JOHANNESBURG, Oct 16 (AFP): Newcastle United striker Obafemi Martins scored twice as Nigeria held Mexico 2-2 in an international friendly at the weekend. It was an impressive showing by the two-time African champions as they launched preparations under German coach...
An inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at this year's Cricket World Cup starts in Jamaica Tuesday, reports BBC. The 58-year-old's death was originally treated as murder, with speculation it was linked to a match-fixing...
Andrew Flintoff is convinced he can recapture his Ashes-winning form after the fourth operation on his left ankle, reports BBC. The England all-rounder believes Dutch surgeon Professor Niek van Dijk has finally cured the problem that had threatened to cut...
PERTH, Oct 16(AFP): The popular and glamorous Indian tennis star Sania Mirza will again lead her country's challenge at the Hopman Cup here later this year. She is to team up with Rohan Bopanna at the unique mixed teams tournament,...
NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (AFP): Reigning world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand of India said Tuesday that he hoped his sport would one day be included in the Olympic Games as a medal discipline. The bespectacled Anand, crowned chess king two...
South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock and controversial Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar are the latest big names to join the Indian Premier League, reports BBC. The Twenty20 League, starting in April, was devised by the India Cricket Board to counter the...
BEIJING, Oct 16(AFP): Beijing plans to invest 1.8 billion yuan (240 million dollars) over the next few months to upgrade the city's power supply ahead of next year's Olympic Games, state media reported today. Dozens of new substations and power...
LAHORE, Oct 16 (AFP): Mark Boucher and AB de Villiers hit quick-fire hundreds as South Africa tuned up for the one-day international series with a crushing 176-run win against Pakistan's Patron's XI today. Boucher scored a 106-ball 103 while de...
BEIJING, Oct 16(AFP): Veteran Chinese defender Sun Jihai says he is willing to bide his time at high-flying Manchester City and hailed the way manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has transformed the club. Sun, 30, has only started two Carling Cup ties...
The jute sector of the economy has been going through the worst times in its history. Situation has come to such a pass that it is now hard to believe that jute was once the biggest foreign exchange earning crop...
Enayet RasulMAINTENANCE of price stability has continued to be at the forefront of the declared priorities of successive governments in Bangladesh. The interim government has also been making utmost efforts to tame the prices of essential commodities. But its success...
Minxin PeiAS the top brass of the Chinese Communist party have gathered in Beijing for its 17th congress, President Hu Jintao may feel justifiably proud of his accomplishments in the past five years. Under his watch, the Chinese economy has...
Syed Ashraful HasanMOST of the public universities in Bangladesh have a common problem known as session jam. Instead of taking five years to complete honours and masters courses, students need six, seven or even eight years to complete their university...
JUSTIFICATIONS are made such as lack of investments, indecisions and bureaucratic wrangling as the reasons for the current state of the power sector in the country. But more than any of these factors or all of them combined, or if...
THERE was noted much enthusiasm for the circular waterway project for Dhaka when it was officially inaugurated in March last year. The first phase of it was reportedly completed at a cost of Taka 360 million and work was carried...
Dr K. M. Nabiul Islam in the second of his four-part articleHISTORICALLY, water and flood management policies have been dominated by structural measures, as is evident from massive investments particularly in agricultural projects in Bangladesh. Following the factors such as...
Mohamed El-Erian AFTER this summer's turmoil, markets have entered a tentative healing phase helped by significant injection of central bank liquidity and a cut in US interest rates. The inter-bank market is normalising, credit costs are falling and share prices...
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (AFP): Global finance chiefs gather this week with the impact of US housing and credit woes spreading worldwide, exchange rate tensions rising and new agendas being carved out at the IMF and World Bank. Meetings of the...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 16 (AFP): Venezuela's leftist government is leading Brazil, Argentina and other regional economies in creating a new bank with the ambition of casting off unwelcome oversight by the IMF and World Bank. The idea was first...
GENEVA, Oct 16 (AFP): The United States said yesterday it was "very disappointed" with a ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that its subsidies to cotton farmers breached global trade rules. The finding confirms a preliminary ruling in...
PARIS, Oct 16 (AFP): The increasing clout of state-run investment funds is causing concern in European countries, where policymakers are anxious to protect industry and strategic assets from foreign takeovers. According to a study by Morgan Stanley, these so-called sovereign...
SINGAPORE, Oct 16 (AFP): Crude oil prices surged to fresh records above 86 dollars per barrel in Asia today amid fears of supply disruption due to rising tension between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in neighbouring Iraq. In afternoon trade New...
LONDON, Oct 16 (PTI): Gold prices yesterday surged to a 28-year-high on brisk buying by funds and retailers, triggered by firming dollar and rising crude prices that has forced investors to bet on precious metal as a safe haven. Gold...
BEIJING, Oct 16 (Xinhua): China's export of steel products is predicted to slow down its growth, but the export quantity will continue increasing, said industry experts. The experts listed four major factors that have restricted the impulse of enterprises in...
LONDON, Oct 16 (AFP): The prices of platinum and lead struck all-time highs this week owing to tight global supplies of the metals. PRECIOUS METALS: The price of platinum forged a record high Thursday as the white metal was hit...
FE ReportSummit Uttaranchol Power Co Ltd and Summit Purbanchol Power Co Ltd, the subsidiaries of Summit Power Limited, signed power purchase agreements (PPAs), implementation agreements (IAs), gas supply agreements (GSAs) and land lease agreements (LLAs) with Power Cell, Bangladesh Power...
FE ReportThe Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared the net asset values (NAV) of its two unit funds.The total NAV of ICB AMCL Pension Holders' Unit Fund stood at Tk 55,305,822.28...
Our CorrespondentSIRAJGANJ, Oct 16: Abnormal price hike of white paper is causing sufferings to the poor guardians of students in the northern districts, sources said.While contacting different paper traders in Sirajganj, it was observed that price of white paper soared...
FE Report Eusebio Sporting (Bangladesh) Company Limited, a Taiwan company, will expand its project in Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone (EPZ).In this connection, an agreement was signed between Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) and Eusebio Sporting (Bangladesh) Company Limited at...
FE Report Grameenphone (GP) Limited has recently signed an agreement with Sadakalo to provide complete communication facilities under the GP Business Solutions package.Managing Partner of Sadakalo Tahsina Shahin and GP Group Manager (Dhaka region) Azizul Abedin signed the agreement on...
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