JERUSALEM, Aug 2 (AFP): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Thursday seeking to build on diplomatic momentum after the Hamas takeover of Gaza and rally support for a Middle East peace conference. It was her...
COLOMBO, Aug 2 (AP): Hundreds of Sri Lankans, many carrying photos of their abducted relatives, tearfully demanded Wednesday that the government investigate the fates of scores of minority Tamils who have "disappeared" across the country in recent months. Civil rights...
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 2 (AFP): Twenty-one South Koreans began a third week of captivity in southern Afghanistan Thursday under the threat of execution by their Taliban captors who have already shot dead two others. The Islamic militants said late Wednesday...
BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (AP): The Iraqi prime minister's party asked the country's largest Sunni Arab bloc Thursday to reconsider its withdrawal from government, in a last-ditch effort to restore Iraq's national unity government. All six Cabinet ministers from the Iraqi...
NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (AFP): Relief teams in India, Bangladesh and Nepal Thursday battled to reach about 18 million people stranded in massive flooding, with food, clean drinking water and medicines in short supply. More than 1,100 people have died...
DUBAI, Aug 2 (AFP): Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto said she will return from exile this year to take part in a general election due next year, according to an interview published Thursday. "Yes, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)...
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug 2 (AFP): At least nine people were killed after a highway bridge over the Mississippi river buckled and collapsed, plunging cars and trucks into the rushing waters below, officials said. Dozens of vehicles fell into the river or...
KATHMANDU, Aug 2 (Xinhua): The total number of death toll from floods has reached 91 in Nepal as seven more deaths were reported. Those dead Wednesday included at least four children, leading website eKantipur.com reported Thursday. More than 2,000 people...
SYDNEY, Aug 2 (AFP): A 94-year-old Australian great- great- grandmother has become the oldest person in the world to earn a masters degree, local media reported Thursday. Phyliss Turner, described by one of her sons as having "an amazing brain,"...
SYDNEY, Aug 2 (AFP): Australian authorities have seen no evidence linking an Indian doctor who was detained here over a British car bomb plot to the Al-Qaeda terror organisation, police chief Mick Keelty said Thursday. Australia's SBS television late Wednesday...
BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (AFP): Two US soldiers were killed and another 10 wounded after coming under fire in Iraq, the US military said Thursday. The military described the attack Tuesday as "indirect fire" but did not specify where it happened....
MANILA, Aug 2 (AFP): The United States and North Korea agreed to work hard to successfully complete a six-nation agreement on disarming Pyongyang's nuclear programme, officials said Thursday. The top US negotiator on the issue, Christopher Hill, briefly met North...
MANILA, Aug 2 (PTI): India and the US Wednesday agreed to maintain the "momentum" to operationalise the civilian nuclear deal after the two countries recently hammered out a draft agreement breaking the logjam on some key issues. In the first...
INCIDENTS of too many corruption and irregularities in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), reportedly detected recently by a probe committee, raise concern about its state of affairs. The 250-page investigation report contains 80 recommendations. While many of the...
Syed Ishtiaque RezaPakistan President Pervez Musharraf is perhaps passing the most critical time of his life. In his book "In the Line of Fire" Musharraf wrote that time and again he survived attempts on his life. He could dodge a...
Parvez BabulBREASTMILK is the God-given and unique natural food for infants and young children. Every year World Breastfeeding Week is observed worldwide including Bangladesh, between August 01 and 08. The slogan of this year is 'breastfeeding: Initiation in the first...
THE World Bank approved last Tuesday a US$10 million grant to support the Government of Afghanistan's efforts to maintain a low prevalence rate of HIV AIDS for both the general population and groups at high risk. The HIV epidemic is...
COARSE rice of the worst variety now sells for Taka 26 per kg. This is without a parallel in Bangladesh's history. Ata is selling for Taka 35 per kg which was some Taka 24 only about a week ago. Prices...
I read sometime ago in the FE that a decision on Tata's investment offer by the present caretaker government was imminent. But I was surprised to read the report because a decision on the matter has to be taken, considering...
THE government bureaucracy in Bangladesh spawns a great deal of irregularities. What would be the institutional checks to the same? No doubt, some individuals in the civil services are to blame for abetting such irregularities. But had there been institutional...
WHETHER it is possible or not to eliminate child labour totally from different economic sectors is doubtful. But one change is noticeable among a section of people: they are now more conscious than before about not treating child labour wrongly....
The two-day final round of national consultation on the UN Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) 3rd and 4th State Party report concluded in the city Thursday, reports UNB. The meeting culminated a series of consultations across all divisions...
A project for "Capacity Building for Management of Foreign Aid in Bangladesh" was launched Thursday with the aim to strengthen capacity of the management of flow of external resources to the country and debt. The project, initiated by the Government...
Researchers at a seminar said Thursday parents should ensure better health facilities for adolescent girls as it is an important period of their life, reports BSS.Guidelines from health providers and international agencies should provide more specific recommendation about food intake,...
RAJSHAHI, August 2 (BSS): Students of the 4th year of the Marketing Department of Rajshahi University (RU) organised a presentation session on "Measuring the Effectiveness of Advertise-ment'' yesterday. Omar Faruk Sarker of the department presided over the session. A total...
BOGRA, Aug 2 (UNB): Speakers at a workshop called for ensuring safe water and sanitation in the country's flood-hit areas to protect people from health hazards. They said this at a workshop titled "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene" jointly organized by...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) swore in Denise Rollins as its new Mission Director for Bangladesh.Acting USAID Adminis-trator Henrietta Fore presided over the ceremony and administered the oath of office, says a press release.As Mission Director for Bangladesh,...
Prime Finance and Investment Limited donated Thursday Tk 0.50 million to the ongoing 500-bed Ahsania Mission Cancer Hospital (AMCH) project, reports BSS. Company's managing director AKM Nozmul Haque handed over the amount to Kazi Rafiqul Alam of the Ahsania Mission...
The 8th anniversary of death of professor Mohammad Faruque, former chairman of Bengali department of Jahangirnagar University and former head of Bengali department of Karachi University, will be observed today (Friday), said a press release.A day-long programme including Qurankhwani, milad...
FE Report The second general meeting of Gender in Media Forum (GMF) was held at its secretariat in Lalmatia Thursday, said a press release. GMF convener Selina Hossain chaired the meeting that was attended and addressed, among others, by Mohammad...
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