MUMBAI, July 16 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex rose over 1 percent on Wednesday, gaining for the second consecutive session, as lenders and infrastructure-related companies such as IDFC Ltd surged after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) exempted long-term bonds raised...
LONDON, July 16 (AFP): A boom in stock market floatations helped boost revenues for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group by a fifth in the first quarter of its financial year, the LSE said on Wednesday. Revenues surged by 20...
NEW DELHI, July 16 (PTI): Concerned over additional tax proposals made in the Budget 2014-15, mutual funds (MFs) fear that redemptions in investments worth over Rs 2 trillion that could put a huge burden the banking sector. Mutual fund houses...
HONG KONG, July 16 (Reuters): Hong Kong's benchmark index rose for a third day on Wednesday, while the index of Chinese companies listed in the city edged down as insurers underperformed. The Hang Seng Index closed up 0.3 per cent...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
There was a glimmer of hope in an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire. But the cease-fire collapsed on Tuesday and Israel has resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip. Gaza medical officials say 191 Palestinians, including at least 150 civilians, among them...
Md Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Judging from all available information and data on meteorological changes, it can be predicted that frequency, intensity and severity of floods will increase in Bangladesh in future. It is indeed certain that whenever any natural disaster strikes, it affects the...
The arrangement of tight security in order to facilitate smooth selling of advance bus tickets for Eid vacationers is an indication that the authorities are quite aware of the problems people face in procuring tickets just ahead of the big...
Khaled Mahmud Raihan | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
My attention has been drawn on a report regarding the ranking of banks in a daily newspaper where it ranked top ten banks among the 29 listed private commercial banks based on their published annual reports for the year 2013....
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Reports on continued decline in inflow of remittances are disheartening. A FE report on July 09 presented a dismal picture. It said the country's remittance earnings from abroad have been falling since 2012. Against this grim background, another report on...
It is heartening to learn that the state-run BRTC would launch a special service with its 900 buses across the country ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Announcing this, Communica-tions Minister Obaidul Quader informed that advance tickets for the special service would be...
Many international games and sports are held for entertainment and to make friendship among different countries and nations. The World Cup football is one such international sports event. While we remained busy watching TV to enjoy World Cup football, Israel...
The Bangladesh Bank has notified through media that by the end of the first week of July, newly-printed currency notes will be circulated through banks on the occasion of holy month of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. Currency notes of the same...
It is good to know that recently the Power Development Board has produced and supplied 7,371 megawatt electricity to the national grid, which is the highest ever. The present government deserves appreciation for lessening load shedding. These days, people do...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh is predominantly a rural economy with about 80 per cent of the people living in rural areas. Women constitute nearly half of the total population and half of its potential. For ages they have been the co-builders of civilisations...
Fahmina Rahman | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
It is said that "there are nearly as many pieces of digital information as there are stars in the universe". The recent explosion of big and digital data is helping people translate knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Someone...
Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra again advanced to the 3rd slot in the Nitol-Tata Bangladesh Premier Football League beating Brothers Union Club by a solitary goal at the Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj on Wednesday, reports UNB Nkwocha Kingsley...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday called upon the well-off people of the country to come forward to help the latent talent of the physically-challenged people flourish, reports BSS. "There is no dearth of rich people in the country. So I...
GALLE, Sri Lanka, July 16 (AFP): Opener Dean Elgar smashed a century before Sri Lanka pegged back South Africa with four key wickets late on the opening day of the first Test in Galle on Wednesday. The visitors were cruising...
LONDON, July 16 (AFP): England captain Alastair Cook said Wednesday he believed India's complaint against James Anderson was a tactic designed to have his spearhead bowler miss some part of the ongoing series. Anderson was charged by the International Cricket...
KARACHI, July 16 (AFP): Pakistan will send its domestic Twenty20 champions Lahore Lions to play in the Champions League to be held in India in September, an official said Wednesday. The Lions, led by former Pakistan Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez,...
Sourav set to become CAB joint secretary NEW DELHI, July 16: Former Indian Cricket captain Sourav Ganguly is set to become joint-secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal. His formal entry into cricket administration will take place following the association's...
FE Report | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Experts have called upon the authorities concerned to keep 144 km canals and peripheral rivers in and around Dhaka city to ensure smooth flow of natural drainage system to solve the water logging problem in Dhaka city. They also noted...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has decided to set up 236 formalin testing booths at grocery markets in the city within 10 days to ensure chemical and formalin free foods, reports BSS. "It is necessary to install laboratories at airports and...
FE Report | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
The government is going to undertake an integrated land utilisation plan at upazila level to check gradual reduction of farmland through unplanned housing concomitant with spontaneous urbanisation down to rural areas. Under the plan, vertical building, instead of horizontal expansion...
CHITTAGONG, July 16 (UNB): Police arrested Chittagong city Jamaat-e-Islami ameer ANM Shamsul Islam again immediately after his release from Chittagong central jail on Wednesday. Chittagong additional police superintendant (South) Mostafizur Rahman said the prison authorities freed Jamaat ameer Shamsul Islam...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Ministry expressed on Wednesday grave concern over India's inter-river linking project, reports UNB. The parliamentary body at its 3rd meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban with committee Chairman Ramesh Chandra Sen in...
JESSORE, July 16 (UNB): An activist of the outlawed Biplobi Communist Party was killed in a gunfight with his rivals at Subrara village in Abhoynagar upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Siraj Akonji, 40, son of Afsar Akonji,...
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