Khondkar Abdus Saleque | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
The Power Division under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources and other concerned agencies did a praiseworthy job by ensuring almost uninterrupted power supply during the Ramadan and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. There was hardly any complaint...
Nita Bhalla of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Almost 570 people in India have died after contracting encephalitis, commonly known as "brain fever", health authorities said last week, warning the death toll may rise with more people still at risk. Outbreaks of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis...
Anshuman Daga and Siva Govindasamy of Reuters from Singapore/Kuala Lumpur | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Singapore's civil aviation authority has asked airlines based in the city-state to review their risk assessment of conflict zones following the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine last week. The deaths of nearly 300 passengers and crew...
Eliana Raszewski and Richard Lough of Reuters from Buenos Aires | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's unflinching poker face in the battle against "holdout" investors suing the country is increasing the odds that her government will default for a second time in 12 years at the end of this month. She has...
FE Online Report | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
The central bank unveiled an ‘investment-friendly, cautious’ monetary policy Saturday with an aim to achieve maximum economic growth by slashing inflationary pressure on the economy. “We’ve sought cooperation from the stakeholders to help implement the investment-friendly, cautious monetary policy properly,”...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Taxpayers may be able to submit tax returns online from next financial year as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) would now take until then to have the IT systems in place. Meanwhile, a foreign firm has been selected to...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Most of the key Bangladeshi missions and commercial wings abroad missed their respective export targets in the just concluded fiscal year, 2013-14, due mainly to last year's volatile politics in the country, officials said. Besides, the western world's slow recovery...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Christopher is an elderly white American who is now enjoying his retired life after spending his checkered career as an engineer specialised in missile technology. We two have become friends. Almost every alternate afternoon we meet in a nearby mall....
Md. Nurnobi Islam | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Moral society is a society or a group of people where the society members try to persuade other people to lead a moral and decent life. A moral society must discipline the activities of people in general. But with the...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
A researcher should feel fortunate if s/he gets the chance of visiting a particular area more than once. It helps detect the dynamics of changes in one's own eyes rather than banking on a basket of data provided by others....
Nilratan Halder | 2014-07-26 00:00:00
Do villagers also throw iftar parties? Knowledgeable people's reply has largely been in the negative. It is an urban and recent phenomenon. No denying that it has direct link with money. Business houses, professional or other bodies now throw iftar...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
The securities regulator has approved the amendment to the Investors' Protection Fund Regulations, 2014, raising the volume of support to Tk 0.5 million for an individual claimant from previous amount of Tk 0.1 million, officials said. Official sources said the...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Beggars and vendors are coming to the capital ahead of the Eid festival to earn some extra bucks, deteriorating the city's traffic management and occupying the footpaths. Most of these seasonal fortune-hunters are from relatively under-developed areas, like - Rangpur,...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Stern actions will be taken against the launch owners if they charge fares beyond the chart fixed by the government for the homebound passengers on the occasion of the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, warned the government and launch owners association. The warnings...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Sewerage system and waste management in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) areas has virtually collapsed due to lack of coordination between two state-owned organisations, sources said. A senior official in the DSCC said in many spots in the city...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam reviewing the book | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
"My disability has not prevented me from achieving any of the important things. I am a qualified social worker, passed my driving test when I was 16, left home when I was 19 and have lived and worked in Asia...
Syed Ashraf Ali, reviewing the book | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Thoughts and imagination have wings with potential to travel across time and space with effortless ease. A K N Ahmed, who is no stranger to the world of penmanship, has an admirable ability to harmonise his thoughts with imagination to...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury pays tribute to the memory of the celebrated writer on his 2nd anniversary of death | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
The second death anniversary of celebrated novelist and playwright Humayun Ahmed passed off on July 19, bringing back his memory to countless admirers, friends and well wishers. The news of his death in a New York hospital two years ago...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Palestine is bleeding in the month of Ramadan. The legacy of the Arab-Jew conflict finds its origin in hoary past of the Old Testament. Judaism as a religion and the Jews as a people originated in a place known as...
S.M.Nasimul Haque | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
A Malaysian Airlines aircraft was shot down over war zone of Ukraine on July 17. This flight was planned on an internationally approved route. These routes are established and approved by ICAO for the signatory states to use with full...
Anwar Faruq Talukder | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Generally, monetary policy is defined as a process by which the monetary authority (ideally the central bank) of a country controls the supply of money, fixing rates of interest for the purpose of promoting economic growth and stability. The official...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-07-25 00:00:00
At first it appeared as nothing more than a lot of hot air, limited to loud thinking among the proponents. An inter-continental bank requires cohesion, spirit of co-operation in concrete terms, a good deal of determination and planning which were...
FE Online Report | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
Stocks ended higher on Thursday, the last trading day before the ensuing Eid-ul-Fitr with improved turnover as optimistic investors went for buying binge on large cap stocks amid optimism. Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will go...
FE Online Report | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last trading day before Eid vacation. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 18.08 points...
Munima Sultana | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken initiatives to carry out highway maintenance work on an urgent basis on its own, following poor response from contractors in this regard. Officials said the RHD has already started some maintenance work,...
Syful Islam | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
India's largest private power producer Adani Group has expressed its interest to establish a coal-fired power plant near the site of proposed deep sea port in Sonadia under Cox's Bazar district, sources said. A delegation of Adani Group, headed by...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
Some mutual funds (MFs), allegedly, are making investments ignoring the restrictions set by the securities regulator, market insiders said. Such a practice is making their investments vulnerable, they said. Among the fund managers, the LR Global Bangladesh Asset Management Company...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
The government has invited Michael Froman, who holds the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), to see the progress Bangladesh's apparel industry has made in addressing the issues related with labour rights and worker safety. Officials said the...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
edotco Bangladesh Company Ltd, a tower operating firm, looks to provide comprehensive solutions of integrated telecommunications infrastructure to all telecom operators in the country, its high official said. Launched a year ago here, its main service is to consolidate the...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-07-24 00:00:00
Shoppers are now busy buying prayer accessories like topi or traditional prayer cap, attar, surma (kohl) and tashbi, at the peak of shopping binge, to accomplish their festival preparation as the Eid-ul-Fitr celebration is barely five days ahead. The sales...
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