The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has provided 500.000 Euro for the relief of flood victims in Bangladesh, reports BSS.The ministry said the money would go to the World Food programme so it could send extra supplies of...
Australia has donated US$ 90,000 for the flood victims of Bangladesh through United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), reports UNB.The WFP Wednesday welcomed the contribution from the Australian government to provide food to the most vulnerable flood affected people in...
Bangladesh Bar Council has urged the country's lawyers to stand beside the flood victims, reports UNB.The call was made from an emergency meeting of the Bar Council on Tuesday to face the prevailing flood situation. Attorney General and ex-officio Chairman...
The fall of VVS Laxman's wicket, followed by the dismissal of Sachin Tendulkar, set India back a bit in the crucial first session of the second day's play at The Oval. That said, India had motored along from their overnight...
The 15-member Bangladesh national cricket team, led by Mohammad Ashraful, reached Sylhet Friday to undergo an extensive training for the Twenty20 World Cup.The week-long residential training camp begins today (Saturday) at the warfare wing of the Bangladesh Army's School of...
HOLLYWOOD, Aug 9 (AFP): Evander Holyfield can become a world heavyweight champion for the fifth time when he fights Russia's undefeated Sultan Ibragimov on October 13 in Moscow six days before his 45th birthday.Holyfield will fight for the lesser-regarded World...
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (AFP): David Beckham was delighted to finally make his Major League Soccer (MLS) debut Thursday, but disappointed he couldn't help his Los Angeles Galaxy to a victory. "It was a good night, but it was also a...
LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 (AFP): Top-seeded Maria Sharapova struggled past Michaella Krajicek here Thursday to become one of four Russians to book quarter-final berth at this 600,000-dollar US Open tuneup. Sharapova, winner of the tier one title in San Diego...
UNB news agency made a flying start in the Meril Media Cup Football Tournament beating formidable Channel i by 2-0 goals in one of the eight opening day matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB.Imran...
BCCI President Sharad Pawar has defended the Indian board's stand on withdrawing financial benefits from players involved with the Indian Cricket League (ICL), saying the tournament was an "out and out commercial venture". The players, he said, were free to...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will announce today (Saturday) separate national football squads for the upcoming two international meets to be held this month.The BFF would name a 20-member squad for the Nehru Cup Football Tournament and another 18-member squad for...
NEW DELHI, Aug 10 (PTI): After rectifying a technical glitch in his action, Arjuna award winning archer Jayanta Talukdar is now aiming at the ultimate recognition in Indian sport-the Khel Ratna.Talukdar said he was now consistently scoring well and looked...
Saiful KaiserIndia completed its first innnings of the last test against England at Oval with a massive total of 664 all out. Everyone contributed, everyone got to score something. Although scribes and fans alike had worried that the good start...
Speakers at a workshop Thursday emphasised incorporation of disaster risk reduction into the national planning process and suggested policy intervention and required institutional arrangement by the Government of Bangladesh, said a press release. The workshop on "Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction...
International Youth Day will be observed across the country, as elsewhere in the world, Sunday, reports UNB.This year's theme of the day is "Be seen, be heard: Youth Participation for Development".To mark the day, Youth Development Department and UNFPA will...
Visiting Chinese military delegation, led by General Chen Bingde, paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed at his office Thursday, reports UNB.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh and senior army officers of the Army Headquarters were...
SUNDARBANS, Aug 9 (BSS):Eleven young of `Romeos', a rare species of alligators in the Sundarbans, were hatched out at the crocodile reproductive centre in Karamjal in the Sundarbans Monday after a long efforts of the researchers.The lone crocodile reproductive centre...
FE Report Enamul Haque Md. Al Mamun (52), an official of Bangladesh T & T Board, Mahakhali Wireless Transmission Region, has been missing since August 10, 2006. Enamul, elder brother of Zulfikar Ali Manik, reporter of the Daily Star, had...
The 30th death anniversary of Matiur Rahman, former Chief Reporter of the Bangladesh Times and the Weekly Holiday, will be observed in the city today (Friday), reports BSS. He died of cancer at the age of 37.Before Liberation, Matiur Rahman...
All employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited Thursday donated their one day's salary worth Tk 1 million to the Chief Adviser's relief fund for the flood victims.
A doa mahfil on Khatem-e Yunus will be held at the centre of Merajul Mominat at 1/13 Iqbal Road in the city's Mohammadpur area today (Friday). Merajul Mominat, a religious organisation for women, organised the mahfil to celebrate its 28th...
President Iajuddin Ahmed stressed the need for enhancing the visit, training and technical cooperation programmes concerning the armed forces of Bangladesh and China to the mutual benefit, reports UNB.He made the suggestion when a 12-member visiting delegation led by General...
LOUHAJANJ, Munshiganj, Aug 9 (UNB): Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed Thursday urged all government and non-government organisations and affluent individuals to go to all the flood victims with relief supplies in a well-coordinated manner so that none is deprived.The head of...
As part of its commitment to address the violence against children and women the government is going to open Victim Support Centres at police stations across the country soon.Adviser for Local Gover-nment, Rural Development and Cooperatives Anwarul Iqbal said this...
BRUSSELS, Aug 9 (UNB): Local units of Awami League (AL) and BNP are preparing to stage demonstration demanding release of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and protesting government action not allowing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to visit flood-hit areas.The expatriate...
The Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) formed a human chain on the Curzon Hall premises of Dhaka University (DU) Thursday demanding that August 15 be observed as national mourning day. They also demanded immediate and unconditional release of Awami League President...
The Supreme Court ended Thursday the third day of hearing on a series of appeals in the Bangabandhu murder case, reports bdnews24.com. An Appellate Division Bench of Justice Tafazzal Islam, Justice Joynal Abedin and Justice Md Hasan Amin heard the...
Zofeen EbrahimWhen it comes to climate change population matters, particularly for countries in South Asia, Africa and some Arab countries, says Prof. Khalid Rashid. A mathematician and physicist in Pakistan, he has long been studying the phenomenon of global warming...
Suvendrini KakuchiA short walk through the rice and sugarcane fields that dot Yomitan village, 20 km north of Naha, capital of Okinawa prefecture, leads to dark, dank caves where hundreds of civilians took refuge as the United States troops invaded...
Lawrence SummersFOR some time now, the large flow of capital from the developing to the industrialised world has been the principal irony of the international financial system. In 2007 this flow will total well over half a trillion dollars, a...
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