FE ReportBangladesh is moving forward economically due to her promising business sector, said Commerce Minister Muhammad Faruk Khan Wednesday.The minister was speaking as the chief guest in an award giving ceremony on "ISO 9001:2008 to DCCI" at the DCCI auditorium...
Shurwid Industries Ltd is set to go public and offload 14 million shares, said a press release.The company signed an agreement in this connection with ICB Capital Management Ltd for the appointment of issue manager at a city hotel Wednesday....
FE Report The call money rate eased slightly Wednesday, fourth working day after the Eid-ul-Azha festival, as the central bank injected a substantial amount of fresh fund into the market, officials said. The inter-bank call rate ranged between 5.50 per...
FE Report The central bank has intervened in the foreign exchange market through selling the US dollar to the commercial banks aiming to keep the market stable, officials said."We've sold US$40 million at market rate to three commercial banks Wednesday...
FE Report The 80th executive committee (EC) meeting of the board of directors of Standard Bank Limited (SBL) was held at its head office in the city Tuesday, according to a press release. EC Chairman of the bank Harun Rashid...
FE Report Mohammad Golam Sarwar has recently been promoted to the post of deputy managing director (DMD) of Janata Bank Limited, said a press release. Earlier, he worked as a general manager of the same bank. He joined Sonali Bank...
FE Report Md Mofazzal Husain has recently been promoted to the post of deputy managing director (DMD) of Agrani Bank Limited, according to a press release. Earlier, he served as general manager (GM) of the same bank.Mr Mofazzal started his...
FE ReportMohammad Haroon Patwary has taken over the charge of managing director (MD) of Eastern Insurance Company Ltd recently.He was serving the company as additional managing director prior to assuming the office of MD. A postgraduate in Management from the...
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain cautioned the government Wednesday against obstructing their peaceful weeklong programme and said people would face any provocations, reports UNB.The programme includes rallies, processions and countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on November 30. Rallies and processions at...
National Committee for Protection of Oil, Gas, Power, Mineral Resources and Port has threatened an action programme if the government policy is not changed banning open pit coal mining.The committee leaders made the threat at a press conference in the...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed expressed the hope Wednesday that the amended constitution restoring the four original state principles would be sent to the press for reprint by the first week of December.Clarifying the delay in...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 24 (BSS): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) got today 90 more days for completing investigations into the country's biggest ever arms haul case.Hearing the time extension petition today, Metropolitan Sessions Judge Golam Sarwar ordered CID to submit the...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov 24 (BSS): The St. Petersburg State University, one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia, conferred today honourary doctorate degree upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding contribution towards the international humanitarian development."This...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will strengthen its humanitarian activities in Bangladesh, reports UNB.The ICRC now will have full-fledged presence in the country through establishment of its own delegation in Dhaka.This was agreed Wednesday through signing of...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 24 (BSS): Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged member of Hizbut Tawheed from Baneshwar Bazar area under Puthiya Upazila of the district today. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the RAB conducted a...
The Gender and Development Fair scheduled to be held on November 29-30 at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances, reports UNB.The new date for the fair, organised by USAID will be announced later.
Bangladesh's medal hope in the 16th Asian Games Men's Kabbadi was shattered as they conceded a humiliating 15-36 points defeat against Pakistan in the 3rd round match at the Nansha Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China Wednesday, reports UNB.Pakistan, which earned six...
ABU DHABI, Nov 24 (AFP): Misbah-ul-Haq played a captain's knock of 58 not out to salvage Pakistan a draw in the second Test against South Africa and finish the two-match series without a result. Misbah, who scored an unbeaten 76...
COLOMBO, Nov 24 (AFP): Kumar Sangakkara completed an impressive century to help Sri Lanka post 294-5 in their first innings at tea on the second day of the second Test against the West Indies Wednesday.The skipper hit one six and...
Touring Bangladesh Under-17 Football Team will play Nagaland in their first match of the 51st Subroto Mukerjee Cup Football Tournament beginning in the Indian capital New Delhi today (Thursday), reports UNB.Bangladesh team, placed in the four-team Group H of the...
LONDON, Nov 24 (AFP): Roger Federer was in sublime form as he moved closer to a place in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Andy Murray at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday.Federer...
PARIS, Nov 24 (AFP): AC Milan and Marseille reached the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday, but Arsenal's hopes of joining them are in the balance following a shock defeat at Sporting Braga. Seven-time champions Milan were made to work...
Bangladesh will play Sri Lanka in the 2nd semifinal of the 16th Asian Games Men's Twenty20 Cricket today (Thursday) at the Guanggong International Cricket Stadium in Guangzhou, China, reports UNB. Pakistan will meet Afghanistan in the first semifinal Thursday morning.Skipper...
GUANGZHOU, Nov 24 (AP): The Olympic Council of Asia has confirmed another doping case at the Asian Games.Dr. Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the OCA's medical committee, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that an athlete had breached anti-doping rules. He...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Nov 24: A two-member Dutch team of fisheries plant and fish processing industry today said Bangladesh being a land of rivers has immense potentials of fish resources and they are eager to invest in the sector and even...
DU Correspondent Dhaka University (DU) authority is yet to take decision on madrasah students' admission to ten departments despite the High Court's stay-order on new admission conditions.The failure in taking decision has pushed thousands of madrasah students, who passed in...
ST PETERSBURG (Russia), Nov 24 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday sought cooperation and assistance from Russia to set up new power plants and repair the old ones.She expressed her desire during a bilateral meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...
FE ReportThe European Union (EU) will finance more than one-third of Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011 project. In this regard, EU and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Wednesday in the city, said a...
China Studies Centre has been inaugurated at the North South University (NSU) campus. Ambassador of China in Bangladesh Zang Xian Yi inaugurated the centre, said a press release.NSU Vice Chancellor Professor Hafiz GA Siddiqi presided over the inaugural function.The inaugural...
The fifth death anniversary of Zia Ansari, former chief executive producer of Bangladesh Television, will be observed today (Thursday), said a press release.Relatives, friends and well-wishers have been requested to pray for the salvation of his departed soul.
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