Desk Report: The bidding for discovering cut-off price for Runner Automobiles IPO shares under the book-building method is set to begin on September 10, reports Financial Express. Institutional bidding is a must for a company intends to go public using the book building method. The bidding by the eligible institutional investors through the uniform and…
AP, Panama City Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began emerging…
Raj Ahmed of DOT A Noakhali court placed seven suspects on a five-day remand for interrogation in connection with an alleged gang rape of a woman in Subarnachar upazila. Judicial Magistrate Nabanita Guha passed the order yesterday in response to a 7-day remand plea for each by the police. Ibrahim Khalil, Sub Inspector (Investigation) of…
Saleem Samad of DOT Popular micro-blogging site Twitter said it has removed thousands of fake accounts from Bangladesh, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. However, it could not be ascertained in a global Twitter’s media statement, how many fake accounts in Bangladesh have been removed. Last December, Twitter announced that it had suspended 15 accounts “originating from…
M Humayun Kabir: The government has outlined to construct walkways stretching 220 kilometers along Buriganga, Shitalakhya and Balu rivers in Dhaka with a view to protecting the river banks from encroachment. The shipping ministry’s taskforce on river pollution control and navigability increase made the disclosure at its 38th meeting yesterday, reports banglanews24.com. Forests & Environment…
Desk Report: The government is going establish the country’s first aviation and aerospace university to produce more skilled manpower in the field, including pilots, aviation scientists and engineers, reports Daily Sun. Sources at the education ministry said the institution, named after Father of the National Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be set up at Ashkona…
Eleven bodies were discovered on Friday in a Mexican town close to the U.S. border, days before president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is due to visit for a series of forums seeking to stem the violence in the country. The bodies of eight men and three women were found in a home in Ciudad Juarez,…
Arafat Hasan of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for national unity as ‘all talk’ and revealed that it will “not take it into consideration.” In her speech to the nation on Friday, Hasina had called for the nation to unite in order to help transform…
The Guardian, UK: The NHS is to treat children and young people with an expensive new cancer drug which has the potential to transform how the disease is treated. Simon Stevens, the NHS England chief executive, will announce on Wednesday that a deal has been done with the drug company Novartis, which makes the immunotherapy…
UNB It’s so unlikely you have to pinch yourself to believe it. Donald Trump, a property billionaire and reality TV star with no political experience, loud, vulgar and with a preposterous hairstyle, is well on his way to becoming the Republican party’s presidential candidate, reports NDTV. He’s storming into Super Tuesday, when 11 US…