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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Siddique Islam | 2009-02-25 00:00:00
Credit flow to the private sector continues to plummet as commodity prices cool off in the international market which, officials said, is a sign of easing inflation.The growth in private sector credit came down to 21.77 per cent in December...
From Fazle Rashid | 2009-02-25 00:00:00
NEW YORK, Feb 24: The governments, investors and business executives in US , Europe and Asia are panic stricken "as deepening global downturn is dragging down business across every sector of the economy". Losses are piling up everywhere. It is...
Badrul Islam | 2009-02-24 00:00:00
BBC headlines reports "Banned Dutch MP held at Heathrow -- A Dutch MP who called the Koran a 'fascist book' is to be sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK". We wish...
ULC recommends dividend | 2009-02-24 00:00:00
The board of directors of United Leasing Company (ULC) has recommended 20 per cent cash dividend and 1B:7 stock (one bonus share for every seven shares) dividends for the year that ended on December 31, '08. The annual general meeting...
Kayes M Sohel | 2009-02-24 00:00:00
The securities regulator has taken strong initiative to bring more merchant banks into the stock market to attract investment in the stock market.The move came against the backdrop of fund shortage in the market because of cash withdrawal by some...
From Fazle Rashid | 2009-02-24 00:00:00
NEW YORK, Feb 23: Beginning this week the top 20 American banks will be put to "stress test" to judge whether they could hold up even if the downturn worsens further than policy makers expect.Banks shares dipped fuelled by the...
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