DINAJPUR, Dec 2 (BSS): Industries Adviser Geeti Ara Safiya Chowdhury suggested the state-owned sugar mills Saturday to increase output and cut production costs to survive the competition with imported sugar. Every industry will have to survive through competition in the...
FE ReportNCC Bank Ltd opened the 51st branch of the bank with online facility at Comilla recently.Chairman of the bank Tofazzal Hossain formally inaugurated the branch as the chief guest.Managing Director (MD) Md Nurul Amin presided over the inaugural programme,...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 01: Lu Beng Jeng, Vice-Chairman of the Yunan Provincial People's Congress, said here Friday that wide-ranging possibilities were there to enhance trading, educational, cultural and tourism relations between Bangladesh and Yunan Province of China because of their...
FE ReportThe Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) in partnership with Manusher Jonno Foundation launched the 'Public Relations (PR) Handbook' at a programme in the city Saturday.The handbook was designed for the PR practitioners to help develop their skills and...
FE ReportAn emergency meeting of the Dhaka city branch managers of Oriental Bank Limited was held at its head office in the city recently.Managing Director of the bank Md Asaduzzaman Khan presided over the meeting. Speaking on the occasion he...
FE ReportThe 12th 'Berger Young Painters' Art Competition' prize giving ceremony was held at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city recently. Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited Managing Director Masih Ul Karim delivered the welcome speech at the function. He...
FE ReportHolcim, a leading cement manufacturer of the country, recently started marketing its product Holcim cement in the port city of Chittagong and adjoining areas.Holcim, the Swiss based company, entered the country in 2000. It had been marketing cement throughout...
Asian stocks rose last week, trimming the regional benchmark's biggest monthly decline in 1 1/2 years, as investors bet the US Federal Reserve will lower borrowing costs to bolster growth in the world's largest economy, according to report release on...
Daffodil Computers earnsTk 12.06m net profit Daffodil Computers Limited earned a net profit of Tk 12.06 million in the year that ended on June 30, 2007. The earnings per share (EPS) of the company stood at Tk 0.69.Engineers Ltd recommends25pc...
PARIS, Dec 2 (AFP): The six powers dealing with Iran's contested nuclear programme will start work on a resolution calling for new sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a French diplomatic source said Saturday after a...
PESHAWAR, Dec 02 (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto said Sunday an opposition boycott of upcoming polls would only help President Pervez Musharraf legitimise his imposition of emergency rule. Bhutto said she would meet early next week with former...
MOSCOW, Dec 02 (AP): Russia began voting Sunday in a parliamentary election where the only question is whether President Vladimir Putin's party will win merely a strong majority of seats or a gargantuan, crushing share.The election follows months of increasingly...
BEIJING, Dec 02 (Reuters): China gave a cheer to its first Miss World Sunday, with Internet chat rooms filled with praise for the 23-year-old beauty queen. Zhang Zilin, a Beijing secretary who was born in the gritty northern industrial city...
DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec 2 (Reuters): Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other Democratic presidential candidates disagreed Saturday during a debate in Iowa on whether the United States (US) should immediately end a 4-decade-old embargo on Cuba. At a 'black and...
Assistant Secretary General of United Nations (UN) Jane Holl Lute 'highly appreciated' the contribution of Bangladesh in UN peacekeeping missions, reports UNB.Jane Holl Lute, Officer in Charge of the Department of Field Support created recently at the UN, made the...
Awami League (AL) Sunday urged the caretaker government (CG) to forge a national unity by freeing detained party president Sheikh Hasina to overcome the 'worst situation' caused by the November 15 cyclone in the country, reports UNB."Only state efforts are...
The High Court (HC) Sunday issued rule asking the government to explain why the orders of detention against Tarique Rahman, senior joint secretary general of BNP, and detained party chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Brig Gen (retd) ASM Hannan Shah should...
A Dhaka court Sunday ordered Rejina Naser, wife of detained BNP leader Naser Rahman, to jail pending trial in a corruption case after she turned herself in to the court, reports bdnews24.com. Naser is the son of former finance minister...
BNP joint secretary general Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said that 'a shady force' had temporarily split apart the party's senior leaders but that their souls were united, reports bdnews24.com.
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Sunday said his government is determined to take necessary measures for the complete rehabilitation of the people affected by the November 15 cyclone, reports UNB.He expressed the government stand while receiving donations for the Chief...
The World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a US$ 52 million programme to feed 2.2 million people in Bangladesh for over six months, reports UNB."An appeal for the amount has been made by the WFP and the response is satisfactory,"...
DU CorrespondentThe government Saturday was urged to urgently adopt a mass-accommodation policy alongside distributing relief materials to protect the people of the country's coastal areas from any sort of natural disasters in future. Speaking at the concluding ceremony of a...
FE Report A report titled 'Human Development in South Asia-2006, Poverty in South Asia: Challenges and Responses' will be launched today (Monday) at the auditorium of the Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). The Mahbub Ul Haq Human Development Centre prepared...
Bangladesh Medical Association of North America, an organisation of the expatriate Bangladeshi physicians in the USA, has donated US$ 10,000 to the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund in aid of the cyclone affected people, reports UNBFormer president of the...
Enayetullah Khan, editor-in-chief of United News of Bangladesh (UNB), will represent Bangladesh at the 13th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) to be held in Jakarta from December 9 to 14.Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will...
BRAHMANBARIA, Dec 2 (UNB): Some 6,432 hectares of land have been brought under winter vegetable cultivation in the district in the current Rabi season.Department of Agricultural Extension source said different kinds of winter vegetables, including tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, and...
Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed Sunday donated Tk 5.0 million (Tk 50 lakh) on behalf of the Army and Trust Bank Ltd to the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund for the country's cyclone victims.The army chief handed over...
KOLKATA, Nov 2 (BBC): Pakistan staged a spirited fightback to finish day three of the second Test against India on 358-6 in Kolkata. Resuming on 50-1, in reply to India's mammoth 616-5 declared, Pakistan lost four wickets in the morning...
South Africa haven't lost a one-day series at home since 2001-02, and a disciplined display by their fast bowlers gave them a strong chance of maintaining that record with a stifling performance in the deciding match at Newlands. New Zealand...
Country's two popular clubs -- Abahani Limited and Mohammedan Sporting Club -- face each other in the first of the 'best of three football matches' today (Monday) at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city to raise funds for...
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