BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters): Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will go to Iran for talks on Tehran's nuclear dispute, officials said on Monday, underscoring the growing pressure on Beijing to help end the standoff. Yang would visit on Tuesday for...
KABUL, Nov 12 (Agencies): US-led coalition troops battling suspected militants in southern Afghanistan lobbed a grenade that destroyed a house and killed 15 militants as well as a woman and two children, the coalition said Monday Meanwhile, weekend reports of...
PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 (AFP): Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary was detained Monday by police and officials from Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court and taken from his home in Phnom Penh, a police officer said. "He was put into...
SYDNEY, Nov 12 (AFP): Australian Prime Minister John Howard is headed for a landslide defeat at elections next week, according to an opinion poll Monday which showed the opposition surging ahead. The centre-left Labor Party gained two percentage points over...
Six Chinese die after eating poison soup BEIJING, Nov 12: Six Chinese people, including two children, died from food poisoning after eating soup and two more remained seriously ill, local media reported on Monday, the latest example of food safety...
Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Mainul Hosein cannot avoid the responsibility for exonerating the war criminals from punishment as he was among the lawmakers who voted for the 1973 constitutional amendment absolving them.Awami League (AL) presidium member Suranjit...
Law Adviser Mainul Hosein Monday said the interim government was working to put in place a system that checks misuse of public fund and corruption reports, bdnews24.com. "The incumbent government is facing difficulties in its efforts to get the country...
Banning religion-based politics is not a job of the Election Commission (EC), CEC ATM Shamsul Huda said, reports bdnews24.com."It is the government that is responsible for holding trial of the war criminals and banning religion-based politics. If this government is...
BNP acting secretary general Hafizuddin Ahmed Monday claimed that all differences in the party had been resolved and they were undertaking reforms keeping the position of Khaleda Zia in the party in tact, reports UNB."Disunity centring upon chairperson Khaleda Zia...
Two more cases were filed Sunday in Madaripur against Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh Abdul Quader Mollah reports, bdnews24.com. On Thursday another case was filed in Madaripur against the Jamaat leader on charge of making defamatory comments on the...
KHULNA, Nov 12 (UNB): Khulna Mayor Sheikh Tayebur Rahman was shifted to Jessore central jail from Khulna jail Monday.District Jail Super Abu Solaiman said that as a high profile detainee, the mayor was taken to the Jessore jail at about...
BARISAL, Nov 12 (UNB): A total of 109 administrative staff have been transferred to the Judicial Department in five districts of Barisal division. Barisal divisional commissioner office sources said administrative staffs of six districts under Barisal division were asked to...
MEHERPUR, Nov 12 (UNB): The police on a court order raided Sunday the rented house of fugitive Abdul Gani, former lawmaker of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) accused in a number of criminal cases, for attachment of his moveable property but...
The gloomy Nov 12 has come back to haunt the nation even 37 years after a cyclonic storm and tidal waves ravaged the southern coasts of the then East Pakistan in 1970, reports bdnews24.com. Organisations working in the coastal areas...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Nov 12: The inter-city trains that run from Dhaka to Chittagong and Sylhet via Brahmanbaria is in the grip of a host of problems.Mismanagement, poor sitting arrangement, irregular time schedule, dilapidated condition of tracks, poor electricity arrangement and...
BOGRA, Nov 12 (UNB): The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered a huge quantity of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) equipment worth about Tk 0.5 million from a house and arrested a man in this connection from Godarpara Charmatha...
The members of special taskforce of the national coordination committee for curbing serious crimes Monday seized passports of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) officers, employees and their family members, reports bdnews24.com. DCC public relations officer Abdur Rahman told the news agency...
The students seeking admission either to Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University or Bangladesh College of Textile Engineering and Technology (BCTET) are going to miss one of the admission tests since the two exams have been scheduled for...
FE ReportMs Malka Shamrose has recently joined as Business Development Director of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, a 450-bed super specialty hospital poised to deliver advanced tertiary care of international standards to the people of Bangladesh.Prior to joining Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, she...
BAGERHAT, Nov 12 (UNB): Forest guards arrested four deer poachers along with firearms and ammunition from Nangli area of the Sundarbans under Shoronkhola Upazila Monday.Acting on secret information that some miscreants entered into the Sundarbans to hunt deer, the forest...
FE ReportBangladesh's earnings from merchandise exports fell short of target by 17.65 per cent during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal over the corresponding period of the last fiscal.The country exported products worth US$ 3077.09 million during the...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Salehuddin Ahmed said Monday the country's exports will remain unaffected by a slight appreciation of taka against US dollar. Nor will inflow of remittance be hampered for any reason thereof, he maintained."The Bangladesh Bank...
FE ReportEnergy and Power Adviser Tapan Chowdhury Monday saw the Public Procurement Regulation (PPR) as a stumbling block to expeditious decision making by the government. The immediate past BNP-led alliance government adopted the PPR at the insistence of the multilateral...
A Dhaka court Monday sent BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser ASM Hannan Shah to Dhaka Central Jail after his three-day remand ended in a case filed under the emergency rules, reports bdnews24.com.Magistrate Habibur Rahman Siddiqui of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's...
FE Report A committee formed under the ministry of finance is expected to finalise its recommendations on the proposed special financial benefit to some 1.55 million government officials and employees at meeting next Thursday.The special financial benefit, according to sources,...
FE ReportThe developed countries need to make commitment to provide duty-free and quota free access to all products of the least developed countries (LDCs) within a time frame. Unless it is done, there is every possibility that most important export...
FE Report Importers have blamed the problem in distribution at the field level for the crisis of fertilisers in many districts. Farmers in many districts, including Munshiganj, Narsingdi, Gazipur, Tangail are now facing crisis of fertilisers during the ongoing Aman...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued their rally for the fourth consecutive day Monday as banking shares gained amid buying by institutional and retail investors.Marker operators said currently, the market is buoyant with the investors expecting...
FE ReportTwo leading mobile companies of the country -- Grameenphone (GP) and Aktel -- will go public by the middle of next year."We are confident that both the telephone companies are going to float shares within the said timeframe and...
Javier Blas and Roula Khalaf , FT Syndication ServiceRIYADH: Opec will this week seek assurances from some of the world's biggest oil consumers that they will maintain their demand as the members of the oil cartel come under intense pressure...
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