FE Report Citi volunteers around the world once again demonstrated their commitment to the community at the company's sixth annual "Citi Global Community Day" today. In 78 countries around the world, more than 40,000 Citi employee volunteers participated in nearly...
Chairman of GMG Airlines Salman F Rahman has been made convener of the Aviation Operators' Association of Bangladesh (AOAB), a newly formed aviation trade body. The members of the country's private airlines, cargo carriers, air charter operators and flying academies...
Badrul Ahsan MS (Mild Steel) rod prices have surged as traders and manufacturers have attributed the hike to a rising dollar, which has gained 10 per cent over the last one year. The current selling rate of dollar hit Tk...
FE Report Trade volume between Bangladesh and Switzerland can get a further boost through developing infrastructure and removing energy crisis, the Swiss envoy in Dhaka said Sunday. Dr Urs Herren, the ambassador, said the government should take immediate measures to...
FE Report The annual US Trade Show will be held in Dhaka in February next year to showcase American products and services. The three-day show will be held from February 16 to 18, 2012 at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel. The American...
Arafat Ara Bangladesh is giving all-out effort to send back the Libya returnees to the companies where they were earlier deployed, said Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan Sunday. The secretary said many companies that...
President Zillur Rahman Sunday urged chartered accountants (CAs) to work remaining above all greed and pressure for ensuring financial transparency in both the public and private sectors, reports BSS. "Give top priority to your patriotism, honesty and sincerity during discharging...
TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters): Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp will scale back domestic semiconductor output by the end of March 2012 and cut about 1,000 jobs, reflecting its recent move to reduce TV panel production, the Nikkei business daily said...
Sonia H Moni A local organisation has announced collateral-free spot loan of Tk 50 million for participants of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Sea Beach Festival 2011 at Cox's Bazar. "Around 70 small and medium entrepreneurs taking part in the...
Jobs a priority despite economic headwinds: China BEIJING, Oct 23: China will make job creation a more urgent priority in the face of slowed economic growth and weakened exports, Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published on Sunday, also warning...
BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (Reuters): European Union (EU) leaders hold talks Sunday to try to hammer out a comprehensive plan for tackling the euro zone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until another summit Wednesday. "We have to take...
TOKYO, Oct 23 (Business standard): Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is likely to sell a 20 per cent stake in wind power developer Eurus Energy Holdings to trading firm Toyota Tsusho to help raise funds to compensate victims of Japan's...
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (Economic Standard): Troubles in Europe and the US have started hitting Indian exports, with the engineering sector reporting about 14 per cent year-on-year decline in its shipments to $7.1 billion in September. Going by the data...
JORDAN, Oct 23 (Business Recorder): The popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and jobs, better governance and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Jordan said...
The Benchmark General Index DGEN ended in the green to register gain of almost 2% on the first trading day of the week. However, aggressive profit taking during the second half of the trading session led to the Index trimming...
BAGHDAD, Oct 23 (Reuters): Foreign investors eager to snap up development projects in key oil producer Iraq are unlikely to balk after the United States withdraws all its troops at the end of the year as long as security does...
FE Report Software-based association-BASIS- has taken initiative to make people acquainted with software technology in different sectors for bringing dynamism in the areas, said its president Mahboob Zaman. He told the FE Sunday that the organisation would hold one-day software...
MUMBAI, Oct 23 (AFP): High prices are likely to deter Indians from heavy gold buying this week during the Hindu festival of Diwali, normally an auspicious time to splurge on the metal, experts say. Gold demand is expected to be...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Oct 23: About 2 lakh metric tonnes of Aman paddy in 8 northern districts under Rangpur division goes to the stomach of rats every year, sources said. Besides, rats eat up 8 to 10 percents of potato,...
A Correspondent HABIGANJ, Oct 23: National Sanitation Month October 2011 was observed in a befitting manner in Habiganj Sunday. District administration and public health engineering department jointly organized the programme. A colourful rally paraded from Habiganj collectorate at Nimtala to...
KUSHTIA, Oct 23 (UNB): Two alleged auto-rickshaw lifters were killed in a shootout between their cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Bhadalia in Sadar upazila in Kushtia on Kushtia-Jhenidah highway early Sunday. The deceased could not be identified immediately....
MUNSHIGANJ, Oct 23 (UNB): A motorbike rider was killed and another injured serioulsy as a bus hit their bike at Ramerkhola in Sirajdikhan upazila on Dhaka-Maowa highway in Munshiganj this (Sunday) morning. Another co-rider whose indetity could not be known...
Our Correspondent BRAHMANBARIA, Oct 23: owners of the unauthorized diagnostic centres across the district are cheating innocent patients capitalizing on the helplessness of them. Patients have to pay 30 to 50 percent more for pathological tests, ultrasonogram and X-ray, etc....
Our Correspondent PABNA, Oct 23: A rickshawpuller was beaten to death for only Tk. 2 at Jugipara mohallah in Pabna municipal area on Saturday afternoon. The victim Hassan Mollah Hassu, 45, son of Johir Uddin of village Goyeshpur in Pabna...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Oct 23: Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Nilphamari Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) was held on Saturday. Held at the Silpakola Academy, the meeting was presided over by NCCI president Abdul Wahed Sarkar and was attended...
Our Correspondent KHULNA, Oct 23: A spectacular boat race on the river Rupsha was held today. Thousands of people assembled on the both side of the river and the Rupsha Bridge. "The Banglalink 5th Khulna Boat Race" was arranged by...
880 bottles of phensidyl recovered Acting on secret information Directorate of Narcotics Control Natore district recovered 880 bottles of phensidyl from a Rajshahi-Dhaka route truck at Bonbelghoria bypass under Natore police station on Friday. Driver and helper managed to leaving...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23 (Reuters): Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast Saturday. The remarks were in sharp...
KOLKATA, Oct 23(AP): Officials say the death toll has risen to 31 in the collapse of a wooden bridge in the northeastern Indian district of Darjeeling. The 100-foot-long (30-metre-long) bridge gave way as more than 150 mountain villagers gathered on...
DAMASCUS, Oct 23 (AFP): Syria's under-fire president Sunday appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime, as security forces reportedly killed two more civilians. State television said President Bashar al-Assad named new governors...
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