NEW YORK, Dec 6 (AFP): Thousands of demonstrators marched in major cities across the United States on Friday in a fresh wave of protests against a spate of killings of unarmed black men by white police officers. The signs of...
MALE, Dec 6 (AFP): The upmarket honeymoon destination of Maldives Saturday declared two days of public holidays in bid to manage fraying tempers and ration supplies following a drinking water crisis caused when a fire crippled a key desalination plant....
ISLAMABAD, Dec 6 (AFP): Pakistan's new Chief Election Commissioner took his oath of office Saturday as opposition protests for a probe into allegations of vote rigging by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif run into their fourth month. Sardar Muhammad Raza, 69,...
RIYADH, Dec 7: Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested 135 people with suspected links to terrorist groups. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said in a statement on Sunday that 26 of the detainees were foreigners, including 16 Syrians....
BEIJING, Dec 6 (AFP): The Chinese Communist Party's decision to arrest and expel former security chief Zhou Yongkang is a bold step that demonstrates President Xi Jinping's determination to consolidate power "to a degree unseen" in decades, observers said Saturday....
Belgium pays tribute to Queen Fabiola BRUSSELS, Dec 6: Belgium Saturday paid tribute to Spanish-born Queen Fabiola, the devout former monarch who died the evening before at 86, two decades after her husband King Baudouin. Long suffering and not seen...
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Ansar VDP Unnayan Bank, a specialised bank, is limping with an acute manpower shortage, sources said. "The specialised development bank is facing problems in performing day to day official work mainly due to shortage of manpower," a high official of...
DUBAI, Dec 06 (AFP): Standard and Poor's has lowered the outlook for the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia to stable from positive and its Gulf partner Oman to negative on sliding oil prices. However, the ratings agency affirmed the...
COLOMBO, Dec 6 (Reuters): Sri Lanka slashed fuel prices by up to nearly 6 per cent on Saturday to reflect falling global oil prices and said it would forgo subsidies and allow market forces to determine prices at the pumps...
ABU DHABI/CAIRO, Dec 6 (Reuters): Egypt and two companies from its strong backer United Arab Emirates have embarked on an ambitious plan to grow wheat in the desert that could boost the Cairo government's credibility if successful. Egypt, the world's...
SANTIAGO, Dec 6 (Reuters): The slide in oil prices will probably cut Canadian economic growth by 1/3 of a per centage point in 2015, not the 1/4 point the Bank of Canada estimated in late October, bank Governor Stephen Poloz...
LONDON, Dec 6 (AFP): Oil struck fresh five-year low points this week on the back of the strong dollar, oversupply fears and major producer Saudi Arabia slashing its export prices. The market had already dived last week after the Organization...
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Introduction of bio-metric ATM machines can help bring down digital crimes that have plagued the nation's banking system, putting depositors' protection in peril, bankers said Saturday. They said bankers need to shield banks from being ruined by technology-driven frauds and...
Ziaur Rahman back from Malaysia | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Malaysia can be a potential market for Bangladeshi merchandise, especially readymade garments (RMG), frozen foods and leather goods if measures are taken accordingly as people of the South-East Asian country are increasingly showing interest to buy these products. According to...
Tannery industries to take BD economy forward : Mozena SAVAR, Dec 6: The US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena today said after the garment industries, it is the tannery industries that will take the economy of Bangladesh forward in...
KIEV, Dec 06 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it would dispatch a team to Ukraine to determine how much extra aid the war-wrecked and energy-starved nation will need to make it through winter. The nine-day visit due...
NICOSIA, Dec 6 (AFP): Cyprus eased controls on capital outflows Friday, in another step toward scrapping draconian measures imposed last year to avoid a run on banks. Businesses will now be allowed to transfer up to two million euros ($1.6...
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (AFP): The US pumped out a huge 321,000 new jobs in November, brushing off a global economic slowdown with the best number in nearly three years, the Labor Department said Friday. The surprise surge, some 90,000 jobs...
PARIS, Dec 6 (AFP): The planned sale to a Chinese consortium of a 49.99 per cent government stake in a major French airport where Airbus tests and assembles planes has sparked a wave of unease. Paris announced Thursday that it...
HARARE, Dec 6 (AFP): Zimbabwe's central bank unveiled special coins on Friday to ease a shortage of low denomination cash, which has forced shoppers to accept sweets or pens in lieu of change. "The bond coins are going to be...
NEW YORK, Dec 6 (Reuters): The US dollar reached fresh multiyear highs on Friday after a stronger-than-forecast November US jobs report increased expectations the Federal Reserve may begin raising interest rates sooner than previously thought. Employers added the most workers...
VATICAN CITY, Dec 6 (AFP): The Vatican's economy czar said Friday he had stumbled across hundred of millions of euros "tucked away" in various accounts, describing the windfall as a relic of the papacy's medieval but soon-to-be reformed financial set-up....
FE Report | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bhutanese businessmen Saturday expressed their interest to invest in tourism, construction, light engineering and agro-based industry in Bangladesh through joint venture. The expression of interest for joint venture investment came at a meeting between the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of...
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