DURBAN, Dec 11 (agencies): Negotiators at the UN climate conference in South Africa have approved a package of agreements to combat global climate change, reports VOA. While the deal is a step forward, observers say more should have been accomplished....
GAZA CITY, Dec 11, (agencies): A Palestinian father and his daughter were wounded in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City early Sunday, Palestinian medics said. The two were hurt when their home was hit in a raid that apparently...
HONG KONG, Dec 11, 2011 (AFP): As revolution inflamed the Middle East in 2011, people power won its own small triumphs in Asia, with Myanmar startling observers by taking steps towards openness after decades of isolation. In Southeast Asia, a...
Immigrant carers rally in Taiwan for weekly day off TAIPEI, Dec 11: Almost a thousand protesters took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday demanding that the government make a weekly day off a legal right for Taiwan's 200,000 foreign...
MADRID, December 11 (AP): Trailing after 21 seconds and in danger of falling six points behind in the Spanish league, Barcelona rallied for yet another victory at Real Madrid. Alexis Sanchez scored in the 30th minute, Xavi Hernandez got the...
Bangladesh is struggling to avoid innings defeat against visiting Pakistan in the first Test of the Cool & Cool two-match Test series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB. The hosts started their second innings...
HOBART, Australia, Dec 11 (AFP): Australia were chasing 241 runs for victory in the second Hobart Test after New Zealand were dismissed for 226 at lunch on the third day Sunday. The Kiwis, leading by 14 runs on the first...
AUCKLAND, Dec 11 (AFP): Australia maintained its stranglehold on hockey's Champions Trophy with a 1-0 win over Spain on Sunday, claiming a record fourth straight title through a disputed goal to Eddie Ockenden. The reigning world champions went into the...
CHENNAI, India, Dec 11 (AFP): Manoj Tiwary smashed 104 as India recovered from a shaky start to post 267-6 in the fifth and final one-dayer against the West Indies in Chennai Sunday. The 26-year-old from Bengal, making his first appearance...
BEIJING, Dec 11 (AFP): Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka has agreed to join Shanghai Shenhua, the club said on Sunday in a major coup for Chinese football. The former Arsenal and Real Madrid star will be the biggest name to appear...
LONDON, Dec 11 (AFP): Arsene Wenger believes next weekend's match against Manchester City will prove the strength of Arsenal's Premier League title credentials this season. The Gunners have mounted a challenge after going eight league matches unbeaten, the latest win...
MANCHESTER, England, Dec 12 (AP): Wayne Rooney ended his goal drought by scoring twice as Manchester United responded to its midweek Champions League exit with a 4-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. Rooney hadn't scored in eight Premier League...
Panesar vows to relaunch career LONDON, Dec 11: England off-spinner Monty Panesar has vowed to relaunch his career in the upcoming Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Panesar, who has taken 126 wickets in 39 Tests,...
TOYOTA, Japan, Dec 11: Players at the Club World Cup in Japan paid tribute Sunday to those who lost their lives and livelihoods in the March earthquake that left 20,000 dead or missing, nine months on from the disaster. Santos...
WASHINGTON, Dec 10: American Lamont Peterson stunned Britain's Amir Khan on Saturday, winning a majority decision to take the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association light- welterweight world titles. Referee Joe Cooper took two points from Khan during the...
Mr Nasiruddin Ahmed Chowdhury and Mr Md Rezaul Karim have been elected chairman and senior vice chairman respectively of Shippers' Council of Bangladesh (SCB) for the term 2012-2013. They were elected at the 30th annual general meeting (AGM) of the...
FE Report A Hong Kong based IT and mobile phone products distributor company --SiS International Holdings Limited (SIHL) -- is going to be listed with the country's stock markets, officials said. The optimism about the listing of the SIHL comes...
Bangladesh police is set to start construction of the first ever DNA lab next month to expedite investigations of crimes ensuring scientific and authentic tests, officials said here today, reports BSS. "Construction work on the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) laboratory for...
Police arrested four alleged members of credit card frauds syndicate including its linchpin from different areas of Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal cities in the last 72 hours ending 6.oo am on Saturday, reports UNB. The arrestees are: Kamal Ahmed, alias...
Habibullah N Karim It is commonly known that as an economy develops and wages increase, manufacturing of low-cost, labour-intensive products become less competitive compared to less developed economies where wages are lower. Following this trend, manufacturing of low-cost, labour-intensive products...
Atiur Rahman Labeled immediately after her birth in 1971 as a hopeless 'basket case' by many like Mr. Henry Kissinger, Bangladesh has come a long way today earning recognition as a steadily growing economy on a firm footing on the...
its future at its birth. The 'basket case' scenario-- the forecast of doom and gloom about Bangladesh -- became a fiction a long time back. However, angladesh's actual performance in its post-Independence period has still been below its potential, writes...
Rebecca Conway of Reuters from Islamabad Relations between the United States and its ally Pakistan, already heavily battered, have been pushed to their lowest point in years by a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26. NATO...
Notwithstanding some improvements in the mobilization of income tax in recent years Bangladesh still has one of the lowest tax-GDP (gross domestic product) ratios in the region. Both deliberate evasion and non-compliance out of ignorance at individual and organisational levels...
Shahiduzzaman Khan The flow of inward remittances fell by nearly 12 per cent in November over the previous month, following the celebration of Muslim festival-- Eid-ul-Azha. The Bangladesh nationals working abroad sent US$ 915.45 million last month while the remittance...
Gopal Sengupta What we see in Bangladesh is that the political parties have hijacked the mandate and trust of the electorate. The leaders seem to treat the government like a five-year fixed deposit in joint names. All they want the...
Bangladesh is facing a severe power crisis with its increasing demand. Power crisis is not a problem that can be solved overnight, nor has it been created overnight. It is a result of the governments' negligence and corruption. However, the...
More than a thousand pupils study in Kadamtala Purba Bashabo High School and College at Kadamtala, Bashabo in Dhaka. The students of the institution have been doing well in the recent public examinations.The main approach road to Kadamtala has become...
The month of December in 1971 is a red-letter month in the history of our Liberation War. After a bloody nine month war we achieved final victory on December 16th against the occupation Pakistan Army. Bangladesh thus came into being...
The government is willing to approve a few licences to establish new commercial private banks on political grounds. Presently there are 48 commercial and specialised banks and 29 Non Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs) operating in the country. The government's main...
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