HONG KONG, July 25 (AFP): Asian markets rose again Friday as sentiment was boosted by Wall Street hitting a high for 2009 due to another set of better than expected earnings figures.TOKYO: Up 1.55 per cent. The Nikkei-225 climbed 151.61...
FE Report Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) opened its 32nd branch (South Surma Branch) at Chandirpool Buypass Road in Sylhet Thursday, said a press release. SIBL Vice-chairman Md Sayedur Rahman formally inaugurated the branch as the chief guest, while its...
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ROSEAU, Jul 25 (AFP): Bangladesh hope to christen international cricket's newest venue with victories in the first three one-dayers against West Indies Sunday at Windsor Park here. The Tigers would have probably had low expectations prior to their arrival in...
COLOMBO, Jul 25 (AFP): Sri Lanka's veteran seamer Chaminda Vaas insists his international career is not over despite retiring from Test cricket and finding himself dumped from the limited-overs game. The left-armer (35) ended his Test career at the end...
SEOUL, Jul 25 (Reuters): Manchester United fought back twice to beat FC Seoul 3-2 in the South Korean capital Friday, Dimitar Berbatov scoring the winner to maintain United's unbeaten record on their pre-season tour of Asia. The Premier League champions,...
Touring Bangladesh Under-19 team won the five-match Youth ODI Series 2-1 beating hosts England Under-19 side by one wicket with one over to spare in the 5th and final match at the Hove County ground in England Friday, UNB reports.Hosts...
LONDON, Jul 25 (AFP): Ian Bell is set to return to England's Test team next week at his Edgbaston home ground after star batsman Kevin Pietersen was ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes series with an Achilles problem....
INDIANAPOLIS, Jul 25 (AFP): Frank Dancevic ended a run of three-straight losses to Dmitry Tursunov, upsetting the top seed 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the ATP hardcourt event here Friday. But his Saturday test against third...
LONDON, Jul 25 (AFP) : Kevin Pietersen was named Fridayin England's 30- man provisional squad for September's ICC Champions Trophy in his native South Africa even though he is currently sidelined with an Achilles injury.Star batsman Pietersen was ruled out...
LONDON, Jul 25 (Reuters): Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was cleared Friday of attacking a businessman in a fight over music being played in a bar. The 29-year-old England midfielder was found not guilty of affray by a jury at Liverpool...
Jemma Simpson led home a British one-two-three in the women's 800-metre at the London Grand Prix Friday in a repeat of the result at the UK Championships.The 25-year-old kicked off the bend to lead home Jenny Meadows and Marilyn Okoro...
Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt blew away the field to win the 100-metre in style at the London Grand Prix.Despite racing into a strong headwind, the Jamaican eased clear of the field after 50m and strode clear before high-stepping...
Saiful KaiserAlan Donald the former South African (great) fast bowler says that ball tampering should be legalised. No, not in the way that some of us would like it, that is by using knives, bottle tops or even sandpaper, but...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Saturday said grassroots leaders and workers are the lifeblood of Awami League as they always stood consolidated at any political crisis and steered forward her party by mobilising public opinion, reports UNB.As thousands of senior...
BNP leader Hamidullah Khan Saturday hit back at Awami League presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury over her statement that Ziaur Rahman 'did not fight' in the Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB.In a press briefing at BNP's central office in...
Munima SultanaThe country's infrastructure development has been hampered due to less allocation of funds for construction of new roads and bridges.According to Roads and Highways Department (RHD) sources, RHD annual development budget has been reduced since 2000-2001 although the demand...
Eminent personalities Saturday urged the government to lodge a formal protest with the United Nations (UN) against illegitimate claims of Myanmar and India over Maritime Boundary and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Bangladesh, reports BSS.Expressing concern over India's plea for...
An effective foreign policy was urgently needed for Bangladesh to emerge as an economically and politically strong nation, speakers told a roundtable in the city Saturday, reports UNB."We must emerge as a strong country both economically and politically, or else,...
DU CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique urged the students to be patriots to stamp out corruption and irregularity from the country. "A patriotic citizen can never adopt corruption. So enkindle the sense of patriotism in you to...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Saturday demanded of the government to start trial for all sorts of human rights violation including war crimes, reports BSS."We urge the government to make the Human Rights Commission effective and start trial for all sorts...
Lack of coordination among Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), WASA and RAJUK and inadequate funds cause the failure of DCC to clean up the stinking solid wastes that litter the capital, a seminar was told Saturday, reports UNB. Mayor Sadeque Hossain...
FE Report The sweet desert fruit- dates- a popular Iftar item, will be sold 25 per cent cheaper this year during Ramadan because of adequate stock and fall in international market price, importers told the FE Saturday. Traders said they...
DU CorrespondentNotre Dame College has once again topped the list of the institutions having highest number of GPA-5 scorers in the HSC examination this year.Notre Dame stands first in the list of the top ten GPA-5 scoring colleges with its...
KHULNA, July 25 (BSS): Leaders and activists of Khulna Nagorik Samaj Saturday formed a human chain at city's Picture Palace crossing to press home their demand for setting up of a deep sea port at Akram Point.The speakers said that...
Gary K Schoolnik MD, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University spoke at a CHPD seminar entitled 'Environmental Change in Bangladesh and its Impact on the Ecology and Evolution of Cholera'...
FE ReportA group of media conscious people has launched "Citizens Forum on Media" with a view to creating a bridge between consumers and authorities of media.They had also formed a 10-member convening committee, which was disclosed at a press conference...
GAZIPUR, July 25 (UNB): The emblems of Red Cross/Crescent are in massive misuse in Bangladesh as the symbol of doctors, hospitals and pharmacies amid the government's failure to take proper action against the violators, International Committee of the Red Cross...
FE ReportRapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four men on charges of cheating jobseekers with fake army appointment letters at Mirpur-12 in the capital's Pallabi area, a press release said.They were identified as Md. Mofazzal Hossain (45) and Md. Masud Rana...
BAGERHAT, July 25 (UNB): Miscreants took away valuables, including cash and gold ornaments, from a house making its inmates unconscious at Sabekdanga village in Sadar Upazila Wednesday.Hospital sources said a gang of miscreants made the inmates of the house unconscious...
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