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DSE, CSE trading resumes today

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Share trading at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges begins today (Sunday) after a break of nine days, reports BSS. The stock market was closed from October 5 on the occasions of Eid and Puja festivals as the three-day public holiday...

CSE to launch two new indices today

2014-10-12 00:00:00

The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) is introducing today (Sunday) two new indices -- CSE 50 and CSE All Shariah Index. The base point of the two indices will be 1000, reports BSS. The top 50 companies listed with the CSE...

IPO Diary

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Photo: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Indian markets drop for third straight week

2014-10-12 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Business Standard): A sharp sell-off by foreign institutional investors (FIIs), on concerns that the US quantitative easing (QE) programme is nearing its end, pulled back Indian equities on Friday. Investor sentiment also turned bearish on worries of...

Sebi may tweak colour code for mutual funds

2014-10-12 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Business Standard): Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) plans to revamp the product labelling framework for mutual fund (MF) schemes. The changes could include further categorisation of equity schemes. Under current guidelines, all MF equity schemes...

Investors gird for scarier days in markets

2014-10-12 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters): Volatility has suddenly returned to US stocks, and for the first time all year it doesn't appear that the weakness in equities will go away quietly in the span of a few days. While the...

Emkay flash crash: Sebi censures NSE

2014-10-12 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Business Standard): Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday passed an order against the National Stock Exchange (NSE), censuring it for lapses in the 2012 flash crash, triggered by punching of erroneous orders by brokerage...

Reliance seeks sale of Eagle Ford stake: Sources

2014-10-12 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters): India's Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking a buyer for its stake in the Eagle Ford Basin oil and natural gas joint venture with Pioneer Natural Resources, a sale that could raise up to $4.5 billion,...

European stocks hit hard by gloom over growth

2014-10-12 00:00:00

LONDON, Oct 11 (AFP): A squall of alarm that the eurozone could fall into recession and by gloom over the global outlook struck European equities and the euro on Friday. Many markets stood down by around 2.0 per cent in...

Hong Kong shares tumble

2014-10-12 00:00:00

SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares tumbled nearly 2 per cent on Friday on weakness in global equity markets plus jitters over a possible flare-up in pro-democracy protests in the city. The Hang Seng Index dropped 1.9 per cent...

Lanco in talks to sell stake in Griffin coal mine

2014-10-12 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters): Infrastructure firm Lanco Infratech Ltd is in talks with investors to sell a stake in its Griffin coal mine in Australia and some road projects, it said on Friday, as part of its strategy to pay...

Using songs and music in the classroom

Masum Billah | 2014-10-12 00:00:00

Songs and music are part of daily life for most people. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has rightly said, "Music is the universal language of mankind." Really songs and music can play a significant role in the classroom particularly in language classroom....

Study tours for practical learning

Al-Alim, Shariyar Khan Reyad, Khorshed Alam and Shake Sarowar | 2014-10-12 00:00:00

A study tour is a travel experience to achieve specific learning goals. Study tour emphasises experiential learning and offers both group and self-directed activities that enable learners to explore new territories, cultures, and people. Although every department of a university...

Solution lies in Hasina\\\'s resignation, says BNP

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Observing that the prime minister (PM) is a curse both for the nation as well as the Awami League (AL), BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Saturday it is only Sheikh Hasina's resignation that can help restore a...

BNP won\\\'t have any place in poll-time govt: Quamrul

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam said Saturday BNP would not have any representation in the poll-time government for the 11th parliament polls as it has no representation in the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament), reports BSS. "They (BNP) have no representation...

Democratic process can\\\'t be imposed from outside, says Shahriar

2014-10-12 00:00:00

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam, now in Bali, said the Bangladesh government strongly believes that democracy and development must go hand in hand for the betterment of people, reports UNB. He, however, said the democratic process must...

ALCWC meets today to decide Latif\\\'s fate

2014-10-12 00:00:00

A meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will be held in the city today (Sunday), apparently to decide the fate of its presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique, now under fire for his derogatory remarks on Hajj, Tablig...

Latif should apologise to nation: Kader Siddique

2014-10-12 00:00:00

President of Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) Kader Siddique said Saturday his elder brother minister Latif Siddique should apologise to the nation for his recent anti-Islamic comments, reports UNB. "I'm not sure whether the Almighty Allah will pardon my brother...

Section 144 in Ctg\\\'s Patiya

2014-10-12 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Oct 11 (UNB): The local administration has imposed Section 144 in the Maliara Natunbazar area of Patiya Upazila as two groups called separate programmes at the same venue and time for Saturday. The restriction will remain in force from...

Photo: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Bangladesh Navy Ship (BNS) Osman

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Plea to include women\\\'s household work in GDP

FE Report | 2014-10-12 00:00:00

Speakers at a meeting Saturday demanded of the government to include household work of women in the gross domestic product (GDP), recognising their domestic contribution and substantially raising the country's economic growth. Mentioning a NGO study conducted in the year...

Dhaka Board blacklists 47 school teachers

FE Report | 2014-10-12 00:00:00

Dhaka Education Board has blacklisted some 47 secondary school teachers for their alleged failure in evaluating answer scripts of the public examinations properly, officials said. They said the board authorities recently issued a circular in this connection that imposed a...

Plight of hajj pilgrims to be over in 5-6 days: Biman MD

2014-10-12 00:00:00

The return flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia will get normal within the next 5-6 days removing the sufferings of the devotees, claimed its MD and CEO AM Mosaddique Ahmed on Saturday, reports UNB....

50 injured in Gopalganj clash, 21 held

2014-10-12 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, Oct 11 (UNB): At least 50 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over setting up a new market at Majra village in Kashiani upazila on Saturday. Officer-in-charge of Kashiani police station M Monir Hossain...

BD man gets life term in India for \\\'murder\\\'

2014-10-12 00:00:00

A Bangladeshi man, Badshah, was sentenced to life term in jail for reportedly killing an east Delhi resident during a robbery bid, reports UNB. According to report carried by The Times of India (TOI) on Saturday, Badshah murdered 32-year-old Animesh...

Over 2000 sued for Laxmipur ASI killing

2014-10-12 00:00:00

LAXMIPUR, Oct 11 (UNB): Three separate cases were filed on Friday night against over 2000 people in connection with violence and killing of an ASI of police in Raipur upazila. Raipur thana officer-in-charge Md Manjurul Haq Akand said SI Jahirul...

FE reporter\\\'s father expires

FE Report | 2014-10-12 00:00:00

Keshab Chandra Howlader (KC Howlader), a renowned industrialist and social worker, breathed his last at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata on Saturday morning. He was 65. Family members said KC Howlader died of cardiac arrest at...

Indian among 2 found dead along border

2014-10-12 00:00:00

BENAPOLE, Oct 11 (UNB): Two people, including an Indian citizen, were found dead in separate incidents here on Saturday. Apurba Hasan, officer-in-charge of Port Police Station, said being informed by locals, police recovered the hanging body of a Bangladeshi national...

City Events

2014-10-12 00:00:00

Obituary M Moyeedul Islam, chairman of United Insurance Company Limited and Vice-president of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, died of old age complications at the city's BIRDEM Hospital Saturday. He was 92. He left behind wife and a son and a...