British number one Andy Murray expects to be able to cope with an ankle injury during his Dubai Championship quarter-final with Richard Gasquet Thursday, reports BBC.Murray beat Arnaud Clement 6-2 6-3 in the last 16 on Wednesday, despite his ongoing...
Tea Australia 194 for 5 (Ponting 83, Clarke 69, North 18*, Haddin 4*, Steyn 3-60) v South AfricaAustralia have dominated this rivalry in recent times, but the winds of change that blew across Perth and Melbourne late last year were...
From Fazle Rashid | 2009-02-27 00:00:00
NEW YORK, Feb 26: Tea will be less sweet than before. Varieties of traditional sweets will disappear and those surviving the crunch will become dearer. The global sugar production is poised for a record fall this year mainly due to...
The first meeting of parliamentary committee on government organisations was held at Sangsad Bhaban with committee chairman Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir presiding, reports BSS.The work area, work plan and future plan of the committee were discussed at the meeting, a...
BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters): China denounced Thursday US criticism of its human rights record in an annual tit-for-tat exchange, saying the United States should put its own house in order first.The US State Department sharply criticised China Wednesday, saying detention...
Chairman of Karnaphuli Insurance Co. Ltd. Nizamuddin Ahmed inaugurated annual branch incharges conference-2009 at BRAC Centre, Gazipur recently as the chief guest, said a pr
TOKYO, Feb 26 (RTTNews): Stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region pared their early gains and closed mostly lower Thursday as an early enthusiasm over US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's signal that banks might not need to be nationalised faded...
A 35-hour bloody revolt by paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) ended on Thursday evening with the rebels surrendering arms at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's call, reports UNB.Over 100 security personnel, including BDR chief Maj General Shakil Ahmed, were believed killed or...
Terming achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as 'not a very difficult task' for Bangladesh, parliament members in the city Thursday stressed making constituency-based development plans in participation with the elected representatives, GO-NGO and civil society members of the respective...
AMSTERDAM, Feb 26 (Reuters): A Turkish Airlines plane with 134 passengers and crew aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring dozens.Officials said some 84 people were taken to...
SEOUL, Feb 26 (AFP): South Korea today unveiled a fresh stimulus package including 660 million dollars in special loans for private firms involved in the construction of new highways, roads and bridges.The finance ministry said the government would shoulder up...
JESSORE, Feb 26 (UNB): Dead body of a businessman was recovered from a residential hotel in the district town Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Sharif Bhuiyan (22) of Narayanganj district.Police said Sharif Bhuiyan rented room no. 602 of Hasan International...
Dividends | 2009-02-27 00:00:00
United Insurance: The board of directors of United Insurance has recommended 10 per cent cash and 150 per cent stock dividends for the year that ended on December 31, '08. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be...
FLORIDA, Feb 26(AFP): Belgium's Christophe Rochus easily beat American second seed Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-1 in the second round of the ATP Delray Beach International Tennis Championships Wednesday.With the impressive win, Rochus avenges a loss to Querrey in their only...
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FE Report | 2009-02-27 00:00:00
The country's overall imports grew by over 19 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal, boosted by a massive 70.70 per cent increase in import of intermediate goods, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) said Thursday."The huge imports...
Fisheries Directorate will impose a two-month ban on fishing in major rivers in the southern region from March 1 to ensure safe laying of eggs and increasing fish resources through protection of fries. reports UNB.About 340 kilometres areas of Ilisha,...
Chris Eaton maintained his bid for a GB Davis Cup spot against Ukraine by beating James Ward 6-3 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 2-6 21-19 in an epic play-off, reports BBC.Eaton's win took six hours, 40 minutes, which, had the match been...
Our Correspondent | 2009-02-27 00:00:00
RANGAMATI, Feb 26: Owners of the traditional handloom factories in the Rangamati hill district are unhappy as the prices of yarn, dying and other weaving materials unexpectedly went up by fifty per cent.There are nine handloom textiles in the district....
FE Report | 2009-02-27 00:00:00
Normal life remained paralysed, business halted and academic activities suspended for the second consecutive day Thursday in surrounding areas of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters.People of the adjacent areas of the BDR headquarters were still frightened even after the BDR...
Tiger Woods looked as if he had never been away as he eased into the second round of the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona Wednesday, reports BBC.Woods, returning after eight months out of competitive golf with a knee...
The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday set March 2 for order on petitions seeking leave to appeal filed by 29 sitting judges of the High Court against its special bench judgment that had ordered the government to reinstate the 10 unconfirmed...
A five-member Japanese delegation called on Labour and Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain at the latter's secretariat office in the city Thursday, reports BSS.Senior Vice-President of Japan International Training Cooperation Organisation (JITCO) Kensuke Tsuzuki led the delegation.During the meeting, they...
All mobile-phone operators have been asked to switch off their networks across the country save the capital, as the BDR mutiny at its headquarters sparked a backlash in many other camps, reports UNB.In Dhaka also, the handy phones will remain...
BENAPOLE, Feb 26 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force (BSF) halted export-import between Bangladesh and India through land ports Thursday noon, as waves of tension flowed up to the border camps following the mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troops at their...
Examinations of HSC, BA, BSS, MEd, MBA, CEMBA and CEMPA programmes run by Bangladesh Open University (BOU) scheduled for today (Friday) have been suspended for unavoidable circumstances, reports UNB.Examinations of BEd programme scheduled to start from February 27 to March...
Leaders of the National Front of Teachers and Employees (NFTE) Thursday lent total support to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's move to resolve BDR mutiny and restore normalcy in chain of command, reports BSS.In a statement, the NFTE leaders said the...
Last time Australia visited South Africa, the then-debutant Stuart Clark seamed the ball so dangerously that he was the Player of the Series as Australia went home with a 3-0 win. There is no Clark on this tour - he...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Speakers at a roundtable in the city Monday stressed the need for gaining applied knowledge at the tertiary level to develop skilled and efficient human resource in the country's electronics and telecommunication sector.Simultaneously, the apt application of the institutional knowledge...
THEY have been digging canals (that's what they look like) all over Indira Road and only now covered most of them. The entire operation took some half a year or more. This was to provide better drainage during the time...
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