NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (AFP): Pakistan remains hopeful of strengthening ties with India despite an angry New Delhi last week cancelling scheduled talks between the nuclear-armed rival neighbours, Pakistan's high commissioner said Wednesday. Abdul Basit said Pakistan was confident of...
BERLIN, Aug 20 (AFP): Germany is ready to send weapons to support Iraqi Kurds in their battle against the "barbaric" jihadist militants of the Islamic State, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday. After other European countries said they would send...
DONETSK, Ukraine, Aug 20 (AFP): Fierce fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels left dozens of civilians dead Wednesday as Ukrainian troops pushed on with a bloody offensive to break the insurgency in the east of the country. Deadly battles...
36 dead, 7 missing in Hiroshima landslide TOKYO, Aug 20: Rain-sodden slopes collapsed in torrents of mud, rock and debris Wednesday in the outskirts of Hiroshima, killing at least 36 people and leaving seven missing, police said. Public broadcaster NHK...
Kushtia DSA made a flying start beating Mymensingh DSA by 23-4 goals in the inaugural match of the Walton Air Conditioner National Youth (Under-19) Female Handball Tournament that began at Shaheed (Capt) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium in the...
COLOMBO, Aug 20 (AFP): Sri Lanka are banking on young talent to see them through a transitional phase in Test cricket despite the departure of one batting great, another approaching retirement and an ageing spinner in the ranks. Former captain...
Bangladesh Youth Hockey team Wednesday completed their 2nd Summer Youth Olympics Games campaign on a dismal note losing all the four Pool A matches, reports UNB. In the 4th and last pool match, Bangladesh lost to South Africa by 3-4...
Bangladesh team has been placed in Pool A of the 10-nation 17th Asian Games Men's Hockey to be held in Incheon, South Korea from September 19 to October 4, reports UNB. The Pool A also includes last edition's runners-up Malaysia,...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Wednesday handed over a cheque for Tk 10 million (1 crore) to Bangladesh Cricket Association for the Physically-Challenged for the development of the physically-challenged cricketers, reports UNB. President of the Association Prof Dr Shaikh Abdus...
KARACHI, Aug 20 (AFP): Afghanistan's cricket coach said Wednesday the team was on course for next year's World Cup and looking forward to touring Australia and New Zealand next month. Afghanistan earned a maiden berth in the 50-over World Cup...
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (AFP): The 2014 US Open begins Monday with American men seeking to end a Grand Slam drought now more than a decade long. The signs, however, are not promising. Andy Roddick's 2003 US Open triumph marks...
MADRID, Aug 20 (AFP): A Raul Garcia equaliser two minutes from time denied James Rodriguez a dream home debut for Real Madrid as Atletico Madrid salvaged a 1-1 draw in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup Tuesday. Rodriguez...
West Indies part ways with coach Gibson ST. JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda, Aug 20: The West Indies parted ways with coach Ottis Gibson Tuesday, just a day ahead of a home one-day series against Bangladesh. The West Indies Cricket Board...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday that the August 21 grenade attack was aimed to frustrate our independence, democracy, peace and development, reports BSS. "The aimd of the August 21 was also to give killing, conspiracy, militancy, corruption and...
Brushing aside the ruling party leaders' claim that the next national election to will held on completion of the current government's five-year tenure, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Wednesday that the election will be held much ahead of...
President Abdul Hamid has paid rich tribute to the memory of those killed in a barbaric grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally in city on August 21, 2004, reports BSS. "I express my deep respect to the memory...
A Dhaka court here sent Wednesday City Awami League (AL) leader Zahidul Islam Tipu, an accused in the case of Jubo League leader Riaz Uddin Khan Milky killing, to jail rejecting his bail petition, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Aug 20: A patrol team of DB of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) arrested a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Rajshahi University (RU) unit from the campus area for his alleged role in kidnapping. The...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) kept Wednesday its verdict pending for delivery any day on the war crimes case against accused SM Qaiser, a former state minister during HM Ershad's military rule, reports UNB. Closing the case summing-up arguments with...
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandaker Mahbub Hossain termed Wednesday an 'evil effort' the government's move for the 16th constitutional amendment, aiming to restore parliament's authority to impeach judges of the apex court, reports UNB. Addressing a...
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Inefficiency and poor monitoring of the nutrition specific interventions have been making insignificant impact at the field level worsening the country's already pitiable nutrition scenario although the government has declared it to be a priority area. Experts note the faulty...
FE Report Police intercepted Tuba Group workers who were staging demonstration Wednesday demanding immediate reopening of all closed units. Several hundred workers under the banner of Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee came under police action at about 3:10pm when they...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina underscored Wednesday the need for a united stance of the Muslim Ummah to protect its rights against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in Palestine, reports UNB. The PM came up with the remark when...
A Dhaka court here placed Wednesday placed Rabiulla Robi, news editor of daily Inqilab, on a five-day remand in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the order...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the government has taken an initiative to amend the existing Public Examinations (Offences) 1980 (Amendment-1992) Act with a provision of giving out harsher punishment for leaking question papers during public examinations, reports UNB. The...
US embassy in Dhaka announced Wednesday that Standard Chartered Bank will not collect Machine Readable Visa (MRV) fee after August 31, reports UNB. The HSBC will begin collecting MRV fees for visa applications beginning on September 14. The MRV fee...
SYLHET, Aug 20 (UNB): Finance Minister AMA Muhith assured Wednesday the local journalists of forming a panel to look into the arrest and allegations brought against Manabzamin special correspondent Chowdhury Mumtaz Ahmed. Muhith called Shafiul Alam Chowdhury, editor and publisher...
The tender for constructing the 1290-meter long third Shitalakhya bridge involving Tk 3.77 billion was floated Wednesday, reports UNB. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader disclosed this at a meeting at the Secretariat on traffic jam and water logging problem due to...
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