CHICAGO, Mar 18 (Xinhua) : Chicago agricultural commodity futures were traded mixed yesterday, with corn and wheat prices falling on signs that Ukraine's grain trade would remain unaffected following a peaceful Crimea vote. The most active corn contract for May...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday said vested quarters are at play to bring the militants, terrorists and anti-liberation forces of BNP-Jamaat back to power, reports UNB. "Bangladesh is marching towards development after we have been elected in the January 5...
BNP will lay siege to the Deputy Commissioners' (DCs) offices across the country tomorrow (Thursday) protesting what it said the widespread capturing of polling stations and vote fraud by ruling party men during the third phase of upazila elections held...
FE Report | 2014-03-19 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) sent notices to 13 government agencies Tuesday seeking information on appointment, promotion, and other activities as part of investigation into alleged corruption by the Chairman of Petrobangla Dr M Hossain Monsur and managing directors (MDs) of...
A Dhaka court will hear on March 23 (Sunday) the bail pleas of three BNP leaders, including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in three cases, reports UNB. Metropolitan Magistrate Zahurul Haque fixed the date Tuesday after their...
Sourajit Aiyer from Mumbai | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
The current economic slowdown in India is not just an aftereffect of the financial crisis of 2007. A lot is written of how China and India received only minor bruises from that crisis due to certain structural patterns in which...
Twenty-two of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve respective export targets for the first seven months (July-January) of the current fiscal (2013-14), reports UNB. The key Bangladesh missions like Washington, London, Ottawa, Canberra and New Delhi failed...
FE Report | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) will ask the district officials to strengthen market monitoring during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. With this end in view the MoC will send letters to the deputy commissioners (DCs) to strictly monitor kitchen...
FE Report | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
Around 22,572 ready flats worth about Tk 215.06 billion remained unsold till December, 2013, causing an adverse impact on the country's real estate sector, REHAB leaders said. The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) leaders said though local...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will invest Tk 1.65 billion to remove accident-prone "black spots" on the national highways across the country to ensure road safety and check accidents, officials said Monday. Ministry of Communications (MoC) officials said the...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is likely to resume importing manpower from Bangladesh, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said on Monday. The minister said the UAE will sign an agreement with Bangladesh end this month to...
Dollar edges up after Crimea breakaway vote TOKYO, Mar 17 : The dollar edged higher in Asia on Monday as investors track events in Eastern Europe after Crimeans voted to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, sparking threats of...
FE Report | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
Primark, a UK-based retailer, announced Monday that it will begin long-term payments to 580 workers of the New Wave Bottoms that produced apparel products for it. The payment worth US$ 9.0 million will be distributed to those workers or their...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
A business delegation of the country's apex trade body will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) soon to enhance bilateral trade and investment between the two brotherly countries. Bangladesh has much potential to increase its trade with the UAE. There...
MANILA, Mar 17 (Reuters): The Philippine economy could grow faster than previously thought this year, the World Bank said on Monday, but much depends on how fast the government can rebuild communities ravaged by a super typhoon that struck in...
BEIJING, Mar 17 (AFP): More than 100 million Chinese are to be given vital documents making them officially residents of the country's cities under a broad plan for the urbanisation that is crucial to economic growth. China's new leaders under...
SEOUL, Mar 17 (Reuters): Most emerging Asian currencies rose on Monday, shrugging off broader weakness in riskier assets globally after Crimea voted overwhelmingly to break from Ukraine to join Russia. The Indonesian rupiah hit a 4-1/2-month high, with local stocks...
CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh put in a clinical performance to defeat new-comers Nepal by eight wickets in the World Twenty20 in Chittagong Tuesday. The hosts, who fielded after winning the toss, kept Nepal down to 126-5 in their 20 overs before reaching...
TOKYO, Mar 17 (Reuters): Japan's government upgraded its view on factory output while leaving its overall economic assessment unchanged, sounding upbeat on the world's third-largest economy. The government, in its monthly report issued on Monday, described the economy as "moderately...
Foreign Secretary (FS) Md Shahidul Haque will be in India on Wednesday at the invitation of his counterpart Sujatha Singh. Apart from his bilateral talks with Singh, he is expected to call on External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and National...
PARIS, Mar 17 (AFP): European aerospace giant Airbus said Monday it had won an order worth some $375 million from a new Saudi Arabian airline for four A320 jets. The planes will be delivered at the beginning of next year,...
COLOMBO, Mar 17 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's economy grew at 7.3 per cent in 2013, picking up from 6.3 per cent in the previous year, data released by the government's Census and Statistics Department showed on Monday. The economy expanded 8.2...
SHANGHAI, Mar 17 (AFP) : China's yuan weakened against the dollar on Monday after the central bank doubled the currency's trading band as part of broad financial reforms as the government seeks to remake the world's second-largest economy. The People's...
SINGAPORE, Mar 17 (Xinhua) : Singapore non-oil domestic exports (NODX), a key gauge of the export performance of the small and highly open economy, rose by 9.1 per cent on year in February, trade promotion agency International Enterprise Singapore said...
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