Andrew WardAl-Qaeda could use contacts and capabilities developed in Iraq to mount fresh attacks on US soil, according to a new US intelligence estimate released recently.The report said the US had become harder for terrorists to strike since the September...
IT is rather pathetic that the "Hon." Speaker gobbled up Tk. 2.8 million (28 lakh) of the tax payers' money on his medical expenses abroad. The point is not whether it was spent legally or illegally. If he has ever...
In the recent days, some published press photographs have been found having lack of consciousness of all concerned. These photographs carry the names of the people whose offense is yet to be proved. Even in cases, those disclose the names...
IT is really appreciable that the government has taken initiatives to give the national leaders, particularly Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman his rightful place in the nation's history. As per the initiatives, national curriculum and textbook board has already taken initiative...
Peter Galbraith On May 30, the Coalition held a ceremony in the Kurdistan town of Erbil to mark its handover of security in Iraq's three Kurdish provinces from the Coalition to the Iraqi government. General Benjamin Mixon, the U.S. commander...
Vesna Peric ZimonjicContrary trends arise in Serbia these days, where official statistics show Serbs are a lazy nation, while those who seek new opportunities show otherwise.New figures show that an army of more than 870,000 people remains jobless in a...
Associated PressGoogle may be ready to make a big splash in a government auction for valuable wireless airwaves—if certain conditions are met.The Internet search company said it will bid at least $4.6 billion if the Federal Communications Commission mandates that...
Computer scientists at the University of Alberta claim to have built a checkers playing computer programme that is invincible.According to Dr Jonathan Schaeffer, who developed the game after spending 18 and a half years and sifting through 500 billion (a...
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...
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