarcusRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will propose tax breaks to help Americans pay for health insurance and incentives for states to craft their own programs to make sure everyone gets coverage. Romney, who as governor of Massachusetts supported legislation...
President Iajuddin Ahmed told the Belgian envoy to Bangladesh that the next parliamentary elections would be held within the timeframe set by the Election Commission, reports UNB.Patrick Beyter, the outgoing ambassador of Belgium, based in New Delhi, made a farewell...
The Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman Monday expressed his disappointments over the Supreme Court (SC) order staying High Court (HC)-granted bail to his detained party chief and ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB.He said not only the party-men but...
The Anti-corruption Commi-ssion (ACC) Monday said the Appellate Division verdict staying the High Court's earlier order and asking former premier Sheikh Hasina to submit her wealth statement within seven working days proves that the issuance of notice to her by...
Law and Information Adviser Mainul Hosein Monday billed the present caretaker government as a national government backed by the army that rescued the nation from an impending civil war, reports UNB.During a meeting with editors of the electronic media at...
RANGPUR, Aug 27 (BSS): The process of preparing voter list with photographs and national identity (ID) cards gained further momentum each passing day as hundreds of common people were rushing to the registration centres in Rangpur pourasabha.A total of 60,309...
Acting United States (US) Ambassador Geeta Pasi Sunday hosted a party that brought together senior politicians of different hues and business leaders, reports bdnews24.com. One of the leaders said the get-together was intended to introduce two new US diplomats --...
Former premier Khaleda Zia's parliamentary affairs adviser Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury was transferred from Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute (ICHRI) to Kashimpur jail Monday afternoon, reports bdnews24.com.His son Hummam Qader Chowdhury told the news agency that authorities informed the family...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has greeted newly appointed Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura on his appointment, reports UNB."Bangladesh and Japan have always enjoyed strong and friendly relations. I am confident that these bonds will gain strength and...
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed called on President Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban Monday, when post-flood rehabilitation and food-rationing plans were discussed among other issues, reports UNB.The President called for concentrated efforts to make sure that the people can lead a normal...
A tougher competition awaits the students who will seek admission to the public universities as a record number of them has passed this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations under the seven education boards, reports BSS.The pass percentage in the...
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