Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (UNB): A BNP activist was Saturday slaughtered by identified terrorists in broad daylight at Dantmara in Fatikchhari Upazila. Abdul Gani (50), the victim, was local BNP leader and president of Hoako Bazar Committee. His wounded associate Siraj...
Leaders of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) today suggested that the government take immediate steps to revise the Tobacco Control Act by imposing high tax on cigarettes and bidis to check smoking and its use, reports BSS. Speaking at a roundtable...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's largest conglomerate, Abul Khair Group, has made a forceful entry into Bangladesh's fast-booming ceramics sector after it bought leading manufacturers Fahim Ceramics for about Tk500 million. The steel-cement-milk-tobacco group has completed the purchase last month,...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Atiur Rahman Saturday called upon the banks and other financial institutions to come forward to financing human resource development areas so that a skilled manpower can help Bangladesh become a middle-income country within the next...
Badrul AhsanPrivate jute millers have urged the government to raise cash incentive from existing 10 per cent to 20 per cent, enabling them to stave off the present crisis. The appeal from Bangladesh Jute Mills Association (BJA) came in a...
FE ReportBangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) arranged an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) workshop on "Investing Across Borders" at the MCCI Conference Hall in the city Saturday. The presenter was Ms. Antonia Presciosa Menezes, who is a Private Sector Development Specialist...
Richard Jones, Head of Regions, Compliance for Standard Chartered Bank will arrive in Dhaka today (15 May, Sunday) for a three-day official visit. He will be accompanied by Ravi Duvvuru, Regional Head, Regulatory Compliance, India & South Asia, Standard Chartered...
DUBAI, UAE Emirates (www.emirates.,com), one of the fastest growing airlines in the world, announced on 11 May, 2011 that Johannesburg, the industrial and economic capital of South Africa, will be the next destination slated for its flagship A380 aircraft. The'daily...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (UNB): Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra (BCL) activists clashed over 'jhut' business and extortion, leaving eight injured in Alangkar Cinema Hall area in the city today (Saturday). Police said Awami League-backed businessman Morshedul Hasan bought cut-piece clothes...
FE ReportEnergy ministry and Petrobangla are at loggerheads over appointment of a consultant to help build the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Moheshkhali island, officials said Thursday. The energy ministry is interested to select a US...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (UNB): A BNP activist was Saturday slaughtered by identified terrorists in broad daylight at Dantmara in Fatikchhari Upazila. Abdul Gani (50), the victim, was local BNP leader and president of Hoako Bazar Committee. His wounded associate Siraj...
Leaders of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) today suggested that the government take immediate steps to revise the Tobacco Control Act by imposing high tax on cigarettes and bidis to check smoking and its use, reports BSS. Speaking at a roundtable...
BEIJING, May 14 (Reuters): China plans to provide a total of 218,000 hectares of land for building residential properties this year, a rise of 18.5 per cent from 2010, the nation's land ministry said. That includes 77,400 hectares of land...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, May 14 (Reuters): US bank failures in 2010 cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp $2 billion, or 9 per cent, more than initially forecast, according to a new analysis by SNL Financial. The rise exceeds in the...
DUBAI, May 14 (Arabian Business.com): HSBC has made it easier for customers in the UAE to obtain credit cards, personal loans and mortgage by relaxing its lending criteria. It said it was halving the minimum salary requirement to obtain credit...
COLOMBO, May 14 (LBO): Sri Lankan ship builder Colombo Dockyard said March 2011 quarter net profit rose 78.4 per cent to 467 million rupees from a year ago with gains from both ship building and repair. Sales rose 23.6 per...
SEOUL, May 14 (AFP): South Korea's state pension fund -- the world's fourth-largest -- said Friday it would set up a fund worth up to $830 million for investment only in Asia. The National Pension Service (NPS) said it would...
NEW DELHI, May 14 (PTI): Panacea Biotec Ltd Friday said its net profit has declined by 25.19 per cent to Rs 430 million for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2011, mainly because of foreign exchange related gains in the...
NEW DELHI, May 14 (Economic Times): Drug maker Lupin, which was expected to underperform, surprised the market with a better show during the fourth quarter ended March 2011. It logged a 17.5-per cent growth in net sales and a 3-per...
FE ReportEnergy ministry and Petrobangla are at loggerheads over appointment of a consultant to help build the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Moheshkhali island, officials said Thursday. The energy ministry is interested to select a US...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (UNB): A BNP activist was Saturday slaughtered by identified terrorists in broad daylight at Dantmara in Fatikchhari Upazila. Abdul Gani (50), the victim, was local BNP leader and president of Hoako Bazar Committee. His wounded associate Siraj...
Leaders of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) today suggested that the government take immediate steps to revise the Tobacco Control Act by imposing high tax on cigarettes and bidis to check smoking and its use, reports BSS. Speaking at a roundtable...
It will be difficult for Bangladesh to protect its interests if it selectively refers to WTO provisions on freedom of transit without full understanding of the fees that a country may charge to cover the costs of providing the transit...
CHICAGO, May 14 (Xinhua): The Chicago corn futures managed to bounce back Friday, as hefty rainfall this weekend in the eastern Corn Belt may interrupt corn planting. Soybean and wheat retreated, as outside market forces remained negative and fund-selling re-emerged....
BERLIN, May 14 (Business Recorder): The EU Commission, the IMF and Germany are calling for Greece to reschedule its massive debt burden, due to the deteriorating situation, the German daily Die Welt says in its Saturday edition. Citing unnamed sources,...
PAYERNE, May 14 (Business Recorder): Pioneering Swiss solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse ambled over Europe into Belgium Friday on its first international flight, with the pilot reporting that everything was running smoothly. "The flight is going really well, I have...
TOULOUSE, May 14 (Gulfnews): Airbus is poised to further lift production of its bestselling A320 jet series as airlines seek more fuel-efficient aircraft amid rising oil prices, helping the manufacturer fund construction of larger planes. Airbus, the world's largest commercial...
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