Special Correspondent Bangladesh is one of the top priority countries for Edexcel, having a growing demand for International GCSE and A level qualifications since 1972 through the British Council. "Bangladeshi students are desperately trying to go abroad for higher studies...
Regional Heads of StanChart in city Harinder Singh, Regional Head of Global Markets and Co-Head of Wholesale Banking, South Asia is now in Dhaka for a brief visit. During his stay in Dhaka he will be meeting officials and clients...
FE Report The conference titled e-Asia will act as a milestone for the country, raising its profile on the world ICT map, said experts. They think the country will get recognition internationally as an ICT destination due to presence of...
Badrul Ahsan Agricultural loan disbursement in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY) further declined by about Tk 6.0 billion, compared with the same period the year before, Bangladesh Bank (BB) said. According to the BB data,...
India's leading private sector bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank's annual report for the year 2010, has been awarded the 'Certificate of Merit' in the banking sector, said a statement. The award was conferred by the committee of the South Asian Federation...
FE Report Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) will distribute trophies today (Wednesday) among exporters for their outstanding performance in fiscal 2009-10. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to hand over the trophies and certificates to 45 exporters in 21 sectors under...
Pharma company consultant gets gold medal in Malaysia Consultant of FnF Pharmaceuticals Ltd, only private sector vaccine manufacturing Industry in the poultry sector of Bangladesh Dr. Md. Alimul Islama recently received gold medal in the field of medical science in...
BEIJING, Nov 29 (AFP): China's central government Tuesday raised the country's rural poverty line by more than 80 per cent as part of efforts to increase aid to its struggling low-income population, state media reported. Chinese Communist Party leaders decided...
CANBERRA, Nov 29 (Singapore Times): Global uncertainty over the European debt crisis has forced Australia to cut its economic growth and revenue forecasts and to outline new spending cuts so the government can honour a promise to return the budget...
NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (PTI): Investors globally pulled out $2.7 billion from the emerging market focussed funds during the week ended November 23, amid concerns of worsening debt crisis in Europe, global fund-tracking agency EPFR has said. This was the...
NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (PTI): International financial conglomerate Citigroup today revised its 2011-12 growth forecast for the Indian economy downward to 7.1 per cent from the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent on account of the global slowdown and domestic...
The Benchmark General Index DGEN ended the day losing more than one percent. SEC's inspection team members continued its monitoring of trade in various brokerage houses for the second consecutive trading day although it did not have any positive effect...
PARIS, Nov 29 (IANS): The number of jobless people in France grew by 1.2 per cent in October from a month earlier, as sluggish economic activities slowed job creation in the eurozone's second largest economy, official figures showed Monday. According...
BEIJING, Nov 29 (Xinhua): China will increase its efforts to boost service trade, targeting an annual growth rate of 11 per cent to reach 600 billion US dollars by 2015, the minsitry of commerce (MoC) said Monday. The goal, which...
HONG KONG, Nov 29 (Reuters): Hong Kong has proposed a new law that will slap fines and jail terms on developers that mislead buyers of new homes. The government Tuesday kicked off a two-month consultation period on the new law,...
STOCKHOLM, Nov 29 (Xinhua): Sweden's GDP increased by 4.6 per cent in the third quarter this year compared to same time of 2010, according to a statement from the Statistics Sweden Tuesday. "Seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 1.6 per cent...
Sonia H Moni Sheltech, one of the country's leading real estate companies, will kick off its year ending 15 -day long fair on December 1 with a offer of 15 per cent discount for buying a piece of land or...
BEIJING, Nov 29 (AFP): The Chinese government will lead an investment delegation to Europe next year as debt-laden eurozone countries open their doors to much-needed help from Beijing, state media said Tuesday. Commerce Minister Chen Deming announced the trip after...
The weekly tea sale Tuesday witnessed a similar trend of last week with strong demand for well made good liquoring tea but rather irregular for other varieties particularly towards the close of the sale, said a press release. According to...
NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (AFP): India's government faced pressure Tuesday to backtrack on reforms opening the retail sector to foreign chains such as Wal-Mart, after an all-party meeting on the issue failed to reach a consensus. Both houses of parliament...
SINGAPORE, Nov 29 (AFP): Crude prices retreated in Asian trade Tuesday as traders took profits from a rally the day before and European debt woes continued to worry the markets, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for...
BERLIN, Nov 29 (AFP): German export growth is set to slow next year but still post a 6.0-percent rise, the exporters' federation said Tuesday expressing cautious optimism for the coming months. German exports, the driving force of the country's economy,...
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (AFP): President Barack Obama told top European officials yesterday they must act now, with decisive force, to fix the debt crisis threatening to consume the eurozone and damage the fragile US recovery. Obama said that the United...
FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (AFP): France and Germany are battling for a key post at the European Central Bank amid deepening differences over the role the bank should take in the eurozone debt crisis, sources revealed Tuesday. Until now, Berlin had...
LONDON, Nov 29 (AFP): Britain is expected to slash its official economic growth estimates on Tuesday, the eve of a nationwide strike and a day after the OECD warned that the country was heading for a double-dip recession. Finance minister...
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 29 (AFP): South Africa's economy grew by 1.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, a sluggish improvement from the 1.3 per cent posted from April to June, the national statistics agency said Tuesday. The largest contributors...
BRUSSELS, Nov 29 (AFP): Eurozone finance ministers meet Tuesday under intense pressure to stop the debt crisis from shattering the monetary union. The United States, IMF and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development each issued urgent warnings in the hours...
PARIS, Nov 29 (AFP): Ratings agency Standard and Poor's could change the outlook on France's triple-A rating to negative within days, in a move signalling a possible downgrade, a French newspaper reported Tuesday. Citing several sources, La Tribune reported on...
TOKYO, Nov 29 (AFP): Japan's jobless rate rose to a worse-than-expected 4.5 percent in October from 4.1 per cent in the previous month, the government said Tuesday. In September, the government started including in its data three prefectures in the...
RANGPUR, Nov 29 (BSS): The heinous genocide at Jharuarbeel- Padmapukur Baddhyabhumi in Badarganj upazila in Rangpur still reminds one of the worst atrocities and crimes committed against humanity by the occupation forces. The Pakistani occupation forces with their local collaborators...
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