NETRAKONA, July 4 (BSS): Water in all rivers of the district including Sumeswari, Kangso Dhono and Mogra has been rising continuously following torrential rainfall for last five days.Water Development Board (WDB) office said, water in the Sumeswari river has recorded...
Enayet Rasul | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
IT may be asked whether Bangladeshis, having successfully applied their political consciousness to establish Bangladesh, have been equally successful in using the same consciousness to develop their country in the economic and social sense. The well researched answer to such...
Six persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Joypurhat, Mizanur Rahman Sikdar, a lance Nayek of 29 Rifle Battalion of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) of...
Shoaib Akhtar's ban on playing for Pakistan has been temporarily suspended by the Lahore High Court pending a full and final judgement, which technically means the fast bowler is eligible to play for Pakistan. The fine imposed on him by...
June 29 - July 3, 2008Standard Chartered BankLocal inter-bank currency market was liquid in the last week as the demand for dollar rose.Bangladesh taka remained range bound against US dollar in the week.Overnight money market was stable with rates easing...
Sarwar Zahan | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate closed lower last week and the market witnessed the year's lowest call rate although the central bank made constant withdrawal of cash from the market. The demand for cash remained steady and the market seemed...
TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters): G8 leaders aim to present a united front against global inflation, driven by soaring oil and food prices, at a summit in Japan next week, but solving the problem requires more than just a strong message...
Students who scored GPA-5 and above GPA-4 in SSC and equivalent examinations will be facing a tough competition for seats in reputed colleges, reports BSS.As many as 52,500 examinees scored GPA-5, the highest ever number of GPA-5 achievers in the...
Aid organisations in Zimbabwe have provided food and other assistance to about 150 men who spent a cold night outside the US embassy in the capital.About 50 women and children were taken away to shelter elsewhere overnight.Some said they were...
LONDON, July 4 (AFP): Venus and Serena Williams, who boast six Wimbledon titles between them, will clash for the third time in an All England Club final Saturday.Venus, the four-time winner and defending champion, booked her place with a 6-1,...
FE Report | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
The country's first overflow container yard, built by the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), will go into operation in early August to facilitate faster delivery of import consignments, senior port officials said Friday."We expect to commission the newly constructed yard in...
Shirin Akhtar | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
Mohammad Farid, then 16, was picked up by police at Gabtali bus station as a suspect in a robbery case. He just arrived at the station from a home vacation to resume work as a tempo driver's helper and had...
DUBAI, July 4 (Cricinfo): Zimbabwe have agreed to pull out of next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England, clearing the roadblocks for the competition to be staged there, but will retain their status as Full Member of the ICC and...
FE Report | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
Apollo Hospitals Dhaka has recently signed a corporate agreement with Khulna Club to provide medical services and special corporate benefits to their members.Apollo Hospitals Dhaka Director (Business Development) Malka Shamrose and Khulna Club Vice-President Qazi Hameed Asghar signed the agreement...
Our Correspondent | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
JOYPURHAT, July 4: BDR men of Joypurhat 29 rifle battalion seized 800 bottles of Phensidyl at Satani area under Hakimpur Upazila in Dinajpur district Thursday night.Being tipped off BDR personnel raided the area and recovered the drugs. BDR later deposited...
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt is due in Paris, two days after her dramatic release from captivity in the Colombian jungle, BBC reports.The former hostage will be met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who campaigned for her release, before attending a lavish...
KARACHI, July 4 (Cricinfo): For the second day in succession, a target of 309 was overhauled without much trouble. Each of India's batsmen played their part as India reached the final with a convincing six-wicket win over Sri Lanka. Muttiah...
Gloria Borger | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
In January--a political lifetime ago--there were two presidential candidates who scored above the rest on the matter of authenticity: Barack Obama and John McCain. Indeed, 65 percent of Democrats thought that Obama says "what he believes most of the time,"...
Bangladesh Electrical Merchandise Manufacturers Association (BEMMA) has demanded of the government to take immediate measures to stop under-invoicing by some dishonest importers and address double VAT payment problem in the interest of smooth flourishing of the industry, reports BSS."The country's...
SATKHIRA, July 4 (UNB): A young man was slaughtered by unidentified assailants at Gobordari village in Sadar Upazila Wednesday midnight.Police said miscreants entered the house of Mushfiqur Rahman Bab (28), and slaughtered him when he was asleep at his room.Family...
Fareast Islami Life Insurance Company Limited (FILICL) and SSL Wireless signed an agreement in the city Thursday, said a press release.FILICL Deputy Managing Director M Mosharraf Hossain and SSL Wireless Managing Director Sayeeful Islam signed the agreement on behalf of...
FE Report | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
Muhammad Sekandar Khan, an economist and educationist, has been appointed an independent director of Exim Bank at the 58th meeting of the board of directors of the bank held in the city recently.In his long career, he held important positions...
BNP standing committee member Mahbubur Rahman Friday said the BNP would soon be able to overcome its leadership crisis with new leadership emerging through historical process, reports UNB."As the nation has already overcome its food crisis, so will we, of...
Our Correspondent | 2008-07-05 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 04: Chittagong Customs House (CCH) earned Tk 139.23 billion revenue in the fiscal 2007-2008, which was Tk 5.23 billion more than the target.Following continuos failure for last four years, the CCH has been able to realise revenue worth...
Peirsol lowers 100m | 2008-07-03 00:00:00
backstroke world recordOMAHA (Nebraska), July 2: Aaron Peirsol lowered his own 100m backstroke world record with a time of 52.89sec in the final Tuesday at the US Olympic swimming trials. Peirsol had set the previous record of 52.98sec on March...
Awami League's acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam Wednesday advised party followers to remain forearmed with all preparations as he said the long-awaited parliamentary elections are still uncertain, reports UNB.'Everything is going on amid uncertainty. Even the national elections are...
JERUSALEM, July 2 (AP): Israel reopened its border crossings with Gaza Wednesday and was expected to let in supplies of cement for the first time in a year, an Israeli official and a Palestinian official in the territory said.The reopening...
BEIJING, July 2 (AFP): Hundreds of shoe makers in southern China have closed down this year as profits slumped due to the rising yuan, higher costs and a weakening demand overseas, industry insiders said yesterday.Around 500 shoe factories-or 10 per...
MADRID, July 2 (PTI): Iran yesterday indicated that it may be willing to change the delivery point of gas it wants to sell to India through a pipeline passing through Pakistan, but wanted New Delhi and Islamabad to decide quickly...
BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua): China's economy had been slowed to expand at a more desirable and moderate rate for the five months to May, according to an official macro-economy index chart, the national statistics agency said yesterday.The macro economy index...
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