MILAN, Mar 14 (Reuters): UniCredit is prepared to spend up to 10 billion euros ($14 billion) to take on payments owed to companies by Italy's public administration, the bank's chief executive said in a newspaper interview on Friday. "We have...
CHICAGO, Mar 14 (Xinhua): Chicago agricultural commodities closed mixed yesterday, with corn and wheat dropping and soybean rising. The most active corn contract for May delivery dropped 3.5 cents, or 0.72 per cent, to close at 4.85 dollars per bushel....
FE Report The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $1.6 million grant to pilot innovations in sanitation and septage management in Bangladesh as part of a planned ADB loan for coastal towns infrastructure...
FE Report The World Consumer Rights’ Day (WCRD) will be observed in the country) as elsewhere in the world today (Saturday) with a call for creating awareness among the consumers over their rights and intensifying campaign against unscrupulous traders. For...
Despite serious efforts by the government to reclaim grabbed lands of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) from illegal occupants across the country, the progress in many cases is very sluggish as officials concerned cannot go against influential people reportedly...
Thirty per cent parents of students of English medium schools have expressed dissatisfaction over the teaching method of the schools, saying that they want schools to improve systems to address special educational needs of the students, reports BSS. According to...
FE Report World Glaucoma Day will be celebrated today (Saturday) by Bangladesh Glaucoma Society (BGS), said a release Friday. The theme of the day this year is 'Beat Invisible Glaucoma (BIG)'. A glaucoma screening camp will be held at NIOH,...
A journalist couple was brutalised by Ansar members in the city's Shyamoli area on Thursday night, reports UNB. The incident occurred as Towhid Shanta, a reporter of private channel Asian TV, protested abuses hurled by the Ansar men at his...
Burning to death or fire incident has become almost a common phenomenon as several thousand people fall victims to such incidents every year and several hundred of them lose their lives, reports BSS. According to available statistics at the Burn...
BAGERHAT, Mar 14 (UNB): Miscreants set fire to two shops of two freedom fighters at Phultala Bazar under Kachua Upazila Friday. Locals said a group of miscreants set fire to a grocery shop of freedom fighter Mahmud Hossain by pouring...
Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore Mela to give medal Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore Mela, a cultural organisation, will give 'Bangabandhu Shishu Kishore Medal' from this year among the winners of the national cultural competition on the occasion of National Children's Day and birth...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), reports UNB. Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may remain unchanged over the country, Met Office said. The country's highest temperature...
Accusing the government of having failed to ensure a congenial atmosphere for fair upazila polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday alleged the ruling party is out there to manipulate Saturday's elections, reports UNB. "The aggressive remarks...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 14 (UNB): The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) submitted a charge sheet against nine people, including former director of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH), on charge of misappropriating public money amounting to over Tk 32.5 million. Deputy director of ACC...
Although the newly passed Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) (Amendment) Act, 2013 has given more power to the ACC to conduct probes into graft allegations, its investigation and inquiry officers are facing hassles in collecting documents due to complications in interpretation of...
MYMENSINGH, Mar 14 (UNB): A local leader of local Tarun League was slaughtered by miscreants in the district town Friday. The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam Selim (35), convener of the district unit of Tarun League, an associate wing...
The 29th death anniversary of Dr Aleem Al-Razee, the eminent jurist, parliamentarian and educationist who died 29 years ago on March 15, will be observed in the country today (Saturday) with due solemnity, reports UNB. A larger than life politician...
MYMENSINGH, Mar 14 (UNB): Detective Branch (DB) of police, in a drive in Bhaluka Upzila Thursday night, arrested two persons suspecting their link to snatching of three convicted JMB leaders attacking a prison van in Trishal Upazila of the district...
The BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad (JAOP) swept the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections against the ruling Awami League (AL)-supported Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP), reports UNB. JAOP bagged 13 posts, out of 14, including the posts of the...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
The communications ministry has demanded an additional allocation of Tk 5.25 billion in the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) to help road division development projects continue uninterrupted, official said. "It is high time to implement road division projects to help...
The Department of Shipping will set up lighthouses and radio centres in seven spots in the coastal areas of the country. The lighthouses and coastal radio centres will be set up under the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System and...
Md Shah Jahan | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission's (ACC's) initiative to probe into the alleged irregularities by a section of the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agent) leaders of Biman Bangladesh Airlines remains virtually halted. Terming the ACC's latest move 'illegal', the CBA leaders now intend to...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Mar 14: Chittagong has worn a festive look as much-awaited T-20 World Cup matches are set to be played at the divisional Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the city. The stadium has been brilliantly decorated with colours...
FE Report Thousands of passengers had to face immense sufferings following a 40-km tailback, created on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway since early Friday, following a road accident in Comilla. Police and eyewitnesses said the tailback occurred due to head-on clash between two...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
The country's fast-booming pharmaceutical sector grew at its slowest pace in 2013 during last eight years, starting from 2005. It bled substantially during the last quarter of the immediate-past calendar year. The bleak picture emerged in the latest official statistics...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
The government is considering setting the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth target at 7.3 per cent for the next fiscal year (FY) amid some possible challenges in respect of investment, resource mobilisation and continuation of political stability. The possible GDP...
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