WASHINGTON, SEP 4 (AP/UNB) - The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong cr...

Dhaka, Sept 3 (UNB) - Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said that power and gas are the main constraints for the export-oriented sector.“On export we are over the harm. The main constraint is power and gas, not o...

Dhaka, Sept 3 (UNB) - Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said that the government would give five percent incentive for exploring new export destinations.“We shall give 5 percent for export to new markets. It won...

Dhaka, Sept 3 (UNB) - In a series of drives in the city on Friday, the market monitoring teams penalized three traders and realized Tk 17,000 as penalty on charge of selling goods in excess of the prices fixed by th...

Gazipur, Sept 3 (UNB) - Valuables of a steel factory were gutted in a fire and 22 workers injured in a fire incident and fire panic in Sreepur and Tongi upazilas on Friday. Police and fire service said a fire started a...

BEIJING, Sept 3 (AP/UNB) - China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor countries over surging food costs.Mayors were...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 03 (AP/UNB) – President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it...

Dhaka, Sept 2 (UNB) - The government will make public the report of investigation now under way to identify the dishonest businessmen involved in trying to create artificial crisis in the market during the holy Ramada...

Dhaka, Sep 2 (UNB) - Donors including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, JICA, Islamic Development Bank and the Abu Dhabi Fund will provide $2286.40 million (nearly $2.3 billion) for the construction of the mu...

Dhaka, Sept 2 (UNB) - Textile and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction over the progress of implementation of different development projects under his ministry. The Minister exp...