Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis joined the squad in Bangladesh Monday after a quick recovery from an ankle injury that was expected to keep him out of the Test series, bdnews24.com reports. Mendis (23) suffered severe soft tissue damage in...
Michael Vaughan's England future hangs in the balance after he missed out on a spot in the 16-man Test squad to tour West Indies next month. Ryan Sidebottom is back after injury while Adil Rashid is also named after being...
General Moeen U Ahmed expected that winners in Monday's winners along with the losers would work together for taking the country forward, the army chief, whose force backed up the interim regime in politico-electoral reforms, joined millions in voting for...
EU chief election observer Alexander Lambsdorff Monday said political parties should accept the elections if results are credible and advance the country forward, reports UNB."We'll closely monitor counting the votes, consolidation and announcement," he told reporters after visiting several polling...
Stranded Pakistanis, known as Biharis, exercised their franchise for the first time Monday in the 9th parliamentary elections in independent Bangladesh, reports UNB.The Biharis, who achieved the voting rights following the High Court orders, thronged the polling centers at different...
A large number of female voters turned out at the city's polling centres Monday and cast their votes in a festive mood, as they outnumbered their male counterparts in the voter list this time, reports UNB.The ninth parliamentary poll sees...
BARISAL Dec 29 (UNB): Peaceful polling marked by heavy turnout was reported from all the constituencies of Barisal division barring some stray incidents.In Bhola, Navy team held Lalmohan Poursava Mayor Enayet Kabir on charge of creating obstruction to a group...
Many voters in a good number of city polling centres voiced deep annoyance for lack of proper voting arrangements, including setting up of several polling centres on one compound, which virtually slowed down the voting process, reports UNB. "I'm getting...
BHOLA, Dec 29 (BSS): With reports of only a few stray incidents, voting in four parliamentary seats of the district was held peacefully and in a festive mood with the voters turning up in larger number at all poling centres....
MEHERPUR, Dec 29 (UNB): A female voter, travelling by a rickshaw-van to cast her vote in Meherpur-1 constituency, was killed when the van turned turtle at Bhabanipur in Mujibnagar Upazila Monday.The deceased was identified as Rakhi Khatun (50), wife of...
COMILLA, Dec 29 (UNB): The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Moinul Hossain, a Shibir cadre, for possessing 22 hand grenades and 12 pieces of crackers from near a polling centre in Chauddagram Upazila here Monday.Acting on a tip-off,...
The electorate will exercise their franchise to elect a new Jatiya Sangsad (JS) or national parliament, today. The parties or their alliances that will be able to prove their majority in parliament will form the next government. As in the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The nation goes to polls today (Monday) to elect the country's ninth parliament. This election is altogether different in content and character from the ones held since independence of the country in 1971.There were lots of uncertainties...
Fazle Rashid from New YorkTHE global economic downhill slide will linger well beyond 2009, the analysts and market watchers are predicting. The economies of the major global powers like the US, China, Japan, European Union (EU), most of Asia and...
WHAT is India up to? Her Prime minister and various rabidly fundamentalist leaders threaten her neighbours without rhyme or reason and ask us to behave or else. After the Mumbai attacks her ire towards Pakistan was understandable but Bangladesh? Remember...
The famous Buriganga river that once helped the environment of Dhaka city and its aesthetic appeals, is now a pathetic apology of its former glory. It is nothing more than a drain in some of its sections as dumping of...
I talked to many people living in the rural area about 'no vote', but they could hardly say anything about it. Actually the rural people know little about the 'no vote' option. The educated people will have to inform them...
Air Commodore Muhammad Zakiul IslamA manifesto of a voter is sought here to be put out, now that the much talked-about much talked-about general election takes place today (Monday, December 29). The political parties had earlier announced their respective election...
Prof. Lutfor RahmanTHE Chief of Bangladesh Awami League (AL), Sheikh Hasina has recently expressed her willingness of establishing "Digital Bangladesh". From a scientific point of view, it can be analysed as she wants to equip the country with relevant and...
Syed Munir Khasru Dear first time voters,Congratulations on your successful registration as a voter of Bangladesh. With this registration, you have embarked on a very important role of your life whereby from now on you have a direct role to...
Fazle Rashid in New YorkBANGLADESH goes to polls on Monday to revert to a democratic order after remaining under a government for over 23 months which neither had the mandate of the people nor any constitutional legality to govern. The...
Frederick SmithIt is unfortunate that the US, which has led the capitalist world for so long, is woefully uncompetitive in corporate tax policy. We have the second highest corporate tax rate among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries...
DUBAI, Dec 28 (AFP): Major air and rail projects are among huge public sector schemes going full steam ahead in Gulf countries, underpinning local economies as the credit crunch takes a big toll on private businesses. Power and water infrastructure...
NEW DELHI, Dec 28 (PTI): Despite the global economic slowdown, some segments of India's services sector, including IT, education and organised retail, retained "high" growth rate of 10-20 per cent this fiscal, an industry lobby survey said here Sunday. The...
LONDON, Dec 28 (AFP): Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to say in his new year message that Britain will stand up to the economic challenges thrown its way in 2009, media reported today. Using language close to US president-elect Barack...
MOSCOW, Dec 28 (AFP): Inflation in Russia could climb as high as 15 per cent in 2009 depending on oil price levels, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told Vesti-24 television yesterday. "This year (2008), inflation could reach between 13.5 and...
JAKARTA, Dec 28 (Xinhua): Indonesia and New Zealand are likely to resume their talks on free trade agreement (FTA) in March 2009, said an Indonesian official yesterday. "We hope that the negotiation could be resumed soon after the signing of...
BEIJING, Dec 28 (AP): Chinese dairy companies that sold melamine-tainted milk are ready to pay compensation to the families of the nearly 300,000 children who became ill or died from drinking contaminated infant formula, a state news agency reported Saturday.Twenty-two...
HSINPU, Taiwan, Dec 28 (AFP): Scandals surrounding poisoned Chinese foods have taken a heavy toll on Taiwan's bakeries and makers of dairy products in recent months, but could provide a long-term boost for local food makers. Liu Li-chien, who produces...
BEIJING, Dec 28 (Xinhua): China is forecast to produce 189 million tonnes of crude oil in 2008, a growth of 1.61 per cent over the 186 million tonnes last year, according to a recent report released by the nation's leading...
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