Desk Report The board of directors of IFAD Autos has recommended 22 per cent cash dividend for shareholders (excluding sponsors/directors) and 10 per cent stock dividend for all shareholders for the year ended on June 30, 2018. The sponsors shareholders hold 14,15,16,665 shares out of total 22,54,46,000 shares of the company and general shareholders will…
Express.UK WhatsApp fans look set to see a big change coming to the Facebook-owned Android and iOS chat app. WhatsApp is the world’s most popular chat app, with over 1.5billion users each month. The messaging app is owned by Facebook, and was purchased by the social networking giant back in 2014 for $1.5 billion. Unlike…
NTV Online: A 22 years old Jinnat Ali from Ramu, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh is probably the tallest living human in the world. According to Guinness World Records, currently Turkish Sultan Kosen is the tallest living person with height of 8’2.8” but Jinnat Ali’s height is 8’5”. Sultan Cousine was born in 1982 in Turkey. And…
Jo Ellison /Channel NewsAsia I just don’t understand why, in addressing the subject of body image, we must now use jargon designed to obfuscate the issues, says one observer at the Financial Times. “If you carry on eating all that crap, you’re going to get fat.” I said that to my daughter about three years…
Desk report Moscow has proposed to hold the first-ever Russian-Bangladesh Working Group on Military-Technical Cooperation in Dhaka in December 3-5 when general election is likely to be held in the same month, according to officials in ministries. Russia has also expressed its willingness to cooperate in improving radar and air defence missile systems for the…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the shares saw a downward trend in the early hour of trading Sunday as investors were mostly on selling binge, fearing further fall of stock prices. Brokers said the ongoing pessimism coupled with fear of political unrest ahead of the upcoming national election, persuading them to sell-off their…
Sayeed Muhammad In a latest protest, India has strongly hit back at Pakistan for the “preposterous allegation” its Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made at the UN. Qureshi alleged that terrorists behind the 2014 attack on a Peshawar school were “supported” by India, reports The Tribune. According to him, the “despicable insinuation” dishonours the memory…
AFP After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and an H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday (Sept 26) they have finally solved the riddle of the world’s largest bird. For 60 million years the colossal, flightless elephant bird – Aepyornis maximus – stalked the savannah and rainforests…
M Humayun Kabir BNP yesterday rolled out a seven-point charter, prioritizing Khaleda Zia’s unconditional release from jail, at their rally in the city. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the disclosure of the charter, focusing on the upcoming general election and for a nonpartisan election-time government, reports The Daily Star. The party demanded…
Desk Report Publishers and research organizations have set up 21 stalls at the fair. The three-day non-fiction Book Fair has begun on the premises of the Faculty of Business Studies of Dhaka University (DU). DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor M Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the fair by releasing colorful balloons around 10:30am on Sunday. Addressing the ceremony before…