Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Aug 28: The cottage-based leather footwear factories are gradually gaining momentum in Bhairab under Kishoreganj, as the demand for their products has been increasing in the markets day by day.The footwear industry was launched in Bhairab in 1930s....
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday formally launched a securities-related book published by the SEC.The book titled 'Securities Related Ordinance, Act, Rules and Regulations' was compiled by the SEC.The book contains securities-related rules, ordinance and other provisions updated...
FE ReportThe government has promoted general manager of state-owned Agrani Bank Md Fayekuzza-man to the post of deputy managing director (DMD), according to a press release.Prior to joining the bank, he was the general manager of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh...
TOKYO, Aug 28 (AP): Asian markets were mixed Tuesday, with Chinese stock prices hitting a seventh straight record close but Japanese shares slipped amid unease about foreign markets and a stronger yen. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell 13.90 points, or...
ONE Bank Limited opened its third booth at the DTM (Ops) office premises in the general cargo berth area of Chittagong Port recently, said a press release. The booth was inaugurated by the Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority Captain Yeahia...
KARACHI, Aug 28 (Reuters): Growing political instability in Pakistan has seriously dented investor confidence, sent the stock market tumbling, and widened international sovereign bond spreads.The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange 100-share index has lost about 13 per cent this month, and...
Arbee Textile AGM on Sept 11The 18th annual general meeting (AGM) of Arbee Textile will be held at Southland Centre (4th floor), 5 Agrabad Commercial Area, Chittagong at 11am on September 11, '07. Suspension of tradingTrading of the shares of...
Bangladesh National Cricket Academy team suffered an 83-run defeat in their 2nd one-day match of the Institute Challenge Competition against New South Wales at Palmerston in Australia Tuesday, reports UNB.Sent into bat first, New South Wales posted 240 for 8...
An enthralling series swung back England's way at Edgbaston with a well-constructed 42-run victory. Chasing 282, India made a decent fist of the pursuit as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid added 104 in nearly 20 overs, but Chris Tremlett removed...
A 15-member Bangladesh National Cricket team leaves here today (Wednesday) for Kenya en route to South Africa to participate in the next month's Twenty20 World Championship, reports UNB.Before starting the first-ever Twenty20 World Cup campaign in South Africa, Mohammad Ashraful-led...
LONDON, Aug 28 (AFP): Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set to announce his retirement from football, according to The Sun newspaper.Solskjaer is a hero at Old Trafford having scored the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final,...
Robin Brown, the former Zimbabwe captain, has succeeded Kevin Curran as Zimbabwe's coach.The appointment was made following Zimbabwe's 3-0 defeat to South Africa in the one-day series at home and Brown's first assignment will be the Twenty20 World Championship starting...
Bangladesh will take part in the 3rd Grand Royal Challenge Cup to be held in Myanmar on November 1-7, reports UNB.The Under-23 booters will represent Bangladesh in the tournament, BFF acting general secretary Manjoor Hossain Malu told the news agency.He...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has appointed former national cricketers Rafiq-ul-Alam and Naimur Rahman Durjoy as new national selectors on two-year contracts, reports UNB.Rafiq-ul-Alam will replace Faruque Ahmed as the chairman of selectors, while Naimur Rahman will take the place of...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28 (PTI): President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that he's negotiating with all political outfits in Pakistan, including the parties of former Premiers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, in order to achieve stability in the country and get re-elected...
NEW YORK , Aug 28 (Agencies): A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhoodThe research found that the higher the mother's blood sugar...
ATHENS, (Greece), Aug 28 (Agencies): Foreign firefighters and aircraft joined the battle Tuesday against blazes in southern Greece, and officials expressed optimism that wildfires burning some of the country's lushest landscape could be brought under partial control. The fires, which...
VIENNA, Aug 28 (AFP): Iran has cleared up questions from the UN nuclear agency about its experiments with plutonium, a potential atom bomb material, according to a UN- Iranian working document released by Iran Monday. The plutonium issue is one...
KABUL, Aug 28 (AFP): NATO and Afghan troops killed more than 20 Taliban insurgents in separate battles in southern Afghanistan, including a raid on a rebel bunker system, the alliance said Tuesday. Militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled-grenades...
BAGHDAD, Aug 28 (AFP): US-led air and ground assaults in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala have killed at least 33 suspected rebels, the military said Tuesday. It said several hundred US and Iraqi troops took part in the operation...
Olmert and Abbas meet ahead of Mideast peace conferenceJERUSALEM, Aug 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet on Tuesday for a second time this month ahead of a peace conference called by US President...
Arifa As AlamIt was about 11:30am on February 26, 2007. A woman was flying holding a thin rope connected with a helicopter. Another woman was seen trying to get out of a building using phone cables, but failed. She fell...
Some time in mid 1999 the United Nations made the observation that over 50% of the human population now lives in cities. In a matter of 200 years people of all races and backgrounds, representing all cultures on the planet...
The global house price boom continues in 2007, albeit at a much slower pace and with different set of countries. A dramatic slowdown has taken place in several countries in Europe. House prices in Estonia, 2005 and 2006's star performer,...
A Dhaka court Thursday placed two Dhaka University professors Anwar Hossain and Harun-or-Rashid on another spell of four-day remand in a separate case. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for Dhaka issued the remand order, when the DU teachers were taken...
Detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's eyes glinted Wednesday when she saw her relatives, only to tear when she saw the picture of her 1 ½-month old grand son. She cried holding the photo of the newborn son of her...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to expand its survey to identify new taxpayers in district towns from January next year after the surveys conducted in the city corporations and metropolitan towns proved successful.On March 29...
A special court trying high-profile corruption suspects Monday sentenced detained former communications minister and BNP stalwart Barrister Nazmul Huda to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and his wife Sigma Huda three years of simple imprisonment in a graft case.Another special...
Backing the state plea, the Supreme Court (SC) Monday further stayed the High Court (HC) orders that granted bail to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in two "extortion" cases, reports UNB.A six-member full bench of the Appellate Division, chaired by...
The government totally withdrew the curfew clamped on six divisional cities, including Dhaka, amid campus violence as law-and-order situation has now improved. "Curfew has been completely lifted as law-and-order situation improved following all-out efforts of law- enforcing agencies and cooperation...
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