BEIRUT, Sept 21 (Agencies): Family, colleagues and supporters marched Friday in a mass funeral procession for a slain Lebanese lawmaker, the latest victim of a campaign the country's anti-Syrian faction accuses Damascus of orchestrating to scuttle the upcoming presidential election....
PARIS, Sept 21: (AFP.) The UN cultural agency UNESCO added 23 new sites to their global 'bio-reserves' list on Thursday, naming areas from Australia to Mongolia in an effort to prevent further flora and fauna loss. They were selected from...
Three Palestinians killed in Gaza GAZA CITY, Sept 21: Three Palestinians were killed Thursday during an incursion by Israeli forces into the Gaza Strip, including a 16-year- old boy run over by a bulldozer, witnesses and medics said. Mahmud Kayed's...
DURBAN, South Africa, Sept 21 (AFP): India snatched a dramatic 37-run victory over hosts South Africa Thursday to storm into the semi- finals of the Twenty20 World Championships. India, restricted to 153-5 in a game they had to win to...
TIANJIN, China, Sept 21 (AFP): A determined China battled past New Zealand Thursday to tee-up a women's World Cup quarter-final with Norway, while Australia snatched a last-gasp equaliser to book a showdown with Brazil. The host nation, watched by a...
KARACHI, Sept 21 (Reuters): Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram believes Twenty20 cricket could eventually replace one-day internationals. Akram said the success of the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa could spark greater interest in the format. "Twenty20 cricket already...
LONDON, Sept 21 (AFP): Big-spending Chelsea could face a player backlash following the shock departure of controversial but popular coach Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese coach sensationally left Stamford Bridge Thursday by "mutual consent" after the club revealed there had been...
KOLKATA, Sept 21 (AFP): Second seed Daniela Hantuchova easily advanced to the quarter-finals of the 175,000-dollar WTA Sunfeast Open here Thursday with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Anastasia Rodionova of Russia. The Slovak, who needed barely an hour to finish...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 21 (AFP): Final standings in the Super Eights round of the inaugural Twenty20 world championships which ended Thursday:Table (played, won, lost, no-result, points) Group E India 3 2 1 0 4New Zealand 3 2 1 0 4South Africa...
PARIS, Sept 21 (AFP): Portugal's Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has been banned for four matches by UEFA after a violent altercation with Serbian player Ivica Dragutinovic. Scolari and Dragutinovic were caught up in a pitch-side flare-up after a hot-tempered...
Saiful KaiserBangladesh had a good chance of beating Pakistan if only their batsmen had supported the magnificent effort by Junaid Siddique, the 19-year-old debutant who cracked 71 from 49 deliveries. There was only one blemish. A catch off him was...
Spondon KC beat Mirpur Ekadosh by 3-1 goals in a match of the Metropolis third Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtho Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the city Friday, reports UNB.Sheikh Saadi struck twice and...
SYDNEY, Sept 21 (Reuters): Australia captain Ricky Ponting will remain with the squad for their one-day tour of India despite suffering from a hamstring injury, Cricket Australia said. Ponting has been ruled out of the rest of the current Twenty20...
A Z M AnasThe caretaker government is pressing forward with a plan to initiate the construction work of the second Dhaka-Chittagong Highway project, the cost of which is estimated at US$ 900 million."We're planning to float an international tender for...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a move to realise stuck-up Value Added Tax (VAT) worth Tk 2.32 billion (Tk 231.95 crore) that was evaded during the last seven years.The VAT monitoring, intelligence and investigation department...
FE ReportThe World Bank (WB) will start assessment from September 24 of losses caused by the recent flood in Bangladesh in order to extend the WB's possible support to recover from the losses, official sources said.The Washington-based donor is sending...
Farhan Bokhari, FT Syndication ServiceISLAMABAD: General Pervez Musharraf on Friday appointed a new spy chief and made a number of other key military appointments in an apparent move by the Pakistani president to retain his influence even after he steps...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) might create an off-dock facility at Sitakunda, Chittagong so that the readymade garments (RMG) export consignments can be shipped out promptly.Currently, there are 12 off-docks being operated by private...
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed leaves for New York today (Saturday) to attend the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in the UN headquarters, reports UNB.It will be his first trip to the USA after assuming office...
Several thousand hardline Islamic activists Friday staged angry protests and clashed with police over the publication of a cartoon in daily Prothom Alo's weekly supplement "Alpin" hurting religious sentiments of the Muslims, reports UNB.Witnesses said immediately after 'Juma' prayer, the...
LONDON, Sept 21(AP) : Oil prices fell on profit-taking Friday but were expected to hold near record levels as traders kept a watchful eye on a potential tropical storm brewing off the west coast of Florida. U.S. forecasters warned that...
HONG KONG, Sept 21 (AFP): The former president of the World Bank said today that rich countries were ill-prepared to deal with the "tectonic shift" in economic power towards developing nations, in particular to India and China. James Wolfensohn said...
The government has proscribed the Eid Issue of the Shaptahik 2000 and confiscated all its copies for publishing an autobiographical write-up hurting religious sentiments of the public. "The government has banned circulation, sale, full or partial reprint, publishing or preservation...
The government is contemplating to appoint administrators for zilla parishads until elections to this local body is held. Sources said the LGRD Ministry has recently sought legal opinion from the Law Ministry about the appointment of Zilla Parishad Administrators in...
Naim-Ul-KarimBangladesh can hardly reap the full potential of manpower export to the extent of several million to developed countries unless the government launches a pragmatic skill development programme soon, sources concerned said. A number of European, North American and Scandinavian...
FE ReportSenior revenue officials of SAARC states will meet in Kathmandu early November to discuss a harmonised customs structure aiming to expedite the formation of an economic union in the region.SAARC or South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a...
Jo Johnson, FT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI: Mayawati, India's most powerful low-caste politician, has fired more than 10,000 police officers in the populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which she leads. Critics accuse Mayawati, whose Bahujan Samaj party garnered an absolute...
S M JahangirThe imposition of a 10 per cent tax at source on the interest income from savings tools has eroded confidence of small investors.There has been a significant withdrawal of investments in the state-run savings certificates following the imposition...
NEW YORK (AP) : A billion dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to. For the first time, it takes more than $1 billion to earn a spot on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans. The...
FE ReportThe stock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) remained mixed amid cautious trading during the week ended Thursday.The daily average turnover further declined 28.87 per cent to Tk 1.27 billion against Tk 1.79 billion of the previous week."The...
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