Gur SalomonWhile Israeli-Turkish diplomatic ties have down-spiraled to an all-time low in recent weeks following a naval raid aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Wednesday unveiled a study that bears witness...
Matthew RuslingWith Senate hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan expected to begin next week, critics are voicing concern over her ability to objectively interpret the US constitution. But supporters penned a letter in favor of the nominee, writing...
Ameer HamzaWhatever happened to the project that the ministry of environment had talked about around this time last year to clean up the air in Dhaka? The capital is so laden with pollutants that its ten million or so citizens...
Since the first Group of 20 (G20) Summit in November 2008, the attention China has been getting has shifted from that of a turn-round-to, to that of a look-up-to, analysts said.Two years ago, almost all developed economies turned round to...
Jody Bourton Why do kangaroos have such small arms?Scientists now think they know why, helping to explain why the unusually-shaped marsupials have tiny arms yet such long legs. Kangaroos have small forelimbs because short arms are necessary to survive within...
Emad Drimly, Saud Abu RamadanIt has been already four years for abducting the Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit during a cross-border raid in southeast Gaza Strip in June 25, 2006 by militants of the Islamic Hamas movement, which rules the enclave,...
Australian press cautiously welcomed the country's first woman prime minister Friday but expressed concerns over her controversial sweeping aside of tearful ex-leader Kevin Rudd.Newspapers ran extended-length editions about Rudd's uncompromising party-vote dismissal by his former deputy under titles such as...
The government-owned Bangladesh Railway (BR) which traces its origin to the British period of governance in this region, is presently a neglected medium of transportation . But it could retain its previous position as the more sought after means of...
Nerun YakubA former US Secretary of State in the 1970s had predicted that with the help of advanced science and technology, a more 'controlled and directed society' would gradually appear in the world, and it would be dominated by an...
Avik SenguptaNew investigations have revealed that spurious drugs worth an estimated US $150 million are posing a risk to public health in Bangladesh. In its annual testing of 5000 drug samples this year, the Public Health and Drug Testing Laboratory...
A front page news item on the subject was published in a daily on June 17th. This is an important matter, and I would request the expert body who are to look into the matter, to consider certain real issues...
The flood situation in Sylhet district is getting worse by the hour. As I write this letter, about ninety percent of the district has gone under water. All the schools have been closed, for obvious reasons, and people have taken...
Shazzad Khan and Fatima Halima AhmedBangladesh won its independence in 1971, with the dream of establishing a poverty-free Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal). The inner spirit of this dream was to establish a secular society, free from exploitation and optimum parity...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, June 25 (Agencies): Israel's air strikes over the Gaza Strip wounded a Palestinian as the captivity of one of its soldiers entered into the fourth year, Palestinian medical officials said Friday.One Palestinian was injured when the...
The US Congress Thursday approved tough new unilateral sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran's energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt companies from other countries doing business with Tehran, reports Internet.The House of Representatives passed the bill 408-8 and sent...
SEOUL, June 25 (AFP): South and North Korea fired off a volley of cross-border accusations Friday as they marked the 60th anniversary of a war which killed millions of people and kept the peninsula divided to this day.At a solemn...
SYDNEY, June 25 (AFP): Australia's new leader Julia Gillard defended her ruthless disposal of predecessor Kevin Rudd Friday as she used her first day in office to target the policy blunders which triggered the shock takeover.The country's first woman prime...
MINSK, June 25 (AFP): Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko Friday revived an energy feud with Moscow, warning he would halt Russia's Europe-bound oil and gas transit within two days if Moscow did not pay a debt.Lukashenko also raised the stakes in...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 25 (AP): Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people.This month's unrest tore apart...
WASHINGTON, June 25 (AFP): The top US military officer was en route to Afghanistan Friday to explain the sacking of the allied commander in Kabul as the Obama administration insisted the United States was not 'bogged down' in the fight...
Greek PM condemns 'terrorists' ATHENS, June 25 : Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Friday condemned the 'terrorists' who carried out a parcel bomb attack that killed a top security official in Athens. While police did not blame any specific group...
RUSTENBURG, June 25 (AFP): Superb free-kicks by Keisuke Honda and Yasuhito Endo inspired Japan to an exhilarating 3-1 win over Denmark that sends them into the last 16 of a World Cup for the first time on foreign soil.The two...
RUSTENBURG, June 25 (AFP): Superb free-kicks by Keisuke Honda and Yasuhito Endo inspired Japan to an exhilarating 3-1 win over Denmark that sends them into the last 16 of a World Cup for the first time on foreign soil.The two...
BLOEMFONTEIN, June 25 (AFP): Be careful of what you wish for. Sometimes it is what you get, as Wayne Rooney has found out.Asked last week if he would relish the prospect of meeting Germany in the second round of the...
RUSTENBURG, June 25 (AFP): Four years after sending the United States crashing out of the World Cup, Ghana's Black Stars again block the Americans' path and are the only African team into the knockout rounds.Former US President Bill Clinton is...
PORT ELIZABETH, June 25 (AFP): South Korea and Uruguay meet here Saturday in a fascinating World Cup last 16 clash that few pundits would have predicted at the start of the tournament.The Asian giants have earned a reputation as set...
JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (AFP): Mexico will be looking to avenge their defeat at the 2006 World Cup finals when they take on two-time winners Argentina Sunday for a place in the World Cup quarter-finals.Four years ago in Germany, the teams...
JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (AFP): The World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) said Friday that they were not worried about potential trouble in the high-octane last 16 clash between old rivals Germany and England Sunday.LOC spokesman Jermaine Craig said that they...
Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanThe country's two WiMax operators are planning to reach the divisional headquarters and suburbs by the end of this year in a bid to tap their potential market beyond the capital Dhaka.The burgeoning high speed internet service providers,...
FE ReportPrices of spices and edible oil were up while that of sugar and rice remained steady in the city's kitchen market, traders said Friday.Prices of some spice items such as cardamom, cinnamon and cumin seeds witnessed an upward trend...
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