Mike Peacock of Reuters in London | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
After European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi got his colleagues to sign up to a target for pumping money into the ailing euro zone economy, a raft of GDP reports are likely to show just why more help may be...
Erik Kirschbaum of Reuters in Berlin | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, heralding the end to the Cold War between East and West, showed the world "dreams can come true" and should inspire people trapped in tyranny everywhere, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on...
William Schomberg of Reuters in London | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
The Bank of England, once widely expected to start weaning Britain off near-zero interest rates this month, now looks set to signal no rise in borrowing costs until the middle of next year. The BoE kept rates at 0.5 per...
Devidutta Tripathy of Reuters in Mumbai | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
India's state-owned banks warned growth in bad loans may continue into next year as they posted a rise in troubled loans for the September quarter with a weakening economy causing debt-laden sectors such as infrastructure to default on payments. The...
Leika Kihara of Reuters in Tokyo | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Roli Ng and Rosemarie Francisco of Reuters in Basey/Manila (Philippines) | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
A year after one of the world's most powerful storms smashed into the Philippines, a group of women are stitching their lives back together by weaving colourful reeds used in handicrafts sold by the world's top retailers. Their workshop is...
BEIJING, Nov 10 (Reuters): US President Barack Obama said Monday a successful China was in the interests of the United States and the world but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international order, and not undermine it. Speaking...
NIGERIA Nov 10 (agencies): A suicide bomber dressed as a student killed at least 48 people, most of them students, and injured 79 others at a school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian town of Potiskum Monday, a hospital official said....
BAGHDAD, Nov 10 (agencies): Iraqi military forces reached the centre of the northern city of Baiji on Sunday in an effort to break an Islamic State siege of the country's biggest refinery, triggering fierce clashes with the militants, according to...
CATALONIA, Nov 10 (BBC): An informal vote on independence for Catalonia has shown more than 80pc in favour, officials say. The non-binding vote went ahead after Spain's constitutional court ruled out holding a formal referendum in the autonomous north-eastern region....
DAMASCUS, Nov 10 (Reuters): Gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, four of them Syrian and one Iranian, on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, a monitoring group said Monday. The engineers were shot dead as they were traveling in a small...
Iran touts successful test of US drone replica IRAN, Nov 10: Iran's state TV is reporting that the country has successfully tested its own version of a U.S.-made drone based on one it captured in 2011. The report quotes Gen....
Kazi Rahman | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Capital is crucial for the economy of Bangladesh to grow and make the citizens more prosperous. In order to achieve this goal, the country needs access to direct capital (cash) for investment in infrastructure, education, institutional development and industrialisation; and...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
An increasing number of banks around the world are going green by offering innovative green products, saving resources and supporting activities that help conserve environment. 'Conserving Environment' through operation and financing is at the centre of Green Banking (GB) activities...
When the subject of deliberation is policy making and institution building and the country's leading economists are the participants in it, it is not too much to expect some probing insight into the entire gamut of socio-economic development. Some hard...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Cambodia, a Southeast Asia country, borders with Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. It has 440 kilometres of coastal border facing the Gulf of Siam. With a total area of 181,035 square kilometres, Cambodia is a little larger than Bangladesh, about one-third...
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Despite political turbulence late last year, the country was fortunate to have witnessed a healthy growth rate in its export earnings. However, amid rising transportation expenditures due to increase in fuel cost, traffic congestion and poor pavement condition of the...
I was really surprised to know that the government did not allow the main opposition party, the BNP, to hold a meeting on November 08. This does not bode well for a democratic country. The Dhaka metropolitan police have not...
Shakib has written his name in the golden page of cricket history. In the 2143th Test match played at Sheikh Abu Nasar Stadium in Khulna on November 03-07, 2014 he joined the elite club of crickets who scored a hundred...
Dhaka is known as the city of mosques and the City of rickshaws. But now it has come to be known as a city of pollution and rampant mugging. Most of the mugging incidents remain unreported as most of the...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), the regulator of our securities market, has imposed fines on Ghulam Mustafa and Alhaj Mosaddek Ali Falu of Tk 30 million and Tk 10 million respectively for their alleged involvement in unusual manipulative share...
Md Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
History shows that creativity and artistic works have been major sources of economic and cultural growth in this part of the world. The creative talents of Lalon Fakir, Hasan Raza, Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam have always enkindled rays...
Arafat Ara | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur have agreed to sort out the contentious issue of governments-led recruitment of Bangladeshi workers by Malaysian employers, officials said. People familiar with the situation say the Malaysian employers are divided over Government to Government arrangement to...
Knit giant DBL Group has received a global award for its contribution to sustainable production. The coveted Textile Institute Sustainability Award for Medals and Awards 2013 was presented to group at the 89th World Conference held in Wuhan, China on...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-11-11 00:00:00
The Bangladesh business delegation will pursue their Malaysian counterparts to invest more in Bangladesh, especially in the country's infrastructure sector, said a business leader. He said Malaysia has a newly industrialised market economy ranking third largest in Southeast Asia and...
Tariff commission arranges training for officials Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) has launched a four-day training programme for officials of different government officials Monday. The objective of the programme is to help build capacity of officials so that they can handle...
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