Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited board of directors recommended 30 per cent dividend (20 per cent stock and 10 per cent cash) for the shareholders for the year 2009 subject to the approval of the 27th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of...
FE ReportGovernment entities have shown keen interest on the digital car park systems for the city proposed by a local company. A local company -- Seaborne Ltd. - proposed to the government to set up 50 car parks in the...
FE ReportWarid Wednesday signed two separate memorandums of understanding (MoU) with the country's largest land phone operator- Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) and mobile phone operator Teletalk Bangladesh Limited.The MoU will create scopes for infrastructures sharing among Warid and the...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 24: Bahrain Air, the first privately owned national carrier of Bahrain, started operating direct flights between Chittagong and Bahrain from Tuesday. The first Bahrain flight with 131 passengers on board left Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport at...
FE ReportThe newly appointed Ambassador of Bangladesh to Thailand, Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, made a courtesy call on President of Bangladesh Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BTCCI) MA Momen at his office in the city Sunday. They discussed matters of...
Icb Amcl Third Nrb Mutual Fund NameICB AMCL Third NRB Mutual FundNature of the fundClose-end Mutual Fund of 10 (Ten) years tenureSubscription OpensMarch 28, 2010Subscription ClosesApril 01, 2010For Non Resident BangladeshiMarch 28, 2010 to April 10, 2010Offer PriceTk. 10.00 per...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has termed the recent violent incidents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as unfortunate, saying that there might be international and national games behind the incident, reports UNB as received from Chittagong Wednesday."Definitely, different sets of...
Minister for Water Resources Ramesh Chandra Sen Wednesday said the flow in the common River Teesta enhanced in Bangladesh part with the opening of three gates in the upstream Indian region despite the absence of an agreement, reports BSS."The quantum...
High commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago Pundit Maniedeo Persad said that Bangladeshi citizens would not require visa to visit his country, reports UNB.He called on Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and discussed issues of development cooperation, trade and investment and energy.The...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed has urged the entire nation to come up with data and information that can help to prove the inhuman crimes that were perpetrated during the War of Liberation in 1971, reports...
The two-day election for the 14-member executive committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for the term 2010-2011 began Wednesday amid a peaceful atmosphere, reports UNB.According to the election schedule, polling began at 10.00am and continued up to 5.00pm...
A three-member delegation of US Congress as well as senior Congressional staff will pay a three day official visit to Bangladesh on March 28-30, reports UNB. The delegation will be led by Congressman David Price (D-NC), a member of the...
DU CorrespondentSpecial allocations would be provided to strengthen research activities in some public universities including Dhaka University (DU) to enable them become world-class universities, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Nazrul Islam said. The UGC chairman was speaking as the...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Mar 23: A brilliant student of Chittagong Collegiate High School was stabbed to death and four others were injured as a number of students of Chittagong Government High School attacked them at a coaching centre in the...
FE ReportCommerce Minister Faruk Khan urged the British businessmen and Bangladeshi diaspora to invest in the country's export-oriented industries, a statement said Wednesday.Mr Khan - who is now in London on an official visit to discuss trade and investment opportunities...
FE ReportAn elderly couple were shot dead Wednesday by the young suitor of their daughter at Kalachandpur in Gulshan of the capital, police said.The police named the victims as Sadequr Rahman (55), general secretary of Bangladesh Nursery Owners' Association, and...
Freedom fighter Md Asir Ali Mallik, who took part in the guard of honour to the temporary president of the Mujibnagar government on April 17 in 1971, died of old age complications early Wednesday. He was 70.He was buried in...
FE ReportThe country's knitwear manufacturers have sought Prime Minister's intervention for improving the gas and power supply to the industrial sector by rationing gas from the CNG stations and fertiliser factories.They also urged the government to form a 'yarn price...
Shahiduzzaman KhanThis year the government's popular slogan, 'Eat more potato and put less pressure on rice' has come to limelight again. The incumbent Agriculture Secretary of the government, chairing an all-important meeting of the Potato Advisory Board this week, called...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank (BB) will soon resume its re-financing facility with disbursement of US$250 million to infrastructure development projects in six key sectors including ports, power, environment, industrial estates and water supply. "A draft agreement was signed between the...
FE ReportThe two-day commerce secretary level meeting between Bangladesh and Nepal scheduled to be held in Dhaka on March 30 next has been deferred until May 3, sources said.Nepal has requested for deferral as it could not finalise the concrete...
FE ReportThe benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange hit more than a three-week high Wednesday, after the securities regulators clarified about the credit facilities provided by merchant bankers and stockbrokers for buying securities.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) surged...
NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (AP): For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone.India and...
FE ReportChevron president in Bangladesh Steve Wilson Wednesday said the country has potentials to discover more gasfields, if it drills more wells in still unexplored areas."Bangladesh is still relatively unexplored, as the country did not drill much in the past...
Six out of seven units of Ashuganj power station resumed operation after several hours of shut down Tuesday night. All the seven power units with 730mw generation capacity were shut down following fire in a transformer at about 8:00 pm...
Mahmudur RahmanThe tri-van carrying bubbly school children snaked to a halt in one of the famous traffic jams on Kamal Ataturk Avenue. Slow as it was, the suddenness of the stoppage was beyond the ability of the rickshaw puller following...
FE ReportPharmaceutical sector has urged the government to withdraw taxes from raw materials required for production of vaccine, anti-cancer drug, insulin and birth control pills to help flourish local industry.Import of those essential drugs is totally tax free while its...
The nation will recall the black night of March 25 today (Thursday), the night on which in 1971 the barbarous Pakistani occupation forces launched a cowardly attack on the unarmed Bangalees, reports BSS. To implement their heinous blueprint, the Pakistani...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Mar 24: One of the three insurgent groups, the one led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, presented on Monday a 15 point peace plan to President Karzai in Afghanistan designed at ending hostilities in the country.Hekmatyar's representatives met...
FE ReportThe country's poultry industry is ideal for employment generation, as the sector has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in Bangladesh particularly, in the rural areas, two senior ministers said Wednesday."The industry is inching towards that...
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