Munima Sultana | 2014-08-06 00:00:00
Japan has hinted at financing a bridge improvement project to widen and renovate nearly 200 bridges in the country's western zone. The fund will help the government fine-tune those with its future plan of turning four-lane national highways, officials said....
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Xinhua): The World Bank said on Monday that it is launching global consultations to reform the procurement rules of goods and services under projects financed by the global lender. "We want procurement in bank operations to support...
JAKARTA, Aug 5 (AFP): Indonesian growth slipped to its slowest pace for almost five years in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, highlighting the huge economic challenges facing the president-elect Joko Widodo. Southeast Asia's top economy expanded 5.12 per...
MUMBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters): India's central bank kept its key policy repo rate unchanged on Tuesday as widely expected, and voiced a commitment to bringing down inflation that convinced many analysts that markets will have to wait until next year...
International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr Gowher Rizvi has said Bangladesh and Iran enjoy excellent bilateral relations on the political front while much more needs to be done to realise the economic potentials that still remain untapped, reports...
RANGPUR, Aug 5 (BSS) : Acute scarcity of rainwater, caused by prevailing drought-like situation, has been severely hampering the process of retting harvested jute plants frustrating the farmers almost everywhere in the northern region. According to the officials and experts...
Khaleda Zia will sit with her senior advisers in a meeting of National Standing Committee on Sunday. The meeting, scheduled to begin from 8:30pm that day, will finalise the programmes of the BNP movement for elections under a non-party government,...
TOKYO, Aug 5 (AFP) : Toyota said Tuesday its net profit in the three months through June came in at a record $5.7 billion, with the rise largely thanks to cost-cutting and a weak yen. The world's biggest automaker also...
LONDON: Europe's stock markets fell Wednesday, hit by concerns that recent rises may have been sharper than warranted against a backdrop of conflict in Ukraine and fresh banking strains. The euro briefly fell to an eight-month low against the dollar...
Australian interest rates on hold at 2.5 pc SYDNEY, Aug 5: Australia's central bank Tuesday held interest rates at a record low of 2.5 per cent, marking a year since it last loosened monetary policy as it sought to boost...
Babul Barman | 2014-08-06 00:00:00
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell 46 per cent month-on-month in July amid reduced trading hours and weak volumes owing to the occasion of Ramadan. The government bagged tax worth Tk 65.20 million in July...
FE Report | 2014-08-06 00:00:00
The stock market witnessed a flat session Tuesday with turnover declined slightly as most of the investors went for late hour profit booking following recent bullish trend. The market started with a positive note, gaining 36 points within the first...
FE Report | 2014-08-06 00:00:00
The ministry of finance (MoF) has approved the appointment of a consultant in the post of chief accountant who will assist the securities regulator in revising existing rules and regulations along with supervising corporate governance, officials said. As per the...
Mr. Mohammad Lutfar Rahman on Sunday was re-elected as the Chairman of Nepal Bangladesh Bank Ltd. (NBBL), a joint venture operation of IFIC Bank Ltd. in Nepal, following its 19th AGM in Kathmandu. Mr. Rahman is also the Executive Committee...
Completion of shares sale/ buy JMI Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. Md. Tariq Ullah Pathan, one of the Sponsors of the Company, has further reported that he has completed his sale of 25,000 shares of the Company at prevailing market...
NATORE, Aug 4 (UNB): Miscreants snatched a motorcycle strangulating its owner to death at Adgram village in Boraigram upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain, 26, a resident of Chandipur village of the upazila. Quoting locals,...
NOAKHALI, Aug 4 (UNB): Two fishermen died as a trawler capsized in the Meghna River near Thengarchar in Hatiya upazila on Sunday night. Police recovered the bodies of the unidentified fishermen on Monday morning. SI Monir Hossain of Hatiya police...
JHALAKATHI, Aug 4 (BSS): Two motorcyclists were killed and one was injured in a road accident in Zero Point area of Dopdapia in Nalchhiti upazila here on Sunday. Police said the deceased were identified as Tarek, 20, and Babul, 30,...
BAGERHAT, Aug 4 (UNB): A young man was beaten to death by his rivals in Mongla upazila headquarters early Monday. The deceased was identified as Hridoy Bhandary, 18, son of Faruqe Bhandary of Koborsthan Road in Mongla upazila headquarters. Meanwhile,...
RANGAMATI, Aug 4 (BSS): Police recovered the body of a missing auto-bike driver from Kangalchhari under Naniarchar Sunday. Auto-bike driver Chandan Kumar Tripura, 30, went missing a few days back from Khagrachhari, police quoted brother of the victim as saying....
2 held with heroin in Chapainawabganj Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested two people along with 210 grams of heroin from LGED intersection in Chapainawabganj Sunday night. The arrestees were identified as Helal Uddin, 25, a...
Bangladesh men's team shared the lead in the Open category of the 41st World Chess Olympiad with 35 other countries beating Chile by 3-1 points in the 2nd round matches Sunday in Tromso, Norway, reports UNB. Bangladesh team secured maximum...
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): The Glasgow Commonwealth Games were hailed as "the best ever" on Sunday as the 11-day showpiece came to an emotional conclusion inside a chilly Hampden Park. An event long written-off as a dusty anachronism in the...
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): Despite ending in a weekend washout, Glasgow 2014 has rekindled some of the lustre of the Commonwealth Games after a troublesome Games in Delhi four years ago. Here, AFP Sports looks at some of the moments...
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