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Appollo okays 15pc stock dividend

Appollo Ispat Company Limited (AICL), a listed company under engineering category, organised its 20th Annual General meeting (AGM) at a hotel at Chaitabo, Panchdona in Narsingdhi on Sunday (December 21, 2014). The shareholders at the AGM approved the declared 15 percent stock dividend for the year ended on June 2014. IMG_7439Chairman of the Board of directors of the company Deen Mohammad chaired the AGM. The financial statement of the company, the audited report and directors’ report were approved at the AGM. Three retired...

Mahfuz – Debdulal panel wins in BCS Election

The election of the management committee of Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS), the largest forum of Computer, e.g., Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals in Bangladesh having 13,000 (thirteen thousand) members, held on 19 December 2014 in Nilkhet High School. To win 9 posts of the management committee, a total of 33 candidates divided into three panels and independents participate in the contest. bcsThe Dr. Mahfuz-Debdulal panel (MDP) jointly led by Professor Dr. Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engin...

Muhammad Ali hospitalised with pneumonia

Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, an Ali spokesman said Saturday night. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is battling Parkinson’s disease, is being treated by his team of doctors and is in stable condition, said his spokesman, Bob Gunnell. “He went into the hospital this morning,” Gunnell said in a phone interview. “He has a mild case of pneumonia and the prognosis is good.” muhammad-ali-wb_1Gunnell dec...

Doubling pay of civil servants recommended

The Eighth Pay and Service Commission recommended doubling the salary for civil servants on the average in its report submitted to the finance minister today. Minimum basic wage Tk 8,200, maximum basic pay Tk 80,000 Government’s total expenditure may increase by up to 63% if implemented Suggestion to lower budget for expense in payment of civil servants Number of grades lowered to 16 from the existing 20 BCS cadres to get the highest of raise Proposal to lower forced retirement ceiling to 20 years of service Commission Chairman Mohammad Farashuddin, a former Bangladesh Bank governor, handed the report to Minister AMA Muhith at his office at 9:00am.

Film on Hawking: “The Theory of Everything”    

STEPHEN HAWKING would not be as famous as he is today if he was not so ill. As impressive as his accomplishments would have been from an able-bodied person, they are all the more astounding from someone with motor neurone disease (MND). There is something almost mythical about the image of such a far-reaching mind trapped in an immobile body. It would be absurd, though, to suggest that Hawking’s disability was the most significant thing about him, or that the most significant thing about his disability was how irritable it made his ex-wife, Jane. But those are the suggestions at the heart of James Marsh’s soapy new biopic, “The Theory Of Everything”. Never mind black holes or the Big Bang: in this telling of the Hawking story, what really matters is that when he scooted around the si...

Jute genome decoder Maqsudul Alam passes away

Bangladeshi scientist Maqsudul Alam, a professor of University of Hawaii who decoded jute plant genome, died of liver cirrhosis at a hospital in the United States at the age of 60. He breathed his last at Queens Medical Center in Hawaii around 2:18am (Bangladesh time), Mahbubul Alam Babu, a brother of the scientist, told The Daily Star Online over phone. alamMaqsudul was admitted to the hospital with liver problem on December 2 and since then he was undergoing treatment there, Mahbubul said. The scientist will be buried in Hawaii on Monday, he ...
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