Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman said Monday that the party would thwart any alleged move by the caretaker government (CG) to spy on political parties through the political intelligence office recently launched to purge the country's politics, reports...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Monday appointed renowned football coach Shafiqul Islam Manik as the national football coach until November next, reports UNB.Manik replaces former national booter cum football coach Abu Mohammad Yousuf, who earlier quit from the hot seat following...
British Airways and Association of Travel Agents in Bangladesh (ATAB) have reached a mutually agreeable solution to the outstanding differences over travel agency remuneration payments, says a press release.This agreement widens further the options for British Airways (BA) customers in...
Kalpana Sharma from Mumbai | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
IT took a high level of strategizing. Women stood around the man given the task. They literally "protected" him. And in the end they and he won. He managed to "table" a piece of paper that was in danger of...
PARIS, Aug 18 (AFP): France's gross domestic product (GDP) should be 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the Bank of France (BoF) forecast today, as France's prime minister summoned key ministers to discuss the economy.This preliminary estimate...
THE Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has received accolades from home and abroad for evolving a good number of high yielding rice varieties since its establishment in 1970. It will soon release submergence-resistant and salt-tolerant rice varieties. This is, no...
FE Report | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) held its half- yearly managers' conference 2008 at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre recently. MTB Chairman Samson H Chowdhury attended the meeting as chief guest and Managing Director Kazi Md Shafiqur Rahman presided over the event,...
TOKYO, Aug 18, (AFP): The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed to boost cooperation to probe toxic Chinese-made dumplings, an issue that has caused a furore in Japan, officials said today.Japan's Masahiko Komura raised the dumpling issue in a...
RU Correspondent | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
A three-day workshop and seminar on "Life Skill for Career Development Planning" and seminar "Career Opportunity and Planning" ended at Rajshahi University (RU) Sunday.The Rotaract Club of RU organised both the workshop and seminar. The workshop was held on the...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 17 (bdnews24.com): Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) held demonstrations on Chittagong University (CU) campus Sunday against an attack by Islami Chhatra Shibir supporters on a Bangabandhu mourning procession the previous day.Leaders of the Awami League (AL) student wing said...
Dubai, Aug 18: Emirates has again received plaudits for its innovative inflight technology after scooping the muchcoveted Skytrax 2008 Best Airline Inflight Entertainment Award for the fourth consecutive year, says a pres release.The airline's ice (information, communication and entertainment) and...
Trial of the extortion case filed by businessman Azam Jahangir Chowdhury against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resumed Monday, after cancellation of the case by the High Court (HC) and its restoration by the Appellate Division on a government appeal,...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
An upward rally of the US dollar against major global currencies has started to reduce import costs but any chance for a declining inflation appears to be bleak thanks to the country's 'rogue' traders, officials and experts said Monday.They said...
The government would take stern actions against the unscrupulous Hajj agents who would fail to implement the conditions of Hajj agreement signed between the governments of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, reports BSS.Official sources said that the decision was taken in...
UCB AGMs not held due to court banThe authorities of UCB (suspended) have stated that the 20th, 21st and 22nd annual general meetings (AGMs) due to be held on August 17, '08 at 10:30am, 11am and 11:30am respectively at BDR...
LONDON, Aug 18 (AFP): An influential body which represents British business, in a report published yesterday, said there was a "distinct possibility" of the country facing recession in the next six or nine months.In its quarterly economic forecast, the British...
HAVANA, Aug 18 (Agencies): Tropical Storm Fay pounded Cuba with torrential rain and wind Monday, prompting authorities to evacuate dozens of low-lying communities, cancel carnival celebrations in a central of province and warn of flooding.Forecasters said Fay, which earlier left...
KHOST, (Afghanistan), Aug 18 (Reuters): A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the gate of the main US military base in southeastern Afghanistan Monday, killing nine civilians and wounding 13, Afghan and US officials said.The bombing comes at...
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (AFP): The US economy has become the number-one issue of November's fast-approaching presidential election, and whoever ends up controlling the White House will face pressing budget and fiscal challenges.Some analysts say a flailing economy can benefit a...
Visiting Bangladesh national cricket team face Australian Institute of Sports in the first practice match at the Garden
CHITTAGONG, Aug 17 (UNB): The authority of Chittagong University today (Sunday) formed a four-member committee to investigate Saturday's clash between Islamic Chhatra Shibir (ICS) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the campus that left 10 students, including a Shibir leader,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-08-18 00:00:00
The government is going to select a new base-year for GDP (gross domestic product) calculation taking into account the contribution of a number of economic activities.Private universities and English medium schools, clinic, hospitals and diagnostic centres, livestock and poultry, non-profit...
The Awami League (AL) fears the interim administration may well push the country toward a 1/11-like situation if it held the general elections under the state of emergency, reports bdnews24.com."If the government wants to hold elections without withdrawing the state...
Indigenous community leaders, social activists, government officials and journalists Thursday stressed the need for the media's proactive role to protect the rights of ethnic communities through projecting their sufferings.They said the media could be used as a powerful tool for...
Fazle Rashid from New YorkThe Consumer Price Index in the US in July this year is 5.6 per cent higher than the corresponding period of 2007. The workers in the manufacturing sector earned 3.1 per cent less than they did...
SYLHET, Aug 17 (UNB): Khairunnesa, mother of detained Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor-elect Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, died at the Square Hospital in the capital at about 3:00 pm Sunday. She was 80.Kamran, who contested the August 4 polls from...
S M Jahangir | 2008-08-18 00:00:00
The inflow of overseas grant for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) marked a robust 42 per cent rise in the last fiscal as donors pumped increased volumes of fund into various relief and rehabilitation schemes following the November 15 devastating 'Sidr'."The foreign...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2008-08-18 00:00:00
The scarcity of both gas and power has emerged as the single most important hurdle to the country's economic development. And it seems that the government is groping in darkness to find a solution to the problem.The mismatch between demand...
BEIJING, Aug 17 (AP): Rafael Nadal will become No 1 in the rankings Monday, and he is No 1 at the Olympics.The Spaniard won a gold medal Sunday, overcoming two set points in the second set and holding every service...
FE Report | 2008-08-18 00:00:00
The central bank has relaxed the foreign exchange regulations relating to advance payment against imports and payment of freight charges to chartered ship owners abroad to facilitate foreign trade.The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued two separate circulars in this connection Thursday...
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