Prime Insurance Company Limited (PICL) has developed and launched mobile application to provide services to create interaction between the clients and the company, said a press release. Using this app our business partner clients can check necessary information and receive...
TOKYO, Sept 17 (AFP): Tokyo stocks closed down 0.14 per cent on Wednesday as investors retreated to the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy decision. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange slipped 22.86 points to...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that her government has protected the dignity of the judges of the Supreme Court and sanctity of the judiciary through the 16th amendment to the constitution. "The judiciary...
M. Farid Ahmed in the first of a two-part article titled \'What we have learned from stock market development: A focus on some policy issues\' | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
Economists plunged into considerable debate over the relationship between financial system and economic growth. Economists' paradigm can be seen from different perspectives. Manager-shareholders relationship (agency relationship) has got prominence in recent times. While the possibility of the divergence of interest...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
State-owned banks (SoBs) are not faring well in their core banking business in the last few years, which was reflected in the growth of classified loans. They underwent capital shortfall. When do banks undergo capital shortfall? The answer is: when...
Mehedi Hasan Fuad | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
Cancer is the sixth major cause of mortality in Bangladesh and prevalence of its different forms is rapidly increasing. Tobacco is one of the major factors of getting cancer of various forms. For ages, tobacco has been cultivated in Bangladesh....
It is alarming to learn that one in every seven persons in the country is suffering from kidney problems. Every year 40,000 people die of kidney-related diseases. The situation will turn worse in the next ten years if preventive measures...
The Dhaka city dwellers have started experiencing load shedding once again. Even in the middle of the night, they do not get the much needed respite from load shedding. We experience power failures four/five times a day; and due to...
The Bangladesh ready-made garments (RMG) sector is slowly losing its grip on the world apparel markets including the United States, and it is not good news for the country. We have many nagging problems like shortages of power, gas and...
Shamsul Alam in the third of his four-part article on transformation of agriculture | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
The importance of agriculture now-a-days is more as nutrition and food security issues rather than as a growth driver for the economy. Economic growth is not only dependent on agricultural growth but a certain growth is required for ensuring food...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
Proper laws and their implementation are inextricably linked with good corporate governance. Crimes are as old as the human beings are. There are crimes, so there are also punishment. The London Stock Exchange went into operation in the 17th century....
Maintaining their party's no-comment policy over verdicts against war criminals, BNP leaders Wednesday were tight-lipped about the Supreme Court (SC) judgment jailing unto death their alliance partner Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee for his crimes against humanity, reports UNB. Contacted,...
The ruling Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance accepted the Supreme Court verdict Wednesday commuting Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's death penalty to imprisonment until death saying it is respectful of the court order, reports UNB. It also branded as intellectually...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
PABNA, Sep 17: At least 15 Jamaat-Shibir men were injured when a procession brought out by them came under attack from police, Jubo League and Chhatra League men Wednesday. Eyewitness and locals said when a Jamaat procession reached Indrapotti (Dowel...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has taken stringent security measures in the capital ahead of the first-phase 24-hour countrywide hartal of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami beginning at 6am on Thursday, reports UNB. Around 10,000 additional policemen alongside regular ones will remain deployed in...
In an immediate reaction to the verdict on the appeal against Delwar Hossain Sayedee's death sentence, Law Minister Anisul Huq said it shocked him too much as he had expected the maximum punishment-death, reports UNB. "I'm shocked with the verdict....
CHITTAGONG, Sept 17 (UNB): Police filed two cases Wednesday accusing 250 people in connection with the recovery of petrol bombs and sharp weapons from Shaheed Abdur Rob Hall of Chittagong University (CU) Tuesday. Mohammad Ismail, officer in-charge of Hathazari Police...
At least four activists of Ganajagaran Manch, including its spokesperson Imran H Sarker, were injured as they faced police action during a demonstration after Sayedee verdict at Shahbagh intersection in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. The three other injured are...
Foreign Minister (FM) AH Mahmood Ali leaves Dhaka for New Delhi today( Thursday) morning on a four-day visit to attend the third Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting, reports UNB. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead the Indian...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 17 (UNB): A case was filed against five people in connection with the mysterious death of a Naogaon judge at Mollahpara in Halishahar in the city Tuesday. Mukul Mia, sub-inspector of Halishahar Police Station, filed the case with...
Branding the Ganoforum president as one of the masterminds of 1/11, Food Minister Quamrul Islam alleged Wednesday the conspirators have got active again under Dr Kamal's leadership to establish an undemocratic and illegal administration in the country to stop its...
UNB adds from C'awabganj: Police in separate drives arrested two local leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of violence from Nachole and Shibganj upazilas Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Khalilur Rahman, ameer of Nachole upazila unit of Jamaat, and Sarwar,...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
The government will form mobile courts at all the districts to ensure compulsory use of jute bags by traders for packaging products. The government launched a mobile court drive last month in the capital to enforce the mandatory jute packaging...
FE Report | 2014-09-18 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted on Wednesday the final report in the Padma bridge graft conspiracy case giving a clean chit to all seven accused, including ex-Bridge Division secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan. ACC deputy director Mirza Jahidul Alam submitted the...
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