International Growth Centre (IGC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University will hold a dissemination seminar on 'Reducing Vulnerability in Export Performance: The Export Diversification Challenge in Bangladesh' tomorrow (Monday). Dr. Zaidi Sattar, Chairman, Policy Research Institute...
Singer Bangladesh Limited officially launched its new campaign "Singer Bishwa Kapano Offer' targeting FIFA World Cup Football Brazil - 2014. The campaign starts today (25 May, 2014) and will remain valid till the Final day of World Cup, which is...
NAV of MTB Unit Fund disclosed Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of MTB Unit Fund. The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 351,426,303.74 on the basis of cost price and...
MUMBAI, May 24 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex rose more than 1 per cent on Friday, making India the best performing equity market in Asia-Pacific for 2014 in dollar terms. The benchmark has gained 2 per cent this week on continued...
Country's leading Media, PR and Communications house, Triune Group has signed a deal with Airwaves International of Dubai, UAE for better marketing Bangladesh's aviation and tourism related products worldwide. Vasco Furtado, Managing Partner, Airwaves International and Shamshad Ahsan, Chief Executive...
NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters): The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Friday, buoyed by a rally in housing stocks after better-than-expected home sales and a jump in Hewlett-Packard shares a day after the personal computer maker said...
FE Report | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Rupali Bank Limited is now operating on full computerised system. "All 532 branches of the bank are running by computerized system. Besides, online and ATM services are also available to serve our clients," Rupali Bank chairman Dr. Ahmad al- Kabir...
HONG KONG, May 24 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares finished slightly up on Friday, helped by stocks of Chinese property developers which were buoyed by further signs of relaxation from the housing authorities. The Hang Seng Index closed up 0.1 per...
Company Profile Matin Spinning Mills Limited (MATINSPINN) is a manufacturer and marketer of combed and carded yarn, made from raw cotton. The company was incorporated in 2002. It started its commercial operation four years later in 2006. Later in 2010,...
Maswood Alam Khan from Cockeysville, Maryland, USA | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
After Thailand's army declared martial law at dawn on Tuesday (May 20), military officials said "This is not a coup. People don't need to panic". A curfew was imposed; but nobody bothered. Tourists and pedestrians were posing with the soldiers...
Anatole Kaletsky of Reuters | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
As Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's historic $400 billion gas-supply agreement with China, he must have felt the satisfaction of a chess grandmaster revealing the inexorable outcome of a complicated endgame. In theory, the next phase of the chess...
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has this year been adjudged the worst city on earth. The reasons for making such an assessment could be many. But, to a large number of its residents, the city deserves to be adjudged...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Despite repeated appeals by the government, the country's businessmen are reluctant to use the Pangaon Container Terminal built at South Keraniganj of Dhaka district. As such, the terminal could not be made fully functional since its inauguration by the Prime...
Tanvir Raquib | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Life in Dhaka can be unbearable due to constant traffic jam on almost every road and street. During my recent visit to Seoul, I noticed Seoul also has high rise office buildings and apartments just like in Dhaka but the...
My daughter and I were taking our regular stroll in the President Shahabuddin Park at Gulshan recently when we noticed a commotion involving the police, Sir Frank Peters, a campaigner against corporal punishment, and an alleged mugger. Out of curiosity,...
Though creative questions have been introduced in almost all subjects of the SSC level since a few years back, those on mathematics are going to be set next year. Creative questions on mathematics in the JSC will also be introduced...
The world is eagerly waiting for the World Cup football to commence as it is the biggest sport festival on earth. As elsewhere in the world, the sports-lovers of Bangladesh are also waiting for this mega event to unfold. Now...
Rahman Habib | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has moved to set up a commodity market to provide a platform for producers to get fair prices and hedge risks of their products. The move came after an amendment to the Securities...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh is one of the least developed countries in the world. The majority of its people depend on agriculture for survival. Despite planned efforts by the government to increase agricultural productivity for over four decades, the growth and output in...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Bangladeshi businessmen will request their Japanese counterparts to scale up imports from Bangladesh and increase investment to help narrow the trade gape between the two countries, a trade body leader said. A business delegation lead by the Federation of Bangladesh...
State carrier Biman is looking for crew, maintenance and insurance coverage for its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft from an internationally rated country to resume its Dhaka-New York flight. The Biman Bangladesh Airlines invited Request for Proposal for crew, maintenance and insurance...
Holding the government responsible for the killings of seven people in Narayanganj, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said the killers must be brought to justice. “The government can’t avoid the responsibility for the seven murders in Narayanganj. The...
The upcoming national budget is set to give a mighty thrust on collections of direct tax revenues and value added tax (VAT), as media reports suggest. With the gradual shift in revenue collection world over — prompted by massive trade...
Ranjit Podder | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations published on May 17 evoked a mixed reaction from all stakeholders. Whatever the type of reaction is, the young learners, who passed and all those who contributed to the...
Nazim Khondaker | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
Now-a-days, incidents of forced disappearance, extortion and abduction are on the rise across the country. Recently, seven persons including Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam disappeared, along with his aides and a senior lawyer, from Narayanganj area on being...
I agree with the Supreme Court lawyers who filed a writ petition with the high court seeking directives upon the government regarding allowing the members of parliament (MPs) duty-free car. Ours is a poor country, so why do our MPs...
A media report recently said that some 50 per cent children in Bangladesh did not get milk as a premium source of nutrition due to low production and supply-side shortage of the dairy product. In early nineties the government imposed...
Many of us do not want to lie, but there are times when we are bound to do so. Such occasions occur before hiring a CNG auto-rickshaw. Every one knows how difficult it is to get a CNG, particularly at...
Md. Khairul Hasan | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
The concept of 'agent banking' is new in the country. The term is now a much-talked-about issue in the banking industry. It may play a pragmatic role in paving the way for financial inclusion. The central bank of the country...
S.A.Mansoor | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
Wasting any resources, be it food or materials, or for show in social and other gatherings, leads to unnecessary wastage of scarce national resources. To curb this tendency, we should enact a law and act on it to stop such...
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