NEW DELHI, Dec 20 (PTI): In its biggest crackdown on suspected tax evasion and laundering of black money via stock-trading platforms, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi0 on Friday barred 260, including individuals and companies, from the securities...
The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 295,847,508.90 on the basis of cost price and Tk 252,912,424.85 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 18 December 2014. The face value per...
The shareholders of Shurwid Industries Limited have elected its director Engineer Mahmudul Hasan as its new managing director for next five years. The decision was taken in the company's 10th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and 4th Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Economic development without socio-economic challenges is inconceivable. The journey to development has never been easy for any nation and it is always a long hard battle to turn promises into achievements. Bangladesh is a developing economy growing with an annual...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Virginia, USA | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The US Senate Intelligence Committee after much procrastination has released its investigative report on the horrendous atrocities inflicted on the prisoners detained in secret locations in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Thailand. The prisoners were arrested soon after the attack...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), according to a report published in this paper a couple of days back, has assured the government of making available $250 million fresh fund to carry out further reforms in the country's scam-hit capital market...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
There are three rice-growing seasons in Bangladesh for Aus, Aman and Boro. While the Aus is an upland pre-monsoon crop with low yields, the Aman is a rain-fed monsoon crop. The Boro is a dry-season irrigated crop. For ages, Aus...
Saleh Akram | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The fragile Sundarbans region is now staring helplessly at an ecological nightmare caused by oil spillage after a vessel carrying oil sank after a collision. Furnace oil spread over more than 100 sq. km area along the Shela River, polluting...
It is not raining for about two months, but the surface drains, household waste water disposal pits, manholes etc., are full of dirty water coming out of the households. DCC or Dhaka WASA or whoever is responsible for the matter...
It is shocking to know that an amount of Tk.1.7 billions has gone out of the country. It only points to the extent of corruption prevailing in our society. When our fellow countrymen are working hard abroad and remitting valuable...
A report along with a photograph by the Lalmonirhat correspondent of a local English daily was published on 16th December. It was the usual and sad saga of negligence of our authorities. The report stated: "The bridge collapsed at least...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
It's passion which is found to be rare in our context where paradoxically almost everyone conscious wants to become an entrepreneur. Most people, in business in particular, talk about entrepreneurship, reckoning each of themselves to be nothing less than a...
Farid Hasan Ahmed | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The winter season has started in Bangladesh. The location of Bangladesh is in 20°22'N-26°36'N, 87°48'E-92°41'E.5. It is not a severely cold-prone country. People of Bangladesh are used to face the normal winter season when the average temperature remains 13°C-20°C. But...
Oberthur Technologies, a French company, is likely to get contract for production and distribution of Smart National Identity Card (Smart NID) under an Election Commission (EC) project, reports UNB. The tender evaluation committee has already made the recommendation in this...
Appreciating the brave role of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during the January-5 general election, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday the members of this force played a very important role in foiling the plot to stop the polls,...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, MP, said Saturday Bangladeshi nationalism is a "cocktail philosophy", reports BSS. The minister was addressing a meeting of marginal social groups' network, NNMC, at the Institution of Engineers. The topic of the discussion was "Human...
Trials are going on in International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) in four cases against seven people for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, reports BSS. The seven accused in four cases are Sheikh Sirajul Haq alias Siraj...
KUSHTIA, Dec 20 (UNB): At least 10 houses were set ablaze and 10 more vandalised following death of one person in a fierce clash between two factions of the local unit of Awami League at Poradah village in Mirpur upazila...
Nearly a year after receiving the draft rules of the amended Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act, the law ministry has recently vetted the draft rules and sent them back to the health ministry to be finalised, reports UNB....
BOGRA, Dec 20 (UNB) : The half-day hartal, enforced by the local unit BNP demanding the release of its five leaders whom a court sent to jail in a case for crude bomb blast in front of the district Awami...
Fifty-one scholars, writers and activists from home and abroad have expressed deep concern over the use of contempt of court law in curbing freedom of expression. The signatories to the statement are Dr Shahdeen Malik, Khushi Kabir, Rasheda K Choudhury,...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-20 00:00:00
The place is the largest hospital in the country. A woman has been declared dead and a death certificate too has been issued to that effect. Four hours later, a ward boy comes to the trolley on which the body...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam | 2014-12-20 00:00:00
Within the current norms of developmental measurements, particularly economic development, a number of indicators are used. They are mainly GDP/GNP, Foreign Currency Reserve (FCR) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). However, postulates in economics are always not holy. Moreover, it cannot...
Md Sultan Mahmud | 2014-12-20 00:00:00
The English chemist John Dalton first proposed the scientific theory of the atom two hundred years ago. Since then we have seen chemists come to understand the elements and their interactions, we have seen engineers make and use new materials...
Sadia Arman in the second of a four-part article | 2014-12-20 00:00:00
At the new school Dali spent such long and continual hours in reverie and imagination, lost, for example, in looking out of the window or in contemplation of a coloured picture found in a chocolate wrapping, that his teachers reported...
Alamgir Hossain | 2014-12-20 00:00:00
It is undeniable that beggars are everywhere in the city of Dhaka - at traffic signals, peering into taxi windows, bedraggled, haggard and breaking into a sudden smile when a few coins are dropped into their palms. Dhaka is now...
PESHAWAR, Dec 19 (agencies): Pakistan's military says it has killed 59 militants in ground assaults and air strikes on Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan. The operations come days after the Taliban killed 141 people at a...
KIEV, Dec 19 (AFP): Ukraine's forces on Friday reported the death of five soldiers in the first bloody day of clashes with pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist east in more than week. Defence spokesman Andriy Lysenko said another seven Ukrainian...
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