Notable for its enormous potential, WiMAX Multicast Broadcast Service (MCBCS) is emerging as the most viable technology for mobile TV, a new service that looks poised to become hugely important for the mobile industry.Great market potentialMobile Internet is now integral...
WASHINGTON, August 2 (Agencies): Seven years after anthrax-laced letters terrorized an already frightened nation, a new suspect suddenly emerged in the public eye this week. But he was gone just as quickly, committing suicide before he could be charged with...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
The central bank has recommended the law ministry to arrange 'analogous hearing' of classified loan cases involving Tk 110.52 billion of the state-owned commercial banks, official sources said Saturday.The suggestion was made Thursday last as per decision taken at a...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed proposed adopting a clear roadmap for SAARC to fight out poverty and hunger as well as to attain accelerated economic growth to ensure socio-economic progress for some 1.5 billion people in South Asia, reports...
FE Report | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
The central bank is watching the latest development in two Middle East countries -- Kuwait and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- to ensure the flow of inward remittances from the countries, officials said."We are watching the overall situation in the...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 2 (BSS): Adviser for Commerce and Education Hossain Zillur Rahman here today called upon all to keep going on through a solution-centric way for a broader understanding in all spheres of national life to embark on next stage...
RANGPUR, Aug 2 (bdnews24.com): Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad announced Friday that his party would take part in Upazila polls, in the light of a recent High Court ruling that lifted restrictions on political parties participating directly in local...
NEW DELHI, (Internet): The politicos seem to have drawn their lessons from the Kyoto Protocol, two decades earlier, when they burnt their fingers by accepting short-term goals of emission cuts by 2012.It is the economy, stupid!" The economic and political...
Emirates has again proved itself an aviation industry pioneer after becoming the first airline to introduce inflight mobile phone services on a Boeing aircraft, said a press release.Dubai's award-winning airline recently installed the technology, which allows passengers to make calls...
Air Commodore Muhammad Zakiul Islam ndu acsc (Retd)ARE we cut off from the rest of the world, especially the western world, for three days and to the detriment of the overall growth and development of the national economy and the...
HONG KONG, Aug 2 (AP): Asian markets were mixed Friday as stocks in Japan and elsewhere slumped after worse-than-expected news about the US economy. China and Hong Kong shares, though, rebounded on hopes of government intervention ahead of the Olympics.Japan's...
Two persons were killed and four others injured in two separate road accidents at different places in Rangpur and Thakurgaon districts Friday, police sources said, reports BSS.Five persons were injured when a Rangpur-bound truck from Bogra rammed into a roadside...
Mahmuda Shaolin | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
Revenue collection by Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) almost doubled over the last five years as the overall collection jumped by 99.96 per cent to Tk 4.89 billion in fiscal 2007-08 from Tk 2.44 billion in 2003-04.According to the BRTA,...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has planned to engage two former national skippers Aminul Islam Bulbul and Khaled Mashud Pilot, and veteran Mohammad Rafique as consultants for batting, wicket keeping and bowling, reports UNB.The board took the decision to use...
Secretary for Information Jamil Osman Saturday urged all concerned of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) to make good and healthy films in order to restore the image of the industry, reports BSS.The information secretary said the trend of making...
ISLAMABAD, August 2 (AFP): Pakistan's military said Saturday it had no information on a US media report that Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been wounded or killed in a missile strike.US television channel CBS said it had obtained...
FE Report | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
Two small rental power plants (SRPP) have gone into commercial operation supplying about 90 megawatt (MW) of electricity to national grid.These are among six such plants under private sector approved by the government early this year.The renal power units are...
FE Report | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Salehuddin Ahmed Saturday said need-based education must get due priority and patronage alongside the general education to ensure the optimum breeding of the skilled human resource for the country.At the same time the Governor called upon...
HARARE, Aug 2 (AFP): Zimbabwe's central bank chief has urged a six-month price and salary freeze in a bid to rein in runaway inflation, with the country in the midst of an economic meltdown, state media reported yesterday."Zimbabweans must realise...
MOSCOW, Aug 2 (AFP): Russian marriage offices have seen a surge of applications to wed this coming Friday due to the supposedly lucky character of the date: 08.08.08, officials and local media said.In Moscow, registry offices will stay open late...
FE Report | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
The food ministry has sought the help of the finance division in taking action against a number of banks, both in public and private sectors, for the failure to en-cash the bank guarantees furnished by the errant local suppliers of...
HANOI, Aug 2 (AFP): Thousands of workers have gone on strike in Vietnam, demanding higher wages to match the rising cost of living after inflation surged 27 per cent year-on-year in July, media reported today.Nearly 5,000 labourers downed tools from...
Naim-Ul-Karim | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
Dhaka's diplomatic drive to end impasse over Bangladeshi workers' unrest in Kuwait has faced a setback as the oil rich Muslim kingdom is still not keen to host a visit by the country's foreign advisor, a senior official said Saturday.Foreign...
Our Correspondent | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 2: The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) cancelled bond licence of two Inland Container Depots (ICDs) as the concerned ICDs failed to comply with the specified terms and conditions set for obtaining a licence, CCH sources said.The penalised ICDs...
LONDON, Aug 2 (AFP): World oil prices faced a rollercoaster ride this week, tumbling on US demand concerns before rocketing higher on resurgent fears about the Iranian nuclear energy crisis, traders said.Some commodities fell in value as poor US economic...
EDGBASTON, Aug 2 (Cricinfo): The fourth day of this gripping Test exploded into life as Andrew Flintoff's rapid yorkers removed two key wickets and left the South African camp fuming. Neil McKenzie and Jacques Kallis lost sight of deliveries from...
BARISAL, Aug 2 (UNB): Agitated students of Barisal Government Women's College hostel staged demonstration and ransacked its dining room early Friday, protesting 30 per cent increase in daily meal charges.Students of Rowshan Jahan Hostel alleged that hostelsuperintendent Bashirul Huq Thursday...
Two Middle Eastern countries, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, continued to deport Bangladeshi workers Saturday on charges of violating local laws, reports bdnews24.com.A total of 224 Bangladeshis-139 from Saudi Arabia and 85 from Kuwait-were sent back Saturday, according to an estimate...
Md Mohsin Ali | 2008-08-03 00:00:00
AT least a 6.0 per cent economic growth has been projected for the current fiscal year. Some donors, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), also expect a similar growth prospect.The hard-headed observers of the economy do not, however, share such...
All preparations are complete for holding polls to four city corporations and nine municipalities Monday, with voter's ID card for the first time in the country, where hectic election campaigns are banned after Saturday midnight, reports UNB.Election Commissioner Brig Gen...
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