Our Correspondent | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
KURIRGAM, Aug 08: Kurigram Power Development Board (PDB) has an outstanding amount of over Tk 90 million as arrear bill from various consumers.Of the amount, arrear bills worth Tk 7.8 million were owed by various government offices under Education Ministry,...
FE Report | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
Mostafa Golam Quddus has recently been unanimously reelected Chairman of Rupali Insurance Company Limited, said a press release.The election was held at the company's 124th meeting of the board of directors held in the city on August 7.A former police...
URUMQI, (China), August 8 (Agencies): Police shut down the bustling bazaar in the capital of China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang Friday amid threats from an Islamic group that attackers might target buses, trains and planes during the Olympics.A sign...
WASHINGTON, Aug 08 (AP): Top Bush administration officials are urging the president to direct U.S. troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in its regional counterterrorism...
Anwarul Iqbal | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) are especially suited for Bangladesh for its vast workforce. A large portion of this workforce is unemployed or underemployed. Big industries, which are geared to achieve the economy of scale, involve high establishment and operating...
Lowly Dhaka Wanderers Club forced Muktijoddha Sangsad KC to play a 1-1 goal draw in an opening Group A match of the Citycell Federation Cup Football at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB.In the day's match,...
Speakers at a workshop in Gaibandha stressed the need for reducing the dependence on other countries and financial institutions like World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).They called for increasing the internal income by exploring resources to develop...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Xinhua): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to exclude Brunei Darussalam from the Beijing Olympic Games because no athlete was registered for competition, according to an IOC statement made here Friday."It is a great shame and...
BRUSSELS, AUG 8 (AP): The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran on Friday to punish Tehran for not committing to a long-standing demand of the international community that it freeze its nuclear enrichment program.The new EU restrictions go slightly...
Louis Charbonneau | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
The United States and its Western allies are pushing for a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran but negotiations will drag on for months as Russia and China work hard to delay and water down any new measures.US and...
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua): Spectators in the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, in north Beijing warmly applauded the entry of the Iraqi delegation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday night. The Iraqi delegation, a...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Xinhua): Everyone in the world should follow the practice of the "Olympics Truce" to help build a more peaceful and harmonious world, said Hugh T Dugan, chairman of the Truce Foundation of the United States, who is...
Enayet Rasul | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
The unfortunate typical instinct of many Bangladeshis these days is to despise the surroundings from which they draw their sustenance. There are over 180 countries in the world and conditions in many of them are far worse than Bangladesh such...
The government is about to take some new initiatives in the current fiscal year to increase the collection of taxes. A similar drive in the last fiscal led to significant results. Many businesses and professional persons who should have been...
DHAKA'S traffic jam has long been a nagging problem. The congestion is now totally unbearable. Far from any redress, the problem has been aggravating over the time. The situation, as the experiences in past years do suggest, will worsen during...
MEGVREKISI, (Georgia), August 8 (Reuters): Fighting raged in and around the capital of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region on Friday as Georgian troops, backed by tanks and warplanes, pounded separatist forces in a bid to re-take the territory.A Reuters correspondent...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Xinhua): Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), expressed good wishes for Taiwan athletes Friday, saying that he hoped they would have good results at the Olympic Games.Hu also...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Xinhua): Athletics will provide the most flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Friday night.Sixty-one flag bearers will be recruited from Athletics, the highest number of any sport.Three delegations will not have...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) launched Friday partial automation for processing export and import documents.Automation project sources said initially the system will process the Import General Manifest (IGM) and Export General Manifest (EGM) documents that deal with export and import....
LONDON, Aug 8 (AFP): Top English Premiership club Chelsea confirmed Thursday night they had made a bid for Real Madrid's Brazilian striker Robinho.The Stamford Bridge club, who have already signed Jose Bosingwa and Deco, had made no secret of their...
Hundreds of Tibet protesters | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
arrested in NepalKATHMANDU, Aug 8: Nepalese police said they had arrested at least 500 Tibetans protesting near the Chinese embassy today, hours ahead of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. "We want to give the millions of people who...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
Only 2.0 million out of 20 million ultra poor could be brought under the government's social safety net programme (SSNP) due to delayed disbursement of fund, lack of planning and weak surveillance and monitoring, a study report said."
Mamun Rashid | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
The Basel II: An Introduction: In 1988 the "Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices' first released a capital adequacy framework, now known as Basel I. This initiative set out the internationally accepted framework for measuring capital adequacy and...
Our Correspondent | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 08: Movement of trucks during daytime will cease in the port city with effect from Sunday next.This was resolved in a coordination meeting of the Traffic Department of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) with the leaders of Bangladesh Garments...
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Xinhua): Hong Kong plans to win a table tennis (TT) medal at the Beijing Olympic Games to repeat its Athens glory in 2004, a coach said.Li Huifen, head coach of Hong Kong's women's team, said that "one...
Billy I Ahmed | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
FOOD prices rose 4.0 per cent in the United States in 2007, the highest rise since 1990. All over the world, food prices are on the rise and Bangladesh is no exception.There are many reasons contributing to this current crisis,...
Rampura KC moved to the final of the Pioneer Football League with a solitary goal victory over Swadhinata Krira Sangha in the first semifinal at the Bir Shrestho Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB.With this...
S M Jahangir | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has given over 50 licences to the operators of captive and stand-by power generators while process of issuing about 125 more licences are also underway, official sources said.The regulatory authority is, at the same...
NEW YORK, AUG 8 (AP): Oil prices resumed their descent Friday, droppingbriefly below $116 a barrel as a huge jump in the U.S. dollar and expectations of slowing global demand offset supply concerns over a sabotaged pipeline in Turkey.Light, sweet...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
Many new technological innovations have been made during the last few decades. But though those inventions are of recent origin, they have already become essential elements of our day to day life. Now think of a day without the Internet,...
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