FE ReportPhoenix Insurance Company Ltd (PICL) has recently signed an agreement with Credit Rating Information and Services Limited (CRISL), under which CRISL will provide rating services to PICL. PICL Managing Director Pirjada Saifullah Chowdhury and President and CRISL CEO Muzaffar...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate maintained steady level last week with negligible response to withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills and Bangladesh Government Treasury (BGT) bonds,...
FE ReportStandard Chartered Bank (SCB) Transaction Banking has recently signed a MoU with British Council (BC) of Bangladesh, under which SCB's designated branches will collect all the examination fees on behalf of BC.SCB Director and Head of Transaction Banking Mirza...
Commercial Bank of CeylonJuly 15 - July 19, 2007BDT got a further rise against USD last week and remained stable. The demand for US dollar went down due to higher inward remittancescompared to import volumes. Total volume of inter-bank transaction...
Dilhara Fernando scythed through a brittle top order and, with Farvez Maharoof providing useful support, ensured Sri Lanka sealed a facile win in the first ODI against Bangladesh at Colombo. The visitors' top order flattered to deceive; at 45 for...
The Keya Cosmetics 9th National Long Distance Swimming Competition, organised by the Bangladesh Swimming Federation, will be held today (Saturday) in the Shitalakhya River, reports UNB.The daylong competition will begin from the BIWTA VIP terminal in Narayanganj at 10:00 am...
ROME, Jul 20 (AFP): Italy's Francesco Totti announced his retirement from international football Friday.The 30-year-old Roma striker, who had not represented the Azzurri since they won the World Cup last July after taking a sabbatical from international duty, finally called...
Title aspirant Mohammedan SC faces Brothers Union Club in a high-voltage second phase match of the B League tomorrow (Saturday) with both teams expecting to win the important match, reports UNB.The match gets underway at 4:15pm at the Bangabandhu National...
CINCINNATI (United States), Jul 20 (AFP): Second-seeded Patty Schnyder booked her quarter-final berth at the 175,000-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here Thursday with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Dutch veteran Brenda Schultz-McCarthy.Switzerland's Schnyder remained on course for a potential finals matchup...
India's pacemen led a stirring fightback on the second day at Lord's as England lost their six remaining wickets for 26 in less than 11 overs. Play was delayed for two-and-a-half hours after torrential morning thunderstorms, but it was soon...
Prantik Roy (Kolkata) emerged champion of the VI-X group 9th Standard Chartered School Chess Tournament, securing eight points after the last round matches at the Chess Federation Hall room here Friday, reports UNB.Sayantan Das (Kolkata) become runner-up, Abdullah Al Saif...
MADRID, Jul 20 (AFP): Polish goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek, out of contract with English Premiership side Liverpool, on Friday signed a two-year deal with Real Madrid, the Spanish champions announced.Dudek, who will be the stand-in for Spanish international goalkeeper Iker Casillas,...
Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) today (Friday) crushed Dinajpur DSA by 25-7 goals in one of the day's matches of the Basic Bank 18th National Women's Handball Championship at the Dhanmondi Women's Complex, reports UNB.Jahanara netted highest eight goals for...
The Bangladesh eaves' team that won the first-ever Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Women's Cricket Tournament will formally hand over the champions trophy to BCB president M Abdul Aziz today (Saturday), reports UNB.The BCB president will receive the trophy at 2:30pm...
The touring Bangladesh Under-19 team face the India Under-19 in their 2nd match of the tri-nation Under-19 Cricket Tournament tomorrow (Sunday) at the Colombo PSS Ground, reports UNB.On Monday, the junior Bengal Tigers will play against the hosts Sri Lanka...
CARNOUSTIE (Scotland), Jul 20 (AP): Miguel Angel Jiminez has the early clubhouse lead during second-round play at the British Open. The Spaniard shot a 1-under-par 70 Friday to get to minus-3 for the tournament.American hopeful Jim Furyk carded a second...
CHITTAGONG, July 20: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad Friday said punitive actions have been taken against 2/3 thousand police officials on charge of corruption and irregularities since the state of emergency was declared on January 11. Addressing a...
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) - Awami League presidium member and former minister Tofael Ahmed was admitted to Shikder Medical College Hospital here Friday night with high blood pressure. Family sources said Tofael Ahmed, one of the pro-reform Awami League leaders,...
Chandpur, July 21 (UNB) - At least 50 passengers were injured as eight coaches of Meghna Inter-city Express train derailed near Sharashwati station here Friday night. Railway officials said the eight coaches of the Chandpur-bound train, carrying about 500 passengers...
Qazi Azad A growing gap between the real delivery and the goals of the macroeconomic policy -- expansion of the national output or real gross domestic product (GDP), low unemployment and a stable price level or low inflation, may explain...
ISLAMABAD, July 19 (AFP): Two suicide bombings, one of them targeting Chinese workers, killed at least 29 people in Pakistan Thursday, fuelling a mounting sense of chaos in the South Asian nation. Authorities were investigating whether the blasts were part...
BEIJING, July 19 (AP): Arms negotiators sought Thursday to secure North Korea's commitment to its offer to disable its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, preventing the communist nation from easily being able to make more atomic bombs....
NEW DELHI, July 19 (AFP): Lawmakers in India were expected to elect the nation's first woman president in voting that began on Thursday, following the most scandal-dogged contest in six decades of independence. Pratibha Patil, the 72-year-old candidate for the...
KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, July 19 (AP): An earthquake-wracked nuclear power plant was ordered closed indefinitely Wednesday amid growing anger over revelations that damage was much worse than initially announced and mounting international concern about Japan's nuclear stewardship. Toyota and other Japanese...
COLOMBO, July 19 (Xinhua): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said Thursday that Tamil Tiger rebels can not liberate the Tamil minority through the power of the gun. Rajapakse made the remarks in a national ceremony to celebrate his troops gaining...
GAZA, July 19 (Reuters): Children raced to help parents collect food from UN aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip as women sat in the shade near trucks, waiting for their names to be called to receive their food rations....
KATHMANDU, July 19 (Xinhua): More than 500 residents of Baglung district in western Nepal have been displaced from the flood and landslides triggered by the heavy rain that took place last week, the National News Agency, RSS reported on Thursday....
WASHINGTON, July 19 (AFP): The United States and India extended nuclear talks by another day after failing Wednesday to finalize an implementing accord for their landmark civilian atomic deal, officials said. They were scheduled to end their two-day meeting in...
KABUL, July 19 (AFP): Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two German nationals and their five Afghan colleagues in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor told AFP Thursday. "The Taliban abducted two German nationals and five Afghans yesterday (Wednesday)," said Ghazni governor Mirajuddin...
NEW YORK, july 19 (AFP): A steam pipeline exploded in Manhattan on Wednesday in a shower of hot vapour, mud and rock, sparking panic among evening rush hour commuters and rekindling memories of the September 11 attacks among jittery New...
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