Eli CliftonNew statistics from the United States Department of Labour offer greater insight into the number of defence contractors killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but questions remain about compensation for injured or dead contract workers and their families.The data, which...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 23: If the conditions set by importers cannot be fulfilled the task of exporting frozen fish and shrimps worth Taka 420 million would be at stake.Fisheries and Livestock Ministry Secretary Syed Ataur Rahman said this while speaking...
FE ReportBritish Airways (BA) and Elemis, a luxury British spa and skincare brand, announced a new agreement between the two UK brands.The five-year deal sees Elemis taking over the running of BA's five current airport lounge spas in Heathrow's terminals...
FE Report A seven-member Philippines delegation visited Meghna Life Insurance Company Limited (MLICL) head office in the city recently. They were the participants of different institutions of Philippines in the recently held micro-insurance conference in Manila. MLICL Chairman Nizamuddin Ahmed...
FE ReportATN Bangla UK recently appointed A Positive Advertising Limited as the sole advertising agent for selling commercial airtime in ATN Bangla UK transmission covering the footprint of the UK and Europe. ATN Bangla UK Managing director Hafiz Alam Bakhsh...
TOKYO, Aug 23 (Reuters): Asian-Pacific stocks rose for the fourth day in a row Thursday with many major bourses ending more than 2 per cent higher after overnight gains on Wall Street and renewed market confidence following global losses related...
FE ReportSocial Marketing Company (SMC) has been manufacturing its ORSaline-N at full capacity in three shifts (24 hrs) at its factory at Bhaluka in Mymensingh to meet the increased demand as diarrhoea has become widespread, especially among the children, due...
NEW YORK, Aug 23 (AFP): A recovery gathered steam yesterday in ailing global stock markets amid fresh corporate deal news and rising investor hopes for a US Federal Reserve rate cut to get credit markets moving. Wall Street shares jumped...
FE ReportMd Shahid Karim joined Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology Department of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka as consultant and coordinator recently.Shahid obtained his MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College in 1979 and took extensive training as assistant registrar and subsequently as...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (AFP): Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif could return home after seven years in exile imposed by his embattled arch foe President Pervez Musharraf. Sharif's party said he would come back within...
YANGON, Aug 23 (AFP): Pro-democracy supporters defied the junta in Myanmar to stage their third protest within a week Thursday, underlining what analysts say is deepening public anger at crippling economic hardships. Such public defiance on the streets to a...
BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters): There is "no hope" of finding survivors from a flood in a Chinese coal mine which has trapped 181 workers, a senior official said Thursday, adding those responsible for the disaster will be handed over to...
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (AFP): Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard uses front companies to sidestep international sanctions and import banned materials into the country, exiled Iranian dissident Alireza Jafarzadeh said Wednesday. The Aerospace Industries Organisation (AIO), founded and operated by the guard,...
KABUL, Aug 23 (Reuters): A German engineer kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan more than a month ago appeared in a video on Thursday appealing for help from his family and the German government to secure his release. The man...
GENEVA, Aug 23 (AFP): Infectious diseases are emerging faster than ever before, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned in a report Thursday, urging closer global cooperation to tackle the growing health threat. The report warned of the threat from epidemics,...
BAQUBA, Aug 23 (AFP): Suspected Al-Qaeda fighters clashed with police and members of a rival militant group Thursday after an attack on the homes of tribal sheikhs that left 23 people dead and another 15 kidnapped. Brigadier General Ali Dilayan,...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (PTI): Pakistan Wednesday said itsnuclear assets were essential for peace in the region andstressed that they are well protected. "Never will Pakistan allow its nuclear assets to be compromised at any cost", Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told...
SEOUL, Aug 23 (AFP): South Korea Thursday started trucking emergency aid across the heavily fortified border with North Korea to help the victims of widespread floods in the communist country, officials said. South Korea has promised to send aid worth...
KATHMANDU, Aug 23 (Xinhua): The Nepali government has started the work of identifying, mapping, fencing and marking landmines in different parts of the country, which were planted during the decade-long conflict, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel said....
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 23 (AP): A weakening Dean dumped heavy rains across central Mexico, drenching mudslide-prone mountains as it pushed its way inland after slamming into the nation's Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane. In the storm-lashed city...
HANOI, Aug 23(Reuters): Vietnamese fought for "a righteous cause" during the U.S. war but preferred to focus on the present, a government spokesman said Thursday in reaction to President George W. Bush's speech comparing the Iraq and Vietnam conflicts. "The...
RANGPUR, Aug 23 (BSS): The government has allocated 10,375 tonnes of rice worth Taka 197 million for distribution among 2,07,500 distressed families under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in the district this year, officials said here today.They told BSS...
Eleven persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Mymensingh, two housewives were killed and 30 others injured in a road accident at Kodaldhar in...
JAMALPUR, Aug 23 (BSS): Post flood rehabilitation programme has been taken up to offset the losses, suffered during the recent flood, in agriculture sector, involving Tk. 2,02,70,550, in the district.Under the programme a total of 18,750 small and marginal farmers...
RAJBARI, Aug 23 (BSS: Floodwaters have started receding from different low-lying areas in Goalunda and Rajbari Sadar upazilas of the district. Meanwhile erosion by the river Padma has taken a serious turn in char areas of the district. The worst...
RANGPUR, Aug 23 (BSS)- The UK-based charitable organisations, Muslim Aid and Save The Children, with the help of Joint Forces today launched a massive relief distribution and medicare service programme for the worst flood-hit people of Chilmari, Roumari and Rajibpur...
SATKHIRA, Aug 22 (UNB): A court here Wednesday convicted nine people and awarded them life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2002.The court also fined the convicts Tk 5000 each, in default, to suffer one year more RI.The convicts...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 23 (BSS): One person was sentenced to 45 years rigorous imprisonment for raping and murdering a schoolgirl about five years ago.Judge of the Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Child Repression Muhammad Sirajul Islam delivered the verdict...
BAGERHAT, Aug 23 (UNB): Five pirates were arrested along with two firearms and ammunition from a canal in Sharankhola range of Sundarbans area Wednesday afternoon.Forest Department sources said a gang of pirates went to the canal with a trawler in...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 23 (BSS): The written test for recruiting security guards of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) scheduled to be held tomorrow and viva-voce for assistant deputy-inspectors scheduled to be held on August 25 have been postponed due to unavoidable...
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