Our Correspondent | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
JAYPURHAT, Mar 05: Textbook crisis of the secondary level in Jaypurhat is hampering education for students.High school level books are not available in the market even after 2 months have passed of academic year. All classes are suffering due to...
Gaza airstrike kills two Islamic militantsGAZA CITY, Mar 5: An airstrike in the Gaza Strip killed Thursday two Islamic Jihad militants and wounded another, the group said, bringing to four the number of members killed by Israel in less than...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday said the BDR carnage was staged to embarrass and put the government in peril under a big conspiracy against the country's nascent democracy, reports UNB.She made the remarks when ambassadors and high commissioners of eight...
Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world has announced that it has been ranked first in the world for new commercial contracts won in UMTS/HSPA by leading digital communications market research...
An agreement signing ceremony on El Dorado remittance and payment system software between BRAC Bank Ltd and Dhaka Bank Ltd was held at Dhaka Bank head office in the city recently.BRAC Bank Managing Director (MD) and CEO AEA Muhaimen and...
DU Correspondent | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
A team of five students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute (DPI) will compete in the 'Regional Enterprise Challenge' to be held from March 9 to 11 at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.The five-member DPI team includes Md Lablu Talukder, Touhida...
BAGHDAD, Mar 5 (AP): A car bomb exploded Thursday in a crowded cattle market south of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and injuring 32 others, Iraqi police and medical officials said.The parked car exploded at the height of the...
Taxpayers will have a chance to legalise their 'fake' TINs (taxpayer's identification number) up to April 30, the National Board of Revenue announced Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.'Those holding fake TINs must legalise them by the deadline or face legal action,' said...
From Fazle Rashid | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
NEW YORK, March 5: The outsourcing of agriculture has started to bear fruit. Saudi Arabia received its first consignment of food harvested in famine-hit Ethiopia opening the way for others to emulate. Many Arab nations which were hit by food...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
The government has planned to recast its poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) in two months to face the worsening global economic crisis, which has started to bite the country's main growth levers, officials said.The move comes after an independent poverty...
SINGAPORE, MAR 5 (AP): Oil prices hovered near $44 a barrel Thursday in Asia after US crude inventories fell, suggesting demand may have stabilized after falling for months.Benchmark crude for April delivery fell $1.04 to $44.33 a barrel by late...
FE Report | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
The four-day long 'Made in Thailand Exhibition-2009' jointly organised by Department of Export Promotion (DEP) of Royal Thai Government begins March 11 at Hotel Sonargaon in the city.Thai Trade Centre in the city has invited any importer for one to...
MOSCOW, Mar 5 (AP): If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the US will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia...
Law minister Shafique Ahmed told parliament that the government had plans to set up upazila level courts, reports bdnews24.com.But he said a paucity of judges and absence of good libraries were standing in the way."Courts cannot be set up by...
In another reshuffle in the administration by the new government, a number of joint secretary-level officials, who were attached to the Establishment Ministry as officer on special duty (OSD), have been given transfers and postings, reports UNB.Mohammad Abul Hossain was...
KUSHTIA, Mar 5 (UNB): A tribunal here Thursday convicted two men and sentenced them to 14 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for trafficking a girl to India.The convicts, Zillu of Laxmipur village under Pangsha Upazila of Rajbari, and Achinta of Ektarpur...
FE Report | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has taken a strong move not to allow any public limited company (PLC) to float shares with having the face value of Tk 1 to check 'gambling' in the stock tradings."We are going to take a...
Ziaur Rahman | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
Expectations ran high about the growth of the private local aviation industry, but these have not been met. Many tend to point to faulty government rules and regulations for this failure. Much of the four billion dollar aviation market in...
Southeast Bank Limited (SEBL) held the certificate awarding ceremony of a seven-day foundation training on general banking for the trainee cash officers at the bank's training institute in the city Wednesday, says a press release.SEBL Deputy Managing Director Syed Imtiaz...
Siddique Islam | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates narrowed to 5.0 at the end of December 2008 from 5.18 in September last year, officials said.The weighted average lending rate stood at 12.31 per cent in December down from 12.35...
The Commonwealth Minis-terial Action Group (CMAG) has underscored once again the centrality and importance of the Commonwealth's fundamental values as set out in the Harare Principles, particularly with regard to constitutional democracy, reports UNB.The CMAG laid the emphasis in a...
Mindshare, an advertising agency, has been awarded Global Media Agency of the year by industry magazine Advertising Age.Speaking on the award, Chief Executive of Mindshare Worldwide Dominic Proctor said: "We'd like to thank Advertising Age for voting us Global Agency...
FE Report | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
The country's capital market regulator approved Thursday the introduction of much talked-about book-building method to woo big corporate houses and foreign companies to float shares in the stock markets.The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) endorsement to the new system for...
FE Report | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks registered a rise Thursday, putting a break to the three days straight fall, amid fluctuation in trading.The gain was led by insurances, mutual funds and banks. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)'s tough measures put a break to the...
Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin said the Citycell Super Cup was part of his vision to revive the country's footballing fortunes.His remarks came during a press conference to announce the launch of the Tk 20 million (Tk 2 crore)-...
FE Report | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
The ongoing 'City IT 2009 Computer Fair' at Agargaon in the city has been extended by a single day due to the restriction of movement by the visitors on account of carnage at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Headquarters in the...
KHARTOUM, Mar 5 (Reuters): Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir announced Thursday that 10 foreign aid agencies had been expelled, in his first public response to the International Criminal Court's call for his arrest on war crimes charges.The arrest warrant issued...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 5 (AFP): Malaysia today tabled in parliament plans for a ten billion ringgit (2.69 billion dollar) spending plan to help bolster the economy amid fears it is on the brink of a recession.The new stimulus package, also...
NEW DELHI, Mar 5 (PTI): Gold prices yesterday fell further by Rs 100 to close at Rs 15,100 per ten gram in the bullion market here on sustained selling by stockists amid weakening overseas trend.Trading activity in gold remained restricted...
M Azizur Rahman | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
State-owned Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) has sought the energy ministry's directive to award contracts for installation of gas compressors and gas transmission pipelines across the country, officials said Thursday.The company's board in a meeting Wednesday bestowed the responsibility to...
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