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BB, GP sign corporate deal

2007-10-06 00:00:00

FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently to provide complete communication facilities under its corporate package 'GP Business Solutions'.BB General Manager (Expenditure Management) Asoke Bandhu Das and GP Director (Finance) Arif Al Islam signed the agreement...

Toxin-free vegetables mkt inaugurated in Jessore

2007-10-06 00:00:00

JESSORE, Oct 5 (BSS): A toxin-free vegetables market was set up in the town in cooperation with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of the district on Wednesday.With the inauguration of the new market, local farmers are now able to sell...

Eid shopping gains momentum in Rajshahi shopping malls

2007-10-06 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Oct 5 (BSS): With only a week left for Eid-ul- Fitr, the greatest Muslim religious festival, the Eid shopping has gained momentum here amid huge supply of consumer goods, traffic jam and enthusiasm among the people for buying.All the...

Benazir, Musharraf agree on power sharing

2007-10-06 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, Oct 5 (AFP): Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf agreed Thursday on a national reconciliation accord that paves the way for a power-sharing deal, the government and her party said. The agreement gives an amnesty for...

Ahmadinejad wants all Palestine liberated

2007-10-06 00:00:00

TEHRAN, Oct 5 (AFP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday Iran would work until "all of Palestine is liberated" from Israel's hands and repeated his deeply controversial questioning of the Holocaust. "The Palestinian people are standing firm. The Iranian people and...

Bombs kill mayor, injure Iraq tribal leader

2007-10-06 00:00:00

BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Gulf News): Roadside bombs killed a Shiite mayor and wounded a tribal leader working with US military forces yesterday, part of a spate of apparently sectarian attacks across the country.Abbas Al Khafaji, Shiite mayor of Iskandariya and...

Myanmar junta summons US diplomat

2007-10-06 00:00:00

YANGON, OCT 5 (AP): The top US diplomat in Myanmar was summoned for rare talks Friday with Myanmar's hardline government a day after its leader announced a conditional offer to meet with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.Diplomats and...

Spain arrests Basque leaders

2007-10-06 00:00:00

MADRID, Oct 5 (CNN): Spanish police have arrested 22 leaders of an outlawed Basque pro-independence party on suspicion of aiding the armed separatist group ETA, a judicial source told CNN.Police lead a member of Basque Batasuna party into a car...

Nepal polls called off indefinitely

2007-10-06 00:00:00

KATHMANDU, Oct 5 (AFP): Crucial elections to decide Nepal's future were postponed indefinitely Friday after the government and Maoists failed to agree on the fate of the monarchy and the election system. "The seven party leaders (of the coalition government)...

Kashmir leader killed: Police

2007-10-06 00:00:00

SRINAGAR, Oct 5 (AFP): Security forces have shot dead an Islamic militant leader and his aide, police said Friday, claiming a "major success" in the fight against insurgency in Indian Kashmir. An army officer also died in the fierce gunbattle...

news digest

2007-10-06 00:00:00

DR Congo plane crash kills 38KINSHASA, Oct 5 (AFP): A Soviet-era cargo plane crashed in a residential area of Kinshasa Thursday, killing 23 people on board and 15 on the ground as it ploughed into houses and exploded in a...

Australia win despite Yuvraj ton

2007-10-06 00:00:00

HYDERABAD, Oct 5 (BBC): A magnificent 121 from Yuvraj Singh could not prevent Australia taking a 2-0 lead in the series with a 47-run victory over India in Hyderabad. After three wickets fell in the first five overs, Yuvraj smashed...

Swimmer Dipu clinches first gold for Bangladesh

2007-10-06 00:00:00

Swimmer Al Mahmud Bin Dipu clinched the first gold for Bangladesh in 50-metre freestyle group AQ50 event of the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2007 at Shanghai Pudong Natatorium in China Friday, reports UNB. Dipu won the gold medal clocking...

Pakistan destroyed by Steyn haul

2007-10-06 00:00:00

KARACHI, Oct 5 (BBC): South Africa sealed an emphatic 160-run victory over Pakistan before tea on the final day of the first Test in Karachi. Resuming on 146-3 in search of 424, Younus Khan clipped Andre Nel to the boundary...

BFF names nat'l squad for WC qualifying match

2007-10-06 00:00:00

Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Friday named a 20-member national squad for the World Cup qualifying round home match against Tajikistan to be held on October 8 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city at 3:00 pm, reports UNB.Bangladesh squad:...

Resurgent England level series

2007-10-06 00:00:00

England again demonstrated their ability to bounce back from adversity with a commendable 65-run win to draw level in the one-day series at Dambulla, their first one-day victory in Sri Lanka since 1982. Riding on Owais Shah's 82, which led...

Gazirchot SC blank PWD SC

2007-10-06 00:00:00

Gazirchot Sporting Club beat PWD SC by 3-0 goals in a super league match of the Metropolis Third Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtho Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur Friday, reports UNB.Sanwar Hossain Sana put Gazirchot Sporting...

Three-month ban for Scolari

2007-10-06 00:00:00

PARIS, Oct 5 (AFP): Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's appeal against a four-match ban has been partially reduced to three months by European football governing body UEFA Thursday. The Brazilian had been banned for four matches by UEFA's Control and...

Blatter calls for football labour exceptions

2007-10-06 00:00:00

PARIS, Oct 5 (AFP): FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called on the European Union (EU) to recognise the autonomy of sport when it comes to matters regarding labour laws. Blatter wants football to be exempt from freedom of movement laws,...

Williams reaches final, Hewitt out in Japan tennis Open

2007-10-06 00:00:00

TOKYO, Oct 5 (AFP): Venus Williams quashed a spirited challenge from Danish teen Caroline Wozniacki Friday to reach the final of the Japan Open tennis tournament, while former world number one Lleyton Hewitt was knocked out. The Wimbledon champion, heavily...

Bangladeshi art, archaelogy exhibition in France likely from Oct 24

2007-10-05 00:00:00

FE ReportA total of 188 art and archaelogical objects, selected from museums in Bangladesh - Dhaka National Museum, Mahasthangar, Paharpur and Mainamati archaeological museums and Varendra Research Museum - is likely to be showcased at the Guimet Museum in France....

British foreign office director calls on army chief

2007-10-05 00:00:00

Visiting British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Director for South Asia John Dennis paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed at Army Headquarters Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed matters of bilateral issues, an ISPR...

Islami University to remain closed from Oct 6 to 22

2007-10-05 00:00:00

ISLAMI UNIVERSITY, Oct, (BSS): The offices of the Islami University (IU) will remain closed on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Qadr, Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja from October 6 to 22, reports BSS.The offices will be resumed on October 23 while...

Construction of embankment completed in Satkhira

2007-10-05 00:00:00

SATKHIRA, Oct 4 (BSS): The construction work of the alternative ring embankment at the breaching point of the encircled embankment of the BWDB at Hariskhali area under Pratapnagar union was completed.About one thousand local people in cooperation with army personnel...

Govt to take all steps for smooth celebration of Durga Puja

2007-10-05 00:00:00

Religious Affairs Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman today said the government would extend all kinds of security and support to the Hindu community like every year so they can celebrate the upcoming Durga Puja smoothly, reports BSS."I urge the Hindu community...

Awareness building campaign conducted

2007-10-05 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Oct 4 (BSS): District Information Office (DIO) has conducted massive awareness building publicity campaign during the past three months throughout the district in which local people participated with great enthusiasm.The DIO has organised various programmes at upazila and union...

Eradication of TB through popularising DOTS stressed

2007-10-05 00:00:00

NABABGANJ (Dinajpur), Oct 4 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting at Nababganj stressed the need for bringing all tuberculosis (TB) patients under the direct observe treatment short-course (DOTS) programme for eradicating the TB from society.BRAC and Nababganj Upazila administration jointly organised...

Abandoned mortar explodes, three wounded in Sylhet

2007-10-05 00:00:00

SYLHET, Oct 4 (UNB): Explosion of an abandoned mortar at Dholoipara near Jalalabad Cantonment left two women and a minor boy severely wounded Wednesday afternoon.The victims, Shanti Patra, Radhamoni Patra and Sukhdev Patra were rushed to Osmany Medical College Hospital....

Mongla port harbour chief suspended

2007-10-05 00:00:00

KHULNA, Oct 4 (UNB): Captain Shariful Ahsan, chief of Mongla port harbour, was suspended Wednesday for various charges including corruption. Mongla Port Authority Chairman Ashraf Mohammad Iqbal told the news agency Thursday that Shariful Ahsan was suspended on charge of...

Workshop manager wounded in gun attack in city

2007-10-05 00:00:00

A manager of an engineering workshop was shot by armed miscreants at Dayaganj in the city's Sutrapur area Thursday, reports UNB.Witnesses said four to five youths came to Aftab Engineering Workshop at about 4:30pm and fired on workshop manager Abdul...