NEW YORK, July (Reuters): Oracle Corporation, the world's third-largest software maker, said Friday Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Larry Ellison adopted a plan to sell up to 100 million of the company's shares over the next nine months. Ellison also plans...
Chairman of Meghna Life and Karnaphuli Insurance Company Ltd Nizamuddin Ahmed left the city Friday to attend the first Asian Micro-Insurance conference to be held in the Philippines, said a press release. The two-day conference will commence on July 25,...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, July 21: Association for Social Advancement (ASA) has set a target of disbursing loan amounting to TK 477.48 million among the poor through its 53 branches in Brahmanbaria district during the July-December period this year. It was revealed...
AMSTERDAM, July 21 (Reuters): Barclays would make a better merger candidate with ABN AMRO than a bid by a group led by Royal Bank of Scotland aimed at breaking up the Dutch bank, a Dutch newspaper quoted ABN's chief executive...
DETROIT, July 21 (Reuters): Chrysler Group and the United Auto Workers union marked Friday the start of a summer of crucial contract negotiations under intense pressure to break the model of business as usual for Detroit. Chrysler, which is being...
HONG KONG, July 21 (AP): Most Asian markets rose Friday, with Hong Kong, Sydney, Jakarta and Seoul hitting record highs. Tokyo also advanced, lifted by steel companies with strong earnings expectations.Taipei reached a seven-year high. Shanghai and Shenzhen both jumped...
LONDON, July 21 (AFP): Europe's main stock markets were mixed by the half-way stage Friday after Wall Street had surged overnight. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose by 0.25 per cent to 6,656.40 points, in Frankfurt the DAX...
FE SpecialGROUP study is becoming popular among students day by day. With the use of cell phone and email, this has been easier for students to communicate with each other, and today they can easily gather at one place. While...
M A IslamABRAHAM Lincon said, "Never put off tomorrow what you can do today". Today, after many years of the death of Abraham Lincon, there are people who will even go one step further: “Never put off for next hour...
JFTC (Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc.) is contributing to the prosperity of the Japanese economy and the development of international society through the promotion of trade.JFTC is sponsoring JFTC Essay Competition 2007 to encourage students, younger researchers and business people...
Abdullah al MujahidArcher K. Blood American Center Library arranged documentary films on Emily Dickinson at the conference center of arts faculty building of Dhaka University recently on the occasion of the observance of Dickinson's death anniversary. The masters and honors...
James Wilson A week at a business school should always prove illuminating for the executives who take up such opportunities. So it was for Arthur Francis - in spite of the fact that most of his weeks are spent the...
Where is my goat?There were these two guys out hiking when they came upon an old, abandoned mine shaft. Curious about its depth they threw in a pebble and waited for the sound of it striking the bottom, but they...
KANDAHAR, (Afghanistan), July 21 (AFP): A purported Taliban spokesman said the hardline militia Saturday shot and killed two German hostages because Germany's government didn't announce that its troops would leave Afghanistan. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the Germans were shot to...
NEW DELHI, July 21 (AFP): Pratibha Patil, a diminutive 72-year-old lawyer, was set to be declared India's first woman president Saturday after one of the bitterest political campaigns in the nation's post-colonial history.Ballots cast by legislators were to be counted...
ISLAMABAD, July 21 (AFP): Pakistan's top judge began his first full day back in office Saturday after a court rebuffed his suspension by under-fire President Pervez Musharraf, a verdict hailed by key ally Washington.Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's Supreme Court victory on...
BAGHDAD, July 21 (AFP): Iraqi troops have detained 46 suspected militants and killed five others in a new operation in eastern Diyala, the army said Saturday, while a US soldier was reported killed in an explosion in the volatile province....
UNITED NATIONS, July 21 (PTI): In an unusual action, the United Nations decided to confine an entire contingent of peacekeepers to barracks following allegations of widespread sexual abuse in Ivory Coast. The world body refused to identify the contingent but...
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Agencies): Vice President Dick Cheney is assuming the powers of the presidency for the second time in five years while President Bush undergoes a medical procedureBush planned to hand over authority to Cheney on Saturday before the...
TEHRAN, July 21 (AFP): Eleven members of Iran's elite revolutionary guards have been killed in clashes with drug traffickers and rebels in the southeastern province of Sistan- Baluchestan, a newspaper said on Saturday. "The clashes happened on Thursday night with...
Al Gore's son charged with drug possession LOS ANGELES, July 21: Former vice president Al Gore's son has been charged with possession of illegal drugs following his arrest for driving offences earlier this month, court officials said Friday. Albert Gore...
COMILLA, July 21 (UNB): Water level in the Gomoti River increased alarmingly due to heavy rainfall, triggered by an onset of monsoon for the last two days, and onrush of hilly waters.Water Development Board sources said the river was flowing...
CHITTAGONG, July 21 (UNB): The DANIDA project official, rescued from the kidnappers 13 days ago, narrated his harrowing experience to the newsmen before leaving the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Saturday.Armed criminals abducted Hossain Shahid Sumon, project officer of DANIDA, the...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 21: A sewing training centre for the poor and destitute women, who are living in the slum areas, has been opened under the management of Rotary Club of Chittagong Mid City at Sardar Bahadur School Camp at...
BAGERHAT, July 21 (UNB): Coastguard members rescued two child labourers from fishermen village of Dublarchar near the Bay Thursday morning.The two rescued children were identified as Monir Hossain (12) and Shahidul Islam (13), hailed from Zianagar Upazila of Pirojpur district.Coastguard...
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) organised a day-long workshop on "Consultative Workshop on the Independent Assessment of the Programme of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Forested Regions of Bangladesh" at Cosmos Centre in the city Saturday,...
CHANDPUR, July 20 (UNB): At least 50 passengers were injured as eight coaches of Meghna Inter-city Express train derailed near Shaharasti station here Friday night.Railway officials said the eight coaches of the Chandpur-bound train, carrying about 500 passengers in 14...
BRAHMANBARIA, July 21 (UNB): A Speedy Trial Tribunal on Thursday sentenced a man to two years rigorous imprisonment for taking bribe. The court also fined the convict Haji Mobarak alias Dumba Haji Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six months...
BANDARBAN, July 21 (UNB): Four out of 15 deer died of a mysterious disease at Bandarban Meghla Zoo of Parjatan Corporation Friday.Police said 15 deer of the zoo suddenly fell sick and four of them died on the day. On...
DU CorrespondentMuzaffer Ahmed and Md Abdul Matin have been elected president and general secretary respectively of the executive committee of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolan (BAPA) for the next two years.A 37-member executive committee was elected at the eighth meeting of the...
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