Neil Ray | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
Cancer is considered the sixth killer disease in Bangladesh with about 150,000 annual casualties. To the total number of cancer patients estimated at 1.3-1.5 million, 0.2 million new patients are added every year. Now what is most alarming is the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
How are the demutualised stock exchanges performing in Bangladesh? It is too early to ask this kind of question for only 16 months have gone by since the demutualisation of the country's bourses. Yet a reporter from The Financial Express...
Salahuddin Kasem Khan | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
The joint Japan-Bangladesh Public-Private Economic Dialogue, held last week in Dhaka, was an important event. It took place about two weeks ahead of the forthcoming visit of Mr. Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister (PM) of Japan, to Bangladesh. Abe will...
Aditya Kalra of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
The government on Saturday ordered a review of activities at all state-owned hospitals to end what the health minister called systemic corruption, as part of the new administration's crackdown on malpractice in the healthcare sector. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government...
Howard Schneider of Reuters from Jackson Hole (Wyo) | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
The Bank of Japan may have to pursue its aggressive monetary policy easing for "some time" to fully vanquish deflation, BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Saturday. Speaking at a global central banking conference here, Kuroda said the central bank's...
William James and John Irish of Reuters from London | 2014-08-25 00:00:00
European leaders face calls to take direct action against the Islamic State including in Syria after the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, but politicians are reluctant to take the lead after previous missteps in the region. The release of...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Stocks edged marginally lower for the third sessions straight on Sunday with turnover improved slightly as late profit booking sale cut early gains. The market started with a positive note, but could not sustain as the session progressed. DSEX, the...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Local and international syndicates are using country's airways for the smuggling of foreign currencies and carrying out underworld financial deals which have crossed all previous records in recent times, official sources say. Different intelligence agencies can trace and catch hardly...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Pakistan passes through a fast-developing situation on the political front. The political crisis stemming from the demand for resignation of the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has somewhat unexpectedly brought the nation to a kind of standoff, which is...
Khairul Islam | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Repeated efforts of the telecom regulator to realise nearly Tk18 billion outstanding dues from some international gateway (IGW) operators went in vain due to poor response from most of the defaulters. According to the BTRC sources, until August 20, the...
Munima Sultana | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The Ministry of Communication (MoC) has prepared a list of mega projects mostly on introducing mass transport system to be implemented as Vision 2021 aiming at reducing severe traffic jam in the mega city of Dhaka. Sources said though mass...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Arable land all over the country is disappearing fast in the wake of population boom, unplanned housing and illegal grabbing. The rate of decrease has been estimated at 1.0% of total farm land annually. Experts say that if the present...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Local production now can meet more than 80 per cent of the 0.5 million- tonne annual demand for writing, printing and newsprint papers, industry sources said as they sought government patronage for flourishing the fledging industry. Bangladesh Paper Mills Association...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Bangladeshi businessmen will persuade Japanese entrepreneurs to invest in a big way when a group of investors accompanying prime minister Abe descends on the capital next month, a top business leader said. "They (Japanese investors) are very positive about investing...
Rashidul Bari | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Palestine and Israel, once known as cradle of civilisation, have become the hub of cemeteries in modern times. Their conflicts have shed huge blood and produced graves as far as eyes can see. The countless tombstones are silent, but the...
Md. Abdullah-Al-Mamun Badshah | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Every year we see tragic launch accidents claiming hundreds of human lives. During 1999-2014 period, about 658 such accidents occurred with about 500 meeting their watery graves. About 1,500 people are still missing. Perhaps their bodies will never be retrieved....
Mizanur Rahman Shelley paying tribute to Mosharraf Hossain | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
'Any man's death diminishes me,' wrote the poet, 'because I am involved in mankind'. But one thing is certain that the demise of some men diminish us more than that of others, tragic they though all are. Myriad recollections crowd...
Md Alamgir | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Over the last few years, NASA and other space agencies have been trying to find out traces of life on other planets in the universe. They are trying to detect the presence of water. If there is water, then there...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The out-going president of the Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai - has expressed his deep concern over the stand-off persisting in his country over the presidential elections. Karzai, who is to relinquish his position after two terms - the maximum allowed...
Aditya Kalra of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
More than 70 per cent of Indians are satisfied with the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took office nearly three months ago, an opinion poll showed, seeing in him the best hope to put the economy back...
Fredrik Dahl of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The UN nuclear watchdog appears to have made only limited progress so far in getting Iran to answer questions about its suspected atomic bomb research, diplomatic sources said on Friday, three days before a deadline for cooperation. Under an accord...
Paul Carrel and Eva Taylor of Reuters from Frankfurt | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The European Central Bank is in a policy no man's land, bombarded by news of a stagnating euro zone economy but hesitant to move forward with new stimulus until measures it loaded in June have ignited. After the ECB cut...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has strongly stressed on maintaining 'global standards' in forming the proposed Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in order to materialise the purposes of its establishment. "Otherwise, achievement of main purposes of the...
Pamelia Khaled | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Regarding the outstanding result in secondary education and student's achievement through obtaining GPA golden 5 in the last four academic sessions and recent result, an interview was taken of a professor of Sociology department, Dhaka University in a television programme...
Syful Islam | 2014-08-23 00:00:00
The government is likely to prepare a master plan for setting up economic zones (EZs) in coastal areas and stop their establishment in a scattered way, sources said. A move has been initiated after both local and foreign investors have...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-08-23 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to adopt a rule to rid the taxpayers of the hassle of facing annual auditing of their tax-payment records. Taxpayers, both of individual and corporate categories, may have to undergo tax audit...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh is set to incorporate some new clauses in its trade agreement with Bhutan for further boosting bilateral trade and investment with the Himalayan kingdom, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has already prepared some proposals for inclusion in...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-08-23 00:00:00
Biotechnology-based industrial products are not being developed and promoted in the absence of coordination among ministries, entrepreneurs, financial institutions and researchers, sources said. Except some leading pharmaceutical companies which manufacture vaccines, hormones, insulin and others, there is no sector that...
Md. Jamat Ali | 2014-08-23 00:00:00
Human trafficking is one of the greatest crimes perpetrated to a lot of people on our planet, and today it is considered second to the drug trade --- the largest criminal activity in the world. Human efforts and endeavour for...
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