FE Report The call money rate moved slightly Monday while the US dollar remained unchanged against the local currency in the inter-bank market, treasury officials said. The call rate ranged between 0.10 per cent and 3.25 per cent on the...
FE Report A team of The World Bank, led by Senior Adviser, Financial Systems Department, USA, Robert Kahn recently met with the Management team of NCC Bank Ltd. led by Managing Director & CEO Mohammed Nurul Amin at its head...
Prime Bank Limited has launched a month long branch based customer service campaign named 'Experience the banking with a difference' in the city Sunday, said a press release. The bank also launched internet banking facilities at the inauguration ceremony of...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) inaugurated its 14th SME Service Centre at Daudkandi in Comilla on Sunday. IBBL Executive Committee Chairman Md Eskander Ali Khan inaugurated the centre as the chief guest, said a press release. Bangladesh Bank's Remittances and...
Supply of shares in the country's capital market gets a boost this month with Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) of four companies worth about Tk 900 million (90 crore), reports BSS.With the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Marico...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda Monday urged the newly appointed upazila election officers to discharge their professional duties without fear or favour remaining above any political affiliation, reports UNB."You should consider your job as 'ebadat' (prayer) and continue...
Over one thousand people forming a human chain Monday demanded expulsion of Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakraborty for violating the diplomatic norms and etiquette, reports UNB.Under the banner of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), the leaders announced a mass gathering...
The High Court (HC) Monday issued a contempt rule asking three top bureaucrats, including two secretaries, to explain in two weeks why they should not be individually punished for non-compliance with its orders, reports UNB.The trio contemners are Establishment Secretary...
The Supreme Court (SC) Monday revived the proceedings of a money-laundering case against former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas of BNP stalling a High Court (HC) judgment, reports UNB.Passing the interim orders upon a government plea, Chamber Judge...
Sri Lanka 289 for 4 (Jayawardene 123, Tharanga 76) beat Pakistan 288 for 8 (Umar Akmal 66, Kamran Akmal 45) by six wicketsThe morning may have belonged to the Akmal brothers and Pakistan, but it was all Sri Lanka in...
GrameenPhone-BCB National Cricket Academy team is due to leave Dhaka Monday night at 10:30pm for South Africa on a three-week tour beginning August 7. During the tour in South Africa, the visitors will play a three-match one-day series as well...
STANFORD, Aug 3 (AFP): Marion Bartoli avenged a Wimbledon loss to Venus Williams, winning a marathon final at the WTA Bank of the West Classic 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 at the American's expense Sunday. Frenchwoman Bartoli was beaten by Williams for...
West Indies 119 for 5 (Smith 37, Dowlin 37*) beat Bangladesh 118 for 9 by five wicketsFinally, West Indies won a game. Bangladesh imploded spectacularly at the top but they kept playing like millionaires to be restricted to a below-par...
Australia 263 and 172 for 4 (Clarke 12*, North 4*) lead England 376 by 59 runsAustralia have made positive strides in their bid to save the third Test, but will be painfully aware that any loss of focus after lunch...
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (AP): Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks Monday on a seven-nation tour of Africa to affirm the Obama administration's commitment to tackling trouble spots across the continent from Somalia and Zimbabwe to the Democratic Republic of...
TBILISI, Aug 3 (AP): Georgia accused Russia Monday of trying to take more territory outside the breakaway province of South Ossetia as tensions rose before the first anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war last summer.Georgia's Foreign Ministry said Russian troops entered...
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday formally endorsed hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president for a new four-year term amid intense political turmoil in the Islamic republic.But in a sign of the escalating feud between rival...
LONDON, Aug 3 (AFP): Criminal trials in England dating back to the 18th century, including the infamous "Jack the Ripper" suspect, are to go online for the first time Monday, a website said.The website said it is publishing 1.4 million...
KABUL, Aug 3 (AP): The Taliban killed 10 people and critically injured a local police chief in western Afghanistan's main city Monday with a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a trash can, officials said.The bomb was set on a crowded street...
MANILA, Aug 3 (Reuters): An activist from Myanmar who was tortured by the military as a student and now runs an NGO probing infrastructure projects is among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, its committee said Monday.Also cited...
China seals off town as plague kills twoBEIJING, Aug 3: China has sealed off a remote far-western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague, state media said Monday, but the World Health Organisation said such outbreaks...
President Zillur Rahman Monday asked for taking effective measures to protect the country's traditional species of fish along with developing aquatic bio-diversity considering people's interest, as the fisheries sector contributes significantly to the GDP and has the potential for earning...
FE ReportTwenty out of fifty four teams have battled their way to the second round of Financial IT Case Competition (FICC) which will begin in the city on August 8.Five teams will be selected for the gala round from the...
Livelihoods of about 70,000 families in 559 villages of nine upazilas in Sunamganj district have improved substantially under an integrated programme of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), officials said, reports UNB.Before 2003, there was no road communication in the...
In accordance with the decision of Newspapers Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB), its members will observe holiday on Thursday, August 6 on account of Shab-e-Barat, reports UNB. Therefore, no newspaper will be published Friday, August 7.
MAGURA, Aug 3 (UNB): At least 60 persons, including four police constables, were injured in sporadic clashes between two rival groups at Mohishdanga village under Sadar Upazila Sunday and Monday.Police and locals said Tofazzal Mollah and Shawkat Biswas of the...
FE ReportUnknown assailants slaughtered a baby girl at a village in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital, in the early hours of Monday, police said.Some miscreants picked up Mohona, a four-month-old daughter of Gautam Mondal, from their house at...
Khondoker Rashidul Huq, former Director General of the Department of Environment has been elected a Vice-chairman of Dhaka Officers’ Club for the 4th time, said an press release.He is a Associate Member of the National Press Club, was previously elected...
The centenary of Chittagong Government Muslim High School will be held on December 25-26, 2009, said a press release.A coordination meeting of the Alumni Association of Chittagong Government Muslim High School was held in this connection at a local hotel...
M Azizur RahmanThe country would require investments worth Tk 410 billion in next five years until 2014 to streamline the power sector and fend off the nagging load-shedding, officials said Monday."Out of the total investments, Tk 300 billion will be...
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