A term sheet signing ceremony was executed between United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) and SRL Marine Products Limited (SMPL) at the Corporate Head Office of UCB Sunday. UCB will act as Facility Arranger for raising the Syndicated Term Loan of...
Wildlife experts and environmentalists in Dhaka on Sunday stressed the need for protecting migratory birds in the country to ensure a healthy ecosystem. “Migratory birds are a part of our ecosystem and if the birds population declines our ecosystem will...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the officials of the Water Resources Ministry not to stop the natural flow of water by constructing dam or embankment in the name of development. She also directed the concerned officials to abandon...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed will leave Dhaka for Qatar on Monday morning to attend the three-day 14th Doha Forum. Tofail will make a deliberation at the Forum on labour market policies and its impact on the economy and associated challenges,...
The bi-annual government-level consultations between Bangladesh and Germany were held in Dhaka recently and reviewed ongoing projects and programmes in the field of financial and technical cooperation as well as on future development cooperation. Wolfgang Hruschka, acting Head of South...
The US Embassy in Dhaka, including its Consular Section, will remain closed on Tuesday on the occasion of Buddha Purnima, a Bangladeshi national holiday. The American Center with the Archer K Blood American Center Library and the Education and USA...
Robi Axiata Limited has introduced the train tracker service, an innovative and convenient value added service for customers to track their desired train. Using the service Robi, customers will be able to learn train location, time of train departure, next...
The board of directors of Purabi General Insurance Ltd has recommended 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2013. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be held on June 29, 2014 at...
The family members of Chandan Kumar Sarkar, the slain senior lawyer of Narayanganj, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They were seen entering her official residence, Ganabhaban in city in a car around 6:30pm Sunday. They came out around 8.00 pm,...
Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra have thrashed Ugyen Academy of Bhutan 4-0 to become the first Bangladeshi club to proceed to the main draw of the AFC President’s Cup. The Dhaka-based football club started aggressively and pressed high on the pitch...
NARAYANGANJ: As the lawyers announced fresh programmes to press for the arrest and exemplary punishment of those involved in the seven murders, the police super here Sunday claimed that there had been a marked progress in their investigation into the...
BNP has planned to hold its rally in Demra area in the outskirts of Dhaka city instead of Narayanganj city on May 17 in protest against the growing incidents of killing, abduction, forced disappearance, and the killing of seven people...
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee invited President Abdul Hamid to visit India. Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran handed over an invitation letter of Pranab Mukharjee to President Abdul Hamid during a courtesy call on him at Bangabhaban on Sunday....
Uttar Pradesh BJP appealed Sunday to the Election Commission to deploy additional Central forces at 18 seats going to polls Monday, apprehending large scale disturbances by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), according to a news agency. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Sudanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Hassan E El Talib on Sunday urged the government of Bangladesh to export jute, jute goods and pharmaceutical items to his country. Ambassador Dr Hassan E El Talib (non-resident) came up with the request when...
Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) on Sunday said it wants to build 22,000 apartments in the city’s Uttara and Kamrangirchar areas opposing the government plan to award the job to Malaysia. A REHAB delegation, led by its...
TRIPOLI: At least 36 immigrants died and 42 are reported missing after a makeshift boat was wrecked off Libya's coast, a naval spokesman told AFP on Sunday. Colonel Ayub Kassem said the accident took place on Tuesday. "The boat sank...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked the government to disband Bangladesh’s elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). The force, introduced in 2004 during the BNP-led alliance government’s tenure, has come under scathing criticism for involvement of its members in...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Sunday called upon corporate bodies to pay more attention to energy-efficient green initiatives in dealing with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. He made the call while addressing the launch of a...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will now visit Narayanganj on Tuesday instead of Wednesday to console the family members of the seven people brutally killed after abduction recently. The party rescheduled the visit as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited the...
Minister for Housing and Public Works Engineer Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said the government has signed a primary deal with the Malaysian government recently to construct 0.10 million apartments in Dhaka city. "We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
Sri Lanka wants to sign a free trade agreement with Bangladesh to boost bilateral trade, the country’s ambassador in Dhaka said on Saturday. Sri Lanka has eased the taxation system to attract foreign investment and Bangladesh can take advantage of...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Saturday said the foreign investors have come back in a big way to invest in Bangladesh after the January 5 election though the domestic investors are still reluctant. “I’m very happy. They’re (foreign investors) coming....
"Digital World 2014", the country's biggest ever IT exposition, will be held in the city on June 4-7 this year to spur the growth of ICT sector for economic benefits of the nation. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to...
SYLHET: BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said Saturday the country’s overall security will be at stake if the ‘democratic system is not restored’. “It’s not the government of people …people have no confidence in it …even the regime has lost...
Bangladesh Cricket Board announced Saturday a 15-member final squad of Bangladesh A Team for a 25-day long tour of Caribbean Inlands. During the tour Bangladesh A will play two four-day, three one-day and two T20 matches, all against High Performance...
Hifazat-e Islam chief Ahmad Shah Shafi has been hospitalised. Its organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi said that 93-year old Shafi has been admitted to the Khidmah Hospital in Dhaka’s Malibagh Saturday.“He is suffering from fever and high blood pressure,” he...
The fourth day of the blockade by a faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Chittagong University (CU) unit was marked by explosion and arson. The blockade supporters lobbed a handmade bomb in the city’s Sholoshohor Railway Station around 8am...
GAZIPUR: Although the incidents of abductions are taking place in the country, many people are going into hiding themselves, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said Saturday. “Many people go into hiding themselves, though there are true incidents of abductions,” he said...
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