NEW DELHI, Oct 29 (AFP): Unfancied China should not be underestimated when cricket makes its debut at the Asian Games next month, according to Pakistan great Javed Miandad.China will play cricket on the world stage for the first time during...
PERTH, Australia, Oct 29 (AFP): Vice-captain Mahela Jayawardene said Friday Sri Lanka's squad was close to what will be fielded in next year's World Cup. The Sri Lankans will use Sunday's Twenty20 clash at the WACA Ground here as their...
LONDON, Oct 29 (AFP): Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has revealed his desire to manage in the English Premier League. Maradona is seeking a new challenge after parting company with the Argentina national side which he lead to the quarter-finals...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29 (AP): Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and MohammadAmir have flown to Dubai, hoping to get suspensions lifted and to play in the series against South Africa.The International Cricket Council's code of commission will hear appeals by the pair...
GUANGZHOU, Oct 29 (AFP): The November 12-27 Asian Games will use 53 competition venues, with 49 of them in Guangzhou and four in co-host cities. Here are brief profiles of the key areas being used:AOTI SPORTS CENTREThis facility is the...
FE ReportPrices of rice and flour remained stable while those of edible oil, garlic, ginger and potato witnessed a high trend due to growing demand of the items for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, traders said.Unpacked edible oil prices were up by...
FE ReportUttara Bank Limited (UBL) has recently signed a loan agreement of Tk 200 million with Premier Leasing and Finance Limited (PLFL).UBL General Manager MA Matin and PLFL Managing Director SM Shamsul Alam signed the agreement on behalf of their...
FE ReportThe present government has established highly fruitful diplomatic relationships with the international community to help increase inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the coming years, Mashiur Rahman, Advisor for Economic Affairs to the Prime Minister said.He also underscored...
Net Asset Value (NAV) of different Mutual Funds (MFs), managed by ICB Asset Management Company Ltd (AMCL), was announced on the close of business operation on October 19. The total NAV is as follows:Prime Bank 1st ICB AMCL MF: On...
Sonia H MoniThe postal department might start transforming 600 to 1000 village post offices into e-post centres as part of the government's move to narrow the digital divide between rural and urban areas. Director General of Bangladesh Post Office (BPO)...
Holcim (Bangladesh) Limited has recently arranged a two-day long 'Induction Seminar' for the newly recruited officers of the company at its training centre, said a press release.Holcim (Bangladesh) Ltd Managing Director Rajnish Kapur inaugurated the seminar while its Head of...
Badiur Rahman has been elected chairman of newly formed AIBL Capital Market Services Ltd (AIBL CMSL), a subsidiary company of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd, said a press release. He was elected unanimously for the next two-year term at the second...
October 24th- 28th, 2010Commercial Bank of CeylonThe inter-bank call money rates were stable and traded between 4.0 per cent and 6.0 per cent in the past week, the bank said in its weekly statement.Bangladesh Bank (BB) had accepted 182-day T/bill...
GUADALAJARA, Oct 29(Agencies): Unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy of five police vehicles in the western Mexico state of Jalisco on Thursday, killing nine officers and leaving one missing, reports AP. The 20 officers in the convoy were outnumbered by the...
SEOUL, Oct 29 (Reuters): North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months.The rare exchange of...
PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP): Many of the last strikers holding out against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform returned to work Friday, heralding a possible end to their battle but leaving France with a profound social malaise. Workers at oil refineries,...
BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (AFP): EU chief diplomat Catherine Ashton said on Friday that Iran had accepted the principle of re-starting talks on its disputed nuclear drive "after" November 10. Iran's negotiator with the West, Saeed Jalili, "is willing to agree...
BEIJING, Oct 29 (AP): China's Communist Party newspaper issued a scathing attack on Western-style democracy amid calls for reform of the country's political system and a resulting push-back by party conservatives.Thursday's People's Daily editorial is the latest in a flurry...
Billions in Afghanistan aid unaccounted for WASHINGTON, Oct 29: Nearly 18 billion dollars earmarked for reconstruction in Afghanistan remain unaccounted for, snagged in a "labyrinth" of contract bureaucracy, a sweeping US government audit has shown. The Special Inspector General for...
The first meeting of the Chittagong Port Advisory Committee was held on Wednesday with the Shipping Minister in chair. The committee was formed in the wake of the deepening of the crisis recently centred on the port and when the...
‘EVE-teasing’ is a misnomer, a cruel one, that trivializes the rapacious mindset currently manifest in some delinquents in the country who are found stalking, oppressing and preying on young girls. This pursuit has nothing of the innocently romantic chemistry of...
THE academic environment remains very adversely affected, at times and that too not infrequently by politics of students and teachers. Other major problems include the limited number of public universities. These institutions can accommodate only partly the number of higher...
The government, as the media reports do otherwise suggests, is now active to bring power from India. But only laying structures to receive the power would take at least two years, if not more. Then, only about 250 mw, as...
The Dhaka city's traffic problem instead of showing any sign of improvement has been worsening everyday. A journey that is supposed to take a maximum of 20 to 30 minutes now takes more than a couple of hours. Of all...
The first target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The word extreme has been prefixed before hunger. So after achieving the target poverty will be there but not an abject one. Eight goals...
I love trains moving on railways since the day in my childhood when along with my parents we the whole lot of ten siblings boarded a train for the first time to my earliest memory. It was a few decades...
THE army personnel had to withdraw from their reported housing project site at Rupganj of Narayangonj on October 23rd last following a demonstration by an unruly mob reportedly instigated by some vested quarters. Army initiated a housing project, namely Army...
Kashmir is bleeding again and badly. Every day civilians protesting their subjugation are getting shot at by security forces like birds and dying from the same. It seems that regard for human life has become too scanty to ones who...
The Bangladesh government's move, to make training for low-skilled women workers who are aspiring to go abroad, mandatory, is very politically correct. Friends of the underdog would no doubt be pleased and would hope the government makes good its decision....
While the U.S. recession has been declared over by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the follow-up recovery period is taking longer than anticipated. Such is the case in Florida, according to numerous economic specialists.In Florida, the unemployment rate in...
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