Four-times French Open champion Justine Henin took just 59 minutes to beat Marion Bartoli 6-1 6-3 and reach the final of the Eastbourne International, reports BBC. The Belgian top seed looked in great form a week before Wimbledon, breaking the...
Coaching hopeful Geoff Lawson believes Pakistan can produce the best cricket team in the world if express paceman Shoaib Akhtar stays fit for extended periods, according to Internet.After being interviewed in Pakistan this week for the position of national coach,...
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 22 (AP): Juan Roman Riquelme, hours after leading Boca Juniors to its sixth Copa Libertadores championship, joined the 22-man Argentine squad that flew Thursday to Venezuela for the Copa America.Hours before the team departed, Riquelme was the...
LONDON, Jun 22 (Internet): Paul Collingwood was named captain of England's one-day cricket team Friday.The allrounder succeeded Michael Vaughan, who stepped down after England's lackluster performance at this year's World Cup.Collingwood was one of the few team's few successes in...
CHICAGO, Jun 22 (Internet): Mexico and the United States will meet in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final Sunday, just as expected. But neither is looking very much like a favourite. "No, I'm not satisfied," Mexico coach Hugo Sanchez said. "I...
SEOUL, Jun 22 (AFP): South Korean striker Lee Chun-Soo has welcomed reports that Chelsea are interested in him, saying he is keen on a move to the English Premier League. Various reports in England have linked the Ulsan Tigers front...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 22 (UNB): Chittagong Abahani forced giant Muktijoddha Sangsad KC to a 1-1 draw in a return match of the B League at the MA Aziz Stadium here Friday.Despite the day's draw, Muktijoddha Sangasad regained the top slot securing...
Wari Club earned a straight 3-0 sets win over Dhaka Mariner Youngs Club in a match of the AB Bank Metropolis Senior Division Table Tennis League at the NSC Wooden Floor Gymnasium in the city Friday, reports UNB.In the day's...
Colin Montgomerie was the second big name to pull out of the BMW International Open in Munich, which started Thursday, reports, BBC. The Scot, who missed the cut at last week's US Open, flew to Canada Monday for a pro-am...
Tasnuva IslamThe terms governance and good governance are being increasingly used nowadays. Governance describes the process of decision-making, and the process, by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented).Good governance defines an ideal, which is nearly impossible or difficult to...
Kerstin SucherWeimar is small. It lies in the green heartland of Germany, in Thuringia, and has just about 65,000 inhabitants. Yet it still enjoys world fame as a city of literature, art, music and history. It was founded by many...
Syed Fattahul AlimPhilosophers and scientists of enlightenment freed human thought from the domination of papacy and the tyranny of bigotry born of religion. Since then science dominated human philosophy and thought and the course of his development path. Scientific revolution,...
Rita Bhoumick When the bus pulls up to a stop it is already filled with passengers, some of them standing on its door. Fatema is one of about a dozen people who rush to the bus to try to get...
Matthew Bigg The Umoja shantytown was intended to shock. Just a few miles (kilometres) from the luxury condos of Miami Beach, it stood as a protest at the lack of affordable city housing. Its shacks, made of cardboard and wood...
Martin Wolf"In Rome everything is for sale." - Prince Jugurtha in Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum "Yes to market economy, no to market society." - Lionel Jospin, French Socialist ex-prime minister.It is capitalism, not communism, that generates what the communist Leon Trotsky...
Vaclav KlausWe are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough ¨C irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent ¨C for the environmentalists and...
Ed Crooks and Javier Blas in LondonBiofuels will provide only a small proportion of the world's demand for fuel in the next decade, the developed countries' energy watchdog has said in an attempt to reassure Opec that the need for...
Anna Fifield in SeoulThe South Korean government must move beyond piecemeal financial liberalisation and institute fundamental structural reforms to generate new economic momentum, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.In particular, Seoul should try to be more attractive to...
RIGHT to information is a basic prerequisite for any democratic society. This article of democratic faith is recognised universally. Notwithstanding the recognition, when it comes to the question of compliance, few democracies care to produce a clean record on the...
Syed Fattahul AlimECONOMIC growth of any society depends classically on the manufacturing sector. Bangladesh-though a nation born in the last quarter of the twentieth century-has not been able to get rid of the blemish of underdevelopment. There are reasons aplenty...
Fiona Harvey and Ed CrooksTURNING grains and sugar cane into fuel is not the answer to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from transport, one of the most influential economic experts on climate change has said.Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a landmark...
Adam Jones writes from ParisTHE Paris-based think-tank for 30 wealthy nations insisted that globalisation was "compatible with high employment rates, provided the right domestic policies are in place". Countries should pursue policies to manage the insecurities of life in the...
I live in the capital's Shantinagar area. This area experiences water logging even after a little rainfall. Every year, the authorities concerned carry some development works of the drainage system. They dig the roads and the lanes in and around...
There is every reason for this government which has been showing real activism in many vital spheres, to take immediate actions to the best of its ability to overcome years of shocking neglect and irresponsibility in improving drainage conditions so...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's apparel sector faces a slump in export as it sees overseas buy orders falling due to freak weather that dampens demand in the US and European markets.The buy-orders dropped by around 30 per cent over...
Former State Minister and BNP leader Amanullah Aman was Thursday sentenced to thirteen years in jail while his wife Sabera was jailed for three years by a special court in a graft case, one of scores being faced by bigwigs...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) received statements about undisclosed money worth Tk 5.4 million from 13 individuals until Thursday.The board received the statements from the individuals in response to the government's recent offer on legalisation of untaxed...
FHM Humayan Kabir The country's overall imports have risen by 14.88 per cent over the first eleven and a half months of the current fiscal against those of the corresponding period of the last fiscal.However, in the last month, the...
FE Report Finance and planning adviser Mirza Azizul Islam has differed with the opinions by former ministers and lawmakers that the proposed duty structure for the new fiscal will destroy the local industry and turn the country into a market...
FE ReportThe Privatisation Commission (PC) is likely to take the final decision soon about the sale deal on largely state-owned Rupali Bank (RB) with Saudi prince Bandar Bin Mohammad Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud, the highest bidder.PC sources said representative of...
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