GAIBANDHA, Nov 30 (BSS): Speakers at a function stressed the need for creating awareness among the common people to check child marriage to build a better society. "Incidents of child marriage are still happening in the society before the age...
NARSINGDI, Nov 30 (UNB): A court here on Sunday convicted three people and sentenced them to death for killing a schoolboy in 2010. The convicts are-Alamgir, Shambhu Charan Das and Manir Hossain of Madhabdi in Sadar upazila. The court also...
JAMALPUR, Nov 30 (BSS): The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has fixed a target to cultivate Boro paddy on 1, 27,716 hectares of land in seven upazila of the district after harvesting Aman. DAE office sources said of the total,...
SUNAMGANJ, Nov 30 (UNB): Police arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman from Traffic Point area in the district town in connection with a graft case on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Delwar Hossain, chairman of Mollapara union parishad...
Elderly man found dead in Thakurgaon Police recovered the body of an elderly man from a crop field at Gogar-Majhtola village in Ranishangkail Upazila in Thakurgaon on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Dariman Ali,65, a resident of the village....
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday greeted the Bangladesh Cricket Team for completing a whitewash in the five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe by beating the visitors by five wickets in the last match in Dhaka. In a message, the BNP...
A court in the city Monday again deferred until December 8 the recording of statements by prosecution witnesses against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and eight others in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Judge Basudev Roy...
Ludwig Burger and Ben Hirschler of Reuters in Frankfurt/London | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with a 1.1 million euro ($1.4 million) price tag, a new record for a medicine to treat a rare disease. The sky-high cost of Glybera,...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday asked the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to keep themselves away from dirty politics. The ruling party’s student wing organised the weeklong programme, ‘Clean campus, save campus’, at the foot...
Devidutta Tripathy and Sumeet Chatterjee of Reuters in Mumbai | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
India is set for more banking acquisitions after a record $2.4 billion takeover last week ended four years of a deals drought, as lenders fight for market share and wider reach amid looming competition from a new breed of players....
Alex Lawler, Amena Bakr and Rania El Gamal of Reuters in Vienna | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and fellow member the United Arab Emirates signalled on November 26 they were unlikely to push for a major change in oil output at the group's meeting this week to prop up prices that have sunk...
TAIPEI, Nov 30 (AFP): Taiwan's warmer relations with China were called into question Sunday after the island's Beijing-friendly ruling party suffered its worst-ever polls defeat in local elections, sparking the resignation of Premier Jiang Yi-huah. The rout came as the...
POLONNARUWA, Nov 30 (AFP): Sri Lanka's opposition parties formally launched their bid Sunday to topple long-serving President Mahinda Rajapakse at January elections, with prayers and public meetings in the island's old capital of Polonnaruwa. Main opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena,...
BEIRUT, Nov 30 (AFP): Jihadists from the Islamic State group battling for control of the Syrian border town Kobane have suffered some of their heaviest losses yet in 24 hours of clashes and US-led strikes. At least 50 jihadists were...
GENEVA, Nov 30 (AFP): The Swiss rejected three issues put to a popular vote Sunday, including calls to cap immigration in the name of saving the environment, according to initial results and projections. Results published by a handful of the...
LUCKNOW, Nov 30: The BJP has pumped in extra resources to meet its target of winning 44 seats in J&K assembly polls, including a team of about 50 party leaders from Uttar Pradesh who had worked as part of the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 (AFP): Bibijan Rahimullah stepped aboard a small boat in Myanmar in October for what she was told would be a week-long journey to Malaysia to escape violence and discrimination afflicting her Rohingya ethnic group. Instead, she...
South African family killed in Taliban attack in Kabul KABUL, Nov 30: The latest Taliban strike in Kabul killed a South African father running an education charity and his two teenage children, officials and the group said Sunday, as the...
Sitting on a 4-0 lead, Bangladesh might take their foot off the pedal yet the prospect of a whitewash looms large when they take on Zimbabwe in the 5th and last match of the Bashundhara Cement ODI Series at the...
Defending champions Legends of Rupganj suffered their 2nd consecutive defeat in the Walton Dhaka Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League (DPL), losing to Kalabagan Cricket Academy by 3 wickets at BKSP-4 Sunday, reports UNB. Earlier, Rupganj lost to Brothers Union by...
The Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open International Badminton Challenge 2014, organised by Bangladesh Badminton Federation, will begin tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in the city, reports UNB. Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports Arif Khan Joy will inaugurate...
SHARJAH, Nov 30 (AFP): New Zealand completed an innings and 80-run win over Pakistan in the third and final Test in Sharjah Sunday, to level the three-match series 1-1. Seamer Trent Boult took 4-38 and Mark Craig 3-109 which overshadowed...
LONDON, Nov 30 (AFP): Chelsea dropped points for only the third time this season as the Premier League leaders were held to a 0-0 draw at Sunderland Saturday. Jose Mourinho's side had swept to the top of the table with...
SHARJAH, Nov 30 (AFP): Paceman Umar Gul and batsman Younis Khan returned to Pakistan's squads for next month's Twenty20 and one-day series against New Zealand in United Arab Emirates, officials said Sunday. The 30-year-old Gul had his career derailed by...
Chinese Taipei made a good start in the 4th Men' s Junior AHF Cup Hockey beating Sri Lanka by 4-3 goals in a keenly contested opening match at the Moulana Bhasani National Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB. Vice...
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