Rajesh Kumar Singh of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
India called off on Monday peace talks with Pakistan, giving a jolt to renewed diplomatic efforts between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and adding to the troubles of Pakistan's beleaguered government. The move came nearly three months after Pakistani Prime Minister...
Ben Blanchard and David Stanway of Reuters | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
China expects to sign agreements to give landlocked and resource-rich Mongolia easier access to Chinese territory for its exports when President Xi Jinping visits the country this week, a senior diplomat said on Monday. Mongolia, nervous about over-dependence on its...
Daniel Thomas in London and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on car imports, if the United States and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Moscow, daily newspaper Vedomosti reported this week. The impact of the measure on...
Abdullah Mohibuddin from Waterloo, Canada | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
On the 1st day of each month I sit with the computer to pay all monthly bills through online. Here in Canada, every bank has set up their internet banking. Internet banking is convenient, easy and 100 per cent secure....
FE Online Report | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green on Tuesday after previous session’s flat movement with improved turnover as investors took position on large cap stocks amid optimism. The market started with a positive note which continued till the market closure. DSEX, the...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
The country’s two bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – advanced in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the second trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
An official committee is set to strike some changes including empowerment of district and upazila administrations for enforcement of the national building code. Some of the proposals relate to use of green power, energy efficiency and the harvesting of rainwater...
Syful Islam | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
The government is going to prepare a strategic plan on 'ocean economy' with a view to ensuring proper management and utilisation of the country's marine resources, sources said. Bangladesh won two maritime boundary cases in the International Tribunal for Law...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
'Oral history' (taken from memories) - the tales from village elders - could tell us about the transformation story of rural areas. It could possibly give us no less better a description of the reality on the ground than the...
Saleh Akram | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Starting its journey in 2011, Mobile banking, commonly referred to as mobile financial services (MFS), has recorded phenomenal growth in Bangladesh in terms of financial inclusion. The MFS sector now has almost 15 million registered users transacting over TK65 billion...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Country's pharmaceutical industry posted an envious export growth in the first month of the current financial year as its international-standard and diversified products are increasingly attracting importers from many countries. The pharmaceutical-product exports increased more than 31 per cent in...
Nidal al-Mughrabi | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday any deal on Gaza's future had to meet Israel's security needs, warning Hamas it faced "harsh strikes" if it resumed firing into the Jewish state. With a five-day ceasefire due to expire late...
Fredrik Dahl | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Iran has given a firm commitment to cooperate with a UN nuclear watchdog investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, the head of the agency said after what he described as a "useful" visit to Tehran on Sunday. Yukiya Amano made...
Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler of Reuters from Norwich (England) | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Pampering leafcutter ants with fragrant rose petals and fresh oranges may seem an unlikely way to rescue modern medicine, but scientists at a lab in eastern England think it's well worth trying. As the world cries out for new antibiotics,...
Nina Chestney and Susanna Twidale of Reuters from London | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars. Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation,...
Mohammad Shah-Al-Mamun | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
Teaching and learning methods have evolved quite radically with time. Nowadays, almost every modern classroom is equipped with multimedia facilities, and teachers deliver their lectures by using computers, projectors, audio and video references etc. The idea is to provide students...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
The government forest land covers both natural and plantation forest. Out of 64 districts, 28 districts had no public forest in the past. But now almost all districts have been brought under forest coverage through Social Forestry Programme. The ever-increasing...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks closed flat on Monday amid choppy trading with turnover declining slightly as investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), ended at 4,554.14 points, shedding a fraction of 0.36 points after witnessing...
FE Online Report | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed positive trend at the opening while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw the reverse trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the first trading day of this week. DSEX, the prime index of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Taxmen have, for the first time, detected forgeries of pay orders by vested quarters, raising concern over the security of taxpayers' money, sources said. Some taxmen in connivance with bank officials have encashed some pay-orders that the taxpayers submitted with...
Munima Sultana | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Legal experts have given the green signal for awarding the river-training work under the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project to a Chinese company which drew criticism for poor performance in an important highway expansion project, sources said. Bangladesh Bridges Authority (BBA),...
Siddique Islam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The central bank has purchased the US dollar from the commercial banks with changed instruments in a bid to offset inflationary pressures on the economy amid a glut of money supply, officials said. Under the latest move, the Bangladesh Bank...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The government has decided to install weighbridge scales at all the ferry terminals for detecting the overloading of vehicles that use ferries so that service charges can be realised from them based on the load, officials said. Bangladesh Inland Water...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The government has taken an initiative to build multistoried buildings for housing in rural areas of all the divisions at a cost of Tk 4.24 billion aiming to keep arable lands from being destroyed, a high official said. The buildings...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
In the bureaucracy and high-level jobs, which entail visibility and exercise of authority, women's presence is negligible. The ground realities must conform to and reflect the spirit of gender equality and non-discrimination as enshrined in the Constitution. Addressing underlying socio-cultural...
Neil Ray | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommu-nications Company Limited (BTCL) lovingly calls it "three-dimensional service system". All because the service provider has undertaken the task of transforming the now discredited land phone into a most advanced digital gadget with a service package of voice,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) late last week approved the country's costliest ever development project. The project-a 1,200 megawatt (MW) ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant---to be installed at Matabari Coast of Maheskhali Island would cost nearly Tk...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Debate on the issue of race is again raging in the United States. This time it is over what has happened in Fergusson, a city of 21,000 in St Louis County in Missouri, on August 09. A white police officer...
Gaza truce talks resume in Cairo | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (agencies): Israel warned Sunday it would not countenance any long-term truce deal that did not answer its security needs as Gaza ceasefire talks resumed in Cairo. Egyptian-brokered indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are taking place...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will hold a big event by the end of this year -part of its plan to sell a quarter of its stakes to an international strategic partner, officials said. The DSE event is also intended to...
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