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Australia names strong squad to play Germany

2011-03-16 00:00:00

SYDNEY, Mar 15 (AFP): Socceroos coach Holger Osieck on Tuesday named a full-strength squad to play Germany in a March 29 friendly, featuring 15 players who took part in the Asian Cup earlier this year. Osieck included all his big...

Mourinho aims to end Madrid's last 16 jinx

2011-03-16 00:00:00

MADRID, Mar 15 (AFP): Jose Mourinho has enjoyed a love affair with the Champions League and the Portuguese coach hopes he can be the man to end Real Madrid's Champions League last 16 curse as Real host Lyon at the...

Tibet exile MPs oppose Dalai Lama retirement

2011-03-16 00:00:00

DHARAMSHALA, Mar 15: The Dalai Lama faced stiff resistance Tuesday from Tibet's parliament-in-exile over his plans to retire as political head of the movement, with many lawmakers against the change. The 75-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader announced last week that he...

Rights group forced out of Uzbekistan

2011-03-16 00:00:00

ALMATY, Mar 15: Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that it has been forced to close its office in Uzbekistan after facing years of harassment at the hands of the authoritarian Central Asian nation's authorities. The move comes amid growing pressure...

Wikileaks' Assange confronts Australian PM

2011-03-16 00:00:00

SYDNEY, March 15, 2011 - Australia Tuesday denied passing on information about Wikileaks staff to foreign powers after its outspoken founder Julian Assange confronted the country's prime minister over the claim. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd...

Team comes first for unrewarded Shafiul

2011-03-16 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Mar 15 (AFP): It's not often that a match-winning performance on the cricket field gets overlooked when adjudicators decide man of the match awards. But it has happened three times to Bangladesh seamer Shafiul Islam in this World Cup,...

Duminy's 99 powers S Africa to 272

2011-03-16 00:00:00

The World Cup finally reached Eden Gardens, and the sparse crowd that turned up on an overcast afternoon were treated to a JP Duminy special that ended one run short of a well-deserved ton as South Africa finished with 272,...

Last chance for Australia to experiment

2011-03-16 00:00:00

BANGALORE, Mar 15 (AFP): Australia head into their penultimate group match against Canada Wednesday knowing it is likely to be the last time in this World Cup they can tinker with their line-up. The reigning champions eased into the quarter-finals...

England WC on line against WI

2011-03-16 00:00:00

CHENNAI, Mar 15 (AFP): England head into their final Group B match against the West Indies Thursday knowing defeat will send them crashing out of the World Cup. Even victory may not be enough for Andrew Strauss's men to go...

Canada want WC, Ponting rethink

2011-03-16 00:00:00

BANGALORE, Mar 15 (AFP): Canada captain Ashish Bagai said the way his side played against champions Australia Wednesday could force a change in plans to cut the number of teams at future World Cups. The International Cricket Council aim to...

Waqar wants Aussie scalp

2011-03-16 00:00:00

PALLEKELE, Mar 15 (AFP): Pakistan coach Waqar Younis said a win over defending champions Australia in their final group match would give his team enormous confidence heading into their World Cup quarter-final. The 1992 champions eased into the last eight...

Mourinho aims to end Madrid's last 16 jinx

2011-03-16 00:00:00

MADRID, Mar 15 (AFP): Jose Mourinho has enjoyed a love affair with the Champions League and the Portuguese coach hopes he can be the man to end Real Madrid's Champions League last 16 curse as Real host Lyon at the...

Tibet exile MPs oppose Dalai Lama retirement

2011-03-16 00:00:00

DHARAMSHALA, Mar 15: The Dalai Lama faced stiff resistance Tuesday from Tibet's parliament-in-exile over his plans to retire as political head of the movement, with many lawmakers against the change. The 75-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader announced last week that he...

Rights group forced out of Uzbekistan

2011-03-16 00:00:00

ALMATY, Mar 15: Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that it has been forced to close its office in Uzbekistan after facing years of harassment at the hands of the authoritarian Central Asian nation's authorities. The move comes amid growing pressure...

Wikileaks' Assange confronts Australian PM

2011-03-16 00:00:00

SYDNEY, March 15, 2011 - Australia Tuesday denied passing on information about Wikileaks staff to foreign powers after its outspoken founder Julian Assange confronted the country's prime minister over the claim. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd...

Libyan oil exports halted: IEA

2011-03-16 00:00:00

CAIRO, Mar 15 (AP): Libya's oil exports have 'ground to a halt' because of the fighting between rebels and pro-government forces, and it could be months before the country's crude resurfaces on world markets, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday....

EU agrees new rules to rein in budget sinners

2011-03-16 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, Mar 15 (AFP): European Union (EU) finance ministers Tuesday proposed six new laws aimed at tightening budget discipline and punishing governments that overspend to prevent a new debt crisis. The EU said ministers ended months of sluggish negotiations on...

Wall Street set to tumble

2011-03-16 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Mar 15 (Reuters): Wall Street was set to tumble more than 2.0 per cent at the open Tuesday, tracking global equities sharply lower as Japan's looming nuclear crisis looked set to thrust financial markets into a period of...

Cuba cuts hard currency peso to par with dollar

2011-03-16 00:00:00

HAVANA, Mar 15 (AP): Cuba's central bank is devaluing the country's two types of peso by about 8 per cent in relation to the dollar and other foreign currencies, hoping the move will spur exports and local production as the...

TIB concerned at govt's bill on Tax Ombudsman

FE Report | 2011-03-16 00:00:00

FE Report Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Wednes-day expressed concern over government's bill to suspend the Tax Ombudsman Act in parliament Monday. TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman criticised the government's statement on the Tax Ombudsman Office as 'expensive and ineffective' that...

Obituary

2011-03-16 00:00:00

The 5th death anniversary of Shirumoonnesa Shiru Begum, mother of poet Waheed Murad, will be held today (Thursday), said a press release. A milad and doa mahfil has been arranged for departed soul at Dilu Road Umbrella Mosque, New Eskaton...

The issue of absentee doctors

2011-03-15 00:00:00

Many government doctors in connivance with unscrupulous officials in the ministry of health are able to avoid serving in the rural areas. Many of them remain in Dhaka month after month and draw their salaries and other benefits without doing...

Equality and gender balance

2011-03-15 00:00:00

A recent editorial in a local English daily titled "Oppression, suppression, deprivation' was a realistic analysis of the status of women in Bangladesh; applicable more to rural than urban women! Although we have adequate laws and regulations in place, the...

Poachers roam free with impunity

2011-03-15 00:00:00

The deer population was earlier seen as rising in the Bangladesh part of the Sunderbans, because of some preventive actions that we had seen against killing of deer. But their illegal hunting has reportedly started afresh. This is causing fresh...

­­­Nimtoli to Kadamtoli: Recurrence of the same story

2011-03-15 00:00:00

Fire is a good servant but a bad master and this master is taking its toll. From Nimtoli to Kadamtoli, for the same root cause-the presence of chemical explosive--fire has added another sad episode of unending miseries within a span...

Banks' liquidity concern

2011-03-15 00:00:00

The Bangladesh Association of Bankers, representing the private commercial banks operating in the country, expressed their concern recently about difficulties being created for the functioning of the banks. They pointed to rules and regulation that have been imposed on the...

Dr Razee's death anniv today

2011-03-15 00:00:00

The 26th death anniversary of Dr Aleem-al-Razee, the celebrated parliamentarian, jurist, scholar and educationist, will be observed today (Tuesday), reports UNB. Razee was a leading honorary defence counsel in the historic Agartala case in 1967 in which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...

Tenants groan as landlords hike rents illogically

2011-03-15 00:00:00

Jubair HasanMillions of tenants in the capital are the victims to the whims of a section of landlords, who on occasions, increase house rents illogically in the absence of any specific law to bar them from doing so. An abnormal...

Treatment in Singapore

2011-03-15 00:00:00

A medical team comprising Prof Tay Boon Keng, chairman, Medical Board International, SingHealth; Dr A K Mitra, Senior Consultant, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital; Dr Felix Keng Yung Jih, Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Center, Singapore;...

Concern at proposed Water Act

2011-03-15 00:00:00

FE ReportLawmakers, development actors and academics have criticised the government move to limit people's right to access to water by allowing commercial entities in management of the national resources. No private company should be given the responsibility of management of...