FE ReportStandard Chartered Bank has recently launched a Depositary Participant Services (DPS) for its retail customers.Standard Chartered Bank Chief Executive Officer Osman Morad handed over the first two welcome packs to two of the priority customers at a function at...
FE ReportMosharref Hossain, one of the sponsor directors of Mercantile Bank Ltd, has been elected first vice chairman of the bank recently.Mosharref is closely involved in print industry. He is one of the directors of Toka Ink (BD) Limited and...
FE ReportA number of corporate bodies and banks, including Grameenphone Ltd (GP), Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL), Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTBL) and Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL), have been continuing their relief activities among the...
Sarwar Zahan US dollar ended stronger against Bangladesh taka (BDT) last week in a moderately active market that witnessed lower demand for the greenback. The exchange rate of the greenback fluctuated between Tk 68.52 and Tk 68.60 against the previous...
FE Report Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) began a seven-day orientation course for the newly recruited assistant officers of the bank at the DBBL Training Centre in the city Saturday. DBBL Managing Director Md Yeasin Ali inaugurated the course as the...
The prices of vegetables in city markets started to come down gradually with the receding of floodwaters in different areas of the country, reports BSS.Besides, the price of green chilli, which went up sharply early in the week, came down...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 11 (BSS): Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) will disburse Tk 470 million (47 crore) agri-loan among the flood-hit farmers of the district during the current fiscal as part of post-flood rehabilitation programme of the bank.The proposed money will...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 11 (BSS): Palli Jibikayon Prokalpa and Palli Progoti Prokalpa, two major projects of the Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB), have been contributing much to alleviating poverty of the rural poor and making them self-reliant.A good number of people...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 11, 2007: The Department of Youth Development (DYD) disbursed loans totalling over Tk 36.47 million (Tk 3.647 crore) among 3714 unemployed youths in 8 upazilas of the district in last five years, sources said.An official of the...
City General Insurance Company Limited Nature of Business: General Insurance Subscription Open: Aug 19 2007Subscription Close: Aug 23 2007 Offer Price (Tk.): 100.00 Market lot (Share): 50 Public Offer (Share): 900,000 Sponsors Portion (Share): 600.000 Private Placement (Share): Total Paid...
GHAZNI, Aug 11(AFP): Two Taliban negotiators said Saturday they were "optimistic" about talks to release their 21 South Korean hostages but insisted that some jailed rebels must be freed first. The Afghan government has consistently rejected the demand since the...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11 (AFP): Pakistani helicopter gunships launched new assaults Saturday on Al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in the mountainous northwest as President Pervez Musharraf prepared to address a peace summit in Kabul. Cobra helicopters killed three suspected militants, pounding what...
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP): Iran on Saturday shrugged off US President George W. Bush warning Iraq about against cozying up to Iran, blaming Washington for the insecurity in the war torn Iraq. "The insecurity in Iraq is the result of...
Washington, Aug 11 (PTI): In the absence of the US Congress agreeing on the comprehensive immigration reform, the Bush administration has stepped up its role in coming to terms with illegal immigration. Two Cabinet Secretaries - Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff...
GAZA CITY, Aug 11 (AFP): At least 20 demonstrators were injured in clashes with Hamas militants in the northern Gaza Strip sparked by the arrest of around 10 members of the rival Fatah party, relatives said Saturday. Members of the...
FREETOWN, Aug 11 (AFP): Sierra Leone voted Saturday in watershed presidential and parliamentary elections seen as a test of whether the west African nation has turned a page from its decade-long civil war fuelled by blood diamonds. Long queues of...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (AFP): The Security Council Friday unanimously agreed to expand the UN mission in Iraq despite the high level of insecurity in the country and resistance by United Nations staff. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said after the...
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (AFP): Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to build pipelines for the transfer of Iraqi crude oil and oil products, the state-run Iran news network Saturday quoted the oil ministry as announcing. The 32-inch (81-centimetre) pipeline will...
KENNEBUNKPORT, United States, Aug 11 (AFP): US President George W. Bush will greet French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy at his family compound in Maine Saturday for a casual lunch that could signal a new era of ties following chilly relations with...
ZAMBOANGA, Aug 11 (AFP): Thousands of people have fled their homes in the southern Philippine island of Jolo as troops pursue Muslim militants blamed for killing more than 20 soldiers, officials said today. Jolo brigade commander Colonel Anthony Supnet said...
GUWAHATI, India, Aug 11 (AFP): Suspected separatists in northeast India shot dead 11 people in the latest ethnic attack ahead of India's Independence Day celebrations, police said today. Separately, a child was killed and 18 people were injured in two...
STOCKHOLM, Aug 11 (AFP): Climate change and a potential water shortage in some regions, also due to the diversion of water to crops for biofuels, will be at the centre of the 2007 World Water Week which opens here Monday,...
M A IslamMANY students just read some chapters once and they go to exam hall only to face difficult time to reproduce what they have learned at home -ultimately they perform poorly in the exam. If you read any item...
AIM Jakaria RahmanTECHNOLOGY is for now and, thus, it is for the future. Information technology (IT) has forever changed the way the librarians serve their patrons. All indications are that the changes will continue. Librarians are adopting dramatically different roles...
Ishmam Raidah RahmanI looked into her deep blue azure eyes. They were sparkling and twinkling and looked full of energy. Her porcelain skin was glowing under the warm bright sun. Her full lips were coated in a warm red glow...
James Wilson AS competition for MBA students intensifies, the staff of Bradford University School of Management have cause to be satisfied with the performance of their often unfairly overlooked institution.Last year Bradford welcomed 156 people onto its full-time MBA programme...
FE ReportHundreds of organizations in Asia Pacific have tested or participated in previews of the latest release of the world's most popular database, Oracle Database 11g. With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development,...
Anick JesdanunAdd gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance.The Cupertino, Calif., startup was forced out of a stealth mode when Universal Music Group announced late Thursday it would test sales...
Mike BantickThe NPD Group have released results from their "Next Gen Functionality & Usage" report and some of the results must be awfully disappointing to the marketing departments of the big electronic companies.Turns out that a large portion of next-gen...
In the mobile phone version of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" video game, the torches hanging along the dark walls of Hogwarts glow in an eerily realistic fashion."We invented the technology, it's called 'dynamic lighting'," said...
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