BERLIN, Aug 23 (AFP): Reigning German champions Bayern Munich got the new Bundesliga season off to a perfect start with a dramatic 2-1 win over VfL Wolfsburg Friday. Pep Guardiola's side looked sluggish early on at the Allianz Arena but...
MADRID, Aug 23 (AFP): Atletico Madrid gained some measure of revenge for their Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid by beating their city rivals 1-0 at the Vicente Calderon Friday to win the Spanish Super Cup 2-1 on aggregate....
GOLD COAST (Australia), Aug 23 (AFP): Katie Ledecky smashed another world record as Michael Phelps claimed his first individual gold medal post-retirement at the Pan Pacific Championships in Australia on Saturday. American wonder teen Ledecky set the first world record...
LONDON, Aug 23 (AFP): Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal's status as serious contenders for the Premier League title will be given a stern examination by Everton Saturday. Wenger's side head to Goodison Park looking to lay down a marker after an...
India warm-up for England ODIs with Middlesex win LONDON, Aug 23: Virat Kohli was back in the runs after a wretched Test series as India prepared for their upcoming one-day campaign against England with a 95-run win over Middlesex at...
Paul Carrel and Eva Taylor of Reuters from Frankfurt | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The European Central Bank is in a policy no man's land, bombarded by news of a stagnating euro zone economy but hesitant to move forward with new stimulus until measures it loaded in June have ignited. After the ECB cut...
Fredrik Dahl of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The UN nuclear watchdog appears to have made only limited progress so far in getting Iran to answer questions about its suspected atomic bomb research, diplomatic sources said on Friday, three days before a deadline for cooperation. Under an accord...
Aditya Kalra of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
More than 70 per cent of Indians are satisfied with the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took office nearly three months ago, an opinion poll showed, seeing in him the best hope to put the economy back...
Humeyra Pamuk and Orhan Coskun of Reuters from Duhok (Iraq) | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The capacity of Iraqi Kurdistan's independent oil pipeline will almost double to at least 200,000 barrels per day by the end of this month, helping the semi-autonomous region increase exports and revenue, industry sources and officials said. Oil revenues are...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
The out-going president of the Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai - has expressed his deep concern over the stand-off persisting in his country over the presidential elections. Karzai, who is to relinquish his position after two terms - the maximum allowed...
Md Alamgir | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Over the last few years, NASA and other space agencies have been trying to find out traces of life on other planets in the universe. They are trying to detect the presence of water. If there is water, then there...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley paying tribute to Mosharraf Hossain | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
'Any man's death diminishes me,' wrote the poet, 'because I am involved in mankind'. But one thing is certain that the demise of some men diminish us more than that of others, tragic they though all are. Myriad recollections crowd...
Bangladesh is considered lucky because of a consistent growth in its earnings from both exports and remittance inflows for more than two decades. In the last fiscal, the country saw a respectable growth in overall export receipts during the year,...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
After a two-year pause, the government is expected to formulate a fresh production sharing contract (PSC) model to award offshore hydrocarbon blocks in the Bay of Bengal to the international oil companies (IOCs). Earlier, tenders for four rounds of PSC...
Md. Abdullah-Al-Mamun Badshah | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Every year we see tragic launch accidents claiming hundreds of human lives. During 1999-2014 period, about 658 such accidents occurred with about 500 meeting their watery graves. About 1,500 people are still missing. Perhaps their bodies will never be retrieved....
We do not often read positive news about Bangladesh in the foreign media. So I was glad to know that Bangladesh's eminent artist Shahabudin Ahmed has received one of the highest honours in arts and literature 'Knight in the Order...
I am glad to know that Nano of the Tata Motors of India, a small-sized car with affordable price, is now available in our country and it will be sold initially at Tk 7,00,000. Nano will encourage many people to...
In order of livability, a local English daily published a report that ranked Dhaka among the world's worst ten cities! We would have topped the list. However, luckily for us, Damascus, the capital of Syria (in civil war), leads the...
The article titled 'Ensuring productive use of public money' written by Haider Ahmed Khan, published on August 23, contains a paragraph in which it was said the Education Development Association (EDA), a non-governmental organisation, is taking huge loans from international...
As part of her move to reorganise the party’s student wing, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night sat in the second phase meeting with the central leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). The meeting began at the BNP chief’s...
Claiming that her government has reestablished the Liberation War spirit with the 15th amendment to the constitution, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said it is not possible to truly establish a secular and non-communal society without protecting democracy, according to...
Rashidul Bari | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Palestine and Israel, once known as cradle of civilisation, have become the hub of cemeteries in modern times. Their conflicts have shed huge blood and produced graves as far as eyes can see. The countless tombstones are silent, but the...
The South Korean Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday hoped that incident like issuance of summon on a diplomat would never recur in the future as it can seriously damage the friendly bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Korea. “We hope this...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has brought a change in the deferred payment against the import bill regarding the import of different goods. A circular of the Foreign Exchange Policy Department (FE Circular No 27, dated July 01, 2014) said it has...
Novo Nordisk arranged 'Bangladesh National Premix Summit' Friday at BRAC-CDM, Savar. The summit was told that premix analogue might be used in all stages of disease progression with an option of easy intensification and optimisation from once to twice &...
MUMBAI, Aug 23 (ET Bureau): The Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred Delhi-based PACL, its promoters and directors from raising any money from investors, effectively shutting down one of India's largest collective investment schemes (CIS), with a...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Saturday held a meeting in memory of its ex-president and former MP M Mosharraf Hossain, reports UNB. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the BGMEA complex with its president Atiqul Islam...
NAV of MTB Unit Fund disclosed The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 312,813,795.45 on the basis of cost price and Tk 301,867,531.72 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on August...
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