JERUSALEM, Apr 27 (AFP): Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has said he hopes for a 'positive response' when he presents US proposals for renewed negotiations with Israel to Arab foreign ministers next week."The discussions are still ongoing" with US special envoy...
BANGKOK, Apr 27 (Reuters): Protesters briefly forced Bangkok's elevated railway system to shut Tuesday, paralysing traffic, and the government warned of tougher operations to quell growing unrest in a seven-week crisis that has killed 26 people.Thailand's revered but ailing 82-year-old...
BAGHDAD, Apr 27 (AFP): Iraqi leaders were Tuesday awaiting a ruling on the fate of nine election-winning candidates who stand to be disqualified in a process that has thrown government formation into disarray.A judicial panel on Monday eliminated at least...
LONDON, Apr 27 (AFP): The leader of Britain's newly-buoyant Liberal Democrats was accused of arrogance Tuesday as he struggled to clarify what he would do if his party holds the balance of power after elections next week.Nick Clegg has come...
KHARTOUM, Apr 27 (Reuters): President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has won Sudan's first open elections in 24 years in a result that confirms in office the only sitting head of state wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.Bashir won...
KATHMANDU, Apr 27 (AFP): A South Korean climber Tuesday became the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest mountains, live television pictures showed, although her record bid has been clouded by a disputed ascent.Footage broadcast in South Korea showed...
NEW DELHI, Apr 27 (AFP): A female diplomat in the Indian embassy in Islamabad has been arrested in New Delhi on charges of spying for Pakistan, reports said Tuesday."She has been arrested," Home Secretary Gopal Pillai said, according to Press...
Gunmen kill Pak woman university teacherQUETTA, Apr 27: Gunmen Tuesday shot dead a woman university professor in southwest Pakistan, where targeted killings blamed on tribal insurgents, sectarian groups and militants are increasing, the police said. Nazima Talib (48) had just...
FE ReportDhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has proposed to start trading from 10-30 am instead of 11-00 am for the convenience of investors."We have already applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to consider our plea for the betterment of...
BRAC EPL Stock Brokerage Limited has provided free of beneficiary owners’ (BO) account opening services for the investors. BRAC EPL is the only merchant bank, which provides the portfolio management services to the small and retail investors against deposit of...
Munima SultanaSales at the city's car showrooms have increased like in the other years ahead of the budget, scaling up prices of all kinds of cars that demonstrate that prices may go up further in the next fiscal.Showroom officials said...
Sonia H MoniBangladesh frozen food exporters expects to secure spot orders worth $ 100 million at the ongoing European Seafood Exposition (ESE) 2010 at Brussels in Belgium, an official said.Bangladesh Frozen Foods Exporters Association (BFFEA) Vice-President Maqsudur Rahman said, "We...
The lottery for distribution of units of ICB AMCL Third NRB Mutual Fund was held in the city Tuesday, said a press release.The Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation (BRTC) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) conducted the...
FE Report Farm credit disbursement recorded an 18.13 per cent growth during the first nine months of this fiscal, as the central bank has continuously been persuading the banks to increase lending to farmers.Eight state-owned banks and financial institutions (FIs)...
Bank Asia arranged a briefing for its executives recently at the assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB representatives Mary Abad and Eillen Manganipat gave a detailed outline of the procedures for Trade Finance Facilitation Programme of ADB. Participants From...
Jamuna Bank Limited (JBL) has recently opened the off-shore banking unit of the bank at its Gulshan branch in the city, according to a press release.Chairman of the board of directors of the bank Sakhawat Abu Khair Mohammad inaugurated the...
FE Report The country's knit manufacturers are facing hard time as the prices of yarn have doubled over past one year both in international and domestic market.As of Monday, the cotton yarn price stood at US$ 4.10 a kilogramme (kg)...
Entrepreneurship on the part of Bangladeshi businesses kept untapped Bangladesh-Bhutan economic links with current trade balance largely favouring the landlocked Himalayan kingdom, Bhutanese officials said in the city Monday. "It appears that Bangladeshi businessmen consider Bhutan to be an insignificant...
ECONOMIC growth and its fruits, jobs and income, are always the prime objective of the policy planners. This growth needs to be buttressed also by policies designed to keep prices of essential goods and similar services within the purchasing capacity...
M S SiddiquiA citizen of a free and democratic country has the right to have access to information and know everything happening around him. It is a fundamental right of every citizen as enshrined in the UN resolution in its...
Ayub HaroonA seminar last year on urban transport development, for Dhaka in particular, found the chief representative of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency advising Bangladesh against embarking on a metro rail project.First and foremost, the feasibility of such a project...
AN important and revealing front page article on the above subject, was published in a local English daily on 18th. April. It was reported that tannery owners were reluctant to adopt this interesting new development in leather tanning from BCSIR....
I have been a regular consumer of ARONG liquid milk ever since it was launched and have had no occasion to question its quality at the production point. However, many times the seller was guilty of not storing the product...
FROM time to time people of different classes, professions and occupations require various kinds of information, facts, figures, statistics and guidance on different subjects and matters.They move from door to door, spend much of their valuable time, energy and money...
Mustafizur RahmanThe present triangular bickering about local government power - not the duties - is but a fighting to disregard the people and the spirit of the Constitution. Should the objective be the people's welfare, effective decentralization, functional democracy, national...
Tithe FarhanaMacroeconomic dislocation and persistent failure of public financing during the 1970s and 1980s paved the foundation of private investment in the mainstream development sectors. In 1992, the Conservative government of John Major in the UK introduced the private finance...
BANGKOK, Apr 26 (AFP): Thailand's 'Red Shirts' protesters said Monday they would launch nationwide action to prevent security forces from travelling to the capital to join a looming crackdown.Over the past week there have been mounting incidents of open defiance...
THIMPU, Apr 26 (AFP): A familiar game of 'will they-won't they' centred on a possible meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan looks set to overshadow a summit of South Asian nations in Bhutan this week.The summit is supposed...
SANAA, Apr 26 (AFP): Britain's envoy to Yemen Timothy Torlot Monday narrowly escaped a bomb triggered by a suspected Al-Qaeda suicide attacker who hurled himself at the ambassador's convoy in a Sanaa street, officials said.A Yemen security official said "the...
NEW DELHI, Apr 26 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met in New Delhi Monday and vowed to tackle the militant violence that threatens regional stability.The talks came two months after nine Indians were killed...
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