Rezaul Karim | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The government has taken steps to promptly import key essential items from India under a government to government (G2G) arrangement to help ease their prices in the local market, official sources said. Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is going to...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Civil society members have once again voiced concern over the existence of Zinda Park in Narayanganj. Last week noted Jurist Barrister Amirul Islam visited the park and was deeply impressed to see the wonderful work of the local people who...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
Many children in inaccessible Sulla upazila of Sunamganj district have been deprived of receiving education mainly due to lack of awareness of their parents. The parents, who are mostly illiterate and poor, remain indifferent to education of their children. Though...
Shaikh Saleque | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
News stories on the aforementioned subject that appeared in the media recently generated bitter criticism at home. Children were taken to the streets to greet the newly appointed ministers on their maiden visit to their constituencies. Forcing the children out...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-02-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) announced on January 27 the Monetary Policy for January-June, 2014 period. Taking recent economic and financial sector developments into account the Monetary Policy stance in H2 FY14 (half two of FY 14) emphasises much on controlling...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh organized a two-day training on 'Financial Management' for the officials of Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and Micro finance Institutions(MFIs).The first phase of the aforesaid training programme began Saturday at the training room of...
Syful Islam | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh is moving forward to strengthen further the trade and economic ties with India, targeting the latter's north-eastern (NE) states' market, sources said. With this end in view, Bangladesh High Commissioner in New Delhi Tariq A Karim has requested Commerce...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Increased entry of banned drugs and medical devices into the country through false declaration and without approval of the drug administration (DA) has raised grave concern among the authorities concerned. The DA in a recent letter to the revenue board...
Syed Sultan Uddin | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
A special assignment of becoming the lead arranger of a large syndication deal has been offered to a dealing officer of a commercial bank. It was the first-time role of a lead arranger for that bank. The project was fourth...
Md Mahbub Alam Prodip | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The micro-credit system of Grameen Bank is considered as a unique tool to empower women through poverty reduction providing a small amount of loan to extreme poor and uneducated women in Bangladesh. The unique feature is that the loan is...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The road safety standard of Bangladesh is very poor; which needs to be amended, as far as possible. Accordingly, the appropriate strategy for prevention of the most prevalent types of accidents should be a priority. The non-motorised vehicles constitute vulnerable...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Several causes are behind the failure of the locally-assembled 'Doel' laptop to click in the market though it is maintaining quality, concerned officials said. Lack of professional marketing people, ineffective strategies to compete with other brands and insufficient funds have...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The annual Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) has turned into a venue of transacting products locally deviating from its core objectives of promoting country's exports and investment, participants said. Although the month-long trade carnival first started in 1996 with a...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Country's telecom regulator has opened 2.4 and 5.7 GHz band for providing internet service through Wi-Fi technology across the country. The regulator took the initiative to make available internet to the people at a cheaper rate in a bid to...
Babul Barman | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Stocks extended gaining streak for the fifth straight week that ended Thursday with turnover dropping slightly as optimistic investors remained on the buying spree. The week featured all five trading sessions. Among them market closed higher three trading sessions while...
ABM Ahsanullah | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The University of California was founded in 1868. Its first campus is Berkeley, Oakland, widely known as one of the top university systems in the world. Besides Berkeley, there are nine other campuses established in the later years. They are...
Arup Barua and Shidratul Moontaha Suha | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Earthquake is considered one of the most destructive and terrifying natural forces. The notion 'Earthquake' itself generates fear into human minds. Generally it occurs due to sudden transient motion of the ground which leads to release of elastic energy in...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
There are stories galore about smoking or the assorted means practised and prescribed for giving up the habit. Only rarely do people succeed in overpowering the urge to revert to the old ways. Many, however, are of the opinion that...
Syful Islam | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has taken a move to procure two vessels from Russia under Government-to-Government (G-to-G) arrangement to enrich the fleet of the state shipping corporation, sources said. A similar move to buy six other vessels for Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) from...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The Finance Ministry has issued a circular seeking a list of loan defaulting candidates for the upcoming fourth upazila parishad election, official sources said. The Bank and Financial Institutions Division (BFID) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) sent a circular...
Munima Sultana | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The Singapore government has found minor involvement of only one Bangladeshi worker in the country's worse ever riot on December 8 last. Sources said no Bangladeshi worker was among the 25 persons, charged in the Singapore court for their direct...
Khairul Islam | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has said the National University largely failed to impart desired quality education, putting the total higher education sector into a serious question mark as the university covers majority of the country's tertiary education. The National...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The book titled Abahaman Banglar Kotipyo Bachan (Some adages of eternal Bangladesh) is a compilation with a difference in the sense that it contains various proverbs and adages of different areas of Bangladesh, which have crept in our daily life....
M Jalal Hussain | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The private sector has long been recognised as a strong and active partner in economic growth and development. It provides the goods and services, jobs and also the sources of income to improve the people's standard of living and keep...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), also known as drones, are aircraft either controlled by pilots from the ground or autonomously following a pre-programmed mission. There are dozens of different types of drones but they basically fall into two categories: those used...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
The idea is bizarre in the first place. At a time when sports and games are about to discard the last vestige of elitism the world over, the apparition of Hitler has surfaced in no other game than in what...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-01-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been importing foodgrains in recent months. And in huge quantities, too. This has come as a surprise to many. It was widely believed that Bangladesh had become nearly self-sufficient in respect of foodgrains. Production of both rice and...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-30 00:00:00
A dialogue entitled “Relative Role of International Law and Domestic Law in International Commercial Arbitration” was held recently at a local hotel organized by Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC). The keynote speaker at the Dialogue was the former Solicitor General...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-30 00:00:00
Stocks ended flat amid volatile trading Thursday with turnover crossing Tk 8.0 billion-mark once again as investors went for buying spree amid optimism.The market opened with a positive note and the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-30 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-- witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Thursday, maintaining the previous session’s uptrend. After first 30 minutes of trading,...
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