SAN ANTONIO, Oct 20 (AP): Champions Tour rookie Mark O'Meara made a successful return to the site of one of his PGA Tour victories, shooting an 8-under 63 Friday to take the first-round lead in the AT&T Championship. O'Meara had...
Ricky Ponting chose to bat in the one-off Twenty20 clash on a virgin strip at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Matthew Hayden returned after a two-game break while Ben Hilfenhaus and Stuart Clark came in for Mitchell Johnson and a...
LONDON, Oct 20 (AFP): Chelsea striker Didier Drogba said Saturday he regretted his outburst suggesting he wants to quit the Premier League club. The Ivory Coast star shocked the Blues when he said he wanted to leave in an interview...
Rodney Marsh, Director of Coaching of the ICC Global Cricket Academy, made a presentation in the city Saturday in a bid to attract BCB about the facilities offered by the ICC Academy, reports UNB.The former Aussie wicket keeper would also...
MADRID, Oct 20 (AFP): Striker Robinho is set to be fined by Spanish giants Real Madrid for returning late to the country after celebrating Brazil's 5-0 victory over Ecuador in a Rio nightclub alongside Barcelona's Ronaldinho. Real coach Bernd Schuster...
Saiful KaiserThe second ODI between Pakistan and South Africa was heading for an interesting finish. The Pakistanis batting first managed to reach a fighting total of 265 for 9 with Mohamad Yusuf getting 117 and Malik 56 on a good...
Law adviser Mainul Hosein Sunday dismissed demands for dialogue with political parties, saying such an exercise would affect the interim government's neutral credentials. Mainul's comment came after a senior Awami League leader's suggestion that the government discuss with political parties...
General Moeen U Ahmed Saturday brushed aside the allegations of taking Tk 1 crore in loans from a bank and said it was all designed to "malign" him. The army chief, visiting the US, said: "It's not true that I...
Investors in India and China are the most "bullish" in Asia on expectation the economies will sustain growth, overcoming concerns the subprime mortgage crisis in the US may spread, a survey said. About 80 percent of investors surveyed in India...
Achara AshayagachatThailand's proposal for international talks to solve Burma's problems received a mixed reaction from global affairs analysts recently. Former United Nations ambassador Asda Jayanama said the idea raised on Monday by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont in talks with UN...
George Romanyk'Veni, vidi, vici," the Latin phrase coined by Julius Caesar in 47 BC, translates as "I came, I saw, I conquered". Caesar's terse remarks proclaimed his victory and reminded everyone of his military prowess. As a slogan, it has...
THE situation in the country's problem-ridden jute sector merits close attention in view of the move that has lately been taken by the government for its revival. Hence, this leader closely follows the one that this paper carried in its...
Shabbir YusufTHE contribution of jute sector to economy of Bangladesh is enormous. This sector has been generating employment to a large segment of total population of the country, directly and indirectly over the years. Bangladesh produces 5.5-6.0 million (55-60 lakh)...
Andrew EnglandEGYPT plans to launch the Middle East's first bourse for small and medium-sized companies, a senior government official said.Mahmoud Mohieldin, the minister of investment, told the Financial Times the exchange would open on October 25, with between four and...
Mahmud RashidA recent newspaper report is symbolic, as if, of the degraded conditions of service rendered by the Bangladesh Railway (BR). But what things were pointed out in the report are typical conditions noted also in other parts of the...
The interim government initially created widespread enthusiasm. It seemed to people -- at one stage -- as if this government would sweep away all the ills from our national life, very soon.It is not that this confidence on the whole...
IT is so very important to take up on emergency basis the works at different levels so that the discharge of pollutants in the rivers can be immediately and appropriately controlled. Recent newspaper reports indicated that the authorities were pushing...
Enayet Rasul"All that it requires for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing " - Edmund Burke, a late eighteen century British parliamentarian, intellectual, orator and political theoristBengal's greatest poet and philosopher, the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore,...
Prem Ranjan DevSANATAN Dharma is the most ancient and insightful among the Dharmas of the world; it is called Hinduism. Our Vedas, Sastra, Puranas and Gita have dealt with it extensively. This Vedic Hinduism is an eternal and unfathomable ocean....
Despite record-high oil prices near $90 a barrel, energy issues will likely take a back seat in the 2008 U.S. presidential election to more pressing pocketbook concerns like plummeting home values, experts say.Even before oil prices neared their inflation-adjusted peak...
Ayesha-E-Fahmida Khatun Sumona Islam, 30, started seeing doctors after she failed to conceive for six years after her marriage. Her husband, a banker based in her hometown Barisal, took frequent leave to take her to Dhaka for medical checkup. Despite...
Syed Fattahul AlimBenazir Bhutto has returned to Pakistan after eight years in self-exile amidst large crowds comprising mainly the supporters of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) greeting her home. Benazir's homecoming, however, is not purely an occasion of unmixed joy either...
Somini Sengupta The United States-India nuclear deal may be in trouble, but it is not dead yet. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose Communist allies object to plans for a nuclear accord with the United States. Last week the Indian government...
Sirajul Islam, a Master's degree student of Dhaka University's Information and Library Science, lives at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Hall. On one recent morning, he started vomiting blood, causing concern among his hall mates who rushed him to BIRDEM Hospital. Later,...
Pradeep Mehta Record fines of more than $500m have been levied on British Airways and Korean Air Lines by the UK and US competition authorities for their part in a web of global conspiracies in airline travel.These fines will accrue...
Martin WolfGlobalisation was supposed to mean the worldwide triumph of the market economy. Yet some of the most influential players are turning out to be states, not private actors. States play a dominant role in ownership and production of raw...
Fred Bergsten The euro has recently hit a succession of record highs against the dollar. A number of European leaders, including Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the group of 13 eurozone ministers, have called on...
John KayDonald Rumsfeld made the distinction between known unknowns - the things we know we do not know - and unknown unknowns - the things we do not know we do not know. Mr Rumsfeld's musings won awards for gobbledygook....
FE ReportA two-day International Eye Bank symposium begins today at Hotel Sheraton. The symposium is jointly organised by ORBIS Interna-tional, Sandhani National Eye Donation Society, LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). President...
RANGPUR, Oct 19 (BSS): The recent floods damaged properties worth Tk 490 million in various sectors in the district, official sources said today.The sources said detailed reports of the damage caused by the recent floods in the district were sent...
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