NEW DELHI, Apr 24 (Reuters): DLF Ltd , India's largest-listed real estate firm, said Saturday one of its units had bought 245 million compulsorily convertible preference shares in a group company, DLF Assets, from private equity firm SC Asia Pte...
Emirate Sky Cargo has introduced a scheduled weekly Boeing 777 freighter service to Dhaka to provide additional cargo capacity to Bangladesh's growing export market.The cargo division of the Dubai based airline carried a record 2,000 tonnes of cargo from Dhaka...
MEXICO CITY, Apr 24 (Bloomberg): Mexico's benchmark peso bonds posted the biggest weekly gain in more than a year after consumer prices unexpectedly fell in the first half of April. The yield on the nation's 10 per cent bond due...
NEW YORK, Apr 24 (Reuters): The global credit crisis may have eased, but the hangover is still punishing some of the largest US borrowers in the credit derivatives market.Credit default swaps, contracts that insure against debt defaults, are treating debt-laden...
NEW DELHI, April 23 (Bloomberg): Cotton rose, posting the biggest weekly gain in two months, on signs of increasing demand amid a halt in exports by India, the world's second-largest shipper. Orange juice also gained.US durable-goods orders, excluding transportation, jumped...
NEW YORK, April 24 (AP): Oil prices rose above $85 Friday helped by strong sales of new homes that surged last month from a record low in February.Meanwhile, efforts to resolve Greece's debt crisis and its impact on economic recovery...
LONDON, April 23 (Bloomberg): Gold may advance as investors seek a haven in precious metals from the possibility of debt defaults, a survey showed.Fifteen of 20 traders, analysts and brokers surveyed by Bloomberg, or 75 per cent, said gold may...
NEW DELHI, April 23 (Bloomberg): Sugar slid to a three-week low in New York on forecasts for favorable weather in India, the world's second-biggest producer.Rains from June to September may be 98 per cent of the 50- year average, the...
LONDON, April 24 (Bloomberg): Cocoa rose to the highest price in more than two months on speculation that a global production shortfall will worsen as demand strengthens. Coffee also gained.Output will trail consumption by 124,000 tonnes in the year ending...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to release over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, to remove several roadblocks in the West Bank, and to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip, as a series of gestures towards Palestinian...
BANGKOK, Apr 24 (AFP): Thailand's anti-government 'Red Shirts' said Saturday they were braced for a crackdown to end their protest movement, after the prime minister rejected an offer to compromise on demands for snap polls."Abhisit has ordered a crackdown on...
SRINAGAR, Apr 24 (AFP): Violent protests erupted in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir Saturday, hours after soldiers killed an alleged timber smuggler, mistaking him for a militant, police said.Four people were wounded when troops opened fire to quell around 4,000 protesters who...
WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (AFP): Authorities in the US state of Arizona faced new protests Saturday after the governor signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants, which critics claim enshrines racial profiling and President Barack Obama branded 'misguided'.One of the...
LONDON, Apr 24 (AFP): Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he was 'upping the tempo' with just under two weeks to go before the May 6 general election in which he is battling to avoid being kicked out of office.Brown...
TEHRAN, Apr 24 (AFP): Russia has delivered two wild Siberian tigers to Iran in a swap deal in which Moscow has procured two Persian leopards, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.The swap on Friday was agreed earlier this year...
GAZA CITY, Apr 24 (AFP): Israeli troops shot and wounded three Palestinians and a Maltese woman in the Gaza Strip Saturday during a protest near the border with Israel, witnesses and medical sources said. The four were shot after they...
COLOMBO, Apr 24 (AFP): Sri Lanka's president will expand his new cabinet by five ministers but the government will still have far fewer members than the previous one, an official source said Saturday.President Mahinda Rajapakse, whose ruling United People's Freedom...
KAMOJANG, Indonesia, Apr 24 (AFP): Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions.The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the...
Karzai to visit India tomorrowNEW DELHI, Apr 24 (AFP): Afghanistan's president will visit India next week to strengthen the 'strategic partnership' between the two countries, the Indian foreign ministry said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai will arrive Monday for the two-day...
U Me Aur HumOn ZEE TV Sunday at 5-00 pm.The first time Ajay saw Pia, she served him drinks. She affected him more than the alcohol, and he found true love. He was a leading psychiatrist, but she messed up...
ATB BANGLAam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Positive Bangladesh'08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Shongbadpotro08:30 Drama Serial- Daybondhon09:00 Atn News09:10 Kande Amar Ma09:15 Drama Serial -Shuborno Shopno10:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show- Hello Bangladesh11:05 Asian City Top Spin11:30 Sat Din12:00 Atn News12:10 Jiggashay Daktar12:35 Atn Rannaghar01:00 Sangbad Bulletins01:25...
SANTIAGO, Apr 23 (AFP): Children watching the Disney Channel in Chile were offered a startling adults-only peek of Playboy programming this week because of a technical error, media reported Thursday.And the glimpse they caught went a long way beyond Playboy's...
JAKARTA, Apr 23 (AFP): US singer Kelly Clarkson said Thursday she was not aware a tobacco company was sponsoring her concert in Indonesia and refused to cancel the show despite appeals from anti-smoking groups.In a statement on her blog headlined...
C-KkompanyOn STAR PLUS Saturday at 6-00 pm. After A long time Tushar Kapoor Finally give a good Comedy Drama.The Story was Interesting and the Best Character was Jha's Rajpal Yadav's Really Enjoyed the Movie.You Must see this Movie With your...
ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Talking Point08:00 Sangbad08:30 Children Prog- Chonde Anande09:00 Atn News09:15 Asian City Vision 202010:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show - Hello Bangladesh11:00 News Bangla11:05 Shah Cement Nirmaner Taroka12:00 Sangbad Bulletins 12:15 Shesh Okkhor01:00 News01:30 Documentary prog.-Prapok 02:00 News02:40 Bangla...
THE annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are scheduled to be held in Washington on April 24-25. These meetings customarily review the progress of the Bretton Woods institutions. This time the meetings will...
Nerun YakubBangladesh's future hinges on knowledge, not cheap labour, according to the executive chairman of the Board of Investment. So we would do well to move to knowledge-based, high-tech industrialization rather than sticking to a production system primarily based on...
Md. Joynal AbdinThe Awami League led government is going to place its second budget in its current tenure. Last year, we saw the largest budget in our history. But the question is how much our standard of living has been...
Phillip KurataEntrepreneurs from more than 50 countries with sizable Muslim populations come to Washington in April on President Obama's invitation to celebrate the risky, exhilarating life of entrepreneurship and share ideas about sparking new businesses in their communities.The April 26-27...
Unregulated discharge of the industrial effluents is contaminating waters of rivers and aquatic life in them and similarly spoiling underground water aquifers from seepage through soil. Soil affected by such discharge is also turning toxic and dangerous for any form...
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