Bangladesh Shilpa Bank (BSB) has recovered over Tk 1.06 billion (106.40 crore) loans during the 2006-07 financial year, which was 6.40 per cent higher than its recovery target. BSB Managing Director Md Amanullah disclosed these in the city Wednesday. —...
FE ReportThe government will seek extra fund from the World Bank in addition to one being provided under its four-year lending programme to support Bangladesh's development in different sectors like energy and power.Official sources said that the government would request...
Siddique Islam Remittances sent by Bangladeshis working abroad reached nearly US$6.00 billion, a record in the country's history, in fiscal 20006-07 that ended June 30 last, official sources said.They said the amount is 24.52 per cent higher than that of...
The Ministry of Home Affairs has okayed a proposal to empower deputy commissioners (DCs) of 17 districts with the authority to issue and renew passports, the ministry's secretary said Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com.Secretary Abdul Karim said the move was meant to...
M Azizur RahmanThe government is mulling over a plan to recast governing board of the state-owned power and energy companies aiming to remove anomalies and corruption in those entities.Secretaries of both Power Division and the Energy and Mineral Resources Division...
FHM Humayan KabirThe ongoing development projects of different ministries are now being scrutinised by the higher authorities ahead of a review meeting, which will be held shortly, official sources said.Sources in the finance ministry said the finance and planning adviser...
WRESTLING does not automatically enhance body vitality for anyone to aspire to join this tough game for improving frail health. A recent seminar in Dhaka sent out this message in a different way when it concluded that the country should...
Enayet RasulIT was no secret for a long time that some so called fish traders driven by the instinct of making quick money at the expense of public health, have been breeding fishes in sewer lagoons at Narayanganj near Dhaka...
Abul EhsanSOME of the leading western democratic countries including the United States have recognised gay-rights and legitimised the same sex marriages accepting the involved weird habit as a matter of biological orientation. When they have gone to such an extreme...
Michiyo NakamotoALMOST as soon as it has entered the Japanese lexicon, "shareholder activism" has become practically a dirty phrase in the land of stakeholder capitalism.The Japanese corporate community has responded to a growing band of shareholder activists with defence measures...
IT is surprising that the government introduced a provision to show birth registration for enjoying a number of citizen rights a few year back. Despite this, the process of birth registration is found very slow because many people are not...
THE Economic and Social Council of the United Nations is said to have selected this country along with Cambodia as the models in poverty alleviation and have invited their representatives to present their success stories at its on-going ministerial level...
Baradan Kuppusamy from Kuala LumpurUnskilled worker Henok Sibuea, 30, from Sumatra, Indonesia, gathered together his savings and, like thousands of his compatriots, paid for a boat trip across the Straits of Malacca and landed here hoping to escape poverty, get...
Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic human right. Hama Arba Diallo, outgoing executive secretary of the Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is convinced that the United Nations is about to formally...
Hideko TakayamaKim Jong Il no longer supports the government of North Korea. Kim is a 66-year-old businessman who owns a shoe factory in Kobe, Japan. In 1997, he resolved to switch his citizenship to South Korea from North Korea after...
Zofeen Ebrahim from Geneva'Pro-poor Growth' sounded impressive as the title for a plenary at a major civil society meet here, but after the idea was explored, toyed with, taken apart and viewed from every possible angle it seemed as distant...
Imam, thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me. I bring my personal respect to you, sir. And I appreciate your friendship. I do want to thank the governors of the Islamic Center. I welcome the Ambassadors. Thank you...
Bo NilesAfter nearly 30 years I take my neighbourhood almost for granted, but on the rare occasion when I sit down and think about it, I find the place pretty amazing. On any given day within a few blocks of...
Linda BarthIt was a town where the trails started and the buck stopped. Home to a President and an outlaw, it made room for both.As you drive in from Kansas city, independence doesn't look as if it has much to...
SEOUL, July 3 (AFP): South Korea, China and the United States want to hold four-party talks including North Korea to discuss a peace treaty for the Korean peninsula, a Seoul foreign ministry official said Wednesday. "It is true that such...
A Pakistani soldier has been killed in clashes with radical Islamist students outside a rebellious mosque in the capital, Islamabad, officials say, reports BBC. Reports say police fired tear gas at a group of students and that students then opened...
SAN'A, Yemen, July 3 (AP): A suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber plowed his car Monday into a group of Spanish tourists visiting a temple linked to the ancient Queen of Sheba, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis in a part of...
TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters): Japan's defence minister resigned Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly tapped a woman for the post to try to quell...
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 3 (AFP): With her nearest rival gaining momentum in the 2008 US presidential race, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton brought in her biggest weapon yet in her race for the presidency: her husband Bill. The charismatic former...
BUENOS AIRES, July 3 (AFP): Argentina's powerful First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, 54, heads to the October 28 presidential election as the clear favorite to replace her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as head of state. "We are in the presence...
COLOMBO, July 3 (AFP): Sri Lankan soldiers killed four suspected Tamil Tiger rebels as fresh fighting flared in the island's troubled northern district, the defence ministry said Tuesday. Security forces confronted a group of rebels late Monday along a de...
SINGAPORE, July 3 (AFP): Oil prices fell in Asian trade today on profit-taking but the dip was likely to be brief amid strong concerns over low US gasoline (petrol) supplies, dealers said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for...
TOKYO, July 3 (AFP): The WTO's Group of Ten (G10) food importing countries, including Japan, have calling for wider participation in the stalled Doha round of trade liberalisation talks on agricultural issues, a key sticking point. The G10 countries want...
FE ReportMercantile Insurance will give 10 per cent dividend to its shareholders for the year that ended on December 31, 2006. It was approved at the 11th annual general meeting of Mercantile Insurance Company Limited held at Engineer's Institution in...
TEHRAN, July 3 (AFP): The world's fourth biggest oil producer Iran has successfully reduced petrol consumption after implementing a rationing scheme over angry protests, press reports said yesterday. "Petrol consumption has been down by six million litres per day and...
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