One of the owners of Dhaka Gladiators, Shihab Jishan Chowdury, has been found guilty of "being party to an effort to fix" a match in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2013, reports Cricinfo. Six others, including Kent allrounder Darren Stevens,...
LONDON, Feb 26 (AFP): England will play their first major match since the controversial decision to call time on Kevin Pietersen's international career when they face West Indies in the first of three one-day internationals in Antigua Friday. English cricket...
CAPE TOWN, Feb 26 (AFP): Captains Graeme Smith and Michael Clarke will be under greater than usual pressure when South Africa and Australia clash in the series-deciding third Test from Saturday. Apart from the normal challenge of trying to win...
Bandura Holy Cross High School won the boys’ group title of the Cute Inter-School Handball Tournament for the 2nd time beating Kolakopa Kowkil Pari High School in the final by 21-17 goals at Bandura High School playground Wednesday, reports UNB....
ATHENS, Greece, Feb 26 (AFP): Manchester United were shunted towards an unscheduled exit in the Champions League after crashing to a shock 2-0 defeat at Olympiakos in their last 16 first-leg match Tuesday. Goals from Alejandro Dominguez and Arsenal loanee...
South Africa dismiss ball-tampering claim CAPE TOWN, Feb 26: South Africa dismissed Wednesday an Australian claim that they might have tampered the ball during a 231-run second-Test victory last weekend. Proteas manager Mohammed Moosajee told reporters the allegations were "disappointing"...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina caught up with a friend from her darkest days after she lost her family to a bloody assassination.The emotional reunion took place at SAARC Literary Festival Thursday. Hasina, the programme’s chief guest, even made sure writer...
Wahiduddin Mahmud concluding his three-part article titled Beyond Education for All: Meeting the Human Resource Needs of Economic Development | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
National and international efforts have made considerable progress in pushing enrolment rates in primary education to near universal level in large parts of the developing world. At the same time, national educational systems have to cope with a faster pace...
WASHINGTON: The United States Thursday denounced what it said was the growing use of security forces by repressive regimes to crackdown on pro-democracy protests worldwide. Releasing its 2013 Human Rights report, the State Department said “around the world authoritarian governments...
Abul Basher | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
The buzz of 'crowding out effect' of government borrowing is back in town. For a number of reasons, implementation of annual development programme (ADP) and collection of revenue during the first half of the current fiscal year not only has...
Awami League candidates won in 36 upazilas, BNP in 36 and others in 16 upazilas in the polls held on Thursday, according to results available till 11-30pm. The second phase election in 114 upazila parishad of the country’s 52 districts...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
President Vladimir Putin's aggressive but at times prudent foreign policy, including in the Syrian conflict, has earned him credits in recent times. Lately, however, the Russian leader has suffered a setback in Ukraine. The former Soviet republic has been in...
Confusions abound about the foreign nationals working in Bangladesh. No government agency has any clue about their actual number. While the Special Branch of Police guesstimates the number of foreign workers at around 0.4 million, the Board of Investment (BoI),...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Group of 5 (G5) evolved into G20 in recognition of the changes that had taken place in global economy. It was realised that the big five plus Russia was not enough to take concerted actions to guide the world economy....
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Millions of Dhakaites now appear destined to live with nightmarish traffic gridlock. Such jams, which eat up almost half of precious man-hours in day-time, will only increase, not decrease, as long as decentralisation of ministries, offices and other establishments from...
The government is planning to set up 100, 000 WiFi hotspots all over the country. The initiative will encourage our young generation to be more internet savvy. Although the Ministry of Information and Technology has not disclosed the time frame,...
Bangladesh cricket team was in a purple patch at home ground, except the recent games against Sri Lanka, during the last three years. During this time, it displayed good performance in batting, bowling and fielding. The last Asia Cup was...
AMM Nasir Uddin concluding his four-part article titled Public-Private Partnership issues and practices | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Quality of regulatory framework is the single most important issue for private infrastructure projects in all countries, particularly developing countries. The principal objectives of regulators tend to be: a. to prevent the exploitation of consumers by monopoly providers, and b....
Tanbir Uddin Arman | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
China and Taiwan held on February 11 their first-ever 'historic' talks since they split six decades ago. The talks are expected to produce some concrete results for easing the stand-off between the two sides since the end of the civil...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that her government is determined to take forward the country facing all odds, including the political trouble, reports UNB. "Political disturbance has become a common phenomenon in the country; we have to continue...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman asked all banks to provide more financial support to set up processing industries and adequate storages for perishable crops, like - potato and tomato, so farmers can get fair prices of their produces,...
FE Report | 2014-02-27 00:00:00
Stocks edged marginally down Wednesday after two sessions of positive trend with turnover dipping below Tk 4.0 billion mark once again as investors acted cautiously. The market opened with a positive note but could not sustain amid volatile trading. At...
Dr Samit Ghosal due today Leading Endocrinologist from Kolkata, India, Dr Samit Ghosal is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today (Thursday) for a short visit. Dr Samit Ghosal is the Consultant Endocrinologist of Nightingale Hospital, Kolkata and Honorary Lecturer of...
MUMBAI, Feb 26 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex rose for a fourth straight session on Wednesday to close at its highest in more than a month as blue chips such as ITC Ltd rose on heavy buying by foreign investors despite...
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