CHANDPUR, Mar 18 (BSS): Production of hilsha has reduced in the Padma and the Meghna rivers in recent times.Fish experts and traders fear a sharp fall in earning from hilsha export this year. The supply of hilsha has also marked...
Balaka Exchange Pte. Ltd., Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Bank Limited, has signed a remittance agreement with Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited in the city recently. The remittance agreement was signed to facilitate remittances by the Bangladeshi expatriates residing in...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Mar 18: With a view to resist abnormal price hike of the different food items, including the essential ones, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Director General had a meeting with the members of the business community in the port...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Mar 18: The month-long Brahmanbaria Industry and Trade Fair (BITF)-08 began on Anando High School Boarding Math (field) in the town recently.Brahmanbaria Chamber Of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) organised the trade fair.Deputy Commissioner of the district Md Abdul...
FE ReportThe national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways, will launch an extended summer flight schedule. Due to a few changes, the scheduled Flight EY 253 on March 31, 2008 bound for Dhaka-Abu Dhabi will be cancelled. All...
FE ReportExport Import Bank (EXIM) of Bangladesh Ltd has donated an ambulance to Mohakhali DOHS Council for emergency treatment of the residents of the Mohakhali DOHS area as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR).Chairman of EXIM Bank Md Nazrul...
Mahmuda Shaolin The government has extended route permits of taxicabs for another two years, despite protests by environmental groups that the air pollution in the city would aggravate as a result, officials said Monday. The government has made the extension,...
SEC issues show cause notice to Bangladesh DyeingThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued show cause cum hearing notice to Bangladesh Dyeing Finishing Ind Ltd, its directors, managing director, company secretary and M/s Marhk and Co, statutory auditor of...
FE ReportBangladesh Shilpa Rin Sangstha (BSRS) paid Tk 10 million (1.0 crore) to the government as dividend for the fiscal year 2006-07 after posting earnings significantly through proper utilisation of its limited manpower and resources, official sources said.BSRS Managing Director...
A joint venture company of Bangladesh and Canada named Rashid Composite Textile Ltd will set up a knit composite garments manufacturing industry by investing 10.84 million US dollars in Adamjee Export Processing Zone (AEPZ), reports BSS. The industry would produce...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Mar 17: Avian influenza, widely known as bird-flu, has left at least 8000 people unemployed in the district, sources said.The poultry farmers in the district are counting huge losses every day as the sales of the poultry birds...
FE ReportMillennium Information Solution Ltd, Dhaka and US-based TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, Maryland Monday signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance to work on joint software projects in the USA.Mahmud Hossain, chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 18 (UNB): President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed Tuesday called for attaching top priority to creating efficient engineers and science-minded human resources to catch up with the fast-moving world in the 21st century. "The importance of learning science and...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, March 18: Normal academic programme of the University is being seriously hampered as a large number of teachers of Chittagong University (CU) are on long term leaves. Moreover, teachers staying at the station also refrain from taking the...
The six horses presented to Bangladesh Army from the Indian Army are coming today (Wednesday) through Benapole frontier, reports UNB. During Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed's visit to India last month at the invitation of Indian Army Chief Dipak...
FE ReportThe three-day Bose Conference on Contemporary Physics-08 begins at the University of Dhaka today (Wednesday).The inaugural session of the conference will be held in the Physics Seminar Room, MKH Bigyan Bhaban at 9:30 am.Professor Dr SMA Faiz, Vice-Chancellor of...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate's court has turned down the plea for allowing the accused not to appear in court in person in a case filed relating to declaring an export-oriented company 'loan defaulter,' which claimed to have taken no loan,...
FE Report The two-day Australian education exhibition began at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel Tuesday. The Australian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Douglas Foskett inaugurated the exhibition, organised jointly by the Australian Trade Commission of the Australian High Commission and IDP Education....
Seven persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Keraniganj, an elderly woman was killed and two people were injured in a road accident at...
Newspaper offices will remain closed Friday (March 21) on account of Eid-e-Miladunnabi, reports UNB.In accordance with the decision of the executive committee, Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) members will observe the day as a holiday, said a NOAB release....
FE ReportKhanquah-e-Shaheed (Ra) Mia Saheb Maidan Khanquah Sharif, situated at 56-57, Mia Saheb's Maidan Avenue (Old Municipal Street, Luxmibazar), Dhaka, will hold religious discussion, milad and doa mahfil marking the holy Fateha Yazdaham (the holy Egaro Sharif) after Maghrib prayers...
The Sector Commanders' Forum is nearly through with preparations to hold the twice-postponed convention on March 21, the chief coordinator of the forum of the 1971 Independence War veterans has said. "Preparations have already been made for the convention. The...
Women-rights campaigners demanded of the caretaker government (CG) Tuesday to ensure that 33 per cent of positions in the parliament, government and political parties are reserved for women. The demands came from a roundtable discussion jointly organised by Mahila Parishad,...
About 700 journalists and columnists including both incumbent and former editors of a number of national dailies issued a joint statement Tuesday demanding release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia by March 26, reports bdnews24.com. They also demanded that other...
The Supreme Court (SC) dismissed Tuesday all the petitions filed by detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for leave to appeal against the revival of the case. With the dismissal Sheikh Hasina now stands trial for alleged Mig-29 warplane-purchase scam,...
Putting the Election Commission (EC) in the dock, detained ex-PM and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's counsel Tuesday told the High Court that the EC's role is designed to split BNP at the behest of "a powerful quarter" ahead of the...
Dilip Kumar RainaFor the last couple of years India is experiencing a zooming boom in real estate prices. Be it rental value or the capital value of residential or commercial properties, prices have crossed all barriers and have reached to...
Syed Ishtiaque Reza SUMMER is knocking the door. Mercury is moving steadily upward although it's still spring time. Beating Dhaka's searing summer heat would be of utmost importance for one and all. For the affluent summer is the time to...
Paula HawkinsAnxiety over the state of the property market in Britain shows no signs of letting up. As the major auction houses gear up for their February sales, there are worrying signs. Savills says it has seen an increase in...
Simon HoyleWhen investors are spooked by or uncertain about the sharemarket, it is understandable that they look to property as a safe haven. Bricks and mortar have long held an honoured position in the Australian investment psyche. The combination of...
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