MAZAR-I-SHARIF, March 31 (AFP): Taliban gunmen abducted a provincial election candidate in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday, five days ahead of national polls the Islamist militants have vowed to target. Afghanistan will vote on Saturday to choose a successor...
YOKOHAMA, Mar 31(BBC): The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned. Scientists and officials meeting in Japan say the document is the most comprehensive assessment to date...
16 killed in China storms BEIJING, Mar 31: At least 16 people were killed in rain and hailstorms that triggered flooding and landslides in southern China, officials said Monday. The severe weather, which began last Friday, has affected seven provinces...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Stocks inched up Monday amid see-saw trading throughout the session with turnover remaining sluggish, as volatile market sentiment kept investors cautious. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) - DSEX - gained 27 points till the mid-session, but...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
The government and traders will jointly monitor the prices of essentials during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, commerce minister Tofail Ahmed said Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting between the commerce ministry and businessman aiming to maintain...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
BRAC, a leading NGO has taken an initiative to provide various financial services to poor people through mobile phone technology, enabling them to alleviate poverty. With the support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BRAC is likely to begin...
Prime Ins chair, vice chair re-elected Ferdous Amin and Abdul Gaffar Dubash have been re-elected as the chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors of Prime Insurance Company Limited respectively for a period of one year. The 247th...
MUMBAI, Mar 31 (Business Standard): Markets closed FY14 on a triumphant note with both the benchmark indices closing at record highs with the Nifty gaining past the 6,700 levels. The benchmark indices have reported their sharpest rally in past four...
Poultry farm owners blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway at Dulidanga bus stand in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka on Tuesday to press home their various demands, including stopping egg import from India and cutting fodder prices. Other demands of the farm owners include...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
State-owned Janata Bank Ltd. (JBL) achieved a significant growth in net operating profit, bringing down the classified loans and increasing the total assets in 2013. According to the figure disclosed Monday at the 7th annual general meeting (AGM) of the...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) concluded Sunday a two-day workshop on "The Art of Leadership" arranged aiming to orient its members with different leadership tactics and techniques in the corporate environment. A total of 33 Chartered Accountants-cum...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has further extended the deadline for e-TIN registration by three more months after it found nearly 50 per cent of the existing taxpayers yet to obtain the online TINs. The time for online TIN...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipokkho (Rajuk) is likely to approve a scrutinising committee next week to select consulting firms who have applied for getting registration. The authority in a move plans to provide registration to some compliant consulting firms aiming to curb...
FE Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Chinese Ambassador in Bangladesh Li Jun Monday said China is considering to provide duty-free access to 17 more Bangladeshi products in a bid to strengthen business cooperation between the two nations. He was speaking at a seminar, organised by the...
Denouncing election commissioner M Abdul Mobarak’s remark that BNP has joined the upazila (UZ) polls after rubbing its nose in the dirt, the party on Monday asked him to withdraw his comment and apologise to the nation. “The acting chief...
The government has fixed a target of sending 3.7 million manpower from Bangladesh for overseas employment in the next five years. This was stated in the Parliament by Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday,...
The Planning Minister feels the Finance Minister cannot deliver, and has described him as ‘an old man who talks rubbish’. On Monday, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, better known as Lotus Kamal, heaped scorn on Finance Minister AMA Muhith in...
Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard of Reuters from Beijing | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the centre of China's biggest corruption scandal in more than six decades,...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
It has been heartening to note latest developments in this region. I am referring here to the recently-concluded Third Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit held in the first week of March in the...
Malaysia wants to recruit over 0.3 million workers from Bangladesh soon, visiting Malaysian Home Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said in Dhaka on Monday. He conveyed the Malaysian government’s willingness during a meeting with Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal at...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Political uncertainty is still lingering in the country's industrial sector. Entrepreneurs are not forthcoming in this sector. As investment trend is not positive, bank loans are contracting. According to a World Bank study, private sector investment declined by 1.2 per...
Statistics relating to the country's national income accounting, particularly its gross domestic product (GDP), show a continuously declining trend in the contribution of the agricultural sector. Until the early seventies, the sector used to contribute more than half of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The communications ministry, unfortunately, has been insensitive to the interests of the passengers using all modes of public transports when it comes to the fixation of fares. May it be the fare of passenger buses or of auto-rickshaws, the ministry...
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