The 22nd annual general meeting (AGM) of National Life Insurance Company Limited will be held on August 22, 2007 at 11:30 am at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel in the city. Other information of the AGM has been announced earlier.Purchase/ sale of...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, Jun 18 (AP): The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars...
PARIS, Jun 18 (AP): President Nicolas Sarkozy may shuffle his nascent government following the defeat of the No. 2 Cabinet official in weekend parliamentary elections, contests that gave him a comfortable majority but not the crushing victory predicted in polls....
ISLAMABAD, Jun 18 (Reuters): Pakistan's parliament has condemned the award of a British knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world, and said Britain should withdraw the honour. Rushdie was awarded a...
LUXEMBOURG, Jun 18 (AFP): German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Monday that all EU countries will lose out if there is no deal on a new treaty to drag the Union out of its institutional malaise. "If there is no...
SEOUL, Jun 18 (AFP): South Korean and US negotiators said Monday they expect North Korea to start closing down its reactor within weeks as the first step in a promised nuclear disarmament programme. The North announced Saturday it had invited...
PAMBADY, Jun 18 (AFP): A school in southern India allowed a group of HIV-positive children back to class Monday after a six-month battle that has highlighted the stigma suffered by the country's AIDS sufferers. The Christian-affiliated school in the southern...
SYDNEY, Jun 18 (AFP): Australia and the United States launched a massive war game Monday aimed at honing their ability to act together against threats to Asia-Pacific security, commanders said. More than 20,000 US troops and 12,000 Australians, backed by...
YALA, Thailand, Jun 18 (AFP): Fourteen people were wounded today when a bomb exploded inside a busy teashop in Thailand's Muslim- majority south, where a separatist insurgency is raging, police said. The bomb was planted under a table in the...
KABUL, Jun 18 (AP): Seven children were killed in a US-led coalition airstrike targeting suspected al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, a coalition statement said Monday. The strike came hours after the deadliest insurgent attack since the Taliban fell in 2001....
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Jun 18 (AP): A helicopter carrying firefighters and equipment crashed into a mountain last week, killing 14 of 22 aboard, a government official said Monday. The Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter disappeared Wednesday en route to a forest fire...
Muktijoddha Sangsad KC took the top slot of the league's points table beating Rahmatganj MFS by 3-1 goals in the return league match of the B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Monday, reports UNB.Muktijoddha Sangsad secured...
Andrew Strauss and Ian Bell both fell on the fourth morning as West Indies made England work hard, in helpful bowling conditions at Chester-le-Street, reports Cricinfo. With Paul Collingwood and Matt Prior at the crease, and not a lot else...
LONDON, Jun 18 (AP) : Andy Roddick won his fourth Queen's Club title Sunday, saving match point in the second set before beating France's Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-2) in the final of the grass-court tune-up for Wimbledon.Roddick,...
BIRMINGHAM, Jun 18 (AP): Jelena Jankovic won her fourth title of the year Sunday, beating Maria Sharapova 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to capture the final of the grass-court DFS Classic.Both players had to win semifinal matches earlier in the day at...
The subcontinent will make the 2011 World Cup more spectator-friendly with affordable ticket prices. It is also likely that there will be changes to the format of the tournament. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh host the game's premier tournament...
Sheikh Russell KC earned a straight 3-0 victory over Wari Club in the AB Bank Metropolis Senior Division Table Tennis (TT) League at the NSC wooden floor gymnasium in the city Monday.Mahbub (Russell KC) outplayed Babon (Wari Club) by 11-7,...
LONDON, Jun 18 (AFP): Shane Warne was one of several Australians starring Saturday on the second day of the latest round of matches in English cricket's first-class County Championship.Hampshire captain Warne, arguably cricket's greatest leg-spinner, took four for 76 but...
THREE nationalised commercial banks (NCBs) - Sonali, Janata and Agrani - are now in the process of being corporatised, notwithstanding the fact that the government will continue to be their sole owner. The Bangladesh Bank has already issued licences to...
Qazi AzadTHE recent mudslides from some hills in Chittagong city and its suburbs, which killed 126 persons, both young and old, again exposed the reactive nature of our traditional management behaviour. After the disaster had struck, some government leaders and...
Mahbubul HaqENVIRONMENTAL degradation of the city does call for taking steps on a high priority basis. The participants at a recent seminar on the environment of Dhaka city was organised by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), were unanimous on their...
Alec Russelli from Cape Town KOFI Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, has hailed as tough but "doable" his new mission to help reverse the decline of Africa's agriculture.Six months after he left the UN, Mr Annan is to head...
BEFORE the take-over of power by the present caretaker government (CG), the country had seemingly become like a mail train without brakes. Now, people feel somewhat confident that there is some authority who, in a guardian like manner, would be...
VAST deposits of valuable minerals -- 'Black-Gold' -- were found as late as in 1970 in Cox's Bazar and some of its surrounding areas. I have ever since been trying my best for getting all concerned involved in efforts for...
THE participants in a two-day National Health Rights Conference held recently in the city under the sponsorship of Health Research and Rights Foundation, stressed the need for raising health consciousness among the masses. According to them, due to lack of...
M. Rafiqul Islam, NDC, PSC, THE last political government departed about seven months ago and following a period of show of strength, confusion and uncertainty, the present caretaker government took over and is conducting the affairs of the state fairly...
Samina RizwanTHE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Bangladesh in January, 2006 the Guidelines of Corporate Governance for publicly listed companies. The guidelines along with the best practices and regulations of the Companies Act 1994 (Amended), the Banking Companies Act,...
Vaclav KlausWE are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough - irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent - for the environmentalists and...
S M JahangirThe government might go for tougher actions, including confiscation of assets, against those who will not avail themselves of the opportunity to legalise undisclosed income within the given timeframe."Tougher actions await the persons, who will fail to legalise...
Siddique Islam The central bank of Bangladesh is going to introduce a refinancing scheme for the housing sector for the first time to meet one of the basic needs of the people, official sources said. Under the proposed scheme of...
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