Sonia H Moni | 2015-01-30 00:00:00
The country's frozen food exporters have a significant quantity of stockpile of frozen fish following continuous price fall since October last year in the European market and rise in supply of vennamie in the international market, industry people said. "At...
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammed Sayedul Haque said on Thursday the present government has taken pragmatic plans and 18 development projects at a cost of Tk 13.64 billion (1,364 crore) in the current fiscal year (FY), 2014-15, to enhance production...
SINGAPORE, Jan 29 (Reuters): Gold dropped for the fourth session in five on Thursday after the Federal Reserve painted a bullish picture of the U.S. economy, signalling it was on course to lift interest rates this year. The prospect of...
SINGAPORE, Jan 29 (AFP): Oil prices edged higher Thursday but gains were capped amid fresh worries about the global supply glut as US crude reserves soared to a record high, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for March...
BEIJING, Jan 29 (AFP): A pipeline pumping oil from Myanmar to China started a trial operation yesterday, Chinese state media reported, Beijing's latest step to diversify energy imports into the world's second-largest economy. The 771 kilometre (478 mile) pipeline will...
Tea prices in Bangladesh rose at a weekly auction on Tuesday, ending two weeks of falls, due to a drop in volumes as renewed political unrest disrupted supplies, reports Reuters. Bangladesh has been racked by political violence since anti-government protests...
SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (AFP): Oil prices fell in Asia Wednesday as dealers await the outcome of a US Federal Reserve meeting and the release of a US supply report expected to show a surge in crude stockpiles, analysts said. US...
SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters): Gold hovered in a tight range near $1,290 an ounce on Wednesday as the focus turned to whether a weaker global economy might push back the timing of an interest rate rise expected this year from...
NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (Reuters): Indian soyoil and oilseeds futures rose on Tuesday because of buying at lower levels and also in line with the benchmark Malaysian palm oil contract. Malaysian palm oil futures rebounded to snap four days of...
BEIRUT, Jan 28 (agencies): Lebanese Hezbollah militants killed and wounded a number of Israeli soldiers in a "big operation" Wednesday targeting an Israeli military convoy in a frontier area, a Lebanese political source said. The attack in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa...
SRINAGAR, Jan 28 (AFP): An army colonel and a police officer were killed Tuesday in a gunbattle with suspected militants in Indian Kashmir, police said. Two suspected rebels were also killed during the encounter in Hundoora village, 50 kilometres (31...
ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (AP): Pakistani military jets struck suspected militant hideouts Tuesday near the Afghan border, killing 76 militants, the army said. Two rounds of airstrikes targeted the suspected militants in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, which has...
COLOMBO, Jan 28 (AFP): Sri Lanka's new president on Wednesday restored the country's former chief justice after she was controversially impeached by the previous administration led by Mahinda Rajapakse. Lawyers welcomed Shirani Bandaranayake with bouquets of flowers at the Supreme...
RIYADH, Jan 28 (AP): President Barack Obama defended the U.S. government's willingness to cooperate closely with Saudi Arabia on national security despite deep concerns over human rights abuses, as he led an array of current and former American statesmen in...
TOKYO, Jan 28 (AFP):- An angry Japanese prime minister on Wednesday slammed as "utterly despicable" an Islamist militant threat to kill both a Japanese hostage and a Jordanian pilot unless Amman releases a jihadi bomber. The clock was ticking towards...
BANGKOK, Jan 28 (AP): Thailand's military government summoned the U.S. charge d'affairs for talks on Wednesday after a top U.S. diplomat roiled the junta during a visit by calling for an end to martial law and saying the impeachment of...
Massive destruction in Kobane after Kurds drive out IS KOBANE, Jan 28: The battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane has caused massive destruction, according to AFP journalists in the town on Wednesday after Kurdish fighters drove out IS...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 28 (BSS): Around 34,000 poor and extreme poor women in the city's slum and underprivileged communities have founded around Taka 95 million as savings with their own efforts of freeing themselves from poverty and hunger, community people and...
MUNSHIGANJ, Jan 28 (BSS): At least 10 persons were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a piece of land at Sirajdikhan in Munshiganj Tuesday. During the clash a shop was vandalized. Among the injured Md Khorshed...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-29 00:00:00
MAGURA, Jan 28: Magura rice mill traders have counted an estimated loss of at least Tk 100 million due to blockade. The situation raised grave concern among the rice mill traders as well as workers in Magura. Due to blockade...
JOYPURHAT, Jan 28 (BSS): Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB), Joypurhat region, has distributed over Taka 400 million as agricultural loan among farmers in the past six months of the current financial year to increase production in different sectors in Joypurhat...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-29 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 28: The banana growers at different Upazilas in the district are overjoyed, as they are making handsome profit by cultivating the crop on their lands in recent years. According to DAE sources different varieties of banana are being...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-29 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Jan 28: Long waited plying of intercity trains from Chilahati railway station to the destinations of Dhaka, Khulna and Rajshahi has been opened. Railway Minister Mojibul Hoque opened the new schedule of the intercity trains of broad gauge railway...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-29 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jan 28: More than 1,28,000 SSC examinees under Rajshahi Education Board and several thousand Dakhil examinees under Madrasha Education Board of the district and their guardians are in tension with the prevailing political situation of the country. According to...
NETRAKONA, Jan 28 (UNB): Heart patients in ten upazilas of Netrakona continue to suffer finding hardly any treatment in the health complexes of the upazilas for there being no cardiologist. Apart from this, the number of heart patients is increasing...
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