November 3, 2010 : The Kolkata Film festival is going to be flagged off very soon, this year the gala event will showcase 127 films from over 38 countries.The film festival starts from November 10 and it will continue till...
FE ReportOf the 183 countries considered for Doing Business 2011 report released globally Thursday, a record 133 nations carried out over 200 reforms. The report covered 10 indicators affecting businesses -- dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has initiated a first-ever move to bring the booming lottery business under a regulation with provisions for punitive measures for breach of contract and violation of rules.Private, local and other organizations and corporations have to pay...
The country's first-ever hi-tech park at Kaliakoir in Gazipur is almost ready for landing of investors in hi-tech sectors, especially, IT, ITES, electronics and telecommunication, reports BSS."Construction of basic infrastructure for the hi-tech such as administrative building, boundary wall, gate,...
ICB Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has announced the Net Asset Values (NAV) of its two unit funds, according to a press release.ICB AMCL First Mutual Fund: The total NAV of ICB...
FE Report European Business School (EBS) University has launched the Social Business Chair under the patronage of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.As the first chair for social business in Germany, its aim will be to advance research in the field...
Robi Axiata Limited held its 50th Board of Directors meeting in Sylhet Thursday.Presided by Chairman of the Board Tan Sri Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid, the meeting reviewed operational activities and financial performance of Robi Axiata Limited, said a press release.Expressing...
FE ReportPrime Bank signed a participation agreement with Bangladesh Bank for availing refinance facilities under rural based agri product processing industries. Bangladesh Bank General Manager (SME and Special Programme Department) Sukamal Sinha Choudhury and Prime Bank Limited Managing Director M...
Newly-appointed Swedish Ambassador in Bangladesh Anne Margareta (Anneli) Lindahl Kenny paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Thursday noon, reports UNB.During the meeting they discussed various issues of national and bilateral...
FE ReportEducation and healthcare facility must be ensured for the poor people aiming to eradicate poverty from the country, said Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, chairman of Palli Karma Sahayok Foundation (PKSF).He said PKSF has been working hard since 1990 not only...
AIBL 1st Islamic Mutual FundNature of BusinessClosed-end Mutual Fund of 10 (Ten) years tenureObjectiveThe objective of the Fund is to provide attractive risk adjusted returns to the unit holders by investing the proceeds in the Capital Market and Money Market...
DUBAI, Nov 4 (AFP): Paceman Morne Morkel hopes his new-ball partner Dale Steyn will get fit sooner than later to boost South Africa in the last two one-day matches against Pakistan."Dale is world number one, anybody will miss Dale, espcially...
With a high hope of playing in the second round, a 20-member Bangladesh Under-23 football team leaves here for China Thursday midnight to take part in the 16th Asian Games to be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on...
Despite failing to win his 6th round fixture Grand Master Ziaur Rahman of Biman now share the top position with FM Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar of Destiny 2000 Limited after the completion of the 6th round with 4 points of the...
Bangladesh Under-17 team scored 41 for no loss after dismissing touring Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Under-17 team for 143 runs at stumps on the first day of the 2nd three-day match at the Comilla Stadium Thursday, reports UNB.In the...
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (AFP): A chastened President Barack Obama admitted he had suffered a "shellacking" in this week's US mid-term elections, but refused to see it as a repudiation of his transformative domestic agenda.He instead blamed the loss of the...
TEHRAN, Nov 4 (AFP): Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America" as they staged Thursday a mass protest against the "Great Satan" to mark the 31st anniversary of the capture of the American embassy by Islamist students.Tehran, meanwhile, welcomed Washington's...
SRINAGAR, Nov 4 (AFP): As the first snows fall in the mountains of Indian Kashmir, tempers are also cooling after a summer of violence that saw more than 100 people die in street protests.For more than three months, thousands of...
KATHMANDU, Nov 4 (AFP): Half of Nepalese children under five years old suffer from stunted growth as a result of a chronic lack of food, the government and the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.Political instability and a...
WUKIRSARI, Nov 4 (AFP): Indonesia ordered thousands more people to evacuate Thursday as the country's most active volcano erupted again, shooting gas and ash into the sky and triggering a new aircraft exclusion zone.Volcanologists said the "high intensity" eruption was...
NEW YORK, Nov 4 (AFP): Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has won another prize, with Human Rights Watch honoring him for risking his life to "protect the dignity" of others.The New York-based rights group named the 54-year-old writer...
ANKARA, Nov 4 (AP): A Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that wounded 32 people in Istanbul over the weekend, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported Thursday.The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, an offshoot of the autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party,...
BANGKOK, Nov 4 (AFP): The death toll from Thailand's crippling floods has risen to over 120, officials said Thursday, after the weeks-long crisis spread south and affected tens of thousands more people, including tourists.Rising waters began to inundate the southern...
Mahmudur RahmanOne of the most looked-forward to aspects of education is the study tour albeit for the wrong reasons. Nine times out of ten these tours don't have a specific plan behind them or a follow up and are relegated...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday asked the builders and developers to evolve such designs in constructing multi-storied buildings that can withstand the risk of earthquake and ensure all civic amenities, report agencies. She said all housing projects should have to...
A high-level meeting to be held at the NEC conference room here on Sunday, will review the outcome of last year's Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) negotiations, reports BSS.The meeting titled 'How to work more effectively together to deliver real development...
LONDON, Nov 4(Agencies): World oil prices hit fresh six-month peaks Thursday as the dollar slumped on the back of the US Federal Reserve's new huge stimulus package aimed at boosting the American economy. Cotton advanced for a fifth day in...
FE ReportBusinessmen will resist any attempt to harass the non-flammable chemical traders of old Dhaka through launching special drives against them until further instruction of the government regarding the matter.Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), the country's...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Nov 4: Elected councillors of Chittagong City Corporation have termed the incidents of November 2 in the mayor's office as untoward and humiliating. "We urge all concerned quarters not to use it as political tool and attach more...
FE ReportBangladesh has gained four points in global ranking for business start-up raising its position to 107, thanks to 'reform initiatives' taken to cut down on the time of starting businesses.The country's time of initiating businesses has reduced to 19...
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