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Photo: SYLHET: Traffic jam on main city roads

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Photo: NILPHAMARI: Hectic Eid shopping

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Israeli air strikes, shelling kill 25 more Toll in Gaza hits 337 in 12 days of war

2014-07-20 00:00:00

GAZA CITY, July 19 (agencies): Israeli air strikes and shelling killed more than 25 people across Gaza Saturday, among them children, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 337, medics said. The latest deaths included a 20-year-old man...

Malaysia team in Kiev as anger mounts over MH17

2014-07-20 00:00:00

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (AFP):- A Malaysian team including two air accident investigators arrived in Kiev on Saturday and the transport minister was expected to follow as the Malaysian prime minister appealed for access to the MH17 crash site. Prime...

Jihadists kill 270 in Syrian gas field \\\'massacre\\\'

2014-07-20 00:00:00

BEIRUT, July 19 (AFP): Jihadists have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees since seizing a gas field in Homs province, a monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described Thursday's takeover of the...

Fakhrul accuses govt of repressing people

2014-07-20 00:00:00

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the Awami League-led government is repressing people in the name of the Liberation War sprit and democracy. “People are now passing very tough time as the government is...

Bomb attack leaves three dead in SW Pakistan

2014-07-20 00:00:00

QUETTA, July 19 (AFP):- A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan Saturday, killing three people including a paramilitary soldier and wounding 16 others, officials said. The attack came when a patrolling vehicle of...

Christians flee jihadist ultimatum in Iraq\\\'s Mosul

2014-07-20 00:00:00

KIRKUK, July 19 (AFP): Hundreds of Christian families fled their homes in Mosul Saturday before a jihadist ultimatum threatening their community's centuries-old presence in the northern Iraqi city expired. An AFP correspondent in Mosul, the main Iraqi hub of the...

news digest

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Nine dead, dozens hurt in bus crash in Germany BERLIN, July 19: At least nine people were killed and 43 hurt on Saturday, police said, as a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers collided with another Polish minibus near the eastern German...

Photo: INDIA : Indian parents of school children along with activists

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Photo: ITALY : More than 2.000 Immigrants disembark from Italian military ship \\\"Etna\\\"

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Local branded apparel, leather goods replacing foreign ones

Shah Alam Nur | 2014-07-20 00:00:00

Local branded apparel and leather goods are gradually replacing the foreign ones. As a result, the volume of imported products has fallen sizeably in recent times, industry insiders said. For world-class quality and reasonable prices, customers now prefer local branded...

Chicago agricultural commodities futures closed lower

2014-07-20 00:00:00

CHICAGO, July 19 (Xinhua) : Chicago agricultural commodities futures trading closed lower yesterday, led by wheat.  The most active corn contract for December delivery dropped 8. 75 cents, or 2.26 percent, to close at 3.785 U.S. dollars per bushel. September...

BB to unveil farm credit policy tomorrow

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is set to announce two major policies ahead of the festival vacation for Eid-ul-Fitr, starting on July 28, reports BSS. The central bank will announce the agriculture and rural credit policy for 2014-15 financial year (FY15) on...

Commodity markets rattled by Ukraine airplane disaster

2014-07-20 00:00:00

LONDON, July 18 (AFP) :  Global commodity markets were gripped this week by the Malaysian air crash, which has dramatically raised tensions between Russia -- a key producer of many raw materials -- and the West. The doomed Malaysia Airlines...

Global Commodity Prices

2014-07-20 00:00:00

97 more Palestinians, 13 Israeli soldiers killed

2014-07-20 00:00:00

GAZA CITY: At least 97 Gazan Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed Sunday as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in the enclave in five years. As regional leaders met in Doha for...

Body formed to expedite industrial parks on land of state enterprises

Faruque Ahmed | 2014-07-20 00:00:00

The ministry of industries has formed a committee to prepare proposals for establishing industrial parks on 400 acres of land of sick or idle state-owned enterprises after the prime minister's directive, officials said. An additional secretary of the industries ministry...

5 of a family killed in Ctg fire

2014-07-20 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG: Five members of a family, including four children, were killed in a fire that broke out at a house in Sarkerhat area of Hathazari upazila Sunday night.  The deceased were identified Rosy 35, wife of vegetables vendor Mahbubul Alam,...

BJGA gets new chairman

2014-07-20 00:00:00

The 44th annual general meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Jute Goods Association (BJGA) was held at the conference room of the Association Wednesday, a BJGA release said Saturday, reports BSS. Presided over by Md Zakirul Islam, the outgoing chairman, the meeting...

Free Facebook access for Robi subscribers

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Robi Axiata Ltd in partnership with Facebook Inc has launched 0.facebook.com for free browsing of Facebook for its valued subscribers. Robi has also launched a daily Facebook pack at Tk 4 for subscribers who wish to browse on regular mobile...

US consumer sentiment dips in early July

2014-07-20 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Jul 18 (Reuters) : US consumer sentiment dipped in early July while an index of consumer expectations weakened for a third straight month, a survey released on Friday showed. The Thomson Reuters/ University of Michigan's preliminary July reading...

BB to announce farm credit policy Monday

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Bangladesh Bank (BB) will announce the agriculture and rural credit policy for the 2014-15 financial year (FY15) Monday. BB governor Dr Atiur Rahman will announce the credit policy at 2pm at the central bank's headquarters in the capital. Like previous...

Serbia passes labour, pension laws in reform drive

2014-07-20 00:00:00

BELGRADE, July 19 (AFP) : Serbia approved laws reducing job protection and raising the retirement age for women on Friday in the first steps of deep reforms to revive the seriously flawed economy, and fight high unemployment. Parliament is also...

Killing of journo Mantu : SC settles appeal with observations

2014-07-20 00:00:00

The Supreme Court Sunday settled some observations in the appeal filed by Bangladesh Beverage Industries Limited against a High Court judgment on compensation for a journalist who was seriously injured after being hit by a mini-truck of the company and...

News Briefs

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Italian central bank lowers 2014 growth forecast MILAN, July 19: Italy's central bank on Friday lowered its economic growth forecast for 2014 to just 0.2 per cent because of disappointing results from the first half of the year. The bank...

Kerry greets Mahmood ahead of Eid

2014-07-20 00:00:00

US Secretary of State John F Kerry has greeted Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on the occasion of the coming Eid-ul-Fitr, an official release said in Dhaka on Sunday. John Kerry sent a letter to his Bangladesh counterpart wishing...

Photo: The half-yearly business review meeting of Meghna Bank Limited

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Night-long wait for tickets

2014-07-20 00:00:00

Sale of pre-Eid advance railway tickets has commenced from Sunday. But hundreds of ticket expectants started camping at the capital’s Kamalpur Railway Station, literally spending sleepless night, to get a ticket to their destination since Saturday night. Many of those...

FBCCI, IOM sign deal for migrant workers\\\' skill dev

FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Bangladesh signed an agreement in the city Saturday for cooperation in skill development of the migrant workers. FBCCI Secretary General Mir Shahabuddin Mohammad...