Hong Kong stocks edged up 0.45 per cent in the opening minutes of trade on Thursday after Wall Street enjoyed its first advance since the end of last week. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 105.38 points to 23,281.45 points,...
US stocks on Wednesday scored moderate gains following a solid kickoff to earnings season from Alcoa and Federal Reserve meeting minutes signaling an end to its bond-buying programme in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 78.99 points (0.47 per...
European stock markets were mixed on Wednesday, but most curbed two days of losses as investors awaited minutes of the US Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting for clues on the outlook for interest rates. An upbeat earnings report from the...
The seminar of Asia-Pacific parliaments on ‘Ending the cycle of violence against girls in Asia-Pacific’ will be held in Dhaka on September 23-25. The three-day conference will be jointly organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad....
The process of women empowerment progresses at accelerated rate after achieving self- reliance by thousands of distressed women in recent years though they lived in utter poverty even a decade ago in rural areas. Abject poverty forced these rural women...
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea’s capital markets witnessed positive trend on Thursday. Seoul was 0.10 per cent up at close, according to AFP.
Indonesian stocks jumped more than 2.5 per cent at the open on Thursday after unofficial tallies showed Jakarta governor Joko Widodo leading rival Prabowo Subianto in a race to lead Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The Jakarta benchmark index rose 2.54...
The oil-carrying freight train jumped the tracks in Fouzdarhat in Chittagong’s Sitakunda Upazila because the driver entered the mail line ignoring the signal, Railway officials say. Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya, loco master of the freight train, and his assistant Bidar Ali...
At least three people, a policeman among them, have been killed in a road accident involving a truck that hit them at Rajbari Sadar Upazila. Fifteen other people, including four police constables, were also injured in the accident on the...
At least two people were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Khan Jahan Ali Bridge in Khulna city on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Kamrul, 38, driver of a truck...
China’s monthly trade surplus jumped 16.4 per cent in June to $ 31.6 billion, official data showed on Thursday, as exports and imports both rose in the latest sign of recovering strength in the world’s 2nd-largest economy. Exports increased 7.2...
A fire at a ready-made garment (RMG) unit in Kamrangirchar in the city on Thursday left one dead and three injured. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Local people said a devastating fire erupted at a...
The public health index in Bangladesh’s rural areas has marked an improvement with reduction in water-borne diseases following laudable success achieved in sanitation coverage. The observation was made by the speakers at a sanitary latrine distribution ceremony held at Notkhana...
A court in Sirajganj on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing his wife for dowry in 2010. The convict was identified as Haider Ali, son of Jadab Ali, a resident of Purna village in...
Police recovered the body of a young man from a water body at Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila on Wednesday afternoon. Police said local people spotted the floating body of an unidentified man, aged around 30, at Barokarua Beel around 3:00pm and...
Miscreants killed a youth and dumped his body in a brick kiln in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga district at sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shamim Akhter Engine, 24, son of Abdul Rashid of Aramdanga...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw positive trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid see-saw, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
A construction worker died from electrocution in Gas Turbain area in Barisal city on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mahatab Hossain, 35, son of Rafiq Howlader, a resident of Rupatali area of the city. Family sources said Mahatab...
Customs intelligence officials at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in the city seized 1.2 kilograms of gold and arrested two people in this connection on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as Abdul Motin, 43, and Mohammad Abdul Aziz,...
India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley set a fiscal deficit target for this year of 4.1 per cent of GDP as he presented the new government’s 1st budget, while promising cuts in the next few years. He said India urgently needed...
A gunman shot 6 people to death, four of them children, in the outskirts of Houston, Texas, on Wednesday, then surrendered to police after a lengthy standoff in a mass slaying that authorities say was sparked by a domestic dispute,...
Around 150,000 lakh poor and distressed people have been brought under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in Rajshahi district to mark the ongoing month of holy Ramadan and forthcoming holy Eid-ul-Fitre. Under the specialised VGF programme, 1,447 tonnes of rice...
India’s new government has introduced a reform-minded budget focusing on promoting manufacturing and infrastructure, expanding the tax base and overhauling populist subsidies. The budget for the fiscal year ending March, 2015, is being closely watched as an indicator of whether...
Singapore's central bank said on Thursday it would stop issuing Sg$ 10,000 (US $ 8,000) notes to help deter money laundering, with critics complaining the note is the bill of choice for bribe-payers in neighbouring Indonesia. A spokeswoman for the...
Deputy Commissioners (DC) have sought government help to implement the Right to Information Act at the field level. ‘The DCs have spoken of the hurdles they face in implementing the act. They also want the law to be made effective...
The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) will not be made a holding company, State Minister for Jute and Textile Mirza Azam said on Thursday. ‘BJMC won’t be made a holding company ever,’ the state minister came up with the assertion...
The government on Thursday appointed M Wahidur Rahman, currently serving as Bangladesh High Commissioner to Kenya, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to Egypt. During his diplomatic career, Wahidur Rahman served in Bangladesh missions in Riyadh, Singapore, Jeddah and Bonn,...
Most Asian stock markets rose and the dollar dipped on Thursday after the Federal Reserve indicated it was in no rush to begin raising interest rates, even as it began to plan an exit strategy from an era of loose...
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Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) extended losing streak for the eighth consecutive session on Thursday with sluggish trading activities as investors remained reluctant to take fresh exposure in the market. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX) went down...
Israeli air strikes killed eight members of a family including five children in a pre-dawn raid on Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, while Hamas-led fighters launched rockets at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. Israel's military had no immediate...
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