Asian stocks opened lower Wednesday after Slovakia blocked a measure to expand Europe’s financial rescue program for heavily indebted countries. The move sent markets south as worries intensified that a failure by Europe to contain its debt crisis could lead to a massive debt default by the Greek government. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index dropped [...]
Prime Minister’s economic affairs adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman Tuesday said there are no relations between the Teesta river water sharing deal and the provision of transhipment facilities to India for using Ashuganj port. “We can’t relate one with another. Relations with neighbour should not be conditional. We can’t open the window half in exchange of [...]
Women on the pill are less attracted to their partners and less sexually satisfied than women not taking the pill, according to a study involving more than 2,500 couples. But relationships that start when women are using this contraceptive method tend to last longer, the researchers found, and these women are happier with the non-sexual [...]
Blackberry users have complained of a fresh crash hours after the company which makes the smartphones, RIM, said all services were “operating normally”. On Twitter angry users reported renewed issues with their handsets and an inability to send messages and email. The initial blackout saw Blackberry services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa disrupted [...]
Argentina’s impressive opening qualifying victory over Chile last week was soon forgotten when the two-time World Cup winners were handed a humiliating 1-0 defeat by Venezuela on Tuesday. Venezuela, no longer the whipping boys of South American soccer, took their first ever points in 19 qualifiers against Argentina when central defender Fernando Amorebieta headed the [...]
The opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Tuesday said she would not leave the streets until the ‘autocratic’ and’ repressive’ government was dislodged and urged the people to join the movement for holding elections under a caretaker government and a neutral election commission. ‘The country is under a grave threat. I was with you in all [...]
Myanmar has begun the release of what it said will eventually be more than 6,300 prisoners under a mass amnesty. Among the inmates freed by noon Wednesday, 70 were political detainees, a rights group said. The Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said it obtained its information from staff members and political activists inside Myanmar. [...]
The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed a complaint against two Iranians alleging a state-sponsored terrorist plot by members of Iran’s Quds Force against the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir. The complaint alleges that Manssor Arbabsiar, a U.S.-Iranian dual citizen, and his al Quds handler, Gholam Shakuri, tried to hire a DEA confidential source [...]
The High Court on Wednesday asked Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia to submit a report on the steps it took to save the lives of eight Bangladeshi nationals who were beheaded in Riyadh on October 8. The ambassador has been asked to submit the report in four weeks. The directive came a day after [...]
Republicans in the US Senate have blocked President Barack Obama’s jobs bill in a procedural vote. Forty-six Republican senators joined with two Democrats to filibuster the $447bn (£287bn) package. Reacting to the vote, Mr Obama said: “Tonight’s vote is by no means the end of this fight.” Republicans oppose the measure citing its spending to [...]