The number of unemployed people in Bangladesh stood at about 2.1 million (21 lakh) in 2006, according to a survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), reports bdnews24. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2005-06 of the BBS defined 'unemployed'...
FHM Humayan KabirThe installation of the 150-megawatt power plant at Shikolbaha in Chittagong is likely to begin shortly as the process to award the work order to the bid-winning company is nearing completion, official sources said.Sources in the Power Division...
Ralph Atkins, FT Syndication ServiceVIENNA: The credit turbulence that began in the US mortgage market put European policymakers on the spot last Thursday as the European Central Bank (ECB) all but dropped plans for an interest rate rise and the...
FE ReportSubstantial trading of Trust Bank shares triggered stock prices, turnover and market capitalisation on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in the week ended Thursday.The total market capitalisation of the DSE hit a new record when it crossed $ 9...
New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI): As many as 17 Indian firms including Dabur India, Pantaloon Retail, Cipla Healthcare and Asian Paints have been named in the latest Forbes list for top 200 Asian companies with sales of less than a...
SEOUL (South Korea) (AP): South Korea suspended U.S. beef imports today after inspectors reportedly found a recent shipment contained bone that is banned due to concerns over mad cow disease.The Agriculture Ministry said two vertebrae segments were found in one...
Bush defends terror interrogation policiesWASHINGTON (AP): President Bush defended his administration's detention and interrogation policies for terrorism suspects on Friday, saying they are both successful and lawful. "When we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on...
YANGON (AFP): Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will consider positively a heavily conditioned offer to meet the head of the junta, her party said Friday, as a US envoy headed to meet the isolated regime's leaders. The ruling...
SATKHIRA, Oct 5 (UNB): Eleven Bangla-speaking Indian nationals were pushed back to India after BSF had earlier pushed them into Bangladesh through Hijaldi border under Kalaroa Upazila late Thursday night.The 11 ill-fated people are Abul Hasan (20), Swapan Morol (25),...
A sub-inspector of Motijheel police station was arrested while taking bribe from a company official Thursday midnight, reports UNB.Sources said SI Ali Hossain, an investigation officer (IO) in two car stealing cases filed by Prime Insurance Company, demanded Tk 10,000...
SIRAJGANJ, Oct 5 (UNB): Some 123 sacks of urea fertilizer were seized from a trawler at Khaspukuria in Chowhali Upazila Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the trawler anchored at Khaspukuria Ghat at around 4:30pm and seized the...
Three Islamic organisations Friday protested the publication of a rogue cartoon strip by Bangla daily Prothom Alo near Baitul Mokarram, reports bdnews24.com. About 100 activists took to the streets at about 1:30 pm after Jum'a prayers near the north gate...
Most of the NGOs registered over the last five years are Islamic organisations living off shady foreign funds, the chief of Transparency International Bangladesh said Thursday, reports bdnews24.com. Mozaffer Ahmad underlined the need for an independent NGO Commission to regulate...
NARAYANGANJ, Oct 5 (UNB): Another extortion case was filed against former BNP MP Mohammad Giasuddin on Thursday.Abu Taher, a contractor of Shiddhirganj Power Station, filed the case with Shiddhirganj thana against Giasuddin and his four associates, police said.Other accused are...
Former Bawm Social Council president Jumlian Amlai has started writing the first-ever history of the Bom ethnic group, reports bdnews24.com. Amlai said, "The Bawms in Bandarban embraced Christianity in 1927. Because the Bawms did not have an alphabet, Christian priests...
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (UNB): Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Thursday said while there still exists an understandable interest of Bangladesh in the Malaysian labour market, time has come to seriously re-examine its various implications and protect the interest...
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (UNB): Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury called upon the UN membership to dispel "misunderstandings among different faiths".He said that followers of different religions and faiths in Bangladesh live in a state of tranquil harmony, as we...
Poor people facing kidney failure are at a greater risk of dying from lack of treatment because the state's lone specialist hospital dealing with kidney diseases offer no free dialysis kits, reports bdnews24.com. At the National Institute of Kidney Diseases...
SIRAJGANJ, October 5 (bdnews24.com): Fish resources of Cholon Beel are fast depleting as some fishermen have been harvesting mother fishes, fish fries and fingerlings indiscriminately. Once celebrated as a nursery-cum-storehouse of about 175 species of local sweet-water fishes, Cholon Beel,...
Three persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Brahmanbaria, a man was chopped to death by his brother-in-law at Chartolachar village in Ashuganj Wednesday....
GAIBANDHA, Oct 4 (BSS): Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police, Rajshahi Range A K M Shahidul Hoque has said community policing could play an important role in preventing domestic violence and girls' teasing in the society."To check all kinds of...
BARISAL, Oct 5 (BSS): District administration and the members of army distributed a total of Taka 2.20 million among the erosion victims of Babugonj in the district today.Official source said each of the erosion-hit families received Taka 10 thousand as...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 5 (BSS): A literacy programme for aboriginal people of Babudaing under Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila began on October 4. The three-month programme has been taken by the Chapainawabganj Zila Parishad.Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi Mohammad Shafiul Alam was the chief...
RANGAMATI, Oct 5 (BSS): Hawngsha Dhawja Chakma, convener of Chittagong Hill Tracts Communication Committee, died of old-age complication at a clinic in Dhaka.Shantu Larma, Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, expressed his deep shock at the demise of...
FE ReportPrices of brinjal declined slightly and the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.Traders said brinjal prices came down in the markets mainly due to adequate supply of other vegetables.During the...
FE Report The 202nd meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held at its head office in the city recently. AIBL Executive Committee Chairman Md Enayet Ullah presided over the meeting. The meeting reviewed...
FE ReportWarid Telecom has introduced an exciting bonus talktime offer styled 'Eidi' for prepaid subscribers ahead of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Subscribers who have not topped up their account after August 01, 2007 can reload now and talk as much as they...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate remained steady last week ignoring withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Government Treasury(BGT) bonds and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The market experienced...
Commercial Bank of CeylonSeptember 30 - October 04, 2007In the last two days of last week Bangladesh taka got some appreciation against US dollar as the import pressure got an ease and due to substantial volume of inward remittances ahead...
FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently to provide complete communication facilities under its corporate package 'GP Business Solutions'.BB General Manager (Expenditure Management) Asoke Bandhu Das and GP Director (Finance) Arif Al Islam signed the agreement...
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