FE ReportThe US dollar repeated its steady face against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Tuesday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market because of moderate demand for the greenback. Besides the inter-bank call money rate retained its early level despite withdrawal of...
The inaugural World Twenty20 tournament starts Tuesday, when South Africa take on West Indies in Johannesburg, reports BBC.The hosts start as second favourites, behind Australia among the 12 teams in the two-week tournament.England face the Aussies and Zimbabwe in Group...
In a year of spectacular success for Australia it was only fitting that Ricky Ponting dominated the awards night in Johannesburg. He was named Player of the Year for the second year in a row, and he also won the...
A century from Dhiman Ghosh put visiting GP-BCB Academy team closing in on another victory as they posted 361 for all in 82.5 overs in the first innings against Northern Territory Strike on the 2nd day of the four-day match...
A month-long residential practice camp for national women booters is likely to begin in a day or two at the Dhanmondi Women Sports Complex ahead of the 2nd Indo-Bangla Games to be held here in December, reports UNB."We will initially...
NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Sept 11 (AFP): Comeback mum Lindsay Davenport played it safe while off-court at the Bali International, passing up the chance to arrive at a beachside award ceremony by motorcycle.Instead the three-time Grand Slam champion, who returned to...
TOKYO, Sept 11 (AFP): Tokyo's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics won government approval Tuesday with a promise of state funds to cover up to half the cost of building major facilities for the games.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet...
CHENGDU (China), Sept 11 (AFP): The United States were forced to fight back against a ferocious North Korea to ensure a 2-2 draw in their World Cup opener here Tuesday.The Americans, ranked number one in the world, had been early...
GLASGOW, Sept 11 (AFP): Alex McLeish believes Scotland's bid to upset France again in Paris Wednesday could be helped by the kind of hometown pressure that contributed to the French rugby team's shock defeat by Argentina in their World Cup...
Group A: Bangladesh, S Africa (A1), W Indies (A2)Group B: England (B2), Australia (B1), ZimbabweGroup C: New Zealand (C1), Sri Lanka (C2), KenyaGroup D: India (D2), Pakistan (D1), ScotlandGROUP STAGE:11 South Africa v West Indies Johannesburg 12 New Zealand v...
The five-day FIFA Football Medicine Course, organised by Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and supported by FIFA, concluded on Monday at the BFF Bhaban, reports UNB.Some 28 participants including four female doctors took part in the course, which was conducted by...
Our CorrespondentNAOGAON, Sept 11: The Second Naogaon Zilla Handball League tournament was inaugurated at a local stadium on September 1.Superintendent of Police Sarder Nurul Amin inaugurated the second handball league tournament under the auspices of Naogaon Zilla Krira Sangstha at...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has condoled the death of Hosna Ara Chowdhury, mother of former BCB general secretary Mahbubul Anam, reports UNB.Hosna Ara Chowdhury breathed her last Tuesday around 8:30 am at the city's Apollo Hospitals.In a condolence message, the...
Engineers and firemen put out a Bakhrabad gas pipeline fire in Chittagong late Tuesday night after hours of struggle, an engineer said. The gas transmission pipeline running through the Karnaphuli River caught fire in an area of 25 industrial and...
A drive to free health-directorate land in Mohakhali from squatters in the so-called "seven-storey slum" area left about 1,000 families homeless Tuesday. The slum people gathered their belongings in a nearby place and took shelter under open skies. Lawyers said...
A Dhaka court Wednesday sentenced DCC ward commissioner Chowdhury Alam and wife Hasina Chowdhury to 10 years in prison in another extortion case. Judge Md Amanullah of Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judges' Court-4 for Dhaka also fined them Tk 10,000 and...
A Narayanganj court Wednesday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker AKM Shamim Osman to eight years in jail for concealing wealth information and dodging income tax payment. Judge Abdul Quddus Miah of the Special Judge's Court for Narayanganj also fined him...
THE chief adviser of the caretaker government Sunday evening while addressing the nation over the state-owned electronic media announced the withdrawal of ban imposed on indoor politics on March 08 last. The withdrawal of the ban thus removes the obstacles...
Qazi AzadHARDLY any Bangladeshi having focused attention on the future and a thoughtful deductive mind could restrain the self from being delighted on reading Thursday morning, September 6, national newspapers.The newspapers of the day informed us that some of our...
Jo Johnson ASKED to rule on a land dispute that has been stuck in the Indian legal system for half a century, the Supreme Court of India last week finally snapped. Noting that the country's courts had seized up beneath...
Adam ThomsonMEXICO's monthly remittance figures have shown a recovery in the amount of cash Mexican migrants send back to their families, according to a senior official at the country's central bank. Jesús Cervantes of the Bank of Mexico told the...
THE lifting of the embargo on indoor politics is a pro-active move by the caretaker government (CG) to facilitate the holding of general election by late 2008. Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed through an address to the nation over the...
JOBS are hard to get these days. The economy has been passing through a difficult transitional period. New investment activities are few and far between. The informal sector that used to provide jobs opportunities to many people is in disarray....
WE are alarmed by the latest reports about Bangladesh facing the grim prospects of tsunami hitting its coastal belt and a major earthquake striking the country. The media reported about such possibilities of the worst kind of natural calamities affecting...
M. Firoze P. E.ONE of the most versatile and most widely used materials in the world is concrete; in fact, its use is so widespread and common that it is hardly noticed. Concrete is a mixture of cement, which is...
Dr. M. Azizur RahmanMARRIAGE is an important human relation in life between a male and a female as the foundation stone of setting-up a home and family. Marriage is a spontaneous or socially and legally arranged agreement between a male...
William DalrympleTRAVEL a few miles north of Old Delhi, and you soon find yourself in a plain so empty and flat that a single bullock cart inching its way across the land appears as tall as a towering temple chariot....
XIAMEN, Fujian, Sept 10 (CEIS): Chinese companies, long-time recipients of foreign investment, have started to export funds and technologies amid global rising demand for economic cooperation partners. More than 50 China-funded firms are doing businesses involving industry, consumer goods and...
XIAMEN, Sept 10 (CEIS): It is time for Chinese investors to go to Africa, a growing market where they can get promising profits, a senior official from Zambia said here. Newly emerging economic powers of Asia such as China should...
LONDON, Sept 10 (AFP): The recent credit crunch in the financial markets has provided a welcome "reckoning" that should help in terms of long-term stability, the outgoing head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in an interview published today....
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