Brushing aside the ruling party leaders’ claim that the next national election to be held on completion of the government’s five-year tenure, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the election will be held much ahead...
Afghanistan on Wednesday ordered a New York Times correspondent to leave the country after he wrote an article saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power to end a stand-off over election results. The attorney general's office said...
Buenos Aires on Tuesday moved to pay bondholders domestically after a US bank left it unable to do so, President Cristina Kirchner said. ‘To protect the payments to bondholders who took part in the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps, we...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Robiulla Robi, the news editor of The Daily Inqilab, on a 5-day remand in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the order when...
A Ukrainian official says nine troops were killed in overnight fighting in the streets of the town of Ilovaysk, which lies just east of the rebel stronghold Donetsk. Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said in a...
Chinese-owned Volvo Car Group announced a return to profits on Wednesday in an upbeat half-yearly report that cited ‘solid’ demand for the Swedish brand particularly in China. The Gothenburg-based manufacturer bucked dismal sales trends in the global auto industry with...
South African inflation ticked down to 6.3 per cent in July, government data showed on Wednesday, easing pressure slightly on consumers. The consumer price index was 0.3 points lower than June, thanks in part to a drop in the price...
Japan's trade deficit narrowed 6.6 per cent year-on-year to $9.4 billion in July, with exports picking up on increased shipments of cars and machinery, data showed Wednesday. Japan logged a deficit of 964.0 billion yen against the year-before shortfall of...
A sprawling market floor in Guangzhou was once a prime location for shark fin, one of China's most expensive delicacies. But now, it lies deserted, thanks to a ban from official banquet tables and a celebrity-driven ad campaign. One shopkeeper...
Germany is ready to send weapons to support Iraqi Kurds in their battle against the ‘barbaric’ jihadist militants of the Islamic State, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday. After other European countries said they would send arms to help the...
Portugal on Wednesday raised one billion euros ($1.32 billion) of government debt at record low rates as investor confidence recovered after the rescue of the country's biggest private bank. One of the issues was made at half the rate of...
Swiss-based pharmaceuticals giant Novartis said Wednesday that it had signed a licensing deal with an international organisation that fights tuberculosis. In a statement, the group said that the exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development...
Mining giant Glencore Xstrata reported a sharp improvement in first-half performance on Wednesday, marking a big switch back into profit. The group, which came into being with a mega merger last year, said it had made a net profit of...
Danish brewer Carlsberg cut its annual profit guidance on Wednesday and said economic uncertainty in Russia, its biggest market, could prompt it to close some breweries. Clouds over the outlook in some parts of eastern Europe had cut consumption of...
Thailand's coup leader is expected to be picked as prime minister by the kingdom's new army-dominated national assembly, junta sources said Wednesday, cementing the military's hold on power in the politically turbulent nation. Army Chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha is likely to...
India has removed the chief executive of its film censorship board after he was arrested on accusations he took a bribe to clear a movie for screening. Rakesh Kumar was arrested on Monday in Mumbai, the centre of the Bollywood...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry to go for fresh biddings for offshore blocks to ensure the optimum extraction of oil and gas from the Bay of Bengal. “Go for fresh biddings in...
China on Wednesday arrested three managers of a Taiwanese-invested car parts factory where a massive explosion this month killed 75 people, state media said. The blast at a wheel hub polishing workshop at Kunshan in the eastern province of Jiangsu...
A total of 98,762 Bangladeshis intending to perform Hajj this year, including 1,505 under government management, have deposited their Hajj money. This was revealed at the fifth meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Religious Affairs Ministry on Wednesday, which...
Dubai's developer Nakheel behind the famed man-made palm-shaped islands says it is repaying 7.9 billion dirhams, or roughly $2.1 billion, four years before the last installment is due. The indebted state developer was scheduled to repay the credit over three...
Global steel production rose 1.7 per cent in July over 12 months, driven mainly by growth in Chinese output, the World Steel Association (WSA) said on Wednesday. Steel is used in most industrial processes and is an important indicator of...
The tender for constructing the 1290-meter-long third Shitalakhya bridge involving Tk 3.77 billion was floated on Wednesday. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader disclosed this at a meeting at the Secretariat on traffic jam and water logging problem due to the construction...
Vietnam and Myanmar are testing three patients for the deadly Ebola virus after they arrived in the Southeast Asian nations from Africa while suffering from fever, health officials said. Two Nigerians were sent to Ho Chi Minh City's Tropical Diseases...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday underscored the need for a united stance of the Muslim Ummah to protect its rights against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in Palestine. The Prime Minister came up with the remark when Deputy...
Thursday is the 10th anniversary of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital that killed 24 party leaders and activists, including AL women affairs secretary Ivy Rahman, wife of late...
The tests for admission into medical and dental colleges of Bangladesh will take place on October 24. The examinations will be held from 10am to 11:00am for all public and private medical and dental colleges at the same time, Medical...
The steady rise in Bangladesh's exports to China in the recent years is no tiny blip. Trade circles in the country consider it a strong indication and pushed vigorously, it might become a major watershed in boosting exports to one...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
For some, gloom never ends. It was chasing them since 2010. For others, gloom came to an end as they behaved professionally. The gloom prolonged for those who purchased the stocks in the too-hot a market of 2010 and then...
Monir Bhuiyan | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Do you know why political leaders are always so optimistic? Don't you get it yet? ……it is because; he/she has some companions who always keep him/her obsessed with dreams/fantasy with their crushing ability of persuasion. However, now, think of a...
It is good to learn that Malaysia will open its market to Bangladeshi workers for many new sectors. Recently, the Malaysian human resources minister visited our country and assured his counterpart of it. Malaysia is a popular destination for manpower...
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