PARIS, Nov 4 (AP): Rafael Nadal will play David Nalbandian in the Paris Masters final, and Richard Gasquet clinched the last spot in the season-ending Masters Cup despite losing his semifinal.Nadal, seeded second, beat Marcos Baghdatis 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 Saturday,...
GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany), Nov 4 (AFP): Schalke 04's hopes of reviving their Champions League campaign suffered a blow on Sunday as it was revealed that German international striker Kevin Kuranyi was a major doubt for their match with Chelsea Tuesday.The Brazilian-born...
Renowned sports organiser and former secretary general of Bangladesh Olympic Association Golam Quddus Chowdury Babu was named the new president of Bangladesh Volleyball Federation Sunday, reports UNB.National Sports Council (NSC) made the appointment under clause 20 of the NSC Act...
The training camp of the National Women's Cricket team begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Shafipur Ansar and VDP Training Academy, reports UNB.The following cricketers and team officials are requested to report at the Dhanmondi Women Sports Complex today (Monday) at...
Dhaka Division opener Javed Omar Belim and Barisal Division opener Hannan Sarker have been fined for breach of BCB Code of Conduct and ICC Rules of Conduct, reports UNB.Match Referee Akhtar Ahmad fined Javed 50 percent of his match fee...
Bangladesh Football Fede-ration (BFF) executive committee goes for an emergency meeting today (Monday) to resolve the DFA Issue, reports UNB.The meeting starts at 3:00 pm with BFF President SA Sultan in the chair.Earlier, FIFA imposed certain conditions on BFF including...
PRAGUE, Nov 4 (AFP): Slavia Prague's slim hopes of beating Premiership leaders Arsenal in their Champions League clash Wednesday suffered a serious blow Sunday as it was revealed the Czech league's leading scorer Stanislav Vlcek would miss the match.The 32-year-old...
THE condition of underdevelopment in an economy can be compared to a malignant tumour in a human body. The affliction has too many gaping wounds to be treated by a single course of medication. Likewise underdevelopment has countless number of...
Shamsul Huq ZahidMANY men, many minds-the old adage seems to be true in case of the impact of the ongoing anti-graft drive in Bangladesh. The International Monetary Fund, IMF, in a recent draft aid memoire submitted to the government for...
John KayTHIS is the age of the bogus survey. I woke up recently to the news that 95 per cent of children in Britain had been victims of crime. Of course they had. From a legal perspective, pushing a classmate...
Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran and Ed Crooks in LondonIRAN says it is ready to address the concerns o western oil groups that have blamed spiralling' global costs for delays in signing up to multibillion dollar contracts to develop the South...
UNLIKE the RMG and other sectors needing more capital injection to increase the earnings, manpower export can earn more for Bangladesh at much less cost and only by changing the policy and properly implementing it at relatively modest costs. The...
A committee that had assessed the private universities recommended earlier the shutting down of eight of them as their performance was found unsatisfactory in all respects. It also found at least 18 other private universities seriously deficient in many respects...
Hasan MahmudIN the history of development, Japan stands as what is commonly called "miracle" because of her accelerated pace of growing literally from the dust of the World War II to the pinnacle of economic world order. With extremely limited...
Maswood Alam KhanWHETHER it's for a job or for a promotion the most common scene in the waiting room where interviewees gather is a crowd of candidates who are seen frantically browsing books and notes for their last minute's revision...
NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (PTI): India and China will continue to be the focus of the World Bank as these countries represent 70 per cent of the poor in the world, said the Bank president Robert Zoellick. "You've more poor...
HONG KONG, (Thomson Financial): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged caution on the eagerly-awaited plan allowing mainlanders to invest in Hong Kong stocks, and set conditions for the implementation of the scheme, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday.The as-yet-unfulfilled promise...
MOSCOW, Nov 4 (Xinhua): China's vice minister of finance yesterday reaffirmed the Chinese government's commitment to and support for Central Asia's economic development in Tajik capital Dushanbe. China will work together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other parties...
NEW DELHI: Italy will invest over euro three million for a project aimed at developing India's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and make them globally competitive.The three-year project, called 'Consolidated Project for SMEs Development in India', will be overseen by...
ABU DHABI, Nov 4 (Xinhua): The plan of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to introduce a value added tax (VAT) could be further delayed as GCC states lack consensus on taxation and the GCC currency union, local newspaper Gulf News...
TEHRAN, Nov 4 (AFP): The Iranian economy is starting to feel the sting from a raft of banking sanctions applied by the United States to pressure Tehran over its controversial nuclear drive, analysts said. Washington has blacklisted Iran's three main...
ABU DHABI, Nov 4 (Xinhua): Electronic air ticket (e-ticket) has become more effective in the Mideast market as 70 per cent people are using it to travel, surged by 50 per cent compared to the previous year, local newspaper Khaleej...
KUWAIT, Nov 4 (Reuters): Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance Co (Alafco) said Sunday it had agreed to buy seven A320-200 aircraft from European planemaker Airbus.The list price of the aircraft was $420 million, Alafco said in a statement on the...
BEIJING, Nov 4 (Xinhua): China's service sector made a smaller contribution to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in the first three quarters, despite the rapid growth of the sector, said the top economic planner Friday. The proportion stood at...
HONG KONG, Nov 4 (AFP): Asian currencies ended the week mostly higher against the US dollar following a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, with the Australian unit backed to set fresh records, but the yen losing ground.JAPANESE YEN: The yen...
The price of oil is approaching $100 a barrel, an important psychological barrier for Americans already hard hit by higher energy prices and the threat of a housing-induced economic slowdown according to Internet.Even though headlines will scream, markets will get...
DAKAR, Nov 4 (Reuters): Africa needs more investment in farming to cope with soaring food prices due in part to growing biofuel production in the West, but it could profit from rising demand for alternative energy, an IMF official said....
BANGLADESH's scores in global surveys on corruption perception index or business competitiveness or on any other social as well as economic issue have been poor and, in some cases, embarrassing. The country was placed at the top of the list...
Shahiduzzaman KhanTHE government is likely form an integrated arbitration committee for framing necessary laws to rehabilitate as many as 3,769 sick industries and also resolve prevailing problems in this regard. The committee to be formed soon may comprise, among others,...
Fahmida RahmanLatifur Rahman, a government official in his late 40s, is known as an honest man. Sincerity, devotion and dutifulness are among the qualities Rahman thinks a government official should have. But, his recent behaviour has made even his close...
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