FE ReportIslami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. (IBBL) will start lending migrant families and returned migrants to tap the potentials of investing the multi-billion dollars of remittance flowing into Bangladesh, officials said Monday. The country's biggest private bank, which handled US$1.26 billion...
FE Report The 22nd annual general meeting (AGM) of ICB Islamic Bank Limited was held at the Trust Milonayatan in the city Sunday, said a press release. Chaired by ICB Islamic Bank Chairman Tan Sri Hadenan Bin Abdul Jalil, the...
BOC Bangladesh Limited held its 36th annual general meeting at the Officers Club on Baily Road in the city Tuesday. A final dividend of 77 per cent was approved by the shareholders at the meeting. Earlier, the company had paid...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, May 12: Economic affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister, Mashiur Rahman said that the gas supply network in Khulna and Mongla Port would be modernised. "The closed mills and industries in the region will be opened consecutively and...
Rangs Electronics Limited has launched a new sales campaign titled Sony-Rangs Budgetary Campaign.Chairman and Managing Director of Rangs Group of Companies Aktar Hussain inaugurated the campaign in the city Tuesday, said a press release. Directors and other high officials of...
Visiting Sri Lanka Development Squad took massive 375-run lead over GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team after dismissing the hosts cheaply for 164 in the first innings on the third day of the first of 2 four-day matches at the Bir...
Royal Challengers Bangalore, buoyed by Ross Taylor's return to form, overcame a formidable target set by Kolkata Knight Riders to boost their chances of making the top four, winning by six wickets in a tense encounter in Centurion. Brendon McCullum's...
Days after serving the ICC with a legal notice over its decision to remove Pakistan as 2011 World Cup co-hosts, the PCB has ratcheted up the stakes in its confrontation further, sending a letter to Michael Beloff, president of the...
Bangladesh Biman and Dhaka University maintained their all-win run in the Public University and Services Cricket Tournament with 2nd consecutive win against their rivals Tuesday, reports UNB.National flag carrier Bangladesh Biman earned a convincing 100-run victory over Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University...
Bangladesh National Hockey team suffered another humiliating 9-0 goals defeat against Asian giants South Korea in their last Pool A match of the 8th Asia Cup Men's Hockey Tournament in Kuantan Pathang, Malaysia Tuesday, reports UNB.World number five South Korea...
GUANGZHOU, May 12 (AFP): India justified their pre-tournament tag of strong favourites to gain promotion to the second tier with a 5-0 hammering of Ukraine in the Sudirman Cup Tuesday. Not many were at the Guangzhou Gymnasium, in southern China,...
Lack of cricket won't harm Pakistan's chances : AfridiShahid Afridi believes Pakistan's recent lack of international cricket will not hamper their chances at the World Twenty20 in England next month. Since January 2007, no team has played as little as...
Saiful KaiserIf one New Zealander was mostly responsible for setting up a challenging target, it was another New Zealander in the opposing camp who took his team across the line. This Kolkata Knight Riders versus Royal Challengers of Bangalore was...
As Bangladesh Paper Mills Association demanded 100 per cent duty on newsprint imports, Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) Monday urged the government to keep zero tariff on newsprint imports to ensure press freedom and free flow of information, says...
FE ReportThe 189th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of modern nursing, was observed as the International Nurses Day (IND) in the Islamia Eye Hospital in the city and elsewhere in the country Tuesday.The nurses of the hospital took...
Industries Minister Dilip Barua Tuesday said the bank interest should come down to single digit for the growth of industries, reports UNB."I am in favour of single digit bank interest for speedy growth of industries in the country," the Minister...
The government has planned to establish three more public universities and as many private universities to take in the rising number of students for higher education, as the existing are overcrowded, reports UNB."Government approval of the planned universities is in...
FE Report Rotary Club (RC) of Dhaka West successfully implemented a very significant Eye Care Matching project in collaboration with Islamia Eye Hospital (IEH) as joint venture with financial assistance from Rotary District 3140 (Bombay, India), Rotary District 3280 (Bangladesh)...
FE ReportDhaka Sheraton Hotel and Igloo will jointly organise a four-day Summer Ice Cream festival at the East Wing Lobby of the hotel.General Manager of Dhaka Sheraton Hotel Trevor Robert MacDonald announced it at a press conference at the hotel...
A High Court (HC) bench Tuesday revoked its previous order that halted the proceedings of an extortion case filed in 2007 by businessman Azam J Chowdhury against Sheikh Hasina, in what could be seen as a first step towards withdrawal...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday expressed gratitude personally and on behalf of her family to heads of the states and the governments, ambassadors, political leaders and people of all strata, who offered condolences and sympathy to her through telephone, messages...
Under a revised agitation plan, opposition BNP will form human chains across the country tomorrow (Thursday) against government 'attempt to hide the real culprits' involved in staging the BDR Headquarters carnage and to demand a quick and fair investigation, reports...
The Supreme Court (SC) Tuesday directed the government to implement within two months the Judicial Service Pay Commission (JSPC) Report, reports UNB.The Judicial Service Pay Commission report was submitted to the government in December last year.The Apex court directive came...
Responding to plea from Khaleda Zia's lawyer for more time, the fifth High Court (HC) bench Tuesday shifted to May 18 the hearing on the petition against an executive order asking Gen Ziaur Rahman's widow to vacate the cantonment house,...
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni has urged Pakistan to apologise for the genocide its army had committed in the Bangladesh's War of Independence from that country in 1971, reports bdnews24.com.Dr Dipu Moni raised the issue Tuesday when Pakistan high commissioner...
A Rajshahi court Tuesday sent Nadim Mostafa, a former lawmaker of BNP, who was convicted of graft and accused of abetting militants, to jail on surrender, reports bdnews24.com."As my client turned himself in at 11:45 am, the court sent him...
Meanwhile, UNB report adds: Bangladesh Awami League (AL) will hold a civic condolence meeting on Dr Wazed Miah at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre today (Wednesday).National leaders and deceased's colleagues will participate in the meeting to be held at 4:00pm.
MUNSHIGANJ, May 12 (UNB): A BNP activist who received bullet wounds in a gunfight between Awami League (AL) and BNP at Dighirpar in Tongibari Upazila died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the capital Tuesday.
Siddique Islam Bangladesh Bank (BB) has expressed concern over irregularities committed by a section of directors as well as chief executive officers (CEO) of some private commercial banks (PCBs)."It is a matter of concern and contrary to good governance," the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Bangladesh is a land of surprises. Its people have an uncanny ability to produce surprises, quite frequently. Last Saturday, if the media reports are true, it was business leaders' turn. Contrary to what they have been saying...
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