NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Bloomberg): Hedge funds are leading an exodus from agricultural markets, slashing bullish bets in the US from almost the highest levels on record after grain prices slumped, money managers said. Speculators reduced bets on rising wheat...
SEOUL, Feb 26 (Agencies): Samsung said it will form a joint venture with a US drug testing company in its first significant project in biopharmaceuticals - a sector the South Korean conglomerate is targeting for growth. Samsung said in a...
Shah Alam Nur | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
Shah Alam NurThe Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has planned to build a strong furniture sector in order to widen its export market. "We are working for the development of the country's furniture sector that has a potential foreign market," said...
FE Report | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
FE ReportSpeakers at a views exchange meeting Friday underscored the need for delivering better services to customers aiming to increase country's development through banking sector. The meeting was attended by a large number of officials and executives of Sonali Bank....
Bdjobs.com, one of the largest job portals in Bangladesh, has announced the winners of the 'Bdjobs.com Best Employer Award 2010' through a press conference in the city recently, said a press statement. Bdjobs.com 'Best Employer Award 2010' has been announced...
BEIJING, Feb 26 (Xinhua): China's top legislature voted Friday to adopt a law for vehicle and vessel taxation, which aims to encourage the use of smaller engines in vehicles and vessels to reduce pollution and oil dependence. The law will...
NEW DELHI, Feb 26 (Business Standard): Infrastructure and power firm Lanco Infratech is scouting for opportunities outside India in EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contracts. The company is looking at places such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and West Asia, Chief Financial...
CHENNAI, Feb 26 (PTI): Wipro Lighting and Furniture Business, a division of Wipro Ltd, plans to enter newer markets that are growing after the global financial crisis in 2008, a top company official said here Friday. "The company plans to...
TOKYO, Feb 26 (Reuters): Mizuho Financial Group is planning to buy out its brokerage and trust bank units, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday, a deal that could be worth around $4 billion as the lender tries to...
Jasmine Jaim | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
Jasmine JaimAfter taking admission into the university, most of you seriously think - "Yes!!! I have become matured now!" Going through that statement, many of you may have become annoyed with me because from your point of view- 'That's nothing...
M A Islam | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
M A IslamSalam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar and other martyrs sacrificed their lives in 1952. Their fault was they loved Bangla--our mother tongue. The Pakistani rulers could not tolerate this and so they fired on them. Roads of Dhaka were bathed...
The alumni reunion of the Department of English, Jahangirnagar University is going to be held on April 1, 2011. Former students of the department are requested to registrar by March 15. Registration forms are available online at www.juenglish.com, says a...
SEOUL, Feb 26 (Agencies): Samsung said it will form a joint venture with a US drug testing company in its first significant project in biopharmaceuticals - a sector the South Korean conglomerate is targeting for growth. Samsung said in a...
Shah Alam Nur | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
Shah Alam NurThe Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has planned to build a strong furniture sector in order to widen its export market. "We are working for the development of the country's furniture sector that has a potential foreign market," said...
FE Report | 2011-02-27 00:00:00
FE ReportSpeakers at a views exchange meeting Friday underscored the need for delivering better services to customers aiming to increase country's development through banking sector. The meeting was attended by a large number of officials and executives of Sonali Bank....
Bdjobs.com, one of the largest job portals in Bangladesh, has announced the winners of the 'Bdjobs.com Best Employer Award 2010' through a press conference in the city recently, said a press statement. Bdjobs.com 'Best Employer Award 2010' has been announced...
BEIJING, Feb 26 (Xinhua): China's top legislature voted Friday to adopt a law for vehicle and vessel taxation, which aims to encourage the use of smaller engines in vehicles and vessels to reduce pollution and oil dependence. The law will...
NEW DELHI, Feb 26 (Business Standard): Infrastructure and power firm Lanco Infratech is scouting for opportunities outside India in EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contracts. The company is looking at places such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and West Asia, Chief Financial...
CHENNAI, Feb 26 (PTI): Wipro Lighting and Furniture Business, a division of Wipro Ltd, plans to enter newer markets that are growing after the global financial crisis in 2008, a top company official said here Friday. "The company plans to...
TOKYO, Feb 26 (Reuters): Mizuho Financial Group is planning to buy out its brokerage and trust bank units, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday, a deal that could be worth around $4 billion as the lender tries to...
CAIRO, Feb 26 (agencies): Egypt's ruling military council apologised Saturday after military police beat protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, but activists called for fresh protests to denounce violence by the authorities. A security official and witnesses said that shortly after...
DUBLIN, Feb 26 (Reuters): Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael is on course to lead the next government but without an overall majority after a stronger showing than expected for its main rival and traditional coalition partner, Labour. An exit...
VALLETTA, Feb 26 (agencies): A British warship and a Chinese-chartered ferry arrived in Malta Saturday loaded with thousands of evacuees from Libya in an exodus of foreign nationals fleeing the oil-rich North African state. The HMS Cumberland frigate had left...
LONDON, (Reuters): A group linked to al Qaeda has called on Saudis to oust Saudi Arabia's ruling family and threatened attacks against the kingdom, a group that monitors Islamist websites said Friday. The Brigades of Abdullah Azzam said the ruling...
TEHRAN, Feb 26 (AFP): A top Iranian official said Saturday that the fuel placed inside the reactor of a Russian-built nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr will be removed. "Based on the recommendation of Russia, which is...
SRINAGAR, Feb 26 (AFP): A prominent Indian Kashmir separatist leader staged a day-long fast Saturday against large-scale arrests in the aftermath of massive anti-India protests last year. Yasin Malik, head of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, said more...
KAMPALA, Feb 26: Ugandan police say they will not allow peaceful demonstrations called for by an opposition candidate who claims the president rigged the recent election. Kale Kayihura, the inspector general of police, said opposition leaders want to cause violence...
ABIDJAN, Feb 26: A military spokesman in Ivory Coast is accusing a U.N. peacekeeper of fatally shooting a police officer. Col. Hilaire Gohourou, who is loyal to the incumbent leader who refuses to cede power in the volatile West African...
LIMA, Feb 26: A bus in Peru has run off a road and crashed nearly 600 feet (180 meters) down a ravine. Police say 22 people are dead and 39 injured. Police tell a local broadcaster that it appears the...
CHRISTCHURCH, Feb 26: Fresh aftershocks sent masonry tumbling among rescuers in New Zealand's quake zone and a cat sparked false alarms Saturday of a possible survivor, as the disaster's death toll rose to 145 with more than 200 missing. Grim...
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