Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player's wires.Last summer, a Colorado...
Four percent of American youths online have been asked to send a sexually explicit photo of themselves over the Internet, researchers say in a study.Of the 65 youths in the study who reported receiving a request, only one actually complied....
Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me."Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years."The program can...
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday the head of its gaming business, Peter Moore, will leave the company to join Electronic Arts Inc. , the world's biggest video game publisher.Moore will be replaced by Don Mattrick, a former top Electronic Arts executive...
She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city...
WASHINGTON, July 28 (AFP): As Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson readies another China visit, US lawmakers are toughening their stand on Beijing by moving forward on legislation to punish countries with "misaligned" currencies. The scenario creates a "good-cop, bad-cop" scheme as...
WASHINGTON, July 28 (AFP): Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the European Union choice to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Friday that the IMF should help every country benefit from globalisation. Strauss-Kahn, who met US Treasury Secretary Henry...
GENEVA, July 28 (AFP): Airbus and Boeing, the world's two largest plane makers, said yesterday they were prepared to hold talks on subsidy disputes filed before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) more than two years ago. "It is a pity...
BRUSSELS, July 28 (Xinhua): The European Commission is set to propose an end to the five-year anti-dumping duties on Chinese energy-saving light bulbs, a spokesman said. A group of trade experts at the European Union's executive body have been debating...
WASHINGTON, July 28 (AFP): The US economy ramped up to a 3.4 per cent growth rate in the second quarter, the government said yesterday, but analysts said the pace may not be sustained over the rest of the year. In...
WASHINGTON, July 28 (AFP): The United States plans a series of arms deals worth at least 20 billion dollars (14.6 billion euros) with Saudi Arabia and five other oil-rich Persian Gulf states, The Washington Post reported today. The plan also...
UNITED NATIONS, July 28 (AFP): The United Nations said yesterday it signed a contract with Swedish builder Skanska to handle the preconstruction phase of a 1.9 billion-dollar renovation of its crumbling New York headquarters. UN under secretary general for management...
NEW DELHI, July 28 (PTI): Holding that banks cannot employ force to recover loans, the Supreme Court yesterday refused to stay an order of the consumer forum directing ABN AMRO Bank to pay Rs 71,223 to a woman whose vehicle...
LONDON, July 28 (AFP): The price of oil in New York soared nearer to its record high this week, but Brent crude ended lower on concerns that US economic troubles could spread to the global economy and dampen energy demand....
NEW YORK, July 28 (AFP): The dollar gained on the euro yesterday, as investors turned to the greenback as a safe haven amid fears of a looming global financial credit crunch. The single European currency was at 1.3632 dollars around...
FE ReportYKK Bangladesh (Pvt.) Limited, the world's largest zipper manufacturing company, has recently organised its third global marketing seminar at a city hotel.YKK Bangladesh (Pvt.) Limited Managing Director Hiroaki Nakamura delivered the inaugural speech at the seminar.Also present on the...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 (AFP): Toyota announced this week a partnership with the University of California to road test two plug-in hybrid cars, a step toward getting the fuel-efficient vehicles to consumers. The study to be launched this fall will...
COLOMBO, July 28 (AFP): Sri Lanka today banned imports of live birds and chickens from India following an outbreak of bird flu in the neighbouring country, an official said. "Sri Lanka has banned imports with immediate effect, after we received...
Zhengzhou, July 28 (PTI): China has issued new regulations that require stronger supervision of food safety and imposition of heavy fines on rogue exporters amid serious global concern on the quality of its products. The regulation issued yesterday by the...
FE Report Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has played a significant role in changing the fate of the people, achieving self-reliance and strengthening the entire economy of the country. IBBL Chairman Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher said this while speaking...
FE ReportLasting Spring Metal Industries Limited (LSMIL), a Taiwanese company, will invest $7.930 million (79.30 lakh) to set up a metal-based garments accessories industry in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ). A lease agreement to this effect was signed between the...
SYLHET, July 28 (UNB): Kailashtila NGL Fractionation Plant in Golapganj Upazila, a potential venture in the energy sector, is likely to go into production next October to meet part of the country's growing need for fuels.Official sources said work on...
The country could increase power generation by 400 megawatt (mw) hooking captive power generation of Independent Power Plants (IPP) belonging to 100 industrial companies with national power distribution system, reports BSS. Power generation cell (PGC) sources told the news agency...
FE Report EXIM Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a get-together for its family members at a city hotel recently. Chaired by EXIM Bank Managing Director Kazi Masihur Rahman, the get-together was attended, among others, by its Chairman Md Nazrul Islam Mazumder...
FE ReportOracle, the world's largest enterprise software company has formed a single research and development (R&D) network by linking its 19 development and solution centers in Asia Pacific and Japan to build, test, and showcase leading-edge technology innovations across the...
FE ReportKarmasangsthan (Employment) Bank has targeted to disburse Tk 1.01 billion (101 crore) during the current fiscal year (2007-2008). It was revealed at the Branch Managers' Conference 2007 at the BIAM Foundation in the city Saturday. Chairman of the bank...
FE ReportApollo Hospitals Dhaka signed a corporate agreement with Paradise Group recently to provide medical services and special corporate benefits to their staff. Apollo Hospitals Director (Medical Services) and interim CEO Praful B Pawar and Paradise Group Chairman Md Mosharraf...
Sarwar Zahan US dollar was soft against Bangladesh taka (BDT) last week although the demand for the greenback was high. The exchange rate of the greenback moved between Tk 68.52 and Tk 68.66 against the previous week's range between Tk...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, July 28: Three separate incidents of pilferage of huge quantity of water of Chittagong WASA have been unearthed at Nasirabad and Bayazid Bostami areas in the port city.Chittagong Port Magistrate Md Munir Chowdhury, also assigned with the...
Fakhrul AlamCHITTAGONG, July 28: The Karnaphuli is gradually becoming a dead river amid dreadful pollution and constant bank grabbing by different quarters.According to sources, a number of government and private organisations have so far grabbed around 2,000 acres of land...
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