BAGERHAT, Nov 23 (UNB): Twenty-six more bodies were recovered in the district Friday raising the official death toll to 762 while unofficial figure to 1,650 in the worst cyclone-hit district.Local people said thousands of people are still missing in the...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Nov 23 (UNB): Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) members seized a huge number of Indian saris and Phensidyl syrup in separate drives here early Wednesday.Acting on secret information, a patrol team of BDR seized 900 pieces of Indian sari worth about...
FE ReportShahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) has allocated Tk. 4.8 million to assist the cyclone Sidr affected people. Among the allocated amount, the sponsor directors of the bank have contributed Tk. 1.5 million personally from their own source.As per decision...
DELHI, Nov 23 (BBC): VVS Laxman's composed unbeaten 57 left India on 228-6 in reply to Pakistan's 231 all out at stumps on an absorbing day two of the first Test in Delhi. Pakistan roared back into contention by taking...
Saiful KaiserShoaib Akhtar bowled fast and furious at times, at times wayward, but he still managed to keep them quite. The Indians were happy to see him off and then attacked the others, Sami and Kaneria in particular. The First...
The four-day tour opener between visiting Bangladesh Under-19 and Pakistan Under-19 team ended in a draw on the 4th and final day at the Karachi National Stadium Friday, reports UNB.Chasing a target of 289, the Pakistan Under-19 team scored 70...
Can Bangladesh rise to sporting prominence by introducing its young to rugby, a new but inexpensive game?At least that is the thinking that led the Bangladesh Rugby Association, backed by two Japanese coaches and the local coaches they trained, to...
Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation will organise an International Women Kabaddi Tournament soon in the city with the likely participation of six teams, reports UNB.Apart from hosts Bangladesh, the Kabaddi Federation will invite five teams, one each from Nepal, and Mumbai, Kolkata,...
Riding on a Shakil Haider century, Team East made a good start in the final round four-day match of the Challenger's Cup against Team North scoring 259 for 5 in 95 overs on the first day at the Dhanmondi Cricket...
BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (Reuters): A bomb hidden in a box containing birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad Friday, Iraqi police said. The police said four policemen were among the wounded in...
PARIS, Nov 23 (AFP): Active parents can, by their example, encourage their children to be physically active, but the effect is less than widely thought, according to a study of more than 5,000 10- and 11-year-olds published Friday. Its findings...
SYDNEY, Nov 23 (AFP): Besieged Australian Prime Minister John Howard was hit with a slew of bad news on the eve of elections Friday as opinion polls showed him trailing his opponent and key newspapers called for his ouster. Two...
CAIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters): The Arab League group charged with following up on peace with Israel agreed Friday to attend a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference, and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister indicated he would attend. "The Arab peace follow-up group...
LONDON, Nov 23 (AP): More than 150 passengers and crew took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters Friday after their cruise ship hit an object and began to sink, Britain's Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported.Evacuees from the Liberian-flagged Explorer...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23 (AFP): Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted by Pervez Musharraf in a coup, will make a fresh attempt to return from exile in the next four or five days, a party spokesman Friday said. Sharif...
BEIJING, Nov 23 (AFP): About 30 people are believed to have been killed after a landslide buried a bus in central China early this week, state press reported Friday. They were travelling on the bus in Badong county, Hubei province,...
WELLINGTON, Nov 23 (AFP): A New Zealand legislator and former government minister will face 40 charges of bribery and perverting the course of justice, the police said Friday. Taito Phillip Field, who resigned from Prime Minister Helen Clark's ruling Labour...
OF the many fallouts from the devastating cyclone, damage to crops on a massive scale is one. The standing crops such as aman paddy on 500, 000 hectares of land in the south and south-western coastal districts of the country...
Sadiq RahimEVERYBODY as a Bangladeshi, knows it very well that the cyclones in the year 1970 had devastated the coastal belts of Bangladesh in such a massive way that it had taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants...
Sagar ShabnamSabekun Nahar Sony, a meritorious student of Chemical Engineering Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, was excited as she was going to finish her studies to become an engineer, a dream she cherished since her childhood, But...
Syed Mozzamel HaqueA shining example of the modernisation of education is India. India has built up a very good base in science and technology education and many of its institutions dealing with science and technology education are in the public...
IT is time for the nation to demonstrate its best qualities -- love and compassion for the distressed humanity. The heart-rendering scenes of destruction and devastation caused by the cyclone SIDR that the viewers watch over the electronic media evoke...
Traffic department officials, if asked about the cause of traffic jams, say many things such as inadequate roads in the city and the absence of sufficient number of infrastructures including flyovers and expressways. But only more devoted traffic management by...
Jonathan SchellThe journey to the martial law just imposed on Pakistan by its self-appointed president, the dictator Pervez Musharraf, began in Washington on September 11, 2001. On that day, it so happened, Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. General Mahmood Ahmed, was...
Matthew Benjamin and Rich MillerF. Scott Fitzgerald had it wrong: In a slowing economy, the rich aren't that different from everyone else. Affluent consumers, pinched by shrinking stock portfolios, falling property values and smaller bonuses, are behaving like their less-well-off...
Elizabeth Eames Roebling from Anse A Pitres, HaitiAt 11 a.m., five hours after the start of the market day on the southern border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the driver of the bright red Haitian truck named "God of...
SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (Agencies): Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union agreed today to expedite negotiations for a free trade agreement, saying relations should not be held hostage by their differences over military-ruled Myanmar. The two sides...
BEIJING, Nov 22 (AFP): Chinese exporters might see only a mild impact from the US subprime crisis but should explore other markets to minimise any fallout, the nation's central bank governor was quoted today as saying. "The subprime crisis in...
GENEVA, Nov 22 (Reuters): Rich countries will increase their "aid for trade" to developing nations by half to around $30 billion by 2010, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said yesterday. The increased funding is an effort to help...
PARIS, Nov 22 (Reuters): Europe's economy faces growing headwinds from strikes in Germany and France just when it least needs an extra brake on activity, but quick settlements on any terms may not be the answer given the long-term economic...
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