Belal HossainCHOYONICA Biddyapith, a school for the destitute and slum children in Dhaka, might develop into one of the reputed schools in the city if it is offered essential help and supervision by the affluent strata of the society.One humanitarian...
Sarah Murray GOD and Mammon are not generally seen in each other's company, let alone in a business school classroom. But as more MBA students become interested in the potential for the private sector to foster growth in some of...
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Rush Limbaugh and his chauffeur were out driving in the country and accidentally hit and killed a pig that had wandered out on a country road. Limbaugh told the chauffeur to drive up to the farm and apologize to the...
Hungry victims of floods in southwestern Pakistan rioted, protesting slow, meager aid reaching their marooned villages, according to Internet. The police fired tear gas and shots into the air but failed to disperse a crowd of several thousand villagers in...
DILI, June 30 (AFP): Voters in East Timor went to the polls on Saturday to choose a new government tasked with uniting the population of the tiny fledgling state, shattered by violence, poverty and soaring unemployment. The election, the first...
KABUL, June 30 (AFP): US- led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said Saturday. Taliban fighters tried to ambush a joint US- Afghan military convoy in Helmand...
An exhibit of photographs, film footage and other memorabilia from the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, will go on display Saturday at the palace in London where she lived, according to Internet.Called "Diana: A Princess Remembered," the exhibit is...
BAGHDAD, June 30 (AFP): US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters killed 26 militants suspected of links to "Iranian terror networks" in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City on Saturday, the US military said. Seventeen other suspects...
LONDON, June 30 (AFP): British police hunted Saturday for the people behind failed attempts to carry out two car bombings in London's nightclub district in what experts called Iraq-style attacks. Security officials and ministers in the new government of Prime...
HOUSTON, Jun 30 (PTI): The most common procedure for clearing blocked kidney arteries can also release thousands of tiny particles into the bloodstream that can impair kidney function, according to researchers. "This is the first data in humans to show...
India may slap legal notice on British auction house NEW DELHI, Jun 30: India is considering slapping a legal notice on British auction house Christie's to stop the sale of a rare manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi written 19 days before...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Agencies): The United States yesterday joined the "banana war" at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), alleging the European Union treats Latin American producers unfairly. US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the United States requested a WTO panel...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (AFP): Congress will take back its full trade authority from President George W Bush, said the majority Democratic leadership, dismissing White House urgings to let him keep his special power. The expiration of the Trade Promotion Authority...
NEW DELHI, June 30 (AFP): India's inflation has fallen to a 14-month low helped by lower food prices, data yesterday showed, easing pressure for further interest rate hikes. The wholesale price index, India's closely watched cost-of-living monitor, showed inflation slowed...
ISTANBUL, June 30 (AFP): More than 1,000 statisticians and economists were today winding up four days of talks in Istanbul devoted to two of mankind's most intractable questions: what is happiness and how do you measure it? Experts attending a...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (PTI): Top Democratic Presidential contenders, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are of the view that outsourcing was an issue for Americans and favoured measures to retain jobs, including ending tax breaks for outsourcing. Outsourcing was one...
HONG KONG, June 30 (Xinhua): At one time Hong Kong amazed the world as it transformed itself from a colonial fishing outpost into an economic miracle. Today it's impressing the globe again to become a political wonderworks-a capitalist city thriving...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (AFP): The United States and South Korea are set to sign a landmark free trade agreement to be sent for Congressional approval, but US lawmakers are already saying they will not vote for it. US Trade Representative...
YANGON, June 30 (Xinhua): Myanmar is planning to build a deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, western coastal Rakhine state, to facilitate maritime trade with neighbouring countries, local traders said today. The Kyaukphyu deep-sea port on the Maday Island in the state...
PARIS, June 30 (AFP): New French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed yesterday to build on economic momentum in France and push ahead with reforms after unemployment in the country fell to a 25-year low in May. The employment ministry announced late...
NEW YORK, June 30 (Xinhua): The Conference Board Help-Wanted Advertising Index, a key measure of job offerings in major newspapers across America, dipped two points in May, said a survey released Thursday. The index now stands at 27 in May,...
LONDON, June 30 (AFP): World oil prices hit ten-month peaks this week on US supply woes, while cocoa soared as investors reacted to unrest in major producer Ivory Coast. Lead prices, which were lifted by low global inventories, rocketed to...
Director and Chief Operating Officer of Singer Bangladesh Limited AM Hamim Rahmatullah inaugurated 227th Singer plus store at Bandarban recently, said a press release. Among others, merchandising manager, concerned area manager and district managers of the company along with local...
WASHINGTON, Jun 30 (PTI): Days after the collapse of G4 talks on WTO, the US has withdrawn concessions given to imports on gold jewellery and brass lamps from India as well as auto parts from Brazil as part of a...
COLOMBO, June 30 (Xinhua): The Sri Lankan government raised its retail fuel prices midnight Friday, the third time within two months, officials said today. Officials at the government petroleum entity Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said today that petrol retail price was...
NEW DELHI, Jun 30 (PTI): The much-awaited pact on the USD 7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline is likely to be delayed by at least a couple of months as New Delhi and Islamabad have opposed seller Tehran's last minute...
HANOI, June 30 (Xinhua): Vietnam imported 3.7 million tons of steel billets and finished products totaling nearly 2.2 billion US dollars in the first half of this year, posting year-on-year rises of 33.5 per cent and 60.9 per cent respectively,...
NEW YORK, June 30 (AFP): The price of New York crude oil briefly struck a fresh 10-month high above 70 dollars a barrel yesterday on supply concerns in the United States, the world's biggest consumer of energy, traders said. New...
LHASA, June 30 (Xinhua): Tibet has saved 173 million yuan (22.8 million U.S. dollars) of transportation costs in the 11 months since the operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the first to link Tibet with the rest of China. The 1,956-km-long railway,...
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