MISRATA, Libya, Oct 25 (AFP): The body of Libyan ex-leader Moamer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The source, speaking...
YEMEN, Oct 25 (AFP): Five civilians were killed Tuesday in clashes and protests in Yemen's capital and second largest city, as calls mounted for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down despite a harsh crackdown. In Sanaa, government troops opened...
NEW DELHI, Oct 25 (AFP): Bhutan's newly married king and queen began their first official overseas trip together Monday, visiting close ally India for high-level talks and some sight-seeing. King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, a hugely popular 31-year-old Oxford University...
SRINAGAR, Oct 25 (AFP): Three policemen were injured Tuesday in co-ordinated grenade attacks by suspected militants in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, officials said. The two blasts came after a peaceful summer in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where a 20-year...
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP): Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, has sent a message to the new leaders of Libya hailing "the total liberation of the country," the Mehr news agency reported Tuesday. Salehi said he hoped the Libyan people...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 25 (AFP): A roadside bomb targeted an anti-Taliban militia member in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, ripping through his vehicle and killing four people, police said. The blast badly damaged the militiaman's car in a remote village in the...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 25 (UNB): The first of the 2-match Walton Test series between Bangladesh and visiting West Indies ended in a tame draw at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Tuesday. It was the second draw for Bangladesh against the Caribbean...
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Oct 25 (AFP): Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson hit centuries as New Zealand piled up 328 for five in the third and final one-day international against New Zealand at Queens Sports Club on Tuesday. Taylor (119) and Williamson...
DUBAI, Oct 25 (AFP): Rival captains Tillakaratne Dilshan and Misbah-ul Haq have different concerns going into the second of three Tests between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Dubai cricket stadium from Wednesday. Dilshan hopes his batsmen pull up their socks...
KOLKATA, India, Oct 25 (AFP): Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed an unbeaten 75 off 69 balls to power India to 271-8 in the fifth and final one-dayer at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Tuesday. England, hoping to avoid a...
DSE news In connection with their news disseminated by DSE on December 9, 2010, the authorities of Delta Brac Housing (DBH) Finance Corporation Ltd. has further stated that the agenda of change of denomination of shares from Tk 100.00 to...
Continued from page 13 Meanwhile, news of a meeting between the BAB and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also gave some positive impetus among the traders, as they were expecting positive outcome from the meeting, commented a broker. The...
Square Pharmaceuticals: Normal trading of the shares of Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. will resume today (Wednesday) after record date for EGM. Islami Ins: Trading of the shares of Islami Insurance Bangladesh Limited will remain suspended on record date today (Wednesday) for...
AMCL (Pran) recommends 31pc cash dividend The board of directors of AMCL (Pran) has recommended 31 per cent cash dividend for the year that ended on June 30, 2011. The board has also reported EPS of Tk 56.86, net asset...
Bangladesh has insufficient fiscal leeway to cushion the impact of a global slowdown and its growth outlook for the year to June 2012 is uncertain, the World Bank said on Tuesday, reports Reuters. Areas of concern include an increasing fiscal...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The move of the Bangladesh Association of Bank (BAB) to revitalise the flagging stock market, apparently, has fallen through. Only a day after the formal announcement about the launching of the market stabilization fund by the BAB,...
Nizam Ahmed The government expects to line up funds from alternative sources for the proposed multipurpose Padma Bridge project after the World Bank suspended funding for the project due to graft allegations, officials said on Tuesday. A number of international...
BERLIN, Oct 25 (BSS): Bangladesh and Germany today agreed to further explore bilateral trade and cooperation in the areas of sustainable development, climate change, health and social safety programme. The two countries also agreed to strengthen their present excellent bilateral...
Nazmul Ahsan The stringent regulations set for issuing new banks' licences are likely to be softened as the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is pursuing the issue amid 'pressure from influential quarters' willing to become bank owners, official sources have said....
Md Mazadul Hoque People are increasingly way of carrying transactions with new currency notes, particularly of Taka 1000-, Taka 500- and Taka 100- denominated ones, because of the market being over-flooded with counterfeit notes of such denominations. The worry about...
FE Report The planned market stabilization fund unveiled by the private banks this week will start trading in November, with its sponsors looking for a new asset management company to operate the close-end mutual fund. President of the Bangladesh Association...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Local tanners expressed apprehension of not getting their expected amount of loans from the state-owned banks in the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. Tanners told the FE Tuesday that they have applied for Tk 4.0 billion loans to the public...
PM back home, flies for Perth tonight Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home from Germany today (Wednesday) and then will fly for Perth, Australia at night to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2011. The Prime Minister left...
BERLIN, Oct 25: Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has said that only democracy can lead to sustainable development of peoples and nations. The PM, who is now in Berlin to attend the World Health Summit, said this while addressing a...
The chamber judge of the Appellate Division has stayed for six weeks the operation of Monday's High Court (HC) judgment on business tycoon M Alam murder case, reports UNB. The interim stay order came following a petition moved by the...
Muhammad Zakiul Islam Last year Biman Bangla-desh Airlines Limited had adopted a new Logo and Livery for the Airlines. Perhaps, it's a rule of nature that if you don't possess something as your own, you may not be able to...
Like many, a former president of India, once raised a question. "Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation....
Amin Ahmed Chowdhury Frankly speaking, I am shocked and horrified to learn that the great Libyan people have disgraced the lifeless body of their own deposed leader who served them for 42 years. How could he rule Libya for long...
Top officials and experts at the two-day fourth South Asia Economic Summit held this week in Dhaka highlighted the issues that were, time and again, at the core of deliberations at various regional and national forums for more than last...
The Arab Spring has accounted for yet another strongman. This time, it is the longest serving ruler of North African country Libya, Muammar Gaddafi who has fallen. Like other sit-tight powerful men in Africa and elsewhere, he enjoyed his meteoric...
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