FE ReportFund managers have submitted six-point proposals to the securities regulator to sustain and develop the mutual funds (MFs) sector, officials said. The recommendations came following the recent trend of the mutual funds, as the investors are reluctant to buy...
FE Report The central bank has initiated a move for streamlining financial institutions' charges, fees and commissions aiming to protect interests of depositors, investors and clients, officials said. Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a circular in this connection Tuesday and asked...
LONDON, Dec 7(AFP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police Tuesday on a Swedish warrant for suspected rape, as the net finally closed on the website amid anger at its release of US secrets.The elusive 39-year-old Australian J...
Kamrun NaharHeart ailments have become a major health problem and emerged as the country's top killer, but high treatment cost and poor services are sending more people abroad despite mushrooming of specialized hospitals at home.As economy soared over the past...
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Tuesday unanimously adopted the National Education Policy 2010, aiming at establishing a foundation of pro-people and balanced education system as per the guidelines of the constitution. Suranjit Sengupta, President of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry...
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Dakhil examinations for 2011 will begin on February 1 throughout the country, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid announced Tuesday. He said examination schedules were prepared keeping in consideration the fixture of the World Cup Cricket...
Farrukh Ahmed, a retired additional inspector general of Bangladesh Police, has been appointed director general of the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on ad-hoc basis for a year. Moreover, six joint secretaries (JS), were transferred in an establishment ministry order Tuesday. —bdnews24.com
NATORE, Dec 7: Five people were killed and another was injured as a bus rammed an auto-rickshaw at Phulbagan in Sadar Upazila of the district Tuesday. -- UNB
Light rain is likely to occur at a few places over Chittagong, Barisal and Khulna divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions until 6:00pm today (Wednesday).Light fog may occur over the river basins...
M. A. TaslimNothing catches on like a catchy phrase; it serves to both focus and deflect attention. Of late the phrase 'middle income country' seems to have caught the imagination of an important section of the people. Policymakers at the...
Mohammad Ruhul KaderTo us development is a very tantalising word and a long cherished dream in our national life. This dream is now 40 years old. But it seems that we are still not matured enough to achieve this change...
THE price situation in Bangladesh, like the case with many other developing countries, has, of late, come under a fresh upward pressure. Its inflationary rate, as measured by consumers' price index (CPI) has, thus, crept up. The latest available data...
Mississauga, CanadaThis is about an amazing invention of 2010. In Times magazine of November 11, 2010 says one of the 50 best inventions of the year is Deep Green Underwater Kite. Swedish company Minesto's underwater kite resembles a child's toy,...
Munir AhmedFurious and frustrated, Americans punished President Barack Obama's Democratic Party in midterm elections, passing control of the House of Representatives to Republicans and sending a blunt message of voter discontent to the White House. Republicans popularly called the GOP...
Many Bangladeshi expatriates have voiced this concern over the country's law and order situation, as reported by the media. Despite the claims that are made him to time by the functionaries of the government about improvements in law and order...
Ragging is a nasty manifestation of a popular culture that has become depraved. But what will be accomplished by assigning new police functions to school or college administrations? A look at child rearing in Bangladesh will reveal the roots of...
Obscenity in leaflets, walls and transports is now noticed not only in the capital city, but also in several district towns. Various kinds of leaflets and handbills containing slang language and obscene photographs are being distributed by street kids and...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Dec 6: Farmers of 8 districts in Rangpur division are worried at the beginning of the Boro season owing to scarce supply of quality seeds while unscrupulous traders are marketing inferior seeds under different brand names, sources said....
A CorrespondentDINAJPUR, Dec 6: Prices of essential commodities have gone up in Dinajpur district hitting the poor people, particularly those belonging to the poor and fixed income family. Prices of rice, pulse, edible oil, garlic, ginger, onion, potato, brinjal and...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 6 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong advocacy workshop have underscored the need for ensuring a transparent and accountable public service delivery for the sake of freeing the nation from the curse of corruption in every spheres of the...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Dec 6: Farmers of different areas of the district are changing their fate by cultivating onion. Unlike in previous years they are getting handsome benefit from this spice item this year.According to Joypurhat DAE office this year...
BARISAL, Dec 6 (UNB): Three people were killed in separate road accidents in the city Saturday night. Police said Rafikul Islam (35), a sales representative of Kohinoor Chemical Industries Limited and former JCD leader of Gournadi Upazila was wounded when...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Dec 6: Adulterated poultry feed has flooded the markets of the south-western region of the country causing grave concern among the owners of the poultry farms of the region. There are at least 5000 poultry firms in the...
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 6 (agencies): A suicide bomb attack in north-west Pakistan has left at least 40 people dead, local officials have said.The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of...
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) : Fears are running high again among residents of Yeonpyeong Island as the South Korean military launched live-fire drills in the waters off all three coasts of the Korean Peninsula, according to local media Monday.Yeonpyeong Island...
NEW DELHI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua): India and France Monday inked a civil nuclear pact which will pave the way for construction of French nuke reactors in this country, besides four agreements for deeper bilateral cooperation in the atomic energy sector.The...
Iran and six world powers are in Geneva for talks about the country's controversial nuclear programme, reports CBC.Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili arrives at the Swiss mission to the United Nations in Geneva Monday. The talks - the first in...
Egypt's ruling party crushes opposition in voteCAIRO, Dec 6 : President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party has swept to a predictable huge parliamentary win, state media reported Monday, after an election boycotted by Islamists who were crushed in a vote they...
A three-day training of trainers on "Improving remittance related banking services" was inaugurated in the city Sunday, said a press release. Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in association with UKaid from Department for...
Monthly managers' conference of the Premier Bank Ltd was held at the bank's head office in the city recently.Premier Bank Chairman Dr HBM Iqbal was present as the chief guest at the conference with Managing Director Niaz Habib in the...
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