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President Cup Golf Tournament begins today

2010-05-07 00:00:00

The ninth Grameenphone President Cup Golf Tournament will begin today (Friday) at the Kurmitola Golf Club, with players teeing off at 8:45 am, reports UNB.Chief of Army Staff Gen Md Abdul Mubeen will formally inaugurate the tournament as the chief...

Europa Youth Club retain supremacy

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Europa Youth Club maintained their supremacy in the Premier Bank Metropolis First Division Basketball League outplaying Reiths Club by 106-47 points at the Dhanmondi Wooden Floor Gymnasium here today (Thursday), reports UNB.The winners led the first half 46-17. Amin caged...

WIndies A beat South Africa A by 11 runs

2010-05-07 00:00:00

West Indies A team made a good start in the ATN Record tri-nation one-day series beating South Africa A team by 11 runs in the 2nd one-day match on the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS) at Mirpur in the city Thursday,...

35th Nat'l Athletics meet concludes with Army domination

2010-05-07 00:00:00

The Walton 35th National Athletics Championship concluded Thursday on the Bangabandhu National Stadium with Bangladesh Army having dominated the track and field events securing 17 gold, 13 silver and 10 bronze medals, reports UNB. Bangladesh Ansar & VDP finished a...

PM wants completion of dev projects in coastal areas within dry season

2010-05-07 00:00:00

BARGUNA, May 6 (UNB): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina urged the ministries and all departments concerned to complete all development projects in the coastal and riverine areas within the dry season."You will have to complete all paper works during the...

Trial of BDR Signal Sector, RSU begins

2010-05-07 00:00:00

The Special Court-6 Thursday began the trial to try 300 accused of Signal Sector and the Rifle Security Unit (RSU) under BDR Headquarters. The court also ordered the prosecutor to present the accused before the court Saturday 10:00 am, reports...

Power supply becomes normal in city

2010-05-07 00:00:00

A major fault that occurred at an underground cable Wednesday was finally repaired Thursday by the Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC).Following the fault, a vast area of the central part of the capital city, including Bangladesh Secretariat, plunged into...

RAB recover fake NI cards, SIMs from city market

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportRapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid recovered 10,000 fake national identity cards and 2,610 unregistered SIM cards of the country's six mobile phone operators from a market at Gulistan in the capital Wednesday night.The elite force men also...

CMP launch drive to protect women from eve-teasing

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 6: Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have launched drive to save the women from harassment. The CMP has advised the girls and women to send an SMS with their names to '373' from their mobile phones whenever they...

Centre for Breakthru'Thinking in B'desh formed

2010-05-07 00:00:00

To spread the ideas of Japanese management style and raise productivity and efficiency in the industrial sector a centre for breakthrough thinking in Bangladesh was formed Wednesday with Prof Shozo Hibino, Chukyo University, Japan as its chief adviser and Dr...

Death anniversary

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Sixth death anniversary of Saleha Begum, w/o late social worker Aziz Howlader of Baramasua of Mothbaria, Pirojpur, will be observed today (Friday).On the occasion milad-mahfil and Quran-khwani have been arranged and special prayer will be offered after Jum'a prayers at...

China offers duty-free access to 4,721 Bangladeshi goods

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Nazmul AhsanChina has offered to extend duty-free access to nearly 5,000 Bangladeshi products in a major goodwill gesture that has caught the trade officials here by surprise.The "stunning" offer was made by China last week and it followed the high...

US trade ties politically weighed, skilled negotiators needed

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportEconomists and business leaders Thursday at a seminar said the US provides preferential treatment to other countries on political consideration, and the Bangladesh government should engage politically skilled persons as negotiators at US-Bangla trade talks."The United States provides market...

Seven cos get nod to raise paid-up capital

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given go-ahead to seven companies to raise their paid-up capital under private placement in accordance with some conditions set by the regulator.The SEC said this after taking a decision in this regard in...

Hasina questions source of Khaleda's money, property

2010-05-07 00:00:00

BARGUNA, May 6 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has questioned the source of huge money and property of opposition leader Khaleda Zia who was left with "broken suitcase and torn vest" of her husband, slain President Ziaur Rahman."Nowadays you speak...

PM's S Korea, Malaysia trips seen crucial for boosting labour export

2010-05-07 00:00:00

A Z M AnasPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina faces a key litmus test as she begins touring South Korea in mid-May aimed at boosting labour recruitment in the East Asian nation, officials said Wednesday. As part of her Southeast Asian tour,...

Dhaka stocks rally for 2nd session

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportDhaka stocks rallied for the second session in a row Thursday, led by Grameenphone and leasing issues. The market opened with a firm note, gaining around one per cent in the morning but profit taking scuttled away some points...

UK voters go to polls

2010-05-07 00:00:00

LONDON, May 6 (BBC): Millions of people in constituencies across the UK are casting their votes in the general election.Polling stations up and down the country opened at 0700 BST and people will be able to cast their ballots until...

Mumbai attack gunman gets death penalty

2010-05-07 00:00:00

MUMBAI, May 6 (Agencies): A court in India Thursday handed a death sentence to the only surviving Pakistani gunman in the bloody 2008 Mumbai attacks.Judge M.L. Tahaliyani's sentence came three days after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab was found guilty of murder...

ACC sues SQ Chy for money laundering

2010-05-07 00:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a criminal case against BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury for money laundering. Toufiqul Islam, an ACC assistant director, filed the case with the Dhanmondi Police Station Thursday afternoon. Dhanmondi police chief Shah Alam confirmed...

Power supply back to normal in city

2010-05-07 00:00:00

A major fault that occurred at an underground cable Wednesday was finally repaired Thursday by the Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC). Following the fault Wednesday, a vast area of the central part of the capital city, including Bangladesh Secretariat,...

Boy drowns at Crescent Lake

2010-05-07 00:00:00

An eight-year-old schoolboy, Jahirul Islam, who went to Crescent Lake for swimming, drowned in the waterbody at Chandrima Udyan in the city Thursday. — FE Report

BB asks banks to keep maximum 12pc interest

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE Report The central bank has asked the commercial banks to keep the lending rate on import financing for nine essential food items at maximum 12 per cent. "We've reminded the banks to continue the interest rates on the items...

Loan defaulter gets clearance from BB

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Mohammad MufazzalA director of a company despite being a loan defaulter was handed a no-objection certificate of the central bank paving the way for his unit to go public. The Credit Information Bureau (CIB) of the Bangladesh Bank issued the...

Dhaka's achievement feted by three banks

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE reportFinance Minister AMA Muhith has termed the sovereign credit rating a 'big challenge' for Bnagladesh, saying it had necessiated the country to sustain the status."A better credit raing has meant that we have to be more responsible in future...

Changes in IMF, WB policy planning level

2010-05-07 00:00:00

From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, May 06: Rapid changes in the policy planning level at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) are being made as the situation in eurozone countries continues to deteriorate. Riot erupted in Greece...

Indian help to upgrade BSTI to continue, Mitter tells Barua

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportIndia will continue to train BSTI officials and upgrade its laboratory, so that the local industries could employ appropriate technologies to attain manufacturing standards to face stiff competition in the market.A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on mutual assistance signed...

SEC for three-fold increase of staff

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Kayes M SohelThe understaffed securities regulator is expected to add more muscle to make monitoring of the burgeoning stock market stronger and faster.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently wrote to the finance ministry with a proposal to enhance its...

BNP calls half-day hartal in Bogra Sunday

2010-05-07 00:00:00

Opposition BNP has formally announced 4 days of progarmmes including half-day hartal in Bogra on Sunday in protest against the attack on its activists on way to the grand rally in Rajshahi, leaving a BNP activist dead and about 200...

Use of 'renewable energy may ease power crisis'

2010-05-07 00:00:00

FE ReportBangladesh has scopes for easing electricity crisis, especially in remote areas, by ramping up use of renewable energy, said Otto Gomm, programme coordinator of German funded Sustainable Energy for Development, GTZ.He said the country's use of renewable energy is...