SEOUL, Jun 28 (AFP): The United States wants to introduce a UN Security Council resolution next week to send a "strong message of deterrence" to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday."I understand that the...
SEATTLE, June 27 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft Corp and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home.Three...
FE Report | 2008-06-29 00:00:00
Speakers at an orientation session said that Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. Over 340,000 people develop TB each year of whom 79,000 die in the country.They appealed to the participants to be more conscious about...
NEW DELHI, June 28 (PTI): Pushed by higher prices of food articles including milk, cereals, tea, edible oils and some manufactured items like soaps and detergents, inflation soared to 11.42 per cent for the week ending June 14.The inflation number...
Rod Newing | 2008-06-29 00:00:00
SOME people regard the chartered financial analyst (CFA) qualification as equivalent to a masters degree in finance, but Jeffrey Diermeier sees it differently.
Robert Hormats and Jim O'NeillWHOEVER moves into the Oval Office in January 2009 will have to deal with a significantly different global economy from the one George W. Bush inherited just eight years earlier - and will need to forge...
Iffat Jerin | 2008-06-29 00:00:00
ZAHURA Begun lives in a city slum. She works in a number of houses as a maid in her Tejgaon neighbourhood. Though she cleans others' houses, her own home always remains dirty.There are about 500 rooms in the slum she...
SEOUL, June 28 (AP): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Saturday that U.S. beef is safe to eat and urged South Koreans to accept their government's decision to lift a ban on the products.Rice also said she hoped the beef...
TENERO, Switzerland, June 28(AFP): Germany coach Joachim Loew is hoping his Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde team fulfill their potential by beating Spain in Sunday's Euro 2008 final to complete the summer fairytale started in 2006.Germany have shown two different...
Mobile phones under development by Google Inc and its partners face slipping delivery schedules, with the first phones not likely to arrive until late 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported recently.Google had said eight months ago that the first phones...
FE Report | 2008-06-29 00:00:00
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) organised a day-long workshop on "Prevention of Money Laundering" at its head office in the city Saturday.SJIBL Managing Director Muhammad Ali inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest while Bangladesh Bank (BB) General Manager (Anti-Money...
NEW DELHI, (Internet): In a major relief to over 25 lakh truck operators in the country, the government late last week exempted them from payment of service tax on supply of vehicles to goods transport agencies. In a statement, the...
Russia is ready to participate in Bangladesh's proposed nuclear power plant (NPP) project, if the government here makes a decision to put it into reality, reports UNB."The issue is quite complex and embraces various aspects - technological, financial etc. Therefore,...
BAGERHAT, Jun 27 (UNB): A Tk 250.6 million (Tk 25.06 crore) budget of Bagerhat municipality for 2008-2009 fiscal has been announced without imposing any new tax.Municipal chairman Khan Habibur Rahman placed the budget through a press conference at local press...
OUR capital city of Dhaka is becoming crowded everyday. One of the main reasons is the rise of private cars. Because of poor public transport system, even the lower middle class families started buying cars. A private study, a reported...
Justine Lau | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
Christopher Cheung first experienced problems with his vision last May. At that time, he thought it had something to do with his eyes, perhaps deteriorating myopia.After a few visits to the doctor, Mr Cheung realised it was actually a brain...
SATKHIRA, Jun 27 (UNB): A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kakdanga border in Kolaroa Upazila Friday morning.The dead was identified as Mithu (30), son of Abdur Razzak, of Gobindakati village in Sadar...
Bolt targets double Olympic goldWorld 100m record holder Usain Bolt believes he can win an individual sprint double at the Beijing Olympics. The 21-year-old will compete in both the 100m and 200m at the Jamaican trials in Kingston this weekend....
COLOMBO, June 27 (AFP): Sri Lankan security forces killed at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh ground battles, the defence ministry said Friday.The rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed in separate clashes on Thursday...
FE Report | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
EXIM Bank Foundation held its 4th executive committee meeting in the city recently. Foundation Chairman Md Nazrul Islam Mazumder presided over the meeting.Secretary General of EXIM Bank Foundation Muhammad Nurul Fazal Bulbul delivered a brief speech on corporate social responsibility...
RANGPUR, Jun 27 (BSS): After attaining huge success in combating Monga (near famine situation) through expanded farming of short duration BRRI Dhan-33, experts of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), have now been cultivating another short-duration variety of paddy BINA Dhan-7 for...
Mark Sherman | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The Supreme Court embraced a personal right under the Constitution to have guns for self-defense. But in its historic examination of the Second Amendment, the justices left unanswered whether gun rights extend beyond the home or how far.The court split...
KHAGRACHHARI, June 27 (UNB): Law Adviser AF Hasan Ariff, his APS, two gunmen and driver were injured in a road accident in Manikchhari Upazila here Friday afternoon.The accident occurred at around 4:45 pm at Mahamoni when the Adviser' s car...
Leslie Crawford in Madrid | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
There are solar panels on the grounds of the Spanish prime minister's 18th century palace, and abstract art on the walls. The rooms are modern, uncluttered and bathed in Madrid's bright morning sunlight."This is the image of Spain we want...
UNITY, (New Hampshire), June 27 (AFP): Senator Hillary Clinton was reaching out with a show of unity in Unity, bestowing a warm endorsement on her Democratic rival, now the party's presumptive White House hope, Barack Obama. The former primary adversaries...
RAJSHAHI, June 27 (BSS): Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque has said political partisan is responsible for journalism without morality.He said freedom, accountability and transparency of the newspapers and journalists should be ascertained for the welfare...
THE High Court (HC) recently gave a ruling making installation of speed governor seals in all modes of motorised vehicles mandatory by March 10, 2009. The HC had also instructed the relevant authorities to publish notices in various newspapers to...
Sri Lanka secured their second big win in two days, this time over UAE, to progress to the second round of the Asia Cup with two points in the bag. Chasing 291, UAE looked like they would make a match...
SYLHET, Jun 27 (UNB): Some 300 bottles of liquor were seized by the police from a boat in Lamanidighir haor under Goainghat Upazila Wednesday afternoon.Acting on a tip-off, a police team of Goainghat thana raided the waterbody and found the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-06-28 00:00:00
The communist revolution in the first half of the twentieth century followed by the second world war created what was called communist Eastern Europe with Soviet Russia as if its family head. It also marked a kind of political division...
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