India and Bangladesh are likely to start coastal shipping from mid-October this year, a top Indian shipping official said. An agreement has already been made between the two friendly neighbours to open up sea routes in order to further improve...
International supermarket group Carrefour achieved a sharp profit increase in the first half of the year. Net profit rose 16.7 per cent to 274 million euros ($367 million) and the current operating profit rose by 7.9 per cent to 833...
Shares in French luxury products group Kering jumped in initial trading on Thursday on a positive outlook for performance despite a profits fall. The shares surged 5.12 per cent to 160.10 euros. The overall French stock market was up 0.58...
Miscreants killed a man and dumped the body in a graveyard in Narayanganj city on Tuesday night. The dead is Sumon, alias ‘Chukka Sumon’. Police said local people found Sumon in an unconscious state at the graveyard at Paikpara and...
German industrial giant Siemens posted a jump in quarterly profits on Thursday, despite troubles in its energy sector and the impact of a strong euro. Siemens, which runs its business year from October to September, slightly beat analyst forecasts by...
Airbus on Thursday said its decision to cancel a $2.2 billion jet order from Skymark Airlines was final, rejecting the Japanese carrier's suggestion that talks were still ongoing. The European aircraft maker said this week it had informed Skymark that...
Telecommunication equipment group Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday it cut net losses by more than half in the second quarter as it battles to rebuild after years of setbacks. But its shares plun ged 8.71 per cent to 2.59 euros in morning...
A Greek tribunal's decision to acquit local farmers responsible for shooting 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers has sparked outrage in the country. Politicians, unionists and anti-racist groups have condemned the verdict as a ‘black mark for justice’ in a case that...
Hong Kong stocks ended higher for an eighth straight session Thursday, adding 0.10 per cent, as investors welcomed data showing the US economy grew much more than expected in the second quarter of the year. The benchmark Hang Seng Index...
Tokyo stocks fell 0.16 per cent Thursday, giving up early gains as earlier buying on robust US growth data and a weaker yen ran out of steam. The Nikkei 225 index dipped 25.46 points to 15,620.77, while the Topix index...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants' infiltration tunnels. The Israeli military estimated on...
Ukraine said on Thursday it had suspended offensive operations in its military campaign in east Ukraine to help international experts reach the downed Malaysian airliner's crash site but separatists were continuing to attack its positions. Kiev said ‘anti-terrorist operation’ (ATO)...
All the government, semi-government, banks and financial institutions reopened with very low attendance of on Thursday after the 3-day Eid vacation. Apart from the government offices, all private banks and many private offices, including business houses, also reopened in the...
Global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is also known to fans by the shorthand CR7, prompting the company behind his line of sleek underwear to target a Rhode Island man who has trademarked the letter-number combination, according to a new lawsuit....
Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will resume on Sunday after nine days of vacations, including a five-day-holiday for Eid-ul-Fitr and two days of weekly holidays, as declared earlier by the DSE authorities. The DSE authorities on July 10...
President Barak Obama took his criticism of congressional Republicans to a higher pitch on Wednesday, imploring them to ‘stop just hatin' all the time’ as they voted to sue him over charges he has overstepped the bounds of his office....
The ruling Awami League (AL) on Thursday sought one month more to submit its annual financial statement to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2013 calendar year. Advocate ABM Reazul Kabir Kawser, assistant secretary of the central sub-committee of Awami...
Argentina defaulted for the second time in 12 years after last-ditch talks with what it called ‘vulture’ creditors failed, though debt insurance prices on Thursday suggested investors believed a deal could eventually be reached. After a long legal battle with...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said they would gradually gear up the movement for early holding of parliamentary elections. Briefing reporters at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he said the government has been inviting conflict...
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, but the underlying trend pointed to a continuing strengthening of labor market conditions. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 302,000 for...
Doubts about the health of Europe's economy dominated trade on its major stock markrts on Thursday after a cautious message from the US Federal Reserve did little to stem the dollar's charge to 10-month highs. A steady rise for the...
The United States said on Thursday it was hopeful that differences between India and much of the rest of the world over a major trade agreement could be resolved in time, with only hours remaining before the deal has to...
The local administration has imposed Section 144 at two villages under Kurigram municipality following sporadic clashes between residents of the villages in the last two days that left over 150 people injured. Additional police super Sahab Uddin and locals said...
Inflation dropped to 0.4 per cent from June's 0.5 per cent, hitting its lowest level since late 2009 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. In July 2013, inflation ran at 1.6 per cent, well short of the ECB...
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam has said the BNP’s upcoming, anti-government movement will, hopefully, be ‘peaceful’. There was no reason for people to be afraid, he told reporters at the Secretariat after returning from Eid holidays on Thursday, according to...
The jobless rate in the 18-nation eurozone fell to 11.5 per cent in June from 11.6 per cent in May, hitting the lowest level since September 2012, the Eurostat statistics agency said. Eurostat said there were 18.41 million people without...
Two people remained still missing as 10 bodies have been recovered since a boat with 19 passengers capsized in the Padma River at Bairagir Char in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia on Tuesday. The bodies were pulled out from six different...
Sierra Leone's president has declared a public health emergency to curb the deadly Ebola outbreak. Ernest Bai Koroma said the epicentres of the outbreak in the east would be quarantined and asked the security forces to enforce the measures. The...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said stern action would be taken if BNP tries to create anarchy and destroy public property in the name of movement. “We have no objection if BNP goes for a constructive...
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi young man from Dharmagarh border in Ranishankail upazila of Thakurgaon on Thursday. The victim was identified as Alamgir, 26, son of Azizul Hauqe of Shahanabad village of the upazila....
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