Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate remained steady last week although the central bank withdrew cash through reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills and Bangladesh Government Treasury (BGT) bonds, fund managers said.The market experienced adequate liquidity...
FE ReportThe monthly managers' meeting of the Bank Asia was held in the city recently with the bank's President and Managing Director Syed Anisul Huq in the chair.Managers of the branches and senior executives of the corporate office of the...
Riding on a stunning 117 by Younis Khan, Pakistan pulled off a sensational last-over victory over India in the second ODI at Mohali Thursday. Pakistan's 322, their highest-ever total chasing, cancelled out Sachin Tendulkar's majestic 99, reports Cricinfo.Younis arrived in...
The 1st phase 4th round matches of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League begins today (Saturday) with the six Divisional teams playing each other in the four-day affairs, reports UNB.League leaders Rajshahi Division take on Khulna Division at...
Twin centuries to Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey gave Australia's scorecard a familiar look for their first Test innings of the home summer, which Ricky Ponting finally closed at 4 for 551. In reply Sri Lanka suffered from a Brett...
South Africa's pace bowlers ripped through some flimsy batting to leave New Zealand struggling to remain in this match after only five sessions of the first Test at The Wanderers. New Zealand lost 8 for 77 in little more than...
Six key players of four Divisional teams will miss the 4th round maches of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League that begins today (Saturday), reports UNB.They are fast bowler Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak of...
FRANKFURT, Nov 9 (AFP): German football federation bosses appeared Friday to give Iranian-born midfielder Ashkan Dejagah a second chance to play for his adopted country.The VfL Wolfsburg midfielder, born in Tehran but who grew up in Berlin, caused something of...
The Shapla Rang Biponi 1st Baseball Tournament, organised by Bangladesh Baseball Federation, begins tomorrow (Sunday) at the Outer Stadium in the city, reports UNB.National Sports Council (NSC) Secretary Aminul Islam will formally inaugurate the meet as the chief guest.Three teams...
BERLIN, Nov 9 (AFP): Goals either side of half-time by Bayern Munich's forgotten hero Lukas Podolski was not enough as Bolton Wanderers fought back to claim a 2-2 draw in Thursday night's UEFA Cup clash.Podolski, 22, was given a rare...
IT'S not for nothing that the adage -- a stitch in time can save nine -- came out of human wisdom. The caution was made about two months ago about a serious shortage of essential and life-saving drugs leading to...
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed concluding his two-part write-upThe banking system in Bangladesh is continuously adopting modem and innovative products. and services, to make smooth payments and transactions. Foreign commercial banks (FCBs) in Bangladesh are playing a pioneer role in introducing modem...
William Barnes Asia is bursting with entrepreneurial energy - and bribery, backdoor deals and corporate skulduggery, if the news headlines are to be believed.For example, China's food safety chief was recently executed for taking payoffs, while the Communist party leader...
Hasibul HasanEXPORTING of fruits and vegetables from Bangladesh can prove to be very gainful activities creating value chains and employment extensively at the grass roots level. Unlike other export oriented industries, the retention of value-added earnings from the export of...
MOST developing countries woo their non-residents, who work abroad, for their resources. The expatriates are valued as forex fund sources to finance economic activities in the home countries.Bangladesh has not been able to fully tap this source of finance, expertise...
A government in the early part of the last decade could substantially increase local milk production that led to the import of powdered milk falling to about one fourth of its previous level. It was astounding that a poor country...
MORE and more westerners are taking to eastern habits of eating a plenty of fruits and vegetables for health benefits.Research findings, published in an American Academy of Neurology (AAN) journal, show that senior persons can, by eating more vegetables, prevent...
Nanna LüneborgONLY a few months ago, I was trekking around Ilulissat in Greenland, my one-year-old daughter strapped to my back, admiring some of the most spectacular scenery on earth. After more than a decade in the UK, mostly in London,...
Masih Malik ChowdhuryAS we all know, foreign direct investment(FDI) has changed the fate of many economies. However, FDI has its own characteristics. Not all these characteristics are the same for different economies. FDI requires early pay back and the quicker...
Maswood Alam KhanNOW I realise why my mother was so desperate a few months before her death to meet her relations and acquaintances and why after her emotional reunions with her missing soul mates she used to be more desperate...
Enayet RasulMembers of a family at the grass roots of existence from Gopalganj in the Faridpur district were in the office of the Dhaka Reporters Unity to draw attention to murder and demand justice . The father of the slain...
Ishrat FirdousiMehena was born to a poor family at Chilmari Char under Chilmari Union in Chilmari Upazilla of Kurigram district. Her days were spent in near starvation. Even though she wanted to she could not study beyond Class-3; there was...
The sequencing and comparison of 12 fruit fly genomes -- the result of a massive collaboration of hundreds of scientists from more than 100 institutions in 16 countries -- has thrust forward researchers' understanding of fruit flies, a popular animal...
Syed Fattahul AlimOur darling green planet Earth has been travelling in space for billions of years alone. The silence of its loneliness, however, is broken by the humming of life. It has long been an issue of profound debate, if...
Rashada Akther Shimul The Physics class at a college in Dhaka is interrupted by a musical ringer from a mobile. The teacher discovered the mobile in the hands of one of her students _ a gift from his parents for...
It's always hard to know what military dictators really think. So it's worth examining closely a recent public statement by one of Burma's leaders on the occasion of United Nations Envoy Ibrahim Gambari's visit to the country. There is some...
Moshe AmiravNEXT month US President George W. Bush proposes to host an international conference in Annapolis, near Washington, in the hope of advancing a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. The failure of previous attempts -- in Madrid in...
Clive CrookIn its new World Economic Outlook the International Monetary Fund looks at the politically freighted question of globalisation and inequality. Scanning press accounts of the document I thought for a moment there must be two such publications. The study...
Nassim Nicholas TalebLAST August, The Wall Street Journal published a statement by one Matthew Rothman, financial economist, expressing his surprise that financial markets experienced a string of events that "would happen once in 10,000 years". A portrait of Mr Rothman...
Jon AltermanCONDOLEEZZA Rice, the US secretary of state, is bringing the wrong people together in Annapolis, near Washington, this month. Belatedly deciding that the time has come for the Bush administration to put energy and focus into Arab-Israeli peacemaking, her...
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