HONG KONG, Apr 28 (AFP): Hong Kong shares closed with strong gains Thursday, in line with an advance across Asia following a positive lead from New York as traders welcomed leaders' pledges to provide support to the stuttering economy.The Hang...
LONDON, Apr 28 (Reuters): Fund managers could ring-fence assets that have become untradable due to sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine in "side pockets", Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday.The FCA set out its proposals in a public consultation...
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (AFP): Wall Street stocks rose early Thursday as the market tries shrug off recent weakness while digesting mixed earnings and a surprisingly weak US economic growth report.Standouts among the myriad companies reporting results included Facebook parent...
HONG KONG, Apr 28 (Reuters): Embattled China Evergrande Group is targeting sales of 1 billion yuan ($152.26 million) during China's Golden Week holiday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, as the property developer offers apartments at discounts nationwide.With...
Disbursement of dividend LafargeHolcim Ban-gladesh Limited: The company disbursed the cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2021 to the respective shareholders.Reliance Insurance Ltd: The company informed that it has disbursed the cash dividend for the year ended...
A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited and the Research and Innovation Centre for Science and Engineering (RISE) of BUET. Prof. Satya Prasad Majumder, Vice Chancellor, BUET, and Rajesh Surana, Chief Executive Officer of LHBL, signed...
The 23rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bank Asia Ltd was held virtually through digital platform on Thursday. Mr. Mohd. Safwan Choudhury, Vice Chairman of the Bank, presided over the meeting. The AGM approved 15 per cent cash dividend for...
An agreement was signed with ICB Capital Management Ltd to raise the sales of 15 open end mutual funds of ICB Asset Management Company Ltd on Thursday. Mohd Abul Hossain, Managing Director of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), was present,...
The 23rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Mercantile Bank Limited was held virtually from its Head Office on Thursday. The meeting was presided over by Morshed Alam M.P, Chairman of the board of directors of Mercantile Bank Limited, while Managing...
Due to unavoidable circumstances, a board meeting of ONE Bank Limited will now be held on April 30, 2022 at 2:30 PM instead of April 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM to consider, among others, audited financial statements of the company...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-29 00:00:00
Union Capital, a listed non-bank financial institution, incurred a net loss over Tk 1.43 billion during the year ended on December 31, 2021 while the company's retained loss stood at nearly Tk 2.90 billion.The non-bank financial institution's total liabilities exceeded...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-29 00:00:00
Stocks slipped into the red on Thursday, the last trading day before Eid holidays, as cautious investors opted for booking profit amid ongoing corporate declarations.Trading and official activities on the bourses will remain closed from May 1 to May 4...
KARACHI, Apr 28 (AFP): A Pakistan separatist group warned Wednesday of more deadly attacks on Chinese targets, a day after a woman suicide bomber killed four people-including three teachers posted from Beijing.The Baloch Liberation Army-one of several groups fighting for...
TOKYO, Apr 28 (TASS): Japanese Ambassador to Moscow Toyohisa Kozuki is not among the eight diplomats who are to be expelled from Russia, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Thursday."I would like to refrain from comments on personal...
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 (Xinhua): Measles cases spiked around the world in the first two months of 2022, triggering worries about even larger outbreaks, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday.Almost 17,338 measles cases...
TAIPEI, Apr 28 (AFP): Taiwan recorded more than 10,000 new infections for the first time on Thursday following the government's decision to move away from its zero-Covid strategy and begin living with the coronavirus.The shift leaves China-and its financial hub...
NEW DELHI, Apr 28 (BBC): Millions of Indians are experiencing a brutal heatwave that is throwing lives and livelihoods out of gear - and there is no relief in sight."Temperatures are rising rapidly in the country, and rising much earlier...
LONDON, Apr 28 (AP/AFP): Britain's top diplomat called Wednesday for Western allies to send tanks, warplanes and other heavy weapons to Ukraine, saying fears of escalating the war were misplaced and "inaction would be the greatest provocation."Foreign Secretary (FS) Liz...
Nine teachers of Chittagong Independent University (CIU) including its Vice Chancellor Dr Mahfuzul Hoque Chowdhury, Prof Dr Mir Mohammed Nurul Absar, Dr Syed Manzur Quader, Dr Nayeem Abdullah, Dr Rezaul Karim, Associate Professor Dr Engineer Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury, Dr Emon...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-04-29 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Apr 28: Tomorrow (Friday) is the tragic April 29. On this day in 1991, thousands of people were killed and property worth over thousands of crore taka damaged in the deadliest cyclone that lashed the southern coastal belt in...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has claimed to have detained two Rohingya refugees with drugs worth Tk 64 million in Cox's Bazar, reports UNB.The detainees are Sirajul Isalm (28), son of Abul Kashem, a resident of Mochni camp, and Syed Salam...
The rush of homebound travellers and vehicles is growing at the Paturia ferry terminal in Manikganj ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, report agencies.Since Thursday morning, over 300 private vehicles, mostly cars, have been waiting in line at the popular ferry...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-29 00:00:00
A staggering 80 billion (Tk 8,000 crore) is allegedly being looted by transport owners, workers and extortionists in the name of extra fare during Eid trips.The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) made this allegation on Thursday as it demanded that...
A Dhaka court on Thursday scrapped a bail plea filed by Khandaker Enamul Basir, the suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), reports BSS.A High Court division bench comprising of Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman on Thursday denied the plea submitted...
MA Mannan, the first mayor of Gazipur City Corporation and a BNP vice-chairman, died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 72, reports UNB. Mannan, also a former state minister for religious affairs, died at a city hospital around...
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed five students of Dhaka College on a two-day police remand each in a case over the killing of Nahid Hasan during recent violence at New Market, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Akter passed...
A Dhaka court on Thursday scrapped detained ex-Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat's bail plea for the second time as he is exposed to for bail in a case filed against him by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), reports...
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent BNP leader Advocate Mokbul Hossen to jail denying his bail plea in a case filed for allegedly deterring police from doing duty during the recent students-traders clash in the city's New Market area, reports...
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy speaking at a protest meeting organised by the present and former leaders of Dhaka College unit Chhatra Dal at the National Press Club in the city on Thursday against filing false cases implicating...
Hitting out at the main opposition party, Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader Thursday alleged that the BNP and many others were conspiring to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina "out of jealousy", reports UNB. According to Qader, the BNP...
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