Spain's cultural inheritance is incalculable, for its tradition, history, wealth and diversity. This is backed up by UNESCO's recognition and by the fact that Spain is one of the countries with most World Heritage Sites. The approval of this international...
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) was created in November 1988 as an implementing agency of the Spanish Development Cooperation policies attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MAEC). AECID is responsible for the elaboration, execution...
SYDNEY, Oct 11 (AFP): Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland on Tuesday said allegations made in a London court implicating Australian players in match-fixing were baseless claims made by a person of "dubious repute". The details emerged as Mazher Mahmood, the...
NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (AFP): The International Cricket Council's plans to hold the inaugural world Test championships in 2013 came unstuck on Tuesday over the commercial viability of the event. The ICC's executive board, which met in Dubai over the...
KARACHI, Oct 11 (AFP): Pakistan on Tuesday announced it will employ the Decision Review System (DRS) during its one-day series against Sri Lanka later this month and against England early next year. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) release said it...
Syed Mamun of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) bagged double crown in Table Tennis competition of Jatiya Press Club (JPC) held Tuesday at JPC auditorium, reports BSS. Jatiya Press Club is holding sports competition among its members in celebration of the...
SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (AFP): Andy Roddick refocused after losing his cool Tuesday to reach the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 7-6 (73), 7-5 win as top American Mardy Fish crashed out to Australian teen Bernard Tomic. Tenth...
THIMPHU, Oct 11 (AFP): Bhutan's king, an Oxford graduate and "prince charming of the Himalayas", is set to marry Thursday at what promises to be an emotional moment for the 700,000 adoring subjects of his isolated nation. Jigme Khesar Namgyel...
KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP): Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers' revenues set to soar compared to last year's harvest blighted by disease, the United Nations said Tuesday. Ten years after the...
TAIPEI, Oct 11 (AFP): Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted Tuesday that further United States arms sales to Taiwan were needed as China continued with its ambitious military modernisation plans. Rumsfeld, who considers himself "a longtime friend of Taiwan",...
Nazmul Ahsan The prospects for an early signing of the proposed US-Bangladesh Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (TECF) deal are clouded by the still unresolved issue about labour rights. The US may not sign the deal if Bangladesh sticks to...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Regulators, in many cases, are a despised lot, particularly when they are serious enough to enforce discipline and fair play. The newly created Insurance and Development Regulatory Authority (IDRA) is not any exception. But, the IDRA, perhaps,...
FE Report Prime Minister's economic affairs adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman Tuesday said there are no relations between the Teesta river water sharing deal and the provision of transhipment facilities to India for using Ashuganj port. "We can't relate one with...
FE Report Aggrieved investors again took to the street at Motijheel in the city at about 12.30 pm Tuesday, as the Dhaka stocks experienced a massive fall. The DSE General Index (DGEN) plunged 225.53 points or 4.08 per cent on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Education Ministry to take effective steps to introduce computer notebooks on massive scale at all schools to free the students from the burden of carrying so many textbooks, reports UNB. She was addressing...
SYLHET, Oct 11: Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia today asked the government to step down right now to make way for early elections under a caretaker administration, reports UNB. "If you delay, people will pull you down.you won't get time to...
Nizam Ahmed Foreign ministry officials are hopeful about getting a ruling from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) of the UN on the Bangladesh's maritime boundary dispute with Myanmar and India by the middle of the...
Miscreants knifed to death a shoe factory employee over a trifling matter in the capital`s Rampura area on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Md Islam, an employee of a shoe factory located at Bhuyian Goli in East Rampura. Police...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 10: The students of the Rajshahi University (RU) of management department observed the World Postal Day through an exceptional programme on the university campus Sunday. To recall the traditional way for communication they posted more...
KABUL, Oct 9 (AFP): An Afghan woman MP was in a critical condition Sunday, her doctor said, after entering the eighth day of a hunger strike to protest against her expulsion from parliament over alleged vote fraud. Semin Barakzai, one...
SYDNEY, Oct 9 (AFP): A female soldier serving with Australian forces in Afghanistan was allegedly sexually assaulted on a military base, officials said Sunday, just days before the release of a report into defence abuse cases. The soldier, whose rank...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has said the government would give tax rebate on donations to education and health sectors. The PM said this when a delegation of Moulana Bhasani Science and Technology University (MBSTU), led by its Vice-chancellor Prof...
The High Court (HC) has asked Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda to explain why action should not be initiated against him for violating a previous court order, reports bdnews24.com. The bench of justices Mohammad Ashfaqul Islam and Moazzam...
A human rights organisation has filed a petition in the High Court (HC) urging it to look into the government's role in October 7 execution of eight Bangladeshis in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), reports bdnews24.com. Asadujjaman Siddique filed the...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 11 (BSS): Speakers at a views-sharing meeting with madrasah teachers in the city Tuesday called for making the madrasah education time-befitting and ICT-based for bolstering the country's human resource sector. The speakers also mentioned that the ICT-based madrasah...
Charge hearing against Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in tax evasion case will be held by the sessions judge's court of Dhaka on November 20, reports UNB. It was scheduled Tuesday but Koko's counsel submitted...
FE Report Bangladesh ranks 70th among 122 countries in the recently published Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2011 by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). AFPRI used a number of different indicators to measure hunger. To project the multidimensional nature of...
Speakers at a discussion called upon all irrespective of party affiliation to take a united stand on Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) issue for upholding country's independence and sovereignty. The speakers made the remarks at the discussion on 'Prevailing Situation in...
The police have detained nine activists of Jama'at-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from Dhaka's Pallabi area when they were holding a meeting on a boat. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the Pallabi police KM Shahabuddin told bdnews24.com, "The ICS activists...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 10: The students of the Rajshahi University (RU) of management department observed the World Postal Day through an exceptional programme on the university campus Sunday. To recall the traditional way for communication they posted more...
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