GAZIPUR, June 30 (bdnews24.com): Chief election commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said Saturday that an election roadmap would be declared by mid-July to clear the way for the ninth national parliamentary polls to be held by end-2008. "We will declare...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Saturday said people want to see a united BNP, not a split one, as it is the most popular party of the country, reports UNB.About the reform proposals placed by the party's some front ranking leaders,...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has taken a move to update its listing regulations. The last revision in the regulations was made in 1998.The bourse has already made a primary draft on the changes now under review, sources said....
FE ReportThe interim government has decided to simplify the process of issuance and renewal of passports, making the existing rules and procedures easier.It is also considering options for extending the validity period of passports up to 10 years from the...
Production at Ashuganj Zia Fertiliser Factory in Brahmanbaria was suspended Saturday morning due to technical problem, reports UNB.The factory authorities suspended the production at about 8:00 am soon after the stock of ammonia, main component for producing urea, was exhausted....
Five persons were killed and 37 others injured, 12 of them seriously, in a road accident on Dhaka-Barisal Highway at Pulia in Faridpur Friday mid-night. Police and fire service sources said, the accident occurred when a Dhaka-bound passenger bus from...
Khulna Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President and BNP leader Shaharuzzaman Murtaza, arrested from his residence at Bhairabsthan in Khulna city Friday, was sent to jail Saturday. Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqul Haque gave the order after rejecting a bail petition....
SAVAR, June 30: Army personnel Saturday arrested a land official and his three associates while taking bribe from a landowner. Assistant land officer Abdul Munnaf Mullah, a former Tehshildar Syed Musa and two associates were arrested from the land office....
Doulot Akter MalaState-owned Petrobangla and US-based oil company Chevron are at loggerheads over payment of Tk 300 million as 'tax on tax' to the national exchequer.The Chevron, which took over from Unocal in 2006, paid the amount as tax-on-tax over...
FE ReportThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) is likely to provide Bangladesh US$130 million worth of fund to improve the governance in different public entities, official sources said.An appraisal mission from the multilateral donor will arrive in Dhaka for an eight-day...
FE Report The auction of treasury bills (T-bills) will be held today (Sunday) in the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to borrow net Tk 72.53 billion from banking system by the government during fiscal 2007-08. The central bank has already issued the...
FE Report All commercial banks remained open Saturday, the last working day of the current fiscal, to facilitate government transactions, including revenue collection.Clearing house and related departments of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) also functioned to facilitate the banking activities across...
BAGERHAT, June 30 (UNB): Some 40 fishermen went missing as 14 trawlers capsized in the Bay since Friday noon until early Saturday amid inclement weather.Sources said the 14 trawlers with 155 fishermen were overturned during the period by squalls triggered...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government will soon invite the authority concerned of Australia to visit Bangladesh to explore the possibility of manpower recruitment, sources said.Besides, the government is also planning to invite authorities concerned of some European, North American and Scandinavian countries, which...
Date of N Korean reactor closure depends on six-party talks A UN nuclear inspector says the date when North Korea shuts down it nuclear reactor depends on discussions between Pyongyang and five other countries that signed a disarmament agreement, reports...
BANDARBAN, June 30 (UNB): DANIDA project officer Hossain Shahid Sumon kidnapped by tribal miscreants six days ago has been located and his rescue is now a matter of time, claimed law enforcing agencies Saturday."The miscreants are now in Jinnahpara, Hindumukh...
The caretaker government is likely to invite international tenders in July for setting up three large independent power producer (IPP) plants, each with 450 megawatt (MW) capacity, reports UNB. The proposed plants, with about 1,350 MW total capacity, are 450...
FE ReportSpeakers at a roundtable discussion Saturday urged the government to continue the drive against corruption without creating panic among the businessmen for maintaining the sustainable economic growth.The participants said even small traders should not be panicky due to ongoing...
Seven more districts are going to come under the mobile phone network of Warid Telecom, raising the number of districts Warid brought under its coverage to 42 from 35, reports UNB. The new districts to be brought under the network...
Two reports released late last week highlighted the problem of fast urbanization in Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated countries. While releasing the State of the World Population 2007, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in...
Shahiduzzaman Khan writesBiogas, an alternative to conventional fuel oil or wood, is being increasingly used in Bangladesh. It is being used for cooking and other household purposes in mostly rural areas of the country. The consumers are now using it...
Wolfgang Munchau"Competition as an ideology, as a dogma, what has it done for Europe? Fewer and fewer people who vote in European elections and fewer and fewer people who believe in Europe."Nicolas Sarkozy at the recent EU summitAs European Union...
M M AhmedTHE rivers that flow through and past Dhaka city are in extremely burdened conditions from the carefree discharge of all forms of untreated effluents in them. Recent newspaper photos highlighted prominently the very degraded water quality of these...
A fair election commission(EC) is the prerequisite for a free and fair election. These incidents point to the fact that since 1991, results of all the national elections were rejected by the losing party alleging that those were rigged. The...
Qazi AzadIT was interesting to hear newly appointed Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman Dr. Sadat Hossain answering some difficult questions in an interview programme of a local TV channel last Monday. He could not come up with satisfactory answers to...
Sundeep TuckerPROTECTIONIST legislation and management culture are the most serious obstacles to continuing growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a survey published recently.More than 80 per cent of senior executives of major companies...
Shamsuddin AhmedEVENTS of the past should be recalled by any serious nation in order to avoid repeating mistakes. Let us recall some such events here. An official move was made during the tenure of the first BNP government after 1990...
It is delightful to see the new website of the Financial Express. The design and information now being provided in the site are noteworthy and appreciable. Particularly, the initiative to let the visitors of the FE on the web to...
EVEN coarse rice is now selling unthinkably at Taka 22-24 per kg. The prices of such varieties of rice were between Taka 16-18 last year. Thus, the hardships of poor people know no bounds.It is well known that the price...
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