Detained Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina may be allowed to see her ailing husband MA Wazed Miah at Square Hospital today (Tuesday).DIG(Prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told UNB they have received former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's application Saturday night...
FE ReportThe National Coordination Committee for Development of Jute and Jute Economy has sought immediate government interventions to save the livelihood of retrenched workers of jute mills of the country.The committee at a meeting in the city Sunday also urged...
The Supreme Court Tuesday revived Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case proceedings, after a freeze of five years. The Appellate Division has started hearing a series of appeals for permission to move against the High Court's death sentences handed down...
THE flood water has started receding from northern, eastern and north-eastern districts leaving a trail of devastation there. It is now repeating the same act in the middle part of the country affecting the life of millions and destroying standing...
Zaidi SattarINFLATION, like the floods, has a habit of returning. On a point-to-point basis, June inflation has reached 9.0 per cent, with food inflation hitting double digits. Inflation hurts the poor more than the rich; food inflation hurts the poor...
Raphael Minder from Hong Kong quoting Moody's latest reportASIAN banks should be able to weather the downturn in US credit markets because of their limited exposure to the subprime mortgage market, according to Moody's, the ratings agency.In a report, Moody's...
Ahmed Showkat MasudTHE investors in the capital market in our country do not make investment decision by reading and understanding the prospectus in most cases. Because they are not educated enough to make investment decision by analysing the information furnished...
THE Chief Adviser's call to the nation to face the flood unitedly, irrespective of political affiliations, is very timely. Nearly one hundred people drowned in floodwater and 37 have gone missing since the flooding began in mid-July. More than half...
EDUCATION is the basic right of all the citizens of any country. The government is responsible to provide this basic right for all the people of the country that it governs. But if there is limitation on the part of...
S. M. RahmanQUESTIONS can be raised how far the microfinance clients are free in choosing quality financial services that will meet their needs. Product concepts largely spring from a top-down approach. Theoretically microfinance market is a segmented market (s) crisscrossed...
David Miliband, MPBRITAIN should respond to the real insecurities and opportunities that exist in the world not by retreating from international engagement, but by using our strengths so that we are a force for good for Britain by being a...
SHANGHAI, Aug 6 (CEIS): Efforts are under way to make the World Expo 2010 Shanghai China a historic milestone, with new records set in the number of participants and visitors, said a senior Shanghai official yesterday. "The organisers aim at...
BEIJING, Aug 6 (Agencies): China's economy may expand slightly slower in the second half of 2007 than the first half, an official with the State Information Centre said. China's gross domestic product will likely grow by 11.3 per cent this...
JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (PTI): Israel has proposed a free trade agreement (FTA) with India to boost burgeoning economic and bilateral ties. Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Ellie Yishai conveyed this during a meeting with Indian...
SHANGHAI, Aug 6 (AFP): China is set to spend 40 billion dollars to bail out debt-laden Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the weakest of the country's big four commercial banks, state press reported today. The funding will come from China's...
TOKYO, Aug 6 (AFP): Japan and Australia today resumed talks aimed at thrashing out a free-trade deal that would secure vital energy supplies for Asia's largest economy but also risk angering its farmers. The two countries already held a first...
HANOI, Aug 6 (Agencies): Vietnam's finance ministry has proposed the government lower import taxes on food, foodstuffs, animal feeds and construction materials on August 8 to curb rising commodity prices in the domestic market. According to the proposal, fresh pork,...
TOKYO, Aug 6 (AFP): A majority of large Japanese firms believe that their business can easily withstand another interest rate rise, according to a survey released today. Fifty-six per cent of top executives at 136 major Japanese companies said "there...
SINGAPORE, Aug 6 (AFP): Oil prices retreated in Asian trade today as investors took profits after the market's record run last week, dealers said. New Tork's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery, was down 69 cents to 74.79...
BEIJING, August 6 (CEIS): The Chinese government last Saturday cautioned gasoline retailers about hoarding and profiteering, while urging its major gasoline producers to do their best to increase supplies of gasoline and other finished oil products. Apparently in responses to...
TOKYO, Aug 6 (AFP): The dollar dropped to a four-month low against the yen in Asian trade today as renewed weakness in global share prices prompted another bout of unwinding of risky positions, dealers said. They said weak economic data...
FE ReportThe half-yearly managers' conference-2007 of Rupali Insurance Company Limited was held at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city recently.Management and Financial Consultant of the company M AzizuI Huq presided over the conference. Managing Director PK Roy and Deputy...
FE ReportAristopharma Ltd, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the country, held its 'Half Yearly Territory Managers' Conference-2007' at Jamuna Resort Ltd in Tangail. Aristopharma Chairman-cum-Managing Director MA Hassan inaugurated the conference as the chief guest.Marketing-cum-Commercial Director Mahboob Hassan,...
BEIJING, August 6 (CEIS): China and the United States have agreed on an initial framework of the memorandum of food safety cooperation, China's top quality control agency said here. The framework covers the safety system on food imports and exports,...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 (AFP): Strong economic fundamentals would insulate Malaysia from the negative effects of rising oil prices in the world market, the central bank governor said today. While inflation would likely expand slightly, the overall effect would be...
BEIJING, August 6 (CEIS): China's renewable energy enterprises will be given a "special protection" by the government starting from September 1. According to the administration methods on power grid enterprises to fully purchase renewable energy (hereinafter referred to as "The...
JAKARTA, Aug 6 (Xinhua): Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina will likely sign a joint venture agreement with its Malaysian and Vietnamese counterparts later this month to jointly explore and develop hydrocarbon resources, local press said today. Pertamina and...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has offered full management control of Oriental Bank to any new buyer as an incentive, according to an announcement issued Monday, reports bdnews24.com."We have given the offer for management control to woo competent investors who have good...
FE Report Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTBL) has introduced 'MTB VISA Electron Debit Card' for its clients. MTBL Chairman Samson H Chowdhury inaugurated the MTB VISA Electron Debit Card of the bank at a city hotel recently. Bank's founder-chairman Syed...
FE ReportThe City Bank Limited has recently signed an agreement with Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB) for credit rating of the bank.Managing Director (MD) and CEO of The City Bank K Mahmood Sattar and CRAB Managing Director (MD) Masihur...
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