Dhaka stocks continued its gain for the fifth successive day on Sunday amidst expectation that black money will be injected in the market. But the market along with buying pressure also experienced profit-booking selling pressure on banking stocks despite banks having made significant profits this year up to June. The DSE General Index (DGEN), [...]
Concerns over whether or not mobile phones cause cancer have been floating for over a decade, and have become a popular topic for modern scientific debate. A slew of studies conducted on the same have neither positively confirmed nor denied this link, only to confuse users all the more. Now, a new study has [...]
A pipeline that supplies gas from Egypt to Israel exploded Monday in the northern Sinai Peninsula near Bir el-Adb, an Egyptian security official said. The explosion appears to be an act of sabotage, said Gen. Saleh al-Masri, the head of security in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula. “It is an act of sabotage, but the [...]
His rampaging runs and goal scoring exploits with Barcelona have left little doubt that Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world today. But you could even forget those constant highlight-reel runs — the stats speak for themselves. The soon-to-be three-time Ballon d’Or winner has scored nearly a goal a game for [...]
MS Dhoni has been fined 60% of his match fee as India maintained a slow over-rate in the second Test against West Indies in Bridgetown, while the rest of the team lose 30% of their match fee. The match referee, Chris Broad, imposed the fines after ruling that India finished three overs short of [...]
The sister of Thailand’s exiled former prime minister has promised to do her best in government after leading his supporters to a landslide election win. Yingluck Shinawatra said there was “a lot of hard work ahead”, after preliminary results showed Pheu Thai had won a clear majority in parliament. With nearly all votes counted, [...]
MI6 handed Tony Blair a private intelligence assessment which showed that the French and German governments drew up plans to exploit his divisions with Gordon Brown, according to Alastair Campbell. In a sign of how the rivalry risked harming British interests on the world stage, Campbell wrote in his diary that Blair was told [...]
The government on Sunday said that there is no reason to issue any statement in response to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent controversial remarks on Bangladesh, according to foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes. ‘I think there is no need to issue any further statement as the MEA (India’s Ministry of External Affairs) and [...]
Tarique Rahman, Lutfozzaman Babar, Harris Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed are among the 30 more people charge-sheeted yesterday in the August 21 grenade attack cases. Hawa Bhaban, former political office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, different militant organisations and the then administration had collaborated in planning and staging the grisly blasts at an [...]
The junior home minister has said the Oil and Gas Protection Committee is protecting ‘foreign interests’. Shamsul Haque Tuku told reporters on Sunday, “They called a strike on unreasonable and empty claims to please their foreign masters.” The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Sunday enforced a half-day [...]