BHOLA, Aug 17 (UNB): Onrush of water from the upstream and heavy rainfall over the last couple of days flooded more than 50 villages in three upazilas in the district, leaving about 0.2 million people marooned. In a visit to...
KHULNA, Aug 17 (BSS): The Hindu community today celebrated Janmashtami marking the birth of Lord Krishna, in the city and district, with religious fervour. On the occasion, different religious and socio-cultural organizations arranged programmes including prayer to Lord Krishna, discussions...
RANGPUR, Aug 17 (BSS): Speakers at a press conference today stressed for launching vigorous social movement against social erosions, fundamentalism, unhealthy culture, drug abuse, gambling, rape and violence against women and human trafficking. Terming the fundamentalist forces and women repressors...
RU Correspondent | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Aug 17: The registration for the admission test in first year Honours courses under the Rajshahi University (RU) in the academic session of 2014-15 will begin on August 25 and will continue till September 14, said a press...
4 held with touchstone statues in Naogaon Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four alleged smugglers with two touchstone statues from Soraigazi Bazar area in Porsha upazila of Naogaon district Sunday, RAB sources said. The arrested were Abdus Salam,...
Two top level officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will visit Dhaka from Tuesday to discuss the ADB's private sector and cofinancing operations in Bangladesh. The two high-ups are vice-president for Private Sector and Cofinancing Operations Lakshmi Venkatachalam and...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will hold a big event by the end of this year -part of its plan to sell a quarter of its stakes to an international strategic partner, officials said. The DSE event is also intended to...
DUBAI, Aug 17 (Business Standard): Indians have been ranked first among foreign investors in Dubai's real estate sector, making a total of 4,417 transactions worth nearly $3 billion in the first half of the year, according to an official report....
SINGAPORE, Aug 17 (Bloomberg): Bonds trounced stocks worldwide over the past month as investors sought the safety of debt amid unrest in Ukraine and the Middle East and signs of uneven economic growth. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global...
FE Report Shares trading of Khulna Printing and Packaging Limited (KPPL) will begin on the Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange today (Monday) under 'N' category, officials said. KPPL is the second listed company under the 'Paper and...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (Business Standard): Capital market watchdog Sebi started probe into 108 new cases related to manipulations in the securities laws and completed investigation in 120 matters during the last financial year. With this the total number of...
MUMBAI, Aug 17 (Business Standard): This year, Dalal Street will see the launch of five new exchange-traded funds (ETFs), four of which will not be marked to the benchmark indices. The broader market's outperformance, coupled with an improvement in investor...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (PTI): Improved market sentiment helped Mutual Funds (MFs) pick up shares worth over Rs 50 billion in July, making it the highest monthly inflow in six-and-a-half years. This also marks the third consecutive monthly inflow. Besides,...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (PTI): Expanding its surveillance mechanism to catch market manipulators and fraudsters early, watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has put in place a new alert-generation system to detect possible wrongdoings by the traders and...
LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters): US investors are withdrawing billions of dollars from European stocks as signs of a stalled economic recovery, compounded by the Ukraine crisis, halt the past year's scramble to buy back into the region. The switch out...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (PTI): Overseas investors have pulled out nearly Rs 53 billion from the Indian debt market since the beginning of the month. In comparison, equity market has witnessed modest inflow of Rs 11.50 billion during the period....
The unarmed black teenager killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on 9 August was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a medical examiner has said. Dr Michael Baden was hired to perform a second,...
MUMBAI, Aug 17 (Business Standard): The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) board will meet on Monday to decide, among other things, whether the remaining stake of its embattled promoter should be transferred to an escrow account. MCX is under pressure from...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (AFP): Thousands of opposition demonstrators crowded the streets of the Pakistani capital for a second day Sunday, after a populist cleric issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding the arrest of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The ultimatum came as...
FERGUSON, Aug 17 (AP): Police used smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse demonstrators who defied a curfew in Ferguson, Missouri early Sunday, where a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen triggered a wave of rioting. Missouri Governor...
HONG KONG, Aug 17 (AFP): Tens of thousands of people, some waving Chinese flags, marched in Hong Kong Sunday to protest against a pro-democracy campaign to blockade the business district unless Beijing grants acceptable electoral reforms. The rally in searing...
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who is currently serving a six-month ban due to disciplinary issues, has regained the top spot in Test rankings. The 27-year-old, who had lost his place to Ravichandran Ashwin of India last November, returned to...
KIEV, Aug 17 (AFP): Ukrainian forces battled into a key rebel bastion as fresh claims that rocket launchers had crossed over from Russia stoked tensions Sunday ahead of talks between Kiev and Moscow's top diplomats. The foreign ministers of Russia,...
LAGOS, Aug 17 (Reuters): The first Nigerian confirmed to have contracted the Ebola virus has been discharged here after full recovery, the government said. Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu late Saturday told reporters in Lagos, the country's economic hub, that...
Gaza truce talks resume in Cairo | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (agencies): Israel warned Sunday it would not countenance any long-term truce deal that did not answer its security needs as Gaza ceasefire talks resumed in Cairo. Egyptian-brokered indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are taking place...
Pope says Church not out to 'conquer' Asia HAEMI, Aug 17: Pope Francis reached out to China on the penultimate day of his visit to South Korea on Sunday, urging a closer dialogue and insisting that Catholics did not view...
HENGQIN ISLAND, China, Aug 17 (AFP): A giant 63-metre blue whale shark statue towers over the world's largest aquarium, on a Chinese island being promoted as a testing ground for reforms aimed at encouraging domestic consumption as the driver of...
LONDON: European stock markets rebounded sharply Monday as traders breathed a sigh of relief over easing tensions in east Ukraine and gains by Western-backed forces in Iraq. Frankfurt's main DAX index added 1.68 per cent to end the day at...
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