THE Regulatory Reforms Commission (RRC) has been a welcome step on the part of the present government to promote business activities in the country. The RRC was put under the charge of a respected former bureaucrat, having intimate knowledge of...
Shamsul Huq ZahidTHE National Board of Revenue (NBR), perhaps, has started cursing itself for setting up what, according to many, a highly ambitious revenue target for the current fiscal year. If the current trend in the collection of revenue under...
Philip StephensTHE hurricane sweeping through financial markets has changed the character of the US presidential contest. The consequences of the crash, political and economic, will have a still more profound effect on the course of the next presidency.The failures of...
ACCORDING to press reports, counterfeit Bangladeshi currency notes of Taka 500 and Taka 100 denominations are coming from India into the bordering rural areas of the countries where it is difficult to detect the forgery. Reportedly, even some defence personnel...
THE government has been praised for evicting grabbers of land by the sides of Hatirjheel and Begunbari canals. It evicted the illegal occupants to recover the lakes and the land by them for the beautification of the city. The caretaker...
THE fate of the last test match that was earlier scheduled to take place in Dhaka between Bangladesh and the visiting New Zealand in Dhaka is now known. Inclement weather has made afoul of it. It would have been a...
Syed JamaluddinGROWING warnings of global recession and the expectation of more interest cuts triggered turmoil on the currency markets and sharp falls on stock exchanges. The British pound fell to a five year low against the dollar as Prime Minister...
Maswood Alam Khan'A toy lost' is a painful experience we all must have endured in our childhood. 'A toy lost and then found' is a bliss every one of us had relished in our nursery days. Losing anything is painful...
A suspected US missile strike has killed 20 people, including a top Taleban commander, in north-west Pakistan, witnesses and officials say, reports BBC.Mohammad Omar was among the dead when the missile, reportedly fired by a pilotless US drone, hit a...
Republican John McCain has said his campaign to become US president is "doing fine" despite polls showing him trailing his Democratic rival.Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press nine days before the election, Mr McCain said he had closed the gap...
JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters): Tzipi Livni has seen a sharp turnaround in fortunes for Israel's ruling Kadima party since she became leader last month and could now beat the right-wing opposition in a coming election, polls Monday indicated.Two newspaper surveys...
Syria has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after what it said was a US helicopter raid inside its territory that killed eight civilians, reports BBC.Syria summoned US and Iraqi envoys to condemn the "aggressive act". Iraq called...
VATICAN CITY, Oct 27 (AP): Pope Benedict XVI decried the killing of Christians in Iraq and India and appealed Sunday for political and religious leaders to defend them.In India, anti-Christian riots and rampages by Hindu extremists have claimed at least...
Three killed in Baghdad road bombing BAGHDAD, Oct 27: A roadside bomb attack targeting a minibus killed three people and wounded five others in Baghdad on Monday, security officials said. The blast occurred on the main road in the southeastern...
Lithuania's conservative opposition has come first in the country's general election, after making substantial gains in the second round of voting, reports BBC.Final voting figures showed the Homeland Union had taken a total of 44 seats in parliament, allowing it...
The brains of people who commit suicide are chemically different to those who die from other causes, a Canadian study has suggested, reports BBC.Researchers analysed brain tissue from 20 dead people and, in those who killed themselves, they found a...
TOKYO, Oct 27 (AFP): The Group of Seven (G7) club of rich nations pledged today to cooperate to bring stability to battered global markets, where stocks buckled on fears government action will be too late to prevent a worldwide recession....
TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters): Japan pledged fresh measures Monday to try to shield the world's second-biggest economy from the global financial crisis and said the Group of Seven (G7) would issue a joint statement on the yen.A flurry of comments...
RIYADH, Oct 27 (Xinhua): Finance ministers and central bank governors from six oil-rich Gulf Arab nations met Saturday to examine the impact of the global financial turmoil on their economies and seek for a joint response. The policy-makers of the...
NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (PTI): After brainstorming with top world leaders in Beijing on the raging financial turmoil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has cautioned that India's economy was also bound to feel the pain "sooner or later" as "we are...
SEOUL, Oct 27 (AFP): South Korea's central bank today cut its key interest rate by 75 basis points, the largest reduction in the country's history, to try to protect its economy from the global financial turmoil. The Bank of Korea...
LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hinted at the possibility that lower inflation thanks to falling oil prices could prompt central banks around the world to make more joint interest rate cuts, the BBC reported."Now inflation...
OTTAWA, Oct 27 (Xinhua): The global economic crisis has already spread to "the real economy" of retail sales and the whole North America will inevitably head into a recession, prominent US economist and trader Dennis Gartman predicted yesterday. Unemployment in...
HONG KONG, Oct 27 (AFP): The Japanese yen ended the week at 13-year highs against the US dollar while other currencies fell against the greenback amid ongoing global market turmoil over a slumping world economy. JAPANESE YEN: The yen soared...
Our Correspondent BHOLA, Oct 27: Betel leaf production in the district is facing a setback for capital shortage and lack of other supports. Sources said there are more than one thousand betel leaf growers in the district. Hundreds of bighas...
SINGAPORE, Oct 27 (AFP): World oil prices weakened in Asian trade today with OPEC's decision to cut supply at a time of global financial turmoil seen as hurting already weak energy demand further, dealers said. New York's main contract, light...
MUMBAI, Oct 27 (PTI): The focus is always on who is the richest among Ambani brothers and Lakshmi Mittal but Mukesh and Anil are ahead of the India- born steel tycoon in terms of losses suffered due to the global...
Agora, the largest chain supermarket of the country run by Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd, distributed prizes among the raffle draw winners of the mega-shopping offer arranged on the occasion of its seventh founding anniversary.Rahimafrooz Superstores general manager Kishwar Imdad handed over...
DUBAI, Oct 27 (PTI): Dubai Export Development Corporation (EDC) organised a forum on the sidelines of technology exhibition (GITEX) to enhance the export opportunities of the Emirate's information technology services into South Asia. The forum, entitled 'Indian ICT Sector and...
NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (PTI): India and Russia have embarked upon a joint research programme to develop viable technology for harnessing gas hydrates, a compound material which is a potential source of energy and is found abundantly below seabed off...
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