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Khaleda set to be released today
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, is set to be released from prison today although the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission have appealed for halting the bail the High Court granted her I four cases. The prison authorities on Wednesday received the orders for her release on bail issued by the courts concerned...[ + ]
EC caught between
rock and hard place
over upazila polls
Decision on upazila polls, tentative date for national elections likely on Sunday
The Election Commission is caught between a rock and a hard place over the upazila parishad polls as the country’s major political parties vehemently oppose the holding of those polls before the parliamentary elections, while the military-backed government and ‘civil society members’ are pressuring the EC to hold upazila polls first.....[ + ]
Record 74.85pc pass
HSC exams
82.43 under madrassah board, 81.27
under technical board
A record 74.85 per cent of examinees have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations under seven general education boards this year, according to the results published on Wednesday....[ + ]
UK pledges £75m
climate fund for Bangladesh
Bangladesh Climate Change Conference
begins in London
The United Kingdom has agreed to provide Bangladesh £75 million (about $132 million) in grants over the next five years to enable it to recoup the losses caused by the recent natural calamities, including the prolonged floods and cyclone Sidr...[ + ]
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FBCCI asks traders to be reasonable
in making profits
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday urged retailers and wholesalers to be a little reasonable in making profits to ease the pressure on consumers. ‘Please, be rational in making profits and do some justice to the consumers so that they get some respite from the mounting pressure of price hike of essentials’, said FBCCI president Annisul Huq while addressing a meeting of retailers and wholesalers...[ + ]
Five cos float IPO by Nov
Five companies are going to issue initial public offerings by November to raise Tk 40 crore from the country’s capital market. Of them, Standard Insurance Ltd intents to raise Tk 9 crore, Northern General Insurance Ltd Tk 9 crore, National Housing Finance and Investment Ltd Tk 5 crore, Maksons Spinning Mills Ltd Tk 8 crore and Republic Insurance Company Ltd Tk 9 crore, according to sources in the Securities and Exchange Commission...[ + ]
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