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Ronaldo sees red in Madrid win, Messi nets 2 as Barca rolls

2015-01-26 00:00:00

BARCELONA, Jan 25 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off for kicking an opponent in Real Madrid's 2-1 win at Cordoba, and Lionel Messi reached the 30-goal mark for a seventh straight season in the Spanish league on Saturday. Madrid completed...

Bangladesh eyes semifinal in Bangabandhu Gold Cup

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Bangladesh head coach Lodewijk Darius De Kruif' said on Sunday his team is eying second place in the group stage to reach the semifinal of the six-nation Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament 2015, scheduled to be held in Dhaka...

BSJA organises Awards Night \\\'15 today

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association (BSJA) will distribute its sports awards for four years from 2009 to 2012 today (Monday), reports UNB. The award- giving ceremony titled 'Awards Night 2015' will begin at 6pm at the Ivy Rahman Swimming Pool on...

Klose scores 1, sets up another as Lazio beats AC Milan 3-1

2015-01-26 00:00:00

ROME, Jan 25 (AP): Lazio came back to beat visiting AC Milan 3-1 and move into third place in Serie A on Saturday. Jeremy Menez put Milan ahead four minutes in at the Stadio Olimpico but Lazio - which has...

sports digest

2015-01-26 00:00:00

YLAB Cricket results European University of Bangladesh (EUB) and Eastern University (EU) won their respective matches in the ULAB Fair Play Cup Inter-Private University T20 Cricket Tournament on the ULAB playground in the city Sunday. European University of Bangladesh (114/5...

Plunging prices threaten UK\\\'s \\\'cash cow\\\' oil industry

2015-01-26 00:00:00

LONDON, Jan 25 (AFP): With oil prices tumbling and ageing equipment making extraction ever more expensive, Britain's North Sea oilfields face a struggle for survival, threatening a vital source of income and energy. The oil industry has been hard hit...

Workers in Europe\\\'s oil hub hope for the best

2015-01-26 00:00:00

ABERDEEN, United Kingdom, Jan 25 (AFP): On the docks in Aberdeen, oil workers put a brave face on hundreds of job cuts linked to sinking crude prices while union leaders warn that the worst is yet to come. "It has...

Wilmar opens palm oil supplies to scrutiny to protect forests

2015-01-26 00:00:00

OSLO, Jan 25 (Reuters): Wilmar International Ltd. , the world's largest palm oil processor, opened its supply chains to outside scrutiny on Thursday in what environmentalists called an unprecedented step to help safeguard tropical forests. Singapore-based Wilmar said it would...

Turkey gains additional $500m from Toyota to boost vehicle production

2015-01-26 00:00:00

ANKARA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua): Toyota will invest additional 500 million U.S. dollars in Turkey for its new models, private Dogan news agency reported yesterday. It will bring the company's total investments in Turkey to 2.4 billion dollars, Toyota Motor Manufacturing...

Global Commodity Prices

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Impact of the plummeting oil price

Muhammad Zamir | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

A few days ago the global benchmark Brent crude oil price index indicated Brent crude for February delivery to be at $46.10 a barrel, the lowest in more than five and half years. The fall came after Wall Street investment...

Reform and modernisation of Bangladesh Customs

Waheeda Rahman Choudhury | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

Bangladesh acceded to Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC) in February 2013. It is obligated to implement the provisions of RKC by 2016. It is also obligated to implement the provisions of the recently signed WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) within the...

Status of logistics market driver

2015-01-26 00:00:00

The potential of Bangladesh as an emerging logistics market driver has been recognised. A 2015 global index, prepared by Agility, a publicly traded global logistics company headquartered in Kuwait, has placed the country at 28th on a total ranks of...

Should there be a cap on private foreign borrowing?

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

Access of local investors and entrepreneurs to international financial markets is a recent phenomenon. Since 2008, when limited access was granted to overseas funds, foreign loans worth $5.5 billion have been approved by the government. Initially, local investors were hesitant...

Why is no bomb attacker caught red-handed?

Neil Ray | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

Desperate situation calls for desperate measures for its solution. The latest order coming from the law enforcement agency prohibiting pillion appears to be one such measure against bombing, particularly petrol bomb attacks on vehicles -either moving or stationary. Evidently the...

Cancer and its deadly spread

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Every year 4th February is observed as the International Day of Cancer and our country is no exception. But mere observance of the day will not bring about the desired result. We all must be united and fight against this...

How many bodies will satisfy them?

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Bangladesh is a democratic, secular and peace-loving country. It is the only nation that sacrificed lives to defend its mother tongue. It achieved independence after nine months of armed struggle against the Pakistan occupation army. Since independence, it has made...

Need for a political solution

2015-01-26 00:00:00

It is indeed baffling that the ruling party is ready to go to any length to quell the present political unrest by force, but is not prepared to hold a dialogue with the opposition and bring back peace and normalcy...

Emerging constraints to private investment

Sadiq Ahmed in the second of his three-part paper titled \'Regulatory framework for private investment\' | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

The analysis in Part-I suggests that the returns to good policies can be substantial.  But it also begs two questions:  First, why has the GDI (gross domestic income) response in Bangladesh has been sluggish in comparison with the dynamic Asian...

Stocks see significant fall amid political unrest

FE Report | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

Both the bourses Sunday witnessed free fall in prices of listed securities as investors stayed on sideline and also adopted cautiousness following the ongoing political unrest, stock brokers said. All major sectors lost prices on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) putting...

Almost all cos complete the process of face value conversion

FE Report | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

All listed securities including mutual funds (MFs), except the state-run Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), have almost completed the conversion of share's face value into uniform value of Tk 10.0 each. Presently, out of 324 listed securities, the shares of only...

Saif Powertec donates Tk 1.0m to DMCH

FE Report | 2015-01-26 00:00:00

Saif Powertec Limited on Sunday has donated Tk 1.0 million to the Burn Unit of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) to bear the expenses required  for treatment of the patients burned during the blockade programmes. The Saif Powertec,...

News Briefs

2015-01-26 00:00:00

Student edition of Bitdefender Internet Security published Bitdefender of Romania made an aggressive market move Sunday by launching a Student Edition for its flagship consumer security product - Bitdefender Internet Security in Bangladesh. The single user full version of the...

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ME Stocks: Abu Dhabi, Qatar rise, property stocks weigh on Dubai

2015-01-26 00:00:00

DUBAI, Jan 25 (Reuters): Stock markets in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar were mixed in low-volume trade on Sunday as most countries in the Middle East closed their bourses following the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. His successor...

Spain to list world\\\'s largest airport operator AENA

2015-01-26 00:00:00

MADRID, Jan 25 (AFP): The Spanish government said on Friday it would float a section of the world's largest airport operator AENA as part of a much-delayed privatisation of the firm, Europe's first major stock market listing of the year....

Early birds defy stock market highs

2015-01-26 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Jan 25 (Business Standard): Dalal street is in jolly mood these days perched on a new high but corporate earnings are refusing to join the party. The early bird results for the third quarter has been one of the...