FE ReportUAE-Bangladesh Investment Company Limited Managing Director SM Akbar has obtained PhD from the University of New Castle, USA.His research was on "Factors Affecting Techno-Finance Facilities and its Impact on the SME Development in Bangladesh."Akbar obtained his MBA degree from...
SEC issues show-cause noticeInformation Services Network: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a show-cause notice to directors, managing director and company secretary of Information Services Network Limited in connection with the exclusive partnership agreement of the company.Share trading...
SEOUL, Oct 2 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's president to Pyongyang displaying scant enthusiasm Tuesday while orchestrated crowds cheered the start of the second-ever summit between the divided Koreas since World War II. The greeting...
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (AFP): The US Senate Monday passed a mammoth 648 billion dollar defence policy bill, shorn of attempts by disappointed anti-war Democrats to dictate President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy. The bill included around 128 billion dollars for...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 (AFP): Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win Monday defended his government's crackdown on pro- democracy protesters, blaming the turmoil on "political opportunists" backed by "powerful countries." Articulating his government's most detailed analysis of the current unrest,...
KABUL, Oct 2 (AFP): A suicide attacker blew up a police bus in Kabul Tuesday, killing at least 11 people in a new attack by the extremist Taliban just days after a similar bombing claimed 30 lives in the capital....
BASRA, Iraq, Oct 2 (AFP): Britain expects to hand over the province of Basra to Iraqi control this autumn, hopefully by the end of November, the British military said Tuesday. Military spokesman Major Mike Shearer told AFP that the pull-out...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 (AFP): Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem Monday called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Iraq and for increased international aid to help his country shelter Iraqi refugees. In an address to the UN General...
YANGON, Oct 2 (AFP): UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Myanmar's junta leader Than Shwe in the nation's remote capital Tuesday, as the military regime insisted it was not to blame for a deadly crackdown on mass protests. Gambari had...
CAIRO, Oct 2 (AFP): The Arab League Monday condemned a US Senate plan to split Iraq along ethnic and religious lines as a "dangerous interference" in another country's affairs. "The resolution is a dangerous form of interference in the internal...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (AFP): Around 80 Pakistani opposition MPs resigned from parliament Tuesday in protest at President Pervez Musharraf's plans to seek re-election, state television showed. The lawmakers from the anti-Musharraf Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy handed in their...
Iran university invites Bush TEHRAN, Oct 2 (AFP): An Iranian university has invited US President George W. Bush to talk on campus, a week after his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was given a frosty reception at a US institute, the...
One should not count one's blessings too soon, I agree. I believe, however, I can safely say even now that 2007 has been a good year for Germany. It started with the German EU Council Presidency during the first six...
By Angela MerkelWith the agreement on a Reform Treaty, Europe has regained new strength. Under the German EU Presidency we have broken the deadlock and jointly set course for a renewal of the treaties on which the European Union is...
17 years ago, on 3 October 1990, Germany achieved its central national goal: reunification in freedom. The then German President, Richard von Weizsäcker, described the historic importance of reunification in a sentence that has gone down in the annals of...
Most of the currently known renewable energy technologies, such as hydro power, wind, solar, wave power or biomass use either directly or indirectly solar radiation and convert it into electrical energy. There is however another energy source which does not...
It gives me a great pleasure and privilege to convey, on behalf of the People and the Government of the Republic of Korea, my warmest greetings and best wishes to the People and the Government of the People's Republic of...
l To Build a Firm Foundation for Peace on the Korean Peninsula Resolve the North Korean nuclear issue and develop military confidence-building with North Korea Restructure the national defence posture, including a shorter term of draftee service and develop elite...
Leaders of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and the Gono Azadi League have urged the caretaker government to remove all kinds of restriction on politics to create a congenial atmosphere for holding the general elections as per the Election Commission...
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Advisor (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed have greeted their South Korean counterparts on the occasion of the National Day of the country that falls today (Wednesday), reports UNB.In a message to Korean President Roh...
NEW YORK, Oct 2 (UNB): Bangladesh has assured the United Nations (UN) of working closely with it to uphold the "legitimacy, centrality, universality and neutrality of the world body." Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury gave the assurance to...
Six persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different areas of the country, report agencies.In Sirajganj, two teenage boys were crushed under the wheels of a running train at Jamtoil in Kamarkhanda upazila early Tuesday.The deceased...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is weighing a plan to bring the joint forces on board for a campaign to curb fare-padding and other offences by CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers, reports bdnews24.com."There are a lot of complaints against CNG auto-rickshaws and...
The government has formed a six-member task force to stop the making and screening of obscene movies and to check video piracy, reports UNB.The task force was formed Tuesday with the deputy director of Intelligence Wing of RAB Headquarters as...
Adviser for LGRD and Cooperatives Mohammad Anwarul Iqbal along with his wife returned home from Singapore after having treatment, reports BSS. Secretary of the Local Government Division Safar Raj Hossain, Secretary of the Labour and Employment Ashfaq Hamid, Secretary of...
BRAC, a leading development NGO, has been awarded the 2007 'Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize' in recognition of its outstanding achievements in tuberculosis (TB) control in Bangladesh, reports UNB.The NGO is one of the two recipients of the 2007 Stop...
FE ReportA 15-member executive committee of the Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) was elected for two years in its fifth annual general meeting (AGM) Tuesday.Khushee Kabir, Abdul Majid Mallik, A Milon Khan and Shamsul Huda have respectively been...
Our Correspondent TANGAIL, Oct 02: The cultivation of Aman paddy is going on in full swing in all 12 upazilas of the district.Farmers of the district are now working in their fields for transplanting Aman seedlings. A total of 110,716...
KISHOREGANJ, Oct 2 (UNB): Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has started distributing paddy seedlings and vegetable seeds in the district under its Post-flood Agricultural Rehabili-tation Programme.According to the DAE, local Agriculture Office will provide the seedlings to 6,300 farmers.
KOCHI, India, Oct 2 (BBC): Australia handed India a crushing 84-run defeat to earn a 1-0 lead in the seven-match one-day series. Asked to bat first in Kochi, they amassed a mighty 306-6 and then needed 47.3 overs to bowl...
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