SHANGHAI, Jan 6 (Reuters): China's yuan hit its lowest point in more than a week on Friday after the central bank set a weaker mid-point for the second straight day following a surge in the dollar overnight.Spot yuan closed slightly...
BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters): China's leadership is targeting growth of less than 8 per cent in 2012 a senior government researcher wrote Friday in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party.Lin Zhaomu, a researcher affiliated with China's...
COLOMBO, Jan 6 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals hit a record high in December and for 2011 as the island-nation attracted more visitors from across the world, largely high-spending Europe tourists, the government data showed Friday. Arrivals have climbed every...
OTTAWA, Jan 6 (AFP): Canada added 18,000 jobs in December but the unemployment rate still edged up to 7.5 per cent as more people joined the country's labor market, according to official figures released Friday.Analysts had expected unemployment to hold...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended the first week of the year with a positive note. It was also the fourth consecutive gaining week for the bourse, with significantly increasing turnover value, as the investors' confidence boosted up.Their confidence...
MUMBAI, Jan 6 (Business Standard): Benchmark shares indices ended marginally higher, snapping a 2-day decline, amid a volatile trading session Friday led by gains in index heavyweight Reliance Industries and fast moving consumer goods shares.The 30-share Sensex provisionally ended at...
SE Asian stocks lower before US job data BANGKOK, Jan 6: Southeast Asian stock markets retreated on Friday as investors became nervous ahead of US job data later in the day but they ended the first week of the year...
COLOMBO, Jan 6 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's share market fell Friday for a fourth straight session, with turnover slumping to a new 25-month low, as large investors and funds stayed inactive and retail investors cashed shares in thin volume to generate...
Ameer HamzaThe Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered last week whether the United States could be giving cancer to Latin American leaders! Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, her predecessor Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo have all been diagnosed...
Nilratan HalderWith the world players remaining unconvinced of the merit of taking immediate action for reining in carbon emission to the extent that limits global temperature two degrees above the pre-industrial level, the onus is now on environmental scientists, green...
Fauzia SultanaOn completion of her Master's degree in Journalism from Rajshahi University, Shirin moved to Dhaka in search of a job. But she had little idea that having a job these days is not an easy catch. After a long...
Prof Dr M Azizur RahmanAccording to the critics of capitalism, distribution of wealth, power and freedom is not equitable in a capitalist society. Knowledge is power. Similarly wealth is power. In the capitalist society, a powerful man enjoys more freedom....
Mohammad Ruhul KaderWhen I was a college kid, my father often bought me pen. Sometimes he also took me to buy one. But what I'm trying to say is not a creepy story of father-child sweet relationship. Rather, a different...
Samar Paul In the new millennium, museum is no more mere a depository of collections, nor even only a store-house of curiosities and artifacts. Traditionally, a museum needs to have collection, conservation, exhibition, research and publication, mass communication and education...
Mohammed Sohel HaraAnxiety is part and parcel of modern life. In our day-to-day life, everyone of us feels and deals with anxiety more or less but when it becomes chronic, it is a real health hazard. This invites heart palpitation,...
Habib Toriqul The fire accident in the old part of Dhaka, Nimtali on June, 2010 has led to our realization about the distress of living amid the devils in the city and again, the earthquake on September 18, 2011 reminded...
BNP Friday termed the prime minister's Thursday's address to the nation 'extremely fallacious' and said it was done to mislead people to cling to power, reports UNB. The main opposition said the huge defeat of the ruling Awami League-backed mayoral...
Senior Awami League leader and Railway Minister (RM) Suranjit Sengupta Friday said parliament is the right forum to discuss and solve the caretaker government issue because such an issue should be solved constitutionally, reports BSS. "Parliament is the only forum...
Senior Awami League (AL) leader Tofail Ahmed today urged the main opposition to return to the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) deserting the politics of conflicts, saying that the opposition's main task in parliamentary democracy is to pinpoint the government's faults, reports...
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed Friday said the government has decided to set up a second tribunal to expedite trial of the perpetrators of "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war as the first one was already in session."Works...
All preparations have been completed for Khaleda Zia's road march towards the port city of Chittagong from the capital tomorrow (Sunday) to mobilise public support for holding next general election under caretaker government (CG) system annulled by the present government,...
The government has taken the initiative to construct 876 union parishad (UP) complex buildings across the country by June 2017 with a view to making the local government system more effective, reports UNB.The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...
Gunmen stormed into a transport office and sprayed bullets on a leader of transport owners and workers' committee, leaving him injured at capital's Saidabad Bus Terminal Thursday night, reports UNB.The victim was identified as Tawhidul Islam Taiyab, 40, general secretary...
The Election Commission (EC) is mulling over using the electronic voting machines EVMs) in the national elections riding on its overwhelming success in the Comilla city polls, reports bdnews24.com.Bangladesh's smallest city corporation went to the vote on Thursday without any...
FE ReportSpeakers at a workshop emphasised on the soil mapping and conducting survey on the soil status so that agricultural land and industrial land could be differentiated clearly. They said the soil survey should be conducted in the district level...
Talha Bin Habib Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has sent a proposal to the ministry of shipping for introducing 'night navigation' at Paturia- Baghabari river route to facilitate smooth passenger services and transport of goods, officials said. "We sent...
Chandan BanerjeeKOLKATA, Jan 6: The family of rebel poet Quazi Nazrul Islam yesterday joined the ongoing controversy over renaming Indira Bhaban after their forefather, throwing their weight behind Poshimbangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in this matter.Two granddaughters of the poet...
Bangladesh will immunise around 24 million children aged 0-59 months today (Saturday) for bolstering its polio-free status by providing two drops of polio vaccines during the 20th National Immunisation Day (NID), reports BSS.The second round will be observed on February...
FE ReportVarious trade body leaders and ministers Friday condoled the death of renowned industrialist and chairman of Square Group Samson H Chowdhury.Samson H Chowdhury died of old-age complications in a Singapore hospital Thursday at the age of 86.In a condolence...
As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina undertakes a two-day visit to India's northeastern state of Tripura on January 11-12, the Indian government is upgrading the Tripura airport with international facilities ahead of her visit, reports UNB.Hasina will be accompanied by six...
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