Reliance Industries targets $1.5b overseas loans MUMBAI, May 22: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India's largest company by market value, is in talks with banks to arrange as much as $1.5 billion in dollar-denominated loans, according to two people familiar with...
President M Zillur Rahman has laid emphasis on ensuring quality higher education at minimum cost especially at private universities. The President made the observation when newly appointed chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof AK Azad Chowdhury called on...
Deep convection is taking place over North Bay, a Met Office weather bulletin said Sunday, reports BSS. Squally weather may continue over North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh. Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla have been...
RANGAMATI, May 22 (bdnews24.com): Police have recovered the body of UPDF leader Animesh Chakma, who was killed in a gunfight at Barkal Saturday. Barkal police Sub-Inspector Mohammad Idris said they had recovered the body from Kaptai Lake, adjacent to the...
BAGERHAT, May 22 (UNB): Inter-district transport owners' association and transport workers' union jointly started an indefinite strike on all routes in four southern districts of the country from Sunday morning demanding ban on plying of illegal vehicles like Nosiman and...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 22: A Chittagong court has sent 17 leaders and activists of LDP including upazila chairman of Chandanaish to jail as they surrendered in a murder case. The lawyers of the accused prayed for their bail but the...
Asaduzzaman PallabThe government is planning to take over Dhaka Vegetables Oil in a bid to stabilise the soybean market by terminating the recent rampant price hike of the product. Currently owned by a private entrepreneur, Dhaka Vegetables has been shut...
FE ReportAn alliance of 22 non-government organisations (NGOs) Sunday urged the government to give priority to the underprivileged people during preparation of the upcoming budget. They made the demand at a press conference at the National Press Club in the...
RIYADH, May 22 Reuters): South Korea's Daelim has won a contract to build a $750 million petrochemical plant for Saudi Arabia's Sahara Petrochemicals Co , the Saudi firm said on Saturday. The project is a joint venture between Sahara and...
FE ReportA three-day Dutch Trade Fair 2011 will begin on October 27 at the Ballroom of Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city with a view to increase the bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Netherlands. Dutch-Bangla Chamber of Commerce and...
BARCELONA, May 22 (Reuters): AirAsia could sign a major deal to buy revamped Airbus A320 aircraft soon, its chief executive told the agency Saturday. "If a deal is going to be done, it will be imminent, I think," said AirAsia...
SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters): South Korea's Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia Motors said Sunday that they suffered from a production disruption of some of its SUV models after a labour strike at one of its suppliers led to a...
MUMBAI, May 22 (PTI): The salt-to-software Tata Group is keen to make a foray into newer technology-driven businesses such as alternate energy research and clinical diagnostics, a top executive has said. To begin with, the USD 72-billion Group is keenly...
NAIROBI, May 22 (AFP): India will seek to expand its economic footprint in Africa, where rival China has made major inroads, at a second summit between the southeast Asian powerhouse and African nations this week. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
President M Zillur Rahman has laid emphasis on ensuring quality higher education at minimum cost especially at private universities. The President made the observation when newly appointed chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof AK Azad Chowdhury called on...
Deep convection is taking place over North Bay, a Met Office weather bulletin said Sunday, reports BSS. Squally weather may continue over North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh. Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla have been...
RANGAMATI, May 22 (bdnews24.com): Police have recovered the body of UPDF leader Animesh Chakma, who was killed in a gunfight at Barkal Saturday. Barkal police Sub-Inspector Mohammad Idris said they had recovered the body from Kaptai Lake, adjacent to the...
BAGERHAT, May 22 (UNB): Inter-district transport owners' association and transport workers' union jointly started an indefinite strike on all routes in four southern districts of the country from Sunday morning demanding ban on plying of illegal vehicles like Nosiman and...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 22: A Chittagong court has sent 17 leaders and activists of LDP including upazila chairman of Chandanaish to jail as they surrendered in a murder case. The lawyers of the accused prayed for their bail but the...
Asaduzzaman PallabThe government is planning to take over Dhaka Vegetables Oil in a bid to stabilise the soybean market by terminating the recent rampant price hike of the product. Currently owned by a private entrepreneur, Dhaka Vegetables has been shut...
RANGPUR, May 22 (BSS): Officials, experts and farmers are expecting a record jute production, as jute was cultivated 4.5 per cent more than the fixed target in the country's northern region this season. Officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension...
Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, May 22: Watermelon cultivation has changed the economic condition of Kalabari farmers in Kotalipara of Gopalganj district, following a very successful production, of it. Cultivation has been the main lifeline for the farmers here for ages as the...
NARSINGDI, May 22 (UNB) : Two farmers were killed in lightning strike and two fishermen went missing when a nor'wester lashed the district Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Raju Miah (37), of Gangkulkandi village and Shamsul Haque (50),...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, May 22: The so-long closed Rally Brothers Jute Press at Rallygate area under Daulatpur thana of the town has resumed operation under private management. The Jute Press started its operation Saturday in the new name of Dhaka Trading...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, May 22: A total of 32 brickfields are making bricks in Nilphamari district, out of which 22 brickfields are in Syedpur upazila, four in Sadar, three in Jaldhaka, two in Domar and one in Kishorgong upazila. While...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, May 22: Abul Hasnat Mondol, a chairman candidate and ex-chairman of Mohammadabad Union Parishad under Joypurhat Sadar Upazila died of heart attack Saturday morning at his house in the district. Hasnat was ex-vice president of district Jatiya...
A CorrespondentHABIGANJ, May 22: Digital Bangladesh has already brought many good results in the country. The opinion has been expressed in a seminar on "Digital Bangladesh Vision and Achievement-2011," held at Habiganj Sadar upazila parishad conference room Thursday. Habiganj Sadar...
RAJSHAHI, May 22 (BSS): Police rescued a kidnapped businessman and arrested three persons in connection with the kidnapping incident from Moni Bazar area under Rajpara Police Station in the town Saturday night. Quoting local sources, police said the businessman identified...
RAJSHAHI, May 22 (BSS): Speakers at a teacher's conference here Saturday night emphasised the need for substantial promotion of vocational education for the sake of bolstering the country's skilled human resource sector for more foreign remittance earning. They said the...
MANIKGANJ, May 22 (UNB) : Four shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Zafarganj Bazar in Shibaloya Upazila Saturday evening. Local people said the fire originated from a petrol shop, owned by Khokon, at about 6pm and...
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