The government has raised the benchmark of passing MCQ test to enrolment at medical and dental colleges in Bangladesh. Director of medical education Prof ABM Abdul Hannan told bdnews24.com from this year minimum 40 marks need to be obtained, instead...
BAGHDAD: The leader of a brutal jihadist group called on Muslims with military, medical and managerial skills to immigrate to its newly-declared pan-Islamic state, in an audio recording released Tuesday. "Those who can immigrate to the Islamic State should immigrate,...
34th Nat'l Junior Chess begins today The Union Insurance 34th National Junior (Under-20) Chess Championship, organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation, will begin today (Tuesday) from 3:00 pm at the hall-room of Bangladesh Chess Federation. Interested boys and girls of Under-20...
FE Report | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The last trading day of the fiscal year 2013-14 ended in the flat Monday after previous session's sharp gain as investors booked quick profit on bank, power and pharmaceuticals stocks. The market started the session positively with key index of...
Bikroy.com, country's leading online marketplace, has received more than 3.2 million advertisements in its two years of operation. The site now caters more than 9,000 classified advertisements daily, compared to 3,000 adverts one year ago, according to a statement. A...
MUMBAI, June 30 (Reuters): The benchmark BSE Sensex rose 1.25 per cent on Monday as investors bought shares in recent outperformers such as State Bank of India (RBI), allowing the index to post its best quarterly gain since July-September 2009....
Completion of shares sale/receipt Prime Ins: Abdul Gaffar Dubash, one of the Directors (Public Shareholder Director) of Prime Insurance Company Limited, has further reported that he has completed his sale of 40,000 shares of the Company at prevailing market price...
Syful Islam | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has initiated a process of buying from China three bulk carriers, each having capacity of 36,000 DWT (deadweight tonnage) at a cost of US$27 million. The move has raised questions over their higher prices compared...
SYDNEY, June 30 (Reuters): Asian share markets edged cautiously higher on Monday while the dollar stayed under pressure ahead of packed week of economic data that will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the US and global economies. MSCI's...
LONDON, June 30 (AFP): Europe's main stock markets traded mixed on Monday, as traders reacted to eurozone inflation numbers ahead of key US jobs data due later in the week. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped 0.03 per cent to...
HONG KONG, June 30 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares finished lower on Monday, reversing earlier gains, with investors taking profits and reshuffling their portfolios for the next half of the year. The Hang Seng Index inched down 0.1 per cent to...
MUMBAI, June 30 (Business Standard): United Spirits (USL) has dipped almost 5 per cent to Rs 2,381, extending its 5 per cent fall in past two trading sessions, on back of heavy volumes on the bourses. The stock hit its...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The Petrobangla and Singapore-based Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy consortium (AE) initialled on June 26, 2014 an agreement for setting up of a floating storage and re-gasification (FSRU) unit (or liquefied natural gas terminal) at Moheshkhali, Cox's Bazar. The final...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The fighting in Iraq has escalated as the government forces have launched intense counter-attack to regain the territories lost to the Sunni rebels. Meanwhile, Iraqi party leaders have planned delicate talks to find a successor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki....
A most vital area of medical care, blood transfusion is often the last option for saving a patient's life. Now if the blood itself is suspect, the patient receiving the same is exposed to risks of getting one or more...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The finance minister has made a somersault, once again, on the issue of black money. He has, as in the past, reneged on his promise and kept the provision of whitening black money in the national budget. "You can be...
Khandaker Zia Hasan | 2014-07-01 00:00:00
The government has come up with a good decision in the new budget that involves depositing house rents with banks, if the amount exceeds Tk 25,000. The logic is that this will widen tax net, because huge numbers of house...
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