ISLAMABAD, Aug 8(AFP): Pakistan said Wednesday at least 12 militants were killed in a raid on a remote region near Afghanistan, as tribal elders prepared for a landmark council to rally support against Taliban rebels. The military said that mortars...
LONDON, Aug 8 (AFP): London's request for the United States to release five British-linked Guantanamo Bay inmates triggered both fury and relief among commentators here Wednesday. New Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrote to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday...
Crocodile falls to earth in Russian town MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP): Residents in the Russian nuclear research town of Sarov got a jaw-dropping surprise Tuesday when a crocodile fell from the twelfth-storey apartment of its owner, the emergency situations ministry...
THE administrative mechanism whose job it is to translate the directives of the highest authorities of the government follows, as it were, a set of rules that remains constant regardless of who is in charge at any particular point of...
Enayet RasulTHE countrywide flood in its sweep, devastations and creation of human miseries, is near to becoming like the great deluge of 1988 which was considered as the worst faced by the country in living memory. More than two-thirds of...
Samuel Brittan"THE past 15 years have seen inflation settle at low levels throughout the industrialised world. And many countries in the developing world, which had previously experienced high inflation, have seen it falling. If you ask the average business person...
Jeffrey ThomasIMMIGRANTS to the United States continue to find a land of opportunity both for themselves and for their children, according to a new report."America offers dramatic mobility for immigrants," said Ron Haskins, the author of Economic Mobility of Immigrants...
RECENTLY the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in her desperate bid to stage a political comeback is talking irrationally mainly by attacking the caretaker government. She is being supported by one retired Brigadier in her efforts in a...
THE first thing that comes to my mind is to tell the caretaker government to dispel panic and fear that are so pervasive among the broad sections of the people because of the task that it has assumed for cleansing...
Qazi AzadAN AFP news item and an accompanying photograph showing an Indian villager pulling his cow along a flooded street in Muzaffarpur of Bihar, published in some Dhaka newspapers last Tuesday, have evaporated the expectation that the flood situation in...
S. M. Rahman INFORMATION and communication technology (ICT) environment is, however, slowly gaining currency. Potentials exist for low cost ATM booths that could be opened in the urban and the rural areas as well. We should contemplate and explore the...
Khan Ferdousour Rahman INDIGENOUS people live in a wide area of the world. They have a special claim to the right to self-determination. Being indigenous to the lands, their rights were violated by more powerful foreign forces. There is a...
Francesco Guerrera and Ben WhiteUS corporate profits grew at the slowest rate in more than five years in the past quarter, hit by troubles in the domestic housing market and weaker commodity prices, according to analysts' estimates.The predicted slowdown in...
SINGAPORE, Aug 8 (AFP): Oil prices weakened in Asian trade today as speculative funds dashed for the exit amid concerns problems in the housing market could slow US growth, dealers said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September...
NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): Riding on the back of increasing crude steel production and major capacity expansions being carried out by major steel players, India has become the world's fifth largest crude steel producer in the world. "Based on...
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (AFP): The Federal Reserve yesterday kept US interest rates unchanged at 5.25 per cent but it acknowledged concerns about tightening credit and a persistent housing market slump dogging the US economy. The central bank has now kept...
FE Report Grameenphone (GP) Limited has joined in the emergency relief efforts in the flood-affected areas of Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions from Sunday. Distribution of relief materials is being done by a large number of volunteers from the GP...
FE ReportThe offerings were larger in the week which met with fairly strong demand from all sections of the market. Good liquoring Dusts sold well at around firm rates. Pakistan buyers were more active on the clean Brokens and Fannings...
TOKYO, Aug 8 (AFP): The dollar edged up against the yen in Asian trade today after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations of a US interest rate cut and Japanese machinery orders fell sharply, dealers said. They said a decision by...
FE ReportBangladesh Embroidery Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BEMEA) has elected its new executive council (EC) for the 2007-2009 term. The EC members were introduced to the organisation's AGM, held in the city Sunday.Ekram Uddin Siddique has been elected president of...
BUCHAREST, Aug 8 (Xinhua): Vegetable prices in Romania surged 4- 5 times in 2007, compared to last year, because of drought and speculators, an official said here recently. Aurel Tanase, director general of National Inter- professional Organization Prod Com Vegetables...
The government is set to sell part of its stake in the IFIC Bank Limited, a top official said Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com. According to the plan, the government will offload 8.5 per cent or 1,20,000 shares out of its holdings...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Aug 8: In the context of gradual decline in export orders from abroad, the country's readymade garments (RMG) sector may experience a serious disaster in the coming days, sources said.It would eventually throw a huge number of workers...
FE Report Shantinagar branch of the Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) has been shifted to new premises with a view to providing best and modern banking services. PBL Chairman Hafiz Ahmed Majumder inaugurated Wednesday the new premises in the city as...
FE ReportOver 44,000 members of BRAC regular staff from around the country have contributed Tk 7.0 million from their salary to BRAC's flood relief operations.BRAC has already distributed relief items worth Tk 24.8 million to more than 1.0 million flood...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARY, Aug 8: Registered seed producers of the northern region are producing high-yielding variety of paddy and seeds to ensure better agriculture production and to increase per hectare yield, sources said.But the producers are not being provided with agriculture...
FE ReportWarid Telecom Wednesday distributed relief materials among flood-affected people in Manikganj.A Warid Telecom team led by CEO Muneer Faruqui handed over relief materials to 500 flood-affected people who took shelter at temporary flood camps in Manikganj Model School, Manikganj...
FE ReportSheikh Mohammad Maroof has joined The City Bank Limited as EVP and head of treasury and market risk. Prior to joining The City Bank, Maroof worked in American Express Bank (AMEX) and Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL). He joined AMEX...
SHARIATPUR, Aug 8 (UNB): President Iajuddin Ahmed Wednesday said there should be effective coordination in relief operations and any other initiatives to be taken to assuage the sufferings of the flood victims."All the initiatives, including relief operation, to be taken...
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said the government would start constructing and reconstructing various embankments and improving the water drainage system as soon as the ravaging flood was over to minimise its future intensity and damage caused by it,...
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