Neil Ray | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Dhaka City now wears a rather unfamiliar look. Unfamiliar in the sense that its roads and alleys are almost vacant. Only the shopping centres and malls are still buzzing with people so busy with break-neck last-minute purchases. How welcome it...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
The stage is now set for celebration of one of the greatest religious festivals of the Muslims living in this part of the world tomorrow (Tuesday) or the day after. The observance of the holy yet festive occasion will depend...
Lucy O\'Carroll | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
The Bretton Woods conference aimed to reshape the international financial system and end the protectionism that, in the view of the US and UK, had contributed to the drift towards the Second World War. Seventy years on, does the recently...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
As a hawkish president reigns supreme in Israel, the Tel Aviv government now appears poised to extend its orbit of brutalities to the West Bank in Palestine while carrying on barbarism in the Gaza Strip. The nearly three-week-long offensive in...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Does Bangladesh export its merchandise to Israel? Replies received from high officials of the agencies concerned and statistics available with the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) website are enough to confuse anyone seeking an answer to this question. Bangladesh has not...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Most launches left Sadarghat river-port terminal in the capital Saturday on time -- and largely abiding by agreed rules set for the time of Eid rush. Launch operators said they were not charging fares beyond the rates fixed by the...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Aggregate sales on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr this year may run into more than taka one trillion, business circles have claimed. All kinds of traders and businesses -- wholesale and retail -- have been doing a brisk business in...
Syful Islam | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to discuss today (Sunday) the possible ways of saving rivers in and around the capital from land grabbers and ensure a smooth and efficient river transport service within the city, sources have said. The...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Most of the Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) are not complying with the required reserve fund provision of the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), officials said. As of December, 2013, some 89 out of 645 MFIs are following the MRA Rules-2010, but...
Munima Sultana | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Japan are going to form a broad-based joint forum comprising members of both public and private sectors to work on investment and trade opportunities in an enabling environment to mutual benefit of the two countries. Officials said the...
Masum Billah | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
The 'Girl Summit', the first of its kind, was jointly hosted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the British Government on July 22, 2014, with a view to mobilising domestic and international efforts to end female genital mutilation...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
The end of days is near, the signs are clear. If we look at the earth at this moment, it has a 'sickness' called Global Warming. History says that the destruction of the earth has been going on since the...
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...
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