Opening batsman Zunaed Siddique will replace injury-hit top order batsman Nazim Uddin in the Bangladesh team now touring Australia, reports UNB.Nazim Uddin has been ruled out of the tour after tearing one of the tendons on his left ring finger...
NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (PTI): In a bid to overcome the menace of fake Indian currency notes, the Government has started giving serious thought to printing currency notes on polymer, a practice prevalent in Australia.The Government is toying with the...
SHANGHAI, Aug 18 :- Marta and Cristiane's Brazil had a five-star game and crushed the "invincible" Germans 4-1 to cruise to the Olympic women's football final here Monday.It's a fiasco night for Germany, as the World champions' perfect defence record...
FE Report | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
Nitol Insurance Company Limited launched its first Takaful wing at the city's Bijoy Nagar area Monday to allow policy-holders of the company get an interest-free Islamic product.Takaful, an Arabic word meaning 'guaranteeing each other' or 'joint guarantee' observing the rules...
TEHRAN, Aug 18 (Agencies): Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday.Saturday's test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir-e Omid, or Ambassador of Peace, was successful,...
Md. Anwarul Kabir | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
THERE is a strong correlation between institutional education and all pervasive corruption in our country. This perception, indeed, becomes true if we objectively analyse the prevailing corruption in the society. Who are the main actors in corruption? Put on a...
Touring Bangladesh national cricket team made a frustrating start as they lost to Australian Institute of Sports by 14 runs in the first practice match at the Garden's Oval in Darwin Monday, reports UNBSent into bat first, Australian Institute of...
Rafiqul Islam | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
KHULNA, Aug 18: Production has fallen by one-third in seven state run jute mills in Khulna and Jessore region due to crisis of raw jute. It is therefore uncertain whether the mill would be able to fulfil their production target...
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed asked Monday the country's top civil bureaucrats to extend total cooperation to holding free, fair and neutral general elections by maintaining utmost neutrality and rising above all influence, fear and intimidation, reports UNB.Giving the directive while...
RANGPUR, Aug 17 (bdnews24.com): Internee doctors of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) went on strike Sunday in protest at the assault of a doctor after the death of a patient, police said.Acting director of the hospital Dr Anisul Karim...
GORI, (Georgia), Aug 18 (Agencies): Hungry and uncertain, beleaguered residents in Gori and other occupied Georgian cities waited anxiously Monday for Russian forces to begin their promised pullout after a short but intense war.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised the withdrawal...
BEIJING (Reuters): It is China, though, slowly emerging as the new superpower of sport -- perhaps an inevitable trend given that the 1.3 billion population represent a fifth of humanity and a formidable Soviet-style sports system is geared to maximizing...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (AFP): Southern African countries launched a regional trade zone at a summit yesterday that aims to eliminate import tariffs, with plans for a common currency by 2018.Eleven of the 14 countries that are part of the Southern...
The consolidated sales of the Nestle Group amounted to CHF (Swiss Franc) 53.10 billion in the first six months of 2008 registering an increase of 3.80 per cent over the same period of last year.The Group's EBIT (earnings before interest...
BEIJING, Aug 18 : Leszek Blanik won the gold medal in the men's vault Monday at the Beijing Olympics, the first gymnastics title for Poland in its Olympic history.In a black-and-white gymnastic suit, Blanik collected 16.537 points with two jumps,...
FE Report | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
The benchmark DGEN index Monday sank 2.09 per cent or 56.12 points to close at 2618.95, its lowest level in the last 11 months.The market operators and analysts attributed the fall to price adjustment of market heavyweight Square Pharmaceuticals and...
BEIJING, Aug. 18 : China's He Wenna won the first Olympic trampoline gold medal for her country before overjoyed home fans here Monday.He took the title with a collection of 37.8 points. Karen Cockburn from Canada took the silver in...
Awami League (AL) acting president Zillur Rahman said Monday that the party would thwart any alleged move by the caretaker government (CG) to spy on political parties through the political intelligence office recently launched to purge the country's politics, reports...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Monday appointed renowned football coach Shafiqul Islam Manik as the national football coach until November next, reports UNB.Manik replaces former national booter cum football coach Abu Mohammad Yousuf, who earlier quit from the hot seat following...
British Airways and Association of Travel Agents in Bangladesh (ATAB) have reached a mutually agreeable solution to the outstanding differences over travel agency remuneration payments, says a press release.This agreement widens further the options for British Airways (BA) customers in...
Kalpana Sharma from Mumbai | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
IT took a high level of strategizing. Women stood around the man given the task. They literally "protected" him. And in the end they and he won. He managed to "table" a piece of paper that was in danger of...
PARIS, Aug 18 (AFP): France's gross domestic product (GDP) should be 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the Bank of France (BoF) forecast today, as France's prime minister summoned key ministers to discuss the economy.This preliminary estimate...
THE Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has received accolades from home and abroad for evolving a good number of high yielding rice varieties since its establishment in 1970. It will soon release submergence-resistant and salt-tolerant rice varieties. This is, no...
FE Report | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) held its half- yearly managers' conference 2008 at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre recently. MTB Chairman Samson H Chowdhury attended the meeting as chief guest and Managing Director Kazi Md Shafiqur Rahman presided over the event,...
TOKYO, Aug 18, (AFP): The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed to boost cooperation to probe toxic Chinese-made dumplings, an issue that has caused a furore in Japan, officials said today.Japan's Masahiko Komura raised the dumpling issue in a...
RU Correspondent | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
A three-day workshop and seminar on "Life Skill for Career Development Planning" and seminar "Career Opportunity and Planning" ended at Rajshahi University (RU) Sunday.The Rotaract Club of RU organised both the workshop and seminar. The workshop was held on the...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 17 (bdnews24.com): Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) held demonstrations on Chittagong University (CU) campus Sunday against an attack by Islami Chhatra Shibir supporters on a Bangabandhu mourning procession the previous day.Leaders of the Awami League (AL) student wing said...
Dubai, Aug 18: Emirates has again received plaudits for its innovative inflight technology after scooping the muchcoveted Skytrax 2008 Best Airline Inflight Entertainment Award for the fourth consecutive year, says a pres release.The airline's ice (information, communication and entertainment) and...
Trial of the extortion case filed by businessman Azam Jahangir Chowdhury against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resumed Monday, after cancellation of the case by the High Court (HC) and its restoration by the Appellate Division on a government appeal,...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2008-08-19 00:00:00
An upward rally of the US dollar against major global currencies has started to reduce import costs but any chance for a declining inflation appears to be bleak thanks to the country's 'rogue' traders, officials and experts said Monday.They said...
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