ISLAMABAD, Mar 27 (AFP): In a victory for "cricket diplomacy", Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted an invitation to visit India to watch the World Cup semi-final between the two arch-rivals. Wednesday's match in Mohali will be the...
MOHALI, Mar 27 (AFP): Security was ramped up at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium Sunday as India staged their first training session ahead of the high-profile World Cup semi-final against Pakistan. The match, the first between the arch-rivals on Indian...
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori and paceman Kyle Mills along with South Africa's Faf du Plessis were Saturday slapped with heavy fines for their ugly bust-up during the World Cup quarter-finals, reports AFP. The fines followed a stormy clash at...
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori dismissed suggestions Saturday that reaching the World Cup semi-finals should be the limit of his team's ambitions, reports AFP. "I look at it as an achievement for a country so small that we make so...
RAWALPINDI, Mar 27: Pakistan will ask Interpol to circulate a global arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said on Saturday. A Pakistani court last week gave prosecutors until April 2...
BEIJING, Mar 27 (AFP): China Construction Bank Corp., the country's second largest lender, said Sunday its net profit rose 26 per cent last year on the back of higher interest income and commissions. Profit growth was nearly double the 15...
BRUSSELS, Mar 27 (AP): Less than a week ahead of a meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations in China, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the world's most powerful economies to seal a "global...
NEW DELHI, Mar 27 (AFP): Australia's Simon Taufel and Ian Gould of England were Sunday named as the umpires for Wednesday's highly-charged World Cup semi-final between India Pakistan. Sri Lanka's Ranjan Madugalle will be match referee with New Zealand's Billy...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 27 (AFP): In a victory for "cricket diplomacy", Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted an invitation to visit India to watch the World Cup semi-final between the two arch-rivals. Wednesday's match in Mohali will be the...
MOHALI, Mar 27 (AFP): Security was ramped up at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium Sunday as India staged their first training session ahead of the high-profile World Cup semi-final against Pakistan. The match, the first between the arch-rivals on Indian...
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori and paceman Kyle Mills along with South Africa's Faf du Plessis were Saturday slapped with heavy fines for their ugly bust-up during the World Cup quarter-finals, reports AFP. The fines followed a stormy clash at...
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori dismissed suggestions Saturday that reaching the World Cup semi-finals should be the limit of his team's ambitions, reports AFP. "I look at it as an achievement for a country so small that we make so...
RAWALPINDI, Mar 27: Pakistan will ask Interpol to circulate a global arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said on Saturday. A Pakistani court last week gave prosecutors until April 2...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
FHM Humayan KabirJapan will delay providing US$400 million to the construction of Padma Bridge as Tokyo plans to scale back overseas aid and mobilise all resources to reconstruction of its quake and tsunami-battered economy. "Japan has formally informed us that...
The nation Saturday celebrated the 41st Independence and National Day with a renewed call to expedite the trial of war criminals and materialise the dreams of the valiant freedom fighters by building a happy and prosperous Bangladesh, reports BSS. The...
KITAKAMI (Japan), Mar 27 (AFP): Dangerous levels of radiation detected in water thought to be leaking from a stricken Japanese reactor dealt a new setback Sunday to efforts to avert a nuclear disaster. The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi power...
M Azizur Rahman | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
M Azizur RahmanBangladesh and India will form the first-ever joint venture power company next month to build a 1,320 megawatts (mw) coal-fired plant at an estimated cost of US$1.7 billion near the Mongla seaport in Khulna, a top government official...
BIN JAWAD (Libya), Mar 27 (agencies): Libyan rebels pushed westwards in hot pursuit of Muammar Gaddafi's forces on Sunday, winning back control of the key Ras Lanuf oil site and pressing on towards Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, a central coastal...
Munima Sultana | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
Munima SultanaThe Dhaka-Chittagong highway widening project is facing yet another hurdle over acquiring land at different points. This may again lead to increase in project cost. A survey team identified at least three spots in Mirersorai and Sitakunda where road...
Syful Islam | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
Syful IslamNon-payment of salaries and dues, non-implementation of the new minimum wages, and lack of compliance may spark a fresh bout of outburst in the country's ready-made garments industry (RMG) sector, fear intelligence agencies. Sources said until mid-March, at least...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday asked the officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to inquire into abnormal growth of wealth of certain quarters, reports UNB. "You have to find out the source of their income and how much...
Sonia H Moni | 2011-03-28 00:00:00
Sonia H MoniThe price of gold may increase further by Tk 1000 a 'bhori' in the local market in line with the price hike of the precious metal in the international market, jewellers said. "The gold price is likely to...
JOYPURHAT, Mar 27: Police have arrested former BNP minister and MP Abdul Alim on war crimes charges. Joypurhat police superintendent Mozammel Huq told news agency that a 10-member police team took Alim into custody from his residence near the Sadar...
GAZIPUR, Mar 27: Angry garment workers protesting the death of a fellow worker in a road accident in Noljani area on Dhaka-Gazipur road in Sadar Upazila damaged at least 50 vehicles and set afire four other vehicles Sunday morning. Police...
State owned North-West Power Generation Company (NWPGC) will install eight power plants with a total capacity of generating 810 MW in the northwestern part of the country in two years. - BSS
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Sunday questioned if Ziaur Rahman 'really' declared the independence, how could he release thousands of war criminals and rehabilitated them after the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman? "If you (BNP)...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Sunday set April 5 to hear the petition seeking permission to bring Jama'at-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami under the custody of the investigation agency of the ICT for interrogation and scrutiny of evidence found against...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 27 (bdnews24.com): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for the 12th time has sought time extension to submit its further probe report on the sensational 10-truck arms haul case. As the previous deadline expires on Mar 30, investigation officer...
Renewing the party's demand for midterm polls, a senior BNP leader says there would be unrest in the country as in the Arab World if the demand is not met, reports bdnews24.com. Party standing committee member Dr Khandker Mosharraf Hossain...
President M Zillur Rahman will leave Dhaka for Singapore today (Monday) for medical check-up, reports UNB. He will depart for Singapore by a regular flight of Singapore Airlines at about 11:55 pm today. The President will undergo medical check-up at...
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