Our correspondent CHITTAGONG, July 02: Rotarian Ali Hossain Akbar Ali was elected president of the Rotary Club of Chittagong Mid -City for the year 2007-2008. The names of the board members were also announced at a meeting held in Chittagong...
It is envisaged that cultivation of a new hybrid variety of Aman paddy developed by local scientists will help to thwart monga in the greater Rangpur district. The new variety--aman BRRI33--could be harvested between the Bangla months of Ashwin and...
NAOGAON, July 2 (UNB): Nine dacoits of an organised gang, including an accused of August 17 serial bombings and a convicted murderer, were arrested from different parts of the district in last three days until Sunday.Police started the drive after...
SAVAR, July 2 (UNB): Two people were killed and two others injured as a bus rammed into a van at Jamgora bus stand on Abdullahpur-EPZ road Monday morning.Police said the driver of a Dhaka bound bus from Tangail lost control...
FE ReportAtish Dipankar University of Science and Technology's (ADUST) freshers' reception of summer semester-2007 was held on its Gulshan campus in the city recently.ADUST Registrar Kabir Hossain Talukder presided over the inaugural ceremony while Vice Chancellor Anwara Begum was present...
Our correspondent CHITTAGONG, July 02: Rotarian Ali Hossain Akbar Ali was elected president of the Rotary Club of Chittagong Mid -City for the year 2007-2008. The names of the board members were also announced at a meeting held in Chittagong...
Yuvraj Singh came to the wicket when India were wobbling at 38 for 3. He began scratchily but once confident, he unleashed a powerful array of strokes and scored an unbeaten 61 to take his side to a six-wicket win,...
BEIJING, Jul 2 (AFP): Beijing Olympics organisers have received almost five million orders for tickets to 2008 Games events, nearly double the amount on offer in the first phase of sales, a Games spokeswoman said Monday.The initial phase closed Saturday...
MATURIN (Venezuela), Jul 2 (AFP): Real Madrid midfielder Robinho scored a hat-trick for Brazil in a 3-0 victory Sunday over Chile and Mexico beat Ecuador 2-1 to book a quarter- final date in Copa America group B matches.Robinho opened the...
SYDNEY, Jul 2 (AFP): The 30-man preliminary Australia squad for the ICC Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa from September 12-24 announced Monday. Australia -- Ricky Ponting (captain), Adam Gilchrist (vice captain), George Bailey, Nathan Bracken, Luke Butterworth, Stuart Clark,...
COLOMBO, Jul 2 (AFP): Muttiah Muralitharan said Monday he will tour Australia later this year amid the possibility of being crowned Test cricket's most successful bowler on Shane Warne's home soil. The Sri Lankan's 683 wickets leave him just 25...
After producing arguably their most disciplined bowling performance of the entire tour, West Indies squandered a golden opportunity to go 1-0 up in the best-of-three one-day series by shedding four wickets in 12 balls inside the first seven overs of...
HONG KONG, Jul 2 (AFP): China coach Zhu Guanghu was confident of reaching the Asian Cup knock-out stages after an intensive training programme yielded a fluent victory here. Spectacular long-range strikes by Zhao Xuri and Shao Jiayi against FIFA World...
Star-studded Dhaka DSA recorded their second win in the super league of the 27th National Hockey Championship when they handed a 3-1 defeat to Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium Saturday, reports BDNews24.com.Imtiaz Ahmed...
Dhaka, July 1 (UNB) - The BASIC Bank 18th National Women's Handball Champion-ship, organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation and sponsored by BASIC Bank, will begin on July 19.Top eight teams of the national meet will be entitled to participate in...
The police seized a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition early Tuesday from the rubber plantation area of Kanchan Nagar under Fatikchhari upazila. Fatikchhari Police Station duty officer sub-inspector Enamul Haque told bdnews24.com tipped off, a police contingent led by...
The hassle a passport seeker faces is an old story told again and again but the authority concerned has never bothered to bring an end to it or, at least, reduce its intensity. All procedural complexities in the issuance of...
Syed Fattahul AlimEconomy and the government that presides over it, are two different entities. They may sometimes be at cross purposes. In the case of the least developed and poorly performing economics, the people at home as well as the...
John GrayAFTER a period in which it seemed to be a declining force religion is once again a deciding factor in world affairs. The revival of the Rushdie affair, the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research and the militant...
Amy Yee from New Delhi and Najmeh Bozorgmehr from TehranA controversial $7.0bn gas pipeline extending from Iran to Pakistan and India was on track for completion by 2011, said officials as the latest round of talks concluded the other day...
THE enactment of two rules on judicial service has paved the way for separation of the judiciary from the executive. It has a long history. The Supreme Court in 1999 laid down a 12-point directive for the government towards the...
THERE are about 13,000 restaurants in different European Union (EU) countries which are being owned and operated by Bangladeshis. These restaurants generate about one thousands jobs annually which can be filled by workers or employees from Bangladesh. Each such employee...
THERE is no excuse that appropriate laws are not there to apply against syndicates. If laws are not there, then the same can be promulgated under ordinances and applied. So, where is the difficulty ? Activities of toll collectors raise...
Zhang Shidong and Chua Kong HoZhang Shibao covers 12 Chinese stocks and recommends investors buy all of them, even after they've more than tripled on average in the past year. ``We are still in the middle of the bull market...
Nicholas Johnston and James RowleyThe most comprehensive overhaul of immigration law in two decades was revived in the U.S. Senate and now faces votes on amendments that could shatter the fragile bipartisan coalition backing the legislation. Supporters of the measure,...
Jim Lobe from WashingtonIn a potentially significant setback to U.S. President George W. Bush's efforts to sustain Republican support for his "surge" in Iraq, three key senators this week have called on the White House to revise U.S. strategy there...
Andy MukherjeeRemind me again: Wasn't 2007 supposed to be the year of soft landing for the Chinese economy? Halfway into the year, and after several rounds of monetary tightening, the reality is turning out to be just the opposite. Economists...
TEHRAN, July 2(AFP): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday slammed arch-foe the United States and pledged to boost trade ties. "The United States is incapable of hurting Iran and Venezuela ... cooperation between the...
BAGHDAD, July 2 (AFP): Five more US soldiers have been killed in fighting in Baghdad and the western Iraqi province of Anbar in a single day, the military said Monday. Two soldiers and one marine were killed in Anbar Sunday...
TOKYO, July 2 (AFP): Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a stern rebuke to the country's defence minister Monday for his suggestion that the US atomic bombings were the inevitable way to end World War II. Atomic bomb survivors meanwhile...
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