Brothers Union Club will face Soccer Club Feni in the first semifinal of the Modhumoti Bank Independence Cup Football scheduled to be held today (Tuesday) at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, reports BSS. State-owned Bangladesh Television will telecast the match live...
Bangladesh’s GM Niaz Murshed shared the 2nd slot in the DYTM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah KL International Open Chess Championship with five other players securing 4.5 points after the 6th round matches now being held at Olympic Sports Hotel in...
The two-day DPS STS Inter-school Chess competition concluded at the auditorium of DPS STS School at Uttara in the city Sunday, reports BSS. A total 130 boys and girls from 13 schools in 5 groups participated in the event. Autish...
FE Report | 2014-04-08 00:00:00
Golfer Siddikur Rahman, winner of seven professional and 12 non-professional golf crowns at home and abroad and earner of around US$1.5 million from the game, said golf would bring pride for Bangladesh like cricket. He was speaking at a grand...
LONDON, Apr 7 (AFP): Chelsea will hope to draw inspiration from their 2012 Champions League triumph when they attempt to overturn a 3-1 deficit in their quarter-final against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. Javier Pastore's 90th-minute solo goal in last week's...
Serena top of WTA rankings MIAMI, Apr 7: American Serena Williams remains dominant on top of the latest WTA world rankings released on Monday despite her loss in the second round at Charleston last week. The top five remains unchanged,...
MONTERREY, Mexico, Apr 7 (AFP): Ana Ivanovic defeated Jovana Jaksic in straight sets in an all-Serbian final of the WTA Tour's Monterrey Open on Sunday. The second-seeded Ivanovic rolled over the unseeded Jaksic 6-2, 6-1 in just over an hour...
DONETSK, Apr 7 (agencies): Ukraine faced a fresh secessionist crisis Monday when pro-Russians occupying the Donetsk government seat proclaimed independence from Kiev and vowed to hold a referendum on joining Kremlin rule. The declaration and subsequent appeal for Russian military...
RANGPUR: Local BNP Tuesday night deferred Wednesday’s half-day hartal in the district to April 16. District BNP convener Mazaffar Hossain made the deferment announcement at the party’s Grand Hotel crossing office in the city around 7:30pm. Earlier Monday, the local...
MIRANSHAH, Apr 7 (agencies) - Clashes between two Pakistani Taliban factions have left at least 20 dead, security officials and militant sources said Monday, in a sign of the intense rivalries within the umbrella grouping. The fighting took place in...
SIDON, Apr 7 (AFP): Five Palestinians were killed on Monday in clashes between two armed groups in the Palestinian Mieh Mieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a medical source told AFP. "Five dead and more than 20 injured were brought...
LONDON: Europe's main stock market indices closed down Tuesday, with London's FTSE 100 dropping 0.49 per cent to 6,590.69 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 shed 0.25 per cent to 4,424.83 points, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt gave up...
PERTH, Apr 7 (AP): Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising...
MOGADISHU, Apr 7 (AFP): Two foreign UN workers, one of them a Briton, were shot dead on Monday at an airport in Galkayo, central Somalia, officials and witnesses said. A United Nations source confirmed the two men were international staff...
One dead as co-ordinated blasts hit Thai south BANGKOK, Apr 7: One person was killed and 14 wounded Sunday in a series of apparently co-ordinated blasts -- including a car bomb -- in a major town in Thailand's insurgency-hit south,...
FE Report | 2014-04-08 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) will provide Bangladesh with US$ 210 million support for developing a modern food storage system capable of feeding 10 million people. The support will be available for the Modern Food Storage Facilities Project, under which steel...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has won the Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh award for 2014 at The Asian Banker's Excellence in Retail Financial Services International Awards 2014 ceremony in Sydney, Australia recently. The awards ceremony was organised in conjunction with...
Agrani Bank gets new GM Deputy general manager of Agrani Bank Limited Md Showkot Islam has recently been promoted to the post of general manager of the bank. Mr Islam, born in 1959, started his banking career as a senior...
TOKYO, Apr 7: Japan and Australia on Monday said they had reached "substantive agreement" on a long-awaited free-trade deal, in a rare opening of Japan's protected markets, even as talks to ink a huge Asia-Pacific agreement run into trouble. The...
Interns at Rangpur Medical College Hospital continued their indefinite work abstention for the second day on Monday protesting the assault of two of their fellows. Hospital sources said the interns took out a procession which paraded the main streets on...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-04-07 00:00:00
Voting for the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament will take place in nine phases, starting from April 07, 2014. This will last until May 12. The results will be announced on May 16. The biggest election...
Saleh Akram | 2014-04-07 00:00:00
It all started with an obliquely floated remark from veteran Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar. At a conclave of the Indian National Congress in January, Mani Shankar Aiyar made the remark about the opposition politician Narendra Modi, who is from...
The act of righting a wrong, on occasions, tends to create problem/s if the prevailing circumstances are hostile to a change for the better. This is found particularly true in the case of the ongoing efforts to remove structural and...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-04-07 00:00:00
Is the Bangladesh Bank (BB) independent? The answer is both 'yes' and 'no'. The incumbent finance minister feels that the BB enjoys enough autonomy. But the central bank's honchos seem to be not that satisfied with their current level of...
Neil Ray | 2014-04-07 00:00:00
If political stability and personal integrity of people in power have ever remained illusive in most of the countries of South Asia, incumbent Nepalese Premier Sushil Koirala stands apart as a soothing exception. A bachelor aged 75, his down-to-earth attitude...
HSC and Aleem examinations are on. Reports say a total of 1,141,374 examinees are appearing at the second largest public examination being held under ten education boards accross the country. As the exam got under way in 2352 centres throughout...
Our favourite legendary actor Razzak is admitted to the intensive care unit in a city hospital. Bangladesh cine industry and the name of Razzak are intermingled. He is the first super star of our movie industry and has immense contribution...
The death of labour leader and trade unionist Aminual Islam has drawn attention from international media. Aminual was president of a section of the Bangladesh Garments & Industrial Workers Federation and a leader of the Bangladesh Centre of Worker Solidarity...
Zaki Ahad | 2014-04-07 00:00:00
The first maritime university in the country has been established under the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University Act of 2013. The government has already appointed Rear Admiral ASMA Baten, Commodore Khandakar Toufikujjaman and Commodore ANA Rejaul Haque as the...
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