Share prices at the Dhaka Stock Exchange continued to climb for the second consecutive day on Thursday after the government’s intervention to stabilise the volatile market. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday night held an emergency meeting at Gono Bhaban with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other stakeholders to find ways to prop up the [...]
Even though Nokia’s Lumia 800 is just one Windows Phone among many, there’s a lot of hubbub about it, and for good reason: the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft is a desperation move by both companies as they try to reclaim business lost to the iPhone and Android. For techies, this is high drama. [...]
Google Inc has turned on the music at its new online store, aiming to wrest the lead from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc in audio entertainment distribution despite the absence of a major record label. Google Music, with more 13 million songs, will be integrated with Android Market, the company’s online store for smartphone apps [...]
Lionel Messi and Alexis Sanchez, club-mates at Barcelona, sparkled as Argentina and Chile put behind them a weekend to forget with victories in the South American 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday. Messi led the fightback for a 2-1 away win over Colombia as Argentina fielded a world class trident in attack by bringing on [...]
President Barack Obama declared Thursday that the United States will take an expanded role in shaping the Asian Pacific region, with an increased military presence one step of that policy. “Our enduring interests in the region demand our enduring presence in this region,” Obama said in a speech to the Australian Parliament. “The United States [...]
Youth unemployment has broken through the 1 million mark to a record high and the UK’s wider unemployment rate has climbed to a 15-year high. The government sought to blame the deterioration in the jobs market on pressures from the eurozone debt crisis but came under attack for ignoring problems at home. Fears that young [...]
In late October, two 18-year-old men from the Welsh city of Cardiff were arrested on Kenya’s border with war-torn Somalia. The father of one of them told the BBC he believed his son had been “brainwashed” and was on his way to join an Islamic holy war. Kenyan authorities quickly sent the two Britons — [...]
Radioactive caesium has been detected above the safety level in rice for the first time in Japan since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima plant. The sample came from a Fukushima city farm about 60km from the plant. The government is considering banning shipments from the area it was found. There have been a [...]
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said interests of Bangladesh and her state will be safeguarded in signing the Teesta water-sharing deal. “I’ll be happy to give Bangladesh water. But we have some problems, too. Teesta doesn’t have any water many times. I saw that myself,” she said. She added that she will do [...]