As part of their one-point simultaneous movement, BNP will hold mass processions in all metropolitan cities, including Dhaka, to mount pressure on the government to quit and hold the next election under a non-party caretaker government, reports UNB.Besides, the party...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP is behind the country's all heinous acts like August 15 carnage, August 21 grenade attack and introducing the politics of burning people, report agencies."Ziaur Rahman masterminded the August 15 carnage...
MILAN, Aug 15 (Reuters): Sentiment among global investors improved in August to its least bearish since February 2022 with cash allocations falling to a 21-month low, a Bank of America survey showed on Tuesday.The poll of fund managers with $545...
BEIJING/HONG KONG, Aug 15 (Reuters): China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group (NEV) shares jumped nearly 50 per cent on Tuesday after the electric vehicle unit of cash-strapped property firm China Evergrande Group announced a $3.2 billion plan to reduce debt...
Different financial institutions, organisations and government agencies paid tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portraits at Dhanmondi in Dhaka, at their head offices and other places across the country on Tuesday,...
United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) signed a remittance service agreement with NEC Money Transfer Limited on Monday. Arif Quadri, managing director and CEO of UCB, and Ikram Farazy, chairman of NEC Group, exchanged documents after signing the agreement at UCB...
LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters): Global stocks were stuck near five-week lows on Tuesday as rising government bond yields unnerved investors, while rate cuts from China and disappointing data underscored the economic malaise gripping the world's second biggest economy.Emerging markets remained...
To expand the business quickly and retain the existing smart customer base, Dutch-Bangla Bank has decided to invest in the proposed Digi10 Bank PLC - a consortium of ten private commercial banks.The board of directors of the bank took the...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2023-08-16 00:00:00
The securities regulator has further extended the time for market intermediaries to invest at least 4 per cent of their portfolios in listed debt securities to March 2024. The time extension came following pleas of market intermediaries against the backdrop...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-08-16 00:00:00
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange eroded 110 points in just a month, tumbling to four-month low, as jittery investors dumped all the previous two months' trendy stocks.Most of the recent top-gaining small-cap stocks saw a sharp decline...
TOKYO, Aug 15 (AFP): Japan's economy grew 1.5 percent in the three months to June, official data showed Tuesday, beating expectations on the back of strong exports.The average forecast for quarter-on-quarter growth in the world's third-largest economy had been 0.8...
COLOMBO, Aug 15 (Reuters): Chinese oil major Sinopec expects to start operations in Sri Lanka on Sept. 20 and will be allowed to sell fuel for less than the maximum retail price set by the government, Sri Lanka's power minister...
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters): US retail sales increased more than expected in July as Americans boosted online purchases and dined out more, suggesting the economy continued to expand early in the third quarter and keeping a recession at bay.Retail sales...
LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters): Basic wages in Britain hit a new record growth rate, figures showed on Tuesday, adding to worries for the Bank of England (BoE) about long-term inflation pressures even after 14 back-to-back increases in interest rates.Official data...
JMI Group will build a specialised hospital at Amin Trade Centre, a high-rise building at Dhanmondi in Dhaka. For this, the entire building has been rented by the JMI Specialised Hospital Limited. To this end, a lease signing ceremony was...
SAIF UDDIN, Back from Habiganj | 2023-08-16 00:00:00
RFL Group, a local conglomerate, is eyeing expansion of its share in the fast-growing electrical cable market as it has made a hefty fresh investment to manufacture underground cables.Considering the potential, RFL subsidiary Bizli Cables has installed a new hi-tech...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-08-16 00:00:00
Local refiners have sought immediate action to put an end to sugar smuggling from India in a bid to help the domestic industry survive such odds and adversities.They apprehend that the domestic sugar industry will definitely be in dire straits...
US Navy joins Army, Marine Corps inhaving no Senate-confirmed leader NEW YORK, Aug 15: The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as...
Taliban supporters ride on motorcycles with Taliban flags during celebrations for the second anniversary of the country takeover at the Ahmad Shah Massoud square in Kabul on Tuesday —AFP
RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (AFP): Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in the first deadly raid in the Jericho area for months.The health ministry said 16-year-old Qusay Omar Suleiman al-Walaji...
QUITO, Aug 15 (BBC): A local party leader has been killed in Ecuador, the second politician to be assassinated in the space of a week. Pedro Briones was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle at his home in northern...
SEOUL, Aug 15 (AP): South Korea's president called for deeper security cooperation with the U.S. and Japan to address North Korean nuclear threats, saying Tuesday that his upcoming summit with the U.S. and Japanese leaders at Camp David will "set...
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Reuters): North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged letters on Tuesday pledging to develop their ties into what Kim called a "long-standing strategic relationship," Pyongyang's state media KCNA said.The letters mark the...
ATLANTA, Aug 15 (AP): Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. It's the fourth criminal case to be brought against the former president...
MOSCOW, Aug 15 (BBC): At least 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in southern Russia. The blast occurred in the Dagestan regional capital, Makhachkala, on the coast of the Caspian Sea,...
LONDON, Aug 15 (AFP): England will host Zimbabwe in a men's Test match for the first time in 22 years in May 2025.The four-day Test will take place from May 28-31, with the venue for the one-off match to be...
MADRID, Aug 15 (AP): The budding rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic is set to be renewed in the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals next month.Alcaraz and Djokovic were included in the teams announced Monday by Spain...
Former World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan has been left out of a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) commemoratory video, leaving Pakistan cricket fans outraged, report agencies.Ostensibly released as part of celebrations for Pakistan's Independence Day, which falls on August 14, the...
England Test captain and the world's premier all-rounder Ben Stokes is all set to come out of retirement and play the ODI World Cup in India even if it comes at the cost of missing a season of IPL (Indian...
AUCKLAND, Aug 15 (AFP): Olga Carmona's stunning 89th-minute strike gave Spain a 2-1 win over Sweden on Tuesday to propel them into the Women's World Cup final for the first time in their history.Spain's thrilling victory at Eden Park sets...
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