Shihab AhmedTHE government has been footdragging in making a noise pollution control law. A draft law, stipulating a fine of Taka 10,000 and a maximum imprisonment of six months for producing noise higher than the permissible limits, awaits approval. The...
SHANGHAI, Jan 17 (Reuters): Google Inc enters a second week of high stakes brinkmanship with China's government, amid speculation the firm has decided to pull out of the world's biggest Internet market over cyber-spying concerns.Google, the world's most popular search...
NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Bloomberg): US stocks fell, pulling the Standard & Poor's 500 Index down from a 15-month high, after profits at Alcoa Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. disappointed investors and China took actions to slow economic growth....
MUMBAI, Jan 17 (Economic Times): In lacklustre trade last week, six out of top 10 companies added Rs 651.41 billion to their total market capitalisation. The country's largest iron ore producer, NMDC, was the biggest gainer among the top 10...
TOKYO, Jan 17 (Reuters): Mazda Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co will dissolve their joint venture in China by 2012, a move that would further weaken the tie between the two automakers, Japan's Nikkei business daily reported Sunday.Mazda, Ford and...
KARACHI, Jan 17 (Business Recorder): Healthy buying both by local and foreign investors was witnessed at the Karachi share market Friday and the index surged by 120.69 points to close at 17-month high level of 9,923.14 points. "Both local and...
HELSINKI, Jan 17 (Reuters): Nokia said it would defend itself vigorously against Apple's new complaint to the United States International Trade Commission.The two phone giants are in the midst of a major legal battle, which started last October when Nokia...
MUMBAI, Jan 17 (Economic Times): India's stock market regulator - the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or Sebi - Friday issued a show-cause notice to foreign institutional investor Societe Generale (SocGen) and barred it from issuing new participatory notes...
NEW DELHI, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): India plans to install 20 million solar lights and 20 million square meters of solar thermal panels to generate 20,000 megawatts by 2022 as part of its National Solar Mission, formally launched by Prime...
BEIJING, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): Right from the beginning of 2010 China has started import of large quantities of refined copper and scrap copper, driving domestic and international copper prices upward. But as China's consumer demand was not as strong...
DALLAS, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): The US government in 2009 sent more than $500,000 every minute to foreign governments to pay for oil, energy mogul T. Boone Pickens said. This is despite the massive amount of money being pumped into...
A leading industry analyst has revealed that he expects to see a "significant increase" in Gold Investment during 2010.Douglas Hepworth, director of research at New York's Gresham Investment Management LLC, said that commodity prices, including Gold Prices, will rise as...
SURAT, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): Following the arrest of 21 diamond traders from India, mainly from Surat, the Gems & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) is mulling to pull out of the diamond cutting and polishing business in China.China had...
BAKU, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): Azerbaijan said it could supply Europe with natural gas through the lauded Nabucco pipeline if the project moves forward with construction. Europe aims to diversify its regional energy sector with Nabucco. Russia supplies roughly one-quarter...
LONDON, Jan 17 (Bloomberg): Palladium, already trading at an 18- month high, may reach $500 an ounce in the next several months, according to technical analysis by Barclays Capital.The attached chart shows a $463 target the bank identified by drawing...
AHMEDABAD, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): NCDEX Soybean February contract opened down at 2241 per quintal vs. previous close of 2251 made an intraday high at 2244.5 and declined because of weak global markets and weak domestic demand. Currently at 3.53...
NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): In its 2010 coal outlook report issued on Friday, Fitch Ratings says the US coal industry will experience modest recovery in domestic steam coal prices and scant increase in production volumes beginning in the...
AHMEDABAD, Jan 17 (Commodity Online): Zinc has moved down 1.20 per cent with the break out of 112 levels.Zinc Jan has opened at 113.7 & made a low of 111.7 and day's high of 113.7. Total volume for the day...
January 17, Sunday The following were the commercial banks' rates to public for some selectedforeign currencies with Bangladesh Taka in cash transaction Sunday.Selling rates to public (outward remittance)BankUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSCBsSonali Bank69.4500100.4382113.31240.772868.035167.823664.4857Agrani Bank69.4500100.2386113.22990.775167.976767.756264.2649FCBsStanChart69.65101.86113.440.7869.0268.3264.94HSBC 69.5735102.2879114.06340.796668.899767.287664.8028Citibank naNANANANANANANABank of Ceylon69.5400102.9427116.18310.786369.945768.303767.4468PCBsUttara Bank69.5000100.8710113.59950.780567.842967.836064.4882AB Bank69.5000102.0447114.86710.7840NANANABuying rates from public (inward remittance)SCBsUSDEuroGBPJPYCHFCADAUDSonali...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan17 (Reuters): World leaders have stepped up to pledge aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its wrecked capital quake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for the basics: food, water and medicine.Four days after...
PESHAWAR, Jan 17 (Reuters): A US drone aircraft fired missiles in Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing at least 15 militants Sunday, Pakistani security officials said.The United States has stepped up pilotless drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal...
Jyoti Basu came within a whisker of becoming India's first ever Communist Prime Minister. But it was his own party that scuppered his chances, a decision he later denounced as a historic blunder, reports BBC.Jyotirindra Basu was born into a...
KIEV, Jan 17 (Reuters): Ukraine voted for a president Sunday in an election marked by widespread disillusionment as an economic crisis grips, but one which is crucial to its relations with Russia and the European mainstream.It is the first presidential...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 17 (Xinhua): The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany Saturday concluded their preliminary talks on possible sanctions on Iran without any clear agreement.Compared to its previous versions, the meeting at the European Union...
Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as Chemical Ali, has been sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds, reports BBC.It is the fourth time that Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein's regime, has been sentenced to...
US soldier dies in Afghanistan: NATO KABUL, Jan 17: An American soldier has died in Afghanistan after being wounded while fighting Taliban-led insurgents, NATO said Sunday. In a brief statement, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier had...
Ground Zero: The Deadly ShiftOn STAR Movies Monday at 7:00 pm Scientist David Terran (Shaughnessy) has written bestsellers about the dangers of Earth's magnetic fields, but his unconventional theories have made him a joke to his colleagues. Denied the respect...
aLOS ANGELES, Jan 17 (Reuters): "The Hurt Locker," a low-budget movie about an American bomb-disposal unit in Iraq, was named best picture Friday at the Critics' Choice Awards, an event that has an uncanny knack of foreshadowing Oscar success.The movie's...
Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie have opted out of attending the upcoming Golden Globes ceremony - because the actor failed to receive a nomination for his role in Inglourious Basterds.Pitt stars as an American soldier in the World...
LONDON, Jan 17: Pop queen Madonna has donated US dollars 250,000 to help Haiti quake victims.The singer is also urging her fans and friends to make donations, reports the Mirror.In a statement, Madonna that her prayers are with the people...
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