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,...
Quazi Shahabuddin, Ph.D. | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
FOOD prices in both domestic and international markets have reached all-time high in recent times. The surge in the prices of food grains, especially that of rice, has become a matter of serious concern not only in Bangladesh, but also...
Amal Roy of NTC won double crown in the Dhaka Open Tennis Competition as he emerged the men's singles champion Friday after clinching the men's doubles title, reports UNB.In the day's men's singles final, Amal Roy beat teammate Ranjan Ram...
KABUL, Aug 8 (AP): US.-led coalition forces "inadvertently" killed four women and a child during a clash with militants in a central Afghan province, the military said Friday.Meanwhile, a coalition service member died in a roadside blast in the nation's...
The army will be deployed in the upcoming upazila polls with power of arrest, election commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain said, reports bdnews24.com."At least eight to nine lakh people are required to maintain law and order in big elections like the...
A total of Tk 7.04 billion (704.40 crore) as loans were disbursed during the last fiscal year among the poultry farm owners and traders to help them overcome the losses caused by the avian influenza known as bird flue, reports...
Simon Webb | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
OPEC has held its nerve while oil prices have dropped nearly 20 per ent in a month and the producer group is expected to let the market slide further before taking any action to cut output.Oil traded at below $120...
FE Report | 2008-08-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been elected member to two top international postal bodies -- the Council of Administration (CA) and the Postal Operations Council (POC).The elections were held Wednesday in Geneva during the on-going 241th International Postal Congress, said a press release...
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