NATION BUSINESS REPORT Electro Mart Ltd, a large marketer of electronic household appliances and automobile, is participating in the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2009 at the marvelously decorated premier pavillion No.7. This delicate and wonderful premier pavillion is featuring the world famous KONKA Plasma Screen, LCD TV, Color TV, Refrigerator, Freezer, Mobile Phone, DVD ... Read more
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Prices of atta still high despite significant fall in int’l market
Prices of atta (crushed wheat) have fallen substantially in the local market as the international prices have long started to decline. As of yesterday the wholesale prices of wheat imported from Ukraine ranged between Tk 545 and Tk 560 a maund (37.2 kilogram), which is about Tk. 15 per kilogram. The current price of packed ... Read more
DITF eyes brisk sales next week
Star Business Report Participants in the 14th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) expect high sales from next Friday, as election-hype is not over yet. They said a few hundred people have already visited the fair since onset, but it will draw in people by droves within the next weekend. “As the fair kicked off only ... Read more
Richest German families lose billions in crisis
AFP, Berlin Germany’s 20 wealthiest families have lost about 40 billion euros (55 billion dollars) in the economic crisis in share values alone, the financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported yesterday. The richest families have lost “30 percent on average” of their fortunes since the summer of 2007, leading asset manager Joachim Paul Schaefer, told the magazine. ... Read more
Dubai dream turns sour as job losses mount
AFP, Dubai Dubai’s rapid expansion in recent years provided jobs for millions. But the global financial meltdown has abruptly ended the dream for many people as more and more firms sack staff to cut costs. Spectacular economic growth, spurred by a robust construction sector, lured people from far and wide to the booming city on ... Read more
Ershad leaves his fate to Hasina
JP accepts Zillur’s nomination for presidency, Hasina visits him with flower, sweets; cabinet to be formed tomorrow Hasan Jahid Tusher The Awami League-led alliance is likely to form the new cabinet tomorrow with representatives of its major components as the AL and key ally Jatiya Party (JP) overcame the differences of opinion on
BNP MPs-elect meet Jan 7 over oath taking
Staff correspondent The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect for January 7 to decide when they will take oath, according to party leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The party will play a constructive role in parliament, he said. ‘The party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect in Dhaka for January 7,’ ... Read more
Army won’t be deployed during Upazila polls: EC to pursue pending cases against MPs: DCC election in March
Staff Reporter The Election Commission has been taking full preparation for holding the upazila polls on January 22 and would start sending the election materials from January 12. The Commission, however, will not deploy army during the upazila polls. “Additional police and BDR will be deployed during the upazila elections, not army,” Election Commissioner Brig ... Read more
EC gears up for election series
Shakhawat Liton The Election Commission (EC) plans to hold the long over due Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) polls in March this year, launching a series of local government elections across the country. Following the DCC polls, the EC plans to hold elections to over 300 municipalities, and then the long over due polls to over ... Read more
Admin reforms illusive in interim govt’s two years
Mustafizur Rahman The military-controlled interim government is going to end its two-year tenure with most of the initiatives it undertook initially to reform civil bureaucracy fading away gradually. After assuming office in January 2007, the government of Fakhruddin Ahmed embarked on an ambitious plan to infuse ‘dynamism, accountability and transparency into the administration’, but towards ... Read more
Secretariat ready for changeover
CA holds farewell meeting; thanks people, govt staff M Abul Kalam Azad Advisers to the caretaker government are wrapping up their pending official tasks as the country’s administrative hub, Bangladesh Secretariat, prepares to receive new ministers after over two year’s wait. Bureaucrats yesterday bade farewell to a number of advisers who took charges of different ... Read more
Post-polls violence continues
10 killed, 270 injured so far Staff Correspondent Despite deployment of a huge number of law enforcers, post-polls violence continued in different parts of the country on Sunday, raising the death toll to 10 and the number of injured people to 270. An elderly woman, Subhashini Das, who was injured in an incident of post-poll ... Read more
Deny shelter to terrorists, insurgents: India to Dhaka
bdnews24.com, New Delhi India hopes the new government in Bangladesh will crack down not only on terrorist groups but also ensure that insurgent groups from northeast India do not find shelter in the country, the Indian prime minister has said. “We hope the new Bangladesh government will take appropriate steps to ensure that Bangladeshi soil ... Read more
Mashrafee helps Tigers avoid follow-on
Azad Majumder. Chittagong Vice-captain Mashrafee bin Murtaza scored a defiant half-century to help Bangladesh avoid the follow-on, but that was only just as the hosts were all out for 208 runs handing Sri Lanka a 176-run first innings lead on Sunday. The visitors stretched their lead to 189 after ending the second day with 13-0 ... Read more
Freedom after midnight
Traffic control system in the city falls asleep after 10pm leaving motorists at liberty when duty hours of traffic policemen end Rizanuzzaman Laskar The city’s traffic control mechanism is virtually switched off after 10:00pm when the traffic department of the Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) pulls out its officials from their stations leaving
Observers should also monitor post-polls violence: Abu Hena
Staff Correspondent Former chief election commissioner Abu Hena on Saturday said elections observers should also monitor post-polls violence. Inaugurating a workshop on ‘Election related capacity building training programme to promote democratic values and media engagement,’ he said the observers should monitor the situation before,
Navigation on southern routes at risk for lack of signals
Anisur Rahman Swapan . Barisal Navigation on almost all the river and coastal routes in the southern region has become risky as most of the marking signs on the routes remain inoperative. Almost all the beacon lights and buoys on 40 routes in the region have gone out of order, threatening safe movement of vessels, ... Read more
Cold wave paralyses life across country
Two dies in two days Staff Correspondent A mild cold wave coupled with dense fog, sweeping over the country since Friday, almost paralysed life and disrupted road and river communications across the country. Two elderly people have died due to biting cold in separate places of the northern district of Nilphamari in the last two ... Read more
Bus fare unchanged despite cut of fuel price
A.T.M.Nurun Nabi The bus fare in the city of Dhaka has remained unchanged despite cut of fuel price twice by the government in view of massive fall in the international market, so far assessed from talking with the city commuters. Some of them view the latest price cut as a measure to help the bus ... Read more
Developers pass unsteady time
Kawsar Khan Developers passed an unsteady time in 2008, owing mainly to sharp rise in the prices of roda vital raw material for construction work–, enactment of a housing law and low volume of apartment sales. In the first half of the immediate past year, the real estate sector experienced a low sale, driven by ... Read more