Journo hurt by miscreants in Barisal A local journalist sustained stab injuries in an attack by miscreants at Kalibari in Barisal Monday midnight. The injured was identified as Pulok Chaterjee, bureau chief of the daily Samakal in Barisal and general...
Daniel Thomas in London and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on car imports, if the United States and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Moscow, daily newspaper Vedomosti reported this week. The impact of the measure on...
Ben Blanchard and David Stanway of Reuters | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
China expects to sign agreements to give landlocked and resource-rich Mongolia easier access to Chinese territory for its exports when President Xi Jinping visits the country this week, a senior diplomat said on Monday. Mongolia, nervous about over-dependence on its...
Rajesh Kumar Singh of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
India called off on Monday peace talks with Pakistan, giving a jolt to renewed diplomatic efforts between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and adding to the troubles of Pakistan's beleaguered government. The move came nearly three months after Pakistani Prime Minister...
Ahmed Rasheed and Michael Georgy of Reuters | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Iraqi Kurdish forces said they recaptured Iraq's biggest dam from Islamist militants on Monday, as the United States launched air strikes to secure what has become a vital strategic objective in fighting that threatens to break up the country. An...
JERUSALEM, Aug 19, (agencies): Israeli air strike hits open ground in north Gaza. Israel Tuesday ordered the military to respond after three rockets from Gaza struck the south as the two sides were observing a 24-hour truce, an Israeli official...
COLOMBO, Aug 19, (AFP): Sri Lanka will not grant visas to UN investigators probing war crimes allegedly committed during the island's decades-long separatist conflict, President Mahinda Rajapakse said Tuesday. Sri Lanka has refused to accept the authority of the UN...
KABUL, Aug 19, (AP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed Tuesday for the two men vying to succeed him to end their dispute over election results and save the country from further violence and economic decline. Afghanistan has been paralysed for...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (AFP):- An Indian court Tuesday ordered the release of a woman who has staged a 14-year-long hunger strike to protest human rights abuses in the country's remote northeast, her lawyer said. Irom Sharmila, known as the...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19, (agencies): Islamabad braced for possible clashes after opposition politician Imran Khan pledged to lead his supporters in a march on the Pakistani capital's heavily guarded government district, in a high-stakes bid to depose the prime minister. Khan,...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19, (AP): Indian police have arrested two men accused of raping a nurse at one of New Delhi's top luxury hotels, a senior officer said Tuesday, days after the prime minister used a high-profile speech to condemn...
FERGUSON, Aug 19 (AFP): Protesters in Ferguson shot at police and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails in a new spasm of violence late Monday in the St Louis suburb that left six wounded and led to 31 arrests, police said....
David Meale has joined the US Embassy in Dhaka as its new deputy chief of mission. Meale was previously the counselor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. With over 20 years in the US Foreign Service,...
Indonesia hunts Spaniards missing in tourist boat sinking BIMA, Aug 19: Indonesian rescuers Tuesday expanded their search for two Spanish men still missing after a tourist boat sank at the weekend, forcing survivors to swim hours to dry land and...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Prices of shrimp in global market increased by average 50 to 60 cent per pound in the last one month due to supply shortage of vennamei shrimp following production fall in different countries, industry people said. "The price of 16-20...
FE Report Small and cottage industry groupings of Bangladesh and India have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote and encourage increasing trade and investment and technical cooperation between the two associations. President of National Association of Small and...
LONDON, Aug 19 (AFP): The heads of Britain's largest companies earned 131 times as much as their average employee last year, a study said Monday, exposing the growing pay gap between bosses and workers. The wage divide has more than...
Emirates has announced special return fares for both business class and economy class travellers from Bangladesh to select destinations in the USA, Europe, Africa and Middle East. Passengers travelling from Dhaka can book their return journey to North America starting...
TOKYO, Aug 19: Japan is to restart exports of rice grown in Fukushima for the first time since foreign sales were halted due to fears of contamination by the nuclear disaster there, officials said Tuesday. The National Federation of Agricultural...
SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI, Aug 19: China has allowed three more banks, including a foreign lender, to import gold, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the world's top gold buyer gears up for its strongest effort yet to gain pricing...
Food prices are rising in parts of Russia and experts say the state embargo on imports of Western food appears to be making things worse. Since the ban was imposed on August 7 imported pork used in processed meat in...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19: Buoyed by the growing popularity of online shopping in India, the e-commerce market, which is expected to reach $ 20 billion by 2020, will see companies investing close to $ 2.0 billion in logistics, infrastructure and...
NARAYANGANJ, Aug 19 (UNB) : US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena on Tuesday said the USA is working along with Bangladesh and the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the restoration of Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facilities for Bangladesh....
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Wednesday appealed to the Indian conglomerate, TATA Motors, to set up a manufacturing plant in Bangladesh. He said, "You should not limit yourself to marketing cars. We want TATA Motors to set up a manufacturing...
With conferring Bangladesh Bank Award 2013, the central bank at a programme Wednesday (today) is paying its highest tribute to two eminent economists for their lifetime and distinct contribution to the economy and the development of the country, reports UNB....
TOKYO, Aug 19 (AFP): The dollar held steady in Asia on Tuesday as concerns over a Ukrainian clash with Russia eased, while investors looked to a speech by the US Federal Reserve chief this week. In afternoon Tokyo trade, the...
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