FE ReportThe ensuing fiscal year's budget unveiled Thursday is yet to make any impact on the city's kitchen market as the prices of most of the commodities remained more or less unchanged.Although the price of some commodities such as rice...
Mashiur RahamanThe government has approved export of manpower to Democratic Republic of Congo in a desperate attempt to search for alternative job market.Following a high-level official visit to the African country last month, the government has permitted a recruiting agency...
Agrani Bank Limited (ABL) and IME (M) Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia-based remittance service provider, have jointly launched an IME Remittance Service through Agrani Bank at its head office in the city recently, said a press release.Agrani Bank Chairman Dr Khondoker...
FE ReportThe Finance Minister AMA Muhith Thursday proposed to augment VAT collection from domestic sources by withdrawing truncated base value from some services. Dockyard, advertising agency, printing press, courier service, consultancy and supervisory firm, audit and accounting firm, architect and...
FE ReportThe finance minister has proposed to keep the existing four-tier duty unchanged aiming to facilitate trade, supplying goods to consumers at a fair price and to promote domestic industries.Current duty structure is 3.0 per cent for capital machinery, 5.0...
FE ReportThe government is going to establish 30 new technical training centres and five new marine technology institutes in 35 districts, aiming to generate skilled workers for overseas employment, the finance Minister Thursday said."A new project has been taken up...
The central bank of Bangladesh continued its intervention in the foreign exchange market, purchasing U.S. dollar from banks directly to keep the rate of local currency stable against the greenback to facilitate the inflow of remittances and export earnings. In...
Maine Pyar KiyaOn Zee TV Saturday at 4-00 pm. Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough...
JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (AFP): Africa's first football World Cup began in an explosion of colour and emotion at an opening ceremony in Johannesburg's Soccer City Friday, blighted by the absence of a grief-stricken Nelson Mandela.Fans wept openly as five planes...
PRETORIA, June 11 (AFP): Argentina coach Diego Maradona Friday expressed his belief that Barcelona's Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi can emulate his own achievements from 24 years ago.Argentina begin their Group B campaign in Johannesburg Saturday against Nigeria, ironically the team...
RUSTENBURG, June 11 (AFP): England have been urged to lay down a World Cup marker when they take on the United States in their opening Group C match here on Saturday.Steven Gerrard, who will captain the side in the absence...
PORT ELIZABETH, June 11 (AFP): South Korea and Greece dip their toes into the World Cup water at this Eastern Cape port Saturday anxious to get precious points on board with Argentina and Nigeria facing off later up in Ellis...
SYDNEY, June 11 (AFP): Australia Friday launched an unprecedented safety campaign for its citizens visiting South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, warning of a "high level of violent crime".Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the World Cup would be Australia's...
JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (AFP): Hundreds of dancers filled Soccer City with the sights and sounds of Africa for the World Cup opening ceremony Friday, representing the six nations on the continent competing in the tournament.The stadium, the largest in Africa,...
BONN, June 11 (AFP): Enthusiasm for the World Cup spilled over at the UN climate talks Friday, where South African football shirts flowered among business suits and talk about footy displaced jargon about carbon emissions.UN climate haggles are notorious for...
Rustam Ali of (NTC) and Sheikh Habibul Haque (BKSP) booked boys' singles final berths in the Comilla Club U-16 Tennis Competition winning their respective semifinals at the Comilla Club ground Friday,reports UNB.The boys' and girls' singles finals will be held...
Dhaka Wanderers Club beat Victoria SC by 2-0 goals in a match of the Metropolis Senior Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtha Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB.Rintu and Babu scored for the winners...
PORT OF SPAIN, June 11 (AFP): Pouring rain and three wickets set South Africa back in the opening Test against West Indies Thursday.The South Africans, electing to bat, reached 70-3 in their first innings when bad light stopped play early...
BARGUNA, June 11 (UNB): Three pirates were killed and two RAB members seriously injured in a shootout between RAB and Coastguards and pirates in Baleshwar river near Chardoani in Patharghata Upazila early Friday.Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of...
Eminent filmmaker Badal Rahman died of a heart attack at BIRDEM Hospital in the city early Friday morning. He was 62, reports BSS.Family sources said, Badal Rahman, a member of the information cell of the Mujibnagar government, breathed his last...
There was nothing new about children being engaged in hazardous tasks in the country, but things have changed in recent times in absence of comprehensive measures to protect the vulnerable child workers, reports UNB.With the growth of industrialisation, both in...
Jahangirnagar University Thursday launched a countrywide project on the archaeology and ethno-archaeological study titled 'Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Ethnic Communities' culture for developing tourism industry', reports UNB.This project has been launched with a view to developing the country's tourism...
KUSHTIA, June 11 (UNB): JSD president Hasanul Haque Inu, MP, came under attack allegedly by robbers in Pangsha Upazila of Rajbari early Friday while returning here from capital.Local JSD sources said robbers halted the vehicle carrying Inu near Kalimandir in...
The government has decided to observe Anti Eve-teasing Day across the country on June 13 aimed at creating mass awareness against the eve-teasers, and spare schoolgirls from being demeaned, reports UNB. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made the announcement at...
RAJSHAHI, June 11 (BSS): The ancient Rajshahi College is afoot to regain life with reintroduction of higher secondary certificate (HSC) course from this academic session after long 14 years, bringing a sigh of relief among the admission seekers and the...
BISHKEK (Kyrgyzstan), Jun 11: Riots in southern Kyrgyzstan killed at least 23 people and injured more than 250, officials said Friday, as fears grew over a new cycle of violence in the Central Asian nation that hosts U.S. and Russian...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Pakistan), Jun11: A volley of U.S. missiles killed 15 alleged militants in an extremist stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said.]The Obama administration regards missile attacks from...
SHANGHAI, Jun 11 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Israel was "doomed" and singled out US President Barack Obama for scorn after the UN agreed a fresh round of nuclear sanctions against his country.Speaking during a visit to...
KABUL, Jun 11: Two U.S. troops and at least 11 civilians died in violence across southern Afghanistan on Friday, including one attack in which a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar.Violence has spiked recently in...
TEXAS, June 11 (AP): Mexico condemned the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Thursday through diplomatic correspondence and an angry phone call to the Homeland Security secretary. Some Mexican politicians called for the agent's extradition...
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