The finance ministry, according to a report published in this paper a couple of days back, is considering a proposal for implementation of a good number of large development projects with suppliers' credit which is almost equivalent to the current...
Shahiduzzaman KhanForeign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in the economic development of a country. It denotes the connectivity and trade relation in the global arena. Although the trend of FDI was upward in the recent past in Bangladesh,...
Simon KuperIn summer 2008 we found an apartment in Paris. But getting a mortgage was tricky. French banks wanted proof that we'd be able to keep paying no matter what. We showed them some shares. Shares can fall, they scoffed....
Hasanuzzaman KhanTHINGS change with time. Reporting, especially sports reporting, is not the same as it used to be, say ten years ago. So is the editing as well as the presentation of a news item.As an example I would like...
Has Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina lost touch with the common people? Surrounded by so much security it must be hard for her to get among the real people and learn of their concerns and grievances. The late Princess Diana had...
MY wife and I were returning from Sathkhira to Dhaka by road across the Daulatdia-Aricha Ferry Service. Friends and relatives advised us against traveling by this route, on the last day of Eid holiday. They said there would be terrible...
Around 370 million taka is squandered away every year due to making a huge number of government officials OSD. They do not have any work at all.Then again, on the pretext of expediting recruitment, the government has exempted collecting clearance...
VADODARA, Dec 4 (AFP): Gautam Gambhir hit a second successive century as India crushed New Zealand by nine wickets in the third one-day international Saturday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.The stand-in skipper hammered 16 fours in...
New Zealand:M Guptill run out 12B McCullum c Vijay b Zaheer 0K Williamson lbw b Patel 21R Taylor c Saha b Zaheer 4S Styris c Yuvraj b Ashwin 22J Franklin not out 72D Vettori c Yuvraj b Pathan 3G Hopkins...
ADELAIDE, Dec 4 (Cricinfo): Alastair Cook's colossal series continued on the second day in Adelaide, where he and his batting colleagues ground Australia into submission and delivered complete control to England. At the end of a stiflingly hot 37-degree day,...
THOUSAND OAKS, Dec 4 (AP): The sure way for a player to make headlines is to say something about Tiger Woods that can be interpreted as anything but high praise. Rory McIlroy was no exception.In an interview with Irish newspapers...
BERLIN, Dec 4 (AFP): Football-mad Germany on Saturday expressed sympathy for England's failed 'perfect' bid to host the 2018 World Cup after the event was awarded to Russia by FIFA, world football's governing body.In an open letter to England titled...
DUBAI, Dec 4 (AFP): Afganistan won the ICC Intercontinental Cup here Saturday by defeating holders Scotland in the final.The Scots were bowled out for 82 on the third day of the match and Afghanistan comfortably reached their target of 124...
ROME, Dec 4 (AFP): Inter Milan slumped to a dispiriting 3-1 defeat at Lazio Friday leaving coach Rafael Benitez under renewed pressure just as the former Liverpool boss thought he had turned the corner with the Serie A and European...
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, Dec 4 (AFP): Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath bagged three wickets in five overs before the West Indies reached 303-8 in their first innings on the penultimate day of the third and final Test Saturday. Sulieman Benn was...
MANAMA, Dec 4 (AFP): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated Qatar on Friday for winning the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, a day after President Barack Obama said FIFA had made the "wrong decision." "Let me congratulate...
LONDON, Dec 4 (AFP): The acting chairman of the English Football Association has said he will not take the job on a permanent basis in the wake of England's 2018 World Cup defeat because he "cannot trust" FIFA.Roger Burden became...
PALLEKELE, Dec 4 (AFP): Sri Lanka Saturday named a 16-man squad for the first two one-day internationals against the West Indies, to be played in Hambantota on Dec 9 and 11.Sri Lanka will play five one-day internationals against the West...
The first phase of the 4th Bangladesh League will be held from December 27 to March 5 at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the city, reports UNB.The decision was taken at a joint...
BERLIN, Dec 4 (AFP): German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has suggested that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar be held in January to avoid the searing summer heat in the Gulf country.A member of the FIFA executive committee that stunned...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Dec 4: Hundreds of tomato, potato and onion farmers of the district are incurring a huge loss by using smuggled, sub-standard Indian fertilizer and pesticides in their fields.According to sources, the fertilisers like urea, TSP and gypsum produced...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Dec 4: The number of quacks (unqualified medical practitioners) is growing like mushrooms in the rural areas of the district taking advantage of inaccessibility of the poor people to government health services, sources said.Rural people prefer to see...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 4: The residential students of Rajshahi University (RU) protested the hike in meal charge at the halls of the university.Hall sources said that provost council, an organisation of all hall provosts, in a meeting on Nov...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 4 (BSS): Production at Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) at Mohimaganj under Gobindaganj Upazila in the district began Friday afternoon.Mills sources said the authorities have taken up a target to produce 4,900 metric tonnes (MTs) of sugar by...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Dec 4: Bumper production of Aman paddy is expected in Nilphamri dristrict in this Aman season. While contacted Deputy Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Nilphamari Mostafizur Rahman said sufficient rainfall in the month of late rainy...
RANGPUR, Dec 4 (BSS): Three persons including a teenaged girl were killed in separate incidents at different places in the district Fridaynight, police sources said. Sonia Akhter (12), daughter of Abu Taher of Kusthia district, took poison and became ill...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Dec 4: Shampur Sugar Mill, Badarganj in Rangpur district started sugarcane crushing Friday for the season of 2010-11. Local lawmaker Anisul Islam Mandol formally inaugurated the sugarcane crushing as the chief guest. Managing Director of Shampur Sugar Mill...
JU CorrespondentJAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY, Dec 4:The Department of Zoology of Jahangirnagar University (JU) organised a day-long Butterfly Fair Friday with the motto "Urley Akashey Projapoti, Prokriti Paye Notun Goti" (flying butterflies give Nature a new life) here at the campus. Vice-Chancellor...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 4 (BSS): Production at Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) at Mohimaganj under Gobindaganj Upazila in the district began Friday afternoon.Mills sources said the authorities have taken up a target to produce 4,900 metric tonnes (MTs) of sugar by...
Our CorrespondentGAIBANDHA, Dec 4: An enthusiastic young man achieved success in cultivation of passion fruit, a tasty uncommon fruit, on his home yard at Hat Bharatkhali Village under Saghata Upazila in the district.Concerned sources said successful cultivator Suza Uddoula collected...
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