Former Bangladesh champions Sheikh Russell KC announced a 30-member preliminary squad for the six-team final round of the AFC President's Cup Football to be held in Sri Lanka next month, reports UNB. Sheikh Russell KC (Bangladesh) has been placed in...
LONDON, Aug 22 (AFP): Jose Mourinho's Chelsea side will attempt to apply early pressure on their main Premier League rivals when they face a newly-promoted side for the second time inside a week with the visit of Leicester City to...
BJMC, Jamalpur, Naogaon and Panchagarh DSAs reached the semifinal of the Walton Air Conditioner National Youth (U-19) Female Handball Tournament eliminating their respective rivals at the Shaheed (Capt) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB....
PARAMUS, Aug 22 (AFP): Top-ranked Rory McIlroy's bid to become only the fifth player to win four consecutive PGA events started poorly Thursday at the Barclays while American Bo Van Pelt took the lead. McIlroy, coming off major victories at...
MOSCOW, Aug 22 (AFP): Zenit St Petersburg will be confident of extending their perfect start to the Russian Premier League season when they welcome Amkar Perm to the Petrovsky Stadium Saturday. Zenit are the only team to have won all...
Injured Isner pulls out of Winston-Salem WINSTON-SALEM, Aug 22: Two-time champion John Isner withdrew from the US Open tune-up event at Winston-Salem Thursday with a left ankle injury. The American was due to play Lukas Rosol in the quarter-finals Thursday,...
Eight people were killed and several others injured in road accidents in Joypurhat, Tangail, Narayanganj and Sirajganj districts Friday, reports UNB. In Joypurhat, a policeman was killed and another injured as a battery-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a motorcycle at Harendra...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Aug 22: Robi-Drishty inter-school, college and university debate competition kicked off at the Theatre Institute, Chittagong Thursday. A total of 30 schools from Chittagong, 10 colleges and 24 universities from Dhaka and Chittagong are taking part in...
A rickshaw puller, aged about 30 years, died as a passenger bus knocked his rickshaw in the city's Shapla Chattar intersection Friday, reports UNB. Police said the accident took place when a speedy bus of 'Bahon Transport Company Limited' hit...
Former Dhaka University (DU) Vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Emajuddin Ahmed said Friday the country's education budget should reach 5-6 per cent of the GDP from the present 2.18 per cent, reports UNB. "There's chaos everywhere in the country's education sector for...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Aug 22: A team of the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently visited the Southern University Bangladesh (SUB). Professor Akhter Hossain, member of the UGC along with a number of other members discussed about activities of the...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 22 (BSS): Police arrested a Myanmar citizen with a large quantity of contraband beef fattening tablets from the city's Shah Amanat Bridge area under Bakalia thana Thursday night. The arrested person was identified as Mohammad Rafique (25), hailing...
PANCHAGARH, Aug 22 (UNB): The body of a Bangladeshi fisherman who was abducted by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was recovered from the Jamuna river at Shingroad Ratanbari in Sadar upazila of the district Friday. The deceased was...
KHULNA, Aug 22 (UNB): A suspected mugger was killed and another injured in a mob beating in the Basupara area of the city early Friday. The deceased was identified as Foyzul Islam (28), while the injured is Al Mamun. Maruf...
KHULNA, Aug 22 (UNB): Justice Abdur Rouf stressed Friday the need for better exchange of knowledge among the people of different religions to ensure their peaceful coexistence. He mentioned that the people of the country are strong believers in their...
Death of a housewife Friday at her in-laws house at Wari in the old city shrouded in mystery, reports BSS. The victim, Momata Rani Pal Tumpa (20), wife of Shovon Ranjan, was a first year honours student at Central Women...
SATKHIRA, Aug 22 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man with fake currency notes worth Tk10,000 at Madhabkathi village in sadar upazila Friday. The arrested person was identified as Milon, son of Abdul Bari, a resident of...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 22: Police filed a case against 14 students of Chittagong University (CU) Thursday night for attacking the policemen on the campus. Manjur Ahmed, sub-inspector (SI) of Hathazari thana filed the case accusing seven students and seven unidentified. Those...
KERANIGANJ, Aug 22 (UNB): A housewife was killed by unknown miscreants in Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka district early Friday. The deceased was identified as Nurjahan (30) of Garibpur village in the upazila. Police detained victim's father-in-law M Manik, brother-in-law Swapan...
Shariatpur, Aug 22 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a college girl from a beel (water body) in Shariatpur Municipal area on Friday, five days after she went missing. The victim was identified as Samsunnahar, 22, an honours student of...
FE Report A house maid, Bina (14), fled her employer's house on Salimullah Road at House- 3/17 in the city's Mohamm-adpur on August 11. She is the daughter of Asad Mridha at Joypara village under Dohar thana of Dhaka district....
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories, Aug 21 (AFP): Israeli warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders in southern Gaza on Thursday, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement's armed wing after failing to kill its top military chief. As the six-week war between...
JAKARTA, Aug 21 (AFP): Indonesian police used tear gas and water cannon Thursday to break up a rally by supporters of the ex-general who lost last month's presidential election, as a court was set to uphold his opponent's victory. As...
Calls to ban new Indira Gandhi assassination film NEW DELHI, Aug 21: A controversial film on the assassination of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was scheduled for release on Friday amid calls for it to be banned for glorifying...
Taiga Uranaka of Reuters in Tokyo | 2014-08-22 00:00:00
Citigroup Inc is preparing to sell its Japanese retail banking operations, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said last week, as it waves the white flag on a venture plagued by regulatory troubles and anemic lending. The company...
Fredrik Dahl of Reuters in Vienna | 2014-08-22 00:00:00
Iran has started taking action to comply with the terms of an extended agreement with six world powers over its disputed atomic activities, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report obtained by Reuters last week showed. The findings in a monthly update...
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