ISLAMABAD, Oct 31 (AP): A government official says seven paramilitary soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan.Ghulam Farooq Khan says the vehicle was moving Saturday when it was...
MANILA, Oct 31 (Reuters): The third typhoon to hit the Philippines in five weeks slammed into the main island of Luzon on Saturday, uprooting trees and toppling power lines, but there were no immediate reports of widespread damage.Authorities canceled about...
Mozambique president leads election results MAPUTO, Oct 31: Mozambican President Armando Guebuza and his ruling party Friday held huge leads in the country's fourth democratic elections, according to the latest results. Guebuza held 78 percent of the vote with 52...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 31 (BSS): Industries Minister Dilip Barua Saturday categorically rejected the notion that the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) meant mismanagement and losing concerns, saying most SOEs under the Ministry of Industries (MoI) had started making profits after the present government...
FE ReportLabour leaders have urged the government to constitute a national minimum wage board for the workers in the country.They made the demand at a consultation meeting in the city Saturday with the president of the parliamentary standing committee on...
FE ReportAn intercity special coach of Subarna Express has been fitted with two LCD television sets provided by Grameenphone for viewing by passenger during their journey in a function at the Kamlapur Railway Station Saturday.Communication minister Syed Abul Hossain inaugurated...
FE ReportThe internationally well-known generator producer VibroPower Corporation has started its operation in Bangladesh. A launching ceremony was held in a city hotel in this connection. Earlier, the company had been selling generators in Bangladesh through Siemens and had sold...
Fiber @ Home Limited in collaboration with some financial institutions of the country will invest Tk 650 million for expanding optical fibre-based common transmission network in the country.In this connection, Fiber @ Home Limited and AB Bank Limited signed a...
Chittagong OfficeCHITTAGONG, Oct 31: Sixteen ships carrying over 400 thousand metric tons of wheat have arrived in Chittagong port over the last one week. This is the highest number of wheat carrying ships arriving in the port in a week...
FE ReportBatexpo garment workers fair-2009 will be held today (Sunday) at 2:00 pm at Bir Shreshtho Shaeed Sipahi Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamlapur in the city, said a press release.Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun will be the chief guest...
FE ReportHong Kong-based Epic Garments Manufacturing Company Limited will invest US$ 32 million to expand their garments manufacturing unit in the Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ), said a press release.In this connection, an agreement was signed between Bangladesh Export Processing...
DHAKA, Oct 31 (BSS) - About 75 per cent of our natural gas is being misused at inefficient power plants across the country wasting thousand of millions of takas and valuable non-renewable natural resources, reports BSS.The dilapidated and old power...
The ICB Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared the Net Asset Values (NAV) of its two unit funds, the company said in a statement.The total NAV of ICB AMCL Unit Fund stood at...
FE Report R-pac Bangladesh Packaging Company Limited has opened its plant at Adamjee EPZ.In this connection, an opening ceremony was held at the plant premises recently, said a press release. R-pac International Corp, USA President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
FE Report German's Bernt Lorentz GmbH & Company will launch its Lorentz Solar-operated Water Pump in Bangladeshi market through Grameen Shakti and Nahean Enterprise, a member concern of MAKS Group of Companies. This was disclosed at a press conference organised...
FE Report Md Moniruzzaman has recently joined the IDLC Finance Limited as head of Merchant Banking Division, said a press release. Prior to joining IDLC, he worked for Citi as financial controller.Mr Zaman started his investment banking career at Swadesh...
FE Report NCC Bank Training Institute has arranged a month-long foundation training course for its probationary officers, said a press release. Mohammed Nurul Amin, managing director and CEO of the bank, attended the opening ceremony as the chief guest. In...
Kazi Enamul Haque IT is of greater significance to note that education's goal should be to enlighten an individual. It can play a pivotal role in sharpening the intellect and refining the sensibility. Generally we can notice two contrasting behavioral...
Robert GalliersNICHOLAS Carr published an article in the May 2003 edition of the Harvard Business Review, with the title "IT Doesn't Matter". The staff of HBR voted it the best article to appear in the magazine that year. A sequel,...
Ashna Rahman, a Bangladeshi, was awarded PhD in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2008. Her main research area was government fiscal policy and, foreign aid. Her thesis focuses on the controversial issue of how government...
Kamrul Haque Swapan, younger brother of Major Dalim and Freedom Party leader Abdur Rahim were taken on a fresh four-day remand Saturday for further interrogation over the October 21 bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, reports UNB....
BNP secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain alleged a "conspiracy in connivance with the government" is going on to destroy the country's garment industry to give advantage to "a foreign country", reports UNB.He came up with the complaint as the main opposition...
The Election Commission (EC) has found small discrepancies in the constitutions of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Jatiya Party (JP) in a review of the constitutions of all political parties it has taken up recently, reports BSS.The EC has initiated...
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed said that there should be initiatives to investigate any kind of extra judicial killing, as the present government does not believe in such killings, reports UNB."The present government believes in the rule of law and...
FE Report Climate change impact on food security will dominate the agenda when an eight-member European Parliament delegation arrives today (Sunday) in the country.The European Commi-ssion (EC) said the parliamentary team led by UK's Nirj Deva will discuss with top...
Renata Dessallien, United Nations Resident Coordinator reaffirmed the UN's full commitment to support Bangladesh in consolidating democracy and the Millennium Development Goals, reports UNB. "We stand ready and will do our utmost to respond to the needs of the government...
Six youths, said to be activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), were arrested on charge of snatching valuables from a flower trader on the Dhaka University (DU) campus Saturday, reports UNB.Five of the arrested were identified as Md Mehrab, Qudrat-e-Khuda,...
Tigers made things look very easy when their bowlers and batsmen hit top form to stroll to take a 2-1 lead over Zimbabwe in the five-match one-day-international series as Bangladesh recorded an emphatic four-wicket win in the third ODI played...
Michael Hussey hit a serene unbeaten 81 after Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson laid the platform with sedate knocks to push Australia to a competitive 229 in the third ODI in Delhi, according to website cricinfo. "A total of 220...
Saiful KaiserThat Zimbabwe would give up the ghost for under 200 even though they had a good start was something some people had been predicting but only half in jest. When they were finally all out for 196, the home...
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