Prof Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, presiding over the 31st Annual General Meeting of the bank at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre on Saturday. The AGM approves 10percent stock and 8percent cash dividends for its shareholders for the year 2013.

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Chinese investors may get special economic zone: FBCCI

UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh will offer either an industrial park or a special economic zone for Chinese investors to invest here in a larger scale during...

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3 dead after Scottish car rally collisions

BBC Online :Three people have been killed and several are seriously injured after cars collided with spectators in two incidents at the Jim Clark Rally...

International

Iran Guards commander ‘killed in Syria’

AFP, Tehran :A commander from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran’s insistence it...

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UK ‘threatens to quit EU over presidency’ : Spiegel

BBC Online :German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg ex-PM Jean-Claude Juncker became...

International

Assad runs again for president

Reuters, Beirut :It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad’s enemies thought he was finished.In the summer of 2012, the rebels were not just...

Vessels from both countries have confronted each other in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

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China denounces Japan, US over ‘provocative’ speeches

BBC Online :China has denounced the Japanese PM and US defence secretary for making “provocative” speeches against China at an Asian security forum in Singapore.Chinese...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women workers raise slogans and burn an effigy of Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in Allahabad, India on Saturday

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India arrests 3rd suspect in gang rape of 2 teens

AP, Lucknow, India :Police arrested a third suspect Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in...

Plainclothes police officers arrested a possible protester amid Thai crackdown on Sunday.

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Thai troops deployed to prevent anti-coup protest

BBC Online :Thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed around the Thai capital, Bangkok, to try to prevent anti-coup protesters from gathering.Parts of the...

Entertainment

Rekha couldn’t accommodate dates for Poojai

Director Hari Gopalakrishnan has confirmed that he approached yesteryear actress Rekha for a role in his upcoming Tamil actioner Poojai, starring Vishal Krishna. But she...

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