Republic of Korea (ROK) has offered state of the art healthcare facilities in Seoul at a competitive price as hundreds of middle class and rich Bangladesh people go to India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore for their health check up and...
Bangladesh Sports Journalists' Association (BSJA) arranged Thursday Qurankhwani and Milad Mahfil to mark the 7th death anniversary of its former president Masud Ahmed Rumi, a renowned sports journalist and freedom fighter, reports BSS.Rumi, Sports Editor of BSS news agency, expired...
Nutritionist and culinary expert Siddika Kabir has won the 'Sheltech Award-2009'. The award carries Tk 0.1 million (one lakh) in cash and a crest. Prof Siddika Kabir received the award at a function in Sheltech Corporate Office in the city...
Tenth death anniversary of Shamsun Nahar Khan, wife of Chartered Accountant, former minister, educationist, philanthropist and founder of Dohar-Nowabganj College Ata Uddin Khan will be observed today (Friday) at 11.30 am in the college premises, says a press release.On the...
Md Matiur Rahman Talukdar, father of Al Rashedin Roman, client service manager of Madonna Advertising Ltd died while undergoing treatment in India recently. He was 58, says a press release. He left behind his wife, a daughter and three sons...
Siddique IslamThe Bangladesh Bank has stepped up its efforts to curb inflation in the country, introducing a slew of new measures this week to mop up excess liquidity from the market, officials said Thursday.The central bank has resumed auction of...
FE ReportDhaka stocks went into the red Thursday as majority of the banking shares fell on profit taking, a day after their gains sent the index more than two per cent high.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) shed 19.83 points...
FE ReportPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday urged the business community to use solar power in their offices to reduce pressure on the national grid.She said the country has enough gas but it needs to be properly surveyed and explored, and...
FE ReportThe government still sticks to its projected economic growth at 6.0 per cent for the fiscal year (FY) 2010, despite scaling down of the rate to 5.5 per cent by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its latest economic...
Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications billionaire with a net worth of $53.5bn, has been crowned the world's richest person by Forbes magazine - the first time in 16 years the post has been held by a non-American, reports agencies. The...
FE Report The government Thursday appointed four new directors to the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, for three years term, officials said. The Ministry of Finance issued four separate orders in this connection with the approval of the...
FE ReportTwo members of the Dhaka Stock Exchange -- Mojibur Rahman and MA Momen -- pulled out from the board elections of the country's premier bourse on Thursday. The polls, which pit pro-government brokers of the US$35 billion dollars bourse...
The government allocated Tk 2.67 billion for implementing 20 approved projects undertaken for tackling impacts the global climate change on life and livelihood and the ecology of the country, reports UNB. A meeting of the high-profile Trusty Board on Climate...
Authorities issued a tsunami alert for the Chilean coast Thursday after a 7.2 magnitude aftershock and two smaller ones rocked the country, the Chilean national emergency office said, reports AFP.Meanwhile, rightwing billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the...
US-based international oil company Chevron has started work for installation of gas compression station at Muchai in Sylhet to increase gas supply to other parts of the country, reports UNB.The installation work was launched at a function at Rashidpur Gas...
The High Court (HC) has quashed proceedings of the Niko graft case against Sheikh Hasina, the latest in a series of graft cases to be cancelled against the Prime Minister. The bench of Justice Md Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu...
The government has taken an initiative to build a new international airport in Mymensingh or Tangail district near Dhaka. The name of the new airport will be 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib International Airport,' Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary-in-Charge Shafiq Alam Mehedi...
TeleTalk has taken an ambitious plan for introducing 3G (third generation) mobile phone technology in Bangladesh. — BSS
Mahmudur RahmanIn spite of the very difficult circumstances of rate ceilings and a lack of safe borrowers, the banking sector returned exceptional profits last year. A leading banker had attributed the success to "aggressive banking" without really elaborating on what...
Fiona HarveyEvery night, Anthony Watts blogs on developments in a climate change scandal that he helped to uncover. The routine has made the Californian meteorologist one of the most followed global warming sceptics in the world."It's busier than ever it's...
FE ReportBangladesh Leasing and Finance Companies Association (BLFCA) Thursday sought re-introduction of depreciation benefit for leasing companies to salvage the industry.In the budget for fiscal 2007-08, the government scrapped the depreciation allowance for the leasing industry, which was introduced in...
BAGHDAD, Mar 11 (Reuters): Preliminary results from Iraq's national election began to trickle in on Thursday, showing Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ahead in the country's largely Shi'ite south.Preliminary results from the electoral commission, the first to be released, showed...
Monira MunniThe Chinese government has agreed to provide a soft loan of $230 million for setting up the proposed Shahjalal Fertiliser Factory, one of the two mega fertiliser projects, officials said Thursday.The project worth Tk 53.18 billion (5,318 crore) would...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Mar 11: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, President of Iran, sprang a major surprise visiting Afghanistan to express solidarity with the country and severely chiding America to the utter discomfort of Karzai for fomenting friction in the region....
Mashiur RahamanThe state-run Biman Bangladesh airlines is going to get rid of its age-old Fokker F-28 aircraft by the end of this year due to its high operation costs and acute crew shortage."Operation of Fokker F-28 aircraft has not been...
A Dhaka court Thursday extended a special release order for Arafat Rahman Coco, son of former premier and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a money laundering case which allowed him to go abroad too seek medical treatment while facing graft...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said her government would bring Dahagram-Angarpota enclaves under electricity connection while steps would be taken to ensure round the clock movement of inhabitants living there to the mainland, reports BSS. "As an elected government, it...
BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia will embark on her planned organisational tour of six divisional headquarters (HQs) on March 27, beginning with a show of her party's political prowess in Chittagong on the first day, reports...
The High Court (HC) will give a ruling Thursday on a petition by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina challenging the Niko graft case.The bench of justices Md Shamsul Huda and Abu Bakar Siddiqui set the date Wednesday after the final hearing...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Mar 10: Prof Imtiaz Ahmed, a pro-Awami teacher and provost of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall of Rajshahi University (RU) resigned from his provostship Wednesday for unfair behaviour by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) hall unit leaders...
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