State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder left for Scotland Saturday to join the sports ministers' meeting for the 20th Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held from July 23 to August 3, reports BSS. The meeting will be held...
HOYLAKE, July 19 (AFP): Rory McIlroy was struggling to hold on to his lead in a rain-hit third round of the British Open on Saturday. The 25-year-old from Northern Ireland began the day with a four-stroke lead over nearest challenger...
LONDON, July 19 (AFP): Bhuvneshwar Kumar became only the twelfth India bowler to take five or more wickets in a Test innings at Lord's on Saturday. Kumar's return of six for 82 against England on the third day of the...
Real Madrid, Barcelona top Forbes rich list NEW YORK, July 19: Spain may have been embarrassingly dethroned as World Cup holders, but Real Madrid and Barcelona are still champions at making money after they were named as the world's two...
Cristiano Ronaldo's mother Dolores Aveiro has revealed in her autobiography that she had tried to abort the Portuguese football star when she was pregnant. In the book, Mae Coragem, released in Portugal Friday, Aveiro claims that she drank warm beer...
MUMBAI, July 19 (Business Standard): Benchmark share indices rebounded in the week to July 18 after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) exempted the mandatory reserve requirements on funds raised through bonds for extending credit to housing and infrastructure sectors....
NEW YORK, July 19 (AFP): A wave of corporate deals and generally positive quarterly earnings competed for attention this week with gloomy news developments in Ukraine and Gaza, ultimately leading US stocks higher. For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial...
NEW YORK, July 19 (AFP): General Electric on Friday reported higher second-quarter earnings following gains in most industrial segments as it targets late July for a stock listing of its North American retail finance arm. Net earnings for GE, considered...
MUMBAI, July 19 (PTI): Relaxing norms for alternative investment funds, market regulator Sebi today revised certain guidelines with regard to 'disciplinary history' of the fund. Alternative investment funds (AIFs) are basically funds established, or incorporated in India, for the purpose...
NEW DELHI, July 19 (Reuters): Unions representing workers at Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world's largest coal miner, will oppose any move to sell a stake in the state-owned company as part of the new government's plan to shore up...
HONG KONG, July 19 (Reuters): Hong Kong shares ended lower on Friday, tracking losses in global markets after the downing of a Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine sent investors scurrying into defensive assets. The Hang Seng Index closed down 0.3...
TOKYO, July 19 (Reuters): Japan's Nikkei share average dropped to a one-week low on Friday and posted its biggest one-day fall in three weeks as investors turned risk averse on news a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet was shot down near...
Saleh Akram | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A landmark verdict by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague, on July 07 awarded Bangladesh an area of 19,467 square kilometres out of total 25,602 sq km under dispute with India in the Bay of Bengal. The PCA...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
One hundred years back, on the morning of June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a 19-year-old Bosnian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. Franz Ferdinand was the future heir to...
A large part of Dhaka city is in the grip of a severe gas crisis since the holy month of Ramadan began on the last day of the last month. Most residents in the affected areas are not getting even...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The introduction of automated systems in Chittagong Customs House (CCH) was supposed to reduce corruption, but graft is taking place there in vast magnitude. The authorities have failed to fully implement automation. Some manual systems have been retained in export-import...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Many passengers are seen disembarking from buses to walk on the footpath along the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka during severe traffic jams. The gridlock between Matsya Bhaban and Shahbag often spans two kilometres up to the intersection near the Foreign...
The savings account bank interest rate remains hardly at five per cent after deduction of tax at source. On the other hand, billions of taka sanctioned by banks have turned into default loans and this money is not recoverable. We...
It was so sad to see in Saturday's newspaper a picture of a little Palestinian girl crying after her house had been shelled. The question of the girl was: "Why did they break my house?" This was a horrendous scene....
Eating outside during the Sehri time is not unusual in Old Dhaka; but now this trend is being practised throughout the city. The eateries in New Dhaka are attracting a good number of customers. Being encouraged, many more restaurants have...
On July 13 last ended the world's one of the most auspicious sporting events-the 20th FIFA World Cup-to the cheers and tears of participating nations. On June 12 last the World Cup kicked off with thirty-two nations divided into eight...
Ajoy Paul | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
In a developing economy like that of Bangladesh, the banking system mainly mobilises and allocates financial resources directly to the ultimate beneficiaries in an institutional way and thereby enhances the country's economic growth. However, to establish good governance in banking,...
Md. Azharul Islam | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
An agreement was signed among its member-states at the sixth BRICS summit meeting held in Fortaleza, Brazil on July 15, 2014 to establish a US$100 billion BRICS Development Bank. Scheduled to be based in Shanghai, China, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Saturday that Dhaka City unit BNP would turn into a stronger one with its new convening committee and will be able to reflect people's hopes and aspirations, reports UNB. "The country is in...
Bangladesh will renew its firm commitment to eliminating child marriage at the first-ever Girl Summit in London on July 22, foreign office sources said Saturday, reports UNB. Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will lead the Bangladesh delegation at the summit...
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