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Negotiations on with foreign firms for fuel import

Government's petroleum agency began negotiations with term suppliers of petroleum to import around 1.30 million tonnes of diesel, jet fuel, furnace oil and octane for the first half of next year.Officials said the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) would fix premium rates to import the refined petroleum products from the...

Pry teachers call off strike

The assistant primary teachers, who have been continuing an indefinite hunger strike in the capital since Saturday, got divided over calling off their agitation programme following assurance of the primary and mass education minister.Agitating teachers instantly reacted to Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman on Monday evening, as he...

Regulator creating rules to tighten corporate governance

The securities regulator has drafted corporate-governance guidelines with the code of conduct for directors to ensure transparency in board affairs alongside accelerating a company's growth. Officials said the draft rules of the trade also include a provision of furnishing explanation on declaration of stock dividend and significant deviation from any...

US mulls more sanctions on Myanmar

WASHINGTON, Dec 25 (AP): The State Department said Friday the US is considering further actions against those responsible for "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, after a Myanmar general was blacklisted and Democratic lawmakers called for more military officers to face sanctions.Rep. Eliot Engel, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign...

Mideast needs two-state solution, says Pope

VATICAN CITY, Dec 25 (Reuters): Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.Francis spoke of the Middle East conflict and other world...

Blast at Afghan intelligence compound kills five

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a compound of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency in Kabul on Monday that killed at least five people and wounded two, reports Reuters.The blast comes a week after the group claimed an attack on a training facility of the same agency, the...

Textile mill, Azad Products’ showroom catch fire

A fire broke out at the showroom of Azad Products at Purana Paltan in the capital on Monday. There was no report of casualties. The fire was originated from electric short-circuit at around 10:34 am, according to fire service.Two rescue teams of fire service and civil defense department rushed to...

A person in the guise of Santa Claus distributes chocolates to children

A person in the guise of Santa Claus distributes chocolates to children as part of the Christmas Day celebrations at a city hotel on Monday. — FE Photo

Four die as bus drives into pedestrian underpass in Moscow

A passenger bus swerved off course and drove into a busy pedestrian underpass in Moscow on Monday, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies reported.Video from the scene posted on social media showed a bus veering off the road and plunging down the steps of a pedestrian underpass, crushing...