The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) announced a 20-member U-23 final squad for 17th Asian Games scheduled to be held on September 19 to October 4 in Incheon, South Korea, reports BSS. The final squad included seven defenders, six midfielders, five...
The Walton Motorcycle National Rugby Competition will be held on September 11-17 at the Paltan playground in the city, reports BSS. Interested district teams, sports associations and services teams of the country have been asked to enroll their names by...
LONDON, Aug 17 (AFP): Joe Root's dashing 149 not out added to India's misery as England looked to seal a 3-1 series win in the fifth and final Test at The Oval Sunday. England, 385 for seven overnight, hammered India's...
COLOMBO, Aug 17 (AFP): Sri Lanka stepped closer to giving former captain Mahela Jayawardene a winning farewell after Rangana Herath skittled Pakistan once more in the second Test in Colombo Sunday. Pakistan, set a series-levelling target of 271 runs, slumped...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia visited United Hospital in the capital to see the mortal remains of her party’s ex-MP M Mosharraf Hossain Monday night. Khaleda went to the hospital around 8:30 pm and stood beside Mosharraf’s body’s for a while...
CINCINNATI, Aug 17 (AFP): Serena Williams moved within one win of a second pre-US Open hardcourt title Saturday, reaching the Cincinnati final with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Caroline Wozniacki. The world number one American, who claimed her 61st...
BANGALORE, Aug 17 (AFP): India defeated Pakistan 1-0 Sunday in an emotionally-charged opener to take the lead in a two-match football series, the first between the arch-rivals for nine years. The hosts hung on to their slender lead after striker...
BURNLEY, Aug 17 (AFP): Jose Mourinho's belief that Chelsea are better equipped to challenge for the Premier League title faces an immediate test when his side travel to Burnley in their season opener Monday. Last season Blues boss Mourinho maintained...
Ivanovic ousts Sharapova in three-set thriller CINCINNATI, Aug 17: Ana Ivanovic overcame illness and nerves as she outlasted French Open champ Maria Sharapova 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 Saturday to reach the final of the WTA Tour's Cincinnati event. The former world...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Ministry of Information has issued a gazette notification on the newly formulated National Broadcast Policy, 2014. It was approved earlier by the Cabinet on August 04. It has been explained that this Policy will be aimed at restricting the...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
Debate on the issue of race is again raging in the United States. This time it is over what has happened in Fergusson, a city of 21,000 in St Louis County in Missouri, on August 09. A white police officer...
Belying the expectation of the country's policymakers, the flow of term loans to the industrial sector declined, albeit marginally, in the last fiscal (2013-14). The rate of decline was slightly over 50 basis points compared to the industrial term lending...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) late last week approved the country's costliest ever development project. The project-a 1,200 megawatt (MW) ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant---to be installed at Matabari Coast of Maheskhali Island would cost nearly Tk...
Neil Ray | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommu-nications Company Limited (BTCL) lovingly calls it "three-dimensional service system". All because the service provider has undertaken the task of transforming the now discredited land phone into a most advanced digital gadget with a service package of voice,...
The results of the HSC exams are much better this year in all sectors. Students from 8,104 institutions took this year's HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) and equivalent exams. The previous year's success rate was 74.30 per cent, and 58,197 students...
It is good to know that the Indian government has eased the visa process for Bangladeshi businessmen. This will reduce sufferings of the people who go to India for business purpose. Lately, getting an Indian visa became an arduous process....
To its horror and utter pain, the world has for some time been watching Israeli attacks on and devastation of Gaza. Israel has killed scores of innocent civilian Gaza inhabitants, most of them children and women. Although a ceasefire is...
Kihak Sung | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The celebration of 50 years of glorious journey of Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in Bangladesh is a pleasant occasion. As a proud member of the FICCI, it is a pleasure on my part, on behalf of...
Responding to Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina's allegation that General Ziaur Rahman was involved in the assassination of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Sunday Hasina was 'perhaps involved' in Ziaur Rahman's...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
In the bureaucracy and high-level jobs, which entail visibility and exercise of authority, women's presence is negligible. The ground realities must conform to and reflect the spirit of gender equality and non-discrimination as enshrined in the Constitution. Addressing underlying socio-cultural...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The government has taken an initiative to build multistoried buildings for housing in rural areas of all the divisions at a cost of Tk 4.24 billion aiming to keep arable lands from being destroyed, a high official said. The buildings...
LONDON, Aug 17 (AFP) : Britain's economy is "more than halfway" down the path to full recovery, but any interest rate rises will be "limited" and "gradual", Bank of England (BoE) boss Mark Carney said Sunday. In an interview with...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-08-18 00:00:00
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL) will send its proposals soon for inclusion in the import policy for fishes considering the recently found hazardous substances to health in imported containers at Chittagong port, officials said. "We are going to...
OTTAWA, Aug 17 : Canada added 42,000 jobs in July, pushing the unemployment rate down a notch to 7.0 per cent, according to revised numbers released by the government statistical agency Friday. The figure is a big jump from the...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 17 (BSS): Discussants at a dialogue in Rajshahi said an integrated approach has become an urgent need for sustainable poverty reduction and improved livelihoods. They stressed the need for multidimensional aspect of development and implementation of income generating...
NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (AFP) : India will keep a pledge to ratify a trillion-dollar global pact on easing trade restrictions, a minister told local media Saturday, adding negotiations with fellow World Trade Organisation members had not hit a "dead...
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) : Flashes of illumination rather than fireworks are expected at this week's annual meeting of top central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Few predict anything so momentous as the speech by Federal Reserve...
BEIJING, Aug 17 (AFP): Two HIV-positive passengers and a friend are suing a Chinese airline for refusing to let them on board, in the country's first such lawsuit, state media reported Friday. The pair planned to travel from Shenyang in...
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