After producing arguably their most disciplined bowling performance of the entire tour, West Indies squandered a golden opportunity to go 1-0 up in the best-of-three one-day series by shedding four wickets in 12 balls inside the first seven overs of...
HONG KONG, Jul 2 (AFP): China coach Zhu Guanghu was confident of reaching the Asian Cup knock-out stages after an intensive training programme yielded a fluent victory here. Spectacular long-range strikes by Zhao Xuri and Shao Jiayi against FIFA World...
Star-studded Dhaka DSA recorded their second win in the super league of the 27th National Hockey Championship when they handed a 3-1 defeat to Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium Saturday, reports BDNews24.com.Imtiaz Ahmed...
Dhaka, July 1 (UNB) - The BASIC Bank 18th National Women's Handball Champion-ship, organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation and sponsored by BASIC Bank, will begin on July 19.Top eight teams of the national meet will be entitled to participate in...
The police seized a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition early Tuesday from the rubber plantation area of Kanchan Nagar under Fatikchhari upazila. Fatikchhari Police Station duty officer sub-inspector Enamul Haque told bdnews24.com tipped off, a police contingent led by...
The hassle a passport seeker faces is an old story told again and again but the authority concerned has never bothered to bring an end to it or, at least, reduce its intensity. All procedural complexities in the issuance of...
Syed Fattahul AlimEconomy and the government that presides over it, are two different entities. They may sometimes be at cross purposes. In the case of the least developed and poorly performing economics, the people at home as well as the...
John GrayAFTER a period in which it seemed to be a declining force religion is once again a deciding factor in world affairs. The revival of the Rushdie affair, the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research and the militant...
Amy Yee from New Delhi and Najmeh Bozorgmehr from TehranA controversial $7.0bn gas pipeline extending from Iran to Pakistan and India was on track for completion by 2011, said officials as the latest round of talks concluded the other day...
THE enactment of two rules on judicial service has paved the way for separation of the judiciary from the executive. It has a long history. The Supreme Court in 1999 laid down a 12-point directive for the government towards the...
THERE are about 13,000 restaurants in different European Union (EU) countries which are being owned and operated by Bangladeshis. These restaurants generate about one thousands jobs annually which can be filled by workers or employees from Bangladesh. Each such employee...
THERE is no excuse that appropriate laws are not there to apply against syndicates. If laws are not there, then the same can be promulgated under ordinances and applied. So, where is the difficulty ? Activities of toll collectors raise...
Zhang Shidong and Chua Kong HoZhang Shibao covers 12 Chinese stocks and recommends investors buy all of them, even after they've more than tripled on average in the past year. ``We are still in the middle of the bull market...
Nicholas Johnston and James RowleyThe most comprehensive overhaul of immigration law in two decades was revived in the U.S. Senate and now faces votes on amendments that could shatter the fragile bipartisan coalition backing the legislation. Supporters of the measure,...
Jim Lobe from WashingtonIn a potentially significant setback to U.S. President George W. Bush's efforts to sustain Republican support for his "surge" in Iraq, three key senators this week have called on the White House to revise U.S. strategy there...
Andy MukherjeeRemind me again: Wasn't 2007 supposed to be the year of soft landing for the Chinese economy? Halfway into the year, and after several rounds of monetary tightening, the reality is turning out to be just the opposite. Economists...
TEHRAN, July 2(AFP): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday slammed arch-foe the United States and pledged to boost trade ties. "The United States is incapable of hurting Iran and Venezuela ... cooperation between the...
BAGHDAD, July 2 (AFP): Five more US soldiers have been killed in fighting in Baghdad and the western Iraqi province of Anbar in a single day, the military said Monday. Two soldiers and one marine were killed in Anbar Sunday...
TOKYO, July 2 (AFP): Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a stern rebuke to the country's defence minister Monday for his suggestion that the US atomic bombings were the inevitable way to end World War II. Atomic bomb survivors meanwhile...
QUETTA, (Pakistan), July 2 (AFP): Floods unleashed by a tropical cyclone and a week of torrential rain have killed 110 people and affected 1.5 million in southern Pakistan, officials said MondayGiant swathes of the normally desert southwestern province of Baluchistan...
LONDON, July 2 (AFP): Sir Elton John closed a star- studded concert Sunday in memory of Princess Diana, with police looking on at London's Wembley stadium a day after Britain went on maximum security alert. Over 60,000 fans joined Britain's...
GLASGOW, (Scotland) July 2 ( Reuters): The police in Glasgow said Monday that two men, aged 20 and 25, have been arrested in the investigation of a fiery attack on the city's airport. Meanwhile, details emerged that authorities had been...
LONDON, July 2(AFP): More Europeans see the United States as a threat to global stability than Iran and North Korea combined, according to a poll published Monday. The Harris Interactive survey for the Financial Times showed that 32 per cent...
KHOST, (Afghanistan), July 2 (AFP): Unidentified gunmen assassinated a deputy education chief in eastern Afghanistan Monday, police said, in the latest attack on the country's schools system. Sayed Usman Hussaini was on his way to work in Khost province when...
US general optimistic about NKorea's nuclear disarmament SEOUL, July 2: A top US general Monday expressed optimism about North Korea's nuclear disarmament process but said the communist country still posed a threat to peace and stability. General B.B. Bell, commander...
MANILA, July 2 (AFP): Asia may need to establish its own monetary fund if it is to cope with future financial shocks similar to that which rocked the region 10 years ago, a regional forum was told here today. An...
GENEVA, July 2 (AFP): Governments, aid agencies and other international bodies must make more efforts to ensure the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are met on schedule by 2015, the UN said today. The global body in particular criticised...
BEIJING, July 2 (CEIS): China cannot accept the indiscriminate and automatic detention of four kinds of Chinese seafood by the United States and the ban on importing those products, a Chinese official in charge of quality supervision said. Li Changjiang,...
TOKYO, July 2 (AFP): Japanese business confidence held steady close to a two-year high and firms set aside more cash to invest in new plant and equipment, a key survey showed today, underpinning confidence in the economy. The Bank of...
NEW DELHI, July 2 (PTI): India may have entered into the top league of world economies on the back of robust economic growth and booming stock markets, but it ranks among the bottom ten when it comes to promoting small...
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