Qatar Airways' Business Class has been named as the World's Leading Business Class at the World Travel Awards grand final ceremony.The 2008 Global Winners of the World Travel Awards - also known as the travel industry's 'Oscars' - were announced...
The 56th meeting of the executive committee (EC) of the board of directors of Standard Bank Limited was held in the city recently.The EC Chairman Kamal Mostafa Chowdhury presided over the meeting, said a press release. The meeting took various...
A CPE seminar organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) on Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants will be held at the ICAB Auditorium, Chartered Accountants Bhaban, 100 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Kawran Bazar, in the city...
AQM Wazed Ali has joined the Prime Insurance Company Limited as managing director (MD). Before joining the Prime Insurance, he was the deputy-managing director of the Federal Insurance Company Limited, said a press release.After completion of his post-graduate degree from...
M A IslamIN recent years there has been more practice of research works and report writing at university level in Bangladesh. This is a very good sign that the higher level students are being involved in this creative and innovative...
FE SpecialSUMON starts his class eight in a high school in a rural area. He knows it very well that in the first one or two months, classes will be held very loosely--one class on some days, two or three...
Commonwealth Essay Competition If you are 18 years of age or younger, you are eligible for the Commonwealth Essay Competition and pit your writing skills against students of the same age around the world. There are lots of prizes -...
Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid put on 314, a record second-wicket stand for India against England, as the hosts made 453 on day two of the final Test, reports BBC. The dominant partnership guided India to a formidable 320-1 after...
South Africa captain Graeme Smith made his 18th Test hundred to give his side an outside chance of victory against Australia in Perth, reports BBC. The tourists were 227-3 at the end of the fourth day's play, after being set...
YOKOHAMA, Dec 20 (AFP) : Winning the Club World Cup Sunday would be a major boost for Manchester United going into the new year and send a powerful message of intent to their Premiership rivals, says Wayne Rooney.United will return...
New Zealand crawled to 145-2 after bowling West Indies out for 307 on day two of the second Test at Napier, BBC reports. The Windies resumed on 258-6 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 100 - and the left-hander made 126 not...
YOKOHAMA, Dec 20 (Reuters) : Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo has the potential to become as great a player as Pele or Diego Maradona, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said Saturday."The expectations are always so high with Cristiano because of his...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) XI will play a three-day practice match with the touring Sri Lanka beginning today (Sunday) at BKSP in Savar as heavy fog still plagues the capital and adjoining areas, reports UNB. Former national vice-captain cum top...
Sattar Textile Mills Ltd has again come forward to sponsor Rahmatganj MFS football team now playing in the ongoing CityCell 2nd B League, reports UNB.The announcement was made at a press conference organised by Rahmatganj Muslim Friends Society at the...
All the four events of the Popular Pharmaceutical Victory Day Tennis Competition advanced to the semi-final stages at the Ramna National Tennis Complex in the city Saturday, reports UNB.In the men's singles, Amol Roy (NTC) beat Niranjan Ram (Hotel Sheraton)...
DU CorrespondentThousands of students of the country are now in uncertainty regarding the first-year honours admission at Dhaka University (DU) due to indifference and arbitrary decision of the authorities concerned.The uncertainty has emerged because of not withdrawing the conditions on...
RANGPUR, Dec 20 (BSS): Normal life continued to be seriously disrupted due to shivering cold coupled with blowing chilly winds for the seventh consecutive day in the northern Bangladesh adding to the sufferings of the people. The severity of the...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 20 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting here Saturday underscored the need for a collective effort to make the aboriginal people free from the vicious cycle of poverty side by side with making them competent in all aspects especially...
A two-day international conference on statistical science, to be organised jointly by North South University (NSU), Bangladesh and Carleton University, Canada, will begin in the city on December 26.Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Salehuddin Ahmed is expected to inaugurate the...
Speakers at a function Saturday underscored the need for initiating a mass awareness programme to make the hospital complexes tobacco-free, reports BSS.This was essential for the sake of health of patients, physicians and others, they said at a discussion on...
RANGPUR, Dec 20 (BSS): Prices of potato start falling with the arrival of newly harvested early variety of potato in the local markets in the country's northern region, market sources said. The newly harvested potato is selling at Tk 13...
SAVAR, Dec 20 (BSS): The dawn at the Jahangirnagar University (JU) begins with the chirping of migratory birds, which have already landed in flock on the lakes of the campus, familiar as a safe abode of wildlife. With the very...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20 (BSS): The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has taken a comprehensive programme to preserve its significant role as well as contribution and the history made during the country's glorious War of Liberation. As part of the programme, the...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of three Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, reports BSS.In a condolence message,...
Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed Saturday visited Combined Military Hospital to see the injured journalist and cameraman of private television channel ETV, reports UNB.The two were shifted to the CMH from Bogra Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital Friday evening.The...
Engineer Faizul Islam Selim was re-elected president of the Gulshan club for the year 2008-09, reports UNB.The election was held Thursday at the club premises.Ten members of the executive committee elected are Sabera Ahmed, Naveed Alam, Riaz ur Rahman, Nahar...
Our CorrespondentFARIDPUR, Dec 20: Infectious diseases like chicken pox, coughing, influenza and skin ailments are spreading at an alarming rate in the district after their breakout four weeks ago. Sources say that 20 in every 100 in the district are...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board has sought the Chief Adviser's (CA) intervention in removing all hurdles to fresh recruitment of customs and VAT (value added tax) officials.Expressing deep concern over the prevailing situation, the board officials said that the customs...
Shakhawat Hossain Falling prices of rice in international and local markets might discourage farmers in their bid to bring more areas under Boro cultivation, which could lead to production target shortfall in the current season, said a government report Saturday....
Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina Saturday urged people to eliminate the "corrupt, terrorists and plunderers" in the next general election, reports bdnews24.com. "The people will have to choose for themselves who they vote for - the corrupt, terrorists and...
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