Mohammad Ali | 2014-08-24 00:00:00
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) has strongly stressed on maintaining 'global standards' in forming the proposed Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in order to materialise the purposes of its establishment. "Otherwise, achievement of main purposes of the...
ST. GEORGE'S Aug 23 (AFP): An abject batting display by Bangladesh, who were bowled out for just 70, paved the way for a crushing 177-run victory by the West Indies in the second one-day international Friday. Replying to the home...
Team BJMC and Panchagarh District Sports Association reached the final of the Walton Air Conditioner National Youth (U-19) Women's Handball Tournament eliminating their respective rivals in the semifinals at the Shaheed (Capt) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium in the...
Bangladeshi archer Prennoy Murong was eliminated from the men's recurve individual event of the 2nd Summer Youth Olympics Games after losing to British archer Bradley Denny by 0-6 set points in the elimination round at Fangshan Archery Field of Nanjing,...
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, Aug 23 (AFP): Sohaib Maqsood and Fawad Alam put on a 147-run stand as Pakistan recovered from the brink to defeat Sri Lanka by four wickets on Saturday and take the lead in the three-match series. The...
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...
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