BELFAST, July 3 (AFP): India may be without a coach but as far as captain Rahul Dravid is concerned that is not a major handicap as they prepare for a lengthy tour of England. India won their first one-day series...
LONDON, July 3 (AFP): Serena Williams clinched a famous, injury-hit Wimbledon triumph to lift the rain-sodden All England Club gloom Monday as women's tennis unveiled its latest teenage star. Serena, the 2002 and 2003 champion, overcame crippling pain and a...
Ahead of the 7th Asian Games in Chennai, Bangladesh Hockey Federation Tuesday named 30 players from the ongoing 27th National Hockey competition for the national hockey training camp that will begin Friday at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium in the...
MUMBAI, July 3 (AFP): Former India batsman Dilip Sardesai, once hailed as India's best batsman against spin bowling, has died from multiple organ failure, cricket officials said Tuesday. Sardesai, 67, was admitted late last month to a Mumbai hospital with...
Chittagong Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) played to a 1-1 draw with Chittagong Abahani in a match of the B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.With this draw, Chittagong Mohammedan Sporting Club secured 19 points...
The one-day international between India and Pakistan in Glasgow was abandoned without a ball being bowled, reports BBC. Play was due to start at 1030 BST, but with the outfield soaked by the recent downpours, the umpires ruled out any...
ROME, July 3 (AFP): AC Milan's delegated administrator Adriano Galliani Monday poured cold water on rumours that Brazilian star Kaka is heading to Real Madrid. Galliani said he can guarantee that the talented playmaker, widely regarded the world's best player...
SYDNEY, July 3 (AFP): English football star David Beckham will play a one-off game in Australia with his new club Los Angeles Galaxy in November, Football Federation Australia (FFA) said Tuesday. FFA said Beckham's Galaxy would play Australian A-League side...
The Election Commission (EC) will sit for dialogue "immediately" with only those political parties who automatically come under the registration conditions determined in the provisionally recast Representation of People Order (RPO), reports UNB."We are waiting. When the ban on indoor...
Chief of Army Staff Moeen U Ahmed called on President Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.General Moeen appraised the President, also the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, relevant issues and sought his continued assistance...
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed Tuesday said Bangladesh gave special importance to the relationship with Myanmar under its Look East Policy to the mutual benefit of the two peoples and the region, reports UNB.He noted that the recent trip of...
The present government has established transparency and accountability in its work, Adviser for Communications MA Matin said.He told this to Chinese Ambassador in Bangladesh Zheng Qindian called on him at his secretariat office in the city Tuesday, reports BSS.It has...
The Anti-Corruption Com-mission is going to summon soon 12 more corrupt suspects, mostly politicians like Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Lutfozzaman Babar, to come up with their wealth statements, reports UNB."The matter of issuing notices to the...
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus will leave Dhaka for Japan Friday on a week-long visit at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, reports UNB. Yunus is expected to meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Foreign Minister Taro...
Detained BNP leader Tarique Rahman, one of the corrupt suspects who had been directed by the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit his wealth statement, was Tuesday quizzed by a team at Dhaka Central Jail about the information provided in his wealth...
FE ReportNational Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Badiur Rahman said Tuesday that the authorities would not ask question, in future, about the undisclosed money legalised through payment of tax by July 31.The government has offered the opportunity for legalisation of...
The metropolitan sessions judge's court Tuesday sentenced controversial businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun to ten years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for possessing illegal firearms and ammunition, reports UNB."The arms in question had not been used in committing any criminal offence. So, he...
The universal birth registration programme began across the country Tuesday with a target to register the birth of each and every citizen of the country free of cost by mid 2008, reports UNB"Today, the 3rd July, is the first birth...
Shamsul Huq Zahid Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, the incumbent governor of the country's central bank, possibly, has understood by now the difference between perceived-freedom and real-freedom and the difficulties in making adjustments to the first one. His predecessors who included top...
FE Report Three nationalised commercial banks (NCBs) have missed "a non-binding" timeline to finalise their corporatisation process, thus fuelling speculation about further delay in restructuring the banks.The caretaker government is supposed to issue a gazette notification by June 30 to...
CHITTAGONG, July 3 (bdnews24.com): The police seized a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition early Tuesday from a rubber plantation area of Kanchan Nagar in Fatikchhari Upazila. In Sylhet, RAB in a swoop arrested a notorious pro-Awami League student activist...
BNP reformists virtually rebutted their chairperson's comment by asserting that secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan did nothing against party constitution by unveiling the reform proposals that virtually showed Khaleda Zia the exit door, reports UNB."The party secretary general has announced...
Awami League (AL) presidium member Motia Chowdhury said Tuesday that the Election Commission (EC) should not be 'part of a handiwork by an invisible hand', reports bdnews24.com."We don't want the EC be a spokesman for any invisible hand," Chowdhury told...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sent a letter to the Bangladesh High Commission in England seeking details of the London based First Solution Money Transfer Limited.Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Salehuddin Ahmed said this to a group of journalists at...
Raihan M ChowdhurySiemens, the German corporate giant, has completed 50 years of its presence in Bangladesh contributing a lot to the country's economic development."We are going to celebrate this grand occasion July 7 and we look forward to continue building...
Siddique Islam For the first time, 39 foreign and local private commercial banks are going to sanction agriculture credit along with the eight state-owned banks and financial institutions to provide loans to farmers across the country.The banks have already sent...
Shakhawat Hossain The central bank has taken a move to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its Malaysian counterpart to expedite the process of bringing back funds smuggled out of the country by corrupt elements, sources said.Besides signing the...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) declined Tuesday amid a marginal fall in turnover mainly due to profit-taking.On other hand, the total market capitalisation declined to Tk 483.123 billion Tuesday from Tk 483.157 billion of the previous...
FE ReportThe Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) is likely to engage the domestic gas exploration and production companies for discovery of new gas fields.The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has already initiated a plan to...
FE ReportThe country's export earning during July-May period of fiscal year (FY) 2006-07 grew by 16.45 per cent over that of the corresponding period last fiscal propelled by good performance in the woven garments and frozen food sectors, official figures...
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