FE ReportIFC-SEDF organised a two-day training programme on competitiveness on June 2-3 at a city hotel aiming at helping local businesses to prosper under such increased competition with better strategies.The objective of the training was to bring together business leaders,...
FE ReportThe City Bank Limited approved unanimously 10 per cent stock dividend for its shareholders at the 24th annual general meeting (AGM).The AGM was held at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city Monday with Chairman of the bank Aziz...
Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, June 4: A daylong workshop on governance in agriculture development was recently held at Mohammadpara in Gopalganj town.The workshop was organised by Southern Gonounnayan Samity (SGS) partnership project, and financed by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).SGS President Sardar Ahmed...
FE ReportBangladesh Frozen Foods Exporters Association (BFFEA) has demanded withdrawal of 0.5 per cent turnover tax against the export of frozen foods and shrimps in the budget for fiscal 2007-08.It also requested the government not to cut 5.0 per cent...
FE ReportA workshop on "Prevention of Money Laundering" organised by Khulna Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) was held at a city hotel in Khulna recently. Bangladesh Bank (Khulna) General Manager Sardar Md Shahjahan was present as the chief...
FE ReportNow the consumers across the country can instantly know all the information of the Walton products, like product quality, service facilities, dealers address etc, from their mobile through SMS. RB Group (RBG) Director SM Ashraful Alam inaugurated the new...
FE ReportTrust Bank inaugurated its Halishahar branch in Chittagong recently.Area Comd. Chittagong GOC, 24 Infantry Division Maj Gen Sina Ibn Jamali inaugurated the branch. Managing Director of the bank Iqbal U Ahmed presided over the inaugural function. The SVP and...
FE ReportA three-member delegation led by JCI Bangladesh President Mamun Akbar left for Taiwan to participate in the Asia-Pacific Conference (ASPEC) recently.JCI is a worldwide federation of young leaders and entrepreneurs where young professionals and entrepreneurs are involved in individual...
In 'corporatewatch', published on Page 16 of the Monday's (June 4) issue of The Financial Express, there was an item titled "Paid-up shares of Bank Asia rise", which was mistakenly printed due to wrong information provided the CSE online. Instead...
Yussuf Abdullah Harun, one of the sponsors of the Southeast Bank Limited, will sell 11,000 shares out of his total holdings of 1,55,638 shares of the bank at prevailing market price through Dhaka Stock Exchange within next 30 working days.Quasem...
Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Ltd Nature of Business: Lease Finance & Term Finance Subscription Opens: June 10 2007Subscription Closes: June 14 2007 Subscription for NRB: June 10, 2007 to June 23, 2007 Offer Price (Tk.): 100.00 Market lot (Share): 50 Public Offer (Share): 700,000 Reason for...
COLOMBO, Jun 4 (AFP): Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in sporadic clashes in the north of the island Monday, the day after fierce battles left scores of fighters dead, official sources said. The latest upsurge...
TEHRAN, June 4 (AFP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday insisted Iran would not back down in the standoff over its nuclear programme, saying that the Islamic republic was "invincible" against Western powers. His defiant speech marking the 18th anniversary of the...
SIDON, Lebanon, Jun 4 (AFP): Deadly firefights raged near a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon early Monday, opening a potentially dangerous new front for the army as it battles to crush Islamist militants in the north of the country....
NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters): Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday, aiming to strengthen business ties and boost diplomatic links between the two emerging market giants. Lula arrived in India...
MANCHESTER, Jun 4 (AFP): Democratic presidential candidates demanded a total overhaul of US foreign policy Sunday, chiding China over Darfur, and urging intense diplomacy over Iran and Pakistan. In their second televised debate, the 2008 candidates for the party nomination...
THE HAGUE, Jun 4 (Reuters): Liberia's former President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the UN-backed court. "I cannot participate in...
BAGHDAD, Jun 4(AFP): The US military reported Sunday a total of 14 more soldiers killed in action in Iraq in a series of bomb attacks and clashes with insurgent fighters over three days. In the most deadly single attack four...
SEOUL, Jun 4 (AFP): North Korea's only working nuclear reactor suspended operations briefly last month but has since resumed production, South Korea's spy agency said Monday. The Yongbyon reactor, which produces atomic raw material to make bombs, "was shut down...
FREETOWN, Jun 4 (Reuters): Twenty-two people, most of them Togolese sports officials, were killed when a passenger helicopter exploded and crashed Sunday at Sierra Leone's main international airport, aviation officials said. The Russian pilot of the Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter survived...
KABUL, Jun 4 (Reuters): Afghanistan is not getting enough cooperation from neighbouring Pakistan as it battles a Taliban insurgency, the chief of the Afghan National Army said Monday. "We have a relationship, of course, under the coordination of the United...
Chief selector of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Faruque Ahmed Monday announced a 15-member Bangladesh Test squad for the forthcoming three-match Test series against Sri Lanka, reports BSS.The three-member selection panel, which also comprises Athar Ali Khan and newly appointed selector...
Second seed Maria Sharapova twice came from match point down to beat Patty Schnyder in a gruelling three-set win in the fourth round of the French Open, reports BBC. Three times in the final set, Schynder only needed to win...
KINGSTON, Jun 4 (AFP): The Jamaican Police have requested a third pathology report on the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, the Jamaican Gleaner newspaper quoted a senior police officer saying. The officer, who did not want to...
Second seed Maria Sharapova twice came from match point down to beat Patty Schnyder in a gruelling three-set win in the fourth round of the French Open, reports BBC. Three times in the final set, Schynder only needed to win...
BANGALORE, Jun 4 (AFP): The withdrawal of top cricketers like Graeme Smith and Sachin Tendulkar and an unseemly broadcasting flap have taken the gloss off the Afro-Asia cricket series starting here Wednesday. Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Kumar Sangakkara...
Serena Williams says she will not be affected by the crowd when she takes on Justine Henin in the quarter-finals of the French Open Tuesday, reports BBC. Williams was booed during a highly contentious semi-final against Henin in 2003 -...
India's cricket board is due to reveal the team's new coach, with Australian Dav Whatmore the leading contender, reports BBC. A seven-strong selection panel comprising former cricketers and officials are hoping to make a final decision in a meeting Monday....
COLOMBO, Jun 4 (AFP): Advance bookings for England's winter cricket tour of Sri Lanka has been rising steadily even as fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels escalates, officials said Monday. A tour organising official at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)...
Colin Montgomerie insists he heads into next week's US Open in confident mood, after he closed out his Wales Open with a "perfect" six-under-par Sunday, reports BBC. Montgomerie, who has struggled this season, was on the brink of a maiden...
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