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An aghttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=44991KATHMANDU, June 21 (AFP): Nepal was thrown into political limbo Saturday after the Maoists quit the interim government of the newly republican nationhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37358FE Report Grameenphone (GP) Limited recently signed an agreement with ONE Bank Limited to provide complete communication facilities under its Businhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37388Siddique Islam The Primary Dealers Association of Bangladesh (PDAB) has urged the central bank not to allow the non-PD banks and financial instituhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=38613Fazle Rashid in New York AGAINST the backdrop of a run on a regional bank, steady downturn in the economy and no turn around on sight in the immedihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39879British Council (BC) is organising counseling sessions on Studying & Living in the UK and Professional Advisory Service for students for prospective shttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39031Bangladesh being a net importer, its balance of payments (BoP) position is always highly susceptible to the fluctuation in the prices of goods and serhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40954The caretaker government made it clear that it had no 'secret understanding' with any of the political parties, as there has been some confusion creathttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37693Rahimafrooz Distribution Limited held its Annual Dealer Convention 2008 at city hotel recently. More than 175 dealers from across the country participhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43976GALLE, Sri Lanka, Aug 3 (AFP): Teenager Ishant Sharma gave a superb display of fast bowling to help India square the series with a 170-run victory ovehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41644Our Correspondent RAJSHAHI, Sept 9: Rajshahi unit of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has so far transacted Tk 3,195,462 for arbhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=45106FE Report A three-week second phase 'Foundation Course for Probationary Officers' of IFIC Bank Limited began at its academy in the city recently, shttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=48251June 22 - June 26, 2008 Commercial Bank of Ceylon US dollar retained its burly tone against Bangladesh taka last week. The central bank had http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37996FE Report World Bank (WB) Group President Robert B Zoellick Thursday outlined steps to address the immediate risks of the global food crisis whilhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=44711WASHINGTON, July 14 (AP): The Federal Reserve is moving closer to giving home buyers more protection from the types of shady lending practices that hahttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39685The month long abstinence from material cravings for building up character against all sorts of profligate and evil instincts and passions-- the hohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=44327SATKHIRA, Jun 14 (UNB): Three of a family were sentenced to life-term imprisonment by a court here Thursday for killing a minor girl five years ago.http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36730FE Report Speakers at an international seminar on corporate social responsibility (CSR), expressed deep concern over the working atmosphere in bothhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=38145The world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, which was damaged extensively by cyclone Sidr on November 15 last year, must be a priority of rehhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39919Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, June 14: Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Ltd, a modern rolling mill built under the initiative of BSRM Grohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36706Some 251 teachers of Dhaka University (DU) have urged the government to release former Prime Minister (PM) and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her twohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36999An eight-member Bangla-desh delegation left for Beijing Thursday to discuss business issues with the Chinese authorities, including duty-free access http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=35857BANGKOK, May 31 (AFP): Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej Saturday ordered police and soldiers to break up an anti-government protest that has lastehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=35292Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's youngest steel manufacturer said it has become the country's first company to export billet worth US$2.5 million http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=45690http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=47340Shareholders requested to collect dividend warrants Bata Shoe: Bata Shoe Company (Bangladesh) Limited has requested concerned shareholders to cohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41711TOKYO, Aug 3 (AFP): The pre-tax profit of major Japanese companies fell 15 per cent year on year in the April-June quarter, weighed down by the US ecohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41590ABU DHABI, Sept 9 (Xinhua): The volume of non-oil direct foreign trade of Dubai, the commercial and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), rhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=45064Our Correspondent. JESSORE, May 26: Veteran leader of Language movement and president of Bangladesh Krishak Sangram Samity Master Iman Ali died inhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34837Eighty-two Bangladeshis, who were travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as migrant workers, were sent back Monday as they could not present thehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43049Doulot Akter Mala The US-labour group chief in her recent visit to Bangladesh expressed doubt over a claim on elimination of child labour in the shhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39963M Azizur Rahman The government has planned to adopt the country's first Coal Sector Master Plan (CSMP) for proper utilisation of the country's larghttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41964KABUL, July 20 (AP): Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama shared Sunday breakfast with American troops in Kabul ahead of an expected meetinghttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40327Sunder Jiban, working for the protection and development of environment for the last nine years, has been reorganised with a new ad-hoc committee, saihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40492S M Jahangir Chief Adviser (CA) Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed has directed the authorities concerned to gear up the internal foodgrain procurement drive as http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36586FE Report World Bank (WB) has approved a US$ 130.7 million International Development Association (IDA) credit to Bangladesh with a view to improvihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41463Bangladesh has a host of potential products that can earn substantially large amounts of foreign exchange, if only the necessary patronage from the ovhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37539FE Report Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) inaugurated a branch in Bandarban Sunday. It is the 195th branch of the bank located on Central Mohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36086Shahiduzzaman Khan While the Planning Commission has readied the second version of the poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) with a new slogan -http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43916FE Report Commercial Bank of Ceylon Plc (CBC) held a workshop on "Parallel run of Basel II" recently in a city hotel. The workshop was facilitathttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43117Habibul Bashar, the former Bangladesh captain, has said he was prompted to join the ICL because of the lack of respect and importance shown to him by http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=47267FE Report IDCOL has set aside a fund to be disbursed as working capital loans among software and ITES companies through Trust Bank Ltd, IDLC Financhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40355BNP said Friday it had received a letter from the Election Commission inviting the party to talks over registration of political parties, the deadlinehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=44072Ehsanul Haque BANGLADESH has been consistently producing record harvests of food grains in recent years. This would lead to a conclusion that the rhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43380The cabin crews of British Airways (BA) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the world's first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic wearing the orihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=47323BORISHAL, June 24 (UNB): A total of 73 posts have been lying vacant in the Fisheries offices in six districts under Borishal division for long hamperihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37681NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Internet): Indian importers are looking to China manufacturers more and more to fight rising costs, according to dual surveys relehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=46847League leaders Usha KC faced a jolt in their title chase in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League with their first defeat, by 2-3 ghttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=35418A 16-member President XI team leaves Dhaka for Kolkata Sunday night by road to take part in the prestigious Nehru Cup Hockey now being held in the Indhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=51011The ten-day Handball Training Camp, organised by District Sports Association and sponsored by National Sports Council (NSC), concluded at the Faridpurhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39944BAGHDAD, Aug 22 (Agencies): Iraq and the US pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43394Bangladesh will contest for UN Security Council (UNSC) non-permanent membership in 2015, for which Dhaka moves in advance for garnering support, Foreihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=49445http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50666NEW YORK, Sept 24 (UNB): Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury yesterday held a meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma on http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=46506Fredrik Erixon Global trade and investment has surged in the past 50 years. Almost all countries and all sectors today participate in a global divhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37257Arshad Khan THERE was a time when the majority of people in the country lived in the rural areas and collected their waters from ponds and open wathttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34487Touring Bangladesh national cricket team made a frustrating start as they lost to Australian Institute of Sports by 14 runs in the first practice matchttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43037NEW YORK, July 21 (BSS): The USA unit of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) has demanded permanent release of its president and former premier Sheikh Hasinahttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40444Gano Forum president Dr Kamal Hossain Friday expressed his suspicion about the success of the anti-corruption drive as he said many "corrupt people arhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40135GUANGZHOU, China, July 22 (AFP): Chelsea captain John Terry admitted he was still haunted by his horror penalty miss in the Champions League final as http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=40550http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41062Advance voting begins in Canadian election OTTAWA, Oct 4: Canada's parliamentary elections entered the home stretch Friday with the start ohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=47027FE Report Staggering shortfall and frequently interrupted supply of power is considered to be the main bottleneck for Bangladesh to achieve its dehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41288Finance Adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam Wednesday said government borrowing from the banking system would increase in the next budget to finance deficithttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34373Rangs Electronics Limited (REL), popularly known as Sony-Rangs, launched the Digital Handycam Campaign -- '08, a new sales campaign for SONY Handycam http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=46168UNITY, (New Hampshire), June 27 (AFP): Senator Hillary Clinton was reaching out with a show of unity in Unity, bestowing a warm endorsement on her Dehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=38001NEW DELHI, Sept 13: New Delhi's mayor says a string of explosions hit crowded shopping areas in the Indian capital, killing at least eight people and http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=45519JHALAKATI, Nov 7 (UNB): Speakers at a views exchange meeting here Thursday called for halting leasing out nine gas blocks at sea to foreign companies http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50173SRINAGAR, (India), Aug 4 (AFP): Indian officials pledged Monday to foil attempts by Hindu protesters to impose an economic blockade on the mainly Muslhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41713Guy Dinmore FT Syndication Service ROME: Italy has hitched its wagon to the forthcoming French presidency of the European Union (EU), declaringhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36538Police AC crushed Bachelors SC by 7-2 goals in a match of the Green Delta Metropolis First Division Hockey League at the Maulana Bhasani National Hockhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50107Ahmed Khaled Rashid THE assumption of power by the present caretaker government of Bangladesh in the beginning of 2007 ushered a fresh dimension inhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43299Four more national records were bettered on the second day of the four-day 23rd Mercantile Bank National Swimming Championship at the National Swimminhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50730Muralikumar Anantharaman As the financial crisis hammers fund returns, many fund managers are touting their stable long-term records to convince inhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50768Two technicians of Suhrawardy Hospital in the city were arrested as they allegedly violated a young female patient suffering from cardiac complicationhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=38505BNP leader Tarique Rahman's release from jail on bail may hit snags as the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission both decided to invoke the vahttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=44239Mahmuda Shaolin Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to introduce computerised reservations in 30 more railway stations by October this year to improvehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=41723FE Report The central bank has asked the commercial banks to settle the payment of back-to-back letters of credit (LCs) in foreign exchange openedhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34846 The government's revenue department netted a much higher amount of money from the individual taxpayers under the Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) this yearhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=51354FE Report A Bangladesh delegation held talks with the Myanmar authority Thursday hours after suspension of gas exploration work in the disputed wathttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=50125Awami League has demanded withdrawal of the election schedule of four city corporations and nine municipalities, announced by the Election Commission http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37282COLOMBO, Aug 8 (Cricinfo): Dammika Prasad's raw pace pulled India back after an explosive start, whereupon the spinners took charge of the game, as hhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=42098NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (Reuters): Australia are looking for improved performances from their batting and bowling leaders in the third Test starting Wednesdhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=49212LONDON, Aug 22 (AFP): Manchester United veteran midfielder Paul Scholes maintains he will not be making a return to the England side, four years afterhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43452Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, June 8: Four scrap vessel-importing organisations paid duty amounting to Tk 52.5 million to the Chittagong Customs Hohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=36084Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed directed Saturday the Board of Investment (BoI) to redesign its strategic plan incorporating new ideas, practical shttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=42167President Iajuddin Ahmed underscored the need for quick finalisation of maritime boundary demarcation with Myanmar in the interest of both the countrihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43160Food Ministry Thursday apprised Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed of the latest position and preparation for launching open market sale (OMS) operation ohttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=42711Government authorities warned of legal action against the film clubs organising film festivals violating existing rules, reports UNB. Bangladesh Fihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=51254The Awami League (AL) will decide on its participation in dialogue with the government after an extended meeting of the party's central working commithttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34140Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said he hoped that the dialogue between the government and political parties would bring good results fhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=34343TOKYO, June 25 (AFP): The dollar was little changed in Asian trade today as the markets waited for the close of a US Federal Reserve meeting for clueshttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=37744Saiful Haque AGRICULTURE enjoys undeniable importance for the food security of Bangladesh and its macro-economic stability. The import of foodgrainhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=48477Eleven people have been killed in Baghdad in an apparent suicide bomb attack on a convoy carrying the Iraqi government's minister of labour, reports Bhttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=48762FE Report A training course on 'ICT Operations in SIBL' organised by the training institute of Social Investment Bank Limited (SIBL) was held at ihttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=48256ISLAMABAD, Aug 24(agencies): Pakistan's ruling coalition teetered on the brink of collapse as the two main partners squabbled over judges issue and shttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=43653Not only the foreign market, the local furniture industry appears to be experiencing rapid growth also in the local markets with its tasteful, durablehttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=35269World is going to lose some good companies." That's the warning cry from investors in tech these days. Some won't be missed, of course: the lame, or shttp://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=48339Board President's XI 455 (Rohit 105, Kohli 105) and 292 for 4 dec (Yuvraj 113, Jaffer 93) drew with Australians 314 (Hussey 126*, Chawla 5-89) and 127http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=47203Amirul Islam THE budget deficit will continue to be sizeable or on the higher side, notwithstanding the increased revenue collection in fiscal 2007http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.info/search_index.php?page=detail_news&news_id=39366