COLOMBO, Aug 15 (AFP): At least nine Tamil Tiger rebels and a government soldier were killed in sporadic clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Wednesday. Six of the rebels were killed along a de facto border separating...
SRINAGAR, Aug 15 (AFP): A separatist-led strike paralysed life in revolt-hit Kashmir on India's Independence Day Wednesday, police said, as troops deployed against rebel attacks. The strike, sponsored by both hardline and moderate factions of the state's separatist alliance, cleared...
SEOUL, AUG 15 (AP): Torrential rains in North Korea have forced thousands of families from their homes and left at least 200 people dead or missing, an aid official said, adding that the worst floods there in a decade will...
NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Aug 15, 2007 (AFP): Separatist militants have killed two more Muslim civilians in the south of Thailand, police said Wednesday, while a suspected rebel was shot dead as he tried to set fire to a school. A 26-year-old...
WASHINGTON, AUG 15 (AP): The United States is moving toward blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist" organisation, subjecting at least part of the entity to financial sanctions in a new move against the Islamic republic, a US official...
Six men shot dead in Germany BERLIN, Aug 15 (AFP): German police said Wednesday they had found six men shot dead execution-style and left overnight in two vehicles near a train station in Duisburg in western Germany. A police patrol...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government is likely to sign loan agreements with Japan later this month on a total of US$491 million fund for the development of country's power, railway and water resources sectors, official sources said.A senior Economic Relations Division...
FE ReportChittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) and Woman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) jointly organised a seminar at the Chamber premises Tuesday for the WCCI members to make them aware about stock market investment and facilitate smooth share trading for...
FE ReportWarid Telecom (WT) and Bank Al Falah Limited (BAFL) jointly distributed relief materials among the flood-affected people in Sirajganj and Bogra Tuesday.A team of WT and BAFL -- the two Dhabi Group subsidiaries in the country -- handed over...
FE ReportAktel and Pragati Life Insurance Limited signed an agreement at a city hotel recently to provide life insurance coverage to employees of the mobile phone company. Under this agreement, AKTEL employees will enjoy group life insurance coverage from the...
FE ReportNiloy Cement Industries Limited Tuesday signed an agreement with Niloy Cement Clinkerisation Industries Limited to procure clinker. As per the agreement, Niloy Cement Clinkerisation will supply all clinker requirements to Niloy Cement Industries Limited. The signing ceremony was held...
Recommendation of dividendApex Tannery: The board of directors of Apex Tannery Limited has recommended 17 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year 2006-2007. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be held on September 20,...
FE ReportMd Zahid Anwar Khan has been promoted to managing director (CC) of Central Insurance Company Ltd with effect from August 02.Khan started his career as assistant manager in the underwriting department in 1987 of the insurance company.He obtained BCom...
FE ReportMeghna Life Insurance Company Limited (MLICL) has recently signed an agreement with Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB) Limited for credit rating services of the company. CRAB Vice Chairman Md Matiul Islam and MLICL Managing Director Golam Mohiuddin Faruk...
Sarwar ZahanThe commerce ministry might take action against diplomatic missions that have failed to achieve the export targets set for them, ministry sources said.The ministry is concerned about the failure of more than 50 per cent of the missions abroad...
FE ReportArab Bangladesh (AB) Bank Limited recently arranged a syndicated loan of Tk 660 million (66 crore) for GPH Ispat Limited.It will cover both project loan and working capital finance to establish an integrated steel project.GPH Ispat Limited Managing Director...
FE Report ICB AMCL, a subsidiary of the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared net asset value (NAV) of its three unit funds. The total NAV of the ICB AMCL First Mutual Fund stood at Tk 13,98,90,286.72 on the...
FE ReportMohammad Sanaullah has been unanimously elected president of the governing body of the International Federation of Company Secretaries (IFCS) at its fourth meeting held at Whitesands Hotel at Mombassa, Kenya recently.Council members of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries...
FE ReportPrime Bank Limited (PBL) will provide its offshore banking services to Adamjee EPZ for facilitating investors and adjacent people of Shiddirganj.An agreement to this effect was signed between the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) and Prime Bank Limited...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 15: The chief regional manager (CRM) office of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB), Brahmanbaria unit held the branch managers' and field officers' yearly conference of the bank at the Zila Parishad auditorium Tuesday, sources said.Twenty-six branch managers and...
FE ReportBangladesh Insurance Academy will hold a workshop on 'total quality management (TQM)' today (Thursday) at the Academy building in the city.The aim of the workshop is to enable the participants to implement total quality management in their respective organisations.The...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 15: Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has set a deadline asking 75 advertisement firms (AF) to pay all outstanding dues amounting to Taka 13.9 million lying with them for long, within one week next, CCC sources said. Different...
FE ReportBuro, a leading micro-finance organisation of the country, has decided in principle to disburse micro-credit amounting to Tk 50 million (5.0 crore) among the flood victims on relaxed terms for their quick rehabilitation.The organisation has already started massive relief...
FE Report Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL) donated Tk 2.5 million to the ICDDR'B under the flood relief programme as a part of its corporate social responsibility.DBL former chairman ATM Hayatuzzaman Khan handed over the cheque to ICDDR'B Executive Director Alejandro...
GENEVA, Aug 15 (Xinhua): Global economic and trade growth may slow down this year due to market risks and large trade imbalances, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said in its 2007 annual report yesterday. "Risks in financial and property markets...
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (AFP): The US trade deficit narrowed in June from the prior month, despite a politically sensitive record gap with China, as a weak dollar buoyed exports, the government said yesterday. The trade deficit shrunk 1.7 per cent...
LONDON, Aug 15 (AFP): Britain's 12-month inflation rate fell by the biggest amount in more than five years during July, data showed yesterday, relieving pressure on the Bank of England (BoE) to keep hiking interest rates. Sterling sank beneath 2.0...
BEIJING, Aug 15 (CEIS): China will launch a pilot project of medical insurance to cover 240 million urban residents outside the workforce this year, and all urban residents will become beneficiary of medical insurance by 2010, said a senior official...
SINGAPORE, Aug 15 (AFP): Oil prices rose today on concerns over a tropical storm building in the Atlantic and the potential danger posed to US energy facilities, dealers said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery gained...
FE ReportA delegation of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) led by its President Abdullah Bokhari met Finance, Commerce and Planning Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam Tuesday at the latter's office in the city. DSE President presented a crest to Finance Adviser at...
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