The CBI on Friday arrested West Bengal’s Transport Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra in connection with the multi-million rupee Saradha chit fund scam. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested Naresh Balodia, the legal advisor of Saradha...
CIA Director John Brennan has said that some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sep 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" whether harsh interrogation techniques yielded useful intelligence. With his agency under fire in the...
Local fishermen and villagers have begun mopping up oil from a spill caused by the Sundarbans tanker mishap with pots, pans and sacks riding on engine-driven boats on Shela River. State-owned institution Padma Oil Company Limited contractors are buying it...
Brent crude oil slipped Friday to below $63 a barrel, its lowest since July 2009, on persistent concerns over a global supply glut and a sluggish demand outlook. Brent is down roughly 9 per cent this week, some 45 per...
A student of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) and three others have died in a road accident, triggering violent clashes between agitated university students and transport workers. At least 10 others, including another JUST student, were injured in...
A Bangladeshi-origin Muslim mother has been jailed by a London court for more than five years for promoting terrorism on Facebook. Runa Khan, a mother of six from Luton, north of London, admitted to four counts of distributing terrorist publications...
The 134th birth anniversary of veteran politician Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani was observed Friday with due respect. Popularly known as "Majlum Jananeta", the leader of the downtrodden, Moulana Bhasani, was born on December 12, 1880 and passed away on...
London airspace has been closed until 19:00 GMT after a computer failure, air traffic controllers have said. The news was announced in a brief message on flight safety body Eurocontrol's website. UK air traffic controllers Nats confirmed a "technical problem"...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday threw an "open challenge" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to arrest her following the arrest of minister Madan Mitra in connection with the Saradha chit fund scandal, a situation she...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Dec 11: Police activity in Kotchandpur Model Thana under Jhenidah district is being severely hampered for lack of a modern thana complex here. The 100-year-old Kotchandpur original tin-shed thana buildings have turned dilapidated and risky. Cracks have developed on...
NOAKHALI, Dec 11 (BSS): Speakers at an international seminar on 'Climate Change and Role of Aquaculture on Food Security' called upon the students to come up with new innovation to face adverse impact of climate change. The students must come...
THAKURGAON, Dec 11 (UNB): A young man died from electrocution in Munsirhat area of the district town on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Kantes Roy,21, a final year diploma engineering student of a polytechnic institute and son of...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 11 (BSS): Normal life in the city and its adjacent areas has been affected due to cold weather coupled with chilly wind and dense fog for the last couple of days. The sufferings of daily wage earners like...
BOGRA, Dec 11 (UNB): A pedestrian was killed and a rickshaw-puller injured as a gas cylinder for inflating balloons exploded in Sutrapur area of the district town on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Ruku Chowdhury,18, son of Maksud...
RANGPUR, Dec 11 (BSS): Agricultural output can be increased substantially saving crops worth Taka 6,000 crore annually in Bangladesh through ensuring optimum and safe use of herbicides adopting the effective weed management methods. According to experts, unrestricted growth of weeds...
BNP chairperson Khaleda goes to Narayanganj Saturday to address a public rally at Kanchpur Balurmath from where she is likely to announce her party-led 20-party’s fresh action programme to force the current regime to quit. The local unit of the...
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NILPHAMARI, Dec 11: National Freedom Fighters Council (NFFC) has withdrawn 74 Freedom Fighters (FF) of Nilphamari district from the list of FFs of the country. The withdrawl came in a Government Gazette notification, signed by one Deputy Secretary. While contacted...
Bangladesh is one of the “most vital” partners of Korea in this region, Ambassador Lee Yun-young has said. He said Seoul was focused on increasing bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, development cooperation, education and cultural exchanges with Dhaka for “better...
JOYPURHAT, Dec 11 (BSS): Harvesting of transplanted (T) Aman has been complete in all five upazilas of the district. Official sources said, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had set a target to cultivate T-Aman paddy on a total of 67,485...
MYIMENSINGH, Dec 11 (BSS): Religious Affairs Minister Principal Matior Rahaman on Wednesday called upon the freedom fighters to work unitedly for economic prosperity of the country. "I'm urging the freedom fighters to work together for building a hunger and poverty...
Body recovered in Munshiganj Police recovered the unidentified body of a woman from Sipahipara-Ballalbari area under Sadar upazila Munshiganj Thursday morning. Being informed police rushed to the spot and recovered the body of woman from the area and sent it...
NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (AFP): Russian diamond mining giant Alrosa said it will sign a slew of deals with Indian buyers during President Vladimir Putin's visit Thursday, seeking to counter the threat of Western sanctions. Andrey Polyakov, vice president of...
SYDNEY, Dec 11 (AFP): Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday pleaded with Russia to withdraw its troops from his country and close the border, saying it would lead to almost immediate peace. His comments came as a day-old ceasefire that...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 (AFP): A Pakistani detained at Afghanistan's infamous Bagram jail, where he was beaten and threatened with dogs, told AFP that a damning US report on the brutal treatment of terror detainees will do nothing to return the...
HONG KONG, Dec 11 (AFP): Hong Kong police dismantled the city's main pro-democracy site Thursday, clearing tents and barricades after more than two months of rallies and leading away more than 100 demonstrators, who vowed their struggle lives on. Hundreds...
Palestinians mourn official as Israel braces for unrest RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Dec 11: Thousands of Palestinians gathered Thursday to mourn a senior official who died in a confrontation with Israeli troops, as the army sent reinforcements to the West Bank...
Venezuela\'s poor sour on Maduro as prices, shortages sting | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Packing potatoes at his vegetable stand on a sun-baked street in Caracas's hillside Catia slum, Jesus Jimenez fondly recounts voting for late president Hugo Chavez. Like millions in Venezuela's poor "barrios," the chatty father of 14 worshipped the larger-than-life Chavez...
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