MUMBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex and Nifty edged up on Thursday as exporters such as Infosys Ltd rallied after the rupee fell to a nine-month low, although the weaker local currency hit other blue-chips such as Tata Motors...
NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (Business Standard): NTPC, the largest power generating company in India, has raised 500 million dollars from the international bond markets on Wednesday. NTPC is the first Indian company to tap the foreign currency bond market after...
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters): World stocks extended losses on Thursday as evidence suggested both the Chinese and European economies were slowing, while the yen slid to multi-year lows against the dollar and euro on bets on more Japanese money printing....
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of different mutual funds (MFs) at the close of business operation on November 19, 2014, said a...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of different open-end mutual funds (MFs) at the close of business operation on November 19, 2014, said...
M S Siddiqui | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
Gold, as defined under Section 2 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, takes the form of coin or bullion or ingot whether refined or not. The annual demand for gold in Bangladesh is 17 tonnes, but there has been no...
Jamaluddin Ahmed concluding his two-part article | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
There are at least three other roles of central banks that are less considered. One is the distributive role of central bank policy. Central banks' policies can have differential impacts on different classes and groups: workers and capitalists, debtors and...
Stuck with no progress on the tannery hub's shift from the capital's Hazaribagh to the Savar industrial park, the government has finally decided to roll out incentives to expedite the process. The decision of the government to relocate the country's...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
The Global Slavery Index 2014, announced on Monday last, presents a dismal picture for South Asia. Of the 35.8 million people enslaved worldwide, 23.5 million live in Asia. Of the Asian total, India's share is the largest with 14.2 million...
Md Badrul Islam | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
The Ukrainian crisis has become a focus of attention in the world today. It is an ongoing European crisis involving Russia and Ukraine. The Supreme Council of Crimea and the City Council of Sevastopol unilaterally declared Crimea as an independent...
I really don't comprehend how football, once the most popular sport, has lost its appeal to the sport lovers of the country. Football was the most popular sport and its players used to have a greater following and adulation than...
There are quite a few misconceptions about blood donation in our mind. Many of us think, we do not have adequate blood and therefore we cannot donate the same. But the fact is, when we go for blood donation the...
Now-a-days one of the most important topics of discussion in business is violation of ethics. In this 21st century when the world is becoming more complex than before, we suffer from problems arising out of violation of ethics. Hundreds of...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
A thriller by popular writer Kazi Anwar Hossain opens with an eerie feeling hitherto unknown to the local readers. The first few lines of the crime-fiction narrate: The residents of Dhaka have all of a sudden begun to feel puzzled...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
As the editor of this research book says, "Road accidents are the new epidemic sweeping across much of the developing world". With its rapid urbanisation and exponential growth of transport networks, safety on the roads has emerged as an inescapable...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
The number of employees under government revenue budget has increased by 83 per cent to 1.26 million over the last three decades since the early 1980s, leaving aside the first post-Independence period. This growth, according to most of analysts and...
Syful Islam | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
The government has moved to keep bank accounts of the country's influential persons under watch in line with the new standard of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), official sources said. The issue is going to be incorporated in the circular...
SYLHET, Nov 20 (Agencies): The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet has been closed sine die following the death of a student in a clash between factions of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Thursday. The university has...
The Armed Forces Day marking the establishment of Bangladesh armed forces during the country's Liberation War will be observed today (Friday) with due solemnity and festivity, reports UNB. On this day in 1971, Bangladesh Armed Forces comprising Army, Navy and...
FE Report | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday expressed hop that the country would be free from poverty by 2018 as various poverty alleviation programmes undertaken by both government and non-government organisations are being implemented successfully across the country. "Extreme poverty will...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
The tax intelligence wing has started collecting bank account information of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Ghulam Hussain and his wife. The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) under NBR asked the country's commercial banks Thursday to furnish bank account...
Siddique Islam | 2014-11-21 00:00:00
Capital base of the country's banking sector increased by nearly 2.0 per cent in the third quarter of this calendar year despite a large shortfall in some 'badly-managed' banks, particularly state-run ones. Total eligible capital, generally known as actual capital...
Bangladesh has been elected Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC). The election took place at the 29th Session of the Intergovernmental Council of IPDC being held from November 20-21 at the...
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