LONDON, June 14 (Bloomberg): European stocks advanced for a second day, led by exporters and mining companies, after concern diminished that interest rates will keep rising and metal prices rebounded in London. Michelin & Cie. and Siemens AG led an...
FE ReportFormer deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) and Institute of Bankers Bangladesh Secretary General AH Tawfique Ahmed has been appointed chairman of The Oriental Bank Limited.The BB issuing an order appointed him the chairman of the bank.After obtaining his...
RANGPUR, June 14 (BSS): A three-day training workshop for unemployed youths on 'Development of Agriculture, Pisciculture and Animal Husbandry Resources' began on Pirgachha Model Primary School premises of the district Wednesday.Pirgachha upazila administration organised the workshop with the assistance of...
FE Report Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) organised a day-long workshop on 'Understanding UCP-600' in the city recently. MBL Deputy Managing Director AKM Shahidul Haque inaugurated the workshop. MBL Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP) and International Division head MA Yousuf Khan,...
NEW YORK, June (AP): Stocks moved toward a flat open Thursday ahead of much-anticipated economic readings on inflation that could validate or undercut a stock market rally Wednesday that followed a string of volatile back-and-forth sessions.Wall Street has for days...
FE Report Nurun Newaz has been elected chairman of the executive committee (EC) of the National Credit and Commerce Bank Limited (NCC Bank).The board of directors of the NCC Bank elected him chairman of the committee in a meeting recently....
Company credits its stock dividendBank Asia: Bank Asia Limited has stated that it has credited 25 per cent stock dividend for the year 2006 to the respective shareholders' BO accounts.AB Bank: The board of directors of Arab Bangladesh (AB) Bank...
FE ReportBangladesh Sugarcane Industries Development Forum (BSIDF) has urged the Caretaker Government (CG) to increase import duty on raw sugar from Tk 4,000 to Tk 5,000 per tonne, and on refined sugar from Tk 5,000 to Tk 8,000 per tonne,...
FE ReportBangladesh, which requires overseas investment for economic development, needs to sign deals on expansion of capital investment and protection, and trade promotion with foreign countries to restore confidence of investors. Official sources said a government move to sign such...
FE ReportBritish Airways has made a special offer for students who want to go abroad for studying. The British national flag-carrier is all set to carry 23-kg extra weight for students who will be able to carry their world with...
FE ReportStandard Chartered (StanChart) Transaction Banking signed an agreement with National Life Insurance (NLI) Company Ltd. in the city recently.StanChart Director and Head of Transaction Banking Mirza Aminur Rahman and NLI Managing Director Habibur Rahaman Sikder signed the agreement on...
FE ReportMd Sirajul lslam, secretary to President Iajuddin Ahmed, has been elected chairman of National Tea Company Limited at its board meeting in the city Sunday.He will serve as the chairman until the holding of the next annual general meeting...
FE ReportDohatec Chairman Luna Shamsuddoha has been invited as a speaker on a panel of leading innovators on "Women's Unique Role in Driving Innovation" at the European Women Inventors and Innovators Network (EUWIIN) Conference, being held in Berlin on June...
FE Report International Banking Wing of the Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) recently organised two workshops on 'Foreign Trade and Remittance: Vision 2007' in Sylhet and Comilla.IBBL executive committee Chairman Mominul Islam Patwary attended both the workshops as the chief...
NATORE, Jun 14 (BSS): The authorities of North Bengal Sugar Mill and Natore Sugar Mill in the district are disbursing loans among the marginal sugarcane farmers for seeds, fertilisers and irrigation facilities in the next season.Meanwhile, a huge quantity of...
THE Chittagong region is one of the few regions of the country that signify any physical difference with the rest of Bangladesh which mainly forms a vast delta at the confluence of many rivers. Thus, there is a reason to...
Syed Ishtiaque RezaTHE nation will take time to recover from the shock. More than 100 people were killed and many more are still missing in terrible landslides and flood triggered by torrential rain in different areas of the hilly Chittagong...
Dr. Habib Siddiqui THROUGHOUT history, we have seen the importance of personality in shaping the destiny of a nation. These personalities become larger than their lives. They gravitate people to overcome their local and ethnic/tribal/regional inertia towards a common cause....
Barney JopsonJuggling a mixture of notes in their hands and a jumble of zeroes in their heads, Sudanese are getting to grips with a rebirth of the pound.The new currency is replacing the dinar across a country the size of...
PARKS are the like lungs of a congested and busy city like Dhaka. The asphyxiating urban existence from various factors is provided some relief through these parks that enable residents to be in touch with nature. Only in these parks...
IT is very questionable whether the standards or characteristics of medical teaching and training institutions are possessed by the majority of the private medical colleges that have sprung up in Bangladesh. Thirty two such medical colleges are there but 25...
IBM has announced new software that helps to predict the spread of infectious diseases across countries and around the globe, bdnews24.com. It enables the rapid creation of epidemiological models, which predict how diseases, such as avian influenza or dengue fever...
Thirteen persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Habiganj, two people were killed and 40 others injured in separate road accidents in Sadar and...
The National Sanitation Task Force constituted an independent monitoring and evaluation committee to survey the national sanitation coverage and report back within three months, reports BSS.The task force at its last meeting chaired by Secretary of the Local Government division...
FE ReportA group of armed robbers looted away Tk 55,000 from a sub-editor of The Financial Express, Pijush Kanti Mallick, from the city's Paltan crossing Thursday evening.Pijush said he was going to make advance payment to the Azad Products at...
A colourful programme `Barsha Utsab', to celebrate the advent of Bangla rainy season Asharh, will be held at `Bakultala' in Charukala, Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University (DU), on the first day of the month today, reports BSS.Bangladesh Udichi...
FE ReportThe performance of UCEP (Underprivileged Children's Education Programmes) students notched a success rate of around 90 per cent in the SSC (Vocational) Examination comparing to 51.8 per cent overall pass percentage in this year's SSC (Vocational) Examination under the...
FE ReportRenowned educationist Md Jahurul Islam, former head of the department of English at University of Rajshahi, joined Northern University Bangladesh. He joined as the in-charge of English department of Rajshahi campus of the university.
Mohammad Ali Lincoln obtained Golden A+ in the SSC examination, 2007 in Science group from the Bangla High School, Mirpur, Dhaka. He is the son of Khurshed Alam Milon and Umme Qulsum Rina. In future Lincoln wants to be an...
BRUSSELS, June 14 (CEIS): Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson reached consensus on a number of issues, including textiles, during Tuesday's annual China-EU trade talks, it was revealed yesterday. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA)...
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