Experts say high PE is a risk factor The price earning ratios of 40 companies have increased to above 40 due to the recent price hike of their shares, making the companies’ shares risky for investment, Dhaka Stock Exchange data showed. Under the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission rules, no merchant bank or brokerage house ... Read more
Month: September 2014
Khulna income tax zone to honour 55 highest taxpayers
The income tax zone of Khulna will accord reception to 55 highest taxpayers of Khulna division. On the ‘National Income Tax Day-2014’ on Monday the reception will be accorded. A rally will start in the morning from the income tax office in the city marking the day. Administrator of Khulna District Council Sheikh Harun-ur-Rashid will ... Read more
Montage: 6th solo exhibition by Samarjit Roy Choudhury
Art aficionados of the country are well-acquainted with the signature style of seasoned artist Samarjit Roy Choudhury. In his more-than-fifty-years of kaleidoscopic journey in art, Samarjit has created a style of his own that sets him apart from his contemporaries. A graphic design graduate and professor at Faculty of Fine Arts of DU, Samarjit’s passion lies ... Read more
Bollywood’s encounter with gangsters
Underworld dons and their lives have been a constant source of inspiration for film-makers, over the years. And now, a number of new films are revisiting the genre, reports Hindustan Times. To start with, Arjun Rampal will be seen as real life gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli in a film, titled Daddy. Gawli is a politician in ... Read more
Tigers out to spoil WI’s 500th Test party
Since the inaugural Test, Bangladesh’s involvement in a historic Test match was the inauguration of electronics scoreboard at Basin Reserve, the traditional hub of New Zealand cricket. In January 2008, prior to the second Test against Bangladesh, New Zealand inaugurated the scoreboard 140 years after the ground hosted its first ever cricket match.
A festival without prince
Cricket was once the most popular sport in the Caribbean, but things are changing rapidly with athletics and basketball taking its place in most of the islands of the region. St Lucia is one of the few islands where the sporting icon is still a cricketer and he is none other than Darren Sammy, the ... Read more
Taskin’s hopes of playing in Asiad brightens
Paceman Taskin Ahmed’s chances of playing in the Asian Games Twenty20 cricket for Bangladesh brightened when an MRI report suggested that it was nothing serious with his right knee, Brett Harrot, manager of BCB’s physiotherapy department, told New Age on Thursday. Taskin, who has been suffering from a tendon injury in his
BCB vice-presidents election takes a new twist
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s election for the vice-president posts took a new twist when Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club’s representative Nazib Ahmed entered the race by submitting his nomination paper on Thursday. The interested candidates were allowed to buy and submit their nomination papers at the SBNS until September 11 after the BCB initiated the move to ... Read more
BPL match-fixing hearing ends
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s disciplinary panel completed its final hearing of the appeals against the BCB anti-corruption tribunal’s verdicts in the Bangladesh Premier League’s match-fixing trial on Thursday. The disciplinary panel had earlier completed the preliminary hearing on August 6 and began the final hearing from last Monday. Former national team captain Mohammad Ashraful
MSC not to loan players to Russell for AFC President’s Cup
Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra received further blow after Mithun Chowdhury joined Asiad squad, when Mohammedan Sporting Club refused to release their five players to play for them in the AFC President’s Cup final round starting in Sri Lanka from September 20. Mohammedan Sporting Club sent a letter to the
Banks continue to ignore rural areas in disbursing SME loans
The scheduled banks and non-bank financial institutions continued to ignore the rural entrepreneurs disbursing only 23.86 per cent of their total sanctioned SME loans among them in the first half of this year. According to the latest Bangladesh Bank data, the banks and the NBFIs disbursed Tk 11,252.46 crore in loans to the SMEs located in ... Read more
NBR to reward 403 top taxpayers
The National Board of Revenue is going to reward 403 individual and corporate taxpayers tax cards and certificates for paying the highest income tax at national and district levels for the fiscal years of 2012-13 and 2013-14. The revenue board will hand over the tax cards, crests and certificates to the taxpayers at nine different programmes ... Read more
Govt sets fresh deadlines to meet US, EU conditions on factory safety
The government on Thursday set fresh deadlines for implementing the remaining conditions of the action plans provided by the US government and the EU Sustainability Compact to revive generalised system of preferences in the US market and to retain the duty-free access to the EU countries. At a meeting with foreign diplomats, senior officials of the ... Read more
BB asks banks to give fresh loans to flood-hit farmers
Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked scheduled banks to disburse fresh farm loans to farmers even if they fail to repay installments of the previous agricultural loans in the country’s 21 flood affected districts. The central bank issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all banks asking them to maintain an intensive monitoring ... Read more
Feroza Begum: the nightingale will live forever
There was, till the day before yesterday, perhaps no one else but Feroza Begum among the living singers who had the opportunity to learn music from none other than the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Feroza Begum, the nightingale of Nazrul Sangeet, died aged 84 on Tuesday. She has left forever but she will not ... Read more
Tigers inspired by second innings
Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim was taking inspiration from the team’s second innings batting in the first Test as they moved to St Lucia on Wednesday for the second and final Test against West Indies. Bangladesh were thrashed by 10 wickets in the first Test, but they at least showed some courage in the second innings when ... Read more
Al-Amin reported for suspect action
Bangladesh’s struggling cricket team suffered a further blow when fast bowler Al-Amin Hossain was reported for suspect bowling action during the side’s 10 wickets loss to West Indies in the first Test in St Vincent. Al-Amin is a second Bangladeshi bowler to be reported during this tour after off-spinner Sohag Gazi, who has returned home without ... Read more
BCB holds skill programme for cricket coaches
The Bangladesh Cricket Board began a two-day long specialist skill training programme for the coaches from different corners of the country in order to introduce them to the modern coaching method, said BCB officials on Wednesday. The programme was organised by the BCB’s game development committee to see the development made by district coaches and further ... Read more
U-23s lose to Vietnam in warm-up
Defender Meshu out of the Games with injury Bangladesh Under-23 national football team’s hopes of doing anything in the Asian Games took a heavy jolt when they lost their warm-up match against Vietnam Unted-23s 4-2 at the Munhak Football Field in Incheon, South Korea on Wednesday. With just five days to go before the start of ... Read more
Govt to review VAT act bowing down to businesses’ pressure
In the face of strong criticism from the business community, the government on Wednesday decided to review the new Value-Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act-2012 which are supposed to be implemented from July next year. At a seminar on the law, finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith instructed the National Board of Revenue to form a ... Read more