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Cocoa rises to two-month high

2010-04-25 00:00:00

LONDON, April 24 (Bloomberg): Cocoa rose to the highest price in more than two months on speculation that a global production shortfall will worsen as demand strengthens. Coffee also gained.Output will trail consumption by 124,000 tonnes in the year ending...

Netanyahu agrees to new gestures towards Abbas

2010-04-25 00:00:00

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to release over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, to remove several roadblocks in the West Bank, and to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip, as a series of gestures towards Palestinian...

Thai protesters brace for crackdown as compromise rejected

2010-04-25 00:00:00

BANGKOK, Apr 24 (AFP): Thailand's anti-government 'Red Shirts' said Saturday they were braced for a crackdown to end their protest movement, after the prime minister rejected an offer to compromise on demands for snap polls."Abhisit has ordered a crackdown on...

Violent protests shake Indian Kashmir over man's death

2010-04-25 00:00:00

SRINAGAR, Apr 24 (AFP): Violent protests erupted in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir Saturday, hours after soldiers killed an alleged timber smuggler, mistaking him for a militant, police said.Four people were wounded when troops opened fire to quell around 4,000 protesters who...

Arizona illegals law sparks fury, Obama criticism

2010-04-25 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (AFP): Authorities in the US state of Arizona faced new protests Saturday after the governor signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants, which critics claim enshrines racial profiling and President Barack Obama branded 'misguided'.One of the...

Brown 'upping the tempo' in UK general election fight

2010-04-25 00:00:00

LONDON, Apr 24 (AFP): Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he was 'upping the tempo' with just under two weeks to go before the May 6 general election in which he is battling to avoid being kicked out of office.Brown...

Russia, Iran swap tigers, leopards

2010-04-25 00:00:00

TEHRAN, Apr 24 (AFP): Russia has delivered two wild Siberian tigers to Iran in a swap deal in which Moscow has procured two Persian leopards, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.The swap on Friday was agreed earlier this year...

Israeli troops shoot Palestinians, Maltese woman in Gaza protest

2010-04-25 00:00:00

GAZA CITY, Apr 24 (AFP): Israeli troops shot and wounded three Palestinians and a Maltese woman in the Gaza Strip Saturday during a protest near the border with Israel, witnesses and medical sources said. The four were shot after they...

Lankan leader to expand cabinet

2010-04-25 00:00:00

COLOMBO, Apr 24 (AFP): Sri Lanka's president will expand his new cabinet by five ministers but the government will still have far fewer members than the previous one, an official source said Saturday.President Mahinda Rajapakse, whose ruling United People's Freedom...

Indonesia aims to tap volcano power

2010-04-25 00:00:00

KAMOJANG, Indonesia, Apr 24 (AFP): Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions.The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the...

news digest

2010-04-25 00:00:00

Karzai to visit India tomorrowNEW DELHI, Apr 24 (AFP): Afghanistan's president will visit India next week to strengthen the 'strategic partnership' between the two countries, the Indian foreign ministry said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai will arrive Monday for the two-day...

HIGHLIGHTS

2010-04-25 00:00:00

U Me Aur HumOn ZEE TV Sunday at 5-00 pm.The first time Ajay saw Pia, she served him drinks. She affected him more than the alcohol, and he found true love. He was a leading psychiatrist, but she messed up...

Sunday

2010-04-25 00:00:00

ATB BANGLAam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Positive Bangladesh'08:00 Sangbad08:15 Ajker Shongbadpotro08:30 Drama Serial- Daybondhon09:00 Atn News09:10 Kande Amar Ma09:15 Drama Serial -Shuborno Shopno10:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show- Hello Bangladesh11:05 Asian City Top Spin11:30 Sat Din12:00 Atn News12:10 Jiggashay Daktar12:35 Atn Rannaghar01:00 Sangbad Bulletins01:25...

Playboy porn breaks into Disney channel

2010-04-24 00:00:00

SANTIAGO, Apr 23 (AFP): Children watching the Disney Channel in Chile were offered a startling adults-only peek of Playboy programming this week because of a technical error, media reported Thursday.And the glimpse they caught went a long way beyond Playboy's...

US singer Clarkson regrets tobacco 'mishap'

2010-04-24 00:00:00

JAKARTA, Apr 23 (AFP): US singer Kelly Clarkson said Thursday she was not aware a tobacco company was sponsoring her concert in Indonesia and refused to cancel the show despite appeals from anti-smoking groups.In a statement on her blog headlined...

HIGHLIGHTS

2010-04-24 00:00:00

C-KkompanyOn STAR PLUS Saturday at 6-00 pm. After A long time Tushar Kapoor Finally give a good Comedy Drama.The Story was Interesting and the Best Character was Jha's Rajpal Yadav's Really Enjoyed the Movie.You Must see this Movie With your...

24--04-2010

2010-04-24 00:00:00

ATN Banglaam07:00 Sangbad 07:30 Talking Point08:00 Sangbad08:30 Children Prog- Chonde Anande09:00 Atn News09:15 Asian City Vision 202010:00 Sangbad10:30 Talk show - Hello Bangladesh11:00 News Bangla11:05 Shah Cement Nirmaner Taroka12:00 Sangbad Bulletins 12:15 Shesh Okkhor01:00 News01:30 Documentary prog.-Prapok 02:00 News02:40 Bangla...

The emerging geopolitics and the world economy

2010-04-24 00:00:00

THE annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are scheduled to be held in Washington on April 24-25. These meetings customarily review the progress of the Bretton Woods institutions. This time the meetings will...

Cheap labour needn't be so cheap

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Nerun YakubBangladesh's future hinges on knowledge, not cheap labour, according to the executive chairman of the Board of Investment. So we would do well to move to knowledge-based, high-tech industrialization rather than sticking to a production system primarily based on...

National budget 2010-2011 and some basic issues

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Md. Joynal AbdinThe Awami League led government is going to place its second budget in its current tenure. Last year, we saw the largest budget in our history. But the question is how much our standard of living has been...

A new beginning: U.S. summit on entrepreneurship

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Phillip KurataEntrepreneurs from more than 50 countries with sizable Muslim populations come to Washington in April on President Obama's invitation to celebrate the risky, exhilarating life of entrepreneurship and share ideas about sparking new businesses in their communities.The April 26-27...

Field level reality about ETPs

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Unregulated discharge of the industrial effluents is contaminating waters of rivers and aquatic life in them and similarly spoiling underground water aquifers from seepage through soil. Soil affected by such discharge is also turning toxic and dangerous for any form...

Indian ban on Bangladesh SIM

2010-04-24 00:00:00

We, who do honest business, know only too well that our good neighbour India is incapable of fairplay with regard to Bangladesh ---- in all respects. While we stick our necks out to please them and show their commercially important...

Who are responsible for campus anarchy?

2010-04-24 00:00:00

It refers to the news that activists claiming to belong to the student organisation, which has historic links with the ruling party, set a Chittagong University teachers' bus on fire to press home their five-point demand. This is alarming, to...

Easy small arms availability and the crime rate

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Enayet Rasul BhuiyanPast governments of the country were noted a number of times for ordering the deposition of all legally owned firearms with the police or the offices of the district commissioners (DCs) in their bids to control the crime...

Steel city of Patenga

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Nehal AdilPatenga was known as a weather observation centre in undivided India forecasting subcontinent's weather, now it is known as a steel city, the hub of the country's scrapped steel industry. Scandinavia was once the hub of the global shipbuilding...

Dearth of helping hands may be a sign of progress

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Ameer HamzaThere seems to be a real crisis on the home-front --- of ordinary folk mostly ---- on account of the RMG sector. Almost all potential housemaids these days would rather work in a factory, and be 'free', even though...

Bipartisan tensions ease as US financial reform inches toward vote

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Matthew RuslingWith a softening tone in the debate between Democrats and Republicans over U.S. financial reforms, some of the most sweeping proposals in decades might soon be made into law.Relieving signs are that both corners, rather than engaging in a...

Plane crash complicates Polish presidential race

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Polish Parliament Speaker and Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski announced Wednesday that the date for the country's presidential elections has been set for June 20.The elections were called after Poland's President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in Russia...

Foot-and-mouth disease spreads across South Korea, stoking fears of wider damage

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Eugene Kim The eighth outbreak of the foot-and- mouth disease (FMD) this month alone has been confirmed in South Korea, stoking fears of wider damages. The latest outbreak was found in the southern region of the country, a sign that...