The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday formed an inquiry committee to investigate alleged illegal activities done by Md Zahidul Haque, managing director of Shurwid Industries Limited, a newly-listed company at the capital market, a BSEC news release said. The two-member committee has been asked to submit its report within 10 working days,
Month: December 2014
BB asks banks to set up CCTV at IT rooms
Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked scheduled banks to set up closed-circuit television cameras at their all types of information technology-related rooms to ensure adequate security, said officials of the central bank. The BB issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all banks asking them to ensure implementation of the directive under the ... Read more
Stocks end losing streak as howla charge scrapped
Dhaka stocks ended a five-day losing streak on Thursday after the Dhaka Stock Exchange Wednesday evening had scrapped howla charge, charge per trade, to reduce investors’ trading cost that rose since the introduction of the lot-free trading system at the bourse on December 11. The DSE key index, DSEX, closed at 4,856.41 points,
Cultural organisations celebrate Victory Day
Different cultural organisations celebrated the 44th Victory Day through colourful programmes across the country on Tuesday. As part of Bangladesh Shilpakala’s 13-day Victory Day celebrations programme, the academy organised a special show featuring a collage of music and recitations performed by the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artistes at the National Theatre Hall of the academy on ... Read more
KKR retains Sakib
Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan is among the players retained by the Indian Premier League champions Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming season. According to a media release posted on the official website of the IPL on Wednesday, a total of 123 cricketers including 79 Indians and 44 overseas players were
Testing time for Titu’s boys
Bangladesh face Japan Under-21 in friendly match at BNS today Bangladesh national football team will face Japan Under-21 team in a friendly match today, hoping to gain some experiences before January’s Bangabandhu Cup football. The match, which will be held at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu National Stadium, will start at 5:00pm and will be broadcasted live by ... Read more
Indian soldier breaks Halim’s world record
Naib Subedar Azad Singh of Indian army travelled 45.64km to break the Guinness World Record of travelling the farthest distance balancing a football on the head. The earlier record had seen Bangladesh’s Abdul Halim covering 15.2km distance balancing a football on the head at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on
Income tax collection drops by Tk 200cr
Retures Submission By Nov Deadline Income tax collection drops by Tk 200cr Collection of income tax paid through the tax returns dropped surprisingly by more than Tk 200 crore within the NBR-set deadline in the current fiscal year of 2014-2015 compared with that of last year, according to the data of the National Board of ... Read more
Trade, commercial loans by BKB, RAKUB restricted
The bank and financial institutions division has imposed restriction on sanctioning and disbursing new commercial and trade loans by the two state-owned specialised agriculture banks, officials said. The banks are Bangladesh Krishi Bank and Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank. Bank and financial institutions division secretary M Aslam Alam
Mobile users near 12cr in November
The active mobile phone users of the country reached to near 12 crore in November as the six mobile operators added more than seven lakh new subscribers in the month. The latest data of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission showed that the total mobile users reached to 11.96 crore in November when Citycell lost
War films, plays show collaborators only as clowns
Mainstream Bangla films and theatre plays on Liberation War represent mostly depict collaborators of the occupational Pakistani Army as clowns in typical attires. In most of such films and theatre productions, collaborators appear as fictitious comical characters with attires of pajama, punjabi and tupi, and with make-up of clownish bearded man, who are engaged with some ... Read more
Rubel gets four-week bail
The High Court on Monday granted four weeks pre-arrest bail to national cricket team pacer Rubel Hossain in a case filed by film actress Naznin Akhter Happy. The bench of Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq and Justice Md Akram Hossain Chowdhury issued the bail after Rubel surrendered before the court in the afternoon seeking bail.
Banned Ashraful eyes a comeback
Suspended former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful said on Monday that he is keeping himself fit so that he can make a comeback to competitive cricket as soon as his ban is lifted. Ashraful was slapped with an eight-year ban from all forms of cricket in June this year after he was found guilty of match-fixing by ... Read more
Japan Under -21s due today
The Japan Under-21 national team comprised with 35 members is due to arrive in Dhaka today to take part in a single friendly football match against the Bangladesh National team. The friendly football match will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on December 18. The Japanese team, who beat Thailand 2-0 in a friendly
Coal import tax halved as brick kilns face crisis
India ban on coal mining hits brick production, price The National Board of Revenue on Monday reduced duties and taxes on coal import by 50 per cent to facilitate the brick manufacturing industry in the country amid an Indian ban on coal mining in Meghalaya, the main source of Bangladesh’s coal import for the sector, ... Read more
BB asks banks to cut defaulted loans even by writing-off
Bangladesh Bank on Monday asked scheduled banks to reduce their defaulted loans to 10 per cent of their total outstanding loans by December 31, 2014 from the existing 11.60 per cent even by writing-off bad loans if required. The BB gave the direction at a quarterly bankers’ meeting presided over by its governor Atiur Rahman at ... Read more
€60m loan deal inked with kfW for improving power system
The Economic Relations Division on Monday signed a €60 million loan agreement with the German Development Bank or kfW to improve the western power grid system. The kfW, which represents the German government, would provide €45 million in loan at 2.5 per cent interest and €15 million in grant, officials said. The contract was
Museum displays glimpse of genocide in 71
Bangladesh National Museum is displaying photographs, posters, different artifacts and paintings depicting the dreadful killings that took place during the Independence War in 1971 from its collection at the Nalini Kanta Bhattasali Auditorium. The weeklong exhibition titled ‘1971 Ganohatya and Nirjatan’ has been organised by the museum marking Victory Day, on December 16. About 200 displays including ... Read more
DPL Super League line-up completed
Legends, Doleshwar, Mohammedan and KCA all qualify The Super League line-up of the of the Dhaka Premier League were completed on Sunday with defending champions Legends of Rupganj, Prime Doleshwar and Mohammedan Sporting Club wining their respective matches to book a place. They are joined by Prime Bank CC and Abahani Limited and Kalabagan Cricket Academy ... Read more
Problem? What problem?
Defending champions Legends of Rupganj opener Tamim Iqbal said that players are not worried about the off-field trouble of the club are thoroughly concentrating on their job at hand in the ongoing Dhaka Premier League. Tamim made watchful 73 runs on Sunday enabling Legends reaching the Super League with a six-wicket win over Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi ... Read more