TOKYO, Jul 10(AFP): Japanese Emperor Akihito plans to visit Canada next year with his wife, more than five decades after his maiden trip there, an official said today.Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper agreed to arrange...
FE Report | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has launched a new ATM booth at Dhanmondi in the city recently.SCB head of Shared Distribution and Service Quality Tanvir Haider Chaudhury inaugurated the new ATM booth.Senior officials of the bank were present on the occasion.The...
BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua): Wan Jifei, president of China Chamber of International Commerce said yesterday that the country needs to participate in the formulation of global economic and trade rules apart from taking part in international division of labour and...
From Fazle Rashid | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
NEW YORK, July 10: Millions of dollars are spent on the US presidential race. Beginning from primaries to election day on Nov 7, it is flow of ceaseless fund that is what is of pivotal interest to the candidates. Fund...
The Group of Eight or G-8 that includes the world's top eight developed and industrialized countries that account for more than two-thirds of the world's gross domestic product (GDP), have ended their summit meeting in Japan. Great expectations were pegged...
THE Buriganga is threatened by encroachment, with its natural flows impeded by landfilling and unauthorised structures. The encroachments have narrowed down the river. At many points it flows past the city like a canal. Allowing this process of encroachment would...
President Iajuddin Ahmed has expressed Bangladesh's eagerness to take part in development efforts of the African continent through sharing experience, skill and expertise, reports UNB.The President made the statement as newly appointed Ambassador of Libya to Bangladesh Ahmed Ateya Hamd...
FE Report | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
The Swanirvar Bima Division of Meghna Life Insurance Company Ltd started its business operation recently.Meghna Life Chairman Nizamuddin Ahmed was present as the chief guest at the inaugural programme.Managing Director Ekramul Amen presided over the inaugural function.Directors Hasina Nizam, Nasir...
NEW YORK, July 10 (AFP): The cash-rich Abu Dhabi Investment Council has bought one of New York's best-known skyscrapers, the Chrysler Building, for a heady 800 million dollars, sources close to the deal said yesterday.Despite a sharp downturn in the...
Niaz Ahmed Khan and A.Z.M. Manzoor RashidTHE knowledge and wisdom, which underpin the practice of Baidya, are mostly passed on from one generation to the other. Baidyas provide two broad categories of services: (a) plant-based (curative and preventive) treatment and...
Australia omit Casson from | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
preliminary Trophy squadSYDNEY, July 10:Test newcomer Beau Casson was left out of a 30- man preliminary Australian squad announced Thursday for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September. The left-arm wrist spinner played in the final Test of the recent...
The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday said no to Anti-corruption Commission (ACC)'s prayer for vacating the stay on proceedings of the Niko and the barge-mounted power plant scam cases against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, thereby putting the corruption trials on...
David Pilling | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
Some of the Group of Eight leaders might have choked on their green tea when Nicolas Sarkozy this week proposed expanding the organisation to 14 or 15 members.Not only should China and India, the world's two biggest emerging economies, be...
Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has said the relations between Bangladesh and Turkey were "traditional and historical", reports UNB.The adviser made the remarks when Turkish Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Toruntar called on him Thursday.They discussed ways and means to boost...
TOYAKO, Japan, July 10 (PTI): World leaders at a summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised powers have expressed their "strong will" to conclude an "ambitious and comprehensive" World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha agreement, while addressing issues like spiralling...
WASHINGTON, Jul 10 (AP) : Even with India's last-minute revival of a languishing civil nuclear accord with the United States, it may be too late for time-pressed US lawmakers to ratify what has been one of President Bush's top foreign...
The Design Zone 2nd Office League, organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation, will begin in the city on July 24.Interested associations have been requested to send their team entries and affiliation fees by July 18 at the Federation office. Interested teams...
BAGERHAT, Jul 10 (UNB): Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed today (Thursday) said the country would be self-sufficient in food someday if all can produce food-grains in uncultivated land in the country."Even an inch of land can't be left uncultivated....
FE Report | 2008-07-11 00:00:00
Shahzada Syed Nizamuddin Ahmed has been appointed independent director of Standard Bank Ltd at the 127th board meeting of the bank recently.A post-graduate in Commerce, Nizamuddin Ahmed has a successful banking career of more than four decades to his credit...
DU Correspondent | 2008-07-10 00:00:00
Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) conferred degrees on a total of 1,283 graduates of different disciplines at its second convocation ceremony at the city's Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre Wednesday.Primary and Mass Communication Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury attended the function as the...
FE Report | 2008-07-10 00:00:00
Seven private commercial banks and cell phone operator Grameenphone Limited were among the top ten income tax payers in fiscal 2007-08.National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Muhammad Abdul Mazid, for the first time in history, disclosed the names of top...
The rain-affected first three-day match between visiting Bangladesh A team and hosts England Under-19 team ended in a draw on the third and final day at the Hazelgrave Ground in Loughborough Tuesday, reports UNB.More than half of the playing time...
Kabir H Choudhury has been re-elected chairman and Farzana Chowdhury and A Farjad Ahmed have been elected vice-chairmen of the board of directors of Green Delta Insurance Company Limited.The election was held at the 254th board meeting held in the...
FE Report | 2008-07-10 00:00:00
The government launches a nationwide campaign on energy conservation and use of renewable energy today (Wednesday). The campaign aims at reducing the mounting pressure on conventional energy sources and protecting environment."Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed is expected to inaugurate the...
Fazle Rashid | 2008-07-10 00:00:00
NEW YORK, July 09: Haider Akbar Khan Rono, a firebrand student leader of the 60s, now a leading light of the left politics, categorically stated here the other day that the Workers Party has no connection either with the Awami...
TEHRAN, July 9 (AFP): Iran test-fired Wednesday a missile whose range puts Israel within reach, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war.The Shahab-3 was among a broadside...
FE Report | 2008-07-10 00:00:00
Invasion of the computer networks belonging to a large number of brokerage houses by a new virus halted most part of the trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Wednesday.A total of 120 brokerage houses failed to log on with...
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will hold a meeting of its executive board Thursday to discuss its team's tour to England next year that will force its national cricketers to miss a chunk of the second season of the Indian Premier...
Eminent economist Prof Wahiduddin Mahmood has lauded the caretaker government's employment generation programme during the lean months with a call to make it a permanent measure to help the hardcore poor, reports UNB.He was speaking at a daylong workshop on...
Bir Sreshtha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School & College (BNMRPSC), Bir Sreshtha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School & College (BSNMRPSC) [English medium] and Bir Srestha Munshi Abdur Rouf Rifles College (BMARRC) jointly signed an agreement with Bank Asia Limited at...
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