COLOMBO, Dec 1 (AFP): Thirteen Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes in the island's embattled northeast, Sri Lanka's military said Saturday, marking the latest violence in the long- running ethnic conflict. The clashes occurred overnight, the military said in...
Election workers started Saturday photographing voters and taking their fingerprints for national identity (ID) card project at 140 polling centres under the jurisdiction of 16 Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) police stations, reports bdnews24.com. President Prof. Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and his...
Freedom fighters (FFs) have urged the caretaker government to put the war criminals on trial in the same spirit as it is fighting against corruption, terrorism and black money holders.The freedom fighters also demanded special uniforms for them so that...
GAZIPUR, Dec 1 (UNB): Law Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein said Saturday that it could not be that there would exist a democratic system in the country but there would not be democracy within the political parties.He trounced a number of...
BNP Secretary General Khondokar Delwar Hossain expressed shock and concern Saturday at the government decision to cancel the general holiday on the National Revolution and Solidarity Day on November 7.He called upon the government to rescind the decision for the...
BARISAL, Dec 1 (UNB): The number of voters enrolled in the new voters' list for the Barisal City Corporation (BCC) has decreased by 19.44 per cent compared to the previous list, despite registering the floating people. This drop in the...
Only one lawyer, instead of the scheduled three, met detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the special jail Saturday, an official said. "Advocate Sahara Khatun and Advocate Khandaker Moniruzzaman and Barrister Fazle Nur Taposh were scheduled to meet Sheikh...
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed said Saturday the liberal and humanistic appeal of Islam with its emphasis on the importance of spirituality has great relevance to the present world, reports BSS."All peace-loving people of the world are aware of these...
Thirty more organisations and individuals Saturday donated about Tk 18.5 million to the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund for the country's cyclone victims, reports UNB.The organisations and individuals are Karnaphuli Fertilizer Co Ltd Tk 1,54,61,427, Bangladesh Supreme Court Tk...
BAGERHAT, Dec 1 (UNB): As part of his daylong tour to Bangladesh, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee distributed relief goods among cyclone-hit people at Rayenda in Sharankhola upazila Saturday.While discussing the problems, local people, mostly rendered pauper by the...
DINAJPUR, Dec 1 (UNB): Industries Adviser Getee Ara Safia Chowdhury today admitted problems in the supply and distribution of fertiliser because of 'excessive control' but assured of resolving the difficulties facing the farmers.The Adviser was exchanging views with cross section...
Four persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Benapole, a woman was crushed under the wheels of a train in Navaran's Dakerbagan area here...
KOLKATA, Dec 1 (BBC): India posted their highest ever home total against Pakistan to take control of the second Test in Kolkata. Opener Wasim Jaffer (202) moved from 192 to his second Test double century before edging Sohail Tanvir behind....
An all-round performance by Farhad Hossain guided league leaders Rajshahi Division to a 6-wicket win over Sylhet Division in the 6th round one-day match of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League at the Narayanganj Osmani Stadium (NOS) Saturday,...
The touring Bangladesh Under-19 team face hosts Pakistan Under-19 team in the third one-day match today (Sunday) at the DHA ground in Karachi, reports UNB.They will play the 4th one-day match at the Quaid-e-Azam Park (Steel Mills Karachi) on December...
KANDY, Dec 1 (Cricinfo): In the build-up to this Test playing in Sri Lanka has been described as one of the game's toughest challenges and England responded with an outstanding bowling performance on the opening day at Kandy. Matthew Hoggard...
M A IslamTHE other day when I was discussing about study habit with one of my college friends, he was referring to one of our batchmates. That batchmate Mukti, just two days after completing SSC, started learning various HSC subjects...
M Aminul IslamGAUTAMA Buddha wisely said: "Vast learning, perfect learning, a highly-trained discipline and a pleasant speech. This is a supreme blessing." Quality schooling is a pressing issue in Bangladesh to achieve the main target of attaining education. It is...
Kester Eddy It is mid-morning, and the calm of the office environs is intermittently disturbed by muffled bangs and thumps. "It's construction work; we're building a trading room for students on a new MSc in finance. I think it will...
THE number of children starting primary school has increased sharply since 2000, there are more girls in school than ever before and spending on education and aid has risen. That's the good news, according to the sixth edition of the...
The megastars in the IT industry over the past four decades are easy to name. The accomplishments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, Larry Ellison, Linus Torvalds and others are well known. But clearly there have been many more...
Mitch BettsIt was 1967. Students were protesting an unpopular war. Beatle John Lennon was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone. And Patrick J. McGovern started Computerworld, a newsweekly for "the computer community," to tell computer buyers...
A large-scale, coordinated campaign to steer users toward malware- spewing Web sites from Google and other Internet search engines is under way, security researchers said Tuesday. Users searching Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and other engines with any of hundreds...
A promotion in which a customer, buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada, automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year's end, organisers said last week.The "Give One, Get One"...
If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in policing the legalistic user agreements that restrict how software can be used.While a copyright...
Tired of irritating smudges, dust and fingerprints on laptop computer screens? LG.Philips LCD has come up with a dirt-resistant, easy-to-clean panel.A special coating on screens used to reduce glare also had a tendency to retain dirt and oil, the company...
Some Facebook users, upset by a new feature on the US site that makes their online shopping habits public, are organising online against it.Founders of Facebook: Stop Invading My Privacy claim they get 1,000 new electronic signatures every few minutes,...
FE ReportFederation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) President Mir Nasir Hossain lauded the government decision to set up a 'Truth Commission' to bring about a change in procedure of trial of corrupt businessmen.He also appreciated the formation...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 1 (BSS): Acute shortage of timber for making furniture has been hampering the production of the Fidco Furniture Complex (FFC) in the port city's Kalurghat industrial area. The FFC, one of the three full-fledged furniture manufacturing enterprises owned...
Sarwar Zahan The US dollar was steady against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) in the inter-bank foreign exchange market last week although the demand for the greenback was higher, fund managers said. The exchange rate of the greenback moved between Tk...
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