MUMBAI, Apr 17 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex rose more than 1.5 per cent on Thursday to snap a three-day losing streak as lenders such as ICICI Bank surged on value buying, earnings expectations and hopes of gains in bond portfolios...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
The ministry of science and technology (MoST) has sought an additional allocation of Tk 1.44 billion for the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Project (RNPP) in Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP), official said. The MoST Secretary Khandaker M Asaduzzaman sent a...
BEIJING, Apr 17 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares finished slightly higher on Thursday in the lowest trading volume since mid-February, as investors geared up for the Easter holiday. The Hang Seng Index closed up 0.3 per cent at 22,760.24 and down...
MUMBAI, Apr 17 (Business Standard): Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are continuing their buying spree in ICICI Bank, with their holdings in the country's leading private sector lender touching a six-year high of 39.85 per cent in the January-March period of...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of different mutual funds (MFs) at the close of business operation on April 16, 2014, said a...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of four open-end mutual funds (MFs) at the close of business operation on April 16, 2014, said...
Speakers at a meeting held to observe the historic Mujibnagar Day said a crude conspiracy is on to distort the history and the only way it can be resisted is by creating a historically-conscious society and state, reports BSS. There...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Thursday expressed profound sympathy to the family members of the party's missing organising secretary M Ilias Ali, reports UNB. A delegation of BNP, led by party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, met Ilias' wife,...
FE Report | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) decided Thursday to investigate the alleged illegal wealth of personal assistant (PA) to former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan. The decision was taken at a regular meeting of the Commission, the...
Overturning the trial court verdict, the High Court (HC) acquitted on Thursday all the four condemned convicts in the sensation eight BCL men killing case of Chittagong, reports UNB. A designated HC death reference division bench comprising Justice Abdul Hye...
The High Court (HC) will deliver its order Sunday on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases,...
MEHERPUR, Apr 17 (UNB): Observing that the caretaker government (CG) is now a dead issue, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim Thursday said the next general election will be held in 2019 under the Sheikh Hasina-led government. "The caretaker government issue cannot...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 kept its verdict pending on Thursday to be delivered any day in the war crimes case against fugitive Zahid Hossain Khokon, a local BNP leader and mayor of Nagarkanda municipality, Faridpur, reports UNB.
President Md Abdul Hamid Thursday laid emphasis on motivating younger generation of Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to contribute to the country's development, reports UNB. The president made the remarks when a delegation of UK Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry led...
JU Correspondent | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Jahangirnagar University (JU) is set to launch the country's second largest science laboratory, funded jointly by World Bank (WB) and the government of Bangladesh soon, official sources said. The university had no full-fledged laboratory since its inception in 1971. "We...
FE Report | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
Issues due to be settled at different ministries and divisions will have to be placed before the Prime Minister in the absence of the minister, deputy minister or state minister concerned. The cabinet division has issued a circular in this...
A newly-constructed academic school building of Mirza Ahmed Ispahani High School (MAIHS) was inaugurated at Pahartali in Chittagong recently. In this connection, an accomplishment of the Holy Quran and dua mahfil were arranged on the school premises. Mirza Ali Behrouze...
Twenty five Bangladeshi IT talents received IT Engineers Examination (ITEE) certificate, an international standardised examination of the IT professionals, presently recognised in 12 Asian countries, reports UNB. Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Abdul Latif Siddique distributed the certificates...
A Correspondent | 2014-04-18 00:00:00
The search to replace Biman Airlines Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin John Steele continues as he departs for his home in the UK later today (Friday) because of ill health. And while the country will be...
British High Commission (HC) in Bangladesh will remain closed Sunday and Monday on the occasion of Easter Sunday and Easter Monday respectively, reports UNB. Sylhet office of the British HC and Department for International Development (DFID) office in Dhaka will...
Manzur Anam, the fourth son of eminent politician and litterateur Abul Mansur Ahmad and elder brother of The Daily Star editor and publisher Mahfuz Anam, died of cardiac arrest following brain hemorrhage Wednesday night at Square Hospitals. He was 70,...
The Qulkhwani of renowned journalist ABM Musa will be held today (Friday) after Asr prayers at his residence on 5/2, Iqbal Road of Mohammadpur in the city, reports BSS. All relatives, colleagues and well-wishers of ABM Musa have been requested...
A supply line of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited developed a leak and caught fire after being damaged by an excavator machine deployed in the widening of the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Sreepur Upazila in Gazipur on Thursday...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Apr 16: The farmers of Rangpur division are expecting a bumper yield of maize during the current season due to conducive climatic condition and timely supply of necessary agri-inputs. Disappointed over the repeated price fall of paddy during last...
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