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Purchase/sale of director's sharesEXIM Bank: Meer Joynal Abedin, Nahida Akter, Md Nazrul Islam Swapan and Md Altaf Hosain, all sponsors of EXIM Bank Limited, have stated that they have completed their sale/purchase of 119,010 shares each of the bank at...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 14 (AFP): Two South Korean women freed by Afghanistan's Taliban after more than three weeks in captivity prepared to head home Tuesday as fresh talks began over the release of their 19 compatriots. Kim Gin-A, 32, and...
NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Reuters): The powerful head of India's ruling Congress party stood firm behind a controversial nuclear deal with the United States Tuesday as fresh efforts were launched to convince communist allies who have rejected it. Sonia Gandhi,...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 14 (AFP): Pakistan celebrated the 60th anniversary of independence Tuesday with prayers and a national minute of silence, low-key festivities for a country in the grip of political and religious turmoil. Major public buildings in the capital Islamabad...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, Aug 14 (AP): Israeli troops and aircraft attacked Islamic militants in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing two Hamas fighters and two civilians and wounding 15 people, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials said. Hamas said one...
KABUL, Aug 14 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Kabul Tuesday for talks with Afghan leaders amid allegations that his government was supplying weapons to the Taliban insurgency. Ahmadinejad's first visit to Afghanistan since he assumed office comes after...
NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (AFP): India deployed aircraft, combat troops and tens of thousands of security forces on the eve Tuesday of its 60th anniversary of independence after new threats by Al-Qaeda and separatist rebels, officials said. In the federal...
BEIJING, Aug 14 (AFP): A bridge under construction collapsed in China, leaving at least 22 dead and 44 missing, officials said Tuesday, amid warnings over the nation's old and poorly built infrastructure. The 268-metre (885-foot) bridge over the Tuo river...
THE Constitution of the country has made it clear that there must not be any disparity between regions in the matters of development and allocation of resources. Yet violation of the clause concerned of the Constitution has taken place and...
Qazi AzadIN an interview with a Dhaka daily last Sunday, Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam talked briefly about the latest proposal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for fresh loans under the poverty reduction growth facility (PRGF) and the conditions...
Victor MalletTHESE are strange times in Thailand. The old certainties of the once vigorous south-east Asian kingdom have given way to doubt and confusion. The Thai economy, for all its reputation as an engine of the post-war Asian "miracle", is...
Ripan Kumar BiswasAT the request of the Prime minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh and having great feelings for the country, all non-resident Indians across the world came forward to help the tsunami victims. The tsunami killed over 280,000 people...
Squeezing the money supply through a tighter monetary policy and some other mechanisms to control the current price may lead to reduced consumption but it would not help realise its benign object. These policies may drive down prices of only...
A long view of public opinion in this country since its inception will tend to blunt one's thought process blocking new deduction. After the ouster of dictatorship in 1990 of H.M. Ershad, which had taken up the cloak of democracy...
Tom EngelhardtLEAKS of plans that took the American presence into the increasingly distant future also began to occur. The most striking came on July 24th in a New York Times front-page piece by Michael R. Gordon. Its headline said it...
United NationsWhen the United States sells state-of-the-art weapons systems to Arab nations, it invariably provides even more lethal and sophisticated arms to its steadfast ally, Israel, in order to help counter the firepower of its neighbours.So, when Egypt gets the...
Michael Peel from LondonINTERNATIONAL companies and private individuals are making hundreds of reports a week to a pioneering internet hotline launched this month to map bribery world-wide and help businesses plan how to deal with it.Trace, a non-profit group set...
GENEVA, Aug 13 (AFP): Asia's economies face the challenge of finding jobs for an extra 200 million workers between now and 2015, according to a new International Labour Organisation (ILO) report out today. It said the region will have its...
TOKYO, Aug 13 (AFP): Japan's central bank announced today it will inject 600 billion yen (5.0 billion dollars) into the banking system to avert liquidity shortages after turbulence on global financial markets. Worries about problems in the US mortgage market...
BEIJING, Aug 13 (PTI): Despite the India-China bilateral trade growing at nearly 50 per cent this year, the surging trade deficit is all set to top the record figure of USD 4.11 billion in 2006. The growing trade imbalance in...
SYDNEY, Aug 13 (AFP): Australia's central bank today said it saw global growth as strong despite the uncertainty created by the crisis in the US home loan market. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said rising delinquency rates in the...
NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (PTI): North America and Asia have emerged as the most sought-after destinations for India Inc's acquisition bids, with takeover deals in the region touching USD 12 billion in the first four months of fiscal 2008, an...
NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (PTI): The rout on stock market has left no one untouched-not even the country's richest billionaires - - with the top five led by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani losing more than USD 10 billion in...
MEXICO CITY, Aug 13 (Xinhua): Trade ministers and officials from Mexico, the United States and Canada will meet Monday and Tuesday in Vancouver, Canada, to discuss issues concerning the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico's Economy Ministry said yesterday....
SEOUL, Aug 13 (AFP): South Korea is ready to inject liquidity into the banking system if needed to avert liquidity shortages after turbulence on global financial markets, officials said today. The move followed an emergency meeting of senior officials from...
MUMBAI, Aug 13 (PTI): As part of efforts to flush out excess foreign capital, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed resident Indians to open accounts in banks outside the country and transfer up to USD 100,000 a year in...
SINGAPORE, Aug 13 (AFP): Oil prices were higher in Asian trade today amid lingering worries that the US subprime mortgage crisis will eventually hurt US economic growth, dealers said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery rose...
BAGHDAD, Aug 13 (AFP): Giant retailers Wal-Mart, JC Penney and Sears, Roebuck could stock Iraqi-made leather jackets and clothes in outlets across the United States by Christmas, an Iraqi official said yesterday. Top Iraqi and US officials said that a...
BEIJING, Aug 13 (PTI): China's central bank has assured the international community that it has no plans to dump the US dollars in its massive foreign reserves in response to Washington's relentless pressure to revaluate the Chinese currency. The US...
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