Bangladesh A 33 for no loss chasing huge 637

Visiting Bangladesh A team scored 33 for no loss in 7.5 overs in the 2nd innings against South Africa when last report came in on the 3rd and last day of the 5th three-day match at the County Ground, Worcester...

Economic slowdown in US leads a decline in pay at Wall Street

NEW YORK, July 27 (PTI): The economic slowdown in the United States is leading a major decline in pay and bonuses at Wall Street and has government officials worried as it could lead to a shortfall in city and State...

Sitting judges move against High Court ruling

Sitting High Court Judges moved against the HC ruling reinstating their unconfirmed colleagues with seniority over them, reports UNB.Aggrieved at the edict of their own High Court Division of the Supreme Court, 19 HC Judges Sunday filed an application seeking...

Bush, Gilani set to grapple with growing militancy

WASHINGTON, July 27 (AFP): Concerned by Afghanistan's worsening insurgency, US President George W. Bush is expected to quiz Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in talks this week about his new government's counterterrorism strategy or, as some experts see, the...

Indigenous fishes face extinction in Nilphamari

NILPHAMARI, Jul 27: Seasonal indigenous fishes, used to be abundant in the inundated lands under Aman and jute during the rainy season, have decreased drastically.Indiscriminate use of pesticides in the farmlands in cultivating high yielding crops by the farmers in...

BB permits 14 banks to open 100 SME centres

The central bank has given permission to 14 commercial banks for opening around 100 SME service centres across the country by December 31, 2008 to gear up financing to the country's small and medium enterprises (SMEs)."The banks - 13 private...

Olympics harder than World Cup, says Dunga

SINGAPORE, July 27 (AFP): Securing a first Olympic title will be a tougher job than the World Cup, Brazil's coach Dunga said today, and insisted his young team was up to the task of football gold at the Beijing Games.While...

Former BNP MP Nazim Uddin Alam sent to jail

Police Sunday arrested former BNP MP Nazim Uddin Alam from BNP leader Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah's new DOHS apartment in connection with four cases including one relating to extortion, reports UNB.In the afternoon, a Dhaka court ordered him to...

EBL cardholders to get discount on Best Air tickets

Best Air Ltd, a leading private airline of the country, offers to all EBL card-holders exclusive priority services including attractive 5 per cent discount on domestic and 7 per cent discount on international air tickets.Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) under its...

Coal has potentials to generate 15,000mw power in 20 years

The country's electricity generation might be augmented to 15,000 megawatts, over three folds the level of the current generation, by next two decades if coal resources are properly utilised, officials said."Despite the dwindling gas supply across the country, the coal...

Roundtable on 'Role of Pvt Universities in Higher Edn' held

Eastern University organised a roundtable on 'Role of Private Universities in Higher Education' in Sylhet recently, said a press release.Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Vice-Chancellor M Aminul Islam was the chief guest in the discussion.Chaired by Eastern University...

sports digest

SUNDERLAND (England), July 27: French defender Pascal Chimbonda has joined Sunderland from Premier League rivals Tottenham on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee, the north-east club announced Saturday. The 29-year-old full-back, who can also play in the centre of...

96 bottles of Phensidyl recovered

CHUADANGA, July 27 (BSS): The police recovered 96 bottles of smuggled Indian Phensidyl from a rickshaw van at Andulbaria Bazar under Jibannagar Upazila in the district Saturday.The police said, acting on a tip-off, a team of the police raided the...

Techno-feasibility study on deep seaport resumes

The study on the proposed deep seaport in the Bay of Bengal has resumed after a gap of nearly one year."The techno-feasibility study on the proposed deep seaport has started again last month," said a senior ministry official.The study remained...

NBR targets profitable units that remain outside tax net

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will look for the profitable organisations that still remain outside the tax net, officials said.The taxmen will gear up efforts to find out the business establishments that maintain a considerable amount of turnover for...

'Linkage programme' with the NGOs to expand agro-credit schemes soon

Mutual Trust Bank Ltd (MTB), a new generation private commercial bank, will launch 'linkage programme' with the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to expand its agro-credit schemes."Currently, we have a strong micro-financing credit facility with Credit and Development Forum (CDF), but we...

PCB not worried over possible pull-outs

ISLAMABAD, July 27: Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has said he is not worried about the prospect of several international stars skipping the Champions Trophy in the country in September over security fears, according to Cricinfo...

Imports grow 27.56pc last fiscal

The country's overall imports grew by 27.56 per cent with food grains marking the highest at 142.70 per cent in fiscal 2007-08 over those of the previous fiscal.The value of letters of credit (LCs) against imports worth $20.372 billion were...

Vegetable cultivation on earthen basin holds new hope for livelihood

KHULNA, June 27: The people of waterlogged village Bagdanga under Keshebpur Upazila under Jessore district have changed their lot by cultivating vegetables on large earthen basins put on triangular bamboo stands under thatched roofs and on nearby yards.Lands of about...

MAXUS celebrates 3rd anniversary today

MAXUS, a WPP company, part of GroupM, will celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Bangladesh operation today (Monday).In Bangladesh, Maxus, an affiliate of Media Consultants Ltd is positioned as a media investment management company, dedicated to a selected client roster, with...

Biofuel plantations should make way for more agro output

SELDOM does the top boss of the UN speak out so loudly especially for rousing awareness amongst the member countries. The Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki moon came out very strongly in warning the leading economies of world...

No more debate over Khaleda: Adviser Zillur

Education and Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman Sunday said he would rather not debate over such issues as former PM Khaleda Zia's freedom, reports bdnews24.com.Asked what conditions the government may impose on Khaleda in exchange for her release, as BNP...

Businesses assure govt of keeping prices stable during Ramadan

Importers, wholesalers and traders have assured the government of their cooperation in keeping prices of essentials at a tolerable level during the month of Ramadan.Their assurance of cooperation came at a meeting with the commerce adviser Sunday in the city.Commerce...

BKSP blank Tejgaon Nobotorongo KSS

A brilliant Masud Rana hattrick guided BKSP to a 6-0 win over Tejgaon Nobotorongo KSS in a match of the Metropolis Pioneer Football League on the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Komolapur in the city Sunday,...

10 hurt in Austria-Hungary football riots

BUDAPEST, July 27 (AFP): At least 10 people were injured Saturday when supporters of Budapest football club Honved clashed with fans of Austria's Sturm Graz during a match in the Hungarian capital.While Sturm Graz qualified for the Intertoto Cup during...

Turkey renews air strikes on Kurdish rebels inside Iraq

ANKARA, July 27 (AFP): Turkey carried out fresh air strikes in the early hours of Sunday on Kurdish rebel positions inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced. Twelve targets linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Kandil mountains...

Public holiday in four cities, nine municipalities on Aug 4

The government declared August 4 public holiday in the four city corporations and nine municipalities that are going to the polls on the day in the first phase of a series of elections planned in the present transition process, reports...

Key players look to bolster consensus at WTO talks

GENEVA, July 27 (Agencies): Top negotiators Sunday were set to seek to firm up emerging signs of consensus on a new global trade pact but with every sign marathon talks here will spill into another week.Key players in the delicate...

Asian currencies mixed against dollar

HONG KONG, July 27 (AFP): Asian currencies ended the week mixed against the dollar with traders awaiting the release of key US financial data as concerns lingered over the state of the world's largest economy.JAPANESE YEN: The yen rebounded from...

Air strikes kill 70 in Afghanistan

KHOST, (Afghanistan), July 27 (AFP): Between 50 and 70 Taliban-linked militants were killed Sunday in air strikes by international forces in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, a provincial governor said. he past weeks have seen a spike in insurgent...