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...
FE ReportThe Trade Commission of the Australian High Commission and IDP Education Australia are jointly organising the Australian Education Exhibition from August 4 to 6, 2007 at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel. Australian High Commission will run visa information seminar for...
A three-day seminar on "Application of Weather and Climate Forecasts in the Socio-economic Development and Disaster Mitigation" will begin here on August 5, reports UNB. SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC), as part of its regular activities, will hold the seminar...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) is continuing the activities of relief distribution in different areas of the country, said a press release. Fifty-one branches of the bank with it's own relief team are distributing different relief goods including food and...
DU CorrespondentWestern College (WC) accorded a reception to the freshers under the academic year 2007-08 on its campus at Katabon in the city Saturday.College principal Abul Hossain Miah presided over the function. Executive director of the collage and managing director...
FE Report E-Zone HRM Limited, Dhaka, in association with Knowledge Globalization Institute, Boston, USA, held a workshop on "Identifying, managing and implementing organisational change" at a city hotel Saturday, said a press release. Mawdudur Rahman, professor, Suffolk University, Boston, USA,...
Lion Md Nurul Alam has been elected as the new secretary general of Bangladesh Lions Foundation(BLF), reports BSS. He was the immediate past cabinet secretary of Lions Clubs International, District 315 A 2, Bangladesh.Nurul Alam, who obtained MSS in political...
Oracle, world's largest enterprise software company has introduced Oracle® Database 11g, the latest release of the world's most popular database. With more than 400 hundred features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle Database 11g is the...
Samina RizwanBy now, enough ink has been spilled over the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that the legislation has essentially become synonymous with corporate governance reform. As companies meet Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines, two trends have become clear: First, the mandate for good governance and...
CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself -- until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.The "chipping" of two workers with RFIDs -- radio frequency identification...
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