Financial Express: Stocks inched lower on Monday after volatile trading as investors remained cautious stance. Brokers said the market finished flat as a section of investors continued on profit booking tendency while some others were busy rebalancing portfolio after quarterly earnings declarations. After witnessing volatility, DSEX, prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by…
UNB: A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Kanelpara in Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman Hubba, 50, son of Siraj Malitha. Monir Hossain, a sub-inspector at Kushtia Model Police Station, said a police team conducted the drive around 3 pm on information that a…
Reuters: Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have…
Professor Abu Ahmed, Economist: The corruption at the banks will reduce upto 50 percent if the Chairmen and the Managing Directors practice honesty. The country’s economy is now faring well. However, it is not as much as the government is thinking. The country’s banking sector is not faring well. The plunderers have plundered Farmers Bank…
The Guardian, UK : This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on…
Kabir Humayun: A school student was run over by a speeding bus in Rangpur city yesterday, prompting locals to block the road in protest. The victim, Md Zion, 15, son of Zahidul Islam and class X student of Collectorate School and College, was killed in Darshana area around 11am, reports The Daily Star. Family said,…
BSS The lifestyle of women agriculture workers in Kishoreganj haor areas has become miserable due to unemployment. In the rainy season, most of the women agriculture workers of Austagram haor areas in the district passes idle time as they have no work. Usually, women workers used to work at Aus paddy and jute harvesting at…
John Mcbeth/Asia Times Eighty million millennials will be eligible to vote in Indonesia’s April 17 elections, a massive bloc that could carry the day if they really cared For a fleeting moment, before elder politicians started trading barbs at last week’s first presidential election debate, 49-year-old business entrepreneur Sandiaga Uno gave Indonesian voters a glimpse…
PK Balachandran, bdnews24.com Special Correspondent in Colombo/BDnews24 The Maldives president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his oath-taking ceremony in November. Modi in turn has invited Solih to visit India, which the latter accepted, the Maldivian publication The Edition has reported. Solih’s spokesperson Mariya Ahmed Didi said on Wednesday…
UNB: Two Bangladeshi raising golfers Shakhawat Sohel and Ismail mad their successful cuts in the US$350,000 Take Solutions Masters at Karnataka Golf Association course in Bengaluru, India. Sohel aggregated one-under-par 141, after carding even-par-71 in the second round, while Ismail aggraded matching total with carding a two-under-par-69 in the second round. Both shared joint 53rd…