SINGAPORE, Sept 19 (AFP): Oil prices topped 82 dollars today, soaring to a fresh record in Asian trade after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to boost the US economy. At 10:20 am (0220 GMT), New York's main futures contract,...
Houston, Sep 19 (PTI): India will soon be the second largest recovered paper market in the world after China, a new study has said. India is poised to make a major impact in the global recovered paper market with a...
TOKYO, Sept 19 (AFP): The dollar bounced off a record low against the euro in Asian trade today, recovering some of its heavy losses seen in the wake of the Federal Reserve's hefty interest rate cut, dealers said. The euro...
PORTO, Portugal, Sept 19 (AFP): EU agriculture ministers are growing anxious to ramp up cereals and milk production as farmers, who are used to an output glut, struggle to keep up with soaring demand and prices. Global grain prices have...
KATHMANDU, Sept 19 (AFP): Nepal's Maoists launched a campaign Wednesday against crucial polls set for November, a day after storming out of the government demanding the immediate abolition of the monarchy. The former rebels had four ministers in government who...
BAGHDAD, SEPT 19 (AP): The United States suspended all land travel by US diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, amid mounting public outrage over the alleged killing of civilians by the US Embassy's...
TAIPEI, Sept 19 (AFP): A group of Canadian scientists is working on an ambitious project to create a global database of up to half a million of the world's species using DNA barcoding technology. The scientists are hoping to raise...
PAILIN, Cambodia, Sept 19 (AFP): The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was detained Wednesday, taken from his home in the Cambodian jungle by police and officials from a UN-backed genocide court. An AFP correspondent saw Nuon Chea...
COTABATO, Philippines, Sept 19 (AFP): Nine people were killed Wednesday in an ambush on a veteran Muslim politician's convoy in the southern Philippines, the military said. A former provincial governor, Nurudin Matalam, his wife and bodyguards were in two vehicles...
KABUL, Sept 19 (AFP): About 2,500 Afghan and international soldiers launched a new operation Wednesday to clear out Taliban fighters from one of the most volatile areas of Afghanistan, the NATO-led alliance announced. Troops backed by air power kicked off...
PARIS, Sept 19 (AFP): French Defence Minister Herve Morin said Wednesday that France had no military plan to attack Iran's nuclear programme, despite warnings by the country's foreign minister to prepare for possible war. Morin said that speculation of a...
YANGON, Sept 19 (AFP): More than 300 Buddhist monks Wednesday took to the streets in Myanmar's main city of Yangon in the latest show of public defiance against the junta, one month after a series of protests began.Chanting Buddhist prayers,...
PESHAWAR, Sept 19 (AFP): Pro-Taliban militants abducted seven troops from a checkpost in northwest Pakistan in the latest kidnapping to rock the Pakistani military, officials said Wednesday. The Islamist insurgents surrounded the post at Tall in North West Frontier Province...
Teenaged opening batsman Junaed Siddique Imrose will play his first international cricket match as the Bengal Tigers take on Pakistan in their last super eight match of the ICC World Twenty20 at Newlands in Cape Town today (Thursday), reports UNB.The...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 19 (BBC):Sri Lanka kept alive their hopes of a place in the ICC World Twenty20 semi-finals with a 64-run victory over Bangladesh in Johannesburg. Bangladesh's bowlers restricted Sri Lanka to just 147-5, Mahela Jayawardene hitting a run-a-ball 30....
A sensational four-wicket burst from Mornè Morkel and a devastating display of power-hitting from Justin Kemp took South Africa to a six-wicket victory over New Zealand, a result that saw England eliminated from the tournament. Both South Africa and New...
DURBAN, South Africa, Sept 19 (AFP): Australian captain Ricky Ponting will miss the rest of the Twenty20 world championships due to injury and is doubtful for the upcoming tour of India, team officials said. Ponting suffered a hamstring strain while...
LONDON, Sept 19 (AFP): Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is alarmed by his expensively-assembled team's dramatic loss of goalscoring form which has dented their domestic and European title hopes. The Blues have scored just once in their last three matches --...
MADRID, Sept 19 (AFP): Real Madrid opened their Champions League campaign with a 2-1 win over Werder Bremen here Tuesday, with veteran captain Raul and arch shooter Ruud van Nistelrooy stealing the Bernabeu limelight. Real went into their opening Group...
Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation has decided to launch a couple of tournaments in the city next month, reports UNB.The Federation in a meeting Tuesday decided to hold Tokai Kabaddi from October 20 to October 26 at the Kabaddi Stadium and then...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will distribute prizes among members of the national women's cricket team today (Thursday), as they became champions in the ACC Women's Cricket Tournament in Malaysia, report UNB.The prize distribution ceremony will be held at 2:30pm at...
Notre Dame College thrashed RK Chowdhury Degree College by 36-5 points in the day's only match of the 1st Fomex Foam College Rugby Competition at the outer stadium ground in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. The winners led the first...
BEIJING, Sept 19 (AFP): An abdominal muscle injury Wednesday forced titleholder Svetlana Kuznetsova to withdraw before the start of her opening match at the China Open. The strain of playing a US Open final two weekends ago followed by her...
FE ReportThe revenue income of the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) marked a significant rise by 16.14 per cent or Tk 352.4 million during the first two months of the current fiscal over that of the corresponding period of...
DU CorrespondentGrameenphone (GP) will provide financial assistance to Thenghamara Mohila Shobuj Shongha (TMSS) to set up a full-fledged blood bank at Rafatullah Community Hospital (RCH) in Bogra, a health programme of TMSS.The GP authorities signed a corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
DU CorrespondentThe 'Third CityCell-Channel i Music Awards-2007' competition was launched Wednesday with an aim to ensure a fair environment for music practice and honour the dedicated singers and artistes of the country's music world.CityCell's marketing division chief Ananda Rajshingham and...
SYLHET, Sept 19 (UNB): Engineer of Public Health Engineering Department under Jakiganj Upazila Jotindra Kumar Biswas drowned in boat capsize in Kushiara River while carrying relief goods for the flood victims Tuesday.Local people said Biswas and volunteers were going to...
Our CorrespondentThe first death anniversary of Kazi Nazmus Saadat, an educationist and politician, will be observed today (Thursday) through a two-day programme in Jessore.Popularly known as Professor Rawnak in South-western Khulna-Jessore region, died of massive heart attack on the day...
BARISAL, Sept 19 (UNB): Barisal City Corporation Monday opened six slaughterhouses to ensure supply of standard meat among the consumers. Health and Sanitary Inspector of the corporation Jahangir Hossain Molla said the temporary slaughterhouses have been opened at Puran Bazar,...
Waliur Rahman Bhuiyan, one of the country's top businessmen, has been appointed honorary officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), reports UNB.British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury, on behalf of the British Queen, gave him the appointment...
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