FE Report The 35th annual general meeting (AGM) of Meghna Petroleum Limited (MPL) approved Friday 20 per cent stock dividend and 70 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year 2011-2012. The meeting was held at the head...
Jan 12 - Jan 16, 2014 Standard Chartered Bank The local interbank call money rate was around 6 - 7 per cent during the entire week, with stable liquidity. The USD/BDT rate was stable throughout the week. There was ample...
SHANGHAI, Jan 17 (Reuters): The first firm to list in mainland China after a 14-month freeze on IPOs jumped 43.5 per cent in its debut, just shy of its daily limit, underscoring pent-up demand that bodes well for a raft...
TOKYO, Jan 17 (AFP): Tokyo investors will be eyeing corporate results next week as the Japanese earnings season gets under way, as well as a two-day Bank of Japan meeting. Over the next few weeks, major firms from Sony and...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Mobile phone operators termed the National Board of Revenue's (NBR) claim of Tk 30.62 billion from four cell-phone companies as SIM replacement tax incorrect. They said NBR's final report in this regard was not prepared according to the previously set...
Harun ur Rashid | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh held the 10th parliamentary elections on January 05. It was an extraordinary election because it had many unique features, some of which are described as below: First, out of 300 directly elected seats, only 147 seats were contested among...
Owasim Akram | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
People spend a significant portion of their life-time earning their livelihoods by working in various places in different forms. Therefore, health and safety are considered to be very important issues as these are intrinsically linked with overall well-being of the...
Globalisation has opened up new opportunities for Bangladesh, in terms of more export earnings and diversification of export items and market expansion. This is what Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina highlighted last Saturday while inaugurating the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), a think-tank in India, celebrated its 10th anniversary just a few days back. To mark the occasion, a conference on agrarian relations and agricultural crisis was organised by the FAS. Eminent social scientists of...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Depletion of fertile agricultural lands in Bangladesh has ever remained a serious issue. But sadly, the authorities concerned, especially the Land Ministry, appear to have shut their eyes to the serious development that might one day turn out to be...
Two researchers of Jahangirnagar University have invented a rickshaw that can be run by the electricity produced by the solar panel set over the hood. The motorised rickshaw can run at 25km per hour, without using fuel, as it uses...
Both the mainstream political parties are at daggers drawn and the rigidity and stubbornness of the parties are driving our country backward. Economists have predicted that our economy has incurred losses to the tune of billions of taka over the...
Blight, political unrest and a fall in prices have increased farmers' woes. Blight, a devastating disease for potato, is caused by Phytophthora Infestans. It causes withering and shrivelling without rotting. Blight had slashed production drastically and relentless political violence had...
Mominul Hoq | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh is the second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) hub after China. But the sector has recently been under a threat and we might lose the position we had earned. A sharp depreciation of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is...
Maswood Alam Khan in remembrance of M. Mujibul Huq | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
M. Mujibul Huq has just passed away. He left us on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the age of 83. Young people who read or heard the news have come to learn only that he was born at Banoripara in...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-01-18 00:00:00
The sufferings of inmates crammed in the Dhaka Central Jail are likely to continue as the authorities have re-fixed another deadline for opening the under-construction new central jail in Keraniganj. As per the latest schedule, the Keraniganj Central Jail will...
In the wake of widespread violence across the country, the authorities have taken tough security measures for the upcoming Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after the holy Hajj, reports UNB. This year, the three-day first phase of...
Police Friday sought a five-day remand for Diplomatic Correspondent of the Daily Inqilab Ahmed Atique in a case filed with Wari Police Station under the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT), 2006, reports UNB. Sub-inspector Firoz Ali of the police...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Jan 17: The police arrested 12 infiltrators from a village under Satkania Upazila of the district. Acting on tips the police team raided Deodighi area of Aochia village Thursday night and arrested them, said Satkania police. Officer-in-Charge...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Jan 17: School and college students today protested torching of academic institutions across the country during the recent political programmes by the BNP-led 18-party alliance. Several hundred children from primary schools, high schools and colleges staged demonstration...
SYLHET, Jan 17 (UNB): A schoolboy has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the city's Shibganj area. The deceased was identified as Sazzadul Islam Sajon (16), a Class-X student of a local school and son of Faizul Islam Chowdhury...
Raman Bibi, mother of ntv Managing Director Mosaddek Ali Falu and General Secretary of Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association Nuruddin Ahmed, died of old age complications at Square Hospital in the city Friday. She was 90, according to a press release....
CCCI postpones reception Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI) postponed the reception scheduled for today (Saturday) at 6:30pm in the port city. The chamber expressed sorrow the inconveniences caused to the invited guests. — Press Release BAPA Press confce...
Light rain or drizzle may occur at one or two places over Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country today (Saturday). Moderate to thick fog may occur over the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Friday protested the closure of the printing press of the daily Inqilab by the government and the arrest of its three journalists, reports UNB. She made the protest in a statement signed by party assistant office...
Hot on the heels of the much-talked-about national election 2014, the Election Commission (EC) appears to go for local body polls - this time in Upazila Parishads, reports UNB. As the tenures of 113 Upazila Parishads in 48 districts are...
GAZIPUR, Jan 17 (UNB): BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman was released from Kashimpur jail in Friday morning as she secured bail on Thursday in a case filed under Explosives Act. Jail sources said she came out from the women unit of...
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu Friday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has started a conspiracy against the government terming the present elected government as 'illegal,' reports BSS. "Khaleda Zia restarted conspiracy and terrorism against the government by terming it as...
Information Secretary Martuza Ahmed Friday said a bill would be placed in the first session of the 10th parliament form Journalist Welfare Trust, reports BSS. The Ministry is doing all necessary works to this end, he said this while speaking...
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