CHICAGO, June 6 (Agencies): For young voters, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 is schoolbook history. Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory. The...
Naunidhi Kaur | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Olivia Harper, 24, a single mother in Toronto, sees difficult times ahead of her. Working as an administrative assistant she makes just enough money to pay the grocery bills and rent for her expensive downtown apartment. She finds herself helpless...
The BDR-run fair-price shops in the city remain closed for four days from June 6 (Friday) to June 9 as the government stopped subsidy on coarse rice catered by the paramilitary force from these outlets in the wake of price...
COX'S BAZAR, June 6 (UNB): Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid said Friday that prolonging the rule of the un-elected government would cause more harm to the nation.Addressing the party's Rokon conference at a local hotel, he said the...
FE Report | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Jamuna Bank Limited arranged a customers' night on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the bank at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the city Wednesday.Chairman of the board of directors of the bank Md Tazul Islam was present as...
van Persie expects Holland impactArsenal striker Robin van Persie expects Holland to make a major impact in Euro 2008's "group of death" alongside France, Italy and Romania. Holland face world champions Italy in their opening game in Berne Monday. He...
The US-based rights group Human Rights Watch has called for the interim government to end its allegedly arbitrary mass arrests under emergency rule, reports bdnews24.com.In a statement, datelined Thursday from New York, the group said the thousands detained in Bangladesh...
Amin Ahmed Chowdhury | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Milk and powdered milk products involving a large amount of money are imported annually into Bangladesh. The expenditure on account of such imports was much less, in both taka and US dollars, in the mid-nineties. This indicates the fast climbing...
Cristiano Ronaldo's future at Manchester United has taken a new twist after the winger was reported as saying he would like to play for Real Madrid, reports BBC.Real have been tracking Ronaldo, 23, despite being warned off by United manager...
After getting cold shoulder from Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now contemplating moving forward with its allies to launch movement for overcoming the spiralling crisis ahead of the parliamentary polls."We'll sit with our allies soon and discuss with...
Christopher Caldwell | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
YOU can measure the continuing power shift in Washington by looking at the costly package of veterans' benefits sponsored by James Webb, the Virginia senator elected on an anti-Iraq war platform in 2006. President George W. Bush has promised to...
HARARE, June 6 (AFP): Zimbabwe risked further international outrage Friday by ordering charities to halt their work, hours after detaining British and US diplomats in the tense build-up to a June 27 run-off election. President Robert Mugabe's government said aid...
Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik is very optimistic to do well in the Kitply Cup Tri-Nation One Day International (ODI) Tournament beginning Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS) at Mirpur in the city, reports UNB."Our aim is to win match...
Howard Cincotta | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
FIVE days a week, throughout the year, special presses that belong to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington and Dallas roll out 38 million pieces of paper currency totaling approximately $750 million.Yet this massive amount of currency...
HABIGANJ, June 6 (UNB): A sexagenarian man was crushed under the wheels of a bus at Andiura on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Madhabpur Upazila Thursday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Undu Miah (65) of Andiura village.Local people said the Sylhet-bound bus...
Jeremy Bowen | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Iran's Preisdent Ahmandinejad on a recent visit to the Natanz nuclear facility The debate on Iran's nuclear intentions is heating up again, as is talk of attack Last December American intelligence agencies said they had "high confidence" that in late...
Celebrated national forward Rafiqul Islam Kamal of Usha KC retired from playing hockey Friday after his 20-year colourful career at the top level of the game, reports UNB.Veteran forward Kamal announced his retirement when his favourite club Usha KC clinched...
An old theory of medico-politics again gains ground as the interim government in a swift move formed three medical boards that separately examined former Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia and Zia's youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko, reports UNB.Two...
PARIS, June 6 (AFP): Global trade talks are still plagued by major disagreements but a deal remains possible between now and the end of June, a senior trade official said here Thursday."The discussions today were excellent but there are still...
COLOMBO, June 6 (Agencies): A bomb ripped through a crowded passenger bus near Sri Lanka's capital during morning rush hour Friday, killing at least 21 people and wounding an additional 47, officials said. he bombing was the second attack in...
FE Report | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Prices of different essential items, including rice, flour, lentil and edible oil remained almost unchanged at their previous rates in the city markets during the past one week, traders said Friday.They, however, said prices of canned edible oil of different...
Philip Stephens | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
The world has been turned on its head. Consumers in the wealthiest nations are struggling with the consequences of the credit crunch and with the soaring cost of energy and food. In China, retail sales have been rising at an...
M Azizur Rahman | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
The government has decided to bring changes in the existing building code making installation of solar panels on top of high-rise buildings mandatory to reduce dependency on conventional power sources, officials said.The power ministry has been given the task to...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
Simplicity of a scientific idea is a measure of its power to explain. Physical and biological sciences were a world of chaos before Newton, Darwin and Einstein. Their theories accommodate so much diversity and complexity in one fell sweep that...
June 1 - June 5, 2008Commercial Bank of CeylonLocal foreign exchange dealers were not expecting any unusual appreciation of greenback against Bangladesh taka in the coming week.Last week, the daily average inter-bank US dollar and Bangladesh taka transactions volume was...
Dr. M. Mizanur Rahman | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
SUKUK, plural of Arabic word meaning certificate reflects ownership/participation rights in the underlying assets. Modern sukuk, sometimes referred to as Islamic bonds, are better described as Islamic investment certificates.The legitimacy of sukuk bond is as Allah in Holy Qur'an said...
The High Court (HC) Thursday granted three months bail to Sigma Huda, the wife of former communications minister Nazmul Huda, reports bdnews24.com.The ruling follows the sentencing of the former communications minister on August 27 last year to seven years imprisonment...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to fix area-wise value of land at the beginning of every year.This aims to streamline collection of revenue and check evasion of taxes through concealment of actual value, land ministry sources said.Land prices will...
Stuart Broad and James Anderson put England firmly in control of the third Test at Trent Bridge with an unlikely 76-run stand for the eighth wicket, as New Zealand's bowlers toiled lucklessly and with mounting frustration under overcast skies on...
Dr. Mohammed Hossain | 2008-06-07 00:00:00
JUST few days ago, this scribe went through a philosophy article on ethics in marketing. This has encouraged this write-up on this issue as we are concerned with ethics and marketing. In the world that we live in, there are...
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