SINGAPORE, Apr 1 (AFP) : Oil prices dipped in Asian trade Tuesday as reports of a partial withdrawal of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border raised hopes of an easing in the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. New...
A local activist of Awami League (AL) was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between two factions of the ruling party at Pirpur village in Sadar upazila of Pabna on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Amzan...
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) : Gold prices yesterday fell by Rs 50 to Rs 29,300 per 10 grams in India's national capital today on sustained selling by stockists amid a weak global trend. Silver also lost Rs 100 to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday identified internal and external barriers related to the country’s macro economy that stood in the way of its development and progress. She said this while replying to a question from MA Hannan (Mymensingh-7) during...
FE Report Bangladeshi workers seeking jobs in South Korea urged the government to ensure that the Korean authorities recruit manpower on 'serial basis' from the job roster of the Korean human resources department (HRD). They placed their demand Tuesday while...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the government is planning to upgrade Dinajpur and Mymensingh municipalities to city corporations. She made the announcement while responding to a question from AKM Maidul Islam (Kurigram-3) during the PM’s question-answer session...
SEOUL, Apr 1 (Xinhua): South Korea's exports grew at a faster pace in March compared with the prior month due to strong demand for locally-made products, a government report showed Tuesday. Exports, which account for about half of the economy,...
ATHENS, Apr 1 (Xinhua): European finance ministers held an informal meeting of Eurogroup and ECOFIN here on Tuesday to discuss economic and social issues in Europe, including the finalisation of bailout deals with Greece. The two-day meeting, scheduled to continue...
PARIS, Apr 1 (AFP): Weak energy prices pushed down inflation in advanced countries to 1.4 per cent in February from 1.7 per cent in January, the OECD said on Tuesday against a background of concern that eurozone inflation is too...
ANKARA, Apr 1 (Xinhua): Turkey's economy grew faster than expected in 2013 at a rate of four per cent compared to the previous year, the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) data showed on Tuesday. Turkey's annual gross domestic product (GDP) in...
LUANDA, Apr 1 (Xinhua): Angola and the United States are expected to reactivate 2010's trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) between the two countries during upcoming talks in Washington, Angola's official news agency Angop reported on Monday. The meeting will...
SINGAPORE, Apr 1 (AFP): Singapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. (OCBC) said Tuesday it has offered to buy Hong Kong's Wing Hang Bank for $4.95 billion as it seeks to boost its presence in the giant Chinese market. OCBC said in a...
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is open to the idea of coaching Bangladesh, reports bdnews24.com. "I will think about it when the issue will come up. No point in thinking about it beforehand," he said at a function at a...
Traditional old Dhaka 'outfit' Rahmatganj Muslim and Friends Society blanked Badda Jagoroni Sangsad (JS) by 2-0 goals in the Premier Bank Bangladesh Championship League Football held at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the...
PARIS, Apr 01 (AFP): Richard Gasquet has withdrawn from the French Davis Cup team to take on Germany in a quarter-final tie in Nancy this weekend due to a painful back, the French Tennis Federation announced on Monday. Ranked 11th...
LONDON, Apr 1 (AFP): Relatives wept Tuesday as the names of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush were read out in court. Lord Justice John Goldring, the coroner presiding, said Britain's worst sporting...
LOS ANGELES, Apr 01 (AFP): Rafael Nadal says he still has work to do on his game as he gets set to launch his claycourt season which the Spaniard hopes culminates with his ninth French Open title. World number one...
BERLIN, Apr 01 (AFP): Germany will be lead by world number seven Angelique Kerber for their Fed Cup semi-final clash against seven-time winners Australia from April 19-20, captain Barbara Rittner confirmed on Monday. However 15th-ranked Sabine Lisicki, who won the...
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 01 (AFP): Deposed African champions Al-Ahly of Egypt were drawn against Difaa El-Jadida of Morocco Tuesday in the CAF Confederation Cup play-offs. Another intriguing pairing from the draw in Cairo placed Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa with ASEC...
LONDON, Apr 01 (AFP): Michel D'Hooghe, FIFA's medical officer, has insisted there will be no re-vote on the controversial decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup finals. "There will be absolutely no re-vote," D'Hooghe told the London Evening Standard...
BARCELONA, Apr 1 (AFP): Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin believes his side will relish being labelled as underdogs ahead of their Champions League quarter-final, first leg away to Barcelona on Tuesday. Diego Simeone's men lead Barca by a point in...
Pre-tournament favourites Australia finished their unimpressive World Twenty20 campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket win over Bangladesh in Dhaka Tuesday, reports AFP. Openers Aaron Finch scored a 45-ball 71 and David Warner knocked a fiery 35-ball 48 to help Australia chase...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 1 (AFP): Left-arm spin wizard Rangana Herath conjured up astonishing figures of 3-5 to help Sri Lanka demolish New Zealand by 59 runs Monday in the race for the World Twenty20 semi-finals. The spinner rocked New Zealand, chasing...
Bangladesh Women's team tasted their first victory in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 beating Sri Lanka Women's team by 3 runs in their 4th and last Group-B match at Sylhet Stadium Tuesday, reports UNB. In the day's match, chasing 116...
LONDON, Apr 1 (AFP): England cricket must make sweeping changes after a humiliating defeat to the Netherlands in the World Twenty20 capped off a dismal winter, the national press said Tuesday. England, who had already been eliminated from the competition...
FE Report The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has further cut Bangladesh's economic growth projection to 5.6 per cent taking the declining remittance inflow and the possible downtrend in export earnings in the months to come into consideration. Earlier in October...
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Malaysia is interested to recruit 0.15m (1.5 lakh) Bangladeshi farm workers for development of its agriculture sector, said visiting Malaysian Home Minister Dr. Ahmed Zahid Hamidi Tuesday, reports UNB. Dr Hamidi said this when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
FE Report The government has decided in principle to form an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) council to deal with various problems in the RMG sector. The council will be formed by this month, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said Tuesday. He...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in separate drives arrested four people, including three policemen, and recovered 149 gold bars from their possessions from the capital, Naryanganj, Gazipur and Bogra areas early on Monday night, reports UNB. The three policemen-SI Manzurul...
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