FE Report Nokia and the Center for Cancer Prevention & Research (CCPR) have jointly announced the start of a nationwide breast cancer awareness campaign and free screening programme Sunday. In Bangladesh, CCPR intensified its initiatives to raise awareness about the...
Badiur Rahman has been elected chairman of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited for the next one year (October 11, '08 to October 10, '09). He was elected unanimously at the 170th meeting of the board of directors of the bank in...
The quarterly managers' conference and eid reunion of the Premier Bank Limited was held in the city recently, says a press release. Vice Chairman of the board of directors of the bank BH Haroon was present as the chief guest....
A 140-member contingent of the Bangladesh police will join the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor, reports UNB.Of them, the first group of 70 policemen, led by Police Super Tanvir Haider Chowdhury, reached East Timor Friday night by a...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 11 (UNB): The posts of headmaster in 10 secondary schools in Puthia Upazila of the district have been lying vacant since long hampering educational activities.Local Education office said the posts are lying vacant in Pocha Maria High School,...
BRAHMANBARIA, Oct 11 (UNB): The district jail could not be shifted to the newly constructed building, due to shortage of manpower.Prisoners are living in a subhuman condition in the old jail as three or four times more prisoners are living...
JHENIDAH, Oct 11 (UNB): Two terrorists were killed in a shootout with police at Kadamdi in Shailakupa Upazila early Saturday.The deceased were Maruf Hossain (40) of Beparipara in the town and Enamul Haque (38) of Harinarayanpur village in Kushtia Sadar...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Oct 11: Five persons were killed and 75 others injured in a road accident at Nimtoli of Khetlal Upazila under Joypurhat district Friday night. According to the Joypurhat police, the accident occurred when the driver of a...
MYMENSINGH, Oct 11 (UNB): A man was arrested along with nine and half sacks of rice allocated under VGF programme from Ghoshgaon Bazaar in Dhobaura upazila Friday morning.Local people caught M Mofizuddin (50) of Jigatala village of the upazila when...
PABNA, Oct 11 (UNB):At least 30 people were injured in a clash over a boat race in the Chiknai River at Debuttar in Atghoria upazila Saturday.
DU CorrespondentChairman of Urdu Department of the Dhaka University (DU) Umme Salma passed away Saturday morning at the age of 61 at Apollo Hospital in Kolkata.She was suffering from various ailments, including kidney and heart diseases along with diabetes.Her namaj-e-janaza...
THE government has decided to reduce the prices of petroleum products within next one month under a market-driven price adjustment formula. Though yet to be decided officially, the extent of reduction in fuel oil prices is likely to be well...
Syed Fattahul AlimForeign aid is still a vital input in our national development budget. Even in the current fiscal, out of the Tk 256 billion budget for the Annual Development Programme (ADP), Tk 145.90 billion, which is 57 per cent...
Matthew BenjaminThe global financial crisis is turning into a bigger drain on the U.S. federal budget than experts estimated two weeks ago, ballooning the deficit toward $2.0 trillion. Bailouts of American International Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac likely will...
Munira HosseinA neglected area of law enforcement remains financial crimes. The police can barely tackle the crimes. They are underequipped and lack the training and specialised knowledge to investigate financial crimes. Even the simple financial crimes require special training and...
THE present population of Bangladesh is estimated to be around 150 million people. However, even if the official version of the annual population growth rate at 1.48 per cent is accepted, this population could be an enormous one at 280...
CIVIL servants in our country behave like a privileged hereditary aristocracy. Until retirement they can avoid action for their underperformance or corruption. This has been the case since independence. It is no use to start cases afresh against such offenders...
Maswood Alam Khan from Cockeysville, Maryland, USATHE news of the unprecedented 700 billion US Dollar bailout package in the making seems not working yet to allay fears of bankers to open their loan desks to their customers as usual. Or,...
Eduardo Lizano, Costa Rican economist tells Daniel Zueras of IPS in an interview THE financial crisis in the United States and Europe could cause a fall in Central American exports, tourism, property investments and remittances sent by migrant workers to...
Simon KennedyGroup of Seven (G7) finance chiefs, meeting after stocks plunged and as a global recession looms, vowed to prevent the failure of vital banks while failing to unveil new initiatives for thawing credit markets. "The current situation calls for...
Ron JacksonTrain tragedy example of a growing problem. Cell phone kills 25 people. That may sound like a headline from a checkout counter tabloid. Actually, it's a true story, but it will never be reported that way.Last month in Los...
Thomas Claburn Media companies should invest in describing their content with metadata, to make it discoverable and make it as easy as possible for consumers to engage with, experts suggest. The Internet is going social and that has major implications...
Stephen ShanklandAs expected, Mozilla Labs released a Firefox plug-in Tuesday called Geode that lets Web sites figure out a person's approximate geographic location and use it in online services--as long as you grant the software permission to access the information....
Many organisations look to reduce operational expenses while increasing overall efficiency. Here are 10 ways to cut IT operations costs in your organisation. Take a look at IT process automation. Run book automation tools have matured to the point that...
Marguerite ReardonSkype's president said that the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China. In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China,...
By default, the feature is automatically turned on Friday and Saturday nights, but people can set for any day and chose the hours in which the safeguard is activated. Antone Gonsalves Google is offering to help people avoid those embarrassing...
Jason Ostrom of VoIP Hopper plans to release his next-generation VoIP sniffer at Toorcon in San Diego to help raise awareness of the type of vulnerabilities businesses face as they adopt unified communications (UC) technology. He told CNET News that...
Sabiha Mahmud SumiA village situated in within the rocks of northern Karnataka state in India is the famous historical site of Hampi. The place is worth-visiting for any learner or teacher interested in history and human civilization. The renowned temples...
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Agencies): The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt by the administration to salvage a nuclear deal with Pyongyang before President Bush's term...
KHAR (Pakistan), Oct 11 (AFP): Taliban rebels decapitated four pro-government tribal elders in a Pakistan border region where the army is fighting Al-Qaeda and extremist militants, officials said Saturday. It was the second killing this week in Bajaur of tribal...
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