Navana Limited, the local distributor of world class brand Toyota, extended its customer access points at commercial hub Agrabad by opening a new showroom of the brand new quality vehicles today. Vice-Chairman of Navana Limited Saiful Islam, General Manager of Toyota Tsushu Corporation (Dhaka Office) Y. Miura, President of Chittagong Press Club Abu Sufian, Editor ... Read more
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Banglalion gets new brand officer
Banglalion Communi-cations Ltd, a WiMAX internet service provider, has appointed Aftab Mahmud Khurshid as its chief brand officer, said a press release. Prior to joining Banglalion, he was the head of brand and marketing of The City Bank Ltd. Khurshid, also president of JCI Bangladesh, has a master’s in banking from Dhaka University and
Jamuna Bank opens branch at Feni
Sakhawat Abu Khair Mohammad, chairman of the board of directors of Jamuna Bank Limited inaugurated 46th branch of the bank at S. S. K. Road in Feni as chief guest. Al-Haj Nur Mohammed, chairman of Jamuna Bank Foundation, Md. Ismail Hossain Siraji, vice chairman, Kanutosh Majumder, director of Jamuna Bank and a large number of ... Read more
Pertex Beverage MD elected Gulshan Club president
Rubel Aziz, managing director of Pertex Beveragr has been elected as president of Gulshan Club, for the year 2009-2010 in the Annual General Meeting followed by Election held on Friday, at the Club premises. It was a landslide victory for Rubel Aziz, says a press release. Ten elected members of the executive committee are Obeid ... Read more
Hoteliers stage demo in Rajshahi city
Hotel owners and employees staged a demonstration in Rajshahi city on Saturday in protest at ‘harassment’ of the hoteliers during the mobile court drive. Several hundred hotel owners and employees from different parts of Rajshahi division brought out a protest procession from Saheb Bazar at 1:00pm. They paraded the main streets in the city and ... Read more
Nokia ‘Avijan’ in Khulna
Mobile handset giant Nokia organised an advocacy meeting in Khulna city yesterday as part of its countrywide campaign — ‘Avijan’. Begum Mannujan Sufian, state minister for labour and employment, was present as chief guest at the event. The Avijan campaign, launched on October 18 this year, aims at spreading knowledge among the new generation about ... Read more
Tears of joy for diabetes patients!
There is great news for diabetics. A revolutionary technology is on its way to help them measure blood sugar levels without drawing blood daily. The diabetes patients may soon be able to wear contact lenses that will continuously alert them to changes in their blood sugar level by changing their colours. Developed by biochemical engineering ... Read more
Garment workers celebrate daylong festival
A festive mood was abuzz in the air of Narayangonj since early morning on Friday. Two days after the victory day celebrations, thousands of garment workers thronged at the Osmani Stadium to celebrate the second garment workers festival. The daylong cultural programmes provided the workers with an apt opportunity to seek relief from the unimaginable ... Read more
2 arrested for VoIP business
Equipment seized Rab personnel arrested two people including an executive of Dhaka Phone Thursday night in connection with running illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business. They also seized some equipment from an office and a BTS room of Dhaka Phone in the city. Golam Mostofa and Dhaka Phone executive Russell Mahmud were placed on ... Read more
Coco-4 capsized for overloading
Probe body also blames inefficiency of staff; similar report on Kishoreganj tragedy The two inquiry committees, formed to investigate the recent ferry disasters in Bhola and Kishoreganj, made public their reports yesterday. The probe body on Bhola launch capsize blamed overloading and carelessness of MV Coco-4 staff for the incident. While the committee on Kishoreganj ... Read more
Murder at city hotel: Two confess to killing girls after violation
Seventeen months after mysterious disappearance of two young girls of Kishoreganj town, two persons have confessed, before a senior judicial magistrate, to killing them following rape Maniruzzaman Halud Mia, 28, a suspended police constable of Kishoreganj Police Lines, and Shamim Houladar Jahir, 35, a cleaner of an electronics company in Chittagong, strangulated after raping Urmi, ... Read more
4 rivers declared ecologically critical
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) on December 15 declared the four rivers and its foreshores, adjacent to the capital, ecologically critical to save the rivers from encroachers and pollution. They banned dumping sewage from home, industries and other institutions, setting up industries which pollute soil, water, air and sound and any work which can ... Read more
Over 8,000 Grabbers identified in river survey
The first-ever survey on the Buriganga, Sitalakhya, Turag and Balu rivers flowing through Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj were submitted to the Supreme Court registrar on Tuesday. Over 8,000 land grabbers have occupied areas of the Buriganga, Shitalakkhya, Turag and Balu rivers around the capital, building various structures, say survey reports of four district administrations ... Read more
Tafazzal appointed Chief Justice
Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, a senior justice of the Supreme Court (SC), was appoin-ted chief justice yesterday. President Zillur Rahman gave the appointment as per article 95(1) of the Constitution, an official handout said. But he superseded senior judge of the Appellate Division Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim. Justice Tafazzul will replace the present Chief Justice ... Read more
Arrest warrant against newsmen in defamation case to go
The cabinet on Monday approved a draft bill to amend Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 to drop the provision for court to issue warrant of arrest in defamation cases against journalists, editors, writers and publishers. According to the draft, they could only be summoned or they could be issued court notices. Chaired by Prime Minister ... Read more
AKTEL makes a comeback
AKTEL, the third largest mobile operator, recorded profits worth Tk 147 million at the end of September, rising from a loss of Tk 737 million in the same period last year. However, the company recorded a loss of Tk 472 million in the third quarter (July-September) compared to the second quarter (April -June) this year. ... Read more
Samsung eyes 7tr won investment in chips
Samsung Electronics plans to invest around 7 trillion won ($6.05 billion) in its semiconductor business next year – 5 trillion won in DRAM and 2 trillion won in NAND flash memory and system LSI, an industry source told The Korea Herald. The world’s top memory chip maker’s investment plan is a 75 percent jump from ... Read more
Bangla Academy marks 54th founding anniv today
From NewAgebd The 54th founding anniversary of Bangla Academy, a centre that upholds the spirit of Bangla language, literature and culture, will be celebrated today in a befitting manner. The academy has chalked out an elaborate programme to mark the day. The programme will began with placing wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar at 10:00am. ... Read more
39 died, 143 AIDS patients diagnosed in 2009
One hundred and forty-three people have been diagnosed to be suffering from AIDS and 39 persons died of the disease in Bangladesh this year, according to an official statistics released on the occasion of World AIDS Day, which fell on December 1. ‘We are intensifying surveillance and the campaign against HIV/AIDS as the prevalence of ... Read more
Marico to set up skin clinic
Marico Bangladesh Ltd has informed the stock exchanges that the board of directors of the company has decided to disclose the setting up of first Kaya Skin Clinic in Bangladesh at Gulshan in Dhaka. Kaya Skin Clinic is the centre offering dermatology led cosmetic skin care solutions in India and the Middle East, according to