Arafat AraThe country recorded highest number of overseas jobs in October over the 10 months of 2011 thanks to gradual increase in employment opportunities in the Middle Eastern countries, officials said. Data released by the Bureau of Manpower Employment and...
NAYPYIDAW, Nov 1(AFP): Myanmar urged developed nations on Tuesday to share their green technologies, in the military-backed government's latest effort to reach out to the global community. "Being a developing country, we need technological transfer, particularly for the development of...
FRANKFURT, Nov 1(AP): Europe may be able to dodge a financial meltdown. It may not be able to avoid a recession. The deal European leaders reached last week to defuse the continent's debt crisis was thrown into turmoil Tuesday by...
Mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) will provide business solution to a brick-making firm PCCN Bangladesh. Bangladesh chapter of the Norwegian company produces alternative brick using polymer concrete. The country's largest mobile phone operator inked an agreement with the company recently to...
BANGALORE, Nov 1 (Reuters): Indian manufacturing rebounded for the first time in six months during October, having virtually stalled in September, boosted by rising domestic orders for new business, a survey showed Tuesday. The HSBC Markit India Manufacturing PMI rose...
SINGAPORE, Nov 1 (Xinhua): Singapore's consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest in two years, according to the latest Nielsen Index. The reading for the index in the third quarter was 94 points, the lowest in two years and even...
COLOMBO, Nov 1 (LBO): Sri Lanka is aiming to reach 70 in an ease of doing business ranking compiled by the World Bank next year from 89 in 2012, and 30 in 2014 by cutting red tape and transforming the...
LONDON, Nov 1 (Xinhua): Britain saw its GDP grew 0.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, according to the preliminary estimate of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released Tuesday. This has been a boost from the 0.1-per...
SEOUL, Nov 1 (Xinhua): South Korea's consumer price growth slowed to 3.9 per cent in October, falling below 4 per cent for the first time this year, a government report showed Tuesday. Consumer prices rose by 3.9 per cent in...
The Benchmark General Index DGEN registered a gain of 168.7 points in a reversal of last subsequent four trading days' downtrend. However, 8.7 per cent lower trading value than previous day's trade suggested lack of institutional investors' participation and speculative...
Shah Alam NurReal Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) has started serving show-cause notices on some 20 real estate companies for what it termed breaching law of the land. On the contrary, the victim realtors said that the action...
BEIJING, Nov 1 (AFP): Manufacturing activity across Asia remained weak in October, surveys showed today, as US and European economic woes hit demand for the clothes, shoes and electronic gadgets made in the region. Surveys of purchasing managers in Chinese...
MUMBAI, Nov 1 (PTI): Busy lifestyle and urban traffic congestion have enhanced Indians' dependence on e-commerce services and its market is likely to touch Rs 50,000 crore in the country this year, says a recent study. The domestic e-commerce market...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 (Reuters): Crude oil and copper prices slipped as the collapse of MF Global Holdings heightened concerns that the euro zone crisis was far from over, while data showing a slowdown in China's factory activity also weighed...
TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters): Japan kept markets on edge Tuesday saying it was ready to step into foreign exchange markets again to curb speculation a day after it sold a record of nearly $100 billion worth of yen to tame...
BANGKOK, Nov 1 (AFP): Thai inflation edged up in October, government data showed today, as the country's worst flooding in decades caused widespread damage to farmland and forced food prices higher. The consumer price index rose 4.19 per cent in...
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (AFP): President Barack Obama, drained by a long showdown with domestic foes and the sluggish US recovery, heads to Europe tomorrow (Wednesday) to urge leaders to stay steadfast amid their own economic woes. At the G20 summit...
MOSCOW, Nov 1 (AFP): - Russia could agree a deal on joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by December 15, a Kremlin aide said yesterday amid growing signs its 18-year campaign to join the trade body is coming to a...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Nov 1: Aman harvesting has started at five upazilas in Joypurhat district. The DAE office and District administration arranged a paddy harvesting ceremony Friday at Burail paddy field under Khetlal upazila. Abu Syeed Al Mahamud Shapan, organizing...
Our Correspondent NARSINGDI, Nov 1: Narsingdi District Administration will set up 38 cattle markets in all the six upazilas of the district on the occasion of Eid ul Azha. Narsingdi Deputy Commissioner official sources said that the Administration will operate...
Our Correspondent HABIGANJ, Nov 1: Social Welfare Minister Enamul Haque Mustafa Shahid said, Government has given priority on the health and social safety of the people. Initiatives have been taken from government to ensure ksocial safety of the poor and...
BHOLA, Nov 1 (BSS): A devastating fire gutted a total of eight business establishments including a poultry firm and a rice mill at Baliar Polghata Bazar area under South Digholdi union of Sadar upazila in Bhola Monday, local sources said....
Two workshops on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project have been held recently in the southern districts of Satkhira and Bagerhat, according to a press release. HP (ASA), Practical Action Bangladesh (PAB) and BASA jointly organised the workshops. The project...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Nov 1: The traditional Rash Mela will begin from November 8 at Alorkol of Dublarchar adjacent to the largest mangrove forest Sundarbons under Mongla Thana of Bagerhat district. Organisers of the fair expect over 0.01m visitors will gather...
MYMENSINGH, Nov 1 (UNB): A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his son at Charipara village in Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Borhanuddin,55. Quoting local people police said Anwar Hossain,25 stabbed his father...
TRIPOLI, Nov 01 (Reuters): Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has elected little-known academic Abdul Raheem al-Keeb as the new interim prime minister to guide the country as it emerges from a bitter civil war toward a new constitution and democratic...
DOHA, Nov 01 (Reuters): The Arab League awaited a response from Syria Monday to its proposal to end seven months of increasingly violent unrest against President Bashar al-Assad's rule and to start talks between Syrian authorities and their opponents. Qatari...
ISTANBUL, Nov 1 (AFP): Turkey hosted the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan Tuesday for a trilateral summit designed to reduce tensions and promote cooperation between the two neighbours amid stepped-up Taliban attacks. Turkish President Abdullah Gul held separate talks with...
KATMANDU, Nepal, Nov 01 (AP): Police in Nepal say they have detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles who were protesting against Chinese rule over their homeland. The Tibetan protesters who had gathered for a prayer meeting on the outskirts of...
JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his inner cabinet Tuesday to weigh a response, including possible punitive measures, to UNESCO's decision to admit Palestine as a full member. Israeli media reported that the so-called Forum of...
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