NEW YORK, Sept 4 (AFP): Fourth seed Elena Dementieva and fifth seed Jelena Jankovic were upset victims at the US Open while top-ranked Dinara Safina struggled but is now the only seed still in her quarter of the draw.Russian stars...
SAO PAULO, Sept 4 (AP): Brazilian star Kaka remains hopeful he will be crowned the best soccer player in the world again. For now, he acknowledges Lionel Messi deserves that title."He is a player who makes a difference," Kaka said...
SEOUL, Sept 4 (AP): North Korea announced Friday that its process of enriching uranium is nearly complete, giving it a new way to make nuclear bombs as the US and regional powers discuss how to bring the communist country back...
KABUL, Sept 4 (AP): A NATO jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, setting off a huge fireball Friday that killed up to 90 people, Afghan officials said.The NATO command said a "large number of...
TOKYO, Sept 4 (AFP): Japan's incoming prime minister met Friday the ambassadors of China and South Korea as his party looks to promote regional ties and its long-term aim of an Asian community.Yukio Hatoyama -- the leader of the centre-left...
Israel to build new houses in settlementsJERUSALEM, Sept 4: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement construction, two of his aides said Friday, in an apparent snub of Washington's...
A citizen's group campaigning to put alleged perpetrators of the 1971 war crimes on trial has asked the government to arrest some of the branded war criminals before formally commissioning the trial, reports bdnews24.com. The group also asked the government...
PABNA, Sept 4 (BSS): State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku said that the party leaders or workers who will commit misdeeds in the name of the party would not be spared.The state minister said this as the chief...
MOSCOW, Sept 4 (BSS): First Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey I Denisov said here Friday that Russia is ready to further strengthen its cooperation with Bangladesh. He made the remarks when the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador in Russia...
RANGAMATI, Sept 4 (BSS): Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Bir Bahadur MP said land, which was leased out to influential quarters for rubber plantation and horticulture gardens, would be allotted to landless people after canceeling those lease.Stern...
FE ReportPolice arrested about 30 activists of Hijbut Tahrir, an Islami outfit, during their rowdy protest at Paltan in the city Friday.An officer of the Paltan police station told the FE that they arrested the 30 Hijbut Tahrir members, as...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Friday said the apparel exporters' demand to give Tk 30 billion from the government's incentive package to pay workers' wages and allowances ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr is "unacceptable," reports bdnews24.com.Speaking to the news agency on telephone from...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Anti-gastric drugs are surprisingly ruling the country's pharmaceutical market due mainly to consumption of adulterated foods and lack of discipline in eating habits, physicians and drug-makers said.The drugs for treatment of gastric and ulcer have occupied the...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanBangladesh Bank is planning to estimate the broader M3 money supply that will take into account the deposits and financial transactions of microfinance institutions (MFI) and non-bank financial institutions (NBFI).The existing M2 broad money supply considers the currency...
A move is underway to introduce holiday staggering by the state-owned Petrobangla in gas supply to industries as a cure for a chronic low-pressure problem due to limited production of the fossil fuel, reports UNB. According to the plan, the...
FHM Humayan KabirThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) would lend a record US$ 1.33 billion to Bangladesh this year, the highest single year credit by the Manila-based anti-poverty lender, officials said Thursday.Finance ministry officials said the ADB has already assured lending...
A Z M AnasMore than 100 Bangladeshi apparel firms, mostly woven units, stung by the ongoing global recession, faced closure.But employment in the industry remained in large part unhurt, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). At least 66 woven...
A strong tremor shook Sylhet district and its adjoining areas early Friday, sending panic-stricken people out of their houses, reports UNB.According to Sylhet Met Office, the 6.0 magnitude quake was felt at 2:51 am and lasted for a few seconds.However,...
FE ReportAn elderly widow was brutally beaten to death by unknown assailants at her house at Dhanmondi in the city early Friday, police said.Being informed by locals, police recovered the body from the house at about 3:30pm and sent to...
New Market police recovered 46 out of 60 drums of palm oil that was hijacked from Dhanmondi early Friday. Sub-Inspector of New Market police station Sajjad told the FE that they are yet to seize the hijacked truck carrying palm...
Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) Friday condemned the 'vicious' police assault on its life member Professor Anu Muhammad. Economist Muhammad was injured Wednesday when police swooped on the activists of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and...
HABIGANJ, Sept 4: Three persons were killed and 20 others injured as a passenger bus collided head on with a truck in Bhargaon area on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway here Friday. Sheyestaganj Highway police said the three bus passengers died instantly. —...
S M JahangirThe government moves to enact a new law to bring about greater transparency and accountability in transactions of foreign-aided non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Bangladesh.The NGO Affairs Bureau under the Prime Minister's Office has already drafted a new...
There are signs of improvement in the labour market US employers cut 216,000 jobs in August, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.7 per cent, a 26-year high, official figures show. The unemployment rate rose after dipping to 9.4 per...
GENEVA, Sept 4 (UNB): United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has assured Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of continued support for further strengthening parliamentary democracy in Bangladesh. He also gave the assurance that the United Nations would give all necessary...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Sept 04: India and China are busy building up their military presence on the border of a town known as Tawang perched 10,000 feet in the Himalayas; the US administration is sharply divided on the issue...
FE ReportDhaka stocks ended the week on a positive note after non-banking financial institutions drove all three indices of the country's premier bourse slightly up.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) gained 7.74 points or 0.26 per cent to end at...
Two central effluent treatment plants (ETPs) are expected to go into operation next year in the export-processing zones in Dhaka and Chittagong to better manage toxic waste water, officials have said, reports bdnews24.com. Factories in the EPZs will get the...
LOS ANGELES, Sept 4, 2009 (AFP): Michael Jackson has finally been laid to rest in a crown-adorned glittering gold coffin after family and friends saluted the tragic "King of Pop" in a poignant farewell.More than two months after the singer...
THE garments industries operators in Bangladesh have been beseeching the government for a focused attention to their growing problems but in vain. However, it should have been the opposite as this sector is rightly considered as pivotal for the economy...
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