Hosts Sylhet Division declared the first innings at 366 for 9 in 126.4 overs against league leaders Barisal Division on the second day of the 8th round match of the four-day Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 10th National Cricket League at Sylhet...
PARIS, Dec 2 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo won the Golden Ball awarded to the European Footballer of the Year Tuesday, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to take the honour and the first since fellow winger George Best in 1968.Ronaldo's brilliant...
Riding on foreign striker Nicodemus Anunda Gichana's hattrick, Arambagh KS earned a massive 5-0 goals win over Khulna Abahani in the lone match of the Citycell 2nd B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city Tuesday. This...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2 (AP): Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik says the simmering tension between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks can be lessened through cricket diplomacy."Everyone is sad whatever happened in Mumbai last week, but sporting...
NEW DELHI, Dec 1 (AP): The Indian cricket board has altered England's tour itinerary and dropped the lone warm-up game.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) says the opening Test match will now be played from December 11-15...
The DMP team won the Bangladesh Police Hockey Championship beating APBN team by 3-1 goals in the final at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium in the city Tuesday, UNB reports.Armstrong Rana Das scored two goals for the champion team...
Rangpur DSA moved into the final of the 29th National (Inter-District) Cricket Championship eliminating Dinajpur DSA by eight wickets in a one-sided 2nd semifinal at Shams-ul-Huda Stadium in Jessore Tuesday, reports UNB.Rangpur will meet Khulna DSA in the final tomorrow...
NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (AP): The next Commonwealth Games and cricket World Cup will go ahead as planned, Indian authorities say, despite last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 172 people.Randhir Singh, secretary-general of the Indian Olympic...
AUSTIN, Dec 2 (AP): Lance Armstrong will ride in the 2009 Tour de France, marking the first time he will compete in that race and the Giro d'Italia in the same year."I'm committed to riding for the best guy," Armstrong...
FE Report The central bank has so far found at least 79 loan defaulters among 2139 aspirants who intend to run for the parliamentary polls scheduled for December 29. Besides, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is still cross-checking by nine teams...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The general index (DGEN) of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) shed nearly 500 points for about a couple of months with investors losing investments worth billions of taka. The investors are, apparently, failing to pinpoint factors that...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday approved the draft rules of book building method, a modern mechanism for price fixing of IPOs (initial public offering).The commission set the month of December to pay the annual fees against BO...
Shakhawat Hossain Bangladesh Bank (BB) prefers introduction of a pro-active foreign exchange rate policy to spur competitiveness of priority export sectors and create better employment opportunities in the country.The central bank in a policy paper also suggested maintaining a balance...
FE ReportDhaka stocks fell marginally Tuesday after a day of rally, amid persistently volatile trading. Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) seesawed throughout the whole session as the benchmark index rose 16 points in the first hour. Later, it...
Awami League president Sheikh Hasina says while she was in jail, authorities offered to punish any rivals within her party she would name who had slighted her in the past, reports bdnews24.com. "I was asked to name anyone who might...
The High Court (HC) Tuesday extended the bail granted earlier to former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Gatco scam case until disposal of its rule pending with the HC, reports UNB.Passing the order on a petition,...
Kunio Senga, Director General of South Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), arrives in the city today (Wednesday) on a one-day official visit, said a press release. During the visit, Mr Senga will hold discussions with senior government...
BANGKOK, Dec 2 (Reuters): Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded on Tuesday, plunging the country deeper into chaos and raising fears of a violent backlash by government supporters.Party members vowed...
Senator John McCain, who was the Republican nominee for the last US presidential election, arrived in the city Tuesday night from India by a special flight on a short visit when he is expected to meet government and political leaders....
The government has extended the deadline for depositing small firearms (pistols and revolvers) and ammunition until December 14. Earlier, the government fixed December 3 as the last date for submission of the arms, said an official handout Tuesday. Besides, the...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members seized VoIP equipments worth over Tk 10 million and also arrested a man from Ramna area in the city. Members of RAB-10, during a nine-hour drive till 7 am on Monday, raided a house at...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Tuesday called for strengthening the Bangladesh Better Business Forum (BBBF) by bringing it under a permanent administrative structure to continue the success it had achieved, reports UNB."To retain its earned success trend it is...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government is likely to award contract within this December to install a costly 50-megawatt (MW) oil-fired rental power plant at Sikolbaha in Chittagong, officials said.A Hong Kong-Bangladesh joint-venture company has been selected to set up the plant...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, Dec 02: The United States is in recession since December 2007. It was officially acknowledged only Monday, a year after it started. It is the longest recession since the World War II. National Bureau of...
The Power Division has ordered re-tenders for two proposed 450 MW power plants at Bibiana and Sirajganj, a top official said on Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com. Power Division secretary M Fouzul Kabir Khan told the news agency that the government had...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government has formed an expert committee to analyse the cost of carrying goods by the Bangladesh Railway vis-à-vis the charges it makes for transportation as the state-owned entity has proposed a 64 per cent fare hike to cope with...
The Petrobangla (Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation), which oversees and coordinates operations of all the state-owned energy sector entities, has been making bids to hike the gas prices at the consumers' end for quite sometime. It has been complaining...
Syed Fattahul Alim The three days' horrible nightmare that the residents of the largest city of India had to go through has brought the whole of South Asia face to face with a stark reality. The reality is its total...
Prof. Lutfor RahmanTHOUSANDS of fresh graduates in science and technology are coming out every year from the national, international, public and private universities in Bangladesh. They achieve their degrees in various disciplines of Physical, Biological and Medical sciences. We are...
GOVERNMENT appears to be taking the steps to frame a renewable energy policy for the country. But this policy-making needs to be expedited in view of the energy crisis that the country is going through at the moment.The crisis is...
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