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The puzzle of junks shining in a drab market

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2009-03-04 00:00:00

Country's stock market is now facing a kind of trouble that is hardly encountered in any of its counterpart in the world.All on a sudden junk shares belonging to the 'Z' category of the stocks listed with the two bourses...

BDR carnage

Mohammad Ataul Hoque | 2009-03-04 00:00:00

FROM the utterances of various responsible quarters it is now more or less established about the possibilities of masterminding the massacre by out-side vested quarters to weaken the Army and the country. The following unanswered questions may be looked into...

Bailout packages in Asian countries

Syed Jamaluddin | 2009-03-03 00:00:00

The global financial meltdown slowed the growth of exports, investment, remittances and consumption everywhere. Governments across Asia are trying to tackle their impact of recession. Export-driven economies are now most vulnerable to the crisis and government are rushing to inject...

Food crisis coming back!

From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-03 00:00:00

NEW YORK, March 2: A World Bank (WB) agriculture adviser said yesterday that food crisis has not gone away, in fact it is coming back. He said the corn price now is at least 40 per cent more than what...

BRTA to seek proposals from bidders on VAT collection

Mahmuda Shaolin | 2009-03-03 00:00:00

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) will issue Requests for Proposal (RFP) this week to the seven bidders to appoint one of them as a service provider to collect Motor Vehicle Tax (MVT) online from July this year.After getting the RFP,...

For uniform accounting standards

Mozzamel Hossain | 2009-03-03 00:00:00

BUSINESS in the country continues to look upon accounting as nothing more than book-keeping of routine expenditures and sales returns.But modern accounting involves regular and meticulous preparation of balance sheets to thoroughly reflect the operations of business organisations including their...

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Soldiers kill Guinea-Bissau President | 2009-03-03 00:00:00

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Mar 2: A senior official says renegade soldiers have killed Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira, hours after a bomb blast took the life of his rival, the armed forces chief of the fragile West African nation. Luis Sanca,...

The issue of skill development

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2009-03-02 00:00:00

Scarcity of skilled labour force is considered one of the key constraints to the investment climate in Bangladesh. The World Bank (WB) in a recent investment climate assessment has identified this fact.Skilled workers may not be that scarce in the...

Overseas FFs demand judicial body to probe killings

From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-02 00:00:00

NEW YORK, March 01: Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Overseas Forum in a meeting held here last evening demanded constitution of a high powered judicial committee to probe into the dastardly killing of over 100 army officers and to find out the...

Scientific approach to meet nation's social needs

Prof. Lutfor Rahman | 2009-03-02 00:00:00

Science is an essential means of meeting the most vital needs of society. After the Second World War, the unprecedented developments in technology demonstrated that the relation between science and technology was not fortuitous. This resulted in a widespread creed...

Face Book a powerful tool for creating a digital Bangladesh

Salahuddin Ahmed | 2009-03-02 00:00:00

COMMUNICATION has become easier and faster in this present era. Thanks to the innovation of modern technology that enables us to communicate with the rest of the world within a second. Through internet we stay connected with our near and...

Smart antenna, the technology of future

Dr Md Abdul Matin | 2009-03-02 00:00:00

BY enhancing the communication capacity of cellular phone, smart antenna promoted research and development of this exciting technology. Either a fixed or adaptive antenna array is used in wireless communication to improve the service range and reduce interference. With the...

BB to introduce automated clearing house from Aug 3

Siddique Islam | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

The central bank will introduce Bangladesh Automated Clearing House (BACH) from August 3 this year aiming to facilitate business activities through modernising the payment and settlement system.Under the new system, payments will be settled using automated cheque clearing system and...

Smart antenna, the technology of future

Dr Md Abdul Matin | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

BY enhancing the communication capacity of cellular phone, smart antenna promoted research and development of this exciting technology. Either a fixed or adaptive antenna array is used in wireless communication to improve the service range and reduce interference. With the...

My first semester in a Japanese university

Habib Mohammad Ali | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

Staying thousands of miles away from home for higher study must require some sacrifice in life. This means keeping oneself away from his/her own cultural attachment like interacting in an environment where always new stimulus, information and above all a...

Revenue collection by DIP doubles over last five yrs

Mahmuda Shaolin | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

Revenue collection by Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) had doubled over the last five years as the overall collection jumped by 101.39 per cent to Tk 8.85 billion in fiscal 2007-08 from Tk 4.29 billion in 2003-04.The DIP has...

Obama's budget a political gamble

From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Feb 27: President Barack Hossain Obama unveiled yesterday a ten-year budget outline that showed this year's deficit rising to a staggering $1750 billion. He announced a budget proposal of $3.6 trillion for the fiscal 2010.The administration intends to...

How should society respond when "socially responsible" organizations sicken and kill people?

Paul Driessen | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

"Corporate social responsibility" (CSR) doctrine says companies must act ethically and further the well-being of society -- not merely seek to improve market shares and bottom lines.Ethical behavior is an essential element of business and capitalism. Companies that violate laws...

Nine penalties may safeguard one discipline

Maswood Alam Khan | 2009-03-01 00:00:00

LEGEND has it that brute commanders used to test loyalties of their soldiers by ordering them to embrace suicidal death in peacetime. Hitler, to boast about his command on his fanatically loyal soldiers, as the rumor goes, used to invite...

Global sugar production poised for record fall

From Fazle Rashid | 2009-02-27 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Feb 26: Tea will be less sweet than before. Varieties of traditional sweets will disappear and those surviving the crunch will become dearer. The global sugar production is poised for a record fall this year mainly due to...

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Bomb kills two Iraqi | 2009-02-27 00:00:00

soldiers in BaghdadBAGHDAD, Feb 26: Iraqi officials say two Iraqi soldiers have been killed and 12 other people wounded in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. The officials say the morning blast struck an Iraqi army patrol near the University of...

Sticking the terrorism label on Bangladesh

Enayet Rasul Bhuiyan | 2009-02-26 00:00:00

The last time that Bangladesh was rocked by terrorism was in 2006. Bombs were detonated in most of the country's 64 districts all on one day in that period that signaled the existence of a widespread network of an Islamist...

Priority-setting, firm resolve important for executing important projects

Engineer Shafiqul Alam | 2009-02-26 00:00:00

DEVELOPMENT of a country always depends on the correct and prompt decision and willingness to execute the necessary tasks of the decision makers. In spite of having all sorts of possibility Bangladesh is struggling in all the sectors due to...

Prospects of agro-processing in the northern region

Aynal Haque | 2009-02-26 00:00:00

THE northern region of the country producing fruits and vegetables, offers enormous potential for agro-processing enterprises.The food-surplus region produces plenty of rice, maize, wheat and soybean, mangoes, bananas, papayas and tomatoes and vegetables due to its fertile soil and favourable...

Giving upazila parishad chance to deliver

Syed Jamaluddin | 2009-02-26 00:00:00

THE immediate past caretaker government brought some significant reforms in the local government laws, but the upazila election could not be completed during their tenure. This election was held under the elected government amidst irregularities and violence. The caretaker government...

Digital management needed for 'digital' Bangladesh

Prof. Lutfor Rahman | 2009-02-26 00:00:00

BANGLADESH is a member country of the Commonwealth of Nations as such we pay annual fees to the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC). The main objective of the CSC is to improve the financial and social conditions of Commonwealth member-countries through...

'Transit' involves multi-dimensional issues

Abul Kalam | 2009-02-25 00:00:00

THE people at large are yet to see how transit for India is going to create additional trade for Bangladesh, other than a fixed 'royalty' annually. Instead, Bangladesh, according to some circles, will furthermore lose its own opportunity of creating...

BAIRA fear signals bad omen for BoP

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2009-02-25 00:00:00

In spite of the country's economy demonstrating resilience amidst one of the worst economic crises that the modern world has seen so far, some projections signal bad omens for it.The resilience has been mainly due to deft macro-economic management and...

Rapists at large as US criminal procedure goes slow

Elayne Clift | 2009-02-25 00:00:00

When Debbie Smith was raped in 1989 in Virginia, her attacker's DNA went untested for six years. She fought for justice and quickly became a symbol and an advocate for eliminating backlogs of untested rape kits, which provide physical evidence...

Creating safeguards to protect consumers' rights

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2009-02-25 00:00:00

The much talked about consumers' rights protection law is going to be enacted in the ongoing session of the ninth Jatiya Sangsad (JS) or national parliament. It is expected that the draft law in existence will be passed in parliament...