Despite having made all preparations, the Energy Ministry could not invite the third round international gas-block bidding as the Finance Ministry and the National Board of Revenue held back the bidding document, reports UNB. Sources said that after preparing the...
NEW YORK Sep 28 (UNB): Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has sought the international community's support for Bangladesh to recover the ill-gotten gains of the corruption that remains abroad."Democracy itself has been the victim of this corrupt culture. Politicians, businessmen and...
The Awami League (AL) sits with the Worker's Party today (Saturday) as part of a series of discussions with allies in the 14-party combine ahead of the upcoming discussions with the Election Commission (EC), according to the bdnews24.com. The deliberations...
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (UNB): Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chow-dhury said that in today's world development must be country-driven and urged the developed nations to keep their pledges for the developing nations. Speaking at the Ministerial Meeting of Group of...
Hundreds of Islamic hard liners staged anti-cartoon protests in the city Friday demanding closure of the daily Prothom Alo for printing the cartoon in its weekly supplement "Alpin" ridiculing Prophet Muhammad (SM) and Islam, reports UNB.The protesters carrying the banners...
JESSORE, Sept 28 (UNB): A court here Wednesday convicted a man and awarded him 10 years imprisonment for possessing arms.The convict is Masum Billah alias Billal, son of Afsar Gazi of Sarafpur village in Keshabpur Upazila.According to prosecution, acting on...
Former chief adviser Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman has said the proposed Right to Information Law should be finalised by an elected government, not by a caretaker one, reports UNB.He was addressing the inaugural session of a three-day celebration, marking the...
FE ReportPrices of onion and brinjal increased further and the prices of hilsa fish declined while the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.During the last week, prices of local variety of...
FE ReportM/S DongMi Textile Company Ltd, a one hundred per cent Korea-owned company, is going to set up a composite textile industry at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) area.An agreement to this effect was signed between Bangladesh Export Processing Zones...
FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) signed an agreement with Meghna Life Insurance Company Ltd to provide complete communication facilities under its Business Solutions package in the city recently.Meghna Life Insurance Managing Director Ekramul Amin and GP Deputy General Manager (Commercial Division) Khandaker...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate marked its steady level last week despite withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Government Treasury(BGT) bonds and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The...
FE ReportSocial Investment Bank Limited (SIBL) elected Abdul Awal Patwary chairman of the bank unanimously in its 157th board meeting in the city Thursday.Sayedur Rahman and Nasiruddin have been elected vice chairmen of the SIBL at the meeting. Humayun Kabir...
FE ReportMeghna Cement Mills Ltd approved 25 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year that ended on December 31, 2005 at the 15th annual general meeting (AGM) of the company.Mahaboob Morshed Hassan, sponsor-director of the company, presided...
Commercial Bank of CeylonSeptember 23 - September 27, 2007In the last week of September, U.S. dollar kept its upbeat tone against Bangladesh taka due to continued high demand for foreign exchange to meet import-related obligations and relatively lower inward remittances....
YANGON, Sept 28 (AP): Soldiers clubbed activists in the streets and fired warning shots Friday, moving decisively to break up demonstrations in Myanmar before they could gain momentum. Troops occupied Buddhist monasteries and cut public Internet access, raising concerns that...
TOKYO, SEPT 28 (AP): Japan will press Myanmar for a full explanation of the death of a Japanese journalist during a violent crackdown on anti-government protests, officials said Friday.Kenji Nagai was among nine people killed Thursday when soldiers fired automatic...
HARARE, Sept 28 (AFP): Zimbabwe's information minister has castigated western media for their coverage of President Robert Mugabe's speech at the UN General Assembly, state media reported Friday. Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said CNN and the BBC gave US President George...
BAGHDAD, SEPT 28 (AP): Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Friday rejected a US Senate proposal calling for the decentralisation of Iraq's government and giving more control to the country's ethnically divided regions, calling it a "catastrophe." The measure, whose primary...
UNITED NATIONS, SEPT 28 (AP): Russia and China refuse to discuss possible new sanctions against Iran until the UN nuclear agency reports on Tehran's disclosure of its past suspicious nuclear work at the end of the year, France's foreign minister...
MOGADISHU, Sept 28 (AFP): Four Somali soldiers were killed and several wounded when an army truck was ambushed in the capital, where the government is battling a deadly insurgency, an official and witnesses said Friday. The soldiers were heading to...
NEW YORK, SEPT 28 (AP): Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto acknowledged Thursday that she has met secretly with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf but said she was increasingly pessimistic about reaching a power-sharing deal with the leader.Bhutto plans to return...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (AFP): Major powers urged Serbia and Kosovo's Albanian separatists to show "a constructive spirit" ahead of their direct talks on the breakaway province's future status to open Friday in New York. With a December 10 deadline...
COLOMBO, SEPT 28 (AP): Naval attack craft waged a three-hour sea battle with 20 Tamil Tiger boats off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka Friday, sinking three of the rebels' boats and killing one of their top naval commanders, the...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28 (AFP): Lawyers for Pakistan's opposition said Friday that they would appeal against a ruling that President Pervez Musharraf can stand for re-election while keeping his role as army chief. The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a raft of...
Four family members found hanged in kitchen in France CALAIS, France, Sept 28 (AFP): Four members of the same family were found hanging in the kitchen of their home in northern France in what appears to have been a joint...
BANGALORE, Sept 28 (BBC): Ricky Ponting has warned Mahendra Dhoni's celebrating India that Australia are determined to start the one-day series in Bangalore with a win. The Australia captain said India would be under pressure after lifting the ICC World...
Shaun Pollock has been left out of the South Africa team for the first Test against Pakistan - the first time in his career that he has been dropped, reports BBC. The 34-year-old former South Africa captain has played in...
Ian Bell scored England's first century of their one-day tour of Sri Lanka, and James Anderson starred with three wickets, as the team warmed up for their five-match one-day series by defeating a Sri Lanka Board XI by 80 runs...
HANGZHOU, China, Sept 28 (AFP): Self-belief has pushed Brazil to the brink of World Cup glory as the Samba Girls go in search of a title won by their more famous male counterparts five times. Few would have wagered money...
Saiful KaiserShaun Pollock has grown old, he does not have the strength that he once had and he was going to be quite ineffective on the slow dry pitches of Pakistan, thought the South African cricket management. So although Pollock...
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