FE Report Lack of quality employment, coupled with stagnancy in real income growth, has rendered half the country's populace marginalised, leaving open the question about how meaningful is the development, economists told a seminar Thursday.They said poverty reduction, mostly attained...
Expressing concern over the rise of global terrorism, Quarter Master General of Bangladesh Army Lt General Jahangir Alam Choudhury Thursday said the trend of emergence of terrorism and militancy is least in Bangladesh compared to other countries, reports UNB.Concluding a...
FE ReportThe Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought information from the Securities and Exchange Commission about the investments made by detained former minister Nazmul Huda, ward commissioner Mirza Ekramul Hossain alias Mirza Khokon and their family members in the country's two...
FE ReportThe US dollar dropped against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Thursday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with steady demand for the greenback, fund managers said.The exchange rate of the dollar against the BDT moved between the range of Tk...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday gave an assurance to the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) for establishing a separate company on Central Depository System (CDS).The assurance came from the SEC Chairman Faruk Ahmed Siddiqi in a meeting with...
BISHKEK, Aug 16 (AFP): The leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian states met Thursday in Kyrgyzstan to build on growing military and political ties seen as countering US influence in the strategic region. Chinese President Hu Jintao and...
BAGHDAD, Aug 16 (AFP): Rescuers searching for the victims of four truck bombings in Iraq were facing hurdles Thursday as officials feared the death toll from the bloodiest attack since the war was set to climb. Tuesday's suicide attacks targeting...
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters): The United States is quietly pushing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to share power with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, The New York Times reported in Thursday editions, citing US and Pakistani officials. Musharraf, who is preparing...
NEW DELHI, Aug 16 (Reuters): Opponents of a historic nuclear energy deal between India and the United States disrupted the Indian parliament Thursday, saying the government had misled the chambers on the details of the agreement. Unruly MPs shouted slogans...
TEHRAN, Aug 16 (Reuters): Iran's Revolutionary Guards will grow in strength despite US efforts to isolate the force, a Guards official said in remarks published Thursday after Washington's threat to brand it a "terrorist" group. US officials said Wednesday the...
SEOUL, Aug 16 (AFP): Almost 300 people are dead or missing in floods in North Korea, an aid agency said Thursday, as the communist state painted a grim picture of inundated crops and homes, flooded mines and washed-out roads. The...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 16 (AP): The Taliban will hold a new round of face-to-face talks Thursday with South Korean officials over 19 church volunteers still held hostage, a spokesman for the militant group said. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to...
BISSAU, Aug 16 (AFP): A bronze statue of Ulysses Grant has gone missing in the west African nation of Guinea Bissau with police on the lookout for the likeness of 18th US president and Civil War hero. "I don't know...
BANGKOK, Aug 16 (AFP): Thai authorities Thursday placed ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife on an immigration blacklist, ordering their immediate arrest if they try to enter the country, police said. The order came two days after the Supreme...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Aug 16 (AFP): At least two soldiers were killed and four injured Thursday when a bomb hit a Pakistani army convoy in a troubled tribal district near the Afghan border, the military said. The explosion occured at Spinwam,...
NUKU'ALOFA, Aug 16 (AFP): A contingent of troops from the tiny Pacific kingdom of Tonga will leave Saturday for a six-month deployment in Iraq. Captain Toni Fonokalafi, who will lead the 55 soldiers, said Wednesday that the Tongan troops will...
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Xinhua): The US army's suicide rate is at the highest level in 26 years, a latest military report has found. The report, obtained by US media Wednesday, said 99 active-duty army soldiers killed themselves in 2006, the...
FE ReportThe surveyors and officers-in-charge of the land survey and settlement under the Management and Settlement Division of the Land Ministry have demanded that the government step back from the move to allow appointment of Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree...
FE Report Citibank, NA Bangladesh and United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) has recently signed a correspondent banking agreement, which will enable Citibanik to expand its distribution channel in the country. The agreement will facilitate transactions of the valued clients of...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 16: Money lenders have been fleecing the share croppers and marginal farmers at remote villages under Sarail and Sadar Upazilas by charging abnormally high rate of interest against loan money.Share croppers of village Chaturpur under Merashani Union...
FE ReportEastern Bank Limited (EBL) opened another ATM booth at Concord Arcadia Shopping Mall in the city's Dhanmondi area Thursday.EBL Managing Director (CC) Ali Reza Iftekhar inaugurated the ATM booth.The EBL MD, in his inaugural speech, said: "We have a...
FE Report Lighthouse Group and Bashundhara Group signed a business promotion agreement at the BAPL Convention Centre in the city recently.Lighthouse Group President Akbauddin Ahmad and Bashundhara Group Executive Director Mustafizur Rahman signed the agreement on behalf of their respective...
FE ReportSquare Hospitals Ltd (SHL) and Dhaka Bank Ltd (DBL) have recently signed a corporate agreement under which all employees of DBL and their dependants will get privileged coverage of health check-up, medical consultation, diagnostic services and outdoor and in-patient...
FE ReportPrime Islami Life Insurance held divisional seminar at a local hotel in Sylhet Tuesday.Sylhet central mosque Khatib and Central Shariah Council President and Executive Chairman MA Khalek was present on the occasion the chief guest.Executive Chairman of the company...
FE ReportNokia Bangladesh organised the grand finale of the launching programme of five phones, two classic devices and a premium handset at a city hotel Thursday.The programme began on August 5 at Bogra. The phones launched through the programme are...
FE ReportA meeting of Shariah Council of Islami Bima (Takaful) of Meghna Life Insurance Company Ltd was held in the city recently.Shariah Council Chairman and Khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Obaidul Hoque presided over the meeting.The meeting was attended...
Purchase/ sale of director's sharesIbn Sina: Md Tajul Islam Majumder, one of the sponsors/directors of Ibn Sina Hospital Limited, has stated that he has completed his sale of 450 shares of the company at current market price through stock exchange.Mutual...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 16: Exporters and importers here called at Chittagong Customs House (CCH) for immediate introduction of automation in taxation system and described it as a time-befitting measure. Such was the reaction of businessmen attending a meeting on the...
FE ReportBank Asia Limited held a certificate distribution programme of the foundation course for the fourth batch of management trainees (MTs) and the first batch of probationary officers (POs) of the bank in the city recently, said a press release.President...
FE ReportBangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation (BSFF) organised a meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador to the US Humayan Kabir in the city recently to stimulate exchange of information in respect of various non-tariff trade barriers for shrimp and fish export from...
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