FE ReportA two-week Refreshers' Course for Officers Grade-I organised by the IFIC Bank Limited was inaugurated in the city on November 4.Deputy Managing Director of the bank Mohammad Abdullah inaugurated the course, said a press release.A total of 18 officers...
TOKYO, Nov 8 (AP): Asian markets fell Thursday after Wall Street posted its second big drop in a week as investors worried about the extent of fallout from the global credit crisis.Japan's benchmark index sank 2.0 per cent, while the...
FE ReportCityCell has recently organised a daylong workshop for its sales and distribution team at Spectra Convention Centre in the city, said a press release. With the theme 'Dare to Dream', the workshop was commenced by CityCell's Chief Executive Officer...
LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters): European shares fell sharply in early trade Thursday, tracking US and Asian markets, as credit fears intensified, hurting financials.Index of top European shares was down 1.25 per cent at 1,524.20 points from the indicated close of...
FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (AP): Apple's iPhone will go on sale in Germany and Britain Friday, making its European debut four months after its launch in the United States. "We assume that the device will find a very good reception on...
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (AP): The world's largest insurer may not have invested as much in mortgage-backed assets as the world's biggest banks, but American International Group Inc.'s exposure to the rocky credit and housing markets was enough to dampen...
LONDON, Nov 8 (AFP): BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, said Thursday it had made a takeover proposal to its next biggest rival and fellow Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto said in a separate statement it had rejected an...
DETROIT, Nov 8 (AP): General Motors Corp. posted a company record $39 billion loss Wednesday for the third quarter, as a charge involving unused tax credits brought an abrupt end to a string of three profitable quarters for the nation's...
Dividends Aftab Automobiles: The board of directors of Aftab Automobiles has recommended 6.0per cent cash and 10 per cent stock dividends for the year that ended on August 31, '07. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8 (AFP): Pakistan's government will hold elections in February and lift the state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf within one or two months, his attorney general said Thursday. The statement came after US President George W....
NEW DELHI, Nov 8 (Reuters): India's growing ties with the United States and arms deals irritants in its decades-old defence relationship with Moscow are expected to dominate India-Russia summit talks next week. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to reassure...
VILLAHERMOSA, (Mexico), Nov 8 (Reuters): Tens of thousands of Mexicans forced into makeshift shelters by massive flooding are threatened by ailments ranging from colds to cholera, health officials said on Wednesday. About 80,000 people from the flooded city of Villahermosa...
SYDNEY, Nov 8 (Reuters): Australian scientists studying humpback whales sounds say they have begun to decode the whale's mysterious communication system, identifying male pick-up lines and motherly warnings. Wops, thwops, grumbles and squeaks are part of the extensive whale repertoire...
Mongolia parliament accepts resignation of PMULAN BATOR, Nov 8: Mongolia's parliament Thursday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Miyeegombiin Enkhbold, who handed in his notice after losing the post of ruling party chairman last month. Current party chief Sanj Bayar...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is going to start its fifth round of emergency food distribution in 26 flood-affected districts of the country targeting more than 1.4 million people, reports UNB.This follows four earlier distributions to more than...
The ninth meeting of the council of Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) was held at Mirpur Cantonment in the city Thursday, report agencies.Education Adviser Ayub Quadri chaired the meeting while Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan...
Dr Zohra Begum Kazi, the first female doctor of the subcontinent, died from old-age complications at Gulshan in the city Wednesday. She was 97, reports bdnews24.com.Zohra obtained her medical degree from Lady Harding Medical College in Delhi in 1935 and...
COMILLA, Nov 8 (UNB): A case was filed against a Sub-Inspector (SI) of police and his associate Tuesday on charge of taking Tk 20,000 as bribe from a businessman.Sultan Ahmed, owner of Ruma Furniture Mart of Chandla Uttar Sarak under...
BENAPOLE, Nov 8 (UNB): A terrorist was arrested along with a firearm and a bullet at Baropota village here Thursday.On secret information, the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided the house of local terrorist Khokan and arrested him along...
Awami League's (AL) Liberation War Affairs secretary AB Tajul Islam Thursday urged the present caretaker government (CG) to take necessary initiatives to try the war criminals, saying it is high time to try the criminals who were against the War...
The discordant elements in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) harassed its standing committee member Mahbubur Rahman Wednesday. BNP acting secretary general M Hafizuddin Ahmed made the allegation while talking to journalists at his Banani residence in the city Thursday, reports...
Writers, poets, translators, editors and publishers from India and Bangladesh have agreed to form a platform to work towards achieving a 'balanced exchange' of books and publications between the two countries.The decision was taken at the concluding day of the...
MADARIPUR, Nov 08 (bdnews24.com): A Madaripur lawyer Thursday filed a case against Jamaat-e-Islam assistant secretary general Abdul Quadir Mollah for his defamatory comment against the War of Liberation. Lawyer M Obaidur Rahman Khan filed the case with the Chief Judicial...
Bangladesh Thursday condemned bomb attack in the Afghan province of Baglan Tuesday in which a large number of people were killed along with six Members of Parliament, reports BSS."We condemn such despicable acts of mindless violence through which innocent lives...
Anti-crime taskforce members Thursday visited the residence of detained former minister for Housing and Public Works Mirza Abbas at Rajarbagh in the city, reports UNB.The police said a two-member team of the taskforce, including a CID inspector, went to Abbas'...
Sachin Tendulkar missed his hundred by a run for the third time in the last five months, but his electrifying 91-ball 99 set the platform for India to score 321 for 9 in the second ODI in Mohali. With Gautam...
South Africa had to fight and scrape for every run as they reached 161 for 5 at tea on the first day of the first Test at The Wanderers. It was in the main attritional, fascinating cricket, the only shame...
After ten months of speculation over who would fill Australia's three vacant Test positions, Phil Jaques hinted that at least one of those spots is in safe hands. Jaques celebrated his first match as a full-time member of the side...
Bangladesh Army almost ensured reaching the semi-final of the Office Hockey League as they came from behind to beat Firoz Land Properties by 4-1 goals at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium here Thursday, reports UNB.National player Mamunur Rahman Chayan...
FE ReportThe draft consumers' protection ordinance is expected to be approved by the Council of Advisers of the caretaker government Sunday next, official sources said.The much-awaited ordinance will be effective only after its promulgation by the President.Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin...
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