FE ReportManzer Hussain, currently resident director of Tata Group in Bangladesh, has been appointed group director communications, Tata Steel Group, as a part of the new global organisation being put in place to process the integration of Corus Pic into...
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has published 10 help-line handbooks to provide easily accessible knowledge about global trade culture and necessary information about potential entrepreneurs and investors for trade facilitation in the country.The FBCCI launched the...
FE ReportJalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System Ltd, Sylhet earned Tk 2.5654 billion (Tk 256.54 crore) revenue in the financial year 2006-2007.This was disclosed at the company's 21st annual general meeting (AGM) held at a city hotel Sunday.Chairman of the...
FE ReportPubali Bank Limited organised a seminar with the participation of all consumers credit agents of the bank at its board room in the city recently. They exchanged their views in the meeting regarding consumers credit. Managing Director of the...
FE ReportEastern Bank Ltd. opened 27th branch of the bank at Chandgaon in Chittagong recently. EBL Managing Director and CEO Ali Reza Iftekhar inaugurated the branch. EBL Head of Consumer Banking Mamoon Mahmood Shah, Area Head Corporate Banking M Fakhrul...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) listing sub-committee has approved the listing of Fidelity Assets and Securities Company Limited, a non-banking financial institution (NBFI).The approval came at a meeting held on Sunday at the DSE, sources concerned said.The DSE board...
FE ReportAB Bank, the first private commercial bank in the country, has launched its new logo with a renewed pledge to provide its clients better service."The new logo in scarlet red is a major shift from the old olive green...
Our CorrespondentsKHULNA, Dec 31: Food procurement drives in ten districts under the Khulna division failed due to higher prices of paddy and rice in local markets than the rates fixed by the government.Official sources said the government set a target...
FE Report Dacca Dyeing and Manufacturing Company Limited has approved 15 per cent stock dividend (bonus shares) for its shareholders.This was approved at the 29th annual general meeting (AGM) of the company on its mill premises at QC Nagar in...
FE Report Md Musa Meah and Mohammed Iqbal have been re-elected chairman and vice-chairman of Continental Insurance Limited (CIL) for the next two years for the consecutive third term. The board of directors of the insurance company re-elected them at...
FE ReportDutch-Bangla Bank Limited opened its 48th branch at Ring Road, Adabar in the city Sunday.Managing Director of the bank Md Yeasin Ali inaugurated the branch.Business personalities, bankers, educationists and journalists were present at the inaugural ceremony. Among others, shareholders...
FE Report All GroupM agencies in Bangladesh -- Asiatic MindShare, Maxus and Mediaedge:cia -- held recently this first ever combined workshop on setting their business vision for 2008 in Shillong, India. Twenty selected managers of companies and business functions attended...
FE Report Grameenphone Limited (GP) recently signed an agreement with NewAge Group to provide complete communication facilities under its Business Solutions package.NewAge Garments Limited Managing Director Asif Ibrahim and GP Deputy General Manager (Commercial Division) Khandaker Omar Farhan signed the...
NAIROBI, Dec 31 (Agencies): Kenya's opposition leader compared President Mwai Kibaki to a military dictator Monday amid protests and violent clashes over an election marred by allegations that Kibaki stole the vote. Several people were shot as heavily armed police...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31 (PTI): December is party time for youngsters and Pakistani youth are no different. But the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto has dampened the spirits of most of the young people who have cancelled their plans to...
BANGKOK, Dec 31 (AFP): The political party aligned with ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Monday it had enough seats to form a government after three minor parties joined its coalition. "The four parties have agreed to cooperate in...
DEOTHANG, (Bhutan), Dec 31 (REUTERS): Bhutanese began voting Monday to elect members to a new upper house of parliament for the first time, a step towards democracy after a century of absolute monarchy. The tiny Himalayan kingdom has been preparing...
BAGHDAD, Dec 31 Agencies): A roadside bomb targeting a patrol near the Iranian border killed two Iraqi soldiers Monday and injured another four, police said, as 2007 neared its end with the country having witnessed a decline in overall violence....
SEOUL, Dec 31 (AFP): North Korea appeared set Monday to miss a year-end deadline to disable a key nuclear reactor and declare all its nuclear programs, key elements of its disarmament as agreed to in an international accordThe US, Japan...
MOGADISHU, Dec 31 (Reuters): A mortar strike in Somalia killed eight members of a family at a refugee camp on Sunday in the latest bloodshed of fighting between Islamist- led rebels and country's interim government, witn"My wife, five children and...
Israel taking Bin Laden's threats seriously JERUSALEM, Dec 31: Israel is taking seriously a threat issued by the head of the Al-Qaeda network Osama Bin Laden in which he vowed the "liberation of Palestine," a government spokesman said on Monday....
The year 2007 is seen as a catastrophic year for the country's politicians as the most high profile ones, including the two prima donnas - Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina - were put behind bars on graft charges, reports UNB.The...
Rival factions of former ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) sailing through a rough weather feel the necessity of unity, but no practical initiative is in sight from either side for reunification, reports UNB.BNP insiders told the news agency that both...
The campus of Dhaka University (DU), the highest citadel of learning and the hotbed of all democratic movements, appeared as the worst troubled spot for the present caretaker government in 2007, reports UNB.The August movement that broke out from the...
NAOGAON, Dec 31 (UNB): A case has been filed against former BNP MP Shamsul Alam Pramanik and 12 others for extortion and patronising militants.Poultry trader Azizul Alam of Dashpara village under Manda Upazila filed the case with the cognizance court...
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) in collaboration with Dhaka Zoo organised a programme Monday to create awareness among schoolchildren and general people in Dhaka Zoo, Chittagong Zoo, Rangpur Zoo and Dulahazra Safarai Park, reports UNB.The programme was held to participate...
KURIGRAM, Dec 31 (UNB): Pneumonia that broke out in the district due to the severe cold claimed 12 lives of children in last two weeks. Sources said 27 children were admitted to Sadar Hospital and three others to an NGO...
KHULNA, Dec 31 (UNB): Casual workers of six state-run jute mills of Khulna industrial zone will go for an indefinite work stoppage from today (Tuesday) to press home their five-point demand.Convenor of the Casual Workers' Action Coordination Committee Mohammad Shahidul...
FE ReportNadeem Qadir (Readers Digest, USA/GBC radio, Canada) and Amir Khasru (Voice of America) have been elected president and general secretary (GS) respectively of the Overseas Correspondents Association of Bangladesh (OCAB) for the year 2008. The election was held at...
Prof Dr Tajmeri S Islam, the acting president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA), Monday resigned from a three-member inquiry committee formed to probe the incident of question paper leakage of a Master's degree examination of the department of Political...
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