Awami League central working committee meets Monday to decide whether or not they would sit with the Election Commission on November 4 to discuss proposed electoral reforms, reports UNB.Acting general secretary of the party Syed Ashraful Islam said that they...
Holders Dhaka Division need 242 runs with eight wickets in hand for victory in the 1st round four-day match of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League against Khulna Division on the 4th day today (Monday) at the Mirpur...
The one-day series might have gone but India lived up to their world champions tag in the Twenty20, finishing with a thumping seven-wicket win in Mumbai. Australia have bossed around for most of the last month but India can take...
MANCHESTER (England), Oct 21 (AFP): Manchester United striker Louis Saha will miss his side's Champions League trip to Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday as he struggles to recover from a knee injury.The France international aggravated the long-standing problem in the warm-up...
MUNICH, Oct 21 (AFP): Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld says he is delighted with the form of midfielders Franck Ribery and Bastian Schweinsteiger as his side opened a six-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.Bayern had to come from...
DUBAI, Oct 21 (AFP): Shoaib Malik and the Pakistan team have been fined for slow play, the International Cricket Council said Saturday, following their 25-run victory over South Africa in their second day-night international at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore...
ZURICH, Oct 21 (AFP): Justine Henin claimed her ninth title of the year Sunday when she defeated unseeded Tatiana Golovin of France 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Zurich Open.The match was a repeat of their final in Stuttgart...
TOKYO, Oct 21 (AFP): Gamba Osaka trounced Ventforet Kofu 5-0 Sunday to reduce defending champions Urawa Red Diamonds' lead at the top to six points in the J-League with five games to go. Takahiro Futagawa produced a pin-point pass for...
Second "Citi Cup Golf Tournament" organised by Citibank NA begins at Kurmitola Golf Club on October 25, said a press release.Commandant of National Defence College Lt Gen ATM Zahirul Alam will inaugurate the two-day event and distribute prizes among the...
Sirajganj Krira Shikkha Protishthan (SKSP) beat Khilgaon Progoti Shongshod by 4-3 runs in a baseball game competition held at the Paltan Maidan Sunday, reports UNB.In the day's six innings match, Khilgaon Progoti Shongshod lost the 6th innings to concede defeat...
Bangladesh play Turkmenistan today (Monday) in their third Group D match of the AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers at the Military Physical Education Centre Stadium in Abu Dhabi, reports UNB.Bangladesh, which made a flying start in the Asian junior soccer meet...
John Dyson, the former Australian batsman and coach of Sri Lanka, has been put in charge of West Indies and will succeed his countryman David Moore. Moore had assisted the head coach Bennett King, who departed after the World Cup,...
SYDNEY, Oct 21 (AFP): Central Coast Mariners' striker Sasho Petrovski scored in stoppage time to seal a dramatic 2-1 victory over Wellington Phoenix Sunday and open a three-point lead at the top of the Australian A-League table.The former Sydney FC...
GLASGOW, Oct 21 (AFP): Rangers manager Walter Smith warned his players they still need to improve despite their emphatic 3-0 win at home over Celtic. The Ibrox side drew level on points with their Glasgow rivals in the Scottish Premier...
David MorsePAGAN Amum, the Secretary General of the SPLM, claims to think so. More sedate than I remembered him from an interview in 2005, he was nonetheless clearly determined to remain publicly optimistic. A heavyset man with a thin goatee...
Andrea Gerlin and Kari LundgrenWhen Katie McDermott's stomach and pancreas ailment flared in June, she looked into seeing a private physician near her office in London's financial district. She decided the 55 pound ($112) fee was too much. Instead, the...
Raphael Minder HANK Morrison, whose Philippine company makes model aircraft, says he could be out of business within six months if the Philippine peso continues to rally against the US dollar."With the way the peso is going, it's become almost...
The interim government Sunday warned against any commotion by the bureaucrats over separation of the Judiciary from the Executive, reports bdnews24.com. The judiciary is set for its long-expected separation in line with the Constitution in less than two weeks, but...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a fresh move to realise outstanding customs duties worth Tk 12.42 billion from the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).The NBR has sent a letter to the energy ministry seeking to...
FLORIDA (USA), Oct 21 (BSS): Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed has called upon the expatriate Bangladeshi business community in the USA to make investments in their country of origin for its expeditious development. He made the call...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will introduce an identical 'Know Your Customer (KYC)' form for the commercial banks to help check illegal fund transfer, official sources said. Currently, banks are using different types of forms for preparing KYC profiles...
FE ReportIn the absence of any sort of monitoring by the agencies concerned, the owners of motor vessels operating in long routes are now subjecting the Dhaka-bound passengers to hassles. All large passenger-launches plying between Dhaka and Barisal compelled passengers...
Jo Johnson FT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI: Overgrown and disused for much of the last 60 years, a ghost road that connects India to China via Burma will soon reappear on maps of the region.Dismissed by Winston Churchill as a "laborious...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government is persuading the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to extend the deadline further on deportation of Bangladeshi workers staying there illegally to facilitate their return home, a diplomatic source said. The UAE government set a deadline on June 03...
S M JahangirA fresh move is on to streamline the settlement process of tax-related disputes, aiming to help the National Board of Revenue (NBR) recover its huge stuck-up revenue.A process is on to create two more hearing benches under Dhaka...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Local private airlines operator Best Aviation Limited, for the first time, plans to fly Boeing passenger aircraft to commercially important regional destinations. Besides, it will also introduce the Boeing service on its Dhaka-Chittagong route twice a day.The...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) is likely to question detained former Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina this week in connection with the Tk 30 million graft case, filed against her and six others. Investigating officer and ACC deputy...
Production in Jamuna Fertiliser Factory in Jamalpur was suspended Sunday for its repair and overhauling. Officials said, the factory would remain closed for 35 days. Overhauling of the factory was last done in 2005 at a cost of about Tk...
A three-member Bangladesh delegation leaves the city for Kuwait today (Monday) on a three-day official visit. Expatriates' Welfare Ministry Secretary Abdul Matin Chowdhury will lead the team, other members of which are BMET Director General M Abdul Malek and BOESL...
FE Report The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has selected 20 places for hawkers for selling their goods in the city, apart from a government move to introduce hawker identification cards, according to a DCC press release. Currently, hawkers' registration is...
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