ICB Mutual Funds: On the close of business operation on March 29, the ICB Mutual Funds have reported Net Asset Value (NAV) for First ICB MF of Tk 10,824.87, Second ICB MF of Tk 3,009.18, Third ICB MF of Tk...
COLOMBO, Apr 3 (AFP): Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse Sunday consoled skipper Kumar Sangakkara after his team lost the cricket World Cup to India and urged them to do better next time. "We can be proud of the team and...
Siddique Islam | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
Siddique Islam Pressure on the country's overall balance of payments (BoP) has increased in recent months due to widening trade gap, lower growth of inward remittance and deficit balance in the financial account. The BoP entered the negative territory in...
Islami Ain Bastabayan Committee has called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country today (Monday), demanding scrapping of some 'anti-Qur'an provisions' in the National Women Development Policy, reports UNB. The shutdown was also called to protest the High Court verdict...
The High Court has ordered demolition of the BGMEA Bhaban at Karwan Bazar as it was constructed in violation of the Wetlands Protection Act, report agencies. A HC bench gave the order on Sunday, deputy attorney general (DAG) A B...
M Azizur Rahman | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
M Azizur RahmanCountry's coalmines will be developed on the basis of overall economic aspects considering geological structure, reserve potential and technology to be used in the mines, a top government functionary said Sunday. "The government feels that the decision on...
The opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded of the government to make its position clear on the Women Development Policy 2011, report agencies. A cabinet minister has, however, said the government is ready to sit with the critics and...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 3 (Agencies): During her visit in the district Sunday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated a new base of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) in the beach town, laid the foundation of stone of Cox's Bazar Medical College...
SAVAR, Apr 3: A sweater factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) area here was declared closed for an indefinite period from Sunday apprehending workers unrest. About 1,500 workers' of Softex Sweater Limited demonstrated Saturday afternoon for pay hike. The...
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Two suicide bomb attacks outside a shrine in the central Pakistani province of Punjab Sunday killed 41 people, police said. The blasts took place outside the shrine of 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Sunday questioned who is more powerful, Almighty Allah or Mufti Amini? She posed the question while addressing a rally organised by the district Awami League on the Park Playground in Cox's Bazar Sunday, reports UNB....
President M Zillur Rahman will return home today (Monday) after completing his six-day visit to Singapore for medical check-up at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital there, reports UNB. The President will arrive here by a regular flight of Singapore Airlines (SQ446),...
Leader of the opposition in Parliament and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia condemned Sunday's police firing on a pro-hartal procession in Jessore, leaving one person killed and demanded exemplary punishment to the persons responsible for it, reports UNB. The BNP Sunday...
Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Benazir Ahmed Sunday said action will be taken against those who will create anarchy as well as obstacle to normal civic life in the name of hartal, reports UNB. The commissioner made the remarks ahead...
Voting has been completed in 132 union parishads (UPs) under 15 upazilas of eight districts Sunday, ending the six-day first-phase elections to the lowest tier of local government, reports bdnews24.com. The voting started at 8:00 am and closed at 4:00...
BNP standing committee member Barrister | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
BNP standing committee member Barrister "The [Cricket] World Cup is over. Our leader has returned home from Saudi Arabia. There'll be a standing committee meeting and we'll finalise the programmes in it," he told reporters at the Shahjalal International Airport...
A Dhaka court Sunday fixed May 5 for the hearing on taking into cognizance the charge against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case filed by Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) in 2009, reports UNB. Metro Sessions Judge Mohammad...
State Minister for Religious Affairs has | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
State Minister for Religious Affairs has"If there is anything in the National Women Development Policy that contradicts with the Holy Qur'an and Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SM), it could be changed through discussions," Mohammad Shahjahan Miah said Sunday. Addressing a...
Pankaj Dastider | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
Pankaj DastiderCHITTAGONG, Apr 3: As many as four foreign built age-old scrap vessels imported for dismantling at the ship-breaking yards have been, allegedly, converted into water transport cargo ships in clear violation of shipping rules. Besides, through concealment of facts...
DU Correspondent | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
DU CorrespondentThe Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will begin throughout the country tomorrow (Tuesday) with a total number of 779,441 examinees. Of the total examinees this year, 424,823 are male and 354,618 female. The examinations will be...
FE Report | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
FE ReportFisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas Sunday said Hilsha is playing a significant role in increasing the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The contribution of Hilsha to the country's GDP is now one per cent. He said Hilsha...
FE Report | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
FE ReportThe association of private universities Sunday demanded withdrawal of all types of taxes on education in a bid to help students avail higher education at a reduced cost. The leaders of the association said it is not logical to...
Chief of the Indian Navy Admiral Nirmal Verma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC is now on a five-day visit to Bangladesh at the invitation of Bangladesh Navy Chief Vice Admiral Zahir Uddin Ahmed, (ND), ndc, psc, reports UNB. Admiral Verma is expected...
Sixteen parliamentarians, Right-to-Information officials, academics and civil society members from eight South Asian countries met in Kathmandu, Nepal from March 27 to March 29 on the sidelines of the first Right-to-Information Nepalese National RTI Convention and resolved to constitute a...
Dr Farid Uddin Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), died of a heart attack at LabAid Hospital in the city Sunday morning, reports BSS. He was 57. Dr Farid, also a freedom fighter, left behind his wife, a...
State Minister for Religious Affairs has | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
State Minister for Religious Affairs has"If there is anything in the National Women Development Policy that contradicts with the Holy Qur'an and Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SM), it could be changed through discussions," Mohammad Shahjahan Miah said Sunday. Addressing a...
Muktadir-Al-Mukit | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
Muktadir-Al-MukitWhy does the culture of corporate restructuring exist in the western world? The answer was well given by Saul Steinberg, founder of Reliance Group Holdings: "there were tremendous values in a lot of companies that shareholders were not getting. So...
farm inputs, including fertilizers and p | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
farm inputs, including fertilizers and phigher had not the government provided some amount of subsidy Anu Mahmud Against a looming global food crisis apprehended as a result of a seven per cent shrinkage in world cereal stock, as predicted by...
FE Report | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
FE ReportFisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas Sunday said Hilsha is playing a significant role in increasing the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The contribution of Hilsha to the country's GDP is now one per cent. He said Hilsha...
FE Report | 2011-04-04 00:00:00
FE ReportThe association of private universities Sunday demanded withdrawal of all types of taxes on education in a bid to help students avail higher education at a reduced cost. The leaders of the association said it is not logical to...
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