Shamsul Alam | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
One of the early proponents of international power and wealth redistribution ideology was President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who mentioned: "In one world, as in one state, when I am rich because you are poor, and I am poor because...
Shaikh Saleque | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
In its latest pro-active move on corporate social responsibility (CSR) of financial institutions, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed the latter to bring the poor and underprivileged section of the children under banking services. The central bank very recently issued instructions...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Shohag Sheikh (35), a carpenter by profession of No 1 Jagoti Colony of Kushtia Sadar upazila, had been feeling fever, dyspepsia and cold. Detected by Momtaj Begum, one of the Shastha Sebikas (community health volunteers appointed by BRAC), his sputum...
Pamelia Khaled | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
"The more you get hurt the more you incur loss." (Tagore) There were many stories after the 'black night' of 25th March, 1971. Among them, I'm narrating a special one that might seem insignificant in comparison to the others, but...
Masum Billah | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Police are an integral part of any modern and democratic state. Hence the relation between the police and citizens should be very friendly and mutually benefiting. To make people aware of the roles and responsibilities of police, their different units,...
Nehal Adil | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
Rain, flood, traffic disruption, that was the real scene in England this winter. The aristocratic Prime Minister, popularly known as Lord Cameron for his aristocratic behaviour cancelled his trip to Ramalla and Israel and moved in the flood affected areas...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
This is the time for trees to shed their leaves, this is also the time for new leaves and sprigs to sprout on them. Most of all, this is the time for flowers to run riot. Leaves coming off their...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The country's tourism industry is eyeing better business after days of poor sales thanks to the ICC T20 World Cup, which will begin here from March 16, industry players said. Expressing their optimism over the mega competition where 16 cricket...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The Election Commission (EC) has sought a Tk 25.26 billion to meet the costs of its elections, projects and administration for the Fiscal Years (FYs) 2014-15 and 2015-16, official sources said. The government has fixed a Tk 5.71 billion ceiling...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen's On Economic Inequality is a seminal work that stimulates rigorous studies of inequality. It is considered one of the most structured and constructive presentations of economic inequality which examines and experiments diverse instruments to explore...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The Power Development Board (PDB), Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) and Dhaka Electric Supply Company (Desco) proposed a tariff hike for retail consumers. The distributors have sought to increase prices for the sixth time in two years. Households consuming less...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-14 00:00:00
The country's drug market has been marked by price edginess for at least a couple of years. This has been further aggravated by infiltration of spurious medicines. To make the matter even worse, the draft national drug policy submitted to...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The stock market ended lower for the second running sessions Thursday amid thin participation as ongoing volatility and apparent lack of directions kept investors watchful. The market opened with positive note, but could not sustain, eventually landed into the red....
FE Online Report | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw positive trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest volatility. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 9.42 points or...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
All the three Chinese companies, the activities of which had been on hold, have finally agreed to complete the remaining assigned works involving two important highway development projects. It follows the intervention of the Chinese embassy in Dhaka. Sinohydro Corporation,...
Syful Islam | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has directed the ministries and departments concerned to put best efforts for quicker implementation of public-private partnership (PPP) projects, officials have said. It has also asked them to save the time of project implementation by...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Deduction of taxes on profit gains from the government's savings tools has created confusion among the investors concerned as the provision regarding the actual tax liability has not been well-defined. A number of small savers have already raised the issue...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The government has formed an advisory committee with the representation of different trade bodies to promote the country's businesses. The 25- member committee in the private sector will give suggestions to the commerce minister for promoting country's trade, commerce and...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Sourcing of components from local market by the automobile assembling sector might spur growth of the light engineering industry through adding to the products' more domestic value, sources said. As per the existing rules, with the complete knocked down (CKD)...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Access of women entrepreneurs to credit facility under the small and medium enterprise (SME) has been showing an upward trend in recent years though their share in the total credit portfolio still remains very insignificant. Total SME loan disbursement for...
Tarana Karim concluding her two-part article titled \'Empowering women to eliminate gender discrimination in Asia\' | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
In the poverty-stricken families in developing countries girls are considered as economic predicament. That attitude has resulted in the widespread neglect to baby girls in Africa, Asia and South America. In many communities, baby girls are breastfed for a shorter...
Maswood Alam Khan from Plano, Texas | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
There are ways in which retired people can find a sense of purpose in their retirement years, while adapting to the stressful events prompted by changes in their social roles and status, and eventually to physical illness and disability. All...
Niamat Ullah Sarker | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh follows market economy. Under this system, the decisions on investment, production, distribution and consumption are supposed to be based on supply and demand. The prices of goods and services are expected to be determined based on the demand and...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
What is livelihood? "A livelihood comprises capabilities, assets (including both material and social resources) and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain or...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The new pro-West government of Ukraine has sought urgent help from the United States and the European allies as Russian president Vladimir Putin is talking tough on Crimea, a part of Ukraine that seems moving fast for separation from the...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
Developing infrastructures in specific geographic areas for promotion of industries has been quite an old strategy in Bangladesh. Following this policy certain areas in and around metropolitan cities had been designated as industrial areas in the past. These were actually...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-12 00:00:00
Stocks slipped into the red Wednesday, a day after positive trend amid choppy trading throughout the session as investors remained indecisive. The market saw volatile trading at opening oscillated positive and negative territory several times, eventually landed into the red...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-12 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading Wednesday amid modest see-saw. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 15.10 points or 0.32 per cent to...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-03-12 00:00:00
Notwithstanding the poor rate of implementation of development projects by various government agencies and inadequate domestic resource mobilisation, the ministry of finance (MoF) and the planning commission (PC) have locked their horns over the issue of downsizing the annual development...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-03-12 00:00:00
Experts and the country's premier bourse see a conflict of interest, as some particular firms play more than one role in the whole process of initial public offering (IPO) of a company. Experts and officials at the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
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