Iran's leader said Wednesday that President Barack Obama is pursuing the same "wrong path" as his predecessor George W. Bush in supporting Israel and described the Jewish state as a "cancerous tumor", report agencies.The comments by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
SYDNEY, Mar 4 (AFP): The first contraction in Australia's economy for eight years sent shockwaves through markets Wednesday, after the US unveiled a credit drive to stem a crisis that shows no sign of relenting.Dashing hopes Australia could avoid the...
SINGAPORE, Mar 4 (AFP): Oil prices fell in Asian trade today following a rebound in the US market overnight, on continued concerns over the worsening global economic crisis, analysts said.New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for April delivery,...
Both the semifinal matches of the KFC Pizza Hut 5th Girls' Mini Handball Tournament will be held at the Dhanmondi Women's Sports Complex today (Thursday), reports UNB.Group A champions Sunny Dale School will play Group D champions South Breeze School...
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez and Chelsea counterpart Guus Hiddink have vowed to keep pushing Manchester United for the Premier League title, BBC reports.Both won Tuesday and are four points behind United, who have two games in hand and face Newcastle...
Tuesday's terror attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore has led to a heightened anxiety among the New Zealand players over touring India for next month's IPL, with eight players expected to feature in the tournament which runs from...
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
Private commercial banks (PCBs) prefer to declare stock dividend instead of cash to increase their capital bases.Seven PCBs, so far, proposed their dividends for 2008 and six of them announced only stock dividend and the other one both stock and...
PEOPLE of Rajshahi are still paying Tk 300 bus fare for the Rajshahi-Dhaka trip. But they expected reduced bus fare soon after the newly elected government took over. The government is already about two month's old. People should get benefit...
Afghanistan's Election Commission has rejected President Hamid Karzai's call for an April presidential vote, saying it will take place on 20 August, reports BBC.The head of the commission said it was not possible to hold the vote earlier. Elections were...
The government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Wednesday signed an agreement to implement a new technical assistance project in Bangladesh for strengthening the justice system at the grass roots level through village courts, reports BSS.The project "Activating Village...
SEOUL, Mar 4 (AFP): A Japanese private equity fund will invest almost two billion dollars in a free trade zone on South Korea's west coast, a state trade agency said today.The Vana World fund, after talks with the Korea Trade...
WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund said yesterday the poorest countries will need at least 25 billion dollars in additional financing this year to cope with the global financial crisis.IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn called for swift and...
The Sri Lanka team have arrived home following the attacks on their bus by armed gunmen in Lahore Tuesday, reports BBC.Seven players were wounded in the attacks, which killed six policemen and a driver."None of us thought we would come...
FBI director arrives | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
in PakistanISLAMABAD, March 4: The director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI arrived in Pakistan Wednesday to help investigate last year's Mumbai attacks, officials said. New Delhi blamed the attacks, which killed 165 people last November, on the...
DU Correspondent | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
Home Minister Sahara Khatun Wednesday said Bangladesh was being used as a transit route for trafficking drugs to the international market causing an alarming rise to the number of drug addicts in the country."Drug addiction among the youths is increasing...
Relatives of those still missing since the Pilkhana tragedy thronged Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) forensic department Wednesday, to assist with the government's efforts to confirm the identities of remaining bodies through DNA tests.The forensic department began collecting blood, hair...
MELBOURNE, Mar 4 (PTI): Two Indians are in the race to get the 'best job in the world', caretaker of Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef, out of 50 persons of different nationalities, short-listed by the Australian government from...
FE Report | 2009-03-05 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Wednesday the stagnation that the businesses are now facing following the recent mutiny in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters would be over within a week.He said the government's revenue budget will come under some pressure...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina told the House Wednesday that 5,000 more teachers would be appointed very soon in the current 2008-2009 fiscal under the Second Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP), reports BSS.Besides the programme, appointment of about 15,000 more...
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
High officials of the central bank have contradicted a report published in The Economist's latest issue titled 'A battered economy takes another hit' and said the report is not based on fact.The report said that the global meltdown would severely...
The 11th Sharia board meeting of the Padma Islami Life Insurance Ltd was held at its head office recently with chairman of the board principal Sayed Kamaluddin Zafry in the chair.The meeting was attended, among others, by members Moulana Muhammad...
Dhaka University is the highest seat of learning in Bangladesh. Once upon a time it was famous as The Oxford of the East. I have been hearing it from my birth but didn't know why it is called the Oxford...
GENEVA, March 3 (Reuters): Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) unveiled on Tuesday a concept car under its Infiniti luxury brand that it plans to adapt for production as a hybrid car twinned with a diesel engine for the European market next...
Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan said the barbaric incidents in the BDR headquarters could not divert government's attention from trying the war criminals or executing other agenda as the government has come to power with people's overwhelming mandate,...
TOKYO, March 3 (AFP): Japan will use five billion dollars from its foreign currency reserves to help companies raise funds during a worsening recession in Asia's largest economy, the finance minister said today.Tokyo will lend the money to the state-backed...
Castro shakes up | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
Cuban cabinetHAVANA, Mar 3: In a major shake-up the likes of which Cubans have not seen for decades, President Raul Castro Monday reorganised his Cabinet, replacing longtime aides to his brother Fidel, who resigned from office a year ago, citing...
Our Correspondent | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Mar 3: Ocean going ship building industry may play a vital role in the expanding worldwide maritime trade and boost the economy of the country. The industry is already attracting foreign buyers and investors.This was observed by the Export...
FE Report | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
Global financial conglomerate Citibank, N.A. has opened a 'Service Outlet' at the Uttara area of the city Tuesday.This service outlet; located at Uttara Zashin Plaza is equipped for catering to the special banking needs of the business enterprises located at...
Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has called for resignation of Home Minister Sahara Khatun for a 'fair investigation' into the BDR mutiny, reports bdnews24.com.The former Prime Minister, speaking to reporters at her Gulshan office, also said...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2009-03-04 00:00:00
Country's stock market is now facing a kind of trouble that is hardly encountered in any of its counterpart in the world.All on a sudden junk shares belonging to the 'Z' category of the stocks listed with the two bourses...
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