FE ReportBangladesh garments have a potential market in Russian Federation.The potentiality was shown when Russian buyers evinced their keen interest to buy Bangladeshi RMG products in a fair held in Moscow between September 17 to September 20.A 17-member delegation of...
FE ReportPrime Bank's (PBL) Islamic Banking Branch (IBB) organised a seminar on "Significance of Maahe Ramadan" at a city hotel recently.PBL Managing Director M Shahjahan Bhuiyan presided over the programme.Southeast University Vice Chancellor M Shamsher Ali and PBL Shariah Council...
FE ReportNational Housing Finance and Investments Ltd (NHFIL) signed a participatory agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) in the city recently.Under the deal, the NHFIL will avail refinancing from the BB for concessional lending to housing sector at 10 per cent...
Efforts are underway to bring 80 stranded workers back to Bangladesh from Malaysia, as they have failed to secure work they claim they were promised, reports bdnews24.com. A three-member delegation, headed by Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Abdul Matin...
FE ReportIslami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) opened its 186th branch at Dewanhat in Chittagong Sunday. Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CCCI) President Saifuzzaman Chowdhury was present on the occasion as the chief guest, and Mohammad Kutub Uddin was the...
FE ReportAKTEL, one of the largest telecom service providers of the country, signed an agreement with Shin Shin Apparels Limited in the city recently.Shin Shin Apparels Ltd, a sister concern of Sin Sin Group, is a 100 per cent export-oriented...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sep 24 : China Major Bridge Engineering Company, assigned with the task of constructing the Third Karnaphuli Bridge, expressed optimism to finish its construction within 30 months instead of 38 months, the time limit set earlier.Around 35 per...
BANDARBAN, Sept 24 (UNB): Orange cultivators of the district who achieved bumper production this season are not getting fair price in the local market.According to Agriculture Department, bumper production of orange this season was due to favourable weather. The farmers...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARY, Sept 24: The proposed master plan for expansion and modernisation of Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari, which was scheduled to be undertaken few months earlier, has become uncertain for unknown reasons, sources said.Saidpur Railway authority finalised a project...
A week-long capacity building programme at two local newspapers in Bogra -- the daily Korotoa and the daily Aaj O Agamikal -- concluded Sunday aiming to increase the quantity and quality of business issues. This is the first-ever programme of...
FE Report Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) recently participated in an international seminar on 'Global Banking' jointly organised by Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) and Indian Banks Association (IBA) at Mumbai in India.Nearly 300 bankers from 15...
Purchase/ sale of director's sharesJamuna Bank: MA Khayer, one of the sponsors/directors of Jamuna Bank Limited, has stated his willingness to sell 14,285 shares out of his total holdings of 114,285 shares of the bank (in the block market) at...
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, Sept 24 (AP): Iran closed major border crossings with northern Iraq Monday to protest the US detention of an Iranian official the military accused of weapons smuggling, a Kurdish official said. At least four border gates have been...
KABUL, Sept 24 (AP): A NATO-led combat operation secured the release of two kidnapped Italian military personnel Monday in western Afghanistan, two days after they went missing, officials said. Initial reports indicated at least five of the kidnappers were killed....
YANGON, SEPT 24 (AP): The Myanmar junta is showing unexpected restraint in the face of the country's biggest protests in two decades because of pressure from its key trading partner China, an Southeast Asian diplomat said Monday.On Sunday, about 20,000...
NEW DELHI, Sept 24 (XINHUA): A 25-year-old woman, whose pituitary gland, which helps influence sexual development, was removed because of a tumor, has delivered a baby girl in what doctors say is an extremely rare phenomenon, the Press Trust of...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (AP): Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the UN podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change....
HYDERABAD, Sept 24 (AFP): Fifty years after the launch of the first satellite, key players in the global space industry were to meet here from Monday to seek new ways to benefit humanity through space exploration. Missions to the moon...
NEW YORK, SEPT 24 (AP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York to protests and said in a television interview that Iran was neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States.The president's motorcade Sunday...
LONDON, Sept 24 (AFP): The international community has not faced up to the scale of the Iraqi refugee crisis, leaving Syria and Jordan to deal with the exodus, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday. The London-based human-rights group...
Four killed in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sept 24 (AFP): Clashes between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left four dead and five injured Monday along the northern defence lines, the defence ministry said. Security forces killed three suspected Tamil...
JHENIDAH, Sept 24 (UNB) : An amount of Tk 14 million (Tk 1.40 crore) has been allocated for rehabilitating 13,505 flood-affected farmers of six upazilas of the district.According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the amount has been sanctioned...
Presently, there are some 4.0 million cancer patients in Bangladesh and some 0.2 million new patients are afflicted with the deadly disease every year, said the Chairman of Oncology Club, ABMF Karim. Karim, also adviser and former president of SAARC...
COMILLA, Sept 24 (UNB): A teenaged girl was rescued from the house of human traffickers at Methua village in Langalcoat upazila here Friday.The police said Nargis Begum (30), an activist of an organised traffickers' gang with the help of her...
Former Telecommunications Secretary Nazmul Ahsan Chowdhury faces further cross-examination by defence counsel for detained former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Nasim who stands in trial in the WorldTel scam case as the High Court Monday declared unlawful a special judge's court order,...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 24: The Commerce Ministry in association with the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) will organise a meeting with leading businessmen and elite of Chittagong division today (Tuesday) at 10:00 am at the CCCI auditorium.Commerce Secretary Firoz...
The Bangladeshi expatriates in Madrid donated euro 0.1 million (1.0 lakh), approximately Tk 9.4 million, to the Chief Adviser's (CA's) relief and welfare fund for the country's flood victims. It is one of the highest amounts, so far, donated by...
BAGERHAT, Sept 24 (UNB): The police in a drive arrested a drug peddler along with 4 kilogram of hemp at the Rail colony area in the town Sunday morning.Acting on a tip-off, a DB police team raided the area in...
A Jubo Dal leader was killed and his manager was injured when assailants sprayed bullets on them in Pallabi area of the city Monday morning, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as M Shahabuddin Munshi alias Barek (38), son of Shamsuddin...
MAGURA, Sept 24 (UNB): Two people were killed and 28 others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Kalinagar here on the Dhaka-Khulna highway Saturday midnight.The police said the truck collided with the Khulna-bound...
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