Citibank, N.A. Bangladesh organized a two-day seminar on "Balance Sheet Management" at Nazimgarh resort, Sylhet recently. Senior executives from Bangladesh Bank and commercial banks attended the seminar. The seminar was aimed to discuss various modern tools and techniques in managing...
FE Report Speakers at a seminar suggested the government to revise investment policy in the farm sector as well as to introduce agri- insurance scheme for marginal farmers in assisting adaptation to climate change in the country.It is essential to...
Gold production in South Africa fell 5.8 per cent in 2009 from a year earlier, making the nation the fourth-biggest producer after China, Australia and the US, an industry body said, reports Bloomberg.Output fell to 6.59 million ounces from 7...
FE Report Md Rashad Kamal and GM Omar Faruque Chowdhury have been elected as chairman and secretary respectively of the Dhaka Branch Council (DBC) of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh for the year 2010. Besides them, Md...
NEW DELHI, Mar 13 (Bloomberg): India's industrial production rose 16.7 per cent in January, diminishing spare capacity and contributing to inflationary pressures that may spur the central bank to raise interest rates within weeks.The expansion in output at factories and...
FE ReportA lease agreement for FS SFB building-6 (ground floor-east side), Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) was signed between a Taiwanese company, M/s Shepherd Textile (BD) Ltd and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) in the BEPZA executive office at...
British High Commissioner Stephen Evans has recently visited ACS Textiles Bangladesh Ltd, at Rupganj in Narayanganj, says a press release.Masud Dowood Akbani Managing Director, Max Cohan, Martin Sluekis Directors as well as other officials of the company were present on...
A correspondentNILPHAMARI, Mar 13: A large number of poultry firms have been facing hard days in the district due to price hike of farm inputs including one-day age chicks and poultry feed. At present a one-day chick is being sold...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a fund of about Taka 57 billion for a special plan for rural infrastructure development. It was also declared on the occasion that members of parliament (MPs) would get...
Nerun YakubThere seems to be some genuine soul-searching going on among spiritually enlightened business people all across the world since the collapse of the global financial system, although that depth is totally missing in the powers that be. Consider the...
Nasiruddin Ahmed ChowdhuryThe stock market as an investment avenue is so highly volatile and risky that it requires transparent information, adequate training, updated information, analytical skill, investment technique etc. One involved in the market should recollect the memories of the...
Ehsanul Kabir TRADITIONALLY, the public universities have been regarded as suitable centres of higher education. Such institutions do possess in most cases sufficient campus spaces, faculties and other physical attributes to justify being regarded as full-fledged universities, unlike the private...
ANY government in Bangladesh will be required to follow a mix of policies. While promoting market economy, it would also have to go for selective market intervention to get the best results. Businesses should enjoy the freedom when and where...
THIS refers to a recent statement by Education Minister to the effect that the government would have to take a decision to close down National University in future because allegations of massive corruption and irregularities were brought against the authorities...
Dilip BaruaTHE pre-budget workshop on "Tariff and Non-tariff Structures in the Upcoming National Budget: Expectations of the Industrial Sector" at the initiative of the Ministry of Industries is first of its kind in the country. This discussion is aimed at...
Tahera AhsanGREECE and its woes have been in the forefront of business news in recent times. Greece reported a huge budget deficit as 12.7% of GDP (the EU limit being 3.0%), and an enormous debt as 112.6% of GDP (300...
Tithe Farhana Bangladesh is floating on gas; this phrase had been notably pronounced by Unocal and other foreign oil companies as well as local experts including some BUET professors before seven years ago. Paradoxically, this prediction has proved hollow as...
Bol Radha BolOn Zee TV Saturday at 5-00 pm. Kishan Malhotra finds his life turned upside down, when he returns home one day to find that his place has been taken over by a look-alike imposter. When he attempts to...
MUMBAI, Mar 12: Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor, who is married to industrialist Sanjay Kapur, gave birth to a boy at Breach Candy Hospital here Friday morning. This is her second child."Karisma has given birth to a baby boy. The delivery...
NEW DELHI, Mar 12: Film actor Preity Zinta, who has been appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, would use IPL cricket tournament to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS.Accepting the honour, Preity told mediapersons here as UNAIDS Ambassador she would raise...
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Enayet Rasul BhuiyanAccording to media reports, the salaries and other monetary benefits of the President, the Prime Minister, Ministers, State Ministers, Members of parliament (MPs) and Judges of the Supreme Court, have been raised by some 83 per cent or...
Manuela BadawyColombians vote for a new president in late May and many investors will be keeping a close eye to see if Alvaro Uribe's successor will maintain his successful economic and security policies that have won them over.Under the hugely...
Ameer HamzaSome years ago the multinational company, Novartis Bangladesh Ltd, sponsored a seminar on peptic ulcer in which medical stalwarts under the auspices of the Bangladesh Gastro-enterology Society suggested that 'only three drugs' could cure the disease in 'just two...
Tom Raum Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?Many of the same risky financial practices that now imperil the Greeks were at the center of the all-too-recent U.S. meltdown.As with...
Himangshu Watts and Rene PastorIndia will have to resume sugar imports by mid-year to build buffer stocks for its festival season, despite having cancelled deals this week that hammered New York prices down 7 percent to seven-month lows.Imported sugar in...
Pete Harrison Europe's vanmakers have gone a long way towards meeting proposals to curb climate-warming emissions, but as debate on the 2016 targets kicks off big auto is seen digging its heels in over the last mile.European Union ministers meet...
Zeeshan HaiderPakistan's unprecedented crackdown on its homegrown Taliban may have weakened the militants but the insurgency is still a threat to the unpopular U.S.-backed government.The stakes are high and nuclear-armed Pakistan is being pulled in several directions. Washington wants the...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 12 (AFP): Alastair Cook celebrated his first day as Test captain with a superb 158 not out to put England in a commanding position in the opening Test against Bangladesh Friday.Kevin Pietersen was also in the limelight, regaining...
WIM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (India) and Minina Veronika (Russia) took joint lead in the Parachute Advanced International Chess Tournament with 4.5 points after the 6th round matches at the of Uni resort in Cox's Bazar Friday, reports UNB.FM Abu Sufian...
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