Jun 11 2008
More than 1,000 trains were diverted, cancelled or short-terminated and over Rs 40 crore incurred in losses by the Railways during the 17 days of the Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan and neighbouring states. It suffered losses mainly due to passenger...
Jun 11 2008
World oil demand is set to expand at its slowest rate in six years during 2008 as high prices and the dismantling of Asian subsidy regimes start to choke off demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
Jun 11 2008
Despite fears of an economic slowdown at home and a slump worldwide, the country’s employers are looking for workers actively. India has topped a global employment outlook survey, powered mainly by service industries such as IT, realty and financial...
Jun 11 2008
Outraged by the continuing telecast by some TV channels of the banned Lux-Cozy advertisement, the government on Tuesday prohibited the “transmission or re-transmission” of the “vulgar” advertisement from all broadcasting...
Jun 11 2008
Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users’ Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.
Jun 11 2008
Zimbabwe is now run by a “military junta”, the country’s opposition leader charged, vowing not to accept victory for Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off later this month.
Jun 10 2008
Japan-based electronics giant JVC has come up with a unique dual-codec video camera LSI (Large-Scale Integration) chip. Known as world’s first dual codec camcorder LSI, the HD Gigabrid chip enables recording of HD videos both in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC...
Jun 9 2008
Finance and Planning Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam today announced the national budget of Tk 99,962 crore for 2008-09 fiscal year, aiming to shield the poor from soaring prices of food and commodities.
Jun 9 2008
Iran says Iran’s Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation with his Iraqi counterpart, Abdul Qader Jassim. The agency says mine clearance and the search for soldiers missing in action are...
Jun 9 2008
British Foreign Minister David Miliband arrived in Beirut late Sunday for a 24-hour visit during which he was to meet the country’s leaders.