Staff Correspondent The Awami League-led government has expressed unwillingness to kick-start the ailing Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, a public sector arm for market intervention, in a marked shift from its pre-polls pledge for a ‘multi-pronged approach to control prices and monitor the market’. Making public the government’s position on the corporation, the commerce minister, Faruk ... Read more
News
Expert body advises no blanket ordn ratification
Shahiduzzaman The expert committee formed to examine the ordinances made in the past two years on Sunday finalised its report recommending that 30 ordinances should be approved, 53 should be scrapped and 39 others should be left for the parliament to decide. ‘The expert committee has finalised its report, which will be placed in the ... Read more
Recession fears loom over shrimp exports
Sajjadur Rahman The shrimp industry foresees the toughest time this year on a continuous fall both in the price and demand in the troubled developed economies, main consumers of the item, according to industry people. They said buyers in the US and Europe are
BAIRA urges govt to raise migration cost
Raheed Ejaz Manpower recruiting agents Sunday submitted a 28-point proposal to the government that includes increasing the migration cost from Tk 84,000 to Tk 1,40,000 to stop cheating as well as maintaining growth in this sector. A delegation of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agents met labour and employment and expatriates’ welfare and overseas ... Read more
Withdrawal of duties on solar equipments to help expansion of SHSs
BSS, Dhaka The new government’s decision of withdrawal of all duties on equipments of Solar Household System (SHS) will significantly boost up the expansion of renewable energy in rural parts of the county, experts said. Prof NC Bhowmik, director of Renewable Energy research Centre (RERC) told BSS that the vast areas of rural people mostly ... Read more
Broiler chicken soars 51pc
Sohel Parvez The prices of broiler chicken have jumped over 51 percent because of short supply as fears over probable bird flu attacks slowed farming last month. Low returns over chicken last month also prompted farmers to cut farming, leading retail prices to rise as high as Tk 139 a kilogram. The overall prices of ... Read more
United Airways cuts 30pc fuel surcharge
United Airways, one of the private airlines in Bangladesh, has announced 30 per cent fuel surcharge cut on all routes as world oil prices marked a sharp fall. The cut in fuel surcharge comes into effect on January 20, reports UNB. Considering the passengers’ right to benefit from the decline in world fuel prices, United ... Read more
Dhaka stocks drop for 3rd day
Staff Correspondent Dhaka stocks finished down on Sunday, the third consecutive trading day, in a market that saw continuous price fluctuations amid a downtrend for the last couple of weeks. The general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 18.39 points, or 0.68 per cent, to close at 2677.19, while its blue chips index, DSE20, shed ... Read more
The first Inter-Standard global roaming service in the country launched by citycell
Citycell (Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited) introduced the country’s first inter-standard Global Roaming Service, which allows customers to roam in both CDMA and GSM networks of over 450 operators in more than 200 countries around the world. This Global Roaming Service also provides revolutionary satellite coverage even in places where no mobile operator’s network exists. Additionally, ... Read more
Shinepukur to expand bone china output
Bdnews24.com . Dhaka Shinepukur Ceramics Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with a German company for setting up an expansion unit of bone china. The deal was signed Sunday to boost Shinepukur’s bone china output by 150 per cent. Nazmul Hassan, chairman of Shinepukur Ceramics Ltd, and Konrad Schmidling, managing director of Ceramic Info ... Read more
Spring semester begins at IUB
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a welcome ceremony today, Saturday, 17th January 2009 at the Baridhara campus for the newly admitted students of the Spring 2009 semester. On the occasion, the premises, full to the brim by the new spring-faces truly wore a festive look with festoons and banners. Prof Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor ... Read more
Rajuk to involve Buet in plot allotment
Uttara, Purbachal Rajuk to involve Buet in plot allotment Helemul AlamRajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) will involve Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) for preparing database of the applicants and conducting lottery for the allotment of plots at Purbachal New Town Project and Uttara Model Town (Third Phase). “It will take two months from the ... Read more
Revivifying wall magazines
Colourful show concludes at Bangla Academy Durdana Ghias Wall magazines with stories, poems, cartoons, paintings, science fictions and other articles with beautiful illustrations adorned the walls of the Bangla Academy as a national competition on wall magazines has
CU remains locked up, BCL students mount pressure
Chittagong Correspondent The administrative big shots of Chittagong University (CU) have apparently failed to find a way out from the deadlock arising out of the siege laid by the-Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student front of Awami League and
BCL antics irk AL top brass
PM issues warning; BCL central body to be dissolved Hasan Jahid Tusher and Najmul Alam Nobin The Awami League (AL) high command might soon dissolve the central committee of its associate body Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the wake of recent series of violence at several educational institutions across the country. The party high-ups are ... Read more
Hasina seeks more US investment in energy sector
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the United States to invest in Bangladesh in larger volume and emphasized on more US cooperation in energy and power sectors of the country. The request came when US Ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty called on the Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s
Zia’s 73rd Birth Anniversary today
Conspirators killed Zia, now want to destroy BNP Staff Correspondent BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Sunday said as part of implementing a blue print to destroy BNP, the conspirators in a planned way murdered the founder of the party, President Ziaur Rahman. “The conspirators are still active to destroy BNP. In phases at ... Read more
Andaman tragedy: Hundreds feared dead at sea
AFP, Port Blair India said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed to be part of a wave of boat people allegedly dragged out to the middle of the ocean by Thailand and left to die. Thailand has denied the accusations, but accounts of survivors and the latest reports from the Indian ... Read more
Over Tk 1cr brought back at taskforce initiative
Julfikar Ali Manik BNP standing committee member and former minister Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain brought back 76,282.07 pounds (equivalent to about Tk 1.04 crore) from the UK at the initiative of now-defunct taskforces. The military-backed caretaker government cracked down on high-profile graft-suspects in February 2007 and Mosharraf was arrested within a few months. Sources say ... Read more
Uphold country’s image abroad
President advises foreign service officials Unb, Dhaka President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday termed foreign service officials mirror of the county and hoped they would uphold Bangladesh’s image abroad. Iajuddin made the remark when a 10-member delegation of the Foreign Service Academy led by its Principal Ambassador Shahed Akhtar called on him at Banga-bhaban. The delegation comprised ... Read more