CHITTAGONG, June 20 (bdnews24.com): Education and Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman, said Friday the government was confident that the two major parties would change their stances and agree to local government elections as per the election road map. Speaking to...
BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain Friday called upon the activists of the four-party alliance to stand united to overcome future challenges on the political front, reports UNB.As the alliance is facing multiple political challenges amid emergency rule in the...
The four-party alliance Friday rejected the election schedule of four city corporations and nine municipalities announced by the Election Commission, report UNB/bdnews24.com.On behalf of the alliance, BNP's Acting Office Secretary Rizvi Ahmed said the Election Commission's announcement of the election...
Geoff Dyer, FT Syndication ServiceBEIJING: The World Bank sharply increased its forecast for inflation in China this year due to the potential spillover into prices from higher wages and raw material costs, although it said that headline inflation had already...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
As many as 269,000 people died during the war leading to the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, nearly five times more than the previously estimated figure, a new study says.The study, titled 'Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam...
CHITTAGONG, June 20 (BSS): A five-point agenda have been set on priority basis for the maiden regional dialogue scheduled to be held in the port city on June 28.Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed is scheduled to attend and lead the regional...
WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters): US officials say Israel carried out a large military exercise this month that appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reported on Friday. Citing unidentified...
The government has relaxed the emergency rules for 21 days allowing electioneering through procession, meeting and rally in the city corporations and municipalities where elections will be held, reports UNB.The relaxation was made through a gazette notification of the Home...
Bangladeshi restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) require a huge number of workers to meet the growing demand of caterers for spicy dishes, reports BSS.Bangladeshi-born British citizens are running nearly 12,000 restaurants in the UK and around 85,000 workers have...
Fredrik Erixon | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Global trade and investment has surged in the past 50 years. Almost all countries and all sectors today participate in a global division of labour. Yet one sector remains conspicuously unglobalised: healthcare.European governments in particular have ringfenced healthcare provision and...
SYDNEY, June 20 (AFP): Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting said his side and others still had security concerns about Pakistan, and was undecided about competing in the Champions Trophy, newspapers reported Friday.Ponting said he did not yet know if Australia...
NOAKHALI, Jun 20 (UNB): A court here Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2003.The convict is Mahfujul Haque (38).According to prosecution, when Waziullah, a betel- nut trader of Char Kakra...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Some major rivers recorded sharp rise Friday, the Teesta was about to touch the red mark on the day, in the northern part of the country due to moderate-to-heavy rain and onrush of hilly water from the upper catchments.People living...
A month-long mango fair began at the city's Mouchak Tower Friday in order to sell chemical free mangoes, reports UNB.Chitra Agro Business with the assistance of monthly magazine Toitumbur, Media for Media, HEEDs and Children and Earth Welfare Society has...
14 arrested after Suu Kyibirthday protest in MyanmarYANGON, June 20: Fourteen people were arrested after a pro-junta militia broke up a protest calling for the release of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a security official said. Dozens of...
Elections to four city corporations and nine municipalities will be held on August 4, said the Election Commission (EC) announcing the election schedule Friday, reports UNB.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda announced the election schedule amid protests by major...
KANDAHAR, (Afghanistan), June 20 (AFP); A suicide attack on a military convoy killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan Friday, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.The convoy was driving...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Bangladeshi footwear exporters see a prospect in their business boom as the European Union (EU) plans to end the generalised system of preferences (GSP) to Vietnam footwear makers.The EU footwear buyers are now shifting to Bangladesh market as the EU...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
The mystery of creation has mystified man ever since he started to question the universe's origin and his coming into being. But the answers to his queries have like himself undergone transformations over time. First it was all magical. It...
Carola Hoyos | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
ENI, Italy's biggest energy group, rewrote recently all of its contracts in Libya, setting the tone for the rest of the industry by accepting worse terms in return for another 35 years of access to one of the world's most...
FE Report | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Jamuna Bank Limited (JBL) held a view-exchange meeting of its executives/officers with the newly elected chairman and vice-chairman of the board of directors of the bank at IDEB in the city recently.Chairman of the board of directors Md Tazul Islam...
NEW DELHI, June 20 (BBC On-line): Indian inflation has risen to a new 13-year high, hitting shares and weakening the rupee.The wholesale price index rose to 11% in the 12 months to 7 June, up from the previous week's 8.75%....
HARARE, June 20 (Reuters): Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is considering pulling out of the June 27 presidential run-off election, a spokesman for his Movement for Democratic Change said Friday."There is a huge avalanche of calls and pressure from supporters...
Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) completed registration formalities of 21 players Friday, marking the end 36-day inter-club players transfer for the 2nd B League (Professional Football League), reports UNB.The black and white Motijheel outfit recruited defender Jewel Rana (Brothers Union Club),...
LONDON, June 20 (Agencies): Oil rose by almost $3 a barrel Friday on a view now gaining ground that a surprise fuel price increase by China may actually boost rather than curtail demand for fuel in the world's second-largest oil...
Eric Knight | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
The banking industry has gone through a remarkable transformation, much of it driven by the way the industry is regulated. Banking regulations may unwittingly have contributed to the current financial crisis and an understanding of how and why this occurred...
LONDON, June 20 (AFP): Manchester United slapped a 'not for sale' sign on striker Cristiano Ronaldo Friday following the Portuguese international striker's most recent bid to pave the way towards joining Real Madrid.Ronaldo has been linked with the nine-times European...
Martin Wolf | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Milton FriedmanWHAT explains the combination of a "credit crunch" in the US with soaring commodity prices and rising inflation across the globe? Are these unrelated events or part of a bigger picture?...
SYLHET, Jun 20 (UNB): Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and truck at Hajipur in Golapganj upazila on Sylhet-Jokiganj road Thursday morning.The dead were identified as truck driver Foysal Ahmed (35),...
Rezina Sultana | 2008-06-21 00:00:00
MY father was the most important person in my entire life. There was no one like him. That's why I recall him with this write-up. Those who lost their father cannot do much but for recalling the good times with...
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