The Met office Monday recorded a mild earthquake, measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale, which occurred at 03 hours 02 minutes 50.86 seconds near Qamdo in China. — UNB
M Azizur RahmanThe British Cairn Energy has sought a renewed government approval to extensively conduct a survey in its offshore Meghnama gas field under Block 16 on the expectation that the potential of locating oil and gas reserves there is...
S M JahangirThe Power Division will again submit the revised bid for installation of the Tk 4.95-billion Sylhet 100-megawatt (MW) power plant to the government's purchase committee this week for approval.The purchase committee last month returned the project proposal and...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board has decided to merge its two main units dealing with the taxation of top companies as part of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) advice to tighten the noose around big tax-evaders, officials said Monday. The...
Detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had high blood pressure in jail Monday morning and recovered after a while, reports UNB.Inspector General (IG) (Prisons) Brigadier Gen Zakir Hossain said as Sheikh Hasina fell sick, the jail authorities called in the...
A number of Saudi teams, both from the public and private sectors, arrived in the city Monday to recruit medical specialists and consultants from Bangladesh, reports UNB.A spokesman of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment said the teams...
FE ReportBangladesh Land Port Authority (BLPA) has planned to set up two more land ports, one in Feni and another in Sylhet, to boost bilateral trade with India, officials said. They said a three-member committee has already been formed to...
Suggesting pre-poll reforms for sustainable democracy in Bangladesh, German Ambassador Frank Meyke Monday said, the state of emergency should be lifted carefully calibrated to progress on the election roadmap, reports UNB. Talking to a group of journalists from print and...
Venezuela's Chavez threatens to cut US oil sales Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut oil sales to the United States if ExxonMobil succeeds in getting billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets as compensation for expropriated oil fields, reports...
The 42 artefacts sent to Paris for an exhibition at the Guimet Museum will be brought back to Dhaka on February 23, an adviser said Monday. "A team of Bangladesh government is already in Paris to take the artefacts back....
SATKHIRA, Feb 11 (UNB): Farmers Sunday staged sit-in for one and half hours from 11am in front of Sadar UNO office demanding adequate supply of fertiliser.Several hundred local Boro farmers gathered in front of the UNO office and chanted slogans...
FE Report The inter-bank call money rate remained unchanged Monday moving above the bank rate of 5.00 per cent due to steady pressure on, fund managers said.The US dollar was also stable despite higher demand for the greenback in the...
The government has filled six vacancies of deputy commissioner (DC), according to separate circulars issued by the Establishment Ministry Monday, reports bdnews24.com. Also, MA Akmal Hossain Azad, chairman of the Forest Industries Development Corporation, has been transferred to the Agriculture...
TOKYO, Feb 11 (Reuters): Beyond the immediate challenge of crisis containment, the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations promised over the weekend to fix the financial market faultlines that are destabilising the global economy.The next few months will tell whether...
MUMBAI, (Internet): Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) Monday slashed prime lending rate by 0.25 per cent to 12.50 per cent, a decision that will make housing and car loans cheaper."Benchmark prime lending rate is revised downward by...
NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (PTI): Industry body Assocham has suggested Russia and India to draw a joint action plan along with other two BRIC countries to avert an economic slowdown, which can be triggered by the financial crisis in the...
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters): US President George W Bush said yesterday he would sign a $152 billion package Wednesday that is aimed at keeping the world's largest economy out of recession with tax rebates and business investment incentives. Citing private-sector...
SYDNEY, Feb 11 (AFP): Australia's central bank warned today that inflationary pressures mean interest rates may have to be raised again after being hiked last week to a 12 year high. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said in its...
MANILA, Feb 11 (AFP): The Philippines posted a better than expected 9.4 billion peso (229.26 million dollars) budget deficit in 2007, the lowest in 10 years, the government said today, but warned of tougher times ahead. The figure is equivalent...
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11 (AFP): South African President Thabo Mbeki acknowledged yesterday the continent's biggest economy could be headed for a slowdown but denied that a recession was on the cards. "We might have a slowdown but that's not a recession,"...
KATHMANDU, Feb 11 (Xinhua): Nepal's readymade garment export plummeted by nearly 50 per cent in the year 2007 as compared with the year 2006, the Nepali national news agency RSS reported today. The report said exportation was severely affected by...
SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (AFP): World oil prices continued higher in Asian trade today while supply worries outweighed concerns about the health of the United States economy, analysts said. In afternoon trade, New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude...
CARACAS, Feb 11 (Reuters): President Hugo Chavez yesterday threatened to stop sending oil to the United States unless it halted an "economic war" that he said included an Exxon Mobil lawsuit freezing $12 billion in Venezuelan assets. The anti-American leader...
MANAMA, Feb 11 (AFP): Around 1,300 migrant workers helping to build a luxury coastal development in Bahrain have gone on strike to demand higher wages, a company official said yesterday. The workers are employed by the contracting firm GP Zachariades...
SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (AFP): The dollar was lower against the yen in Asia today during thin post-holiday trading, dealers said. In afternoon trade the greenback was at 107.06 yen, down from 107.41 earlier and 107.32 in New York late Friday....
BERLIN, Feb 11 (AFP): India's top car maker Tata Motors will create a European version of the world's cheapest car within the next four years, a company executive said in an interview to be published today. "In four years, we're...
AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb 11 (AP): Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings. Democrats in...
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11 (AFP): Benazir Bhutto's husband will campaign in Pakistan's political heartland this week after a poll showed the slain opposition leader's party is the country's most popular, an aide said Monday. Asif Ali Zardari will lead a rally...
PARIS, Feb 11 (AFP): Researchers said Sunday they had identified a mechanism that enables ovarian cancer-dubbed a 'silent killer' of women for the many lives it reaps-to evade frontline chemotherapy drugs and rebound. Ovarian tumours among women who have a...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq, Feb 11 (AP): Defence Secretary Robert Gates Monday endorsed, for the first time, the idea of pausing the draw-down of United States (US) forces from Iraq this summer. "A brief period of consolidation and evaluation...
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