India turned a bad morning into a bright afternoon despite the committed effort of Shane Watson, who collected his third century in a week, according to website cricinfo. Watson, who posted twin hundreds in the tour game, survived two chances...
NEW DELHI, Oct 1 (BSS): The National flags of the contingents from 16 countries were hoisted amidst songs, dances and celebrations during the on-going team welcome ceremonies at the Commonwealth Games Village here. The contingents - Falkland Islands, St. Lucia,...
BARCELONA, Oct 1 (AFP): Barcelona star Lionel Messi on Thursday received the Golden Boot award as last season's top scorer in Europe's domestic leagues at a ceremony here. The 23-year-old Argentina striker's 34 La Liga goals made him a clear...
CHICAGO, Sept 30, 2010 (AFP) - Thirteen World Cup players, seven from English Premiership sides, were among 20 named Thursday to the United States roster for upcoming football friendly matches against Poland and Colombia.
AYODHYA, India, Oct 1 (AFP): Fears eased Friday of a sectarian backlash to India's landmark court ruling to divide a contested religious site between Hindus and Muslims, as both sides heeded calls for restraint. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led...
TEHRAN, Oct 1 (AFP): Tehran hit out Friday against US 'interference' after Washington ordered sanctions against senior Iranian officials for alleged human rights abuses during a crackdown on post-election protests last year."This decision is in line with the US interference...
SHIKARPUR, Pakistan, Oct 1 (AP): Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the US-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border...
Laden message focuses on relief issuesA message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is urging Muslims to tackle famine, flood relief, and clean water -- stark problems plaguing parts of the Islamic world. The message, which appeared on...
Nazmul AhsanThe Ministry of Finance (MoF) has dismissed the fear of the Ministry of Industries (MoI) that offloading of the shares of state-owned enterprises (SoEs) would spark labour unrest terming it as a 'lame excuse' and urged the ministry to...
FE ReportBangladesh Jewellers Association (BJA) is likely to revise gold price in the backdrop of galloping price hike of the precious metal in the international market.The association is monitoring the market and if the gold price remains above $ 1,300...
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman The delay in stock market listing by state enterprises was due either to 'personal interest" or "myopic consideration', the head of a parliamentary watchdog said. AHM Mostafa Kamal, who chairs the parliamentary standing committee on the Finance...
David A Weisbrod, the senior vice president (SVP) of JP Morgan, a leading financial institution of the USA, called on Finance Minister AMA Muhith at the Bangladesh Permanent Mission in New York recently, reports UNB.The meeting between the finance minister...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Motorcycles manufactured by India's Bajaj Group have attained the top position in recent years in the country's fast growing bike market beating the Hero Honda brand assembled and marketed by the state-owned Atlas Bangladesh Ltd., traders told...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government has taken up a major programme to upgrade the country's rickety power grid infrastructure in an attempt to boost electricity supply, officials said.Power Division officials said they have planned to install high-voltage and sophisticated transmission lines...
BMW has announced it will recall about 350,000 luxury cars worldwide because of a problem with brakes, reports BBC.The German firm said the recall was due to a fault with the power-braking system but the cars were not unsafe.The recall...
PABNA, Oct 01: The recruitment test for the posts of Junior Statistics Assistant and Statistics Assistant was held here peacefully on Friday. A total of 2,980 out of 5,615 candidates sat the examinations at six centres in the town for...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 01: Regional tax officials have collected over Tk 400 million from the 5-day income tax fair that concluded on Thursday. A total of 23,502 tax payers, of whom 2107 are new, submitted returns in the last five days...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barishal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Saturday).Moderately heavy to...
Jubair Hasan Environmentalists will go to the High Court again for immediately shifting inflammable chemical warehouses from the capital's residential areas as most of them have not yet been shifted even after the government's second deadline ended Thursday.They also urged...
FE ReportThe Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is yet to start any of its new projects taken under annual development programme (ADP) to improve the countrywide highway network though first quarter of the current fiscal year ended Thursday.In the current...
FE ReportFiremen managed to douse Friday a fire within an hour after it broke out at a multi-storied commercial building at Sadarghat in the capital's Kotwali area.No causalities were reported in the fire that originated at about 7:30pm at the...
FE ReportAn official move to establish a 'Price Cell' to help check unusual and artificial price hike of commodities in the domestic market faces bureaucratic red tape and procedural complexities, sources said.Although the authorities started the groundwork a year back...
MILAN, Oct 01 (Reuters): The United Nations' food agency foresees no big spikes in global food prices this year after prices climbed to the highest level in 25 months in September, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's economist said.The FAO's Food...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to witness a buoyant mood for the second consecutive week that ended Thursday, defying the regulator's various moves to rein in the spiraling of stock prices.Volatility, however, dominated the week, as investors awaited...
Sonia H MoniState-run sugar mills will start sugarcane crushing this month as they seek to almost double production of the essential commodity in 2011 financial year, the head of Sugar Corporation said.Ranjit Kumar Biswas, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food...
Days after a Jama'at-e-Islami lawyer's startling statement belittling the nation's freedom struggle, a BNP policymaker takes cue from him to claim the surrender documents from the independence war talks about the war between Pakistan and India, reports bdnews24.com."It is written...
Awami League (AL) senior leader Obaidul Quader has given his reply to main opposition BNP's criticism on the appointment of ABM Khairul Haque as the chief justice, report agencies.The AL presidium member Obaidul Quader also urged the main opposition BNP...
RANGAMATI, Oct 1 (bdnews24.com): The government has taken initiatives to increase the number of BDR patrol personnel and check posts along the border at the Chittagong Hill Tracts.A bill aiming to restructure the border security force-Bangladesh Rifles- has already been...
DINAJPUR, Oct 1 (bdnews24.com): Opposition Jama’at-e-Islami says that the government was plotting over the war crimes trial issue that was 'settled 39 years ago'.Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam repeated the claim of his party that has its top-brass facing charges...
Main opposition BNP has started arranging month-long rallies as part of its ongoing anti-government activities at the upazila-level across the country, reports bdnews24.com.Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general of the party, briefed reporters on the programme schedule, at a press...
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