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Rangpur Foundry discloses Q1 accounts

2011-04-25 00:00:00

As per un-audited quarterly accounts for the 1st quarter that ended on March 31, 2011 (Jan'11 to March'11), Rangpur Foundry has stated net profit after tax of Tk 6.93 million with EPS of Tk 0.69 as against Tk 6.29 million...

Funds disclose NAVs

2011-04-25 00:00:00

ICB Mutual Funds: On the close of business operation on April 19, the ICB Mutual Funds have stated net asset value (NAV) for First ICB MF of Tk 11,020.46, Second ICB MF of Tk 3,063.00, Third ICB MF of Tk...

Cos' board meet

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Golden Son: A meeting of the board of directors of Golden Son Ltd will be held on April 28, 2011 at 5:30pm to consider, among others, audited financial statements of the company for the year that ended on December 31,...

Mercantile Bank credits stock dividend

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Mercantile Bank Ltd has informed that it has credited the stock dividend to the respective shareholders' BO accounts.

Confirmation of shares sale

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Mutual Trust Bank: M A Rouf, one of the sponsors of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd, has stated that he has completed his buy of 30,000 shares of the bank at prevailing market price through stock exchange as announced earlier. Mercantile...

Offer to sell shares

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Asia Pacific General Ins: AHM Mustafa Kamal, FCA, one of the sponsorsdirectors of Asia Pacific General Insurance Company, has expressed his willingness to sell 77,700 shares out of his total holdings of 1,55,400 shares of the company at prevailing market...

Spot trading

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Bangladesh Finance: Trading of the shares of Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Ltd will be allowed only in the spot market and blockodd lot transactions will also be settled as per spot settlement cycle with cum benefit from today (Monday)...

Youth fined for harassing girl student

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentNATORE, Apr 24: A mobile court in Bagatipara Upazila fined a youth Tk 5 thousand for harassing a girl student of Rahimanpur High School in Bagatipara Upazila of Natore district. The convict was identified as Bidyut, son of Mansur...

Jessore UP election timetable announced

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Our Correspondent JESSORE, Apr 24: The timetable for election of 91 union councils under eight Upazilas in Jessore was announced in a meeting chaired by Nurul Amin, Deputy Commissioner, Jessore Friday. The schedule will be announced within a very shot...

OMS rice seized

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Joypurhat camp seized 400 sacks OMS rice, a truck and a motorcycle and arrested 4 criminals who were connected to trafficking of rice from Barokandi Bazar under Panchbibi Upazila in the Joypurhat district...

Two youths crushed under trains

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Two young men were crushed under the wheels of trains in separate incidents of Gazipur Sunday.Sub-Inspector of Tongi railway police camp Abul Khair said Dhaka-bound Dhumketu inter-city express train knocked down Ripon (28), when he was crossing the rail line...

Young man's body dumped in garden

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Police recovered a body of a young man from Taltala garden in Kusumdi village of Mithapukur Union in Alfadanga Upazila Saturday.The victim was identified as Liton Munsi (28), son of Late Saikat Munsi of Kusumdi village. He was a cargo...

Housewife's body found hanging

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Police recovered body of a housewife named Ferdousi Begum (20), from her house at Gokornaghat of the Brahmanbaria town Saturday. Ferdousi was wife of Shahin Mia of Gokornaghat. Her body was hanging from the ceiling of the room. Sadar Thana...

Body recovered in Sirajganj

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Police recovered body of a young man, aged about (24) from Bakua area on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Ullapara Upazila of Sirajganj Saturday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police suspected that miscreants following a previous enmity...

Smuggled drugs destroyed in Benapole

2011-04-25 00:00:00

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed smuggled drugs worth about Tk 90 million at the BGB office in Jessore Saturday.The destroyed drugs include 15,690 bottles of phensidyl, 2400 bottles of foreign liquor, 65.5 litres of stolen liquor, 4.5kg of hemp...

Pope leads Easter Mass in Vatican square

2011-04-25 00:00:00

VATICAN CITY, Apr 24 (AP): Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, packed with about 100,000 pilgrims and tourists and ablaze in the bright colors of spring flowers as the faithful marked the church's most joyous...

Govt troops retreat in Libya's Misrata

2011-04-25 00:00:00

TRIPOLI, Apr 24 (Reuters): Government forces retreated in Libya's coastal city of Misrata after two months of siege, but seized a rebel town in the remote Western Mountains, with no sign yet of Muammar Gaddafi being dislodged from power. "Misrata...

Syrian forces raid homes of opposition

2011-04-25 00:00:00

AMMAN, Apr 24 (Reuters): Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said Sunday, as popular opposition to Syria's authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad increased following bloody attacks on pro-democracy protesters. Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad have killed...

Saleh agrees to step down, activists to continue protests

2011-04-25 00:00:00

SANAA, Apr 24 (Reuters): Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down within weeks in return for immunity from prosecution, but protesters said they would keep up their demonstrations until he went. Protesters, who have taken to the...

Clashes erupt for 3rd day on Thai-Cambodian border

2011-04-25 00:00:00

BAN NONGKANA, (Thailand), Apr 24 (agencies): Heavy fighting erupted Sunday for a third day between Thai and Cambodian troops, with gunfire and explosions heard on both sides of the disputed border as the United Nations renewed calls for a lasting...

Pakistanis rally against US drone strikes

2011-04-25 00:00:00

PESHAWAR, Apr 24 (Reuters): The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed Sunday after thousands of people blocked a key highway in Pakistan to protest against U.S. drone strikes, officials said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance...

Buddhadeb rebuts PM's statement of non-performance

2011-04-25 00:00:00

KOLKATA, Apr 24 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said he was surprised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about the State government's "overall failure". "I am surprised at what the Prime Minister said yesterday. I don't know...

Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies

2011-04-25 00:00:00

TOKYO, Apr 24 (agencies): Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami, the military...

Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba dies at 86

2011-04-25 00:00:00

PUTTAPARTI, (India), Apr 24 (AP): Hindu holy man Sathya Sai Baba, considered a living god by millions of followers worldwide, died Sunday in a hospital near his southern Indian ashram, a doctor said. He was 86. Sai Baba had spent...

55 rebels killed in south Sudan clashes

2011-04-25 00:00:00

JUBA, Apr 24: At least 55 people were killed and scores wounded in fighting between south Sudan's army and rebel militiamen, the latest in a wave of bloody clashes in the soon to be independent state, a government official said...

Roadside bombs kill 3 NATO troops in Afghanistan

2011-04-25 00:00:00

KABUL, Apr 24: Roadside bombs killed three NATO service members and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials...

N Korea threatens to destroy US

2011-04-25 00:00:00

SEOUL, Apr 24 : North Korea has again threatened to destroy the United States and South Korea. The communist North issued its latest war rhetoric on the eve of its army's anniversary. The official Korean Central News Agency says that...

Spanish photographer calls parents from Libya jail

2011-04-25 00:00:00

MADRID, Apr 24: The parents of a Spanish photojournalist who was captured by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi say they received a phone call from him in which he said he was well but in a Tripoli jail....

Five women murdered in Mexico beach resort

2011-04-25 00:00:00

MEXICO CITY, Apr 24: Five women, all apparently connected to a beauty parlor, were found brutally murdered in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco on Saturday morning, state police said. The semi-naked and bound bodies of two women and a...

Housewife's body found hanging

2011-04-25 00:00:00

Police recovered body of a housewife named Ferdousi Begum (20), from her house at Gokornaghat of the Brahmanbaria town Saturday. Ferdousi was wife of Shahin Mia of Gokornaghat. Her body was hanging from the ceiling of the room. Sadar Thana...