The Teknaf-Tetulia roadshow aimed mainly at raising awareness against money laundering starts today in Cox’s Bazar. Governor of Bangladesh Bank Atiur Rahman is expected to inaugurate the eight-day roadshow on the premises of Teknaf branch of AB Bank Friday morning. Bangladesh Bank, in cooperation with 37 other banks and the Small and Medium Enterprise
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Need for rural power met halfway: REB chief
The Rural Electrification Board is receiving almost half the supply of daily demand for about 2,500MW power in rural areas, said the REB chairman yesterday. The result is, the erratic supply of electricity affects irrigation during the current boro rice
Prime Bank declares 30pc stock dividend
Shareholders of Prime Bank Limited approved the Financial Statement of the Bank for the year 2009 and declared 30per cent Stock Dividend,10per cent Cash Dividend and also took a special resolution to offer one Right Share against 4 (Four) Ordinary Shares (i.e. 1R:4) at a premium of Tk.200/- against each share in the
Black Night revisited
Nation celebrates Independence Day today The horrors of March 25 night return to haunt the nation as it observes the 4oth Independence Day today, but this time with a mixed emotion of joy and worry as the government is set to start the process of trying war criminals. Now, the nation waits for quick completion ... Read more
Couple shot dead over daughter’s marriage proposal refusal
Assailants on Wednesday morning shot dead a businessman and his wife in their rented house allegedly over their rejection of a marriage proposal for their daughter at Kalachandpur in the Gulshan area in Dhaka. The deceased were fisheries and nursery businessman Sadikur Rahman, 50, and his wife,
BTRC shuts down RanksTel, Dhaka Phone again
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Wednesday sealed off the switch rooms of private landline operators RanksTel and Dhaka Phone again for their failure to provide lists of their subscribers. The commission chairman, Zia Ahmed, told New Age the landline operators had failed to provide
Not accidents, but murders
Families gather to mourn deaths in road crashes Sufia Kamal Auditorium of the National Museum was plunged into a sombre mood yesterday with the arrival of family members of road accident victims. They were sobbing uncontrollably and some of them were trying to choke back tears as they recounted how their near and dear ones ... Read more
Warid signs deals with BTCL, Teletalk to share infrastructure
Warid Telecom has signed separate deals with Bangladesh Telecommuni-cations Company Ltd (BTCL) and Teletalk to share infrastructure among each other. The operators will share BTS, transmission equipment, transmission bandwidth, space, towers, poles, power, generator and optical fibre lines, Warid said in a
Share Bazaar Mela begin tomorrow
The three-day-long second ‘Share Bazaar Mela 2010’ will begin tomorrow at the Winter Garden of Dhaka Sheraton Hotel. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister G M Quader will inaugurate the event. Earlier the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel successfully organised the first “Share Bazaar Mela-09, displaying its event management
Panic attack by hijras at Uttara: Two hurt
A group of hijras (hermaphrodites), who were engaged in raising extortion money from different houses by intimidation, attacked a house at Uttara sector 5 yesterday and injured two security personnel. The group, consisting five to six hijras, was chased away by the local people with canes and brickbats. During the short chase, one hijra was
Bahrain Air launches flights from Chittagong
Bahrain Air, the first privately owned national carrier of Bahrain, started its flight from Chittagong to the Middle East yesterday. The inaugural flight flew from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong at 7.30am. Officials of Flight Link Company, Bahrain Air’s general sales agent for Bangladesh, said
Prime Bank celebrates ‘Decade of Loan Syndications’
Prime Bank Limited has successfully completed a decade of loan syndications as the lead arranger. To celebrate its ongoing journey for expanding partnership and building economy the bank on Monday held a press conference at a city hotel. M Ehsanul Haque, Managing Director, Md. Mehmood Husain, DMD, Md.Touhidul Alam Khan,
GMG to fly to Abu Dhabi
GMG Airlines is set to open flights to the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi next week, to carry more Bangladeshi travellers, especially migrant workers, to the Gulf. The carrier said it will fly twice a week between Dhaka and Abu Dhabi on Thursdays and Sundays, beginning March 28, according to a
Aktel achieves growth
Aktel posted a growth in revenue market share during 2009. The mobile phone operators achieved a three per cent increase in revenue share in 2009 over the previous year, said a news release. In 2009, Aktel earned 18.2 per cent revenue market share against 15.2 per cent in
Kazi & Kazi Tea launches ‘Teatulia’ brand in Japan
After US, Kazi & Kazi Tea, the only organic tea of Bangladesh has recently launched its Brand in Japan with the brand name ‘Teatulia’. In the recently held fare Foodex 2010 in Japan, Dr. Kazi Anis Ahmed, CEO, Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate Ltd. along with their partnering distributor for Japan Masao,
MTB Securities opens Sylhet branch
MTB Securities Limited, the stock brokerage arm of Mutual Trust Bank Limited, opened its branch at City Centre at Zinda Bazar in Sylhet on Monday. President of Chittagong Stock Exchange Fakhor Uddin Ali Ahmed inaugurated the
BTCL plagued with bribery, influence
Customers bribe linemen, clerks for phone connections; ministry’s influence major hurdle, says TIB study Most of the BTCL customers have to pay an average of Tk 6,000 as bribe for telephone connection, revealed a report of Transparent International Bangladesh yesterday. Under its research report titled “Lack of good governance in government’s telecom sector and
BTRC seals off National Telecom
Reopens two PSTN companies The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Tuesday sealed off the National Telecom Ltd for its suspected involvement in illegal voice over internet protocol business and reopened the switch rooms of two private landline operators. The commission shut down the operation of RanksTel on March 19 and of Dhaka Phone on
Developers-turned-MPs stand in its way
Private Real Estate Act Developers-turned-MPs stand in its way Allege environmentalists, submit memo to PM Real estate developers turned lawmakers have held back the passage of a proposed private real estate development act, said leading environmental and professional organisations at a press conference
72,000 bldgs in city vulnerable to quake, JS told
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak told the House yesterday that Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is among city’s 72,000 buildings vulnerable to earthquake. In reply to a supplementary question of ruling party lawmaker Major (retd) Rafiqul Islam, the food minister said that the hospital buildings in the