As a part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR), Aktel has donated sewing machines to a number of underprivileged women in cooperation with Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aids and human rights organisation that has been working for...
Mashiur RahamanThe state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to operate its newly leased Boeing 777-200ER aircraft for the first time on the Dhaka-London-Dhaka route tomorrow (February 6).This will be Biman's first flight with the newly launched livery, inaugurated by the...
FE Report Pavilions selling refrigerators and televisions at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) in the city's Sher-e-Banglanagar see overcrowding of customers and sales of those items have geared up in the last days of the fair.According to sources, during...
FE ReportDelta Life Insurance Co Ltd has donated a braille printer to Blind Education and Rehabilitation Organisation (BERDO) as part of its corporate social responsibility.Chairman of Delta Life Insurance Co Ltd Syed Moazzem Hussain handed over a cheque for Tk...
FE ReportFour gas transmission and pipeline projects of Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL), a joint venture company of Bangladesh government and ADB under 'Gas Transmission and Development Project' won awarded from ADB as the 'Best Performing Projects' of the year-2009,...
FE ReportAftab Foods Ltd, a leading business house in the country, has signed an agreement with Adcomm Ltd to handle the advertising and communication of Aftab food products. Under the deal, Adcomm Ltd, a leading advertising agency, will act as...
Our Correspondent NATORE, Feb 4 : The prices of essential commodities such as rice, atta, edible oil and vegetables have gone up slightly in local kitchen markets.According to retailers at different local markets, rice was selling at between Tk 27...
IFIC Bank 1st Mutual Fund NameIFIC Bank 1st Mutual FundNature of the fundClose-end Mutual Fund of 10 (Ten) years tenureObjectiveThe objective of the fund is to provide attractivedividend to the units holders by investing the proceeds in the various instruments...
Additional 100 million people is likely to fall victim to skin cancer within next 50 years in the country if usage of CFC and contraction of ozone sphere continue at the present level.Another 45 million (4.5 crore) people would also...
US Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith A McHale arrives in the city Saturday on a three-day visit seen as significant in bolstering the bilateral ties and cooperation between Dhaka and Washington. Ms McHale is the...
The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has approved a loan amounting to 168,750,000 Saudi riyals (equivalent to US$45 million) to Bangladesh as Saudi participation in the construction work of Shitalakhya bridge, says a press release. This loan has...
FE Report The European Union and the government have signed an agreement worth 10 million Euros (Tk 95 million) aimed at strengthening ordinary citizens' property rights to land.The "Strengthening Access to Land and Property Rights for all Citizens of Bangladesh"...
FE ReportA two-day exhibition of contemporary art works from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan is going to start in Dhaka from February 7 with a view to popularising Asian art with the global audience.The exhibition styled 'Transcending Borders II' will be...
President Zillur Rahman Thursday appointed Appellate Division judge Mohammad Fazlul Karim the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, reports UNB.His appointment will come into effect after he takes the oath of office on February 8, 2010. The President made the...
The government of Japan is keen to provide support to the Bangladesh government after completion of formulating ongoing comprehensive power development master plan for attaining stable power supply up to year 2030, reports BSS.The formulation of the master plan on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday directed the authorities concerned to start dredging work soon in the Padma and the Jamuna rivers on the basis of the studies that had already been carried out, reports BSS. The direction came at the...
NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (bdnews24.com): Bangladesh believes that terrorists responsible for the Aug 21, 2004 grenade attacks on an Awami League rally in Dhaka might be hiding in India and has formally requested the government of the neighbouring country to...
Home Minister Sahara Khatun said Thursday that the government would consider their pleas, if militants beg pardon for their activities."The militants must be tried on the soil of this country. But the government would consider, if they beg pardon," the...
The government is going to formulate integrated guidelines for nutrition intervention in the country soon with a view to bringing in all ongoing nutrition activities on a single track. The Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN) has undertaken the initiative...
Bangladesh Rifles chief Maj Gen Moinul Islam has said that negotiations with India's Border Security Force are underway following the kidnap of a Bangladesh border guard on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.Maj Gen Moinul Islam also said there had been a "misunderstanding"...
Work on modernising the country's Child Policy-1994 is underway and it would likely be declared by end of next month, secretary in-charge of the Ministry of Children and Women Affairs said Thursday, reports BSS.The secretary in-charge made the disclosure while...
An inter-ministerial coordination meeting of the ministries of law, home and foreign affairs searched Thursday for ways of bringing back the absconding condemned killers of Bangabandhu from abroad, days after the detained five were hanged.Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed, Home...
It was the bravery of the highest honour to keep one's own grief aside and walk in to serve the nation, it was none other than Shakhawat Hossain Sohel, who along with Zamal Hossain Mollah, Dulal Hossain and Mohammad Zakruzzaman...
Bangladesh notched an emphatic eight-wicket victory over Maldives in the South Asian Games T20 cricket at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the city Thursday, reports UNB.Sent in to bat first, Maldives were dismissed cheaply for 26 runs in 15.5...
Indian shooter Lavleen Kaur won the gold in the 10m Air Pistol women's individual event scoring of 474.1 points in the South Asian Games at the National Shooting Complex Thursday, reports UNB.Sonia Roy of India secured the silver medal scoring...
India clinched the gold in the South Asian Games Volleyball beating Pakistan by 3-1 sets at the Volleyball Stadium in the city Thursday, reports UNB. In the day's match, India beat Pakistan 23-25, 25-23, 25-16 and 25-15.
Prize giving ceremony of 20th inter housing sports competition of Titas Gas T and D company limited at the premises of Titas Gas Adorsha High School at Demra recently, says a press release.At the closing day of the 3-day sports...
The swimming events of 11th SA Games will start tomorrow at National Swimming Complex Mirpur, reports BSS.The president of Bangladesh swimming federation and Naval chief Vice Admiral Zahir Uddin Ahmed is expected to inaugurate the event at 09:30 am as...
India won the gold medal of the 11th SA Games Women's Kabaddi beating hosts Bangladesh by 34-20 points with one creditable "lona" in the final at the Kabaddi Stadium in the city Thursday, reports UNB.India dominated the first half by...
Bangladesh booters will focus not to slip again against India in the first semifinal of the last four stage of the South Asian Games football at the Banganbandhu National Stadium at 5:30 pm today (Friday), reports BSS. The second semifinal...
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