SYDNEY, June 20 (AFP): Australia's trade minister today dismissed reports the country was in negotiations to deregulate its banking sector as a "massive beat-up", saying he would not enter any agreement undermining the industry. WikiLeaks documents, reported in Fairfax Media,...
FE Report Vegetable prices increased on Friday while chickpea, lentil, chicken meat reduced, traders said. The garlic prices increased nearly by 15 per cent in the last seven days, traders of the city's kitchen markets said. Chickpea prices increased sharply...
BERLIN, June 20: The eurozone's current account surplus grew to 21.5 billion euros ($29.3 billion) in April, European Central Bank data showed Friday. The monthly figure is higher than a surplus of 19.6 billion euros in March, according to revised...
TOKYO, June 20: The dollar edged down in Asia Friday, extending losses in New York that were driven by dovish comments from the head of the US Federal Reserve that indicated interest rates will not go up until next year....
MILAN, June 20 : Italy's manufacturing industry will return to growth in 2014 after years of losses, Bologna-based Prometeia, one of Italy's leading economic think tanks, has estimated in a recent report. Speaking at the Milan Foreign Press Association yesterday,...
SYLHET, June 20 (UNB): A good number of people at Mahtabpur village under Lamakazi union in Biswanath upazila have been able to develop the standard of their livelihood through dried fish business. The business centering dried fish which has huge...
A two-day view-exchange workshop of the Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committee, comprising public accounts committees of ten Asian countries, was held in the capital Friday. The parliamentary public accounts committee officials from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan...
The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), a regional intergovernmental and autonomous organisation, organised a one day e-learning workshop for underprivileged children in the city Friday. CIRDAP organised the workshop with an objective to develop...
LONDON, June 20 (AFP) : Oil prices steadied on Friday but Brent retained support near a nine-month peak as dealers tracked the unfolding sectarian conflict in Iraq, because it could cause major disruptions to supplies of crude. Brent crude for...
WASHINGTON, June 20 (AFP) : Ukraine's economy remains in a downward spiral and the IMF-EU rescue plan for the country is already outdated and insufficient, an economist said Thursday. "The economy remains at a standstill" due to the fighting in...
Siemens-Mitsubishi raises Alstom offer PARIS, June 20 : Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries added a billion euros to their offer for Alstom's energy business on Friday, hoping to see off a revamped bid by General Electric ahead of Monday's deadline...
NEW YORK, June 20 (BSS): President Abdul Hamid urged Thursday the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), irrespective of all opinions, to live abroad peacefully through tolerating differences of opinion. The President was addressing a reception accorded to him by Kishoreganj District Association,...
CHITTAGONG, June 20 (BSS): Moderate to heavy shower for 24 hours in the city and most parts of the district disrupted civic life causing water-logging in most of the areas. Loading and unloading activities in Chittagong port remained suspended due...
FE Report The Indian government has fixed the Minimum Export Price (MEP) of onion at US$ 300 per tonne to discourage export instead of the earlier minimum overseas sale price at $ 150, an announcement of the Ministry of Commerce...
RAJBARI, Jun 20 (UNB): Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured as their bike hit a roadside tree at Majbari in Kalukhali Upazila Friday afternoon. The dead are identified Abul Kalam, son of Keyamuddin, and Tayeb Ali, son of...
Police recovered a body of an unidentified woman (40), on a beribadh at Dalipara, adjacent to the runway of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Friday morning, reports BSS. Nazrul Islam, sub-inspector (SI) of Airport thana, told the news agency that after...
BENAPOLE (Jessore), Jun 20 (UNB): Customs officials at India's Petrapole check post arrested four Indian nationals along with 57 gold bars weighing 5.700 kg while they were returning home from Bangladesh Friday noon. Being tipped off that four Indian citizens...
Political Adviser to the Prime Minister HT Imam urged Friday teachers to dedicate themselves to groom children as worthy citizen through providing quality education, reports UNB. "Children are future of a country. So they should be given proper education to...
LALMONIRHAT, June 20 (UNB): A newly-wed couple was found hanging at Dighaltari village in Aditmari Upazila early Friday. The deceased were identified as Sujon, son of Minhajul of Durgapur village, and his wife Marzina, daughter of Entaj Ali of Dighaltari...
NATORE, Jun 20 (UNB): A college student, who went missing from Chhatiandighi village in Singra Upazila on June 13, was rescued from Sherkol area of the upazila early Friday. The rescued is Rakib Hasan Akram, a student of Bogra Azizul...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith inaugurated Friday the 7-day 12th National Photography Contest and Exhibition-2013 at the National Art Gallery of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city, reports BSS. Bangladesh Photographic Society (BPS) and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy jointly...
The Prime Minister's Office and the LGED, jointly organised an appraisal workshop on Paurashava information and service centres 'Access to Information' at LGED Bhaban in the city Thursday. Chaired by LGED chief engineer Md Wahidur Rahman, the meeting was attended...
Drama festival begins at JU today JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY, Jun 20 : A two-day drama festival 'Nabin Baran Natya Utshab-2014' will begin at Selim-Al-Deen Muktamancha on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus today (Saturday). Jahangirnagar Theater, a progressive cultural organisation, is arranging the...
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Affairs Mohammad Nasim said Friday the government would introduce health card system to ensure medical services for the poor patients, reports BSS. "The government will give health cards so that the poor patients get...
Bangladesh has welcomed the statement made recently by Baroness Pola Uddin in the House of Lords wherein she referred to the case of 0.3 million Bengali victims of sexual violence during the War of Liberation in 1971, reports UNB. She...
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