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-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
Actor Amitabh Bachchan has spoken at length about his name featuring in the Panama papers and Bofors scandal, explaining that he has always cooperated with the "system" but wishes to be left alone at...
-- 2017-11-08 11:45:53
Britain’s Oxford University said one of its professors, the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, had taken a leave of absence after two women filed complaints against him in France...
Reuters 2017-11-08 11:33:21
A large organization of cancer doctors has issued a call to action to minimize alcohol consumption. With a newly released position paper, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) hopes to dra...
AP 2017-11-08 10:55:58
Twitter says it’s ending its iconic 140-character limit and giving nearly everyone 280 characters. Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That’...
-- 2017-11-08 10:49:28
Japan’s Nikkei share average slipped on Wednesday from the previous session’s near 26-year high as investors took their profits, dragging on financial and mining stocks. The Nikkei drop...
-- 2017-11-08 10:43:35
New Zealand shares were lower on Wednesday after energy stocks languished as a rally in oil prices lost steam after tension flared between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fe...
-- 2017-11-08 10:40:09
Australian shares eased on Wednesday, hurt by basic materials and energy firms though strong quarterly earnings from Commonwealth Bank of Australia drove its stock up and helped limit broad losses. T...
-- 2017-11-08 10:26:55
Wall Street ended mixed trade on Tuesday, the Dow Jones eked out a fourth consecutive record high, while the S&P 500 ended marginally lower. The S&P 500 financial index led decliners with a 1...
-- 2017-11-08 02:18:33
China’s trade surplus with the United States fell in October to $26.62 billion from $28.08 billion in September, according to data from China’s customs administration on Wednesday. The su...
-- 2017-11-08 02:06:33
The academic activities of Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) has started, aiming to improve and expand scopes of the medical education, research and treatment in the region. In the preliminary stage,...
-- 2017-11-07 12:35:27
Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday, with Singapore striking an over two-year high and Vietnam hitting its highest in nearly a decade, in line with Asian peers. Energy stocks gained ac...
-- 2017-11-07 12:29:30
South Korea's KOSPI stock index rose on Tuesday, while the Korean won also rose. At 01:04 GMT, the KOSPI was up 1.42 points or 0.06 per cent at 2,550.83, reports Reuters. The won was quoted at 1,11...
-- 2017-11-07 12:27:00
Actor Kate Winslet said she does not want to quit acting ever and will keep working in films till life allows her to. The 42-year-old star, however, said to maintain a long career it is important for...
-- 2017-11-07 12:22:48
Shares in Hong Kong on Tuesday joined the global optimism that pushed Wall Street to another record overnight and the Asian stocks to their highest level in 10 years. Monday’s market anxiety st...
-- 2017-11-07 12:17:19
Shares in China on Tuesday rose slightly, despite growing concern that China’s economic growth will slow, some brokerages started to paint a rosy picture for its A-share market in 2018. The blu...
BBC 2017-11-07 12:00:00
The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show. They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdow...
-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00
Asian shares surged Tuesday after Wall Street posted modest gains on deal reports and turmoil in Saudi Arabia sent crude prices soaring. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5 per cent to 22,900.83 and...
-- 2017-11-07 11:56:29
Zimbabwe's Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been removed from his post, the country's government has announced. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, had displayed "traits of disloyalty", Information Minister Simon...
-- 2017-11-07 11:28:41
At least five migrants died and many others feared missing when a rubber boat, carrying about 140 people, overturned close to the border between Libyan and international waters on Monday, Libyan coast...
BBC 2017-11-07 11:16:35
A fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed. The app, "Update WhatsApp Messenger", appeared to have been dev...
-- 2017-11-07 11:01:49
New Zealand shares edged lower on Tuesday, on weak performance in consumer staples. The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fell 0.1 per cent, or 10.28 points, to 8,043.35, reports Reuters. Dairy company...
-- 2017-11-07 10:58:10
Australian shares scaled a near 10-year high on Monday, breaching the psychologically important 6,000 point mark, supported by strong commodities prices and tracking a rally in global equity markets....
-- 2017-11-07 10:49:19
Japan’s Nikkei index jumped to a near 26-year-high on Tuesday morning, as foreign investors piled in on expectations of strong earnings from Japan Inc, while Wall Street’s strength underpi...
-- 2017-11-07 10:39:04
US stocks climbed to record highs on Monday, helped by optimism about merger activity and as investors bet that a Republican plan to cut corporate taxes would bolster earnings. Qualcomm rose 1.15 per...
FE Report 2017-11-07 10:14:38
The government has released the second installment of cash incentives amounting to Tk 11.25 billion among major exporters for the fiscal year 2017-18. The ministry of finance on Sunday advised the Ch...
FE Online Report 2017-11-07 02:39:20
Stamford University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lanzhou Jiaotong University, in collaboration with Bangladesh China Institute of Technology (BCIT), to start a 4-year undergraduate...
BBC 2017-11-07 02:23:32
People with malaria give off a distinctive "breath-print" that could be used as a test for the disease, according to American scientists. They had already tried out a crude prototype breathalyser in...
Reuters 2017-11-07 02:15:34
Two children, backed by the Clean Air Council environmental group, sued US President Donald Trump and two of his Cabinet members on Monday to try to stop them from scrapping a package of pollution-red...
Xinhua 2017-11-06 12:58:26
The global toll of chronic kidney disease (CKD) attributable to air pollution has reached more than 10 million each year, a new study revealed. The study was presented by the American Society of Neph...
-- 2017-11-06 12:58:02
South Korea’s stock fell on Monday, while the Korean won rose slightly. At 06:30 GMT, the KOSPI was down 8.56 points or 0.33 per cent at 2,549.41, reports Reuters. The won was quoted at 1,114...
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