STUTTGART, Germany, Apr 20 (AFP): Maria Sharapova opens her claycourt season in Germany this week where she hopes to claim a hat-trick of Stuttgart titles and her 30th WTA career trophy. The defending champion is unbeaten at the indoor tournament...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
A tax policy usually aims at achieving a few objectives in the economy. These are enough tax collection for the government, ensuring distributive justice for citizens and serving or influencing public interests. It also aims at discouraging some consumption items...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
April appears to be the month for elections. The beginning of the month, on April 05, saw polls for the president and provincial councils taking place in 34 provinces in Afghanistan. The country's third presidential election now brings to an...
Anatole Kaletsky of Reuters | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
Can economists contribute anything useful to our understanding of politics, business and finance in the real world? I raise this question having spent three days from April 10-12 in Toronto at the annual conference of the Institute for New Economic...
Bangladesh is what it is today because of diligence, brilliance and hard work of a segment of the population now being called 'senior citizens' - the aged. This is evident from the sorry state of affairs in all tiers of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh has a comprehensive and updated labour law. The law extensively defines who are workers and their rights, obligations and privileges. This piece of legislation also gives the workers the right to form trade unions and resort to strikes, if...
Neil Ray | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
Professional aberration is hitting a new low nowadays. Hardly has there been any profession that can now maintain immunity to this general decline in standard. But more than most other professions, the medical one has been making screaming headlines of...
Legendary singer Bashir Ahmed has silently passed away from this mortal world. He is one of the finest playback male singers of our film industry. He also sang in Hindi, Urdu and Nepalese languages with equal ease and melody. His...
It is shocking news for the world media that the well known Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was brutally shot by unknown gunmen on his way to his office from Karachi Airport. Pakistan is one of the most unsafe countries in...
Recently, the law enforcing agency has arrested a gang involved in manufacturing fake national identity cards. Fake national ID card is being printed in many computer shops openly and the shop owners are not even aware of this serious crime....
Mahfuz Kabir | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
The size of the upcoming budget 2014-15 is likely to be Tk 2.5 trillion as the finance minister already indicated a couple of weeks back. If it turns out to be so, the growth of public expenditure would be 13.6...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
A leading pharmaceuticals company is planning to set up a blood plasma fractionation plant for commercial purpose. The initiative is the first of its kind in Bangladesh, where blood demand is still met by donors and in many cases use...
FE Report | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
Nestle Bangladesh Ltd has planned to ramp up its investment and expand factory establishments considering the country an "attractive" growth play. Managing director of Nestle Bangladesh Stephane Norde unveiled the Swiss company's plan on Sunday during a meeting with industries...
FE Report | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
Export subsidy on jute yarn is likely to be increased in the upcoming fiscal year to help boost exports to the international market, an official said. Currently, exporters of jute yarn are getting 7.50 per cent cash subsidy and the...
NEW DELHI, Apr 20 (AFP): Diageo hopes it will be second time lucky for its $1.9-billion offer to wrest majority control of India's United Spirits as the British booze giant seeks to ramp up its presence in the whisky-loving nation....
China set to replace Volvo's US market this year BEIJING, Apr 20 (Reuters): China is set to surpass the United States to become Volvo Car Group's biggest market in 2014 with sales of at least 80,000 cars in the world's...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-04-21 00:00:00
The government's initiative to sell rice and atta under Fair Price Programme (FPP) is yet to make any major headway due to poor response from the dealers, officials said. The programme for selling these foodstuffs to limited income group of...
BANGALORE, India, Apr 20 (AFP): An Indian state government has ordered Japan's Toyota and its union to restore operations at its two Indian factories after a protracted pay dispute halted work, the company said. The demand comes after unionised employees...
SHANGHAI, Apr 20 (Xinhua): China will enhance reforms in the management of population data, land, funding guarantees, housing and environmental protection to boost the urbanization process, according to a senior official from the country's top economic planner. Xu Shaoshi, minister...
LONDON, Apr 20 (Reuters): Africans face the highest remittance fees globally, regularly paying a "super tax" to send money home at a cost that hurts families and holds back development in the world's poorest continent, a thinktank said recently. The...
PARIS, Apr 20 (AFP): Europe's mergers and acquisitions market is rebounding after years in the doldrums, as improving market sentiment is prompting companies to spend piles of cash built up during the financial crisis. A flurry of new deals have...
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