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PMO now calls for installing rental power plants to ease nagging crisis

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has given a fresh directive to the top executives of power sector entities to delineate a contingency plan and execute it as soon as possible to ease the nagging power crisis across the country. Sources said in a recently held meeting with Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Kamal Siddiqui in . . . . . . Read Full Story

Chamber, trade bodies want immediate NCT privatisation

Leaders of leading chamber and trade promotion bodies have strongly urged the government to take immediate steps to privatise the operation and management of the under-construction New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) of Chittagong port. In a joint statement Sunday, the leaders also demanded to appoint a competent operator having pr . . . . . . Read Full Story

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Chamber, trade bodies want immediate NCT privatisation

Leaders of leading chamber and trade promotion bodies have strongly urged the government to take imm

PMO now calls for installing rental power plants to ease nagging crisis

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has given a fresh directive to the top executives of power sector

Central bank deletes principal amount waiver provision

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has finally shifted from its earlier position that allowed waiver of princi

POLITICS & POLICIES

No election will be held without reforms: Hasina

ORLANDO, Florida, Mar 19 (UNB): No election will be held in Bangladesh without recasting the caretak

WWF urged to press India to abandon its river linking project

MEXICO CITY, Mar 19 (BSS): Bangladesh Water Resources Minister Hafizuddin Ahmed today commended the

Magistrates' appointments, judgements challenged

The High Court Sunday issued a rule upon the government to show cause as to why the appointments of

METRO & COUNTRY

Three garment buildings identified as ‘vulnerable’

Three buildings that house three garment factories in Dhaka have been identified as 'most vulnerable

Primary health care ‘successfully implemented in country’

Bangladesh fund manager of the 'Global Fund for Fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria' (GFATM) Crista A

Japan to provide Tk 300m food aid

Japan will provide Tk 300 million food aid in support of UN World food Programme's Integrated Food S

VIEWS & REVIEWS

Our expectations from India

CONTEMPORARY India is fortunate in many respects. It is a Muslim scientist who fabricated her atom b

Policy bankruptcy and wavering leadership: The case of proposed coal policy

THE countries that are developed today did not achieve their development just by chance. They were

Trade issues and India

THE last meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Economic Commission discussed the formation of a free

EDITORIAL

A significant visit to India

PRIME Minister Khaleda Zia's visit to India from today is considered significant in the bilateral re

Stepping beyond the dotted line

An unwarranted yet sad drama over the management of the new container terminal at New Mooring in Chi

Debate over safe coal mining method and export

IT must be admitted that the proposal for open pit mining has been able to create some ripples in th

LETTER TO EDITOR

Questionable drive

WHEN a report on launching a crackdown on faulty passenger vehicles was recently published, it obvio

A few honest people are enough

If the proposed "trap case" of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) can be introduced successfully in th

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

Local retailers charge prices of spectacles at their will

The prices of different types of frames and glasses of spectacles are charged arbitrarily in differe

RCCI submits 20-point demand to BB governor for socio-economic development

RANGPUR, Mar 18: A 20 point demand for socio-economic development of Rangpur was been submitted by R

Price indices gain at both bourses

The price indices on the country's two bourses gained Sunday, as the gaining issues overwhelmed the

COMPANIES & FINANCE

Manmohan asks RBI, FM to move towards full rupee convertibility

MUMBAI, Mar 19 (PTI): Favouring moving towards fuller capital account convertibility in the context

Eurozone data to show easing in inflation

BRUSSELS, Mar 19 (AFP): Eurozone indicators to be released this week should see an easing in inflati

China seeks growth impetus from technological innovation

BEIJING, Mar 19 (CEIS): A gap between the position of the world's fourth largest economy and unfitti

MARKET & COMMODITIES

US motorists gear for higher fuel prices, shortages

NEW YORK, Mar 19 (AFP): US motorists are likely to face a fresh surge in fuel prices in the coming m

AirAsia looks to China, India for Asian ambitions to take-off

KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 19 (AFP): Low-cost carrier AirAsia hopes to launch more flights to China and subse

Gross asset of South Asia Ins rises by 19pc

South Asia Insurance Company Limited (SAICL) recorded a rise in its gross asset by 19 per cent compa

SPORTS

Khulna all set to host maiden ODI

KHULNA, Mar 19 (BDNEWS): Bir Shrestha Shaheed Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium in Khulna is a

Razzaq guides Pakistan to victory

COLOMBO, Mar 19 (BBC): Abdul Razzaq produced a disciplined innings to see Pakistan to victory by fou

Sri Lanka A team arrives in city today

A 22-member Sri Lanka A team, led by national player Jehan Mubarak, is due to arrive in the city tod

WORLD

US soldiers convert Saddam's torture chamber into their own

NEW YORK, Mar 19 (AFP): An elite US Special Operations forces unit has converted one of Saddam Husse

Pak says nuclear deals should not be country-specific

Washington, Mar 19(PTI): Days after introduction of a bill in American Congress seeking its approval

Fuel short in Nepal capital

KATHMANDU, Mar 19, (AFP): Highways in Nepal were near-deserted Sunday and gasoline shortages loomed

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