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-- 2017-09-21 09:45:30
The cracks developed on the entire length and breadth of the Dhaka-Chittagong highway are a cause for serious concern -albeit not surprising. When a mega project is not soundly backed by vision and te...
FE Online Desk 2017-09-20 12:00:00
A two-day international conference titled '1st International Conference on Business and Management', arranged by BRAC Business School of BRAC University begins Thursday at The Westin, Dhaka. ...
-- 2017-09-20 09:11:53
Nothing can be more distressing than the indifference that the various service agencies demonstrate to public inconveniences caused by their indiscriminate cutting of roads in Dhaka city. The city cor...
-- 2017-09-20 04:42:28
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked Awami League leaders and activists to remain alert about their behaviour. "You will have to remain alert regarding your behaviour and attitude, you will hav...
-- 2017-09-19 12:00:00
Like a host of government projects -- some quite well designed but left utterly neglected, a big river dredging project taken up some seven years ago is languishing in a state of inertia. Dredging, co...
-- 2017-09-18 12:00:00
Admittedly, Bangladesh's economic performance is laudable if not stellar. But the performance is uneven, exclusive and often discriminatory. From this point of view, any initiative to include people f...
-- 2017-09-18 08:16:22
Progressive Democratic Party and Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP) on Monday proposed the Election Commission to deploy army and restore ‘no vote’ provision in the parliamen...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-09-17 10:24:49
The 225-megawatt Shikalbaha power plant in Chittagong will run at full blast from next month, feeding an additional 75 megawatts (MW) of electricity to the national grid. Located in Patiya U...
-- 2017-09-17 09:41:06
The continuing tug-of-war between the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) and two city corporations, as reported in the FE on Saturday, over flushing stagnant water out of the capital during ra...
-- 2017-09-16 12:00:00
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged on Friday Tk 860 billion (86,000 crore) has been laundered alone by persons close to Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB. He made the rema...
-- 2017-09-16 12:00:00
That there is an acute scarcity of authentic data in almost all sectors of the country's economy is hardly disputed. Volumes have been said and written, highlighting the need for improving the statist...
-- 2017-09-15 10:52:24
The government's recent move to embark on a massive dredging project for 10 rivers in the country's northeastern haor areas is a pragmatic step. It could not have been better timed. Detractors, howeve...
-- 2017-09-14 12:01:11
The first-year honors admission tests of Dhaka University (DU) for academic session 2016-2017 will begin on Friday with the entry exam for the Business Studies faculty under "Ga-Unit" (C unit). ...
-- 2017-09-14 09:33:44
Observance of the International Literacy Day in the country last week coincided with the grim reality that at present there are as many as 53,000 vacant posts of primary teachers in 64,000 primary sch...
-- 2017-09-13 09:19:23
It is a distress signal about the state of the country's banking sector. That is the impression that one does invariably get from the recent reports in a large segment of the media. The extent of obje...
-- 2017-09-12 09:33:19
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for visiting Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. But he strongly criticised her gover...
-- 2017-09-12 09:15:16
The move, though belated, to transfer the control over academic affairs of private medical colleges from the Dhaka University to some other institution will be considered a step in the right direction...
FE Report 2017-09-11 12:00:00
The central bank asked the commercial banks to avert loan concentration in single big groups or sectors through diverting their investment portfolios to minimise default risks. In another major dir...
-- 2017-09-11 12:00:00
When at issue is project implementation, each one - big or small - need to be brought under regular review. Now that Bangladesh has undertaken a number of mega projects in order to spur its developmen...
-- 2017-09-10 12:00:00
With its hassle-free round-the-clock services, Uber, the world's largest on-demand ride-sharing company, has brought some sort of relief to city commuters, mainly for the middle-class ones, within eig...
-- 2017-09-10 09:24:29
The dismal picture of gender inequality in Bangladesh, as painted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), is not backed up by ground realities. The ESCAP...
-- 2017-09-09 12:19:40
BNP secretary general Mirza FakhrulIslam Alamgir demanded on Friday the government make effective diplomatic efforts to force Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis, reports UNB. "Our demand is very c...
-- 2017-09-09 12:00:00
The ministry of food owes the people an explanation as to why the prices of rice, their main daily consumption item, are going up despite a substantial cut in the import duty on it. The soaring prices...
-- 2017-09-09 08:19:05
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Saturday said the Myanmar government would have to face the international court for killing Rohingya population. "They (Myanmar government) have been comm...
-- 2017-09-09 07:28:20
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged BNP to stop hatching ‘conspiracies’ over Rohingya issue. “BNP has been engaged in a dirty game. They don&rsqu...
-- 2017-09-08 10:04:25
Excursions on Eid holidays are fast picking up in Bangladesh. Tour operators once used to rue the travel-loving people's reluctance to make trips to tourist spots during the three or four-day Eid holi...
-- 2017-09-08 05:30:37
A case was filed against 400 people in connection with a factional clash of Awami League in Kushtia over establishing supremacy that left two people dead and 20 injured. Komlesh Das, sub-insp...
-- 2017-09-07 12:00:00
It is a cause for serious concern that the Eid day and the day before and after it have, according to reports carried in different contemporaries, witnessed 20 chilling murders and five incidents of r...
-- 2017-09-06 12:00:00
The ninth BRICS -- an acronym for a grouping of five nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- concluded last Tuesday in Xiamen in East China's Fujian Province, with a positive n...
From Jubair Hasan in Xiamen, China 2017-09-06 10:50:41
A three-day long BRICS Summit came to an end on Tuesday reaching consensus on some key economic issues that leaders believe will make voices of the developing countries much stronger in the globalised...
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