MUMBAI, Nov 3 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex and Nifty hit a third consecutive record high on Monday but the gains fizzled out later in the session, with both indexes ending flat as automakers such as Tata Motors declined after monthly...
LONDON/PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters): European equities retreated from a four-week high on Monday, with a survey showing sluggish euro zone factory growth hurting market sentiment and gas transport group Snam leading the utilities sector lower following a gas storage ruling....
ZURICH, Nov 3 (Reuters): Swiss building materials group Holcim posted a drop in quarterly sales and profits on Monday as a recovery in India following May's elections failed to offset foreign exchange headwinds and weakness in Europe and Latin America....
SHANGHAI, Nov 3 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares finished lower on Monday as investors took profits following solid gains last week. The Hang Seng Index unofficially closed down 0.3 per cent at 23,915.97 points, while the China Enterprises Index of the...
MUMBAI, Nov 3 (Business Standard): Apollo Tyres has moved higher by 5 per cent to Rs 229 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), after the company said that the Delaware Court in the US has ruled in favour of Apollo's...
Atiur Rahman in the first of a two-part article | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
In this era of rapidly changing global financial environment, people's demand and society's needs are changing at a faster pace. Technological breakthrough also changes everything from customer relationships to business models. As elsewhere, banking in Bangladesh faces a multitude of...
M. Aminul Islam Akanda | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh is one of the 47 least developed countries (LDCs) in the world. The country also belongs to the World Bank's list of 34 low-income countries (LICs). The United Nations categorises a group of countries with low levels of income...
Given the bitter experience with multi-level marketing (MLM) companies - many of which posed to be cooperatives, any such venture is likely to produce mistrust in the minds of people aware of the misdeeds. But this does not take away...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
The Asia-Pacific Regional Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) recently organised a workshop on microfinance in agriculture in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Representatives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and a few other countries participated in the...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
A technical glitch at Bheramara, which is also the point from where imported power from neighbouring India is being pumped into the national grid, is reported to have caused Bangladesh's worst blackout ever. Now that the country has experienced one...
The recent 12-hour power blackout all over the country has raised a storm of discussions and concerns. The government should now take appropriate steps so that such incidents are not repeated in future. The national grid should be de-centralised so...
Power blackout is an ever-present potential threat for any AC electrical transmission and distribution system. To minimise possibility of its happening to our power supply system, the tolerance of frequency is most critical. The frequency for AC power supply is...
We fully endorse the views of Mr. Shamsul Huq Zahid in his article published on November 3, 2014 on the condition of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). I feel ashamed whenever I use the airport. There had been no occasion...
M S Siddiqui | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are recent concepts in development economics. The enduring pursuit of regionalism and sub-regionalism has an underpinning thrust on peace, security and development through exploration, identification and gradual intensification of trade, economic and cultural ties among the geographically...
Accusing the government of snatching people's all rights, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia urged all Monday to get prepared for a struggle imbued with the spirit of the holy Ashura to 'restore democracy' in the country, reports UNB. "The current regime...
Accusing the government of snatching people's all rights, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia urged all Monday to get prepared for a struggle imbued with the spirit of the holy Ashura to 'restore democracy' in the country, reports UNB. "The current regime...
Law Minister Anisul Huq said Monday that there is no scope to file a review petition over the Supreme Court (HC) verdict that upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Kamaruzzaman for war crimes, report agencies. "Earlier, the Supreme Court...
A Liberation War hero prosecution witness (PW) accused Monday Engineer A Jabbar of perpetrating atrocities at Noligram village in Mathbaria, of Pirojpur killing 11 unarmed minority people, including his father, in 1971, reports UNB. "The perpetrators had also burned down...
Md Kamaruzzaman's defence counsel has said they will continue the 'legal battle' until his client's death sentence, upheld by the Supreme Court (SC), is reviewed, reports bdnews24.com. Tajul Islam, who represents Jamaat-e-Islami's top leadership at the war crimes tribunals, said:...
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi warned Monday that the ruling Awami League (AL) may face extinction if it does not arrange midterm polls, reports UNB. "Awami League leaders should beware there is a possibility of obliteration of the...
The United States (US) said Monday that ending impunity for crimes against journalists is both a moral imperative and a practical necessity in creating free, open, and stable societies around the world, reports UNB. "Impunity for those who threaten, beat,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
MAGURA, Nov 3: At least 30 people were injured in an intra- party clash of the Awami League (AL) in village Balidia under Mohammadpur Upazilla of Magura Monday. Locals informed that rivalry was prevailing between Balidia union parishad (UP) chairman...
RU Correspondent | 2014-11-04 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Nov 3: Though four years have elapsed since the murder of Faruk Hossain, a former student of Mathematics Department of Rajshahi University (RU) and also hall unit leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), in February 2010, the trial...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina paid tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city Monday, marking the 39th Jail Killing Day,...
A Milad Mahfil will be held at the BNP's Nayapaltan central office today (Tuesday), marking the holy Ashura, reports UNB. The programme will be arranged on the ground floor of the BNP's central office after Asr prayers, said a press...
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