The garments sector is passing through a hard time because of soaring prices of yarn in the international market and floods in the country, the sector's leaders have said, reports bdnews24.com.The prices of yarn have increased by up to 22...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 4: Commodity storage should be expanded to keep the prices of essentials at a tolerable level. Side by side, import of the goods from abroad at the government level is required, otherwise it would not be possible...
Prices of most of the essentials are comparatively cheaper at BDR-run open markets and sales centres than the prices of such goods in ordinary city markets, a market report of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) said Saturday, reports BSS. But, the...
FE ReportDhaka Bank Limited (DBL) and Katalyst signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for promoting a small and medium enterprises (SME) loan product for quality management services. Under the product, SMEs seeking to obtain ISO/HACCP and other such certifications will...
FE Report A training course on 'Foreign Exchange Derivatives' organised by the Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) International Banking Wing was held at the IBBL head office in the city Saturday. IBBL Executive President M Fariduddin Ahmad was present in...
FE ReportIndustrial Development Leasing Company of Bangladesh Limited (IDLC) has recently changed its name to IDLC Finance Limited to meet and accurately reflect the evolving nature of its business in the field of financial services.Since its inception in 1985, IDLC...
FE Report The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) inaugurated its central library on the library premises of the Chartered Accountant Bhaban at Karwan Bazar in the city recently. In this connection, the ICAB family organised a ceremony on...
JESSORE, Aug 4 (UNB): The joint forces unearthed four spurious fertiliser factories in Sadar upazila Friday.Joint forces along with an agriculture officer and a magistrate conducted drive in Lebutola, Noapara and Hashimpur areas of the upazila.They seized huge quantities of...
Sarwar Zahan US dollar was weak against Bangladesh taka (BDT) last week due to lower demand for the greenback. The exchange rate of the greenback moved between Tk 68.50 and Tk 68.52 against the previous week's range between Tk 68.52...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 4: Extent of debts of Karnaphuli Jute Mills Ltd (KJML) and Forat Carpet Mills Ltd (FCML), sister concerns of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) based at Rangunia Upazila of the district, is around Tk 680 million. These...
FE ReportBASIC Bank Limited Managing Director AH Ekbal Hossain emphasised sanctioning of loan to small and medium industries with an intention to explore employment opportunities and to lessen poverty simultaneously.He was presiding over the 2nd Managers' Conference 2007 in the...
FE ReportShahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) has decided to distribute relief materials worth Tk 1.0 million in first phase among the flood-affected helpless people. The Bank's own relief team will conduct the relief distribution work. The relief distribution programmes will...
FE ReportThe half-yearly managers' conference-2007 of the IFIC Bank Limited was held at a city hotel recently. IFIC Bank Managing Director Mashiur Rahman inaugurated the conference and presided over it. The main agenda of the conference was to review the...
FE ReportAftab Mahmud Khurshid has been nominated to receive 'Brand Leadership Award' at Asia Brand Congress-2007 in recognition of his professional accomplishments in marketing sphere. The congress will be held in Mumbai next month.Aftab will present a paper on "Ensuring...
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JERUSALEM, Aug 4 (AFP): Six months pregnant and exhausted, British mother Jessica Barhum is still shocked that Israeli authorities ordered her, her husband and their baby out of bed at daybreak and pulverised their home. "I can't believe that it's...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 4 (AFP): An Afghan negotiator again ruled out Saturday an exchange of Taliban prisoners to free 21 South Korean hostages, whose families made a new appeal for their release. Negotiations over the church aid workers were being...
MIRANSHAH, Aug 4 (Reuters): At least 22 people were killed Saturday in spiraling violence in northwestern Pakistan as international concern grew over the deteriorating security situation and al Qaeda threat along the Afghan border. Soldiers repulsed an attack by pro-Taliban...
LAHORE, Aug 4 (AP): Supporters of a top Pakistani opposition leader gathered outside a prison Saturday to wait for his release on bail from a 23-year sentence for inciting army mutiny against military President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Javed Hashmi's release...
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (AFP): The US Congress has to determine whether an operational agreement of a landmark US-India nuclear deal is legal, the head of the influential House of Representatives foreign relations panel said Friday. US lawmakers had last year...
PARIS, Aug 4 (Reuters): The French president was not directly involved in an arms deal with Libya this week, a senior executive at the European defence and aerospace group EADS and a presidential palace official said Saturday. France has denied...
LUANDA, Angola, Aug 4 (AFP): Holden Roberto, 84, one of the fathers of Angola's independence and a staunch opponent of President Eduardo Dos Santos to the very end, has died of cardiac arrest, his party announced Friday. "Our historic leader,...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 (AP): Momentum is building in the effort to find a political solution to the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, but until hostilities on the ground cease, the quest to find a political settlement "will not succeed,"...
LAHORE, Aug 4 (AP): Supporters of a top Pakistani opposition leader gathered outside a prison Saturday to wait for his release on bail from a 23-year sentence for inciting army mutiny against military President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Javed Hashmi's release...
YANGON, Aug 4 (AFP): Military-ruled Myanmar has banned poultry imports from India following an outbreak of bird flu last month in the neighbouring country, state media said today. The ban was effective Saturday, the Mirror newspaper said, without giving details...
NABLUS, West Bank, Aug 4 (AFP): Israeli troops have shot dead a leader of the radical Islamic Jihad group in the West Bank and wounded three people during an incursion into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 4 (AFP): A noted journalist and advocate of the African American community in Oakland, California was gunned down in broad daylight in a targeted killing, police said Friday. Witnesses told police a masked gunman approached Chauncey Bailey,...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Saturday termed the present floods a national disaster and asked trade bodies and philanthropists to come forward with a helping hand to face the situation, reports bdnews24.com. "Forty-six districts out of 64 have...
Nine persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Rajbari, two babies drowned in the Flood water in Goalundo Upazila in the district during last...
DU CorrespondentInter-college cultural competition titled 'National University Star Hunt' was simultaneously held in two divisional cities Saturday. Competitions of Barisal and Sylhet divisions were held respectively on the premises of BM College and MC College. Some 75 contestants from the...
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