WIMBLEDON (England), Jul 7 (AP): Venus Williams giggled as she clutched the championship trophy against her chest, threw back her head and whooped at the sky.
Nahid Kaiser TomaTHE 'Lecture Series on English Studies' arranged by Indepen-dent University of Bangladesh focuses on scholarly discussions on English literature and language. Dr. Nuzhat Amin, associate professor of English at the University of Dhaka gave a lecture titled 'The...
Abdullah-al-MujahidMAN does not know the time exactly when tuition as a job began but can only point finger to a hoary past where its root lies. Aristotle was the tutor of a great hero Alexander in a Greek city state....
Rebecca KnightTHERE are many reasons for Amanda Hopkins to have chosen Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, over the other top business schools that offered her a place. For a start, she liked the fact that, with just 350...
THE purpose of this year's Diversity Essay Competition is to examine the role of freedom of religion in the context of contemporary society. As in previous years, we hope that the topic will stimulate a healthy conversation among young people....
Shopping for goodsA woman meant to call a record store but dialed the wrong number and got a private home instead. "Do you have 'Eyes of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme'?" she asked. "Well, no," answered the puzzled homeowner. "But...
Samina RizwanOne of the best demonstrations of a successful e-Governance project at work is what happened in New York City on September 11, 2001. As the twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, 290 hospitals in and...
Joe HutskoFalling in lust with an expensive device like the iPhone sets owners up for a hard fall if it stops working. I know, because mine died after only four days into our relationship.At first I thought it was just...
Jennifer LeClaireFollowing news that Jon Lech "DVD Jon" Johansen has released software to crack the iPhone's activation requirements, security expert Ken Dunham said he doesn't expect DVD Jon's escapades to do much damage to the iPhone's chances for success. What...
Stan Beer New research shows that the use of social media such as YouTube in Australia is soaring pushing Australians onto international sites at the expense of local destinations. The findings were released this week at a press briefing held...
Businesses increasingly accept the existence of a "shadow" IT culture, in which end users install uncontrolled "rogue" technology to make good the shortcomings of overstretched IT departments, according to a survey.Rogue IT includes users installing software, or tampering with existing...
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Sunday said the role of an intelligence agency was not to break up political parties. “It cannot be accepted that intelligence agents in a civilised society will run the show, detain political leaders and make...
Dhaka stocks slipped in midday trade Sunday as investors locked in reaping profits from the rise in the closing day of the previous week. The DGEN or general index declined 1.90 points or 0.08 percent to reach 2196.83 at 12.18pm....
Law adviser Mainul Hosein Sunday took a dig at Awami League leader Motia Chowdhury for her remarks Saturday and said some politicians are busy defending those who had destroyed democracy. The AL presidium member Saturday it would be a folly...
The council of advisers recently took a decision to convert the ailing Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, into a public limited company (plc) and asked all concerned to downsize its manpower as early as possible. The decision was...
Shahiduzzaman Khan EUROPEAN countries including the Scandinavian ones, are in urgent need of at least one million nurses, care workers and service providers where the rate of population is declining. Bangladesh can avail this opportunity right at this moment if...
Rebecca Bream N most parts of the world, electricity is generated by large power stations and transmitted along high voltage networks, sometimes over long distances, to centres of industry and population that are hungry for power.This was the logical way...
Song Jung-a and Anna Fifield from Seoul South Korea's top financial regulator has called for the government to ease restrictions banning conglomerates from becoming leading shareholders of local banks, saying that "idle capital" should be allowed to flow into the...
WE all carry our mobile phone(s) [Grameen, City Cell, BanglaLink, Aktel, Teletalk, WARID] with hundreds of names/numbers stored in its memory but yet nobody, other than ourselves, know which of these numbers belong to our near and dear ones?In case...
One Osman Chaudhury in New York- an expatriate Bangladeshi- has pushed the humbled head of this nation back to the erect position and high in the global community. This professional cab driver in New York, viewed as the capital of...
Qazi AzadLATELY, some critical views on the reserved quotas in various cadre services are being aired by different quarters. Some of them have been particularly critical about fewer inductions of religious and ethnic minorities in certain batches of the Bangladesh...
Talal Redwan BabarSMALL and Medium enterprises (SMEs) have been playing a significant role for socio-economic development in all countries, particularly in the developing economies. In Asia, they play even a greater role as the sector constitutes about 98% of all...
Fiona Harvey and Ed CrooksFOR most of the past year, Sir Nicholas Stern has been touring the world to talk about climate change. His "rock star" tour, as the UK's environment secretary David Miliband terms it, came after the publication...
Ed Crooks World oil demand is rising faster than previously expected while non-Opec supply is growing more slowly, the International Energy Agency has said in its latest monthly assessment of the market. The rich countries' energy watchdog warned recently of...
WASHINGTON, July 7 (AFP): The US economy churned out 132,000 new jobs in June and created more than estimated in April and May, government data showed yesterday, signaling solid growth despite a struggling housing market. The unemployment rate held steady...
GENEVA, July 7 (AFP): Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said yesterday that developing countries were largely on the same wavelength in deadlocked global trade talks. Amorim, a leading figure in the Group of Twenty (G20) group of emerging and developing...
GENEVA, July 7 (Xinhua): Business leaders attending a UN meeting here pledged yesterday to respect labour and human rights as well as environmental and anti-corruption standards in a wide-ranging declaration. At the second UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, top executives...
WASHINGTON, July 7 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board will meet Monday to consider the selection process for a successor to IMF chief Rodrigo Rato, a spokeswoman said yesterday. "There will be an informal meeting of the executive...
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