Browse Day

July 3, 2023

3 nominated for Telenor Youth Forum 2015

Cellular phone operator Grameenphone has selected three winners from Bangladesh for the grand finale of Telenor Youth Forum 2015. The winners are Abreeshme Haque and Sabab Rahman of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and Sadia Azad from BRAC University, said a Grameenphone press release today. telenor youthNow, Telenor Group will select the Bangladeshi representative from these three for the event that is going to take place in Norwegian capital from December 8 to 11. The Telenor Youth Forum (TYF) in partnership with the Nobel P...

Stocks suffer extensive fall to open week

Stock market suffered extensive fall to open week on Sunday, bringing down the broader indices to lower support level while investors were cashing in instead of taking long position. The DSEX lost over 53 points as major large-cap stocks continued to slid to take benchmark index close to 4700 points at around midday before closing at 4728.12, with some investors buying stocks those became cheaper at last hours trade. dseThe overall trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), however, remained highly negative when 233 securities incurred loss against only 51 adva...

Thousands rally as Turkey mourns worst ever attack

Thousands of people took to the streets of Ankara on Sunday to denounce the government and remember 95 people killed in twin suspected suicide bombings on a peace rally, as Turkey mourned its worst ever attack. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared three days of national mourning, with flags flying at half mast across the country, as questions grew over who might have planned the Ankara bombings. turkeySaturday’s attacks intensified tensions in Turkey ahead of snap elections on November 1 as the military wages an offensive against Islamic State (IS) j...

Navy-Air force seeks permission to set up commercial bank

Bangladesh Navy and Air Force have sought permission from the government to start a commercial bank. Navy chief Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib in a letter to the Prime Minister has asked for approval for the proposed Maritime Bank Ltd. BN-450x251He also said this is expected to ‘further facilitate’ financial services for those serving the Navy and the Air Force. The Air Force and Navy will be partners in the venture. The Navy wants to operate the bank through its commercial arm Nou Kalyan Foundation. A formal proposal will be submitt...

No entrance exams for children: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that kids should be enrolled in primary schools without any entrance exams. “Why should a kid sit for entrance exam? It is not mandatory to go through exams for getting ???????????????????????????????????? admitted into the primary schools,” the prime minister said at a program at Shilpokola Academy in Dhaka Sunday morning. She also ordered ministries to take proper steps in this regard. “Children should admit into schools in their own area. It is their right,” she added. Ad...

WB to scale up funding in Bangladesh

The World Bank (WB) most likely will scale up its funding to Bangladesh, with pleading new financing commitments amounting to $1.9 billion for the current 2015-16 financial year (FY16). Referring to a meeting between finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith and WB senior vice wbpresident Kyle Peters, the multi-donor agency in a press release issued here today (Sunday) said the agenda of the meeting included discussion on the WB's growing portfolio in Bangladesh. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the IMF-WB annual meeting held in Lima, Peru on Saturday where...
  • 1
  • 2