ZURICH, Oct 21 (AFP): Justine Henin claimed her ninth title of the year Sunday when she defeated unseeded Tatiana Golovin of France 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Zurich Open.The match was a repeat of their final in Stuttgart...
TOKYO, Oct 21 (AFP): Gamba Osaka trounced Ventforet Kofu 5-0 Sunday to reduce defending champions Urawa Red Diamonds' lead at the top to six points in the J-League with five games to go. Takahiro Futagawa produced a pin-point pass for...
Second "Citi Cup Golf Tournament" organised by Citibank NA begins at Kurmitola Golf Club on October 25, said a press release.Commandant of National Defence College Lt Gen ATM Zahirul Alam will inaugurate the two-day event and distribute prizes among the...
Sirajganj Krira Shikkha Protishthan (SKSP) beat Khilgaon Progoti Shongshod by 4-3 runs in a baseball game competition held at the Paltan Maidan Sunday, reports UNB.In the day's six innings match, Khilgaon Progoti Shongshod lost the 6th innings to concede defeat...
Bangladesh play Turkmenistan today (Monday) in their third Group D match of the AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers at the Military Physical Education Centre Stadium in Abu Dhabi, reports UNB.Bangladesh, which made a flying start in the Asian junior soccer meet...
John Dyson, the former Australian batsman and coach of Sri Lanka, has been put in charge of West Indies and will succeed his countryman David Moore. Moore had assisted the head coach Bennett King, who departed after the World Cup,...
SYDNEY, Oct 21 (AFP): Central Coast Mariners' striker Sasho Petrovski scored in stoppage time to seal a dramatic 2-1 victory over Wellington Phoenix Sunday and open a three-point lead at the top of the Australian A-League table.The former Sydney FC...
GLASGOW, Oct 21 (AFP): Rangers manager Walter Smith warned his players they still need to improve despite their emphatic 3-0 win at home over Celtic. The Ibrox side drew level on points with their Glasgow rivals in the Scottish Premier...
David MorsePAGAN Amum, the Secretary General of the SPLM, claims to think so. More sedate than I remembered him from an interview in 2005, he was nonetheless clearly determined to remain publicly optimistic. A heavyset man with a thin goatee...
Andrea Gerlin and Kari LundgrenWhen Katie McDermott's stomach and pancreas ailment flared in June, she looked into seeing a private physician near her office in London's financial district. She decided the 55 pound ($112) fee was too much. Instead, the...
Raphael Minder HANK Morrison, whose Philippine company makes model aircraft, says he could be out of business within six months if the Philippine peso continues to rally against the US dollar."With the way the peso is going, it's become almost...
The interim government Sunday warned against any commotion by the bureaucrats over separation of the Judiciary from the Executive, reports bdnews24.com. The judiciary is set for its long-expected separation in line with the Constitution in less than two weeks, but...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a fresh move to realise outstanding customs duties worth Tk 12.42 billion from the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).The NBR has sent a letter to the energy ministry seeking to...
FLORIDA (USA), Oct 21 (BSS): Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed has called upon the expatriate Bangladeshi business community in the USA to make investments in their country of origin for its expeditious development. He made the call...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will introduce an identical 'Know Your Customer (KYC)' form for the commercial banks to help check illegal fund transfer, official sources said. Currently, banks are using different types of forms for preparing KYC profiles...
FE ReportIn the absence of any sort of monitoring by the agencies concerned, the owners of motor vessels operating in long routes are now subjecting the Dhaka-bound passengers to hassles. All large passenger-launches plying between Dhaka and Barisal compelled passengers...
Jo Johnson FT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI: Overgrown and disused for much of the last 60 years, a ghost road that connects India to China via Burma will soon reappear on maps of the region.Dismissed by Winston Churchill as a "laborious...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government is persuading the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to extend the deadline further on deportation of Bangladeshi workers staying there illegally to facilitate their return home, a diplomatic source said. The UAE government set a deadline on June 03...
S M JahangirA fresh move is on to streamline the settlement process of tax-related disputes, aiming to help the National Board of Revenue (NBR) recover its huge stuck-up revenue.A process is on to create two more hearing benches under Dhaka...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Local private airlines operator Best Aviation Limited, for the first time, plans to fly Boeing passenger aircraft to commercially important regional destinations. Besides, it will also introduce the Boeing service on its Dhaka-Chittagong route twice a day.The...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) is likely to question detained former Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina this week in connection with the Tk 30 million graft case, filed against her and six others. Investigating officer and ACC deputy...
Production in Jamuna Fertiliser Factory in Jamalpur was suspended Sunday for its repair and overhauling. Officials said, the factory would remain closed for 35 days. Overhauling of the factory was last done in 2005 at a cost of about Tk...
A three-member Bangladesh delegation leaves the city for Kuwait today (Monday) on a three-day official visit. Expatriates' Welfare Ministry Secretary Abdul Matin Chowdhury will lead the team, other members of which are BMET Director General M Abdul Malek and BOESL...
FE Report The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has selected 20 places for hawkers for selling their goods in the city, apart from a government move to introduce hawker identification cards, according to a DCC press release. Currently, hawkers' registration is...
Bangladesh's trade deficit is set to widen from an estimated US$3.7 billion in 2007 to $4.0 billion in 2008 and $4.4billion in 2009, reports UNB. "This is largely attributable to a growing import bill for oil, as volumes remain large...
FE ReportA panel of experts tasked with finalising the much-debated coal policy has agreed 'conceptually' not to allow export of the mineral, keeping the country's long-term energy security in mind.The committee members will, however, keep the policy sufficiently flexible, when...
The Power Cell under the Ministry of Power will receive international tender by October 25 for setting up eight rental power plants to tackle power crisis in the next summer, reports UNB.The projects are 50 MW Shahjibazar plant, 50 MW...
Durga puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ended Sunday through the immersion of images of deities after five days of festivities, reports UNB.Deity Durga descended on earth by riding a palanquin (palki) and departed on elephant-back. In...
The Dhaka Bar Association and Dhaka Metropolitan Bar Association have termed the meeting of the administrative cadre officials at the Biam auditorium in the city as tantamount to contempt of court, reports bdnews24.com. Dhaka Bar Association president Adv Fakir Delwar...
Eoin Callan FT Syndication ServiceWASHINGTON: The failure of the IMF to agree reform increased the risk of a "huge" global economic "crisis" brought about by the disorderly unwinding of global economic imbalances, said David Dodge, governor of the Bank of...
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