Aminul Islam | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
THE ancient but crumbling structures signifying life and culture of those days of yore still stand in many places of Bangladesh and form collectively our national heritage. They range from the prehistoric time to the Bhuddist and the Hindu eras...
BHOLA, July 25 (UNB): Navy personnel seized 413 sacks of urea fertiliser from a trawler at Mojom Bazar in Borhanuddin Upazila Sunday night.Police said acting on a tip off the Navy team searched a trawler in Mojom bazar canal and...
Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad declared Friday that his party was still with the AL-led 'grand alliance', which had never been dissolved, reports bdnews24.com."I was always with the grand alliance and I am still with it," Ershad told reporters...
The Arctic is estimated to hold 90bn barrels of untapped oil, according to figures from the US Geological Survey (USGS), according to a BBC online report.The USGS says the area has three times as much untapped natural gas as oil.Drilling...
Nasreen Huda | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
The worldwide environmental insecurity is noted from unabated polluting activities specially by a few developed countries and the devastating price to be paid for it by entire humanity. But the environmental toll could be the worst for Bangladesh which might...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
An inter-ministerial meeting directed the authorities concerned to boost the government's food grains stock, which is required to successfully implement various social safety net programmes for the current fiscal.The meeting also recommended strengthening of the existing monitoring cells and taskforces...
Guy Faulconbridge | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
Dmitry Medvedev's case for investing in Russia is under pressure less than three months into his presidency after a top foreign executive left the country and state criticism wiped $5 billion from the value of a coal miner.Medvedev, a 42-year-old...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 25(BSS): Police arrested two persons with .10 million Indian rupees at BRTC bus stand in Chapainawabganj town this morning.The arrested persons are-- Fitu and Robiul all of Bakhorali Notun Tiklichar village under Charbagdanga union of Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila.Acting...
Kutubuddin Ahmed | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
THE weekly holiday schedule of two consecutive days, on Fridays and Saturdays, means that businesses in Bangladesh remain cut off from the rest of the world for three consecutive days up to Sundays. It means business activities or transactions for...
VIENNA, July 25 (AFP): Former Czech Republic boss Karel Bruckner is to take over as coach of Austria, the APA news agency reported Friday.Bruckner, 68, quit his post with the Czech Republic after their first round exit from last month's...
July 20 - July 24, 2008Commercial Bank of CeylonUnited States (US) dollar played weak against Bangladeshi taka last week due to lack of demand.Demand for dollar was not felt in the market while many local and foreign banks were in...
Naim-Ul-Karim | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
The country's footwear industry expects a boom in export as the European Union (EU) has decided to scrap Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility offered to Vietnam by the end of this year, officials and exporters said on Friday.They said...
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) are important in the context of Bangladesh because investments hold the keys to economic growth which is the way to alleviate poverty, create jobs and earnings and produce further wealth for economic expansion. But FDIs into...
After the High Court (HC) struck down two of the Presidential Ordinances, leading lawyers are now pondering over the legitimacy of scores of other ordinances promulgated by the President during the incumbent caretaker government (CG), reports UNB.The HC earlier declared...
Amie Ferris-Rotman and | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
Dmitry ZhdannikovRussia's Gazprom is working on turning its Western partners into a lobby network to try to overcome the European Union's worries about its aggressive expansion plans.Companies working with Gazprom in its Siberian fields may be happy to oblige, analysts...
Five persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Comilla, two people were killed and five others injured as a bus rammed into a CNG-run...
VIENNA, Jul 25 (Internet): A senior envoy said Friday that Iran wants to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but said the IAEA should not be cast as a "UN watchdog" looking for signs of secret nuclear...
S M Jahangir | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
The country received US$ 1127 million worth of foreign aid in fiscal 2007-08, which is nearly 31 per cent less than the amount in the previous year, official sources said.According to the Economic Relations Division (ERD) figures, the country received...
COLOMBO, July 25 (Cricinfo): Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis shook the SSC pitch out of its slumber after the Sri Lankan batsmen given them a mountain of runs as a cushion, and the new-ball bowlers had done their bit in...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
Cuba, which is situated very close to the nation that leads the capitalistic world, the USA, is one of the last two strongholds of classical socialism. With the father of Cuban revolution still alive and in office until the other...
Anwarul Kabir | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
(The key points of this article were presented in the national roundtable on ICT roadmap on the 21st June, 2008 at AIUB, supported by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Gov3 Ltd., Spinnovation, D.Net and Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN).Governance: For proper ICT...
Sarwar Zahan | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate showed fluctuations last week but moved on a reasonable track due to active role of the central bank to maintain market stability, fund managers said.The market witnessed a sufficient flow of cash reflecting comfortable liquidity...
JAMALPUR, July 25 (UNB): A madrasah student was killed after rape at Purbo Gamaria village in Islampur Upazila Wednesday.The victim was identified as Jahanara Begum, daughter of day labourer Alam and a student of class VIII of a local Dakhil...
Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Friday said Bangladesh, as a peaceful and peace-loving country, urged both Thailand and Cambodia to show restraint on their border dispute over an ancient temple, reports BSS.Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury also expressed the...
Enayet Rasul | 2008-07-26 00:00:00
More than three and half decades after the independence of Bangladesh, some quarters in this country are still convinced that our vast neighbour to the east, west and north, is not well disposed towards us. They see India as a...
The country's political leaders have voiced a mixed reaction to the move to amend the Representation of the People Order (RPO) 1972 instead of scrapping it, reports bdnews24.com.Leaders of Awami League and Worker's Party supported the move, while a BNP-leader...
The qualifying round of the CITYCELL Federation Cup Football begins today (Saturday) at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city with Jatrabari KC taking on Rajshahi Digonto Prosari in the day's lone group A opening match at 4:00 pm,...
Holders Bangladesh Rifles notched their second successive win in the Design Zone 2nd Office Handball League beating Cute Handball Team by 42-27 goals in the day's lone match at the Outer Stadium Handball ground in the city Friday, reports UNB.The...
RAJSHAHI, July 25 (BSS): The Rajshahi Court Horticulture Centre (RCHC) has been playing a vital role in making the fruit gardening sustainable as well as profitable in the region.Through its various development activities, the RCHC being run by the Department...
RAJBARI, July 25 (BSS): Goalondo thana police recovered 40 bottles of Phensidyl and arrested a drug trader from Daulatdia truck terminal area on the Dhaka- Khulna highway in the district Thursday night.Acting on a tip-off, police searched a Dhaka bound...
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