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...
Tareq Haidar, a teacher of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has secured the first position in a nationwide Sticker Design Contest, reports UNB.Dhaka City Corporation and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organised the design competition held at...
FE ReportBangladeshi magician Ali Raj will participate as a group organiser in the 'FISM World Championship of Magic 2009', which is going to start at Beijing, China from today (Sunday). Over 2,000 renowned magicians will participate in the six-day exhibition....
To launch the first nuclear power plant by 2016, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) is set to recruit 30 to 40 staff by next month for the human resources department (HRD) of the plant as per IAEA requirements, reports BSS.International...
The government has decided to introduce articulated bus service (dedicated-lane bus service) in the city soon as a pilot project, as part of efforts to resolve nagging traffic congestion, reports UNB.The decision came from a recent inter-ministerial meeting held with...
Kayes M SohelThe country's private energy companies have sought exemption from some direct listing regulations to raise fund from the stock market for financing establishment of new power plants or expansion of the existing ones.Under the Dhaka Stock Exchange (Direct...
Siddique Islam The government borrowing from the banking system exceeded marginally the revised target set for the fiscal ended on June 30 last. However, the borrowing in the fiscal was well below the original target.The government, according to a senior...
DU CorrespondentThe results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), HSC Business Management and Alim examinations-2009 were published Saturday showing 72.78 per cent students coming out successful and 20,136 of them scoring GPA-5.However, both the pass percentage and the number of GPA-5...
Mushir Ahmed The government has started transmitting free electricity to farmers in north Bengal to pump underground water for irrigation after a severe lack of rain in the middle of monsoon threatened Aman crop, officials said Saturday.Agriculture secretary Mustaq Ahmed...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman said Saturday that factoring could be an ideal financing solution for the country's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to the flexibility allowed under the scheme."This is a collateral free financing transaction and...
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