Saiful KaiserMohammad Yousuf as you know finally ended his problems with regards to joining ICL or IPL-he finally joined ICL and helped them the championship as well-but puts the blame squarely on the doorstep of the Pakistan cricket authorities, the...
Mohammad Masudul Alam Bappi emerged champion in the singles event of the Intra Club Snooker Tournament-2008 beating Mohammad Mostaqur Rahman in the final at the snooker room of Uttara Club in the city Monday, reports UNB.
FE ReportDhaka stocks extended loses for the fourth consecutive day Tuesday despite the capital market regulator's decision to increase the margin of loans provided by the merchant banks.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN), All Shares Price Index (DSI) and DSE20...
Shakhawat Hossain The government has imposed export ban of all varieties of rice for a period of six months to boost the supply of the staple in the local market.The official move came after reports that a section of unscrupulous...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Yet again some trigger-happy members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) entered a border village in Panchagar in the north of Bangladesh last Sunday night, opened fire indiscriminately on the villagers, killing three people, including a...
Zaidi SattarPresident-elect of the USA, Barack Obama, manifestly cast a long shadow on the outcome of the just-concluded Washington summit of G20 developed and large emerging economies. He chose to sit out the meeting, sending, instead, his emissaries who were...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) raised Tuesday the loan margin ratio for merchant banks to 1:1.5 from the existing 1:1 in order to enhance fund flow into the sluggish market.The commission also approved the initial public offering (IPO)...
Jatiya Party (JP) has joined the Awami league-led electoral alliance after a meeting JP chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad and Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina Tuesday. The meeting started at around 2:30 pm at Hasina's Sudha Sadan home, report bdnews24.com/UNB....
Five advisers seen as government negotiators Tuesday night began parley with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, also main leader of the regrouping grand alliance, presumably on an option for rescheduling the parliament elections to accommodate the BNP-led alliance in the...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Nov 18: Dismal and gloomy forecast about the global economy is pouring in from all directions. A survey undertaken on behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia revealed that the US economy has been...
A court in Dhaka Tuesday issued arrest warrants against the Managing Directors of two companies for selling three Chinese brands of powdered milk without displaying registration numbers and expiry dates on their containers, reports UNB.Those against whom the arrest warrants...
KHULNA, Nov 18: The authorities of the Khulna Hardboard Mills have suspended its production from Sunday night for non-supply of furnace oil, leaving about 250 daily workers jobless. Managing Director (MD) of the mills Khalilur Rahman told the news agency...
Bodies of two traders were recovered from a residential hotel at Kaptanbazar in the old part of Dhaka Monday night. The victims were identified as Ashraful Huda Tutul (42), and Habibur Rahman Habib (43), hardware shop owners on Nawabpur Road....
Vehicular movement over the Meghna Bridge on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway will be suspended for 18 hours from 6:00pm tomorrow (Thursday) to 12:00 noon Friday. The decision was taken for emergency repair works of the bridge, said a Communication Ministry release Tuesday....
A Z M Anas The decision of British Airways (BA) to drop its Dhaka operations will have "a catastrophic impact" on Bangladesh's booming air travel industry, and also tarnish the country's image abroad, industry leaders and analysts said Monday. The...
Naim-Ul-Karim The country's tourism industry felt the pinch of the global financial tsunami and the political instability as these led to a huge drop in arrivals of foreign tourists, operators said Tuesday.They said political instability surrounding the parliamentary election, scheduled...
FE Report Agriculture credit disbursement recorded a robust growth of 37.73 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal following some measures, including relaxation of its rules and regulations, taken by the central bank. Eight state-owned banks...
FHM Humayan KabirThe United Nations (UN) is going to organise an international conference on "financing for development" from the last week of November in Doha in a bid to find out ways to weather the global financial meltdown, officials said...
FE Report Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) urged Tuesday the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to realise duties on the basis of present international market prices.The chamber body has claimed that as a result of valuation under old...
Pirates anchor supertanker off SomaliaNAIROBI, Nov 18(CNN): A hijacked supertanker carrying up to $100 million worth of crude oil -- the largest vessel seized to date in an escalating regional piracy crisis -- was believed to have anchored off Somalia...
THE economic meltdown that the richest nations on earth have been experiencing in recent times is gradually drawing all other economies far and near into its maelstrom. The smaller economies like Bangladesh have so far escaped the early onslaught of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid A recent Bangladesh bank report has revealed an unsatisfactory performance of the country's scheduled banks as far as their loans are concerned.The banks have the second highest interest rate spread (5.75 per cent) in South Asia, Sri...
Mokhlesur RahmanBANGLADESHIS working abroad sent home a record $829 million in July 2008, marking a 46.27 per cent growth over the corresponding period of the previous year.The remittance received in July was a new monthly record in the country's history...
Sue CameronWHAT a sad irony that Marjorie Deane, chronicler of the financial world for half a century and close confidante to the greatest names in banking, should have died at the age of 94 just as the credit crunch was...
THE existing transmission system, dilapidated as it is in many points, disrupts power supply off and on. The lack of repair and maintenance of the transmission system remains a major cause for frequent power outages in many places of the...
THE drive to free the city pavements and streets from the illegal vendors has been stopped without any reason. It is true that the present government had to face harsh criticism when it launched a massive drive to evict them...
MEDIA reports sometime ago highlighted that in the Sylhet district about 53 per cent of the distribution of khas lands remained pending while the 47 per cent of those who received khas lands against their names were undeserving persons. Locally...
Barrister M. A. Muid KhanTHE other day, my best friend asked me to write an article on how a Muslim woman could remarry the same husband without having any intervening marriage. She feels that due to the strict application of...
Professor Muhammad Raushan AliEDUCATION is the key to success. It is the single most important factor for human resource development. Education helps acquire knowledge and unfold inner potentials of an individual. An educated person develops analytical and critical faculties which...
LONDON/TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters): Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession Monday with France close behind, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it needed at least 100-billion-dollar to fight the billowing economic crisis enveloping the world.The...
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