John Ruwitch and Clare Baldwin of Reuters in Hong Kong | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Pro-democracy protesters faced off against supporters of Chinese rule in Hong Kong's teeming Mong Kok district early last week, in a tense confrontation that has undermined hopes for talks aimed at ending a week of turmoil. Scuffles broke out late...
Michelle Moghtader of Reuters in Tehran | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
President Hassan Rouhani called last week for Iran's universities to admit more foreign students and lecturers, dismissing conservatives' fears that more interaction with the outside world would encourage espionage. His remarks at Tehran University appeared to be a fresh riposte...
Ali Abdelaty of Reuters in Beirut | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle East. The group, which U.S-led forces...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The government has no immediate plan to intervene in the country's non-essential drugs market despite fixation of higher prices of those by the manufacturers, officials said. Manufacturers often raise the prices of non-essential drugs themselves in the absence of any...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The cattle markets in the city witnessed buying spree Saturday, just two days ahead of the holy Eid-ul- Azha as the sellers showed flexibility of their asking prices. A visit to some makeshift cattle markets revealed that the sufficient supply...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
A sharp 49 per cent increase in the procurement of fuel oils pulled the country's overall import payments up by nearly 12 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), official sources said. However, the...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
This paper in a front-page photograph published on October 01 showed a policeman realising fine from a motorcyclist found guilty of riding on the footpath in front of Ramna Park. Indeed this is a rare occasion of penalising a biker...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
An organised gang is suspected to be involved in the misappropriation of government money through unauthorised encashment of pay orders submitted by taxpayers with their annual returns. Bank officials are allegedly involved in the mischief. The gang members have opened...
Md. Abu Abdullah | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
Economic development largely depends on competitive trade and industrial environment of a country. Therefore, policy interventions are required to boost trade and industrial development and expansion of exports. If industrialists, traders and exporters of our country wish to get benefit...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
A good number of ministers of this government are like loose cannons. They are serious embarrassment and danger to it in the manner they speak to the media. This has been flagged many times and over a long period of...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
Muslims throughout the world celebrate Eid ul-Azha or the Feast of the Sacrifice to honour the readiness of Hazrat Ibrahim (pbh) to sacrifice his dearest son Ismail as an act of supreme obedience to Allah. The basis for the Eid...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
Darkness is our constant companion. This is the dominant feeling as we look around. So depressing is the scenario in every sector of life: politics, administration, education and business, even in social service that one is tempted to echo the...
Sharmila Chakraborty | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
Teachers are the most respected professionals of the society. Teaching profession can be considered as the mother of all professions because every profession is born out of teaching. A teacher also determines the quality of a nation. It is the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The country's capital markets witnessed no flotation of closed-end mutual fund (MF) in last 18 months although 36 companies went public during the period, officials said. The asset management companies (AMCs) said they failed to float any closed-end MF due...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The government aims to near double exports to US$50 billion by 2018 as it frames new export policy, betting on the markets of three Asian economic giants, trade officials said. Commerce ministry officials said Japan, India, and China will emerge...
Munima Sultana | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The government has planned to set up a clearing house to introduce the one ticket system for all modes of public and mass transport services to reduce hassles of commuters. Officials said the one ticket system, known as 'smart card'...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh provided 3.6 million direct jobs, contributed 13 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and fetched over 75 per cent of foreign exchange earnings in 2012, says the World Bank data as...
Engr KZ Islam | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee (JSC) meeting, scheduled to be held on October 10 in New Delhi, will discuss some bilateral issues. Establishment of an electricity corridor using the Bangladesh territory to transmit around 6,000 megawatts of hydro-electricity from Arunachal...
Syful Islam | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will further study potentials of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) or free trade agreement (FTA) aiming to enhance bilateral trade, sources said. At a recent meeting of joint working group on trade in Colombo, the two...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The government has directed the commercial counsellors in different foreign missions to identify and sort out non-tariff barriers facing export to their assigned countries under a move to boost the external trade, officials said. In a simultaneous move, the government...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) temporarily suspended sale of essential commodities through trucks three days before the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. This has caused utter disappointment among consumers. The suspension of sale of essential commodities at subsidised rates by the...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
Although Bangladesh's population consists mostly of Bengali speakers, it also contains a variety of ethnic groups mostly living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The CHT an abode of about 800,000 tribal people forming 0.5 per cent of the total...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-10-04 00:00:00
Hundreds of people, reportedly, have already fallen victim to what is known as 'agyan party' or 'malam party'. Understandably, the rationale behind naming them so is the substance they use in order to leave their targeted persons temporarily unconscious by...
M. A. Taslim | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
During the early phases of economic development most of the labour force of a country finds employment in agricultural and related activities. As other sectors grow with economic development, the share of the labour force engaged in agriculture starts declining,...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The government is set to purchase power to be generated from solar panels to be set up on rooftops of houses in urban areas. Such power will be added to the national grid. With an aim to popularise solar power...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The flow of inward remittances during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) marked a significant rise by 21.85 per cent to US$ 3.98 billion over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, officials said Thursday....
S. M. Rayhanul Islam, reviewing the publication | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
"Praise youth and it will prosper." - Irish proverb Youths have an endless potential which makes them the most important and productive guiding force for any nation. Development of a society as well as a country mainly depends on the...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Flower is a widely used product around the world. Global export of Cut flowers and flower buds for bouquets, fresh or dried (H.S. 0603) was UDS 7375,7680,8387,8480 and 8442 million in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively. Top 10...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Recent studies have painted a grim picture of life on the only known planet to have ever fostered the same. But the latest study, a major and most comprehensive one to date, by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals that...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The government has initiated a move to assess the outcome and impact of its cash incentive against some export items, officials said. Under the move, the ministry of finance (MoF) has decided to prepare a study paper on the effectiveness...
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