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Stocks that still appeal in Bangladesh

Economies that are defined as “frontier” offer signficant growth and diversification opportunity for investors, but play second fiddle to those neatly indexed under the “emerging” category. So says Pradipta Chakrabortty, who manages of Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Fund (HLMOX). In a video interview with Barron’s, Chakrabortty makes the case for Nigeria, Kenya, bangladesh_stocks_dha01Bangladesh, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. These countries tend to be ignored by foreign investors, who own only about 20% of assets on averag...

Bloggers fear threat from state

The online secular community in Bangladesh says it feels directly threatened by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent warning that bloggers in the country would not be allowed to “hurt” the religious sentiments of others. “We will not tolerate it if you attack other’s religious belief,” the prime minister recently said while exchanging greetings with Hindu leaders. [caption id="attachment_19708" align="alignright" width="650"]blogger Bangladeshi blogger Ibrahim Khalil, who has been in hiding since 2013 when Islamists drew up a list of 84 "anti-Islam" atheist bl...

JU admission to start Oct 25

The admission tests at Jahangirnagar University for the first year honors courses under 2015-16 sessions will be started on October 25 and continue till November 5. The decision was made at an emergency meeting of academic council of the university JUThursday morning said JU deputy registrar (education) Muhammad Ali. He also said that only Arts and Humanities faculty will take in department based examination and other faculties also take faculty based. More information regarding the tests would be published on the univer-sity website at www.juniv.edu.

SUST 21st batch celebrates RAG’15

the 21th Batch of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) under the academic year 2010-11 has celebrated a two day long RAG’15 on the campus with variety of programs. Vice Chancellor Prof. Aminul Haque Bhuyan inaugurated the event on Thursday by releasing balloons in front of the central Library at 01:00 pm. Later a colorful rally was brought out from Rag rally-2the same place. The rally paraded the whole campus and ended at Mukto Moncho. After that, T-shirt and lunch packet was distributed among registered students. A concer...

RU Applied Math Dept celebrates Founding Anniv

Teachers and students of the Applied Mathematics Department of Rajshahi University (RU) celebrated its 12th Founding Anniversary on Saturday amid much enthusiasm and festivity on campus. To mark the day, the Department chalked out a daylong different programmes. RU Vice-Chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin as Chief Guest inaugurated the ceremony by rureleasing balloon in the air around 10:00am in front of the University 4th Science Building. Marking the day, a colourful procession was brought out led by RU Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan and Cha...

RubyCement rewards retailers

‘Star Channel Partners’ Meet 2015’ of RubyCement, a popular brand in Chittagong held today at Radission Blu Hotel, Chittagong. Photo800 retailers were present at the meet. Successful channel partners’ were awarded also at the meet. Syed Abu Abed Saher, Director, Marketing & Sales, Mahmudullah Riad, star Cricketer of Bangladesh National Team also the brand ambassador of Heidelberg Cement along with other high officials were present during the ceremony.
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