From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
NEW YORK, March 4: The global merchandise trade is worth $13.6 billion dollar. And at the best of times banks used to finance upto 90 per cent of the trade. Lenders pulled back sharply when the credit crunch hit the...
A.F.M. Mainul Ahsan | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
OF late, the US market is acting weirdly. It is really a paradox. Though different macroeconomic indexes, e.g., rate of unemployment, consumption, manufacturing, consumer confidence index, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) confidence index etc., are showing some red flags about the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
The nation is in a shock. The magnitude and scale of the carnage that took place at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Headquarters cannot be compared to any such killing in the past. It was not simply a case of slaughtering...
Mortuza Ali Chowdhury (Milan) | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
The shocking murders at the BDR Headquarters on February 25, 2009, reminded us of the dark night of March 25, 1971 which had stirred us morally and made us leave home for the training camp, to join the war and...
Mohammad Shahidul Islam | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
THE concept of zoos has undergone a sea change in the past couple of decades. Zoos are no longer meant to serve as showpieces, exhibiting wildlife in confinement. Rather, these are supposed to serve long-term needs of conservation by facilitating...
Super Cup logo unveiled | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
The logo for the Citycell Super Cup was unveiled at the Bangladesh Football Federation in Dhaka Tuesday, bdnews24.com reports. Tournament Committee Chairman Harunur Rashid and Sponsor Citycell Deputy General Manager (Marketing) M Tanjin Huq jointly unveiled the logo that resembles...
Mercantile Bank recommends | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
20pc stock dividendThe board of directors of Mercantile Bank Limited has recommended 20 per cent stock dividend (one bonus share for every five shares) for the year that ended on December 31, '08. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the...
From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
NEW YORK, March 3: Leaders from the Muslim world who gathered at Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia for the fifth World Islamic Economic Forum urged the industrialised nations to embrace Islamic financial practices to overcome the global economic meltdown.Muslim presidents,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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