Riding on a Yusuf Kabir hattrick, Sena Palli High School outclassed Motijheel Ideal School and College by 7-0 goals in a match of the Metropolis School Football League (Under-11) at the Segun Bagicha High School ground in the city Friday,...
Sachin Tendulkar has dismissed speculation about his retirement from one-day cricket, saying he was "batting brilliantly" at the moment and that the thought of quitting had not even crossed his mind, reports Cricinfo. "The thought of retirement has not crossed...
SYDNEY, Sept 7 (AFP): Ricky Ponting will join the Australian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 cricket world championships in South Africa after his wife's health improved. The Australian captain had been in doubt for the tournament after staying home when...
Qazi AzadAN event, tragic or bad, put in perspective, explains the causes of its occurrence. This step is important in identifying a workable corrective step or programmes to exclude the possibility of its recurrence. Otherwise, the mad chase after the...
Kazi Md. Mortuza Ali concluding his two-part articleIN order to enhance and ensure an effective management system for good corporate governance, the existence of an effective monitoring and control system is indispensable. Internal control system is necessary for ensuring management...
Demetri Sevastopulo from Al Asad, IraqPresident George W. Bush this week raised the prospect of withdrawing some US troops from Iraq if the security situation improved.During a surprise visit to Anbar, a province declared "lost" to violence by US military...
The government-business dialogue last Wednesday was an earnest attempt on the part of the government to allay whatever fears and lack of confidence that the business community has been suffering from in recent months. The confidence of the business community...
Enayet RasulONE remembers the command economy of the Soviet era. Everything, under it, was produced by the state and marketed or distributed by the state. It worked for a while for the wretched millions of the Russians who knew nothing...
Abu ZafarTHE growth of unemployment in the country, now running at a pace higher than that of the last decade when, according to a study of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the average annual growth thereof was 1.9 per cent,...
Aramex, one of the world's leading total transportation and logistics solution providers, released Thursday its 2006 Corporate Sustainability Report, the first of its kind in the Arab world, in a forum titled 'Changing Today Protecting Tomorrow.'The Aramex Sustainability Report communicates...
Both the Chief Adviser and the Chief of the Army have assured the businesses of the government's on-going anti-graft drive being carried out in a well-targeted way. At last Wednesday's dialogue on "Bangladesh Economy and Future Perspective" held in the...
Many people in Bangladesh who earlier had starry eyed admiration for strongmen, are now seen as changing. They have benefited from democracy. For example, democracy has meant more freedoms that did not exist before. Democracy has meant better electoral practices...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on Bangladesh, expressing deep concern over what it said was the disproportionate response of joint forces against the student protests at Dhaka university. The resolution adopted on Sept 6 also spelled out concern...
Breakaway Jatiya Party faction chief Roushan Ershad in a tit-for-tat move Friday expelled acting chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud and presidium member Ziauddin Bablu. The expulsion came a day after Mahmud, who was made makeshift party chief by founder H M...
Dhaka, Sep 8 (UNB) - All colleges in the country’s divisional headquarters reopened today (Saturday) following a government announcement, as the educational institutions are now coming back into normalcy after the recent outbreaks of violence. Reporters of UNB from all...
Dhaka, Sept 8 (UNB)- Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has demanded soft-loan for six months to pay salary and Eid bonus to workers as many of the factory owners turned insolvent. “We received 35 less export orders this...
Dhaka, Sep 8 (UNB) - New BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday said party reform would be done in accordance with the party’s constitution, not under a “unique design” of his expelled predecessor Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. Talking to reporters...
Dhaka, Sep 8(UNB)- A 10-member medical board was formed on Friday night for treatment of detained Arafat Rahman, younger son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. The board headed by chairman of Cardiology department of BSMMU Dr KMHS Sirajul Haq...
Dhaka, Sep 8 (UNB) - The Council of Advisers of the caretaker government Saturday approved in principle the Fertilizer Management (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 aimed at stopping the sale of mixture of substances or low-grade fertilizers in the name of organic...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe US invasion of Iraq that came down on Saddam Hussein, his army and the people of Iraq as 'shock and awe,' is running its fourth year. But the war with its high technology edge has not been...
Yasmin Rimi Eleven-year-old Ipsita has been afflicted with Thalassamea when she was three and a half. Thalassamea is an incurable disease with no permanent cure. A patient inflicted with this disease needs frequent blood replacement. Since Ipsita has been diagnosed...
Judging by the statements from the Baghdad government, you would think Iraq was getting safer. Yet a look at the dramatically-increasing flow of refugees from the country shows that most Iraqis agree with the findings of International Crisis Group experts...
Enayet RasulThe high-profile meeting on Wednesday between business leaders and the highest level figures in the government could not have come sooner. For the urgency of such an exchange of views between the two sides, was being felt direly. According...
Ishrat Firdousi"How has this situation come about? It is because of the decline in the socio-economic conditions of the country and not giving the due importance to the reappearance of tuberculosis. The salient points in TB treatment are the intake...
Farid Hossain At Beijing International Airport we are greeted by a young woman who looks more like a college girl than a professional guide. "Welcome to China. My name is Narisha," says the woman, flashing a grin on her pretty...
Jonathan GuthrieAn idea that Europeans are hopeless at high-tech start-ups has taken root alongside older stereotypes of humourless Germans, food-obsessed Frenchmen and sexually repressed Britons. Europeans gaze longingly at the US, where geeky technologists set up big cutting-edge businesses such...
David BowenVisitor numbers to central bank sites must have been breaking records this month. Both professionals and the "interested punter" will have wanted to see what the Fed and its equivalents round the world have been saying and doing about...
Clive CrookAlberto Gonzales is assured of his place in history. When he at last steps down as US attorney-general next month, it will be as the most reviled and ridiculed holder of that office in recent memory. With Democrats cheering...
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - Sri Lanka, which is fighting a longstanding insurgency against Tamil separatists, is fast gaining notoriety as "one of the world's worst places" both for journalists and humanitarian aid workers -- due primarily to...
Shu-Ching Jean Chen from Hong KongFrom the standpoint of Asian air travellers, it is a marriage of heaven and hell. The end product could be an indicator of the extent to which stodgy Chinese state-owned companies will open up to...
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