GAZA, Dec 14 (AFP): Israel bombed Gaza on Thursday as a top White House advisor was due to arrive in Jerusalem with a rift growing over US calls for its ally to exercise restraint.The war, now in its third month,...
TOKYO, Dec 14 (BBC): Four cabinet ministers in Japan quit on Thursday over a fundraising scandal involving the ruling party's most powerful faction. More than 500m yen (£2.8m; $3.4m) is alleged to have ended up in slush funds over a...
NEW DELHI, Dec 14 (BBC): Fifteen Indian opposition MPs have been suspended after they protested against a security breach in the parliament. At least four people were arrested after two intruders shouted slogans and set off coloured smoke inside parliament....
TOKYO, Dec 14 (AP): The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy signed an agreement on Thursday to establish a joint organization to develop a new advanced jet fighter, as the countries push to strengthen their cooperation in the face...
Debashish Mitra | 2023-12-15 00:00:00
We were the war generation Indian children, as India had fought three wars in our childhood years. 1948, 1962 and 1965. 1971 was still to happen. My father – Brigadier Ajit Kumar Mitra, AVSM, was born in Odisha in 1921,...
Warm and cosy nights are not for everyone in winter. It is a difficult time for the children who spend night on city footpaths. The cold winds during the winter nights pierce their skin, but they have hardly anything to...
Zahid Huq | 2023-12-15 00:00:00
The slaughter of the consumers centring around prices of onion, the pungent bulb, is over. The noise over onion prices has been rather short-lived, as the price of the item has scaled down to the previous level at almost identical...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-12-15 00:00:00
The Indian reality or game show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' hosted by celebrated actor Amitabh Baccchan had its premiere in 2000 giving contestants the opportunity to win Rs 1.0 crore or 10 million in 96 minutes at the latest or even...
Soumya Bhowmick | 2023-12-15 00:00:00
In a significant policy shift, the government is poised to allow investments in the establishment of refineries and marketing of refined oil products, both for domestic consumption and export. A recent gazette notification has unlocked the previously restricted industry sector...
Abdullah A. Dewan | 2023-12-14 12:00:00
Is the current onion shortage a supply-demand imbalance or an episode of market failure? Whatever the reason, exorbitant onion price spirals are an indication of the failure of coordination of the market by the government. Despite multiple measures being taken...
BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (Reuters): Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push for open digital ecosystems in response to new EU tech rules in a move that may also...
BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters): Tesla's Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive and Long Range vehicles will lose an up to $7,500 federal tax credit from Dec. 31 based on new guidance under the US Inflation Reduction Act, a message on the U.S...
Sheikh Akhter Uddin Ahmed, SEVP & Head, Human Resources Division of the National Bank Ltd, addressed as the chief guest and distributed certificates on the concluding day of the fifteen-day 'Advance Course on Credit Operation & Risk Management in Banks'...
Islami Bank Training and Research Academy (IBTRA) organised a "Professional Awareness Programme for Trainers" virtually on Tuesday. Muhammad Qaisar Ali, Additional Managing Director of the Islami Bank, was present as the chief guest and Md. Nazrul Islam, Principal of IBTRA,...
First Security Islami Bank PLC (FSIB) organized a workshop virtually titled 'BAMLCO Conference-2023' for all branch anti-money laundering compliance officers (BAMLCOs) of the bank recently. Md Masud Biswas, Head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), inaugurated the workshop as the...
Prime Bank's women banking initiative, Neera has recently announced a strategic partnership with Shohay Health at a virtual event. Under the deal, Neera customers will enjoy 15 per cent discounts by Shohay Pregnancy App. Shohay Health is a pioneering health...
An agreement has been signed between Union Bank and AMZ Hospital at the bank's head office in Dhaka recently. Under the deal, employees of the bank along with their dependents and clients having Visa Debit Card can enjoy exclusive discounts...
BRAC Bank arranged medical consultations by Malaysian physicians for its employees and their family members. GD Assist, a sister concern of the bank's valued business partner, Green-Delta, arranged this medical consultation. Specialist doctors from renowned Malaysian hospitals assisted BRAC employees...
Malaysian Rubber Council Chairman Dato Sri Mohammad Suparadi Bin Md Noor met BSEC Chairman Professor Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam at the BSEC office in the capital on Wednesday. They discussed collaborative measures in establishing 'Commodity Exchange' of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)....
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revived its $2.9 billion bailout for Sri Lanka on Tuesday after the South Asian nation clinched a debt restructuring deal with China, its biggest official lender.The IMF said its board had...
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress in sustainable fashion, boasting 206 LEED-certified green factories. This impressive lineup includes 76 platinum-rated and 116 gold-rated facilities, underscoring the country's strong commitment to environmental stewardship, reports UNB.In just the past six months, this growth...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-14 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) and other regulatory bodies should have coordination between them while supervising the mutual fund sector. "It [monitoring the sector] is not a task that can be performed by a single department of the...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-14 00:00:00
AFC Agro Biotech is going to produce molecular diagnostic kits as per an agreement with South Korean Bioneer Corporation. In a stock exchange filing on Wednesday, it said molecular diagnostic kits would be used to detect Dengue, Chikungunya, Hepatitis B...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-12-14 00:00:00
Sponsor-directors of some companies have purchased or have declared to purchase shares of their own firms at a time when investors have shown reluctance to put money in the stocks. For example, three directors of Square Pharmaceuticals, announced last week...
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters): Gold prices edged up on Wednesday, buoyed by weaker Treasury yields, but bullion was still near its lowest in over three weeks as the dollar inched higher ahead of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision...
BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters): Oil prices were little changed on Wednesday, after falling by more than 3 per cent to six-month lows in the previous session on oversupply and demand concerns.Brent crude futures for February were up 6 cents, or...
TEXAS, Dec 13 (Reuters): Southwest Airlines on Wednesday raised its forecast for fourth-quarter fuel costs, sending its shares down 1.4 per cent in premarket trading.The carrier, however, expects unit revenue for the quarter to improve to the higher end of...
Dr. Muhamad Abdul Mazid, retired Secretary to the government of Bangladesh and former chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), has been appointed adviser of the International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB), says a statement. Mr. Mazid started his...
The 337th meeting of the board of directors of Islamic Finance and Investment Limited (IFIL) was held at its head office in the city on Tuesday. KBM Moin Uddin Chisty, Chairman of the Board of Directors of IFIL, presided over...
SYDNEY, Dec 13 (Reuters): Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios thinks his well-documented mental health issues have taken a couple of seasons off his career and he will play on for only one or two more years after he finally gets...
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