Ayan GuptaTHERE is no reputable statistical evidence to date to show that micro-credit works for reducing poverty or enhancing social contribution by the poorest section of the population.Does it move people permanently across the "poverty line"? No, again because no...
M S SiddiquiIn Bangladesh, it is almost certain that irrespective of court verdict both the parties, complainant and defendant, are actually set to lose their money, properties and health. There is a rule for compensating winner for his expenses during...
BANGKOK, May 31 (Agencies): Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday as investors shrugged off more sobering news about Europe's shaky finances amid new signs Asia's economies are continuing to recover. Oil, meanwhile, rose above $74 a barrel, and the...
A spate of road accidents all in the space of only a day or twenty-four hours must have shocked all concerned in the country. Two meritorious students –– one, a new entrant to the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology...
Shamsul Huq Zahid KHANDAKER Khan Jahan Samrat, a student of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was crushed under the wheels of a city bus while he was waiting for a bus by the roadside in front of...
Maswood Alam KhanIt seems a new virus has been let loose to attack Islam. Groups of killers wearing Muslim names are roaming around as agents of a deadly virus to kill people at the behest of some quarters, mostly untouchable...
THE trend of early marriage, specially of females, is still found to be strong among the rural people in Bangladesh. This is all the more worrying in a situation where the population of the country remains preponderantly rural. The greater...
MOST public universities in Bangladesh face the problem of session jam from time to time. Instead of taking five years to complete honours and masters, students need six, seven or even eight years to complete their university life. But their...
Fazal M. KamalIt seems that the person who gained most from the 2008 presidential election -- perhaps more than the victor Barack Obama in some ways -- is the pinup of the conservative extreme Sarah Palin. She has successfully parlayed...
Shamsher ChowdhurySOME years ago we saw a Hindi movie where apparently a senior politician was contesting elections for premiership of the country. During the course of the campaign, the Advisor of the lady politician who on an earlier occasion had...
MUMBAI, May 30 (PTI): Led by ITC, nine of the top 10 companies lost a staggering Rs 1350 billion over the last 30 days in a highly-volatile market. ONGC was the only member of the elite club that saw a...
CHICAGO, May 30 (Reuters): The US Treasury and General Motors Co may select a lead underwriter for an initial public offering for the automaker as early as next week, Bloomberg News reported Saturday.A bank needs to be picked soon in...
MUMBAI, May 30 (PTI): Companies mopped up Rs one trillion through primary markets during 2009-10, six times more than Rs 164.8 billion raised in the previous fiscal when the economy came under the impact of global financial meltdown. There were...
MILAN, May 30 (Reuters): The head of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) said in Italian newspaper comments Sunday that the German government's ban on short-selling is "mistaken" and risks being counterproductive.In comments in Italy's business daily Il Sole 24 Ore,...
MOMBAY, May 30 (Business Standard): The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is expanding its paid-up capital by about six per cent. The intent is to bring in a strategic investor, to whom the shares can be allotted on a preferential basis.The...
TOKYO, May 30 (AFP): Capital spending by big Japanese companies is set to rise for the first time in three years as auto and electronics makers invest more abroad, a survey said Sunday.According to the poll of 1,472 leading firms...
PESHAWAR, May 29 (Business Recorder): Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Fullerton Assets Management Limited Amjad Waheed has said that current account deficit has reduced and investment climate in the country is now more amenable than it was two years back.Addressing...
NEW DELHI, May 30 (PTI): Private player Axis Mutual Fund is aiming at more than doubling the size of assets under its management to Rs 100 billion by March-end and is looking at entering the overseas markets next year. "We...
MILAN, May 30 (Reuters): Global gold demand is expected to be higher in the second quarter of 2010 than a year ago, powered by robust investment demand in the West and strong jewellery demand in Asia, a senior World Gold...
NEW YORK May 30 (Internet): The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, being pegged as one of the worst disasters in the history of the US, has begun to drive up prices of seafood in Maryland. The reason: shutdowns in Louisiana...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, May 30: Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE), a new dairy feed product imported from Malaysia, is now available in the shops of Nilphamari.Malaysia Palm Oil Council, Dhaka sources said palm kernel is a by-product of the crushing of physical...
Shahedul Islam Helal had been elected president and Mosaddekur Rahman Nannu general secretary of the Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BPGMEA). Shamim Ahmed and KM Iqbal Hossain had been elected senior vice- president and vice- president respectively of...
NEW DELHI, May 30 (Reuters): : India's record large oilseed stockpile looks set to finally dribble into the market in the next few months as forecasts for normal monsoon rains prompt speculators to release stocks, and reduce vegetable oil imports.India,...
KARACHI, May 30 (APP): : Gold prices increased by around Rs770 per 10 grams over the week as international bullion prices continued to fluctuate in the wake of economic crisis in Europe.The precious yellow metal was valued at Rs32,142 per...
May 30, Sunday The following were the commercial banks' rates to public for some selectedforeign currencies with Bangladesh Taka in cash transaction Sunday.Selling rates to public (outward remittance)BankUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSCBsSonali Bank69.550085.7575100.84160.773060.324366.385959.1545Agrani Bank69.550085.6309100.79020.775460.304266.325758.9602FCBsStanChart69.6787.16101.080.7961.0666.3758.97HSBC 69.682587.0777101.76120.794660.569365.375258.0764Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of CeylonNANANANANANANAPCBsUttara Bank69.600086.1848101.09640.780860.153666.397659.1564AB Bank69.670087.0441102.04680.7850NANANABuying rates from public (inward...
Super CapersOn STAR Movies Monday at 7:00 pmEd Gruberman (Whalin) may just be an average guy, but he imagines himself to be a crime-fighting superhero, and that desire lands him in trouble with the law. Forced to enlist in a...
ATN BANGLAAm07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Positive Bangladesh08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Shongbadpotro08:30 Drama Serial- Kagojer Ghor09:00 News Bulletins09:10 Kande Amar Ma09:15 Tatka National Dance Star10:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show - Hello Bangladesh11:00 Sangbad 11:05 Asian City Vision 202011:30 Notun Chobir Gan12:00 Sangbad Bulletins12:15 Motamot01:00...
SEOGWIPO, South Korea, May 30 (AFP): China resisted pressure Sunday from South Korea and Japan to censure North Korea publicly for the sinking of a warship, calling only for regional tensions over the incident to be defused.Host President Lee Myung-Bak...
JERUSALEM, May 30 (AP): Israel, thought to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, has rejected a new UN call to come clean about its secretive nuclear programme, calling it a "deeply flawed and hypocritical" act that ignores the threat...
KATHMANDU, May 30 (AFP): Nepal's three main parties held talks Sunday to try to hammer out a new coalition government after the prime minister agreed to resign to avert a political crisis.Madhav Kumar Nepal said he would step down in...
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