MUMBAI, Aug 25 (AFP): Indian share prices could weaken next week, tracking political developments linked to a row between the government and its communist allies over a US nuclear deal, dealers said Friday. Dealers said the markets could be nervous...
FE ReportMaersk Bangladesh Ltd, a subsidiary of the AP Moller Maersk Group of Denmark, distributed relief goods to the flood victims in Bhatara Union under Badda Thana off the city as part of their corporate social responsibility. They distributed the...
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (AP): A federal appeals court Thursday cleared the way for Whole Foods Market Inc. to buy rival organic grocer Wild Oats Markets Inc. The three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
TOKYO, Aug 25 (AFP): A US investment fund admitted defeat Friday in its closely watched attempt to take over Japan's Bull-Dog Sauce, which carried out controversial defence measures. The bid, which set off a legal battle that went all the...
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NEW YORK, Aug 25 (AP): Bad credit has supplanted terrorism as the gravest immediate risk threatening the US economy, a key national research group reported last week.Borrowers' withering ability to pay their bills and the subsequent fallout in the credit...
BEIJING, Aug 25 (AFP): China has expressed serious concern at a recent move by Argentina to impose restrictions on Chinese goods, state media said today. "It is neither reasonable nor acceptable for the Argentine side to make such moves without...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (APP): Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz yesterday said the Islamic banking has tremendous potential in the Muslim World and the government is encouraging Shariah compliant banking in the country. He was talking to a delegation headed by...
MANILA, Aug 25 (Xinhua): The Philippines' merchandise imports grew by 2.3 per cent to 25.3 billion US dollars for the first six months of 2007, the National Statistics Office (NSO) has said. The NSO said imports payments rose 3.8 per...
OTTAWA, Aug 25 (AFP): Canada's finance ministry yesterday announced that the federal budget surplus for fiscal year 2007-2008 is larger than expected given the country's strong economic growth. "The budgetary surplus for 2007-08 is now expected to come in higher...
KATHMANDU, Aug 25 (Xinhua): Due to a sharp rise in imports vis-a-vis exports, Nepal's trade deficit with the third countries posted a whopping 51.6 billion Nepali rupees (some 794 million US dollars) during the first 11 months of 2006-07 fiscal...
GENEVA, Aug 25 (Xinhua): Switzerland's buoyant economy has had a positive effect on the society-it has made residents feel more optimistic about the future, according to a study published yesterday. The Security 2007 survey, published by Zurich's Federal Institute of...
LONDON, Aug 25 (AFP): Wheat prices hit an all-time high in Chicago on fierce global demand and flagging output. Oil prices slid this week on fading supply fears and many metals prices rebounded as investors took their cue from the...
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (AFP): Oil prices leapt higher yesterday, with New York prices ending above 71 dollars, as rising stock prices and a rebound in US new home sales during July boosted optimism about economic growth. Oil markets have...
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (AFP): The dollar fell against the euro yesterday while the yen weakened further as many investors switched back into risk-taking mode amid calmer global financial markets. The euro surged as high as 1.3681 dollars-a high point...
BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (AFP): The European Commission vowed yesterday to take urgent "regulatory" action against toys deemed to be unsafe after recent high-profile recalls of Chinese-made products from US company Mattel. The European Union's executive arm said that it would...
BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters): China's anti-monopoly law is likely to be passed next week, after over a decade of wrangling, but may require national security checks for foreign firms that want to buy Chinese rivals, domestic media said Saturday.The new...
NEW DELHI, Aug 25 (PTI): The government yesterday said it will not hesitate to take further fiscal steps to check inflation, which has risen to 4.10 per cent, but pointed out that augmenting farm production is the only way out...
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (AFP): Sales of new US homes rose an unexpected 2.8 per cent in July from the prior month, the Commerce Department said yesterday, in a positive surprise for the battered housing sector. Economists said the figure may...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (PTI): The Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran yesterday discussed a gas pipeline involving the two countries and India and hoped that the project would be completed soon. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki telephoned his Pakistani counterpart...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (PTI): Pakistan has embarked on an "aggressive" drive to boost its defence exports through joint ventures, with the country's military exports already netting more than USD 40 million in 2006-07. The defence exports increased to more than...
ZAHARO, (Greece) Aug 25 (Agencies): Massive forest fires swept across Greece and killed at least 37 people in the south of the country, including several children, the fire department said Saturday. New fires broke out frequently, as embers were carried...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (Agencies): Pakistan - Pro-Taliban militants kidnapped an army officer, two guards and a government official near an army base in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Saturday. The four men were seized late Friday in Ladha, a town in...
CRAWFORD, (Texas), Aug 25 (AFP): President George W. Bush, lawmakers, members of the US military and veterans were locked Saturday in an escalating political war of words over whether to reduce US troop levels in Iraq. With just weeks before...
BAGHDAD Aug 25 (Agencies): A car bomb exploded in northern Baghdad Saturday, killing seven passers-by and wounding dozens of others in an apparent sectarian attack near the capital's most important Shiite shrine. The attack in Kazimiyah came even as parts...
BEIJING, Aug 25 (AFP): Fearing the approach of a ticking "bachelor bomb," China is planning tougher laws against sex- selective abortions, state media said Saturday. The State Council, or cabinet, is planning special regulations that specify punishments for parents and...
KANDAHAR, (Afghanistan), Aug 25 (AFP): A roadside bomb killed three private security guards Saturday while two policemen and 15 Taliban died in fighting overnight in fresh violence in Afghanistan, officials said. Two guards were also injured by the bomb that...
JERUSALEM, Aug 25 (AFP): Israeli troops said they shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to fight their way from the Gaza Strip into Israel Saturday during a surge in clashes that has left seven Palestinians dead. An Israeli soldier...
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 25 (AFP): Kuwaiti Health Minister Maasuma al-Mubarak, the Gulf emirate's first female cabinet member, has resigned, newspapers reported Saturday. Mubarak tendered her resignation one day after two patients died in a huge fire at a Kuwaiti hospital...
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 25 (AFP): Kuwaiti Health Minister Maasuma al-Mubarak, the Gulf emirate's first female cabinet member, has resigned, newspapers reported Saturday. Mubarak tendered her resignation one day after two patients died in a huge fire at a Kuwaiti hospital...
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