SAINT PETERSBURG, June 7 (AFP): Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today blamed the United States for the global financial downturn and said Russia had the energy and food resources to come to the world's help."It is precisely the gap between the...
If your eyes are on the main prize, you'll be snapping up places in Vienna. The Austrian capital has scooped two quarter-finals, a semi and the grand final itself, making it the focus for most of the high drama. It's...
Md. Saquib Hussain | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
Internet had been an indirect platform for many people. An average user simply wouldn't write html or make massive websites but use applications and services that are made by professionals to share information. It major missing feature was how to...
FE Report | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
The students, traveling with British Airways, can now carry one extra bag free with them.The airliner offered the facility to the students or the would-be students to start studies in the UK or USA.Students travelling overseas to study no longer...
WASHINGTON, June 7 (AP): A global credit crisis and record oil prices will be competing with traditional trade and currency issues when top officials from the United States and China gather in Annapolis, Md, later this month.However, there is little...
The Embassy of Switzerland in Dhaka has arranged some exciting programmemes to celebrate the Euro 2008 Football Championship beginning tonight in Switzerland, reports UNB.Ambassador of Switzerland Dr Dora Rapold launched the programme at a press conference at the Goethe-Institute in...
A reception was given to the freshers of the English Department at East West University on the 3rd of June, a press release says.Vice chancellor Dr.Mohammed Sharif, the chairperson of the English department Mr. Harunur Rashid Khan, and the honorary...
Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board is preparing to operate as a public limited company from July 1, a senior telecom official confirmed Saturday, reports bdnews24.com.Telecoms secretary Iqbal Mahmood said the ministry had taken all-out preparations to turn BTTB into a...
ACCORDING to newspaper reports, the government is unlikely to increase the exemption ceiling of income tax. If it is not done, sufferings of many fixed income groups would go up more than ever.Price-rises of all commodities have hit the fixed-income...
WASHINGTON, June 7 (AFP): Nearly two weeks after its historic landing, the US Mars probe Phoenix has scooped up its first sample of Martian soil and begun analyzing it for water and organic compounds, a NASA official said Friday.The 200-milliliter...
NEW DELHI, June 7 (AFP): India paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been ruled out of the upcoming tri-series in Bangladesh due to a side strain, a cricket board official said today."Sreesanth has a left side strain and he will require two...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
The point-to-point inflation has dropped by 2.4 percentage point in April from 10.06 per cent in the previous month March due to increase in the income of people, the government claimed Saturday.The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has showed that...
FE Report | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
The Eastern Housing Limited (EHL) has provided housing facilities to more than 0.25 million (250,000) families of the country.Thousands of families got job opportunities from the housing company. The EHL is thus contributing to the national economy.The EHL was established...
SAVAR, Jun 7 (UNB): The death of a female garment worker in a road accident Saturday once again triggered violent protests by her colleagues who barricaded the nearby road and damaged a number of vehicles.Police and witnesses said Rupali Begum...
FE Report | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
The country's overall trade deficit widened by 65.16 per cent to $3.921 billion in the first nine months of this fiscal due to price hike of essential items, including fuel, in the global market."Higher prices of most of the essential...
Al Mamun | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
The overall Call Center outsourcing market is expected to continue grow steadily, according to a recent research done by Frost & Sullivan Inc., the San Antonio-based research and consulting firm. This firm states that the call center outsourcing market reached...
FE Report | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
IPDC of Bangladesh Limited has decided to issue zero coupon bonds and will carry out stock brokerage business.Two special resolutions were passed in this connection by majority shareholders in the extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) of the company held at Trust...
Amy Yee and Joe LeahyFT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI : Indian officials do not take kindly to expressions such as "fiscal blowout" when they are used to describe the government's finances."These are all alarmist phrases," said Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister, in...
PARIS, June 7 (AP): When Roger Federer had completed his latest French Open victory, he permitted himself a moment of jubilation. Then he leaned wearily on the net, shook his head at his good fortune and began to think about...
FOXBORO, June 07 (Reuters): Venezuela claimed their first ever victory over Brazil Friday when they shocked the South American football power 2-0 in a friendly international match. Giancarlo Maldonado, who plays for Atlante of Mexico, opened the scoring in the...
AOMORI, Japan, June 7 (AFP): The United States and Asia's four largest powers voiced concern today after a record spike in oil price as worries grew that energy costs may derail the global economy.Oil prices, which have soared five-fold since...
Looking for a job? Why not try searching on Facebook? Many companies have started to use Facebook, a popular social networking site, to advertise job openings and recruit potential employees.Take Royal Plaza on Scotts, a five star hotel in Singapore,...
Over the years, Bangladesh has developed layers of public health services across the country. There are big public hospitals in the big cities and smaller ones in the rural areas called upazilla or thana health complex. There are about 402...
GENEVA, June 7 (Reuters): Cristiano Ronaldo will not talk about his club future to reporters while Portugal are involved in Euro 2008, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said Friday.Scolari also said he would not be answering questions about where his own...
Md Sadeque | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
THE ministry of finance and the ministry of industries, decided jointly, to divest 25% shares of four companies, which have been running very efficiently, and profitably under the joint management of a board consisting of government-nominated directors and those elected...
Awami League (AL) central leaders Saturday placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum and stood in silence for a minute in observance of the historic 7th June commemorating the six-point movement seeking...
Labour Adviser Md Anwarul Iqbal left for Geneva Friday night to attend the 97th session of International Labour Conference, reports UNB.The Adviser, who is leading an 8-member delegation, will participate in the plenary session Monday and Tuesday, said a handout.He...
Anup Chowdhury | 2008-06-08 00:00:00
Education is not only about how to read, write and gather knowledge and speak knowledgeably about a particular subject. If we subscribe to the narrow view as to what the true benefits of education are, we would be ignoring the...
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua): China will increase monitoring of money inflows and banks' foreign currency holdings following a surge in the current account surplus in 2007.A trade surplus will continue to affect the balance of payments in 2008, but restructuring...
GENEVA, June 7(AFP): Europe's top international football competition kicks off Saturday, with Switzerland and Austria set to host a friendly, wide open competition.Switzerland take on the Czech Republic in the opening game as the 16 Euro 2008 finalists come out...
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