The total number of credit and debit cards in the country’s banking system stood at 80,85,834 as of August 31, 2013 as the majority of the scheduled banks issued the cards at a fast pace in recent years to meet their clients’ demand, said a Bangladesh Bank report. BB officials told New Age on Wednesday ... Read more
Month: September 2013
Schemes get BSEC nod today
Bourses’ Demutualisation Schemes get BSEC nod today The Dhaka Stock Exchange on Wednesday proposed that the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission should set the size of board of directors of the demutualised stock exchange at 15 with six member-brokers. The DSE president Ahasanul Islam informed reporters about the bourse proposal after appearing before the BSEC for ... Read more
Banglalink to launch 3G in Oct
The country’s second largest mobile phone operator Banglalink on Wednesday announced that it would launch the 3G services in some selective areas of the Dhaka city by October. Banglalink on the day gave a demonstration of the 3G services at a press conference held at Westin Hotel in the capital. Banglalink chief executive officer
Dhaka stocks drop on garment unrest
Dhaka stocks declined on Wednesday as the ongoing unrest in the readymade garment industry started to affect the stock market. The apparel workers’ unrest over salary hike stepped into fifth consecutive day on Wednesday. Trading suspension of shares of two low cap companies by the Dhaka Stock Exchange’s management also made investors anxious, market operators said. The benchmark ... Read more
BB to give Tk 800cr agri refinance credit to BKB, RAKUB
The Bangladesh Bank board on Wednesday decided to give Tk 800 crore loan to state-owned Bangladesh Krishi Bank and Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank for credit disbursement in agriculture sector. The BB board at a meeting took the decision to give Tk 500 crore to BKB and Tk 300 crore to RAKUB with five per cent ... Read more
Rahima Food trading halted
The Dhaka Stock Exchange on Wednesday halted trading of Rahima Food due to unusual hike in share prices. The DSE management suspended trading of the company at 10:34 am, just four minutes after the start of day’s trading. DSE officials said that the trading of the company would resume Thursday. The shares of Rahima Food, which were
Storms over BCB councillorship on
Sports ministry joint-secretary Abdur Rahman named chief election commissioner The National Sports Council on Wednesday formed a three-member election commission with sports ministry joint-secretary Abdur Rahman as its head for the forthcoming election of the Bangladesh Cricket Board as the nomination of the councillors were completed earlier. A senior official at the sports ministry said
Mashrafee out, Sakib in for DPL matches
Mohammedan SC will be without Mashrafee bin Murtaza for their Dhaka Premier League encounter with Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today, while Kalabagan KC should finally have Sakib al Hasan available for their next match. Mashrafee experienced a swelling around his
BCCI bans IPL founder Modi for life
Disgraced Indian Premier League founder Lalit Modi was Wednesday banned for life from holding any cricket post, three years after being thrown out of his own popular but tainted Twenty20 league. The general body of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, which met in Chennai, accepted the verdict of its disciplinary panel that ... Read more
Open badminton begins Friday
The Summer Open Badminton Tournament will begin on Friday at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium at Paltan. Tournament details were announced by the Bangladesh Badminton Federation, which had earlier signed a Tk 3-lakh deal with Roxy Paints to sponsor the five-day competition, during a press conference at the National Sports Council on Wednesday. Roxy Paints managing director ... Read more
Akram says he resigned before being councillor
Former national captain Akram Khan said on Wednesday that he had submitted his resignation letter as the national chief selector on September 18 before accepting councillorship from the Chittagong division. Akram’s aim is to run as a candidate for the board of directors in the upcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board elections, but he could not do ... Read more
Sagar takes solo lead
International Master Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar of Bangladesh Ansar took solo lead in the Berger Paints 39th National ‘A’ Chess Championship with 4.5 points after beating Hafizul Islam Chapal of Dhaka City in the 5th round match at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Wednesday. Two Grandmasters – Abdullah Al Rakib and
Three to walk gallows for raping nat’l minority girl
A Chittagong court on Tuesday sentenced three people to death for raping a national minority girl. Acting judge Md Rejaul Karim of tribunal-2 for prevention of children and women oppression handed them the sentence. The three convicted are Kamal Uddin alias Juel, 22, Suman Robi Das, 18, and Md Iqbal Hossen, 20. The trio is from Rangunina upazila
Advance train ticket sale begins Oct 2
Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance tickets from October 2 to facilitate holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul Azha. Tickets of all classes for October 11 to 15 will be sold from October 2 to 6, Director General of Bangladesh Railway Abu Taher said at a press briefing at Rail Bhaban yesterday. The sale will continue from 9:00am to ... Read more
32 journos get Meena Award
Unicef yesterday awarded the Meena Media Award to 32 journalists from print and electronic media for their outstanding work in promoting child rights during the last one year. In “reporting category” of print media, Rabaya Borshe Onita of Dainik Satta Sangbad won the first prize among the under-18 contestants while Rita Bhowmik
Arrest of attackers on Rajshahi college teacher demanded
Teachers and students of Rajshahi Education Board Model School and college formed a human chain in the city on Tuesday morning, protesting at the attack on a teacher of the college. Several hundred teachers, students and office staff gathered in the Rajshahi rail gate area at around 11.00am and formed the human chain,
MM College teachers hold demo as fellow comes under attack
The teachers of Madan Mohan College in Sylhet on Tuesday observed work abstention as miscreants beat a lecturer of the college on Monday night. A group of miscreants, armed with hockey sticks, beat Biplab Chandra Roy to serious injury. Miscreants beat him at Lamabazar in the city around 9:00pm
Sylhet mayor launches clean city move
The newly elected Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, has launched a move to make the city clean and traffic congestion-free immediately after he took the office. Arif formally began his office at Nagar Bhaban on September 18 and on that day he issued a press release asking the street vendors to remove their
New Khulna mayor takes charge today
The newly elected Khulna city mayor, Moniruzzaman Moni, said he would try his best to fulfill his poll pledges without being politically biased. He said this while attending a press conference Tuesday morning at Hotel Royal International in the city on the occasion of taking charge of the
5 restaurants fined in Barisal
A mobile court of consumer rights preservation directorate in Barisal fined five hotels and restaurants Tk 30,000 in the city on Tuesday. Directorate assistant director Md Selimuzzaman led the court in the presence of Dr SM Sarwar of Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital.