Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) will be providing unlimited broadband internet service for as low as Tk 300 per month. According to a statement on Monday, subscribers will be able to talk and browse the internet (unlimited browsing) using a...
GAZIPUR, Jan 4: Four people were killed in a head-on-collision between a pick-up and a truck at Chamurdeer Bazaar on Pubail-Gazipur by-pass road in Sadar Upazila Monday. Police said that the accident took place at about 7:00 am. — UNB
MFs are necessary to minimise the risks of the small investors and reduce the market volatility as they are managed by professionals.The mutual fund industry in Bangladesh is among the fastest growing financial services. During the last two years, 10...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The city's vendors selling warm clothes and electric room heaters have been doing a brisk business for the past few days with the sharp fall in day/night temperature.Sources said their sales have sharply risen during the time...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would take action against those, who influenced stock prices by spreading rumours through internet, said a spokesman at a press briefing Monday.The commission primarily identified some Facebook users, who posted market-related messages in...
Fazlur RahmanThe private real estate developers have to wait until a review committee submits its findings on whether the realtors would be allowed to build over 10 floors in Dhaka, officials said Monday.The news came following the realtors' allegation that...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanThe Mongla port, with its increased cargo handling activities, has started earning operating profit since September last. In the last four months of 2009, the port earned Tk 33 million operating profit."Not a single ship visited the port...
FE ReportThe city's traffic movement was seriously disrupted midday Monday, as a procession of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) paraded major streets in celebration of its 62nd founding anniversary.Nearly 12 thousands BCL activists started the procession from Shahbagh crossing at about...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government spent only 29 per cent of the annual development programme (ADP) budget during first half of the current fiscal, some six percentage points higher than the corresponding period last year, officials said Monday."The project executing agencies...
Fazal M. KamalIT was supposed to be the crowning glory of his first year in the exalted office. He had put himself -- and his word, pledge, name, credibility -- all the way behind health care reform, once declaring that...
NEW YORK, Jan 3 (PTI): Indian companies listed on the American bourses notched up handsome gains in 2009 as their aggregate valuation scaled upward by USD 70 billion with stock markets worldwide rallying substantially in the year.The market capitalisations of...
FE ReportThe Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) has announced a pre-tax profit of Tk 2.84 billion (Tk 284.09 crore) and earned Tk 4.18 billion (Tk 418.61 crore) revenue in 2008-09 fiscal year.The year's profit was 4.01 per cent higher than...
TOKYO, Jan 3 (Reuters): The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Asia's largest equities bourse, said it would go ahead with the launch of its new trading system as planned Monday after running final checks.The new system will be able to process...
TOKYO, Jan 3 (Reuters): Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank may have their planned merger delayed, due to difficulty integrating systems and depending on the outcome of an inspection by Japan's financial regulator, the Nikkei newspaper said.The two mid-size lenders have...
KARACHI, Jan 3 (Business Recorder): Foreign investors' interest at the local equity market revived with a fresh inflow of $34.44 million ($38 million currency adjustment) in the calendar year 2009 against a massive net foreign selling of $446 million in...
NEW D ELHI, Jan 3 (PTI): The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki (MSI), has become the first auto company in India to cross the 0.1 million retail sales in a month milestone, clocking 1,00,874 units sales in December 2009."This has...
Commodities Thursday sealed their biggest annual gain since the 1973 oil crisis, with most markets lifted by a mix of an unexpectedly quick demand recovery, some supply anxiety and a falling dollar.The bellwether Reuters/Jefferies CRB index climbed about 24 per...
JOHANNESBERG, Jan 03 (Commodity Online): Egypt plans to invest nearly USD two billion in 2010 towards exploration of oil and gas in the new oil fields in various parts of northern, southern and western Egypt.The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum has...
BANGALORE, Jan 3 (PTI): India is planning to organise horticulture fairs to showcase a variety of its produce in the Gulf region to boost exports, Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas said Saturday. The Gulf offers a...
BEIJING, Jan 03 (Commodity Online): China may become dependent on petrochemicals import in the long run as it plans short term measures to curb over-capacity, according to a new analysis by Business Monitor International (BMI).In first half of 2009, ethylene...
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Bloomberg): The US East Coast faces the coldest night of the season as frigid air spills south and threatens agriculture in Georgia, Alabama and the orange crop in Florida.Freeze warnings were posted by the National Weather Service...
As was to be expected, action in the precious metals markets was rather slow over the holiday week. Gold saw little movement, while silver actually posted a few gains last week as the US dollar weakened.We can expect trading to...
MUMBAI, Jan 03 (moneycontrol.com): Spices ended the session with smart profit as on National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) Thursday. Turmeric and cumin seed futures extending morning session's gains marked significant profit towards the end with turmeric futures breaching four...
January 03, Sunday The following were the commercial banks' rates to public for some selectedforeign currencies with Bangladesh Taka in cash transaction Sunday.Selling rates to public (outward remittance)BankUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSCBsSonali Bank69.4500100.0125112.60230.754267.495666.366162.6430Agrani Bank69.450099.8149112.52150.756867.439866.305962.4314FCBsStanChart69.60101.60112.510.7868.4967.5562.99HSBC 69.5605101.4182112.92930.792967.649466.699562.0474Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of Ceylon69.5400101.8301115.34860.775068.573166.756364.7417PCBsUttara Bank69.5000100.3403110.88430.768966.974666.720862.2476AB Bank69.6000101.7649114.32150.7668NANANABuying rates from public (inward remittance)SCBsUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSonali...
Over Her Dead BodyOn STAR Movies Monday at 7:00 pm In Los Angeles, Henry is a veterinarian whose fiancée Kate dies in a car crash the day they're to marry. Worried that Henry has closed off his social life, his...
LONDON, Jan 3: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has chosen the House of Commons as the venue for her UK wedding celebration this week, say sources.The Celebrity Big Brother star tied the knot with jewellery tycoon Raj Kundra in Mumbai in...
ATN BanglaAm07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Positive Bangladesh08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Shongbadpotro08:30 Drama Serial- Projapoti Mon09:00 News Bulletins09:10 Kande Amar Ma09:15 Tatka National Dance Star10:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show - Hello Bangladesh11:00 Sangbad 11:05 Asian City Vision 202011:30 Notun Chobir Gan12:00 Sangbad Bulletins12:15 Motamot01:00...
DUSHANBE, Jan 3 (AFP): An earthquake in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan has destroyed hundreds of homes, leaving some 10,000 people without shelter in the dead of winter, officials said Sunday."According to preliminary information, 300 houses have been destroyed," a...
PESHAWAR, Jan 3 (AFP): Pakistan authorities faced a furious backlash Sunday over security and medical failures after a suicide bomber killed 99 people at a volleyball match in one of the country's worst attacks.Police rounded up dozens of suspects and...
NEW DELHI, Jan 3 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who successfully fought against binding caps on emissions at the Copenhagen climate talks, admitted Sunday that all parties involved were unhappy with the results.Singh told a science conference in the...
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