CHENNAI, Mar 5 (AFP): International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat Saturday condemned the attack on the West Indies team bus by Bangladesh fans but said there were no immediate plans to move games. Home supporters reacted angrily after seeing...
NEW DELHI, Mar 5 (AFP): Batsman Vusi Sibanda was Saturday called-up to replace injured Sean Williams in Zimbabwe's World Cup squad. Williams fractured his right thumb while training in Ahmedabad ahead of his side's match against New Zealand Friday. Sibanda,...
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, Mar 5 (AFP): Pakistan coach Waqar Younis Saturday warned under-performing opening pair Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shahzad to start delivering World Cup runs. "We have to show real improvement in our batting, especially our openers who have...
NEW DELHI, Mar 5 (AFP): Whipping boys of the tournament, Canada and Kenya will have only pride to play for when they meet in a low-key World Cup clash Monday. The two non-Test playing teams are languishing at the bottom...
Angry fans attacked the house of Bangladesh Captain Shakib Al Hasan after his team crashed to a humiliating nine-wicket World Cup defeat against the West Indies, police said Saturday, reports AFP. Shakib's mother and sister were inside the three-storey house...
COLOMBO, Mar 5 AFP): Roads and shops closed while fans jammed ticket hotlines as fans descended on the 35,000-seater R. Premadasa Stadium Saturday hoping for a rare Sri Lanka win over Australia in the World Cup. Tickets for the eagerly-awaited...
MOULVIBAZAR, Mar 3 (UNB): Chemical pesticides are being used indiscriminately in vegetable fields in different areas of the district to combat pest attacks. This practice, besides polluting environment, is causing serious health hazard to people of the seven Upazilas of...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Mar 3: Rangpur Municipality with the assistance of the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project funded by UK Aid and UNDP observed Urban Food Production (UFP) Day through several events Tuesday on March 1, 2011. The...
Another report adds: Theft of the electric transformers of Palli Buddyut Samity (PBS) 2 has caused a total breakdown in power transmission in 9 unions of Badarganj Upazila in Rangpur district. The theft took place Monday night which shut down...
Another message adds: Milk price has soared in Rangpur a due to its short supply in the local markets, causing acute sufferings to the common people. One kg of milk was being sold at Tk 40 in the district town...
SUNAMGANJ, Mar 3 (UNB): Local dealers are selling urea fertiliser at exorbitant prices in Jagannathpur Upazila, inflicting sufferings to the growers. Farmers alleged that the dealers are selling fertiliser at excess rate after creating artificial scarcity in the Upazila. Farmers...
FE Report | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
FE ReportGovernor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Dr Atiur Rahman said Thursday governance issues were of concern not to the developing economies alone. Governance lapses and weaknesses in large financial institutions of the advanced markets also figured in significantly as factors...
CHITTAGONG, March 4 (BSS): A large quantity of fabrics and garment accessories was gutted in a fire at a godown of Sunman Group at the city's Baiyezid area Thursday night. The Fire Service and the godown owner claimed that goods...
The Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) of the UAE will hold a meeting with the leaders of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) at its auditorium today (Saturday) to explore business and investment opportunities in Bangladesh, reports UNB....
RANGPUR, Mar 4 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop Thursday emphasised increasing production of cow milk, enhancing its marketing facilities and promoting consumption at the grassroots level to meet the people's nutritional demands. They were addressing the workshop organised by Birampur...
CHITTAGONG, Feb 4 (BSS): State Minister for Forests and Environment Dr Hasan Mahmud Friday said the government has decided to upgrade Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI) to an international standard research body. "Considering its importance in the country the government...
NATORE, Mar 4 (UNB): Some 200 answer scripts of SSC examinations, which went missing, were recovered from a sugarcane field in Baraigram Upazila Friday. Police said Alauddin Mondal, acting headmaster of Nagar High School in the same upazila, carrying 200...
The volume of remittances sent by Bangladeshi workers from oil-rich Kuwait has increased substantially from last month as the Kuwati government has increased the minimum wage of workers to 60 Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) from 40 KD, reports BSS. The wages...
FE Report | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
FE ReportPrices of daily essentials including rice and edible oil maintained high trend while onion prices declined in the city's kitchen markets, traders said Friday. A kg of loose soybean oil sold at Tk 116 to Tk 120 and palm...
NEW YORK, Mar 4 (BBC): Marketing group WPP saw profits in 2010 rise by almost a third to £851m, thanks in part to a rebound in US advertising in the final quarter. Like-for-like revenue growth - ignoring the effect of...
Shah Alam Nur | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Shah Alam NurExport earnings from jute goods increased by 53.95 per cent during the first seven months of the current fiscal year. The earnings during July-January period of FY 2010-11 stood at $643.48 million compared to $417.99 million during the...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentNATORE, Mar 3: Different mobile courts in six upazilas of Natore Sadar, Bagatipara, Lalpur, Baraigram, Gurudashpur and Singra under Natore district sentenced 66 drug peddlers to different terms of imprisonment during the last 7 days. Superintendent of police (In-charge),...
MOULVIBAZAR, Mar 3 (UNB): Chemical pesticides are being used indiscriminately in vegetable fields in different areas of the district to combat pest attacks. This practice, besides polluting environment, is causing serious health hazard to people of the seven Upazilas of...
Our Correspondent | 2011-03-05 00:00:00
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Mar 3: Rangpur Municipality with the assistance of the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project funded by UK Aid and UNDP observed Urban Food Production (UFP) Day through several events Tuesday on March 1, 2011. The...
Another report adds: Theft of the electric transformers of Palli Buddyut Samity (PBS) 2 has caused a total breakdown in power transmission in 9 unions of Badarganj Upazila in Rangpur district. The theft took place Monday night which shut down...
Another message adds: Milk price has soared in Rangpur a due to its short supply in the local markets, causing acute sufferings to the common people. One kg of milk was being sold at Tk 40 in the district town...
SUNAMGANJ, Mar 3 (UNB): Local dealers are selling urea fertiliser at exorbitant prices in Jagannathpur Upazila, inflicting sufferings to the growers. Farmers alleged that the dealers are selling fertiliser at excess rate after creating artificial scarcity in the Upazila. Farmers...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) as the guardian and regulator of the country's financial banking sector must exercise its watchdog functions to keep the banking system in a healthy state. It needs to set guidelines to that end, and apply its...
A roundtable discussion in Dhaka recently stressed the need to salvage surface water resources so that the city's growing demand could be met sustainably, that is, without depleting the underground acquifers beyond recovery. The alarming fact is, as a result...
The capital city of the country is found often these days as the venue of lavish conferences devoted to examining the great potentialities that this country has in the economic field. Assortment of strategies are stated or restated in these...
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