WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (AP): President Barack Obama is expected to order all US combat troops to leave Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, closing the door on a war that has led to the death of 4,250...
FLORIDA, Feb 25(AFP): Mardy Fish survived a scare from Canadian qualifier Frank Dancevic to win 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the ATP Delray Beach International Tennis Championship Tuesday.The top-seeded Fish is looking to become the first American to...
THE issue of inefficiency in the project implementation agencies of the government has again been identified as the main hindrance to the timely utilisation of the development assistance as well further inflow of foreign aid in the country. The view...
Low turn-out of visitors marked the 25th day of the month-long Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises Wednesday due to an untoward situation at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the capital, reports BSS.Despite the poor attendance of...
BEIJING, Feb 25 (AFP): President Hu Jintao has warned of a deteriorating economic situation in China and called for more "powerful" measures to reverse the tide, state media said."The world economic situation is austere and complicated, the global financial crisis...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Normal life, business and academic activities in surrounding areas of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters came to a halt Wednesday following the daylong clashes in and outside the command centre of the country's paramilitary border guards.Movement of all mode of...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
THE immediate past caretaker government brought some significant reforms in the local government laws, but the upazila election could not be completed during their tenure. This election was held under the elected government amidst irregularities and violence. The caretaker government...
Pakistan vows to 'defeat | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
terror' with ObamaWASHINGTON, Feb 25: Pakistan, under fire in Washington, vowed to work with President Barack Obama's administration to "defeat terrorism" as it opens three-way talks Wednesday with Afghanistan to draft a new strategy. The talks came as a top...
Enayet Rasul Bhuiyan | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
The last time that Bangladesh was rocked by terrorism was in 2006. Bombs were detonated in most of the country's 64 districts all on one day in that period that signaled the existence of a widespread network of an Islamist...
TOKYO, Feb 25 (AP): Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will construct two nuclear power plants in the US.Toshiba's U.S. subsidiary signed an agreement to build the plants for the South Texas Project _ a nuclear power facility...
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 25 (AFP): Microsoft is tossing lifelines to people in the United States (US) lacking technology skills needed to win jobs in the Internet Age.Microsoft teamed with political leaders in a set of US states to launch an...
RANGAMATI, Feb 25 (UNB): Reformist tribal leader Chandra Shekhar Chakma, the former secretary of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity, was shot and wounded in the hill-district town Wednesday morning.He was taken to General Hospital from where he was shifted to...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
The central bank purchased $12 million more Tuesday from two private commercial banks (PCBs) to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange market stable."We've bought the US dollar from the PCBs at Tk 68.90 per unit to help the banks comply with...
Moghbazar Ispahani Girls' School upset Viqarunnisa Noon School & College beating them by 3-2 goals in the KFC Pizza Hut 5th Mini Girls' Handball Tournament on the 3rd day of the meet at the Outer Stadium handball ground in Dhaka...
HANOI, Feb 25 (Reuters): Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of $290 million in the first two months of the year, due in part to steep falls in the value of fuel and steel imports, the government said Wednesday.Total imports slumped...
TOKYO, Feb 25 (Reuters): Honda Motor Co plans to produce more of its new Insight hybrid cars from April, having received orders for almost three times its monthly sales target for the gasoline-electric model it launched on Feb. 6 in...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Mrs Umme Kulsum, mother of managing director of Nassa Group Md. Nazrul Islam died due to old age ailments at Square Hospital in the city Tuesday afternoon. She was 93.She left behind three sons, five daughters and many relatives to...
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) organised a day-long workshop on credit proposal for its designated officers in the city recently, says a press release.A total of 28 (twenty eight) officials from its branches attended the workshop.Additional Managing Director of the bank...
Technomedia Ltd in a clarification on a FE report titled 'Technomedia seminar on NCR payment system solutions', appeared on February 17 said the company was not at all engaged by the Bangladesh Bank to develop the relevant technology for the...
According to a recent newspaper report, the arrested elements with links to the JMB at Nilphamari have admitted to the police they had taken arms training at a Teesta shoal, near Ansarer Haat of Jaldhaka.Besides, the JMB has also trained...
SEOUL, Feb 25 (AFP): South Korea's football body said Wednesday it has accepted Japan's proposal to resume annual friendly matches this year after an 18-year lapse.The Korean Football Association (KFA) said the first friendly was slated to be held in...
A glass of wine each evening is enough to increase your risk of developing cancer, women are being warned, reports BBC.Consuming just one drink a day causes an extra 7,000 cancer cases - mostly breast cancer - in UK women...
JAKARTA, Feb 25 (Reuters): Indonesia's largest listed plantation firm, PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk , suffered a 27.1 per cent fall in fourth-quarter net profit from a year ago as crude palm oil prices tumbled.Astra Agro's net profit for the...
Aftab Mahmud Khurshid was elected 2009 National President of JCI (Junior Chamber International) Bangladesh recently.Aftab has more than 8 years of experience and worked in different capacities in wide spectrum of JCI Bangladesh. He was the Chairperson of Marketing Commission...
FE Report | 2009-02-26 00:00:00
Canadian High Commissioner (HC) Robert Mcdougal Wednesday said his country will provide necessary technical assistance to help strengthen Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI).He made the assurance when he made a courtesy call on Commerce Minister Faruk Khan at his ministry.The...
SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (AFP): Oil prices continued to slip in Asian trading hours today, pressured by demand worries even though expectations of more OPEC production cuts are limiting the falls, dealers said.New York's main contract, light sweet crude for April...
The new government is likely to allow legalisation of the undisclosed money that lies idle, stashed into cellars presumably in large amounts, reports UNB.Sources in the Ministry of Finance and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) said the government was...
SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (AFP): Southeast Asia's regional bloc will come under close scrutiny once more as its leaders meet in Thailand this week for a summit watered down by the absence of big guns China, India and Japan.Political woes in...
Bangladesh Rifles, in separate drives, seized huge quantities of Indian contrabands, including medicines, clothes and fertiliser from Chuadanga, Naogaon and Dinajpur districts Monday, reports UNB.In Chuadanga, BDR jawans raided Kashimpur village in Jiban Nagar Upazila and seized Indian medicines, worth...
Our Correspondent | 2009-02-25 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Feb 24: Boro cultivation is going on in full swing in Tangail with the combined efforts of farmers and government officials to ensure the bumper production of Boro paddy in the district in the up coming seasons.Department of Agriculture...
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