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Uttara Bank signs Tk 200m loan deal with Premier Leasing

2010-10-30 00:00:00

FE ReportUttara Bank Limited (UBL) has recently signed a loan agreement of Tk 200 million with Premier Leasing and Finance Limited (PLFL).UBL General Manager MA Matin and PLFL Managing Director SM Shamsul Alam signed the agreement on behalf of their...

Govt has set up fruitful ties with int'l community 'to boost FDI'

2010-10-30 00:00:00

FE ReportThe present government has established highly fruitful diplomatic relationships with the international community to help increase inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the coming years, Mashiur Rahman, Advisor for Economic Affairs to the Prime Minister said.He also underscored...

NAV of different Mutual Funds announced

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Net Asset Value (NAV) of different Mutual Funds (MFs), managed by ICB Asset Management Company Ltd (AMCL), was announced on the close of business operation on October 19. The total NAV is as follows:Prime Bank 1st ICB AMCL MF: On...

Transformation of village post offices into e-post centres soon

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Sonia H MoniThe postal department might start transforming 600 to 1000 village post offices into e-post centres as part of the government's move to narrow the digital divide between rural and urban areas. Director General of Bangladesh Post Office (BPO)...

Holcim arranges induction seminar

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Holcim (Bangladesh) Limited has recently arranged a two-day long 'Induction Seminar' for the newly recruited officers of the company at its training centre, said a press release.Holcim (Bangladesh) Ltd Managing Director Rajnish Kapur inaugurated the seminar while its Head of...

New chairman, MD of AIBL Capital Market Services

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Badiur Rahman has been elected chairman of newly formed AIBL Capital Market Services Ltd (AIBL CMSL), a subsidiary company of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd, said a press release. He was elected unanimously for the next two-year term at the second...

currency roundup

2010-10-30 00:00:00

October 24th- 28th, 2010Commercial Bank of CeylonThe inter-bank call money rates were stable and traded between 4.0 per cent and 6.0 per cent in the past week, the bank said in its weekly statement.Bangladesh Bank (BB) had accepted 182-day T/bill...

9 cops among 15 killed amid wave of Mexico attacks

2010-10-30 00:00:00

GUADALAJARA, Oct 29(Agencies): Unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy of five police vehicles in the western Mexico state of Jalisco on Thursday, killing nine officers and leaving one missing, reports AP. The 20 officers in the convoy were outnumbered by the...

Koreas exchange gunfire at border

2010-10-30 00:00:00

SEOUL, Oct 29 (Reuters): North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months.The rare exchange of...

French strikers back to work

2010-10-30 00:00:00

PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP): Many of the last strikers holding out against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform returned to work Friday, heralding a possible end to their battle but leaving France with a profound social malaise. Workers at oil refineries,...

Iran will accept nuclear talks after Nov 10: EU

2010-10-30 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (AFP): EU chief diplomat Catherine Ashton said on Friday that Iran had accepted the principle of re-starting talks on its disputed nuclear drive "after" November 10. Iran's negotiator with the West, Saeed Jalili, "is willing to agree...

China criticises Western democracy

2010-10-30 00:00:00

BEIJING, Oct 29 (AP): China's Communist Party newspaper issued a scathing attack on Western-style democracy amid calls for reform of the country's political system and a resulting push-back by party conservatives.Thursday's People's Daily editorial is the latest in a flurry...

news digest

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Billions in Afghanistan aid unaccounted for WASHINGTON, Oct 29: Nearly 18 billion dollars earmarked for reconstruction in Afghanistan remain unaccounted for, snagged in a "labyrinth" of contract bureaucracy, a sweeping US government audit has shown. The Special Inspector General for...

Ensuring sustainable improvement of Chittagong port

2010-10-30 00:00:00

The first meeting of the Chittagong Port Advisory Committee was held on Wednesday with the Shipping Minister in chair. The committee was formed in the wake of the deepening of the crisis recently centred on the port and when the...

What’s causing this rapacious mindset?

2010-10-30 00:00:00

‘EVE-teasing’ is a misnomer, a cruel one, that trivializes the rapacious mindset currently manifest in some delinquents in the country who are found stalking, oppressing and preying on young girls. This pursuit has nothing of the innocently romantic chemistry of...

Improving the capacities of public sector universities

2010-10-30 00:00:00

THE academic environment remains very adversely affected, at times and that too not infrequently by politics of students and teachers. Other major problems include the limited number of public universities. These institutions can accommodate only partly the number of higher...

About importing power from India

2010-10-30 00:00:00

The government, as the media reports do otherwise suggests, is now active to bring power from India. But only laying structures to receive the power would take at least two years, if not more. Then, only about 250 mw, as...

Air-conditioned buses on city routes

2010-10-30 00:00:00

The Dhaka city's traffic problem instead of showing any sign of improvement has been worsening everyday. A journey that is supposed to take a maximum of 20 to 30 minutes now takes more than a couple of hours. Of all...

Does rising GDP alleviate poverty

2010-10-30 00:00:00

The first target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The word extreme has been prefixed before hunger. So after achieving the target poverty will be there but not an abject one. Eight goals...

Romance in New York Subway

2010-10-30 00:00:00

I love trains moving on railways since the day in my childhood when along with my parents we the whole lot of ten siblings boarded a train for the first time to my earliest memory. It was a few decades...

All citizens enjoy right to housing

2010-10-30 00:00:00

THE army personnel had to withdraw from their reported housing project site at Rupganj of Narayangonj on October 23rd last following a demonstration by an unruly mob reportedly instigated by some vested quarters. Army initiated a housing project, namely Army...

The world's unmet obligation to Kashmiri people

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Kashmir is bleeding again and badly. Every day civilians protesting their subjugation are getting shot at by security forces like birds and dying from the same. It seems that regard for human life has become too scanty to ones who...

Training for underdogs a sign of progress

2010-10-30 00:00:00

The Bangladesh government's move, to make training for low-skilled women workers who are aspiring to go abroad, mandatory, is very politically correct. Friends of the underdog would no doubt be pleased and would hope the government makes good its decision....

Recession recovery slow to come to Florida

2010-10-30 00:00:00

While the U.S. recession has been declared over by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the follow-up recovery period is taking longer than anticipated. Such is the case in Florida, according to numerous economic specialists.In Florida, the unemployment rate in...

Coal (black gold) – future energy of Bangladesh

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Coal may be termed ‘black gold’. World’s 50 per cent energy comes from coal. Bangladesh is sleeping on the black gold mine bed located in the northern districts of Rangpur and Dinajpur, while facing a mounting energy crisis and relies...

Dilemma of a devout Biman devotee

2010-10-30 00:00:00

"Madam cheita geley kintu khobor asey": Basically, hell hath no fury than the VIP wife scorned.The luggage belt just rolled once, while the loader walked off the belt with only two suitcases marked: VIP reading on a Biman tag.The rest...

Dhaka safe and sound

2010-10-30 00:00:00

A unique event Dhaka Safe and Sound Fortnight, reflecting the creative visions for an environment friendly metropolis, was introduced at the Goethe Institute on Oct 18 by eminent artist and environmentalist Rafiqun Nabi. A specially flown German concert team took...

Saturday

2010-10-30 00:00:00

BTVam07:00 Announcement, The Holy Quran, The Holy Tripitak Paath and Programme Outline 07:20 Geet Bitaan07:45 Desh O Biggyan08:00 Sakaler Sangbad08:15 Maati-O-Manush08:20 Bishwa Pratidin08:35 Deshtake Bhalobeshe08:55 Sangbad Shironam09:00 Docu- Fire Dekha09:10 Kishor Mancho10:00 News10:05 Rumjhum10:30 Shishu O Nari Unnayon (Debate)11:05 Karukaaz11:30...

Saturday

2010-10-30 00:00:00

ZEE BANGLAam07.00 Prathna Ka Samay (Jesus Calls)07.30 Teleshopping09.00 Daily Sope- Ke Tumi Nandini09.30 Daily Sope- Mahapujo 201011.30 Sampurna Banglar Sera Pujo01.00 Daily Sope- Khona01.30 Daily Sope- Saat Paake Bandha02.30 Feature Film- Santan Jakhon Shatru05.00 Chetla Agragami Pujo05.30 Asian Paints Sarad...

NBR non-transparency riles CAG

2010-10-30 00:00:00

Doulot Akter MalaThe auditing watchdog has asked the revenue board to address the "non-disclosure" practice by its large taxpayer unit and field level VAT offices, which are reluctant to share data with auditors.The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) office said...