Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Sept 28: The long desired pisciculture project has begun in Teesta Irrigation Project (TIP) canal in Nilphamari recently.District fisheries office in Nilphamari released four and a half tonnes of fish fry in the project canal. This is the...
FE ReportSocial Marketing Company (SMC) has launched SMC Zinc 20mg soluble tablets as an added therapy to oral saline to prevent and treat diarrhoea among under-5 children. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd is the manufacturing partner of the SMC. Director of USAID...
DUBAI, Sept 28 (Reuters): Iraq has signed preliminary deals worth billions of dollars with General Electric Co and Siemens for equipment to almost double electricity generation capacity, an energy official said Saturday.The deals with GE, Siemens and a third company...
FE ReportManaging Director of Classic Group of Companies Mohammed Shahidullah Azim has been re-elected as the president for the consecutive third term for 2008 to 2010 of All Community Club Ltd (ACCL) in the city recently.The election board of the...
TIANJIN, China, Sept 28 (AFP): European aircraft giant Airbus is expecting a "large order" from Chinese airlines by early 2009, the company's chief executive officer Tom Enders said here today. The Chinese aviation market "next year will still see strong...
FE Report A 12-member delegation of the newly formed trade body -- the European Bangladesh Federation of Commerce and Industry (EBF) -- led by its joint presidents Dr Wali Tasar Uddin and Fred Oldenhuizing will be visiting Bangladesh from October...
FE ReportMutual Trust Bank (MTB) Ltd opened its 31st branch in Narayanganj recently. Chairman of the bank Samson H Chowdhury inaugurated the branch at Taanbazar in the town. Founder chairman of the bank Syed Manzur Elahi was also present.In his...
FE ReportSonali Bank Limited will provide loan of Tk 80 million to Premier Leasing and Finance Limited. Both the companies entered into an agreement in this connection recently. Sonali Bank's Deputy General Manager (general loan division) Md Shahjahan and Premier...
Opportunities for Bangladeshi chefs are going to open up to get jobs in Britain's burgeoning curry industry as the British Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recently published its list of skills shortages caused by the new Point-based Immigration Policy, reports UNB.The...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Sept 28: Hazrat Shah Mukhdum Airport, the only airport in Rajshahi city, is incurring a huge loss after its closure one-and-a-half years ago. Though government airplanes and helicopters make trips from time to time at this airport, it...
MUMBAI, Sept 28 (Bloomberg): Indian stocks fell Friday, with the benchmark posting its biggest weekly drop in six months, after talks on a US credit market rescue plan stalled and Washington Mutual became the biggest bank failure in American history.The...
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (AFP): With a massive rescue of the financial sector in limbo, Wall Street was hopeful about a lifeline but also fearful it might not materialise, analysts said. The market has been volatile amid intense debate in...
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters): Wachovia Corporation has begun early merger talks with several suitors, according to published reports, all of which spurned Washington Mutual Inc prior to that lender's seizure by the US government.Wachovia, the sixth-largest US bank by...
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Sept 28 (Reuters): Washington Mutual Inc has filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors in US bankruptcy court in Delaware.In the voluntary petition filed late Friday, the company listed assets of US$32.90 billion, and debts...
MILAN, Sept 28 (Reuters): A reborn Alitalia could be in place by the start of November after a deal on its rescue was reached with key unions at the weekend, the head of one of the investors buying its core...
ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (AP): Islamic militants struck back at security forces in Pakistan's northwest while gunmen Sunday abducted a Polish engineer and extended a wave of attacks on foreigners.The recent truck bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel has heightened concern about...
EASTPORT, (Maine), Sept 28 (AP): Hurricane Kyle raced toward Maine early Sunday, triggering the state's first hurricane watch in 17 years as it roared over the Atlantic off North Carolina on a northward trek that threatened to bring flooding and...
VIENNA, Sept 28 (AFP): Polls opened Sunday in Austria in early general elections that were expected to see the far-right gain ground, after the collapse of the left-right coalition that had been in power for less than two years.According to...
KABUL, Sept 28 (AFP): A coalition operation apparently targeting a suicide bomb cell in eastern Afghanistan killed three civilians but no militants, a police official said Sunday. Insurgents elsewhere killed a woman in charge of female police officers.Gen. Abdul Jalal...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (AFP): The UN Security Council Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution again urging Iran to suspend its sensitive nuclear fuel work but offering no new sanctions and merely reaffirming existing ones. Resolution 1835 calls on Iran "to...
NEW DELHI, Sep 28 (PTI): Sincerity and honesty became the death warrant for the child who lost his life in the blast that shook the flower market in Mehrauli of South Delhi Saturday. Santosh Kumar (13), who fell victim to...
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (AFP): The House of Representatives Saturday passed a civilian nuclear pact with India that lifts a three decade-old ban on civilian nuclear trade with India. The agreement, passed by a 298-117 vote, will now head to the...
BEIJING, Sept 28 (AFP): China's astronauts were set for a triumphant return to Earth on Sunday after making the country's first spacewalk, with a hero's welcome awaiting the three men whose exploits captivated the nation. Commander Zhai Zhigang etched his...
Vietnam flood toll up to 32: official HANOI, Sept 28: The death toll from floods in northern Vietnam triggered by Typhoon Hagupit has increased to at least 32, with five others still reported missing, disaster officials said Sunday. Hagupit made...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia called for forging unity of nationalist forces ahead of polls when JAGPA president Shafiul Alam Prodhan and National Peoples Party chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu met her today with the proposal to join the 4-party alliance,...
Awami League's (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman asked the caretaker government (CG) to permanently free party chief Sheikh Hasina to pave the way for the country's transition to democracy, reports UNB."Only through permanent and unconditional release of Sheikh Hasina the...
NEW YORK, Sept 27 (UNB): Bangladesh called upon the international community to ensure unrestricted market access for all products of all of the least developed countries (LDCs).Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury made the call while addressing Ministerial Meeting of...
A vacation bench of the High Court (HC) delivers its order today (Monday) upon a pending bail petition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which is crucial for her release and the course of country's pre-election politics, reports UNB. Comprising...
The Gano Forum (GF) headed by Dr Kamal Hossain urged the caretaker government (CG) and the Election Commission (EC) not to pursue weak-kneed policy for placating "the corrupt, criminalised evil force and anti-liberation elements," reports UNB.A meeting of the party...
The High Court (HC) begins hearing today (Monday) a pending writ petition challenging the Election Commission's (EC) gazette notification re-casting the parliamentary constituencies under electoral reforms ahead of the national elections, reports UNB.A vacation division bench of the HC, comprising...
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