SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, Oct 14 (AFP): Fit-again Australian captain Michael Clarke said Tuesday he hopes his team can carry the momentum of its Twenty20 and one-day wins over Pakistan into the two-match Test series starting next week. Australia routed...
REYKJAVIK, Oct 14 (AP): Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson scored both goals Monday as Iceland pulled off a shock 2-0 defeat of the Netherlands in a European Championship qualifier to hand new coach Guus Hiddink his third loss in four matches...
HONG KONG, Oct 14 (AFP): Argentina strolled to a 7-0 friendly win over Hong Kong on Tuesday, with superstar Lionel Messi and Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain both netting a brace. Coach Gerardo Martino started with a second-string side that saw...
Pujara in talks over Derbyshire return LONDON, Oct 14: India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is in talks with Derbyshire over a return to the team for the 2015 season, the English county side revealed Monday. Pujara, 26, made a surprise switch...
US health officials are seeking 132 people who flew on a plane with a Texas nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola. The nurse, the second person to catch Ebola in the US, fell ill...
Andrew RC Marshall and Panarat Thepgumpanat of Reuters in Bangkok | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than...
Andrew MacAskill and Manoj Kumar of Reuters in Kanpur (India) | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
At British India Corporation's textile factory in Kanpur, four men sit in a control room watching computerised gauges eight hours a day. When they are done, another group takes over, and then another, for 24 hours a day - much...
Florence Tan and Meeyoung Cho of Reuters in Singapore/Seoul | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Global oil futures lost more than a dollar on Monday after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait signalled a willingness to bear with lower prices to defend market share, although better-than-expected trade data from China pared the losses. Contrary to market expectations,...
SINGAPORE, Oct 14 (AFP): Oil prices fell to fresh multi-year lows in Asian trade Tuesday, with analysts citing concerns about a supply glut and the effects of weaker demand from Europe and China. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for...
SINGAPORE, Oct 14 (Reuters): Gold retained overnight gains on Tuesday to trade near its highest in four weeks as investor appetite for riskier assets eased amid global growth worries, while a softer dollar also underpinned prices of the metal. A...
Bangladesh and the United States are now working to fix a fresh date for the third Bangladesh-US Partnership Dialogue which was originally scheduled to take place in Washington DC on October 20-21. The partnership dialogue has already been postponed due...
PHANG NGA, Thailand, Oct 14 (AFP): As rubber prices slump, hard-up farmers in Thailand-the world's top producer of the commodity-are appealing for a bailout, testing the junta's resolve to end populist policies and an entrenched subsidy culture. The global price...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Oct. 14 (Xinhua): After a four-year pilot programme, the low-carbon rice farming model is being considered for expansion in Vietnam, local Vietnam News reported today, quoting sources from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)...
SINGAPORE, Oct 14 (Reuters): Gold retained overnight gains on Tuesday to trade near its highest in four weeks as investor appetite for riskier assets eased amid global growth worries, while a softer dollar also underpinned prices of the metal. A...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
The contribution of labour-intensive jute sector is enormous in the economy of Bangladesh. About half of the raw jute produced in Bangladesh are used by the existing 148 jute mills of the country (Bangladesh Economic Association, 2012). After India, Bangladesh...
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) men, who failed to find their names in the newly formed committee of the BNP’s student wing, now blasted five crude bombs in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office Wednesday night. Witnesses said the...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Stagnation in investment is lingering. Interest rates of banks have been reduced. There are investible surplus funds in banks. Even then entrepreneurs are not showing any interest in investment. They are not approaching banks for funds for setting up new...
One has reasons to question the rationale behind the proposal endorsed by the Cabinet recently to lower marriageable age of girls from 18 to 16. No wonder, the proposal/recommendation came as a bolt from the blue to the conscientious sections...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
The signs were not pleasant to signal a smooth go-ahead for the WTO Bali work programme following India's veto to the Trade Facilitation deal. Notwithstanding India's reasoning for refusal to adopt the legal text, the fall-out from the incident has...
Afroja Yesmin | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
There is nothing like the warmth of the mother's lap for a baby. We all know about mother's love and affection for her child but this warmth and cuddle are not only an expression of the inseparable bond between the...
It is good to know that the government is contemplating to build low cost apartments for the slum dwellers. The slum dwellers are now living a sub-human life. Having lived in unhygienic condition they are suffering from various diseases. The...
It is good to learn that the government is working on identifying the genuine freedom fighters and listing out the fake ones. As an important move towards this, the Jatiya Muktijoddha Council has redefined the freedom fighters delisting those who...
I have been living in the New Eskaton Road area in the capital for more than three decades. I am sorry to say the drainage and sewerage system in the area is at its worst now; in other words it...
In railway parlance, the pair of parallel rails is called permanent-way. However given the regular frequency of train derailments happening over the last few weeks, is it now temporary-way until the next derailment? This is a very serious matter for...
Shah Md. Ahsan Habib | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
The deposit-taking institutions like banks are highly regulated by the national financial and other relevant regulations. International financial regulations are expected to complement the set of national regulations for attaining expected outcome of the policy makers. These rules and standards...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Malaysian High Commissioner in Dhaka Norlin Othman has recently said that Bangladesh is among the top three countries eligible to avail itself of the "Malaysia my second home (MM2H)" programme. As many as 2,923 Bangladeshis have so far taken the...
FE Report | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
The securities regulator has imposed embargo on Argon Denims and Salvo Chemical Industry from raising fund from capital market for next three years for 'unlawful' expenditure of IPO funds, officials said. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) also fined...
FE Report | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Subscriber base of Grameenphone (GP), the largest telecom service provider, has reached 50 million, what the telephony firm termed it an 'incredible achievement'. The local chapter of Norway- based 'Telenor group' officially made the announcement through a press conference at...
FE Report | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
Stocks slipped in the red for the second running session Tuesday amid modest volatility as investors booked profit. The market opened with a positive mood, but could not sustain amid sale pressure. Eventually, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...
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