Narayanganj Correspondent :A referral linkage workshop held at Upzilla Family Planning Office in Narayanganj Sadar on Tuesday. Phulki, a Non Government Organization (NGO) has organized the workshop. Prodip Kumar Roy, Upzilla family planning officer was present as Chief guest while Salma Parvin, Project Manager of Phulki presided over the workshop, Phulki has invited the high level management staff from 5 factories, namely: Modele De Capial Industries Ltd, Gomoti Knitwear Ltd, Fariha Knit Tex Ltd, Fakir Knitwares, & Knit Concern Ltd.Mentioning...
AFP, Mumbai :Shares in one of India’s biggest drugmakers, Ranbaxy Laboratories, dropped 17 percent Friday after the US Food and Drug Administration suspended imports from a fourth manufacturing facility of the firm.The FDA said it found significant violations from the expected “good manufacturing practice” requirements at Ranbaxy’s Toansa factory in the northern state of Punjab.The New Delhi-based drug manufacturer’s stock tumbled to 346.20 rupees from its previous close of 417.15 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.The Toansa plant makes so-called API-active...
Kamruzzaman Bablu :Just only one day ahead of Eid-ul-Fitar, the biggest muslim festival at the end of holy ramzan makeshift shops on footpaths and open spaces in the capital and other major cities across the country are doing a brisk business as the low-income and poor people are crowding those for buying things at cheaper rates amid an eid shopping frenzy.These makeshift stalls are seen as hotspots for cheap jeans and gabardine pants, jerseys, shirts, T-shirts, panjabis, trousers, footwear, belts,...
BSS, Rajshahi :A total of 40,925 farmers will get cash incentives of Taka 5.84 crore to buy seeds and fertilizers for the cultivation of Aush paddy in the current Kharif-1 season in eight districts under Rajshahi division.Of the total, 35,900 farmers will get incentives for cultivation of high yielding aush on 35,900 bigha of land 5,025 farmers for Nerica paddy on 5,025 bigha of land.Each of the interested farmers will get Taka 1,350 for aush paddy cultivation while Taka 1,970...
AFP, Seoul :South Korean media were divided Monday over the jailing of the heir to the Samsung empire, with some newspapers condemning the ruling and others accusing rivals of “kneeling” before the rich.Lee Jae-Yong, the de-facto head of Samsung Electronics, was convicted last week of bribing South Korea’s ousted president Park Geun-Hye and sentenced to five years in prison.Samsung is by far the biggest of the chaebols, as the family-controlled conglomerates that dominate Asia’s fourth-largest economy are known, with its...
Business Report :The winners of ‘Huawei Bangladesh Seeds for Future’ event have safely returned to the country after completing a...
Xinhua, Rabat :Remittances from Moroccans abroad reached 4.7 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of 2018, up 1 percent compared with the same period last year, the foreign exchange regulator said Saturday.The remittances, a main source of foreign exchange reserves in Morocco, came from some 5 million Moroccan expatriates. Between January and August, the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Morocco declined by 8.6 percent to 1.9 billion dollars from a year earlier.In 2017, Morocco attracted nearly...
BSS, Washington : The roaring growth recorded by the US economy in the second quarter was even faster than first reported, with new numbers showing a bigger boost in corporate spending, the government reported Wednesday.Gross Domestic Product advanced at an annual rate of 4.2 percent in the April-to-June period, a tenth of a point faster than initial estimates showed last month and still the fastest growth in almost four years, according to the Commerce Department.Economists had instead been expecting a...
UNB, Dhaka :Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) is going to arrange a five-day Winter Fair-2014 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).The REHAB leaders disclosed this at a press conference at Jatiya Press Club on Saturday.The fair will be inaugurated on December 24 and continue till December 28. The closing ceremony of the fair will be held on December 30.A total of 150 companies will participate in the fair this session while 13 organisations will be there as...
Al Jazeera :Fears of a global banking crisis have eased following the rollout of multi-billion-dollar lifelines for troubled lenders in Europe and the United States, with Asia’s stock markets rebounding from earlier lows.Stocks rose in China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, the Philippines and Hong Kong on Friday, following gains on Wall Street after the largest US banks unveiled a $30bn lifeline for troubled regional lender First Republic Bank.MSCI’s most representative index of Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan climbed 0.9 percent,...