Sonia H MoniBangladesh frozen food exporters expects to secure spot orders worth $ 100 million at the ongoing European Seafood Exposition (ESE) 2010 at Brussels in Belgium, an official said.Bangladesh Frozen Foods Exporters Association (BFFEA) Vice-President Maqsudur Rahman said, "We...
The lottery for distribution of units of ICB AMCL Third NRB Mutual Fund was held in the city Tuesday, said a press release.The Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation (BRTC) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) conducted the...
FE Report Farm credit disbursement recorded an 18.13 per cent growth during the first nine months of this fiscal, as the central bank has continuously been persuading the banks to increase lending to farmers.Eight state-owned banks and financial institutions (FIs)...
Bank Asia arranged a briefing for its executives recently at the assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB representatives Mary Abad and Eillen Manganipat gave a detailed outline of the procedures for Trade Finance Facilitation Programme of ADB. Participants From...
Jamuna Bank Limited (JBL) has recently opened the off-shore banking unit of the bank at its Gulshan branch in the city, according to a press release.Chairman of the board of directors of the bank Sakhawat Abu Khair Mohammad inaugurated the...
FE Report The country's knit manufacturers are facing hard time as the prices of yarn have doubled over past one year both in international and domestic market.As of Monday, the cotton yarn price stood at US$ 4.10 a kilogramme (kg)...
Entrepreneurship on the part of Bangladeshi businesses kept untapped Bangladesh-Bhutan economic links with current trade balance largely favouring the landlocked Himalayan kingdom, Bhutanese officials said in the city Monday. "It appears that Bangladeshi businessmen consider Bhutan to be an insignificant...
ECONOMIC growth and its fruits, jobs and income, are always the prime objective of the policy planners. This growth needs to be buttressed also by policies designed to keep prices of essential goods and similar services within the purchasing capacity...
M S SiddiquiA citizen of a free and democratic country has the right to have access to information and know everything happening around him. It is a fundamental right of every citizen as enshrined in the UN resolution in its...
Ayub HaroonA seminar last year on urban transport development, for Dhaka in particular, found the chief representative of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency advising Bangladesh against embarking on a metro rail project.First and foremost, the feasibility of such a project...
AN important and revealing front page article on the above subject, was published in a local English daily on 18th. April. It was reported that tannery owners were reluctant to adopt this interesting new development in leather tanning from BCSIR....
I have been a regular consumer of ARONG liquid milk ever since it was launched and have had no occasion to question its quality at the production point. However, many times the seller was guilty of not storing the product...
FROM time to time people of different classes, professions and occupations require various kinds of information, facts, figures, statistics and guidance on different subjects and matters.They move from door to door, spend much of their valuable time, energy and money...
Mustafizur RahmanThe present triangular bickering about local government power - not the duties - is but a fighting to disregard the people and the spirit of the Constitution. Should the objective be the people's welfare, effective decentralization, functional democracy, national...
Tithe FarhanaMacroeconomic dislocation and persistent failure of public financing during the 1970s and 1980s paved the foundation of private investment in the mainstream development sectors. In 1992, the Conservative government of John Major in the UK introduced the private finance...
BANGKOK, Apr 26 (AFP): Thailand's 'Red Shirts' protesters said Monday they would launch nationwide action to prevent security forces from travelling to the capital to join a looming crackdown.Over the past week there have been mounting incidents of open defiance...
THIMPU, Apr 26 (AFP): A familiar game of 'will they-won't they' centred on a possible meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan looks set to overshadow a summit of South Asian nations in Bhutan this week.The summit is supposed...
SANAA, Apr 26 (AFP): Britain's envoy to Yemen Timothy Torlot Monday narrowly escaped a bomb triggered by a suspected Al-Qaeda suicide attacker who hurled himself at the ambassador's convoy in a Sanaa street, officials said.A Yemen security official said "the...
NEW DELHI, Apr 26 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met in New Delhi Monday and vowed to tackle the militant violence that threatens regional stability.The talks came two months after nine Indians were killed...
LUXEMBOURG, Apr 26 (AFP): European Union (EU) foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton will make her first trip to China this week, hoping to persuade Beijing not to block new UN sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme, a diplomat said Monday.Ashton will...
BAGHDAD, Apr 26 (AFP): An Iraqi judicial panel has invalidated the candidatures of 52 people who stood in Iraq's March 7 general election, a spokesman for a controversial investigative committee told AFP Monday."Their participation in the election is considered cancelled,"...
BEIJING, Apr 26 (AFP): The quake in China's remote northwest has left more than 8,000 monks homeless after damaging nearly 90 monasteries, state media said Monday, as the focus of relief work moved onto resettling survivors.Authorities in the province of...
US drone strike kills eight in PakistanMIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Apr 26 : A US missile attack destroyed a suspected Taliban-linked hideout in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt Monday and killed at least eight militants, local security officials said. It was the second...
TOKYO, Apr 26 (Reuters): Japan's Nikkei average jumped 2.3 per cent Monday, breaking above resistance at the level of its 25-day moving average, as worries about Greece receded and companies such as copier and printer firms benefited after strong earnings...
MUMBAI, Apr 26 (Reuters): Federal bond yields edged up in thin trade Monday morning tracking a rise in US yields but a sharp rise would be prevented by some value buying kicking in at higher yield levels. At 9:20 am...
KARACHI, Apr 26 (Business Recorder): Despite strong results, range-bound activity was witnessed at Karachi share market during the week ended on April 24 and the KSE-100 index lost 52.18 points to close the week at 10,607.03 points.Continuous foreign investors' interest...
Renowned wholesaler of decorative tiles, Ceramic City, will promote Berger Home Decor services and illusions to its customers through displaying illusion designs, a fashionable design for walls at all their outlets in the city. Berger Paints signed a Memorandum of...
DUBLIN, Apr 26 (AFP): Struggling Irish lender Bank of Ireland said Monday that it planned to raise 3.4 billion euros (4.6 billion dollars) in fresh capital with the help of the government.The state's 34 per cent stake in the bailed-out...
FE ReportMetro Group, a German company, and Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) have signed an MoU to set up a child daycare centre for the garment workers in Narayanganj BSCIC area.BKMEA President Fazlul Hoque and German Ambassador in...
Continued from page 9and declared to take the fight to top players. Immediately after Airtel's arrival, big player started to unveil deep cuts in their tariff rates, leading to decline of maximum call rate to about Tk1.49 from Tk2.30 per...
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