Tuesday is Victory Day. The country will observe the day with due solemnity and remember those who laid down their lives to liberate the country. Elaborate programmes have been chalked out to mark the day. The day will commence with...
KABUL, Dec 14 (AFP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday called for Muslim clerics and tribal elders to help stem a surge in deadly insurgent attacks that have rocked the country as US-led troops end their war against the Taliban....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked for shutting down shrimp culture farms to reopen the Ghashiakhali Channel, once used as India-Bangladesh water protocol route and maritime communication route for the country's southern region. The channel was closed nearly three years...
ISTANBUL, Dec 14 (AFP): Turkish police on Sunday launched a sweeping operation to arrest dozens of supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival, US-exiled imam Fethullah Gulen, including a raid on the offices of the Zaman daily, which is close...
The six-day border conference between the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF) begins in Dhaka on Tuesday, according to a news agency.
Taiwan's Chu sole candidate for ruling party leadership TAIPEI, Dec 14: Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party, reeling from its worst-ever local election setback, will have just one candidate for its new leader, a party official said Sunday. As of Saturday when...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 (Reuters): Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's top palm growers, will probably keep shipments of crude palm oil duty-free in January as prices struggle to pull away from five-year lows, and some players expect that to continue...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures dropped last week, tracking falls in crude oil prices and competing vegetable oil markets, although losses were limited by concerns that monsoon rains could curb output in December. The benchmark February...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec 14 (AFP): Saudi Arabia will stop buying domestically-grown wheat in two years' time and rely completely on imports of the grain, the water-short kingdom's new agriculture minister said recently. By investing tens of billions of dollars,...
FRANKFURT, Dec 14 (AFP): The plunge in oil prices is making it tougher than ever for the European Central Bank to achieve its core mission of keeping prices stable at a time it faces looming deflation, analysts say. In the...
MUMBAI, Dec 14 (Reuters): Indian soyoil futures fell on Friday tracking weak Malaysian palm oil futures while soybean futures rose on a rise in overseas shipment of soymeal. Malaysian palm oil futures dropped on Friday, tracking falls in crude oil...
PARIS, Dec 14 (AFP): Thirty years after introducing quotas to combat the butter mountain caused by overproduction, the EU is on the cusp of freeing up the dairy sector amid growing global demand for milk products. To see it doesn't...
Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club brightened their chances of super six berth in the Walton Refrigerator Dhaka Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League (DPL) as they notched an 8-wicket victory over Partex Sporting Club in a 11th round match guided by a...
Cricket Coaching School (CCS) earned promotion to the Premier Division Cricket League from next season after beating Magnum Cricketers by 19 runs in their last match of the First Division Cricket League at the Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in...
DUBAI, Dec 14 (AFP): Australia's David Warner and India duo Shikhar Dhawan and stand-in skipper Virat Kohli were found guilty of breaching the ICC code of conduct and handed fines for bust-ups during the stormy first Test which ended in...
LONDON, Dec 14 (AFP): Leaders Chelsea and nearest rivals Manchester City preserved the status quo at the top of the Premier League table with a pair of unspectacular victories Saturday. Eden Hazard and Diego Costa scored as Chelsea won 2-0...
The Walton Home Appliance Victory Day Handball (men's & women's) begins today (Monday) at the Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the city, reports BSS. A total of six men's and women's teams, split into two groups, are...
Shamiha Sharmin Shimmi emerged unbeaten champion in the first Women Rapid Rating Chess Tournament beating WIM Rani Hamid in the last round Saturday at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room in the city, reports BSS. Shimmi earned 4.5 points to clinch...
T&T Club finished runners-up in the Bengal Group Senior Division Football League as they dumped Friends Social Welfare Organisation by 5-1 goals Sunday at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city, reports BSS. In the day's other matches, Dhaka Wanderers...
The first ever residential netball and volleyball training camp for the women begins today (Monday) at the Women's Sports Complex in the city, reports BSS. A total of 50 trainees from different districts across the country are expected to take...
ADELAIDE, Dec 14 (AFP): Australia, already without injured skipper Michael Clarke, may also freshen up their pace attack with Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc for this week's second Test in Brisbane, coach Darren Lehmann said Sunday. Clarke is out for...
Sangakkara fined for dissent COLOMBO, Dec 14: Sri Lanka's star batsman Kumar Sangakkara was Sunday fined 15 percent of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire's decision in the sixth one-day international against England in Kandy. The prolific...
Brent Skorup of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-15 00:00:00
A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today's professional police forces -- where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armour and mine-resistant vehicles --already raise concerns. Yet new data-mining technologies...
Anatole Kaletsky of Reuters in Kiev | 2014-12-15 00:00:00
The "day of silence" observed this week by the Ukrainian army and its pro-Russian rebel opponents was an event of enormous economic importance for global economics as well as geopolitics. The cease-fire's success confirmed that the truce in Ukraine, agreed...
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