FE Report The World Bank (WB) Group extended loans, credits, grants, equity investments, and guarantees totalling nearly US$6.9 billion to South Asia in fiscal year 2007, said a WB press release. The amount is an increase of US$2.3 billion over...
Our CorrespondentNAOGAON, Sept 5: The new branch of Islami Bank Community Hospital has been opened at Daowalar crossing in the district town recently.Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi Md Safiul Alam inaugurated the new branch of the hospital recently.Engineer Md Sekander Ali,...
FE ReportDutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) has donated 100 laptop computers with scanners to the National Steering Committee on Voter List and National ID Card Project for implementation of field level work of the project at a total cost of Tk...
TOKYO, Sept 5 (AP): Asian markets were mixed Wednesday, with profit-taking in several bourses coming after an overnight rise on Wall Street.BANGKOK: Thai shares rose on muted volume, with energy, shipping and industrial issues dominating activity. The main SET Index...
TOKYO, Sept 5 (AFP): Sony Corporation said Tuesday it would list its financial arm next month in hopes of raising about US$3.0 billion to reinvest in the recovering group's core electronics business. The initial public offering (IPO) will be one...
FE ReportFrom now on the ICT Associates will market all Megatech brand IPS (ranging from 2-KVA to 100-KVA), UPS and Emergency Lift Operating System (ELOS) in the local market. In this connection, a business deal was signed between the Megatech...
Atlas BD to raise authorised capitalThe board of directors of Atlas Bangladesh Limited has decided to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the company to amend its memorandum and articles of associations for increasing the authorised capital of the...
The authorities concerned will be able to prepare a flawless voter list as the next national election will be held in accordance with the Election Commission's (EC's) roadmap. President Iajuddin Ahmed expressed the hope while visiting voter registration work at...
Bangladesh is a very important member of the United Nations (UN) and plays a leading role in peacekeeping activities and other important issues. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this while speaking to the media following his formal meeting with...
A High Court (HC) Division Bench comprising Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury and M Ataur Rahman Khan began dictating bench officer the judgement in open court Wednesday morning. But it remained inconclusive when the court rose for the day. "The judgement...
The judicial commission (JC) Wednesday took statements of eight more witnesses to the Dhaka University (DU) campus violence, reports bdnews24.com. DU Treasurer Abul Kalam Azad is among the witnesses who testified to the commission headed by retired Supreme Court judge...
JHENAIDAH, Sept 5 (UNB): Joint forces Wednesday arrested Jhenaidah poura Jubo Dal secretary.The police said Ahsan Habib was picked up from the poura office at about 11:30 am. Accused of terrorism, extortion and tenderbaji, Habib was handed over to the...
SYLHET, Sep 5 (bdnews24.com): Classes of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) resume on September 10 after nearly three weeks of shutdown. SUST syndicate, the highest decision-making body of the university, set the date in a meeting Wednesday,...
A Dhaka court Wednesday sent former Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker Fazlul Haque Milon to jail on multiple charges of involvement in criminal activities and embezzling relief, reports bdnews24.com. The chief metropolitan magistrate's (CMM) court of ABM Abdul Fattah passed...
With a big mountain to climb, India sent out the heavy artillery at the top of the order and as Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly fired in unison. A consistent period of high scoring was the order of the day...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Wednesday picked up 33 under-23 booters for residential camp for two ensuing international football meets, reports UNB. Bangladesh will take part in the third Grand Royal Challenge Cup tournament in Myanmar to be held on November...
The 5th Blazer BD School Kho Kho Competition, organised by Bangladesh Kho Kho Federation, begins today (Thursday) at the Outer Stadium Kho Kho ground in the city, reports UNB.Bangladesh Kho Kho Federation Vice-president ASM Ali Kabir is expected to inaugurate...
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (AFP): If Sania Mirza's few fundamentalist critics back home in India did not like her wearing tennis dresses, they must have been stunned at the leopard-like US Open outfit her US doubles partner wore Tuesday. Mirza...
LONDON, Sept 5 (AFP): The English game is being hurt by a lack of over-priced talent and a flood of cheaper foreigners, according to Blackburn chairman John Williams. On the first weekend of the Premier League season, only 37 per...
Bangladesh national cricket team leave Nairobi for Johannesburg this (Thursday) morning to participate in the first-ever Twenty20 World Championship beginning on September 11, reports UNB.After playing the Twenty20 Quadrangular, involving Pakistan, Uganda and hosts Kenya, the Bangladesh side will also...
The FIFA Football Medicine Course-2007, organised by Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) with support from FIFA, begins today (Thursday) at the city's BFF Bhaban.Thirty trainee doctors from across the country, including seven female ones, will take part in the five-day course.The...
The Sam Open Table Tennis Tournament, organised by Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation, begins today (Thursday) at the city's Wooden Floor Gymnasium.Sam International (Pvt) Limited is sponsoring the three-day competition along with their other co-organisations. Some 90 participants will compete in...
Koshaituli Samaj Kalyan Parisad drubbed Mirpur Cholontika SC by 4-0 goals in the Metropolis third Division Football League at the Bir Shrestho Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city Wednesday, reports UNB.Habibur Rahman struck twice while Milon and Helaluddin...
ULSAN, South Korea, Sept 5 (AP): Spain reached the final of the Under-17 World Cup with a dramatic 2-1 win over Ghana Wednesday. Spain's star playmaker Bojan Krkic scored the winning goal four minutes from the end of the second...
PRAGUE, Sept 5 (AFP): Czech striker Milan Baros is doubtful for the upcoming Euro 2008 Championship qualifiers against San Marino and the Republic of Ireland after sustaining a back injur y during training. "We will see what the doctors say,...
Bangladesh plays their 5th and last group match against title contender South Korea in a pool B match of the 7th Men's Asia Cup Hockey Championship in Chennai, India today (Thursday), reports UNB. The match kicks off at 5:30pm (BST).Earlier,...
Australia are hopeful that Ricky Ponting will fly to South Africa by Sunday, ahead of Australia's opening ICC World Twenty20 match against Zimbabwe Wednesday. However, even if he meets that time-frame - and that is no certainty - he will...
COLOMBO, Sept 5 (AFP): Sri Lanka have the resources to win the world Twenty20 crown despite the absence of star off- spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, their captain said Wednesday before leaving for South Africa. Skipper Mahela Jayawardena said Sri Lanka, the...
Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, now in Moscow, has said Russia could be a potential partner for nuclear power generation to meet Bangladesh's growing energy need, reports UNB."As mandated by the Council of Advisers, I've raised the subject at political...
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