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2015-06-05 00:00:00

Prime Financial Unit Fund NAV disclosed The total NAV of Prime Financial First Unit Fund stood at Tk 208,355,757 on the basis of cost price and Tk 189,891,766 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation...

Photo: Prime Bank Limited

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Photo: Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd (SJIBL)

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Corporate Tax Rates

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Tax waiver on poultry sector set to go

FE Report | 2015-06-05 00:00:00

The government is withdrawing the tax exemption facility for poultry industries from the next financial year amid repeated appeals from the industry operators for extending the same. The existing tax exemption facilities for the country's poultry industry will expire with...

Gopalbhog, Khirsapat appearing in Rajshahi, C\\\'nawabganj markets

2015-06-05 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, June 4 (BSS): Mango, the most juicy and delicious fruit of the summer season, has started appearing in the markets of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts, famous for the most favourite summer fruit, for the last few days. Some indigenous...

Regent Airways extends time for ticket discount

2015-06-05 00:00:00

The time for discount on tickets of Regent Airways has been extended to June 9 next on the occasion of the upcoming Holy Ramadan and the Eid-ul Fitr. According to a press release of the Regent Airways, the special offer...

Stocks end flat amid bumpy ride

FE Report | 2015-06-05 00:00:00

Stocks finished flat amid heavy volatility on Thursday as the investors were cautious for national budget that was announced on the day. The market witnessed see-saw movement throughout the session as intra-day volatility was around 40 points. DSEX, the benchmark...

AIBL introduces \\\'Sanction Screening Automation\\\'

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) has started 'Sanction Screening Automation' to ensure prevention of  'Terrorism Financing and Money Laundering'. M Mahfuzur Rahman, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank & Deputy Chief of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) inaugurated the new automation...

Photo: Bank Asia

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Major sectoral allocations of budgetary fund

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Muhith unveils nat’l budget targeting 7.0pc growth

2015-06-05 00:00:00

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Bangladesh Marches towards Prosperity Paving the Way for Higher Growth Madam Speaker 1. I seek your kind permission to place before this august House the supplementary budget of FY 2014-15 and...

Heat wave to continue for at least 3 days

2015-06-05 00:00:00

A blistering heat wave sweeping across vast swathes of Bangladesh is likely to continue for three more days, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) says. Officials say extra humidity in air is making the heat unbearable. On Thursday, Bangladesh’s highest temperature was...

Abu Esrar appointed as new air chief

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Air Vice Marshal Abu Esrar will take over the command of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) from June 12 next, said a release from the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate on Thursday. He is set to take over the command the...

Man held with firearm in Kushtia

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a man along with a light gun and two rounds of bullet from Gobra Miapara in Kumarkhali upazila of Kustia district on early Friday. The arrestee was identified as Shamimuzzaman alias Mabud, 26, son...

4 killed in Dhamrai road crash

2015-06-05 00:00:00

At least four people, including an army man, were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Joypura bus stand in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka on Friday. Three...

18 Jamaat-Shibir men held in Gazipur

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Police in a drive arrested 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Kanthalia Chala in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district on Thursday. Omar Faruk, officer-in-charge of Kaliakoir Police Station said, tipped off a...

Asian shares fall

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday while bonds snapped a vicious losing streak and the euro retreated as investors braced for US jobs data and another day of drama over Greece. Shanghai added 1 per cent to clear the...

Wall St drops before jobs report

2015-06-05 00:00:00

US stocks fell on Thursday, hit by nervousness ahead of Friday's jobs report and lingering uncertainty over a Greece aid deal with creditors. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 170.69 points, or 0.94 per cent, to 17,905.58, the S&P 500...

Jubo League leader killed in Jhalakati

2015-06-05 00:00:00

A local leader of Jubo League was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Mushuria village in Sadar uapzila of Jhalakati district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Touhidul Islam, 32, convener of Binoykati union unit Jubo League...

Ghana petrol station inferno kills about 175 in Accra

2015-06-05 00:00:00

At least 175 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra. The fire on Wednesday night started as people in the city were trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which has...

Youth held with Yaba tablets in Dohar

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Police in a drive arrested a young man along with 51 pieces of Yaba tablets from Malikanda village in Dohar upazila of Dhaka on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Nahid Hossain, 25, son of Shahidul Hossain of the...

Oil prices edge up

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Oil markets stabilized in cautious trading on Friday ahead of an OPEC decision that is likely to keep the market oversupplied and sets aside warnings of a second lurch lower in prices as some members like Iraq and Iran look...

Mercantile Bank elects new chairman

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Alhaj Akram Hussain (Humayun) has been elected chairman of Mercantile Bank Limited. Mr Humayun is the Sponsor Director of Mercantile Bank Limited. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Fars Group of Companies. He is the Founder President of...

2 dead bodies recovered in Munshiganj

2015-06-05 00:00:00

The bodies of a man and a young man were recovered in Sirajdikhan and Gazaria upazilas of Munshiganj district on Friday. Wahiduzzaman, sub-inspector of Sirajdikhan Police Station, said police recovered hanging body of a man from Koyrakhola village in the...

3 killed in Sreemangal road accident

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Three people were killed in a car accident on the Sreemangal- Moulvibazar highway in Moulvibazar district. The accident occurred around 12:30am on Friday at Sreeemangal’s Kalapur Union when a car hit a roadside tree, leaving three others injured. All the...

Man held with 3,100 Yaba tablets in city

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Railway police arrested a man along with 3,100 pieces of Yaba tablet from Kamalapur Railway Station in capital on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Munsur Ali, 30. Rafiqul Islam,sub-inspector and operation officer of GRP said, being tipped off, a...

Sensex extends losses for 4th straight day

2015-06-05 00:00:00

The benchmark BSE Sensex stretched its losses for the fourth straight day on Friday, falling over 84 points in early trade on sustained selling by participants, triggered by weak domestic as well as global cues. The 30-share index declined 84.16...

3 killed in Sirajganj road mishap

2015-06-05 00:00:00

Three people were killed and seven others injured when a microbus hit a human hauler at Hatikumrul Golchattar on the Dhaka-Bogra highway in Solonga upazila of Sirajganj district on Friday. The deceased were identified as China, 27, daughter of Naba...

World Environment Day being observed today

2015-06-05 00:00:00

The World Environment Day, 2015 is being observed in the country as elsewhere around the world with a view to creating awareness about using the natural resources efficiently. The theme for this year’s WED is “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet....