FE ReportIslami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has taken massive or conducting post-flood rehabilitation activities. This was decided in a meeting of relief activities conducting committee formed by the bank in the city recently.Chaired by Vice Chairman of the bank Zainul...
FE Report Square Hospitals Limited and Bank Alfalah Limited have signed a corporate agreement in the city recently. Square Hospitals Director KM Saiful Islam and Bank Alfalah Head of Finance and Administration Shawkat Hossain signed the agreement on behalf of...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (Internet) : Asian stock markets got off to a mixed start Wednesday with Tokyo lower in early deals as a global rally showed signs of losing momentum amid continued nervousness about US mortgage problems. Investors took a...
Announcement of EGM venueThe fourth extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) of Social Investment Bank Limited will be held on September 10, 2007 at 10:00 am at Bashundhara City Grand Hall, Panthapath in the city. Other information of the EGM of the...
LONDON, Aug 22 (Internet): European stocks gained on speculation the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates to ease a credit crunch and support economic growth. Societe Generale SA and Man Group Plc paced an advance by financial stocks. Neste...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Aug 22: As the owners of refineries have adopted unethical practice in supplying edible oil instead of prompt supply a kind of instability in the price level of the same is persisting in the markets. Side by...
FE Report The flood relief committee of the Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL) has decided to deduct one day's basic salary of the employees (officer and above) to assist the flood-hit people of the country as a part of corporate social...
FE Report Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) opened the 22th branch of the bank at Motijheel Commercial Area in the city Wednesday. SJIBL board of directors' Chairman Sajjatuz Jumma inaugurated the branch as the chief guest.Also present in the inaugural...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 16: Association for Social for Advancement(ASA started distributing Tk 1.00 million interest-free loan among one thousand flood victims in the district. ASA arranged a loan distribution function at Char-Chartala of Ashuganj upazila. Brahmanbaria district Deputy Commissioner (DC)...
FE ReportHolcim, the leading cement manufacturer of the country, distributed relief among flood victims of Sonargaon Upazilla in Narayanganj recently.The major areas of Sonargaon including Jaochar, Mangalorgao and Pirojpur have been inundated with floodwaters. Many people of the areas are...
FE ReportA three-day training workshop on 'quality management system (QMS) for SME exports' began Tuesday in the city. The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in cooperation with German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) organised the workshop at the former's auditorium.GTZ...
BAGHDAD, Aug 22 (AFP): Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq Wednesday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter crashed during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in a statement. "Initial indications are that the aircraft experienced a mechanical malfunction. There...
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (AP): The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watchdog...
NEW DELHI, Aug 22 (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched top-level talks in India Wednesday after promising a major fillip for trade and ties between the two Asian countries. India and Japan are working to seal a comprehensive economic...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 22 (AFP): Two shepherd boys were killed in the cross- fire as police clashed with Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan, police said today. The children, from a nomadic tribe, died in fighting in the southern Afghan province...
SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (AFP): Nuclear safety issues are expected to feature prominently in talks among Southeast Asian ministers here Thursday as more countries look to nuclear as an alternative energy amid soaring oil prices, diplomatic sources said. The Association of...
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (AFP): Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto Tuesday urged President Pervez Musharraf to present a power-sharing reform package by the end of August, saying her party was becoming jittery with approaching elections. "I have shared with General Musharraf...
PARIS, Aug 21 (AFP): Ten million-year-old fossils discovered in Ethiopia show that humans and apes probably split six or seven million years earlier than widely thought, according to landmark study released Wednesday. The handful of teeth from the earliest direct...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Aug 22 (AFP): Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in a rocket attack overnight on a camp in northwest Pakistan, police said Wednesday. Several rockets struck the camp at Bannu, close to the restive tribal Waziristan region where Pakistani...
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (AFP): Two-thirds of US adults admit to being in the dark about political issues outside the United States, and only a third are well-versed in US politics, the results of a poll published Tuesday showed. Candidates in...
PENANG, Malaysia, Aug 22 (AFP): Thailand will work with Malaysia to bring economic progress to three Thai provinces and end a deadly insurgency in the south, Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Wednesday. He was speaking as he arrived amid...
Death toll from Mexico flash flood reaches 15 MEXICO CITY, Aug 22 (AP): The body of a 22-year-old woman was found Tuesday in western Mexico, the last of 15 people who were swept away and killed in a fast-moving river....
TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug 22 (AFP): Insurgents gunned down a Tikrit police chief in front of his house in Al-Qadissiya neighbourhood late Tuesday, Iraqi police said. Colonel Othman Chechan, chief of operations for Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, was walking in...
TOKYO, Aug 22 (AFP): Japan's former defence chief Wednesday broke ranks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said Tokyo should extend aid to North Korea if Pyongyang is abandoning its nuclear arsenal. Abe, a sworn foe of North Korea, has...
Speakers at a roundtable in the city Wednesday said the economic growth of the country could be sustained without foreign aid backing, reports BSS.They criticised the interference of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the economic management...
UNICEF country representative in Bangladesh Louis George Arsenault Wednesday appreciated the initiatives taken by the caretaker government to face the current diarrhoea situation, reports BSS."Bangladesh is successfully facing the present diarrhoea situation during this time of natural calamity," he expressed...
The Nazrul Institute has chalked out elaborate programmes in observance of the 31st death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a befitting manner, reports BSS. The programmes will begin with an art competition for children and juveniles at...
Kuwait government has sanctioned one million US dollars for the flood-affected people of Bangladesh, reports UNB.The amount has been provided to Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) to enable it to carry out emergency relief and rehabilitation work in the worst...
Over 90 per cent buildings in the capital city have been built violating the 'Building Construction Rules 1996' and Tk 20-25 crore is allegedly transacted in bribe annually in RAJUK only for approval of designs of such houses, reports UNB.This...
DINAJPUR, Aug 22 (UNB): A court here Tuesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and two others to five years for killing a man 10 years back.The court also fined lifer Jikrul Huq, son of Asiruddin and the two...
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