BB relaxes banks’ capital market investment rules
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday relaxed the provision for scheduled banks’ investment in the capital market by excluding their equity investment in subsidiary companies in calculating the banks’ capital market exposure.
Alumni assoc of BSMMU’s endocrinology dept formed
Former students of endocrinology department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University formed an alumni association with Dr AKM Aminul Islam as its president and Dr Sharmin Jahan as general secretary.
Skills training for ethnic minorities for employment stressed
Rights activists on Sunday said that members of national minority communities, the female members of the communities in particular, living in the hills and the plains needed occupational skills training for employment.
First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration
A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks has U.S. officials worried that hackers working for a foreign government were able to spy on the encrypted communications of the U.S. government and private companies for the past three years.
China complains about U.S. plane straying into disputed airspace
China is once again complaining that the United States violated its sovereign territory by coming near artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Donald Trump lavishes praise on 'leader' Putin
Donald Trump on Friday praised Vladimir Putin and appeared to defend the autocratic Russian president when pressed about his alleged killing of journalists and political opponents critical of his rule.
All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
Minor convicted in heinous Delhi gang rape to be freed
Outside the Delhi High Court on Friday, there were few clues that a momentous decision was underway in India's watershed gang rape case. Besides a small band of lawyers and journalists,
Nasim thanks Khaleda for taking part in municipal polls
Health and family welfare minister Mohammed Nasim on Friday thanked Begum Khaleda Zia for taking part in the municipal elections 2015 and said next parliamentary elections will be held in 2019 where the people will decide who would go to power.
Dry fish treated with poisonous pesticide
Hazardous pesticides are in rampant use in preserving sea fish in dried form, especially in the country’s main hub in Cox’s Bazar, posing serious health risks to dry-fish lovers.
