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Photo: Reshma Begum - the miracle girl

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Photo: Rahimafrooz

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Islamic Shariah Index for institutional investors

FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has launched Islamic Shariah Index only for the institutional investors intending to make investment in stocks of the companies which maintain Shariah compliances, officials said. The DSE President Ahasanul Islam Titu said this Thursday after...

Export of leather goods, not leather stressed

FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

Speakers at a seminar held in the city, Thursday emphasised the need for exporting leather products for earning more foreign currency, instead of exporting leather. Bangladesh exported leather and leather goods last year worth Tk $982 million, though the country...

Sensex marks 10-week low

2014-01-31 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Jan 30 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex fell for a fifth consecutive session on Thursday to its lowest in 10 weeks as blue chips including banks slumped with the US Federal Reserve continuing to scale back stimulus despite the turmoil...

Local firm to provide software solution to Brunei govt

FE Report | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

Local software firm Business Automation Limited has been nominated to provide software solution to the Brunei government. The Bangladeshi firm got the job by participating in a competitive tender process. As per condition, The Business Automation Limited will work jointly...

HK shares end Jan near 5-month low

2014-01-31 00:00:00

HONG KONG, Jan 30 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares ended January near a five-month low, as risk appetites were reduced on Thursday by the US Federal Reserve's fresh cut in monetary stimulus and an underwhelming private survey of China factory activity....

ICB AMCL discloses NAV of MFs

2014-01-31 00:00:00

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 January 28, 2014, said a...

ICB AMCL discloses NAV of three funds

2014-01-31 00:00:00

ICB Asset Management Company Limited (ICB AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), disclosed the following total net asset value (NAV) of three open-end mutual funds at the close of business operation on January 28, 2014, said a...

Photo: City Bank Limited

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Photo: (from left) Prime Bank Limited, South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited and Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort distributing warm clothes

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Perera hands SL massive win

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera picked up five wickets as Sri Lanka thumped fragile Bangladesh by an innings and 248 runs in the first Test in the city Thursday, reports AFP. Bangladesh, trailing by a huge 498-run margin on first innings, were...

ICC set to go back to the future

2014-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON, Jan 30 (AFP): For much of its history the International Cricket Council (ICC) was unable to do anything without the approval of England and Australia, the two original Test nations. So the announcement from the ICC's headquarters in Dubai...

Sharapova cruises into Paris quarter-finals

2014-01-31 00:00:00

PARIS, Jan 30 (AFP): Russian top seed Maria Sharapova dished out a 6-0, 6-1 defeat to Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova in the second round to cruise into the WTA Paris Open quarter-finals Wednesday. A shock fourth-round loser at the season-opening Grand...

Team BJMC force Sheikh Russell to play 1-1 draw

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Team BJMC forced holders Sheikh Russell KC to play 1-1 draw in the Bangladesh Premier Football League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium  in the city Thursday, reports UNB. After a barren first half, Samson Iliyasu scored for Team BJMC while...

UAE, Scotland qualify for 2015 WC

2014-01-31 00:00:00

WELLINGTON, Jan 30 (AFP): Cricketing minnows the United Arab Emirates and Scotland secured berths at the 2015 World Cup Thursday after taking the top two spots at a qualification tournament in New Zealand. Both teams finished the round robin phase...

Sadharan Bima beat Wanderers

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Sadharan Bima KS earned  a facile 4-1 goals victory over Dhaka Wanderers Club in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League in the day's lone match at the Maulana Bhasani National Stadium in the city Thursday, reports UNB. Mamun...

sports digest

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Sheikh Jamal leave Dhaka for Kolkata Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club left Dhaka for Kolkata Thursday evening to take part in the 118th IFA Shield Tournament to be held at Barasat Stadium. Sheikh Jamal DC comprise 23 players and 14 officials....

Divided Thailand set for chaotic election

2014-01-31 00:00:00

BANGKOK, Jan 30 (AFP): Tens of thousands of police will be deployed across Thailand on Sunday for an election seen as a crucial test of the kingdom's fragile democracy, with opposition protesters threatening to lay siege to polling stations. Experts...

Iran rejects Obama boast that sanctions forced nuclear deal

2014-01-31 00:00:00

TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP): Iran on Thursday dismissed as "unrealistic and unconstructive" comments by US President Barack Obama that international sanctions linked to its nuclear programme had forced Tehran to the negotiating table. "The delusion of sanctions having an effect...

Bombings hit Baghdad as Iraq death toll tops 900

2014-01-31 00:00:00

BAGHDAD, Jan 30 (AFP): Bombings near a market and a restaurant in Baghdad killed six people on Thursday as the death toll for January topped 900, with no end in sight to Iraq's worst violence since 2008. The protracted surge...

Ukraine President Viktor defiant amid turmoil

2014-01-31 00:00:00

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has insisted that he and his government have "fulfilled all the obligations" to solve the crisis in the country, reports BBC. But the political opposition continued to "whip up" the situation, he added. The defiant statement...

Mob attacks India village in land dispute, 10 dead

2014-01-31 00:00:00

GAUHATI (India), Jan 30 (AP): A mob armed with shotguns attacked a remote village in northeast India, killing at least 10 people in a long-simmering land dispute, police said Thursday. The attackers fired indiscriminately Wednesday evening in Chauldhua village in...

Syria\\\'s sides both talk \\\'terrorism\\\' but spar over blame

2014-01-31 00:00:00

GENEVA, Jan 30 (AFP): Syria's warring sides discussed the issue of terrorism at a sixth day of UN-brokered peace talks Thursday, sources said, but the gulf over who is to blame remained deep. Halting violence and terrorism in Syria was...

news digest

2014-01-31 00:00:00

40 Muslim rebels killed in Philippine offensive MANILA, Jan 30: Philippine troops have killed at least 40 Islamic fighters and captured a rebel stronghold with a bomb-making facility in a two-day offensive against insurgents opposed to a new peace deal,...

Rangpur landless farmers cultivating crops on dried-up riverbeds

Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Jan 30: A good number of extreme poor people especially landless farmers living along river basin are getting financially benefited by cultivating various crops on dried-up river-beds. Char people, small and marginal farmers in greater Rangpur region are becoming...

33,000 slum families enjoying sanitation in Rajshahi

2014-01-31 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Jan 30 (BSS): More than 33,000 slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of installation of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis. Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2300 tubewells installed in the slum...

Net loss of Jhenidah PBS stands at Tk 10.32m last fiscal

Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

JHENIDAH, Jan 30: Annual report of fiscal year (FY) 2012-13 of Jhenidah Palli Biddyut Samity recently showed loss of nearly Tk. 20 million in the sectors of distribution cost, customers' service, maintenance cost, administration and general expenditure and long term...

Clothes worth over Tk 12m seized in Benapole

Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

JESSORE, Jan 30: clothes worth about Tk 12 million were seized by the task force and intelligence wing of customs department in separate raids from Benapole land port warehouse and Monirampur in Jessore on Wednesday. The intelligence wing of customs...

Brick kiln labourer shot dead by extortionists in Chuadanga

Our Correspondent | 2014-01-31 00:00:00

CHUADANGA, Jan 30: A brick kiln labourer was gunned down and six others injured by  unidentified extortionists in a brick kiln at village Kumary under Alamdanga Upazila of the district Thursday night at about 3:00am. The deceased was identified as...