As Male is fully prepared to host the 17th SAARC summit in its southern island city of Addu, the Programming Committee comprising senior officials of the member states meet today (Sunday) to set the agenda of the summit, reports UNB....
Kamrun Nahar Movement of local tourists, for both domestic and outbound tourism, has witnessed a significant fall during this Eid vacation, frustrating the country's tour operators, industry insiders said. They, however, attributed the low turnout of tourists to the country's...
MONTREAL, Nov 4, 2011 (AFP) - Canadian officials on Friday announced a new two-year, multi-entry "super visa" for parents and grandparents of immigrants settled in Canada. The move came after wait times for sponsorship of "family class" applications had grown...
Arafat Ara State-run manpower bureau will launch this month finger print recording for foreign jobseekers in Chittagong region, which makes up almost half the country's overseas class, said officials Officials at the state-run Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET)...
FE Report The Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice and atta (flour) will remain closed from today (Sunday) for four days on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. The programme will, however, resume on November 10, officials of the ministry concerned said...
FE Report Telecom regulator has again extended timeline for paying second generation (2G) licence renewal spectrum charge after demand from operators. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said cellphone companies would now be able to pay the charge up to...
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters): US regulators closed two more banks Friday-one in Utah and another in Nebraska-bringing the total number this year to 87. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said the SunFirst Bank of Saint George, Utah, has been...
Online trading entrepreneurs are planning to introduce online buying and selling of sacrificial animals from next year during Eid-ul Azha as they are encouraged by increasing income from their existing e-business. "We are going to add buy and sale of...
Nishat, a student of class eight was preparing herself for her first public examination - Junior School Certificate (JSC) for the first time in 2010. She did an excellent result in class 7 terminal exams even though her maturity level...
"We have had our final honours exam in July last year and our exam result has been announced in April this year". This is a comment of one National University student and this statement is good enough to signify and...
The export-oriented leather sector expects to bounce back from slow business targetting this year's Eid-ul-Azha to be celebrated on October 7, reports BSS. "We hope that supply of rawhide would be higher compared to last year when the slaughtering of...
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (AFP): India aims to launch fourth- generation (4G) mobile services next year that will allow users to watch high-definition video and download content at a much faster rate, a minister said. 4G technology holds the promise...
CHICAGO, Nov 5 (Xinhua): Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 0.5 per cent Friday, pressured by the newly-gained strength in US dollar, weakness in stocks market and investors' profit-taking. The most active gold...
NEW YORK, Nov 5 (AFP): Oil prices gained Friday as markets prepared for another weekend of mystery over the fate of the eurozone rescue plan. The plan's fate rested greatly on the result of a confidence vote scheduled for late...
Talha Bin Habib The government has planned to set up haats (markets) in the capital so that the floating vendors could sell vegetables from a designated place, commerce secretary Md Ghulam Hussain said. "The government is thinking of establishing one...
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (AFP): New Delhi played down Saturday confusion about whether Pakistan was granting India most favoured trading nation status, saying such a step "could take some time." Earlier in the week, Pakistan's cabinet announced it had approved...
ATHENS, Nov 5 (Reuters): Greek prime minister George Papandreou has survived a parliamentary confidence vote Saturday, avoiding snap elections which would have torpedoed Greece's debt crisis bailout deal and inflamed the euro zone's economic crisis. But the nation remained mired...
DAMASCUS, Nov 5 (AFP): Syrian troops killed at least 23 people Friday when demonstrators took to the streets denouncing "despots and tyrants," as world powers cast doubt on the regime's commitment to an Arab peace deal. Troops raked several residential...
DAMASCUS, Nov 5 (AFP): Damascus Saturday strongly condemned Washington after the US State Department advised Syrians against surrendering following an amnesty for those who give up weapons. "The American administration disclosed again its blatant interference in Syria's internal affairs, and...
YANGON, Nov 5 (AFP): Senior US and UN officials said they were encouraged by nascent reforms in Myanmar, with Washington saying it will look at new incentives to spur change including the expansion of microfinance. In a first, Myanmar allowed...
NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (AFP): Rahul Gandhi, tipped to be a future prime minister of India, is set to take over as president of the country's ruling Congress party by year's end, a report said Saturday. Rahul was named in...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5 (AFP): A Pakistani anti-terror court Saturday indicted two police officers and five alleged Taliban militants over the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said. Nobody has been convicted or jailed for Bhutto's assassination...
CHENNAI, Nov 5 (Reuters): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may consider reversing its tight monetary stance as inflationary woes begin to ebb next month, a top policy adviser said Saturday. The RBI has raised interest rates 13 times since...
LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters): Emerging economies dependent on overseas financing to balance their books look vulnerable to another looming slowdown in bricks-and-mortar investment, as rising deficits in many countries force reliance on volatile financial market flows. A report last month...
GUANGZHOU, Nov 5 (Xinhua): The Canton Fair, China's largest trade fair, reported a small increase in export deals, despite lingering debt and financial crises in Europe and the United States. Export agreements worth 37.9 billion US dollars were signed at...
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters): Employers in the US hired fewer workers in October but the jobless rate fell to a six-month low and job gains in the prior two months were stronger than previously thought, pointing to some improvement in...
CANBERRA, Nov 5 (Xinhua): Delegates from 25 nations Friday agreed to a plan to create the world's largest marine reserves in the waters around Antarctica, at Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) meeting in Hobart, Tasmania...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 5 (BSS): A new health programme 'mCARE' aimed at supplementing the government's efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal morality is going to be introduced in two northern districts of the country very soon. Sources concerned said JiVitA, a...
DINAJPUR, Nov 5 (UNB): A man was strangulated to death allegedly by his wife at Nimtara Muktijoddha para under Kotwali thana early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sazzad Ali, 40, son of Omar Ali of Bhobainagar village in Sadar...
HABIGANJ, Nov 5 (BSS): Seven convicted prisoners were set free from Habiganj Jail yesterday on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha. Jailer Humayun Kabir Khan told BSS that they were freed after completing necessary formalities under instruction from the Ministry of...
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