Nazmul AhsanIssues concerning trade, aid, food security, environment and poverty are expected to be discussed at the high-level Asia-Pacific least developed countries (LDCs) conference in Dhaka, slated for January 12 to 14, according to a communication made from the United...
FE ReportPrime Minister's energy adviser Tawfiq E Elahi urged Monday international private equity firms to participate in the proposed Energy and Power Fund."We're now structuring the fund. If we finalise it, you can participate in it," he told a panel...
ROME, Nov 16 (AFP): A UN summit on food security vowed in a final declaration Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world.Hunger is "an unacceptable blight on the lives, livelihoods...
Monira MunniThe government is planning to allow private sector investors to set up duty-free shops in Chittagong air and seaports and Sylhet airports to attract both local and foreign investment.The National Board of Revenue has discussed the issue in a...
Munima SultanaThe first ever Bangladesh Trade Centre (BTC) in a foreign country will be opened in the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, on November 27 to find out the country's new trade and investment opportunities.Prime Minister Sheikh...
FE ReportThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $12 million worth of assistance to Bangladesh to develop the country's tourism industry. The board of directors of the Manila-based lender approved the loan for Bangladesh Monday under a $57.5 million aid...
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Commodity Online): The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) Friday made preliminary determination to continue antidumping duty investigations on imports of seamless refined copper pipe and tube from China and Mexico.The ITC said there is a reasonable...
LONDON, Nov 15 (Bloomberg): Nickel, heading for its worst week in two months, will decline 8 per cent by the end of the year as demand weakens, research group CRU said.Nickel for three-month delivery on the London Metal Exchange fell...
November 15, 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 Bank69.4500104.7029115.56830.781669.312166.874865.2395Agrani Bank69.3500102.6051111.16000.794267.597065.992162.6260FCBsStanChart69.60104.34115.870.8069.7866.7263.92HSBC 69.5270106.2430117.37900.822869.953166.979465.6982Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of Ceylon69.5400106.1276118.29020.803671.352367.396867.3217PCBsUttara Bank69.5000104.5645116.50320.789968.801966.485765.1792AB Bank69.5000104.2985115.48430.7877NANANABuying rates from public (inward remittance)SCBsUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSonali...
AHMEDABAD, India, Nov 15 (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara Sunday joined Indian great Sachin Tendulkar in calling for more Test cricket, saying the lop- sided schedule needed to be changed. "It's really a shame that we are being deprived...
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, riding on a century by Hasibul Haq, earned a comfortable five-wicket victory over City Club in the Metropolis First Division Cricket League at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium Sunday, reports UNB. Sent in to bat first, City...
FEZ, Morocco, Nov 15 (AP): Cameroon qualified for its sixth World Cup, beating Morocco 2-0 Saturday behind goals from Achille Webo and Samuel Eto'o.After missing the 2006 tournament, the Indomitable Lions got off to a slow start in the final...
DOHA, Nov 15 (AFP): Fabio Capello has identified Brazil as the side to beat at next year's World Cup after a second-string England were on the receiving end of what their Italian coach admitted had been a tough lesson. The...
Bangladesh Under-19 team play visiting Zimbabwe Under-19 side in the 3rd Youth ODI today (Monday) at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna with a hope to win the five-match series, reports UNB.Bangladesh Under-19 side already took a 2-0 lead over...
MONTEGO BAY, Nov 15 (AFP): World and Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Veronica Campbell Brown has set her sights on next year's World Indoor athletics Championships in Doha. If she does make the Jamaican team for the March 12-14 championships, it...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 15 (BSS): Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said that election to the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) would be held in March and that to the municipalities in May next year. "We have to prepare final...
MEHERPUR, Nov 15 (UNB): A regional leader of an outlawed party was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Raypur village under Gangni Upazila Sunday.The deceased was identified as Badshah Mia, regional commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Lal Potaka) and...
The High Court (HC) has asked the government Sunday to explain why it will not declare as unlawful and contrary to the constitution the judicial power vested in executive magistrates by amending the Criminal Procedure Code, reports bdnews24.com. The bench...
PANCHAGARH, Nov 15 (BSS): Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad said there is no alternative to introducing provincial system to ensure good governance and administrative discipline in the county."A provincial government must be introduced in the country today or tomorrow...
RANGPUR, Nov 15 (BSS): Leaders of Awami League (AL) and its associate organisations Sunday strongly protested appointment of Prof Sadek Ali as the Principal of Rangpur Begum Rokeya Government College (BRGC). They made the protest at a meeting organised by...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Nov 15 (UNB): Border Security Force (BSF) of India shot and wounded two Bangladeshi cattle traders along Monoharpur border under Shibganj Upazila Sunday. The injured were identified as Tojammel (35), of Namojagannathpur village and Harun (43) of Dobhagi village...
Awami League (AL) presidium member and deputy leader in Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury will work as acting president of the party during AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Italy from 15 to 18 November, reports BSS.
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Nov 15: Police arrested a Shibir leader with one cocktail and some gun powder from Nawab Abdul Latif hall of Rajshahi University (RU) Saturday late night. The arrestee was identified as Hasmot Ali Liton, president of Islami...
JHENIDAH, Nov 15 (UNB): A joint team of RAB and police arrested a suspected outlaw with bullet wounds after a gunfight with his associates at Baxipur under Sadar Upazila Sunday.Acting on a tip off, the joint team raided Baxipur village...
A separate wing in the Environment Ministry will soon be opened to exclusively deal with the climate change and its adverse impacts on the country for which Tk 7.0 billion (700 crore) has been earmarked in the current year's budget,...
FE ReportThe country is experiencing a surge in weather sensitive diseases due to rapidly changing global climate, threatening low-earning communities in disaster prone areas, a study revealed.The study, conducted to determine the effect of climate change on human health has...
After two years Cyclone Sidr hit the southern part of the country on November 15, 2007 killing more than 3,000 people and leaving millions homeless, over half million survivors are still struggling for shelter and living at high risk of...
FE Report Bangladesh Railway (BR) will start selling advance tickets from November 18 with the arrangement of four special trains and a number of extra coaches to facilitate the journey of homebound passengers on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. The...
Nazmul AhsanThe largely state-owned Rupali Bank Ltd, in a bid to reviving its financial health, has requested the ministry of finance to issue interest- bearing bonds against the money the state-owned enterprises (SoEs) and other government organizations owes to it....
M Azizur RahmanBangladesh is set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with neighbouring India on bilateral cooperation in the power sector during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi next month, officials said Sunday.Under the MoU, the first...
© 2025 - All Rights with The Financial Express
