Chess Q Blitz Rating Chess Tournament, organised by Chess Q, will begin today (Saturday) at 2:00 pm at Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room in the city, reports UNB. In all, 140 chess players will be eligible to take part in this...
LONDON, Jan 31 (AFP): Andy Flower has been axed as England coach following the team's recent Ashes drubbing in Australia, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Friday. According to the Telegraph, former Zimbabwe international Flower was told his time was up...
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and North South University (NSU) reached the semifinal of the 7th ULAB Fair Play Cup T20 Cricket beating their rivals at ULAB playground in the city Friday, reports UNB. In the day's first match,...
WELLINGTON, Jan 31 (AFP): A Ross Taylor-inspired New Zealand crushed India by 87 runs in the fifth and final one-day international in Wellington Friday to extend the tourists' miserable run against the Black Caps. India could manage only 216 in...
MELBOURNE, Jan 31 (AFP): Australia continued England's miserable tour with an emphatic eight-wicket victory to claim the Twenty20 series with a match to spare at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Friday. England only posted 130 for nine after winning the toss...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 31: More than 3.5 million requests from 199 countries were made for World Cup tickets in the second sale phase, FIFA said Thursday. "With a little more than three million tickets available at the 12 (host)...
Bangladesh Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman beat FIDE Master Aharon of Israel in the third round Masters Event match of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival at the British Island Gibraltar in UK Thursday, reports UNB. After the 3rd round matches, Zia secured...
Pak govt withdraws appeal against cricket chief ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The legal saga dogging Pakistani cricket administration took a fresh turn Friday as the government withdrew its challenge to the reinstatement of the game's ousted chief. Earlier this month an...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The annual Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) has turned into a venue of transacting products locally deviating from its core objectives of promoting country's exports and investment, participants said. Although the month-long trade carnival first started in 1996 with a...
FE Report Brinjal prices increased by 60 per cent this week compared with last week while other vegetables prices remained stable. Chicken meat prices increased slightly on Friday, onion remained static, rice prices were still higher and other commodities stayed...
TOKYO, Jan 31 (AFP): The dollar was steady in Asia Friday following better-than-forecast US growth figures, which also eased concerns about emerging markets after a heavy sell-off this week. The greenback bought 102.52 yen, down from 102.71 yen late in...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
Several causes are behind the failure of the locally-assembled 'Doel' laptop to click in the market though it is maintaining quality, concerned officials said. Lack of professional marketing people, ineffective strategies to compete with other brands and insufficient funds have...
Mohammed Salim, FCMA, has been elected as president of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) for the year 2014. The decision was taken at the 1st meeting of the 15th Council of ICMAB held Thursday in...
The 74th draw of Bangladesh Prize Bond worth Tk 100 will be held tomorrow (February 2, 2014) at 11am at Dhaka Divisional Commissi-oner's conference room. Prize bond draw is held in Single Common Draw System. There are 46 prizes in...
BRUSSELS, Jan 31 (AFP): Eurozone inflation slowed further in January while unemployment stayed at near record levels, adding pressure on the ECB to act to prevent the bloc slipping into deflation, analysts said on Friday. Inflation in the 18-nation euro...
ISLAMABAD, Jan 31 (AFP): The governor of Pakistan's central bank has resigned, finance ministry officials said Friday, on the eve of a regular International Monetary Fund review of a $6.7 billion bailout loan. Yaseen Anwar was appointed governor of the...
SINGAPORE, Jan 31 (ANN): Singapore Airlines (SIA) has set up a new team to look for new ways to make money from travellers, instead of relying mainly on the sale of plane seats. This could see the carrier offer services...
TOKYO, Jan 31 (AFP): Nissan and France's Renault are hoping to save $5.8 billion annually in two years by increasing cooperation with each other, including forging closer links in research and development and vehicle production. Despite their close links-Renault is...
TOKYO, Jan 31 (AFP) : Japanese consumer prices saw their first annual rise for five years in 2013, but the jump was largely driven by soaring energy import bills, dampening hopes that Tokyo is winning its war on stubborn deflation....
MADRID, Jan 31 (AFP):Top Spanish banks have reported a 2013 profit surge, predicting better times ahead after taking hefty losses in Spain and other crisis-hit eurozone nations. Santander, BBVA and CaixaBank said they had emerged stronger from banking troubles that...
YANGON, Jan 31 (AFP): Norway's Telenor and Qatari firm Ooredoo Thursday hailed a "milestone" for Myanmar after finalising telecoms licences expected to dramatically increase mobile phone use in the long-isolated nation. Only one in ten people in previously junta-ruled Myanmar...
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters): US officials are likely to allow China's Lenovo Group to buy IBM's low-end server business and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility handset business if it agrees to concessions aimed at protecting US national security, experts said. Computer...
TOKYO, Jan 31 (AFP): Honda said Friday net profit doubled to $1.56 billion in the three months to December, thanks to brisk global sales and a weaker yen. Net profit for October-December rose to 160.7 billion yen ($1.56 billion), while...
Little over two years back, the country's food situation was one of the rare sectors not susceptible to any speculative, let alone surprise shocks. The overall food situation was satisfactory. Two clear indicators complemented each other in the laudable performance....
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
From car-friendly North American cities and other vehicle-friendly megalopolis around the world, it is apparent that vehicle-friendly cities offer nothing but traffic congestion, pollution, high level of energy consumption, an unsustainable life style and most importantly a poor quality of...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2014-02-01 00:00:00
The road safety standard of Bangladesh is very poor; which needs to be amended, as far as possible. Accordingly, the appropriate strategy for prevention of the most prevalent types of accidents should be a priority. The non-motorised vehicles constitute vulnerable...
The role of the opposition parties in democracy is very important and without a strong main opposition party, a parliament simply cannot function effectively. We don't find any strong opposition party in our present parliament and such a parliament cannot...
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