FE Report The award distribution ceremony of 'Cholo Radhunir Ghor Sajai', a special consumer promotion programme of Square Consumer Products Ltd, was held Tuesday in the city.Forty lottery winners were awarded prizes on the occasion. Organisers said several thousand participants...
FE ReportEmirates, the Dubai-based airline and travel services provider, has signed an agreement to acquire a 49 per cent interest in Alpha Flight Services Australia.Under the deal, Alpha Flight Services will provide in-flight catering for Emirates flights from Australia starting...
FRANKFURT, Sept 25 (Reuters): European stocks were broadly lower by midday Tuesday as a key business confidence survey pointed to weaker growth and mining stocks such as Rio Tinto and Anglo American (AAL.L: Quote, Profile , Research) tumbled on profit-taking.Shares...
FE ReportAKM Shahidul Haque has recently been promoted as additional managing director (AMD) of Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL).Prior to promotion, Shahidul held the post of deputy managing director of the same bank.Shahidul started his banking career in the year 1977...
FE ReportDhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) organised several expositions of handicrafts produced by rural women at the demonstration site of DAM recently.A total of 58 rural women producers of Satkhira, Jessore, Jhenaidah, Jamalpur, Netrokona, Narshingdi, Gazipur and Dhaka participated in the...
The dining restaurant of the Westin Dhaka "Taste" is offering delicious Iftar spread from the first day of the holy Ramadan with a wide selection of nourishing dishes, said a press release.The iftar items include fresh juices of papaya, pineapple,...
Purchase/ sale of director's sharesJamuna Bank: Tasmin Mahmud, one of the sponsors/directors of Jamuna Bank Limited, has stated that she has completed her sale of 72,313 shares of the bank at current market price through stock exchange as announced earlier.SIBL:...
TOKYO, Sept 25 (AP): Yasuo Fukuda, a quiet compromiser who has promised to bring stability and moderation to Japan's tumultuous political scene, was elected prime minister by parliament Tuesday. The lower house of parliament voted for Fukuda, but then the...
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (AP): President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his foreign and defence ministers in an expected but largely cosmetic shuffle before parliamentary and presidential elections. The new government's...
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (AP): Iran has released from jail peace activist Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent months after being accused of stirring up a revolution, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. Shakeri, a businessman and member...
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (AP): Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to the defence attorney for a soldier...
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran. "In Iran we don't...
COLOMBO, Sept 25 (AFP): Sixteen people were killed and 39 others injured as security forces clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's embattled north and east, the two sides reported Tuesday. Four soldiers died in the northern district of...
Toll in Baquba mosque blast rises to 28 BAQUBA, Sept 25 (AFP): At least 28 people were killed and 34 wounded in a devastating attack by a suicide bomber inside a mosque near Iraq's restive city of Baquba, police and...
The upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country in a befitting manner, reports BSS. This was decided Tuesday at an inter-ministerial meeting held in the conference room of the Ministry of Religious...
The High Court has rejected a government appeal to cancel the stay order on the export of 187 antique artefacts for exhibition in Paris, reports bdnews24.com. The High Court bench comprising of Justices Syed Mahmud Hossain and Md Farid Ahmed...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 25 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop underlined the need for taking concerted effort to protect the youths from infecting HIV/AIDS and ensuring safe motherhood.They also laid stress on the need of creating mass awareness among the target group...
Five persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies. In Comilla, a housewife and her baby girl were killed allegedly by her husband following a...
NATORE, Sept 25 (BSS): Seeds and seedlings of different vegetables were distributed among the farmers of Baraigram Upazila of the district under the government's post-flood agriculture rehabilitation programme.The seed distribution programme was organised at Baraigram Upazila parishad auditorium Monday. Deputy...
With all the rivers, including the Brahmaputra-Jamuna, Ganges-Padma, continued to fall, the country is expected to be free from floods by this week, Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said in its latest observation report Tuesday, reports BSS.Most of the...
JAMALPUR, Sept 25 (BSS): With a view to creating awareness about birth registration, Shishu Academy organised a function at its auditorium Monday to mark the "Meena Dibas-2007".Additional Deputy Commi-ssioner (Rev) Amar Chan Banik was present at the function as the...
RANGAMATI, Sept 25 (UNB): The body of a member of Chakma royal family was found floating in the Kaptai Lake here Sunday night, three days after his missing.The deceased was identified as Pavel Kheesa, brother in-law (sister's husband) of Chakma...
NARAYANGANJ, Sept 25 (BSS): Al-Haj Nazimuddin Mahmud, a former chairman of Narayanganj Pourasabha and an organiser of the War of Liberation, died of illness at Ayesha Memorial Hospital in Dhaka in the small hours today at the age of 60.He...
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (UNB): Bangladesh and Afghanistan have decided to set up a bilateral mechanism between the two foreign ministers to follow up bilateral cooperation with a view to expanding and deepening it.The decision came when Chief Adviser Fakhruddin...
Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) at a joint meeting in the city Tuesday decided to urge the Election Commission (EC) not to register any religion-based political party, including Jamaat, that opposed the 1971 War of Liberation, reports UNB.They...
RANGPUR, Sept 25 (BSS): The Pilot Project for preparation of fresh voters' list with photographs and national identity (ID) cards was formally launched in 11 Union Parishad (Ups) under Sadar Upazila here Monday, district election officials said.Trained technical teams of...
A religious school administrator in Chittagong sued Tuesday Shaptahik 2000 acting editor Golam Mortuza, publisher Mahfuz Anam and writer Daud Haider, reports bdnews24.com. The administrative officer of Al Jamia Al Islamia (Islamic University), Mohammad Reza, filed the case with the...
Chittagong Division drubbed Jhenidah DSA by 14-0 goals in the Araf Apparels 21st National Youth Hockey Competition at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.The winners led the first half 7-0. Mohammad Azimuddin and Nizamuddin...
Captain Mahendra Dhoni said India's World Twenty20 triumph had made amends for their 50-over World Cup nightmare, reports BBC. The Indians went out at the first stage in the Caribbean but edged out Pakistan in Johannesburg to be crowned the...
Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson defended batsman Misbah-ul-Haq after they lost the World Twenty20 final to India, reports BBC. With Pakistan needing six from four balls to win the game, an unorthodox shot saw Misbah caught at fine leg as he...
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