FE ReportGary Shorb, chief executive officer (CEO) of Methodist Hospital, the third largest healthcare chain of the USA and an affiliate partner of Square Hospital, accompanied by Cam Welton, is currently in Bangladesh. They are already on serial visits over...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate was steady with a downward bias last week despite withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The market enjoyed...
Commercial Bank of CeylonOctober 28 -- November 01, 2007Last week observed some movements in USD/BDT after the Bangladesh Bank intervened in the local foreign currency market to impede the continuous rate hike. Only in two days, Bangladesh Bank gave support...
ANKARA, Nov 2 (AFP): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Turkey on Friday, offering an "effective strategy" against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq in exchange for Ankara holding off on its threat of cross-border military action. Heavy security...
LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters): The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany will discuss imposing a third round of sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear programme on Friday. Iran has refused to stop enriching uranium and...
NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters): Improvements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have led to increased detection of minor brain abnormalities that may worry the patient, but often will never cause any problems, according to study findings reported in The New...
MEXICO CITY, Nov 2:(Reuters) Most of Mexico's southern state of Tabasco was underwater Thursday, as hundreds of thousands of people waited for rescuers to pull them out of their homes in the worst floods ever in the region. The floods...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2 (AFP): Pakistan's attorney general said Friday that President Pervez Musharraf does not intend to impose a state of emergency or martial law, despite a spiralling political crisis and Islamist violence. Most local dailies said Friday that the...
MIAMI, Nov 2 (Reuters): Tropical Storm Noel, whose rains have killed at least 108 people in the Caribbean, strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic on Thursday as it moved away from the Bahamas toward Bermuda, US forecasters said. The...
Strong quake in west Japan could kill 42,000-report TOKYO, Nov 2: Up to 42,000 people could be killed if a strong earthquake struck the Osaka metropolis and surrounding areas of western Japan, government experts said. The worst-case scenario would be...
Holders Dhaka Division made a disastrous start in the 3rd round four-day match of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League against Barisal Division being all out for 157 in 63.1 overs in the 1st innings at the Mirpur...
A seven-wicket haul by Mohammad Mohiuddin guided Winning Star Cricket Club to a 135-run win over Dakkhin Khan NO Sangha in a match of the 3rd Division Qualifying Cricket League at the Dhaka University ground Friday, reports UNB.Batting first after...
Martina Hingis revealed she tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon, proclaimed her innocence and retired from tennis for a second time -- all in one fell swoop. It was a swift and stunning end to a career highlighted by five...
Sri Lanka's batsmen missed a crucial opportunity to adjust to the Queensland conditions ahead of next week's Test and were knocked down on the first day of the tour game by Ashley Noffke. The tourists received an early taste of...
Mir Mohammad Ibn Iftikhar Hossain and Munni Khanam of Bangladesh Ansar clinched gold medals in the men's and women's singles Kata event of the day-long 3rd Japan Cup Karate Competition at the NSC Gymnasium in the city Friday, reports UNB.Joynal...
Bangladesh secured bronze medal in the 2nd Asian Indoor Games Kabaddi beating Malaysia by 74-16 points with five creditable 'lona' in the last match in Macau Friday, reports UNB.In the day's other match, Bangladesh lost to strong Pakistan.Earlier, Bangladesh got...
BEIJING, Nov 2 (AP): China will not tolerate unauthorised parades, demonstrations or other gatherings during next year's Olympic Games, a police spokesman said Thursday in a warning to groups hoping to use the Games' visibility to publicise their causes."Any group...
PARIS, Nov 2 (AP): David Nalbandian beat Roger Federer for the second time in less than two weeks on Thursday, earning a 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory in the third round of the Paris Masters.The result evened the series between the...
Enayet RasulThe formation of an official regulatory reforms commission was announced last week with an ex-Finance Secretary and former adviser of the caretaker government as its head. The 17-member body includes mainly the secretaries of different ministries, the governor of...
Bertil Lintner For Htet Tay Za, a 19-year-old member of Myanmar's elite who attends an exclusive and expensive international school in Singapore, life is often a party. A picture recently obtained by the Chiang Mai-based publication The Irrawaddy shows the...
Sanchita Sharma Mina Rahman, 35, has been on a diet of rice and boiled green papaya for about a year to stay fit and slim. But one day she collapsed and doctors told her that she was suffering from malnutrition...
Syed Fattahul AlimTurkey is a key ally of the USA as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). It is also an exception among the Muslim countries in that it recognises Israel as well as noncommittal about the...
Sagar Shabnam Kassilleya Rajbangshi, a 50-year-old woman of Tara village in Manikganj, was doing well with her husband and five children. That was until recently. Five years after she had her menopause. Kassilleye - not her real name - awoke...
Dusan Stojanovic Facing a possible loss of Kosovo, Serbian nationalists are re-igniting tensions in the Balkans, a region still reeling from brutal civil wars in the 1990s.They're sending out dark hints about coming to the aid of their Serb brethren...
Martin WolfEnergy security and climate change are two of the most significant challenges confronting humanity. What we see, in response, is the familiar capture of policymaking by well-organised special interests. A superb example is the flood of subsidies for biofuels....
Michael SkapinkerI occasionally speak to school students about journalism and they usually ask the same questions. Have you interviewed anyone famous? (Richard Branson and John Cleese seem to pass muster.) What do you do if there is no news? (There...
Philip StephensWe have been warned. Britain is full up. The present rate of population growth is unsustainable. The government must be shaken from its complacency. As an important committee of the House of Commons observes, life will become intolerable unless...
Jagdish BhagwatiTurn to the leading US newspapers these days and you will read about the "loss of nerve", even "loss of faith", in free trade by economists. Many write about free trade in funereal overtones. Yet all this hype reminds...
Michael HeathThe focus on having sons in Asian countries such as Vietnam, China, India and Nepal may fuel sexual violence and trafficking in women, the United Nations said in a report. ``Sex ratio imbalances only lead to far reaching imbalances...
Hideyuki Sano In a leafy Tokyo suburb, a landlord visits his tenant only to discover a skeleton inside the apartment. The tenant had died three years before.None of the neighbors had noticed the man was missing. His bank kept on...
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