Retail investors on a hunger strike since Sunday have said they will continue with their protest until the prime minister ‘herself’ gives specific orders to prop up the tumbling share market. The protestors, who were dispersed by police on the street in front of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rushed to a press briefing at [...]
Heading home after rounding up a crop of goodies, Ashley Greene stopped by Whole Foods in Hollywood, California this afternoon (October 17). Keeping it casual for her grocery store visit, the “Twilight” actress showed off her gorgeous gams in a pair of daisy dukes, of which she paired with a loose gray t-shirt and [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have extended the deadline for putting into effect their respective loan agreements with the government to early 2012, on constructing the Padma Bridge. The extension of the deadline came as a sequel to the suspension of its pledged funding worth US$ 1.2 billion [...]
Weeks ago, Dan Wheldon was behind the wheel of a new prototype car for the IZOD IndyCar racing series — one meant to make his sport safer, albeit ideally no less exciting. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, who’d been one of a handful of key collaborators in the safety effort as identified on the racing [...]
Gaza’s Hamas Islamist rulers released captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a Hamas military source said, in a deal ending a saga that has gripped Israel for five years. The source said Shalit, 25, was taken across the frontier from the Gaza Strip into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, [...]
In his first televised interview since he was launched toward the presidency again, Russia’s powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that his goal of returning to the Kremlin was to “stabilize” and “diversify” the national economy as well as to “strengthen the fundamental basis of the political system and the democratic institutions” of the [...]
A major upgrade of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) DNA database system has come under fire from members of the forensic science community. The Codis system is used to generate the genetic profiles stored in the US national DNA database. The FBI wants to expand the number of genetic markers used by Codis to [...]
A day after the death of four workers from toxic gas at the Jiri Subedar Steel Re-rolling Mills of Sitakunda, the Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined it Tk 25 lakh for not having proper safety measures in its ship-breaking yard. Local police the same day filed a case against four of its officials, including [...]