FE Online Report | 2014-03-13 00:00:00
The stock market ended lower for the second running sessions Thursday amid thin participation as ongoing volatility and apparent lack of directions kept investors watchful. The market opened with positive note, but could not sustain, eventually landed into the red....
Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, is set to sell more than 10-million vehicles this year, chief executive Martin Winterkorn said on Thursday. "There is a good chance that we will already exceed the ten million deliveries mark this year --...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia Thursday of "massive" long-term damage to its economic and political interests if it continued to violate international law with its seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. In a speech to parliament looking ahead to a...
Chinese satellite images that were said to show debris from a missing Malaysian airliner were released by mistake, Malaysia's transport minister says. Hishammuddin Hussein also denied a US report that the plane might have flown for hours after contact was...
Israeli warplanes have struck 29 targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket barrage from Gaza into Israel, the military has said. Palestinians said missiles hit bases of Gaza's Hamas rulers and the armed wing of Islamic Jihad,...
Three people have died in fresh protests in Venezuela, this time in the central city of Valencia. A policeman and two other men were shot dead in separate incidents. In Caracas, Venezuelan government supporters and opposition demonstrators took to the...
Ukraine's parliament has voted to create a 60,000-strong National Guard to bolster the country's defences. The vote came ahead of Sunday's referendum in Crimea, now controlled by pro-Russian forces, on whether citizens want to join Russia. President Vladimir Putin insists...
Australia's economy added 47,300 jobs in February - three times what many analysts had been expecting. The boost follows two months of disappointing jobs growth, leading many to worry about a slowdown in the country's economy. The unemployment rate held...
Singapore plans to regulate virtual currency intermediaries, to combat potential risks from money-laundering or terrorism-related financing. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the intermediaries, such as virtual currency exchanges, would need to verify their customers' identities. They will also...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Thursday that it had postponed the process for Russian membership and said it would boost links with Ukraine. The OECD, a key policy forum for advanced democracies, said that at the...
A study by researchers at the University of California, Yale, and Facebook has found that moods can spread virally through social media sites such as Facebook. Using data from millions of Facebook users, the researchers examined the impact of rainy...
The government has raised power tariff by an average of 6.96 per cent, a move which is most likely to affect all the sectors. Consumers will be charged the new price from this month. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) announced...
Six Shiite rebels and two soldiers were killed near Sanaa on Thursday as Huthis continue to push south towards the Yemeni capital, tribal and security sources said. Eight of the Huthi rebels, also known as Ansarullah (Partisans of God), were...
Describing corruption, terrorism and militancy as the formalin of politics, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said it is not only the foodstuff but also the politicians should be free from formalin. “Our politicians are doing politics being contaminated with...
Yet another conflicting storyline emerged overnight in the perplexing disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 nearly six days ago. After search crews failed to find any trace of debris suggested by Chinese satellite photographs, Malaysian officials on Thursday denied a...
The curtain falls on the tense election campaign in 81 upazilas (UZs) of 41 districts on Thursday midnight, 32 hours before the voting opens in the upazilas. The voting will take place from 8am to 4pm on Saturday without any...
Eight people, including four of a family, were killed in two road accidents in Brahmanbaria and Feni districts on Thursday. In Brahmanbaria, five people, including four members of a family, were killed and two people injured in a collision between...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Home Ministry to update the lists of terrorists. While talking to journalists at the secretariat in the afternoon, the state minister said that the Prime Minister had given the direction when she attended...
Anti-tobacco campaigners have protested the involvement of tobacco companies in drafting Smoking and Tobacco Product Usage (Control) Rules 2014. Progga, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance jointly registered the protest, saying there is no scope for involving the...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Atiur Rahman on Thursday said they are going to issue an order to fix the loan refinancing for some small women entrepreneurs below Tk 50,000. Addressing the Women Entrepreneurs’ Conference and Product Display 2014, the BB...
US retail sales rose for the first time in two months in February, official figures have shown. The figures suggest the world's largest economy is gaining in strength after suffering the third-coldest winter on record. Retailers reported that sales rose...
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi youth from Mirgar border in Panchagarh Sadar upazila on Thursday. The victim was the son of one Kafiluddin of Mirgar Bodapara village in the upazila. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)...
BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on Friday protesting the hike in power tariffs. The demonstrations will be held in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout the country. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced...
Malaysian authorities expanded their search for the missing jetliner westward toward India on Thursday, saying it may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground. That scenario would make finding the Boeing 777 a vastly more...
The fifth edition of the ICC T20 World Cup kicked off in the city as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday evening formally opened the gala event seeking cooperation of all in making the tournament a grand success. “I seek...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is criticizing the United Nations (UN) for raising the possibility of Myanmar contributing UN peacekeepers. The New York-based group says the nation's military remains among the most abusive in the world. The group voices its concerns...
The government on Thursday decided to stop gas supply to all fertiliser factories in the country, except for Jamuna Fertiliser Factory, during the ongoing Boro cultivation. The decision was taken keeping in mind the increased demand for gas in power...
RANGPUR, Mar 12 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong conference of women leaders have stressed for building a discrimination-free society to ensure women empowerment through strengthening grassroots level women leadership. They also advocated for establishing gender equality to flourish women leadership...
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