Our Correspondent | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, July 16: As the Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the greatest religious festivals of the Muslims is approaching nearer, a mad shopping spree among adolescent boys and girls is visible at different markets in Gopalganj city. Elderly men and women are...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
JESSORE, July 16: Late journalist Shamsur Rahman was remembetred through several programmes on Wednesday marking his 14th death anniversary. The programmes included placing of floral wreaths at his grave, wearing black badges, discussions and Doa and Iftar mahfil. On July...
CHUADANGA, July 16 (BSS): The construction works of two-storey academic buildings in five colleges is progressing satisfactorily at a cost of Taka 8 crore and 66 lakhs. The Education Engineering Department of the Ministry of Education is implementing the schemes,...
PANCHAGARH, July 16 (BSS): Plantation of Aman seedlings has been getting momentum and the farmers have engaged their full efforts to make the farming programme successful in the district. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said a total of...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 16 (UNB): A rider of a bicycle was killed as a truck crashed into his vehicle in Noyagola area of Sadar upazila early Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Manzur Ali, 50, a resident of Hajipara village...
PABNA, July 16 (BSS): A businessman was chopped to death by some miscreants in Poilanpur area under Chatmohar upazila of the district last night. The deceased was identified as Pronab Shaha, 45, son of late Boddhanath Shaha of Mirzapur village...
SYLHET, July 16 (UNB): A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing his cousin in Sadar upazila in 2012. The court also fined the convict, M Ramzan Ali, 30, son of late...
Body of a driver recovered in Jamalpur Police recovered the body of a driver from river Jhenai in Rashidpur area under sadar upazila of Jamalpur Wednesday. He went missing on Monday night. The victim was identified as Babar Ali, 35,...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday stressed the need for forging a national consensus to take the country forward through holding a fresh election under a non-party caretaker government. “We want to work together and restore peace. We all must...
Timothy Heritage and Dmitriy Rogovitskiy of Reuters from Moscow | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
A giant crane towers over the Moscow stadium where Russia will stage the 2018 World Cup final and mounds of earth, pipes and cables are piled up where the soccer pitch should be. Little is left of the Luzhniki Stadium...
Nidhi Virma of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
India has disallowed Reliance Industries Ltd from recovering $2.376 billion invested to develop offshore gas fields in the D6 block on the country's east coast as output has fallen drastically and is way below the promised volumes, the oil minister...
Leika Kihara and Yuko Yoshikawa of Reuters from Tokyo | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari warned that it would be premature for the Bank of Japan to consider an exit strategy from its massive stimulus programme, voicing hope instead for further monetary easing if achievement of its inflation goal falls...
SHEJAIYA July 16 (agencies): At Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital near Gaza City, a handful of doctors and nurses hover over paralysed patients, wondering how to protect them from more air strikes as threatened by Israel. The patients lie mostly inert in...
DAMASCUS, July 16 (AFP): Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in Wednesday for a new seven-year term in a red carpet ceremony in Damascus, after an election his opponents had slammed as a "farce". Assad swore by the Koran before...
NIGERIA, July 16 (Reuters): Police in Nigeria have arrested Mohammed Zakari, a senior commander of the Boko Haram sect, blamed for killing hundreds of people since 2009, a police officer said Tuesday. Zakari, 30, was linked to the recent killing...
Trade between Bangladesh and Australia has witnessed a significant growth in recent years that has stood at over A$1 billion. A decade ago, trade between the two countries had been at around A$160 million, with the balance of trade heavily...
BANNU, July 16 (Reuters): At least 20 militants were killed Wednesday in a US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. F our missile strikes, coming from an unknown number of US unmanned aircraft, pounded a compound of suspected militants...
SRINAGAR, July 16 (AFP): Indian police on Wednesday accused the Pakistani army of killing a soldier and injuring seven other people during firing along their international border. Police said the "unprovoked" firing lasted for several hours at an Indian post...
KABUL, July 16 (agencies): Every single vote cast in Afghanistan's run-off presidential election will be checked for signs of fraud in a painstaking process set to begin this week-and the stakes could not be higher. Transported to Kabul under armed...
MANILA, July 16 (AFP): The first typhoon of the Philippines' brutal rainy season shut down the nation's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people across the country and cutting power for millions. Ferocious winds from Typhoon Rammasun tore roofs...
West, Arabs to 'pay high price for supporting terror' DAMASCUS, July 16: President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday warned Western and Arab countries which his regime has blamed for violence in Syria that they will "pay a high price for supporting...
LONDON, July 16 (AFP) : Global oil prices rebounded Wednesday as traders seized on news of stronger-than-expected economic growth in top energy consumer China. Brent North Sea for delivery in August rose 33 cents to $106.35 a barrel in London...
SEOUL, July 16 (Reuters) : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end to Apple Inc, a survey showed, in an ominous sign for the South Korean giant...
TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) : Japan's Ministry of Agriculture said it received no offers of feed-quality wheat or barley in a simultaneous buy and sell (SBS) auction that closed late on Wednesday. The ministry had sought 120,000 tonnes of feed...
CHICAGO, July 16 (Xinhua) : Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell yesterday as US Fed Chair Janet Yellen started to testify before the Senate Banking Committee. The most active gold contract for August...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 (Reuters) : Yahoo Inc cannot seem to part ways with Alibaba. And with Yahoo's business continuing to deteriorate, some Wall Street analysts say it is hard to blame the company. Yahoo said on Tuesday that it...
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