Belal AhmedWORLD Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and its member states celebrate World Intellectual Property Day with activities, events and campaigns, each year. These seek to increase public understanding of what intellectual property (IP) really means, and to demonstrate how the...
The existence of an underworld facilitating all kinds of crimes is not a new phenomenon in Bangladesh. Only what ought to concern those who are now in charge of governance of the country is its current vast spread. The underworld...
Shamsul Huq ZahidBangladesh has been losing its manpower market in the Middle East at a fast pace during the last 15 months, raising serious concern among the recruiting agencies and the government policymakers. What is more worrying is that there...
Merle David Kellerhals Jr. in Washington President Obama and four other world leaders wrote an open letter to the members of the Group of 20 (G20) industrialised and developing economies warning that it is essential to follow through on reforms...
Mahmood RashidThe manpower sector in Bangladesh which earns a lion's share of the country's foreign currency appears to be shot through with very great crimes, corruption and the consequent tragedies. This has been happening year after year when Bangladesh's competitors...
Congratulations for the editorial in your April 22 issue on "Pre-IPO placement of shares". This is the single-most important factor which has been creating distortions in the market for quite some time now but I have hardly heard any professional...
Depending upon the lens through which one analyses Bangladesh's current economic development, people will arrive at different conclusions. This is similar to the parable of four blindfolded humans who touch different parts of an elephant and conclude that it is...
Recently campus violence has been a matter of great concern for all of us. It is not only ruining the academic atmosphere but claiming the lives of many promising students also. We, as concerned citizens, earnestly request all students to...
NEW YORK, Apr 25 (Reuters): US stocks rose to a 19-month high Friday as Merck eased concerns about the impact of healthcare reform, saying its costs will be relatively low.Energy shares lifted the broad market after oil rose 1.7 per...
MUMBAI, Apr 25 (Economic Times): Banks have once again started pumping money into mutual funds with loans dipping in the first week of April. According to latest RBI data, banks have invested an additional Rs 500 billion during the fortnight...
HONG KONG, Apr 25 (AFP): French cosmetics group L'Occitane said Sunday it could raise as much as 812 million US dollars in a Hong Kong share offering.The company said it would offer 364.12 million shares for between 12.88 and 15.08...
DUBAI, Apr 25 (Bloomberg): Dubai's benchmark index climbed to the highest in almost a week after Emaar Properties PJSC, the measure's biggest company by weighting, said quarterly profit more than tripled and oil rose above $85 a barrel. Emaar, the...
NEW DELHI, Apr 25 (PTI): Realty major DLF today said its subsidiary Caraf had consolidated holding in DLF Assets Ltd (DAL) through purchase of convertible shares from private equity firm SC Asia for Rs 30.85 billion.Caraf, which was recently merged...
MUMBAI, April 25 (PTI): Gold price rose moderately during Q1 2010 as it was supported by strong seasonal jewellery demand in India and China coupled with continued global investment flows, World Gold Council said recently."Gold's continuing upward price trend is...
BEIJING, April 25 (Bloomberg): Corn gained the most in almost two weeks and soybeans rose on speculation that China's surging economy will bolster demand for grain and oilseeds from the US, the world's biggest shipper.US exporters sold 232,000 metric tons...
NEW YORK, April 25 (Bloomberg): Hog futures fell the most in almost 12 weeks in Chicago on speculation that a rally to the highest price since 1996 may have been exaggerated. Cattle also dropped.Hog prices failed to top 87.8 cents...
ATHENS, April 25 (AFP): Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that an EU and IMF debt lifeline plan was "not pleasant" but vital, as calls grew in Germany for Athens to consider quitting the eurozone.Papandreou made a desperate request...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Apr 25: Mulberry plants on the roadsides of Nilphamari district are disappearing gradually due to negligence of the personnel of the sericulture project. The project had been undertaken earlier by some NGOs in the district. There is no...
WASHINGTON, April 25 (AFP): China recognises the need to let its currency strengthen against the dollar and other currencies.There is a "wide range of recognition that strengthening the currency is part of the policies needed to raise private consumption and...
NEW YORK, April 25 (Bloomberg): Consumer spending probably accelerated in the first quarter, shepherding the US expansion into 2010, economists project a report this week will show.Gross domestic product grew at a 3.4 per cent annual pace after increasing at...
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 Bank69.550093.4603107.21440.747865.136369.939764.8581Agrani Bank69.550093.2953107.14700.750465.092269.861864.6354FCBsStanChart69.6294.82108.270.7766.3571.2766.29HSBC 69.608094.9149108.48510.769665.748370.185665.5637Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of Ceylon69.610094.9158109.22760.777866.100170.355866.9231PCBsUttara Bank69.550094.6267107.06610.765765.515968.936364.8487AB Bank69.600094.6116108.29330.7594NANANABuying rates from public (inward remittance)SCBsUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSonali Bank68.600091.2596105.20200.723063.583668.270763.3152Agrani Bank68.600091.4182105.21560.720363.583168.343763.5334FCBsStanChart68.6290.70103.960.7263.3768.0462.55HSBC...
BANGKOK, Apr 25 (AFP): Thailand's embattled premier vowed to clear Bangkok's commercial heart of anti-government Red Shirt protesters as he appeared on national television Sunday in a show of unity with his army chief.But Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva did not...
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Apr 25 (AFP): United States (US) President Barack Obama has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to Washington in May in a fresh bid to relaunch Middle East peace talks, a Palestinian official said Sunday.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
ISLAMABAD, Apr 25 (AFP): Pakistan has asked India to hand over the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks so that it can complete its own trial of seven suspects linked to the assault, officials said Sunday."We have sought...
MOSCOW, Apr 25 (AFP): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken by telephone to her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov about the Iranian nuclear standoff, the Russian foreign ministry said Sunday.The two "discussed in detail the current situation with the...
COLOMBO, Apr 25 (AFP): Sri Lanka may scrap the state of emergency laws that gave sweeping powers to police and troops during the island's long ethnic conflict with Tamil rebels, a newly appointed minister said Sunday.The government has faced international...
10 dead in Mississippi after tornado, storms hit SouthYAZOO CITY, Miss., Apr 25: Rescuers combed neighbourhoods of splintered homes in Mississippi, ferrying the injured on all-terrain vehicles where roads were impassable after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and...
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata HaiOn STAR PLUS (India) Monday, at 10:30 pm Cast- Hina KhanThe concept of an arranged marriage is quiet unique to the Indian culture. The families choose the bride and the groom as per their own beliefs...
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...
FE ReportDhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will take a fresh move to attract new companies to float shares in the stock market. "We are going to initiate meetings with the top directors of the companies so that they feel encouraged to...
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