Officials in California have approved fines of up to $500 (£292) a day for residents who waste water, as the state faces its worst drought in nearly four decades. The measures have been introduced to stop water being wasted on...
The arrest on obscenity allegations of a woman who makes art based on her vagina has sparked debate in Japan. Tokyo-based artist Megumi Igarashi, 42, was arrested on Saturday for sending data that could be used to create 3D models...
Sierra Leone captain Ibrahim Kargbo is among 15 players and officials who have been suspended indefinitely over allegations of match-fixing. The three other players implicated are Ibrahim Koroma, Samuel Barlay and Christian Caulker. Three referees and another eight officials, including...
Mercedes have confirmed Nico Rosberg has signed a ‘multi-year contract extension’ with the Silver Arrows. The German currently tops the standings from team-mate Lewis Hamilton heading into his home grand prix at Hockenheim. ‘It has been a difficult road to...
England bowler James Anderson has been charged with misconduct by the International Cricket Council following claims he abused and pushed India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja during the first Test. The incident is alleged to have happened immediately after the teams left...
Bath captain Stuart Hooper says missing out on a trophy last season will inspire the team to improve this term. The Rec outfit failed to reach the Premiership play-offs after losing to Harlequins on the final day of the regular...
British number two Johanna Konta was beaten by sixth seed Kurumi Nara in the first round of the Istanbul Cup. The 23-year-old slumped to a 6-2 6-0 defeat against the Japanese player, who failed to win a set in the...
Tiger Woods insists winning is his only goal at this week's Open Championship despite another injury-hit season. Woods, who won the last of his three Opens at Royal Liverpool in 2006, had surgery in March for a back injury that...
A Dhaka court has sent former vice chancellor of Stamford University MA Hannan Feroz to six days in police custody. Feroz was arrested from his Dhanmondi home on Wednesday early morning over the attack on Awami League leader AKM Enamul...
Welsh 800m runner Gareth Warburton is out of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after being charged with anti-doping rule violations. The 31-year-old was fourth at the Games in Delhi in 2010 and was part of Team GB at London 2012....
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed charge-sheet against 18 people, including Sohel Rana, the owner of multi-storey Rana Plaza which housed five garment factories when it caved in, in the Rana Plaza collapse case. ACC deputy director M Mofidul...
Alberto Contador says he has been told it is ‘almost impossible’ for him to compete in the Vuelta a Espana after breaking a leg on the Tour de France. The Spaniard, one of the pre-race favorites for Le Tour, withdrew...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has failed to achieve the revised target of income tax for 2013-14 fiscal for the first time in last four years. The shortfall in income tax collection is around Tk 10.0 billion, NBR sources said...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Wednesday inaugurated the domestic flight of US-Bangla Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The flights of the airlines on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Jessore routes will, however, start operating on Thursday. Addressing the...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said all the highways and roads across the country will be made fit for vehicular movement within the next three days. He made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting the Dhaka-Bypass road...
Bengali film legend Suchitra Sen’s ancestral home in Pabna has been finally freed from the clutches of the Imam Ghazali Institute after a more than three-decade tussle. District Administration officials led by Land Officer and Executive Magistrate Shamim Ara Rini...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim Wednesday advised BNP to organise it keeping cool head for the next general election. They should prepare themselves for the parliamentary elections to be held in 2019,” he said, according to a news agency. Nasim, also...
Clarifying India’s grant to Bangladesh in the new budget, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka Wednesday said the Indian government attaches the highest importance to its relations with Bangladesh. In response to a question about the provision for grant to...
A BNP leader alleges the government syndicate is manipulating prices during Ramadan. The BNP has alleged that the prices of essential commodities have gone up during Ramadan due to the ‘manipulation’ by a syndicate of ruling party-backed businessmen. “The government...
Garment workers Wednesday demanded paying their salaries, dues and Eid bonus before the 26th of Ramadan as fixed by the government. The demand was made at a human chain programme arranged by Textile Garments Workers Federation in front of the...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology Ministry Wednesday suggested the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) to take steps so that safe food can be made available for people. It also asked the BCSIR to innovate...
Stephen Brown of Reuters from Berlin | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
It has taken a quarter of a century longer than hoped but Berlin is now glimpsing the prosperity that was supposed to land in its lap after the Wall came down in 1989 and it was restored as the jubilant...
Alexei Anishchuk and Daniel Trotta of Reuters | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to help revive Cuba's struggling offshore oil exploration last week at the start of a six-day tour of Latin America as Russia aims to reassert its influence on the communist-ruled island. Putin was joined in...
Assuring of a post-Eid peaceful movement, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday warned that they will come up with a counter reply if the government tries to block their protest programme. Addressing an Iftar party, she also said a fresh...
Gavin Jones of Reuters from Seriana Valley (Italy) | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Italy has fallen behind two groups of rivals in recent years: high-tech, high-end competitors in countries such as Germany and the United States, and low-end producers in places like China, Bangladesh and Turkey. The best place to see the latter...
Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
A major speech by Iran's Supreme Leader has limited the ability of the Iranian delegation at high-level nuclear talks to make concessions with six world powers and this could scuttle chances for Tehran to reach an accord to end sanctions,...
Stuart Grudgings of Reuters from Kuala Lumpur | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Deepa Subramaniam would not let go of her son, clinging to five-year-old Mithran's leg even as the car into which he had been bundled began to accelerate. The 30-year-old, a Hindu in Muslim-majority Malaysia, says she was dragged along the...
Frank Jack Daniel of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Shanghai looks set to become the headquarters of a development bank being launched by the BRICS emerging market nations, despite fears by some members of the group that China could hijack the bank to serve its interests. Brazil, China, India,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, July 15: Jhenidah Technical Training Centre (TTC) is conducting activities with backdated equipment, accommodation crisis, manpower shortage and insufficient budget for raw materials, electricity-telephone-internet bills and others. Furthermore, teachers and employees have not been getting their salaries and allowances...
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