As the introducer of credit card (plastic card) and pioneer of modern banking in Bangladesh, director of Premier Bank Limited and banker Kazi Abdul Mazid has been awarded 'Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award 2010' at a function at the Bangabandhu International...
The 37th Branch Managers' Conference of Al Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held at a city hotel recently, said a press release. AIBL Board of Directors Chairman Badiur Rahman was present as the chief guest and inaugurated the conference....
Commercial Bank of CeylonThe inter-bank call money rates were stable and traded between 4.0 per cent and 6.50 per cent in the past week, the bank sources said.Bangladesh Bank (BB) absorbed the excess liquidity through its reverse repo window. The...
Enayet Rasul Bhuiyan A special report released by the UNFPA last week revealed that Bangladesh's population is rising too fast for comfort. It found the size of the present population of the country at 160.4 million dispelling the figure officially...
Jonathan Stevenson They are, quite simply, the two greatest footballers of all time. So it only seems right to wish them both a happy birthday.Pele celebrates his 70th birthday today (Saturday), and exactly a week later Diego Maradona turns 50....
Tony IsaacsAt a time when the British Medical Association is calling for an end to national funding for homeopathy and detractors are describing it as "nonsense on stilts", a Nobel prize-winning scientist has made a discovery that suggests that homeopathy...
Ameer HamzaIn these bleak times, when beloved Bangladesh is so beset with bad news and delinquencies all around, it really does the heart a lot of good to find that at least some of our golden boys have been earning...
Rezina Sultana"I honestly believe that the winning companies of this century will be those who prove with their actions that they can be profitable and increase social value - companies that both do well and do good. Increasingly, shareowners, customers,...
Aleem MaqboolIn Mianwali, in Punjab, by the banks of the River Indus, we surveyed the impact of the floods with a local businessman and landowner. All around, we could see the devastation caused to his farms, and the effect that...
Rayhan DemytrieA group of volunteers are smoking cigarettes outside a needle distribution centre in Osh. Most of them are former drug addicts. "When we started taking drugs, we watched films, saw people snorting drugs through dollar bills and we thought...
Zhang XinParis looked largely peaceful Thursday amid the aftermath of strikes -- except for subway station notices announcing fewer regional trains. Only recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had asked the Senate to accelerate debate on the unpopular reform to raise...
The government is unlikely to meet its October deadline to free six Dhaka canals from the hands of land grabbers, reports bdnews24.com.Only one among the six canals surrounding the capital has so far been recovered, while the district authorities could...
Language veteran MA Jalil Sarker passed away Thursday in Seoul, South Korea. He was 87, reports UNB.Family sources said that Jalil breathed his last at about 5:30 pm at a hospital. He went there with his wife to visit their...
Planning Minister AK Khandker Friday asked the officials and employees of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) to act with more responsibility in releasing data and information in time, reports UNB."Latest correct statistics is indispensable for formulating development plans… it...
Japanese government is planning to hold Japan's Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) in the city to facilitate the local IT students and professionals to take part in the ITEE, reports BSS.Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said that this facility would...
A seminar on 'Bangladesh Army Wide Area Network (WAN): Present Status and Future Prospects' was held at Dhaka Cantonment recently, says a press release.Army Headquarters Information Technology Directorate organised the seminar where Chief of General Staff of Bangladesh Army Lieutenant...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barishal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Saturday).Moderately heavy to...
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club beat Rahmatganj MFS by 2-1 goals in their last group A match of the GrameenPhone Federation Cup Football at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB. With the...
NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (AFP): India will leave out senior players from the one-day series against New Zealand starting next month to prepare them for the tough tour of South Africa, an official said on Friday. New Zealand are due...
Another large South African total loomed in the third ODI at Benoni as half-centuries from Jean-Paul Duminy and AB de Villiers powered the hosts to 163 for 2 at the 25-over mark, according to website cricinfo.Zimbabwe's bowlers struggled yet again...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) announced Friday a preliminary 27-memebr U-17 squad for the Subrata Mukharji Cup Football Tournament to be from held November 25-December 2 in New Delhi, reports UNB. The selected players have been asked to report to team...
Sayed Javed Ahmad"Renewable Energy" is the current buzz word of the government mainly referring to "Solar Energy" and sometimes to "Wind Energy". But there is another form of renewable energy source, which is known as the "Osmotic Energy".Osmotic power or...
Shafiqul AlamRescue capsule, named Phoenix, saved some 33 trapped miners in Chile, whereas a bus that fell into river Turag in Dhaka with about 50 passengers was salvaged after 58 hours of rescue operation involving over 100 personnel from the...
Nitin Jugran BahugunaFor Jankabai Muley, 50, of Kachhighati village in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, body aches, bleeding hands and rashes were a part of life. For most of her adult life, she has been engaged in picking cotton from the eight...
Haitian Health Ministry officials have informed the World Health Organisation that 138 deaths are a part of a fast-moving cholera outbreak north of Port-au-Prince, a UN official said, reports CNN.Imogen Wall, the UN humanitarian spokeswoman in Haiti, said that in...
An escaped crocodile may have caused a plane crash which killed a British man and 19 other people, according to the sole survivor, according to agencies.The reptile apparently freed itself from a bag, sparking a stampede of panicking passengers on...
French police have forcibly lifted a blockade on the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris as polls show the majority of French people support the strikes despite petrol shortages on the eve of national holidays, reports CNN.A poll for Canal+...
ISLAMABAD, (Pakistan), Oct 22 (agencies): Bombings rippled through northwestern Pakistan Friday, killing six soldiers in the tribal region and three people outside a mosque in Peshawar, authorities said.Military officials said an explosive detonated near a military convoy close to a...
THERE is no parallel of a small country of about 55,000 square miles only crammed already with a population of 164.4 million which is the size of the Bangladesh population today according to the latest report of the UNFPA that...
Maswood Alam KhanFor the last few decades, civil service in Bangladesh has been deemed the preferred career choice for youths thanks to the discernible pay and concealed perks, social status and almost one hundred per cent job security in the...
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