RANGPUR, Nov 17 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here have urged the public representatives, professionals, social workers, government, non-governmental and voluntary organisations to accelerate their activities to check the spread of HIV/AIDS.Mithapukur Upazila Health Complex (MUHC) authorities with the assistance...
FE ReportMembers of Dhaka University Journalists' Association (DUJA) expressed their deep shock at the tragic deaths of the parents of former DU Correspondent of the Ittefaq Mizanur Rahman Saturday.Rahman's father Adam Ali Khan (55), and mother Anwara Begum died Thursday...
FE ReportUCEP annual painting exhibition 2007 began on UCEP head office premises Thursday. Selected artworks of the underprivileged working children of UCEP are being displayed at the exhibition scheduled to remain open until December 31, 2007.Immediate past chairperson of UCEP...
The department of Chemical Engineering, BUET, organised a seminar on "Chemical Engineering Education and Practice" recently at the Council Bhaban, BUET as part of the 60 years celebration of engineering education in Bangladesh, reports BSS. Dr AMM Safiullah, Vice-Chancellor, BUET...
FE ReportThe death toll from a powerful cyclone that pulverised the country's south-western coasts stood at 2000 Saturday, while the government intensified rescue and relief operations to help the SIDR-survivors avoid hunger and death.However, official figures put the death toll...
FE ReportThe Thursday's severe cyclonic storm that hit a number of coastal districts caused extensive damage to standing crops in an estimated area of 142,176 hectares.According to preliminary official assessment, at least 0.5 million tonnes of aman rice have been...
A special meeting of the advisory council of the caretaker government Saturday allocated Tk 350 million in emergency aid for house building in the cyclone-affected districts and asked the ministries concerned to restore the snapped communications networks on an urgent...
M Azizur RahmanA significant number of production units in different sectors, including those of the highest export earning ready-made garment (RMG) sector, is now out of operation due to inadequate electricity supply across the country.The industries that have captive power...
Chief Adviser Dr Fakruddin Ahmed Saturday told a visiting European Parliamentary delegation that the law of the land would decide the fate of the two detained top leaders of two major political parties. He also said the state of emergency...
Krishna Guha in Washington and Michael Mackenzie in New York, FT Syndication ServiceThe risk of a collision between the Federal Reserve and the markets grew last Friday after Fed governor Randall Kroszner made it clear he believed that the US...
Siddique Islam The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has opened a new window for trading only government bonds aiming to bring dynamism in the country's secondary bond market, official sources said. The central bank used the outlet for the first time Thursday...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Production of eight of the 20 major industries under both public and private sectors declined sharply in July compared with that in June this year. This was revealed in a report prepared by the Bangladesh Bureau of...
The three-day Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition - 2007 (BATEXPO '07), showcasing the country's entire range of apparel items, concluded Saturday, receiving spot orders worth $53.43 million, reports UNB.The RMG-manufacturers also received $3.83 million spot orders from stock lot. Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS) Saturday made an appeal to International Red Cross for 4.0 million Swiss francs for relief and rehabilitation in the cyclone-affected districts, as millions of distressed people cried for help. "Apart from loss of human lives,...
All examinations under the National University (NU), scheduled to be held on November 18-22, have been postponed due to inclement weather. A NU press release Saturday said, the fresh date for the postponed examinations will be announced later. However, schedules...
President Prof Iajuddin Ahmed will today (Sunday) fly to Dublar Char, a small island on the sea-shore, badly affected by the Friday's cyclone 'SIDR'. Authorities confirmed the visit of the President. —UNB
Bangladesh Awami League Saturday sent one-relief team and a medical team to Barisal region, the worst-affected cyclone hit area of the country. Acting Awami League President Zillur Rahman told reporters at a press briefing at his Gulshan residence in the...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is now preparing bidding documents to invite six potential investors to buy the shares worth Tk 4.0 billion of the troubled Oriental Bank Limited. The tender documents are like to be sent to the...
Worried Dhaka residents thronged Sadarghat launch terminal Saturday afternoon to travel to storm-hit areas in search of news of family and friends. Many had no other way of knowing whether their loved ones had survived the killer storm. Some launches...
FE Report The government will fix modalities to off-load shares of five major state-owned enterprises (SoEs), including Biman Bangladesh and Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB), in a meeting today (Sunday) as part of its privatisation process, sources said.The other...
British Minister for Asia at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Lord Malloch Brown has condoled the death of the Bangladeshi people by the Cyclone Sidr and offered immediate support to relief efforts through the UN, report agencies. In a message...
Naim-Ul-KairmBiman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd (BBAL) is likely to incur substantial losses due to cancellation of scheduled hajj flights for non-availability of adequate number of pilgrims, sources said. "We have already cancelled as many as seven hajj flights till today as...
Climate change is real and is happening at an ever faster pace, a United Nations scientific panel said in a hard-hitting report issued Saturday on tackling global warming, reports CNN.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was delivering its fourth and...
The rampaging storm claimed at least seven lives in the city now hit by power outages and lack of water supply, reports bdnews24.com. Power blacked out Thursday midnight, plunging the city into darkness except for pockets of residential areas in...
RIYADH, Nov 16 (Reuters): OPEC will back the fight against global warming at a heads of state meeting this weekend and affirm its commitment to "stable, competitive" oil prices, according to the summit's draft declaration.The group "shares the international community's...
FHM Humayan KabirThe finance adviser will sit with all stakeholders shortly to identify and resolve the hurdles impeding the implementation of foreign-funded projects under the Annual Development Programme (ADP).The adviser might sit separately with different ministries to review the progress...
Envoy, Musharraf hold face-to-face talks ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) (AP): Washington's No. 2 diplomat met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf Saturday after talking by phone overnight with one of the military ruler's chief rivals, a bit of face-to-face diplomacy aimed at convincing...
UNTAPPED resources, if harnessed in time, can bring immense benefit to national economies and peoples across national borders. The position of Bangladesh and its immediate neighbouring country, Myanmar, is a case in point. Both are geographically located to enjoy huge...
Syed Fattahul AlimDEVOLUTION of power to the local governments is an age-old demand of the political quarters as well as the intelligentsia. The governments that took office in the past were never short of goodwill to empower the local government...
M Azizur RahmanBANGLADESH economy has been slowing down due to a host of factors including falling investment, credit crunch, rising unemployment and inflation galloping to about 15 per cent under the impact of various unfavourable developments, particularly global trends. There...
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