Saiful Kaiser First he was fit. Then he was unfit. But he declared himself fit. Bit the man who is often a pain in the neck of the Pakistan cricket team, its board, its management and so on had developed...
Twelve women booters Friday reported to General Secretary of Bangladesh Women's Sports Association (WSA) Quamrunnahar Dana at the city's Dhanmondi Women's Sports Complex.They were Dalia Akhter, Eti Akhter Shouravi, Nila, Thrishna Chakma, Sainu Marma, Champa Chakma, Nubai Marma, Rina Chakma,...
LONDON, Aug 3 (AFP): Pakistan duo Mushtaq Ahmed and Navedul Hasan combined to put Sussex on top of the English county championship Thursday and spoil Andrew Flintoff's return to duty. Sussex beat Lancashire by 108 runs at Liverpool with Mushtaq...
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug 3 (AFP): Swimming superstar Michael Phelps seized the 100-metre butterfly title at the US championships here Thursday as world record-holder Ian Crocker was disqualified. Phelps touched first in the anticipated showdown with Crocker, who led for much of...
Jhenidah, Aug 4 (UNB) - Indian Border Security Force personnel shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader on Joluli frontier in Moheshpur upazila early Saturday. The dead was identified as Asadul Bhali,35, son of Moniruddin Bhali of Matina village in the...
Dhaka, Aug 3 (bdnews24.com) – Roiling floodwaters Friday night forced ferry services between Paturia and Kazirhat in Manikganj to suspend and threatened the services between Paturia and Daulatdia. Deluge inundated Dhaka-Aricha highway at four points and engulfed two bridges, halving...
Dhaka, August 4 (bdnews24.com) – Police Saturday started confiscating the property of Basundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, popularly known as Shah Alam, four days after a Dhaka court issued an order for it in a tax-dodge case. Police started...
Dhaka, August 4 (bdnews24.com) – Rajuk workers Saturday resumed demolition of the Rangs Bhaban after the once majestic building was stripped to a skeleton Friday. More than 100 workers started working Saturday morning in the building. The building was Friday...
Industries Adviser Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury Thursday called upon the foreign entrepreneurs to come forward for investment in the country taking advantage of the liberal and investment-friendly policies of the government, reports UNB.An environment, conducive to investment, has been created in...
FE ReportA four-member team led by Iranian Ambassador in Bangladesh Hassan Farazandeh visited Japanese owned Zipper Manufacturing Company M/s YKK Corporation and Bangladeshi Shanta Garments Factory in Dhaka EPZ recently. The delegation expressed satisfaction on seeing the production oriented congenial...
FE ReportBank Alfalah Limited has opened its 216th branch globally and fourth branch locally at Mira Bazaar in Sylhet Thursday.The branch was inaugurated by M Ahmed Tea and Lands Company Ltd Managing Director Safwan Chowdhury as the chief guest.Executive In-charge...
SINGAPORE, Aug 2 (Bloomberg): Asian stocks rose, recovering from earlier losses, after higher profits from Astellas Pharma Inc. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. helped counter concern the US subprime loans crisis is spreading. Fast Retailing Co., Asia's largest clothing retailer,...
FE ReportThe SME Cell of Ministry of Industries (MOI) and National Association of Small and Cottage Industries of Bangladesh (NASCIB) jointly organised an awareness workshop on the activities and services of BSTI (Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute) in the city...
FE ReportDelta Brac Housing Finance Corporation Ltd. (DBH) held the deposit annual sales conference of the company in the city recently.DBH Company Secretary and Head of Finance and Resources SH Aslam Habib distributed prizes among the deposit associates/sales executives in...
FE ReportRaihan Ul Ameen recently joined The City Bank Limited as deputy managing director (DMD) and chief operations officer.Ameen has wide experience in banking and international trade in Asian and North American markets. He served as chief operations officer of...
Recommendation of no dividendMeghna Shrimp: The board of directors of Meghna Shrimp and Culture Limited did not recommend any dividend for its shareholders for the year 2006. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be held on August...
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...
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