Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh is vulnerable to climate changes. Indeed, it has internationally been established that Bangladesh, as a country, may suffer the most severe impacts from climate change. The country is one of the most densely populated on earth having more people...
Neil Ray | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
She had something transcendental about her beauty. Mesmerising and yet full of a distinct personality, Suchitra Sen curved for her a niche in every Bangalee's heart, particularly in his or her prime of youth. It was an indelible impression she...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Most people remained engrossed with the political developments centring round the recently held 10th parliamentary elections. Never before, had the nation witnessed so much violence involving any political issue. For nearly a couple of months capital Dhaka remained cut-off from...
Munima Sultana | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
As a move to go for full-fledged electronic tendering, the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has set a new target to call 1,400 tenders through the central procurement technical unit (CPTU) by June. Officials said the department has successfully met...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Patients are being deprived of getting the newly invented and some life saving research medicines as the national drug ordinance has restricted their options of getting foreign products by barring imports, sources said. They said these specialised medicines are manufactured...
Jack Kim of Reuters from Seoul | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
South Korea confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu last Saturday and said it would expand the culling of birds to a radius of 3-km (1.9 mile) around a duck farm, but a nationwide suspension of poultry shipment was...
Edmund Blair of Reuters from Nairobi | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Pirates have seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea and have taken it south towards Somali waters in the first successful hijacking in the region since 2012, maritime officials said on Sunday. The vessel, identified as the MV Marzooqah,...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Stocks on the bourses extended gaining streak for the eighth running sessions Sunday with turnover improved further as investor confidence boosted up amid stable political situation in recent days. The market started in a positive trend in the morning and...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Indians bated with breath for days to know whether the scion of the famous Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty will be a candidate for the next premiership of India in the coming elections. The main opposition in India, BJP, has already announced...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
The real estate sector has almost stopped taking new projects following a drastic fall in the sales of plots and flats in recent times. The realtors said registration of new projects witnessed a significant fall last year for absence of...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Motorcyclists in thousands plough through the city streets daily, violating traffic rules frequently much to the horrors of the pedestrians and inconvenience to the movement of vehicular traffic. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) imposed ban on riding motorbikes in footpaths...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Many of us, the old-timers, for the first time in our life came to learn what romance was like only when we saw Uttam and Suchitra in love on the silver screen. Uttam had left us many years back. Now...
Shaikh Saleque | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
The much-talked-about elections to the 10th Jatiya Sangsad are over. The newly-elected members of parliament (MPs) have taken oath and a new cabinet has also been formed. Needless to say, the incumbent cabinet comprises the elected members to the Jatiya...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Former President Badrudozza Chowdhury asked his host on an exclusive TV talk show recently if he knew where the Jatiya Party ministers would sit in parliament. The host of course had no clue. Nor did anyone who watched the show...
Abul Basher | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
The World Bank, the global leader of the multilateral lenders, has forecasted a 5.7 growth of GDP (gross domestic product) of Bangladesh for FY14, implying a fall by 0.3 percentage points and a 1.5 percentage points from the original target...
Munima Sultana | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
Thailand's labour market will soon open up creating job opportunities for 50,000 Bangladeshi workers in fishing and construction sectors. Stating this to the FE, Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Kazi Imtiaz Hossain said, the draft of a memorandum of understanding (MoU)...
Dilruba Nasrin | 2014-01-19 00:00:00
The method is to treat children with respect. It is to treat children as important as you are. It is treating them with the same respect with which you wish for them to treat others. In this 21st century, living...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Physicians and pharmaceutical experts have suggested for drugs' bioequivalence tests to protect the patients' rights in getting quality medicines. They alleged that almost cent per cent of the local pharmaceuticals products are being sold in the market without having BE...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh dismantling 210 ships in 2013, became the third largest ship breaking nation in the world. In 2012, it was the second largest ship breaker. In 2013, some 1,119 ships went to the world's ship breakers' yards, also a decline...
Syful Islam | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
About 88 labour leaders were allegedly involved in instigating the recent unrest over the new wage structure in the country's ready-made garment (RMG) sector, a government agency revealed. The agency in a report urged the authorities concerned to take legal...
Maswood Alam Khan in remembrance of M. Mujibul Huq | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
M. Mujibul Huq has just passed away. He left us on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the age of 83. Young people who read or heard the news have come to learn only that he was born at Banoripara in...
Mominul Hoq | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh is the second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) hub after China. But the sector has recently been under a threat and we might lose the position we had earned. A sharp depreciation of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), a think-tank in India, celebrated its 10th anniversary just a few days back. To mark the occasion, a conference on agrarian relations and agricultural crisis was organised by the FAS. Eminent social scientists of...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Mobile phone operators termed the National Board of Revenue's (NBR) claim of Tk 30.62 billion from four cell-phone companies as SIM replacement tax incorrect. They said NBR's final report in this regard was not prepared according to the previously set...
Babul Barman | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The stock market closed higher for the third straight week that ended Thursday with turnover improving further as political turmoil eased. "Easing of political crisis and hope for market-friendly Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) boosted investors' confidence. As a result, the...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The first Bangladesh-India joint working group (JWG) meeting is set to be held this month for further strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries in textiles, officials said. In the upcoming meeting on January 21 to be held in the...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) attracted an increased number of visitors Friday, the first weekly holiday after its inauguration in January 11. Over one hundred thousand people visited the exhibition on the day, after a poor turnout during the...
Adnan Abdullah | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Literally, politically and culturally Bangladeshi people were rich. The Bengali culture had been friendly, hospitable, cooperative and helpful for a long period of time. When we hear the songs of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore or of Nazrul Islam we feel...
Masum Billah | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Dhaka is hosting the thirteenth International Film Festival. Rainbow Film Society has arranged this festival. The festival has been organized on a regular basis by Rainbow Film Society which remains dedicated to the promotion of a healthy cine culture in...
Syeda Lutfa Shahana | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Noor Jahan's father Rajab Ali, a resident of Chhoto Maharajpur village in Sirajganj district, is a day labourer. Noor lost her eye sight due to typhoid at the age of three. Noor had huge problem in communication, cognition and performing...
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