Richel Langit-Dursin On weekends, groups of children and their parents crowd around South Jakarta's Halimun Pier waiting to take a joy ride on one of two water taxis, recently introduced by the administration. There is no profit in operating the...
Constanza Vieira Between 6:00 and 7:00 AM Friday there was no regular news broadcast in the northeastern Colombian town of Saravena. Instead, the Notifrontera news team of the Sarare Estéreo radio station read out a brief statement and played Colombian...
Zoltán Dujisin Bunkers? Underground catacombs? Submarine bases? Albania has been shaped by one of the most bizarre communist regimes ever and the potential to exploit it for tourism is inestimable.The possibilities for what has been termed as 'communist heritage tourism'...
Alex MoralesThe first floor of Nicola Caster's two-bedroom house is empty, except for four dehumidifiers and a pair of fans that drone constantly to remove the damp left behind by floods that swept through northern England in late June. She...
FE Report The country's leading bankers said Thursday consumers will not be benefited from reduction of interest rate on import credit unless the business community comes forward with a commitment to bring down the prices of commodities proportionately The businessmen...
FE ReportChief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed directed Thursday all the state power agencies to adopt a time-bound action plan for implementing the development projects, earmarked in the current fiscal for resolving the country's prevailing electricity crisis.His directive came at a...
The death toll from flood-related incidents like drowning, water-borne diseases and snakebites rose to 516 with 35 more deaths reported in 24 hours until Thursday morning while two agriculture ministry departments pinned their hopes for better crop yields in coming...
FE Report River erosion, triggered by receding flood waters, has caused further sufferings at a time when the people are preparing to rebuild homes and cultivate crops, and many fear the loss to the economy will be much more severe...
FHM Humayan KabirThe Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Implementation Forum is likely to meet in Dhaka late November this year to find out ways to support Bangladesh in the days to come, official sources said.The PRS Implementation Forum, which replaced the...
CHINCHA, Aug 16(AP): The death toll from a powerful earthquake rose to at least 387 Thursday, a day after the magnitude-7.9 temblor shook Peru's coast, toppled buildings and shattered roads, officials said. More than 827 people were reported injured and...
RANGPUR, Aug 16 (UNB): Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed Thursday asserted the election would be held by December next year and urged the people not to sell out their vote anymore."Vote has to be given to such persons who...
FE ReportThe short supply caused by delay in unloading of edible oil at Chittagong Port pushed up the prices of the item abnormally in the local market, said market sources.According to the sources, one litre can of edible oil was...
The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday heard two government appeals against bail granted to Sheikh Hasina in two extortion cases and adjourned the hearing until August 26, reports bdnews24.com. The cases against Awami League chief were filed by businessmen Noor Ali...
PATUAKHALI, Aug 16 (bdnews24.com): A Patuakhali court Thursday sentenced former lawmaker and Patuakhali BNP Vice-president Shahidul Alam to 10 years in prison in an arms case.Judge ABM Sajedur Rahman of Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court, Patuakhali handed down the...
The Election Commission is going to invite around 20 political parties that fulfil the conditions of registration to discuss proposed reform of electoral laws, reports UNB.The EC is considering the conditions of Political Party Registration Act (PPRA) as criteria for...
Forty people were produced before the High Court's (HC's) detention advisory board Thursday for a decision about whether their detention should be extended. Among the detainees were former state minister Salahuddin Ahmed and former lawmakers Mosaddek Ali Falu and Mufti...
Tremors jolted the country twice within three hours Thursday morning. A minor earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, jolted the country at about 02 hours 33 minutes 19 seconds (BST). The epicentre of the tremor was about 171.6 kms...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 16: The British High Commission (HC) in Bangladesh last year issued 30,000 visas out of the total 45,000 Bangladeshi applicants. "Those got the UK visas were 8,000 students, 5,000 settlers and the rest businessmen and visitors," said Jon...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) and freight forwarders reached Thursday a consensus on finalisation of freight forwarding policy-2007.The NBR chairman along with high officials of customs department held a meeting with the leaders of freight forwarding business to...
The government will purchase 48,000 tonnes of rice from local suppliers under a contingency measure to avert any food crisis in the flood aftermath, reports UNB.In order to support massive farming activities under a post-flood recovery plan, the government decided...
FE ReportThe stock prices bounced back on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) recently with injection of fresh funds having been diverted from the gilt-edged securities on which the government imposed 10 per cent tax at source.According to stock market sources,...
FE ReportSpeakers at a roundtable Thursday underscored the necessity of tapping the potential of the country's coal reserve to ensure the energy security in the coming years.They also favoured adopting a suitable mining method - be it open-pit or underground...
TOKYO, Aug 16(AP): Asian stocks hit their lowest levels in months Thursday - and European stocks followed in early trade - battered by persistent anxiety over US housing loan problems and potential damage to global financial markets. The benchmark Nikkei...
About three weeks have passed since submission of the inquiry report recommending filing of FIR against detained BNP senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman, but the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is yet to take any decision about it, reports UNB.ACC Deputy...
BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (AP): Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq Wednesday, uncovering victims of four suicide bombings that Iraqi officials said killed at least 200 people in one of the worst attacks of...
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (AFP): The United States will scrap a landmark nuclear deal with India if New Delhi conducts an atomic weapons test, the State Department said Tuesday. The statement came as the two governments gave different interpretations of the...
BAGRAMI, Afghanistan, AUG 15 (AP): An explosion near a two-vehicle convoy killed three German nationals Wednesday on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, police officials said.Kabul deputy police chief Zalmay Khan said three German soldiers were killed in the blast,...
GAZA CITY, AUG 15 (AP): Israeli aircraft attacked Islamic militants in the southern Gaza Strip and ground troops clashed with fighters in a daylong raid against suspected extremists. Four fighters and two civilians died in the clashes Tuesday and 26...
COLOMBO, Aug 15 (AFP): At least nine Tamil Tiger rebels and a government soldier were killed in sporadic clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Wednesday. Six of the rebels were killed along a de facto border separating...
SRINAGAR, Aug 15 (AFP): A separatist-led strike paralysed life in revolt-hit Kashmir on India's Independence Day Wednesday, police said, as troops deployed against rebel attacks. The strike, sponsored by both hardline and moderate factions of the state's separatist alliance, cleared...
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