Saiful Kaiser"He expressed annoyance over the manner in which one of the PCB officials had inquired of his whereabouts from his family," said Shafqat Naghmi, the Pakistan cricket board's chief operating officer on Shoaib Akhtar's response to the fine of...
BEIJING, Aug 12 (AFP): While the 2008 Olympics will not have any major direct effect on economic growth in China, it will have an immense indirect impact, in terms of boosting overall sentiment, economists said. The right to host the...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Sunday announced separate national teams for two international soccer meets to be held this month -- Nehru Cup in India and Merdeka Cup in Malaysia, reports UNB.The five-team Nehru Cup Football tournament will be held in...
LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (AFP): Top-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova withdrew from her scheduled semi-final against compatriot Nadia Petrova at the 600,000-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here Saturday with a leg injury.
HONG KONG, Aug 12 (AFP): IOC President Jacques Rogge said Sunday Hong Kong was ready to host the equestrian competition at next year's Olympics, as German riders continued to dominate the trial event. Rogge was inspecting the facilities during the...
Jintu Ram of Cadet College emerged as Division-A champion in the Federation Cup Open Squash Tournament, beating Ram Gopal of Chittagong Club by 3-2 sets in the final at the Gulshan Club Squash Court in the city Sunday, reports UNB.In...
Hosts South Africa left all-rounder Jacques Kallis out of their 15-man squad for September's World Twenty20, reports BBC. The Proteas' leading scorer in Tests and ODIs has been criticised in the past for slow scoring in one-dayers. Other all-rounders Shaun...
The main task of preparing digitised voter list with photographs for the next elections eventually started from Rajshahi City Corporation Saturday with gusto of enthusiasm among the voters, reports UNB.Chief Adviser of the Caretaker Government Fakhruddin Ahmed is expected to...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) contradicted a part of a news item published in Saturday's issue of the FE under the headline "500 RMG units go out of operation in 7 months."In a clarification, the BGMEA said...
KISHOREGANJ, Aug 11 (UNB): Reminding his force of the changed situation, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad today (Saturday) said those days are gone to go unpunished after committing an offence. "Today people are seeing what they didn't see...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Aug 11: Teachers, students and guardians of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), Rajshahi campus, have protested against the government decision to close all outer campuses of the private universities and said, the government should reconsider it...
DU CorrespondentThe probe body once again identified some 65 'fake' students at three departments of Dhaka University (DU) Saturday bringing the total to 273 since inception of the drive against admission forgery at the institution.Of them, 54 are from the...
Twenty more government agencies, private organisations and individuals Saturday donated about Tk 50 million (4,99,17,115.36) to the CA's Relief and Welfare Fund for the country's flood victims, reports UNB.Meanwhile, an amount of Tk 5.0 million (50 lakh) was allocated for...
]The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Saturday introduced 'Open Day,' the day in a week it has set aside to contact people directly, reports bdnews24.com. DMP Naim Ahmed, introduced the day through a press conference at his office midday Saturday. At...
SYLHET, Aug 11 (UNB): A shishu park will be constructed after the name of former Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman at Alampur in Dakkhin Surma Upazila at a cost of Tk 170 million (17 crore).Sylhet City Corporation has decided to...
A separate regulatory body is needed to oversee companies' compliance with corporate governance guidelines, speakers said at a seminar Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan proposed a new commission to enforce corporate governance among companies and...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 11 (BSS): Nasir Uddin alias Nasu, a top listed terrorist of Rangunia Upazila in the district, was arrested from Razanagar area under the upazila this morning.Police said Nasu, an accused of murder, hijacking, looting and extortion, was wanted...
Police seized 12 bombs Friday night from a dormitory bathroom of Jahangirnagar Nagar University (JU), reports bdnews24.com.The bombs were disposed of safely upon detonation. Police found nothing further after conducting a search of the dormitory's corridors, rooms and bathrooms in...
Dhaka, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com)—President Iajuddin Ahmed and chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed plan to visit Tungipara on Aug 15 to pay their respects to Bangabandhu on his death anniversary, a spokesman said Sunday. Law adviser Mainul Hosein however told bdnews24.com that...
Flood water has started receding from most of the affected districts after creating serious disruption in normal life of millions of people and causing extensive damage to standing crops and physical infrastructures. And the people who are now leading a...
Shahiduzzaman KhanYET another report on irregularities in Biman revealed the national flag carrier's pitiable state of affairs. It appeared that the Biman was never allowed to operate independently and its key management personnel were involved in corruption and irregularities in...
Joe LealyIF you asked someone in which country Standard & Poor's has the most staff, few would guess India.But in fact almost 50 per cent of the US-based credit ratings agency's global staff are there: 1,500 at local affiliate Crisil...
Andrew Ward, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Eoin Callan CONCERN about turmoil in the credit market erupted on to the presidential campaign trail recently when Hillary Clinton called for tougher regulation of mortgage lenders and support for homeowners.The frontrunner for the Democratic...
THERE is no shame in taking generous international help when confronted with a natural disaster which may partly or fully overwhelm national capacities. Even the developed and fast developing countries in the world, take international assistance when they suffer natural...
Hard observers at field levels know it that the official family planning programme is not running well. The door to door visitors of the family planning department to households are hardly seen doing their job. Although they are paid from...
Notwithstanding the exporting of the hilsa fish in the past, the same used to be also smuggled out for that was considered a more profitable venture avoiding all regulations and payment of duties to the authorities. The official volume of...
Tom EngelhardtWITHDRAWAL is now so mainstream. Recently, debate about it led to a sleep-in protest in the Senate and, this week, it's hit the cover of TIME Magazine, of which there's no mainer-stream around. The TIME cover couldn't be more...
Mario Osava from Imperatriz, BrazilThe babaçú, an abundant native palm tree in the eastern Amazon and in the north and northeast of Brazil, has great potential for the production of "biodiesel" and biomass fuel, but the women who make their...
Ashfaq Yusufzai from PeshawarTaking advantage of the United Nations-facilitated Afghan Transit Trade Agreement (ATTA), a massive contraband trade has grown around goods imported into Afghanistan and smuggled back into the markets of this frontier town in Pakistan. Mohammad Fida, owner...
PARIS, Aug 11 (AFP): US home loan woes caused more turmoil on world markets Friday despite the tens of billions of dollars released by central banks to stop the problem turning into a global economic crisis. London's FTSE stock market...
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