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Global pressure on Gaddafi to quit deepens

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-03-01 00:00:00

From Fazle RashidNew York, Feb 28: International pressure on Libyan leader Gaddafi to step down immediately intensified Sunday. The White House, State Department and Pentagon held talks with their European and NATO counterparts about how to proceed against Libya. Ban...

Brokerage firms reel under overhead cost

Asaduzzaman Pallab | 2011-03-01 00:00:00

Asaduzzaman PallabMost brokerage firms are burdened with huge establishment cost amid bearish trend continuing in the last three months in the stock market. Market insiders said as market grew substantially in terms of index and turnover in the last two...

Global pressure on Gaddafi to quit deepens

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-03-01 00:00:00

From Fazle RashidNew York, Feb 28: International pressure on Libyan leader Gaddafi to step down immediately intensified Sunday. The White House, State Department and Pentagon held talks with their European and NATO counterparts about how to proceed against Libya. Ban...

Diesel smuggling poses threat to Boro production

Syful Islam | 2011-03-01 00:00:00

Syful IslamA large quantity of diesel is being smuggled out to neighbouring India and Myanmar, posing a severe threat to the Boro production that meet up nearly 80 per cent of the country's rice demand. Besides a group of dishonest...

Probe into banks' forex dealings begins

Siddique Islam | 2011-03-01 00:00:00

Siddique Islam The central bank has started special inspections to verify reporting and holding and utilisation of foreign exchange by commercial banks, officials said Monday. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) took the move against the backdrop of allegations that some commercial...

Gates disfavours fresh US military engagement

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Feb 27: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addressing the cadets at the West Point, America's world famous military academy, said it would be imprudent for the country (America) to ever fight a war like in...

Gates disfavours fresh US military engagement

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Feb 27: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addressing the cadets at the West Point, America's world famous military academy, said it would be imprudent for the country (America) to ever fight a war like in...

Gates disfavours fresh US military engagement

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Feb 27: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addressing the cadets at the West Point, America's world famous military academy, said it would be imprudent for the country (America) to ever fight a war like in...

Govt takes work plan to boost paper export

Doulot Akter Mala | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Doulot Akter MalaThe government has taken a comprehensive work plan to increase the export of locally produced paper in a bid to salvage the country's 60 paper mills, involving Tk 700 billion investments. The total production capacity of local paper...

Gates disfavours fresh US military engagement

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Feb 27: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addressing the cadets at the West Point, America's world famous military academy, said it would be imprudent for the country (America) to ever fight a war like in...

Gates disfavours fresh US military engagement

From Fazle Rashid | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Feb 27: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates addressing the cadets at the West Point, America's world famous military academy, said it would be imprudent for the country (America) to ever fight a war like in...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

Govt gives legal lifeline to scores of sick firms

Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-02-28 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanScores of sick firms received a lifeline after the government ordered six state-owned banks not to sue companies whose bank loans haven't crossed five million taka each, officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) gave the order to...

EPB to build strong furniture sector to widen export market

Shah Alam Nur | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Shah Alam NurThe Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has planned to build a strong furniture sector in order to widen its export market. "We are working for the development of the country's furniture sector that has a potential foreign market," said...

Neglected use of the mother tongue

M A Islam | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

M A IslamSalam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar and other martyrs sacrificed their lives in 1952. Their fault was they loved Bangla--our mother tongue. The Pakistani rulers could not tolerate this and so they fired on them. Roads of Dhaka were bathed...

EPB to build strong furniture sector to widen export market

Shah Alam Nur | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Shah Alam NurThe Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has planned to build a strong furniture sector in order to widen its export market. "We are working for the development of the country's furniture sector that has a potential foreign market," said...

B'desh medicines have bright prospects in Myanmar Yangon prof looks to BD medicine export

Talha Bin Habib | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Talha Bin Habib Bangladesh can grab a significant portion of the pharmaceutical market in Myanmar if medical collaboration and regular interaction between doctors of the two neighbouring countries are held, said a physician from Yangon. "About 80 per cent of...

Unauthorised and unguarded level-crossings

Khalilur Rahman | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Khalilur RahmanTwo train-bus collision at unguarded level-crossings in Comilla and Jessore on February 19 in which 13 people were killed and about 50 others, injured once again exposes apathy of the concerned authorities to public safety. Though a good number...

SPO on metro rail approved

Munima Sultana | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Munima SultanaThe ministry of finance has endorsed the proposal for formation of special project organisation (SPO) to start work on metro rail in the city's busiest northern and southern parts. Finance minister AMA Muhith signed the proposal for SPO last...

BB revises guidelines on stress testing for banks

Siddique Islam | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Siddique Islam The central bank has revised guidelines on stress testing for the commercial banks to make the testing more effective, officials said. Under the revised guidelines, the banks will have to submit their stress testing report to the concerned...

How long Libya's Gaddafi can cling on to power?

Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2011-02-27 00:00:00

Zaglul Ahmed ChowdhuryA seemingly stubborn Moamer Gaddafi is refusing to quit the Libyan scene and is increasingly showing defiance, even in the face of serious adversities when most parts of his country are whittled away from his grip. He is...

Former Guantanamo inmate's 'agony'

Orla Guerin | 2011-02-26 00:00:00

Orla GuerinEvery other night Saad Iqbal Madni wakes up screaming. For more than five years the Pakistani Islamic scholar was one ghost among many - Prisoner Number 746 in Guantanamo Bay. In terror-filled moments, in the dead of night, he...

Sundarbans and seven natural wonders of the world

Nehal Adil | 2011-02-26 00:00:00

Nehal AdilTo a full-packed audience at Shilpakala Academy singer Ruxy rendered a wonderful song in support of declaring the Sundarbans as one of the seven wonders of the world. I was told, actress Runa Afroze, dancer Mun Mun Ahmed, singers...

Laptop sales surge on lower prices

Badrul Ahsan | 2011-02-26 00:00:00

Badrul AhsanLaptop computers sales in local market increased more than three times in just two years, thanks to lower prices and favourable power back-up system, industry people said. Sales of laptop computers in 2010 were 150,000, up by 60,000 a...

BRTC to add 175 CNG-run buses to various city routes

Munima Sultana | 2011-02-26 00:00:00

Munima SultanaThe state-run BRTC will soon add more 175 CNG-run buses to its fleet plying the Dhaka city roads. These eco-friendly buses from China are expected to reach the Chittagong port today (Saturday), officials said. Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC)...

Ban on salt import on cards to save affected growers

Syful Islam | 2011-02-25 00:00:00

Syful Islam A move is underway to ban import of salt with a view to saving its producers and small-scale refiners, official sources have said. "Most of the opinions that came from both the private sector and government functionaries are...