USD/BDT maintained stable tone last week as well and traded around 77.80 levels. As the country will start receiving wage earners remittances from next week, the market might get eased in coming week. The average daily inter-bank USDBDT transaction volume...
Impress Telefilm Ltd, Channel I & Chartered Life Insurance Company signed an agreement recently covering the group life insurance of the employees working in Channel I, Radio Bhumi, Anando Alo & Shaptahik. Muhammad Masud, Executive Director (Admin), Impress Telefilm Ltd....
FE Report The footwear sub-sector in leather sector requires special attention, given the rising demand of footwear in global market and the value chain advantages, a think tank says. In its 11th issue, Keystone Quarterly Review said leather industry is...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
The state-owned Jiban Bima Corporation (JBC) has spent Tk 2.31 billion beyond the permissible limits on its expenses during last six years, according to latest findings. Such extravagance on the part of this fiduciary organisation has deprived its insurance policyholders...
Bangladesh defeated Pakistan by seven wickets in the one-off Twenty20 international at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in the city Friday, report agencies. Having restricted Pakistan to 141-5, the home team cruised home in the 17th over, with Shakib Al Hasan and...
FE Report | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Different organizations, rights groups, stakeholders observed the second anniversary Friday of the tragic Rana Plaza collapse to commemorate those who lost their lives in the largest ever industrial disaster. On April 14, 2013, a nine-storied building that housed five garments...
FE Report The European Commission (EC), the US government and the US agencies concerned have called for immediate framing of necessary rules for implementation of Bangladesh Labour Act in line with the international standards. In a joint statement, they also...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
The government may make policy changes to put the public and private sectors on equal footing in a booming electricity-generation business. Striking such parity would need an amendment to the government's power generation policy for the private sector, officials said....
FE Report | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
The food ministry has proposed imposing import duty to check large-scale import of rice by the private sector as the government wants to save local producers from an impending price slump. Officials said the ministry's recommendation came following a query...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was back in business on Friday to rev up the city polls campaign for hand-picked candidates after her car was repaired, reports bdnews24.com. The BNP chief left her house at Gulshan around 4:30pm Friday and went...
FE Report | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Syed Khokon requested the voters on Friday to elect him mayor. "I am a young man. I can work for you (voters). Please vote for me," he said to the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Most of the listed mutual funds (MFs) are being traded far below their face value of Tk 10 each and also below their respective net asset value (NAV) indicating a sorry state of the MF sector. Some of the Asset...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
The Power Division has sought Tk 153 billion, its highest ever requirement, from the government in the upcoming national budget for carrying out its development work, officials said Friday. The amount is 72 per cent higher than that in the...
FE Report Police in a drive arrested two people from Tongi, Gazipur on Thursday night for their alleged involvement in the robbery attempt on Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd's (BCBL) Ashulia branch at Kathgora. The law-enforcers claimed that the arrested duo...
BNP has decided to guard poll centres in Dhaka City Corporation in order to prevent 'ballot looting' and alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is acting at the government's dictate, report agencies. Standing Committee Member and chief coordinator of BNP-backed...
The Citizens' Committee of One Thousand, a platform of city's eminent citizens, appeared on Friday on the street to extend their support for mayor candidates Annisul Haque and Sayed Khokon staging a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar, reports BSS....
Outsiders will have to leave Dhaka by Saturday midnight, ahead of the Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations' elections slated for April 28, reports UNB. According to the 7th notification issued by the Election Commission, those who are neither...
The government is going to bring some amendments to the existing rules relating to selection and appointment of non-government teachers to ensure transparency in the appointment and improve the quality of education, reports BSS. Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority...
The BNP-endorsed Dhaka North mayor aspirant Tabith Mohammed Awal's first 100-day priority tasks will be cleaning the capital and combating corruption at the city corporation if he is elected, reports bdnews24.com. In an interview with the news agency on Tuesday,...
Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam said on Friday BNP is hatching a conspiracy to ruin the country as well as make it ineffective state after the upcoming city corporation (CC) elections, reports BSS. "BNP is creating new plots to ruin...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 24 (BSS): Every nook and corner of the port city wore a festive mood as the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls are nearing and electioneering is becoming more festive day by day. All 42 wards of CCC have...
RAJSHAHI, Apr 24 (BSS): The historic 'Khapra Ward Day' was observed on Friday at Rajshahi Central Jail and in the city, paying rich tributes to seven detained communist political prisoners who were killed and taking fresh vow to continue movement...
FE Report | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Short Term International Migrant (STIM) households fared much better both in terms of savings and investment compared to internal and non-migrants, said an RMMRU study. The report showed that 34.07 per cent of international migrant households have savings accounts, whereas...
A high level delegation led by Chinese Vice-Minister for Marine Science, Technology and Polar Affairs, CHEN Lianzeng called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefm Siddique at the latter's office on Thursday, said a press release. During...
Syful Islam | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Oil-tankers have again started plying the Shela river route through the Sundabans, where a tanker met an accident in December, spilling 350,000 litres of furnace oil and poising serious threat to flora and fauna of the world's largest mangrove forest....
SYLHET, Apr 24 (UNB): Thirty-five tea-chers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who had earlier resigned from their posts over 'misconduct' of the SUST vice-chancellor, revoked the decision on Friday. The decision was taken after a meeting between...
GAZIPUR, Apr 24 (UNB): A woman and her daughter were stabbed to death by miscreants at Kacharipur under Sreepur Upazila early Friday. The deceased were identified as Hasina Begum, wife of late Amit Uddin and her daughter Arifa, a college...
The 28th death anniversary of noted educationist, social worker, poet and civil servant Muhammad Nurul Huq will be observed today (Saturday), said press release. A Milad Mahfil, distribution of food in orphanage and remembrance programme have been arranged to mark...
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