Abdullah Mohibuddin LAST October Chief Advisor went for a short trip to New York to attend the UN session. During his stay in New York, Bangladeshi living in New York and New York State had approached and requested him to...
Syed Fattahul AlimTHIS history of Pakistani politics is one of military rules interspersed with civilian rules. Democracy, however, always remained the watchword of all types of rulers whether in khaki or civilian garb, dictatorial or democratic. Once in power the...
Syed Fattahul AlimTHIS history of Pakistani politics is one of military rules interspersed with civilian rules. Democracy, however, always remained the watchword of all types of rulers whether in khaki or civilian garb, dictatorial or democratic. Once in power the...
At the age of 15, Samantha Walker was lured into prostitution on the streets of Toledo, Ohio, then taken against her will to Atlanta. What makes her story different from thousands of others is that she testified against one of...
Asma Hoque Parveen Akhter, a resident of Mirpur-10, has been without tap water for three days. Every morning she sends her maid to bring water from a mosque nearby. The maid brings the water-filled plastic containers to the ground floor...
Enayet RasulThe greatest problem noted in the economy of Bangladesh is the slowdown. When the economy moves on or grows, all expectations such as jobs, income, standard of living, meeting basic needs of people, etc., all are addressed positively in...
Ishrat FirdousiThe special feature of BRAC's Ultra Poor Programme is that instead of loans, the target families are provided with grants and assets after scrutiny. This means that the assets that are transferred to the beneficiaries are not taken back....
Southern California is sunny, the French Riviera is sunny, but NASA says the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the Sahara Desert in Niger are the sunniest and the information could be worth money. America's space exploration agency has located...
Martyn SlomanTHE development of professional workers in organisations has become a growing priority in the past few years. The acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills of employees, if properly harnessed and directed, has become a crucial difference between organisations. It...
Michael SkapinkerTHE UK is next year introducing a points-based immigration system to attract the world's most skilled migrants. Had either the young Bill Gates or Steve Jobs decided to set up in Britain rather than the US, they would not...
Joe Leahy PRIVATE equity firms are expected to be investing nearly $20bn in India annually by 2010, according to a new study.The report by Evalueserve, a research firm, estimates that India will attract $13.5bn in private equity funding this year,...
David HaleTHE recent decline of the dollar is not a by-product of traditional concerns about the US current account deficit. The US economy is in the midst of an export boom that could reduce the deficit from more than 6.5...
Simon TilfordOne of the arguments in favour of establishing the euro was that it would quickly come to rival the dollar's status as the world's principal reserve currency and make it hard for the US to abuse its "exorbitant privilege":...
Martin WalkerThe most dramatic demographic shift in human history appears to be taking place in today's Iran. Thirty years ago, as the shah was being driven into exile and the Islamic republic was being established, the fertility rate of Iranian...
Geoff MulganTo the rest of the world China looks like an environmental car crash, a superpower superpolluter that along with the US has become the most obdurate barrier to action on climate change. Every self-respecting green knows that it is...
Philippa Fogarty In Tokyo's Harajuku district, a steady stream of people are visiting the Meiji Shrine. Parents with small children dressed in traditional kimono stand in front of the shrine, clap twice and then bow, before turning to pose for...
SHANGHAI, China -- A housing-market meltdown may be wracking the U.S. economy and shaking the financial markets, but in Asia, the question is how to cool things down.From China and South Korea to India and Singapore, housing prices are soaring...
FE Report Prices of rice have registered an upward trend at the wholesale markets in the city on receipt of information of poor government stock of the same during the last week that ended Friday, market operators said. Prices of...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Salehuddin Ahmed urged LankaBangla to contribute meaningfully to the economic development of the country taking into consideration its social values and moral ethos. He also urged it continue to serve the society as well as...
FE ReportThe 66th branch of the IFIC Bank Limited was inaugurated at Rifat Square Plaza, Jamgora, Ashulia under Savar Upazila of Dhaka recently. Chairman of the bank Mohammad Lutfar Rahman inaugurated the branch. Directors of the bank Abu Tahir Mohammad...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate maintained its steady level last week despite withdrawal of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills and Bangladesh government treasury (BGT) bonds, fund managers said.The demand for...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Nov 30: Speakers at a seminar demanded landport at Chilahati and speedy extraction of coal and mineral resources discovered in Rangpur, Dinajpur and Jaipurhat under a comprehensive plan of development for the northern region of the country. The...
Commercial Bank of CeylonNovember 25 - November 29, 2007 The local call money market experienced a stable tone last week and the average inter-bank call money rate drifted between 6.50 per cent and 6.60 per cent against 6.60 per cent...
The third Bangladesh Knitwear Exhibition will begin at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel tomorrow (Sunday).Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will inaugurate the exhibition as the chief guest.About 50 companies are participating in the exhibition. Foreign buyers are also expected to take part in...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (AP): Pakistani opposition leaders were divided Friday on whether to contest parliamentary elections under President Pervez Musharraf, a day after he bowed to international pressure by saying he would end emergency rule ahead of the ballot. Former...
LAKE FOREST, California, Nov 30 (AP): Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton used an appearance at one of the nation's largest evangelical churches Thursday to sketch a broad agenda to take on disease around the globe, calling it 'the right thing to...
SYDNEY, Nov 30 (AFP): Australia's prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd Friday said that Australia's 550 combat troops in Iraq would be withdrawn by the middle of next year. Rudd was elected in a landslide Saturday which ousted veteran conservative prime minister...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass, Nov 30 (AP): Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies....
CAIRO, Nov 30 (AP): Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States (US) in the war in Afghanistan, according to a new tape released Thursday. Bin Laden said it was unjust for the United...
TOKYO, Nov 30 (Reuters): Japan's defence ministry, hit by a bribery scandal involving a former top official, has provided its officials with wallet-sized plastic cards spelling out activities that would run foul of ethics rules. "If you have questions, don't...
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