Kowsher Jahan Khaled

Head of Business Desk

Bangladesh needs a modern airport

Bangladesh needs to upgrade its airport facilities and relevant infrastructure without further ado to keep up with the country’s fast-growing air traffic brought about by its rapid economic growth in recent years, said a top official of global airline giant Emirates.

4y ago

Catering on board, with care

Luxury airline Emirates has emerged as an icon in flight catering business with the same diligence for the first, business and economy class passengers, offering food of every region it flies to.

5y ago

Pran books $2.45m orders at Paris fair

Pran-RFL Group booked export orders worth around $2.45 million during the five-day SIAL fair in Paris that concluded yesterday, officials of the company said.

9y ago

Food processors gather in Paris to win new business

More than 6,000 food processors from around 100 countries gathered at SIAL fair in Paris yesterday to expand market and win new business.

9y ago

Tourism: the next big earner of foreign exchange

Tourism can be the third largest sector to earn foreign exchanges after garments and manpower, said the chief of a leading tour operator. Tourism is a multi-lateral sector.

11y ago

Travel through river delights

Rivers are delightful places, offering both natural attraction and utility for a vast range of human activities. Throughout history, rivers have been used as transport routes, as food sources and in more recent times, as places to visit and make merry. But surprisingly, there has been a little recognition of the role of rivers in the tourism industry, a gap which the public and private sectors can fill jointly.

11y ago

Cargo shipment demand to pick up soon

Demand for cargo shipment is expected to rise from the second quarter of this year, following a downturn in the business for a long time due to a recession in the western world, said a senior official of Emirates.

12y ago

Emirates eyes deeper links with Dhaka

Luxury airline Emirates plans to increase its frequencies to Dhaka in the coming months with an eye on the increasing number of outbound tourists, business and corporate people and overseas jobseekers.

12y ago
December 30, 2010
December 30, 2010

Multitasking mania

​​​​​​​It seems like it saves time, but the chaos that ensues often argues otherwise. Perhaps it's still true that a job worth doing is worth doing well. Multitasking has become the modern mania, even though it has a dark side: It leaves room for error and often leads to sub-par performance.

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