England's women's cricket team have signed their first standalone sponsorship agreement. The ECB will not disclose the value of the two-year deal with Kia Motors. But it says the commercial arrangement for the England women's team is a ‘historic’ moment....
Banking giant Citigroup will pay $7bn (£4bn) to US authorities to settle an investigation into risky sub-prime mortgages. Citigroup will pay $4bn (£bn) to the Department of Justice and $2.5bn for ‘consumer relief’. Consumer relief includes investment in affordable homes...
British drug firm Shire is recommending a takeover offer from US rival AbbVie after its most recent offer of £53.20 ($91.05) per share. The board of the UK pharmaceutical company says it will be recommending the offer to shareholders. The...
Dhaka bus operators have started selling advance tickets for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. ‘There are adequate tickets, everybody will get ticket,’ Md Zaman, an employee of a transport company said. A salesman at Shaymali Paribahan's Kalyanpur ticket counter, Md Nadim,...
Sportswear giant Adidas has signed a £750m deal to make Manchester United's kit for 10 years from next season. It comes after US rivals Nike decided to end their association at the end of the coming 2014-15 season. Nike have...
Argentine police have clashed with rioters in the capital Buenos Aires after the country's defeat to Germany in the football World Cup final. Thousands of people had earlier gathered at the city's Obelisk monument to party despite the result. However,...
JESSORE: Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) has been declared closed for an indefinite period following the killing of a student in an attack allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on the university campus Monday, according to a...
Expressing his dissatisfaction over the internet speed and quality, ICT adviser to the Prime Minister Sajeeb Wazed Joy Monday said the government will go for providing 1mbps internet connection at union level across the country very soon, according to a...
The education ministry has asked Transparency International Bangladesh to provide it the details of its recent report that allegedly found corruption centering private universities. In a letter sent to TIB Monday the ministry said specific information was needed as it...
JOHANNESBURG: Nadine Gordimer, a South African author who won the Nobel Prize for novels that explored the cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa, has died at the age of 90, her family said Monday. Gordimer, who won the...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday slammed Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad saying that he is a glaring example of distorted politics. In a statement, he also said the history Ershad narrated in a newspaper article was...
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RAJSHAHI, July 13: Due to cultivation of hybrid varieties of mangoes elsewhere in the district, both by the government and the private entrepreneurs, the fate of indigenous, superb varieties of mangoes is at a stake. In hundreds of acres of...
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PABNA, July 13: A schoolboy was hacked to death in Ratanpur village of Faridpur upazila under the district on early Sunday. Police recovered the body of the victim on Sunday afternoon. The victim Md Sajib Hossain, 12, son of Afaz...
FARIDPUR, July 13 (BSS): A silent revolution has taken place in weaving industry when a handful of weavers have successfully ventured to make 'Jamdani Muslin' sarees both for domestic consumption and also for exporting and thus Faridpur has curved out...
SUNAMGANJ, July 13 (BSS): Patient Abu Bakkar 45 and microbus driver Kader Miah died on the spot and three others were injured when a patient carrying microbus plunged in to road side ditch at Dhamudarpi village area on Sylhet-Sunamganj highway...
RANGPUR, July 13 (BSS): Speakers at an orientation course today asked the local medical practitioners (LMPs) for ensuring nutrition of the pregnant women, mothers and babies to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in rural areas. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under...
NARSINGDI, July 13 (BSS): The government has allocated 1,343.450 tonnes of rice for the distressed and ultra poor people of the district to assist them in celebrating the holy Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr festival under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme....
KHULNA, July 13 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here today resolved that the electronic media can play a vital role in preventing trafficking in children, early marriage and using them in illicit drug trading. The speakers also stressed the need...
MYMENSINGH, July 13 (UNB): A couple was slaughtered by some miscreants in a house in Akua area in the district town on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Abdul Haq, a retired government officer and his wife Raihatunnessa. Kotwali...
GAIBANDHA, July 13 (BSS): A businessman along with his employee received bullet-injury by some miscreants on Saturday night while they were returning homes from Gobindaganj upazila town in the district. The victims are identified as shop owner Arun Chandra Saha...
GAIBANDHA, July 13 (BSS): A businessman along with his employee received bullet-injury by some miscreants on Saturday night while they were returning homes from Gobindaganj upazila town in the district. The victims are identified as shop owner Arun Chandra Saha...
BOGRA, July 13 (UNB): A minor boy who was kidnapped 10 days ago was found dead at Kosaigari village in Adamdighi upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mushfiqur,3, son of Bipul Pramanik of the village. Adamdighi thana officer-in-charge...
DINAJPUR, July 13 (UNB): A man has been killed allegedly over his extramarital affair with a woman in Ekbarpur area of Sadar upazila. The deceased was identified as Abdus Samad, 45, son of late Kalimuddin of Nashipur village in the...
Minor boy drowns in Panchagarh A minor boy drowned in a pond at Prodhanpara village under Sadar upazila of Panchagarh Monday. The deceased was identified as Rishad, 3, son of Rashedul Islam of the same village. Family sources said Rishad...
BAGHDAD, July 13 (agencies): Iraq's parliament on Sunday adjourned for two days without making any progress on forming a government despite heavy pressure to do so, an MP said. Acting speaker "Mahdi al-Hafez said that there was no agreement on...
KABUL, July 13 (AP): He was only on the ground for 48 hours, but America's top diplomat John Kerry may well have helped prevent Afghanistan from sliding into another bloody ethnic war. The helicopters were waiting for the US Secretary...
LAGOS, July 13 (agencies): The head of Nigeria's Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a bombing in the capital Abuja and an attack hours later in Lagos which the authorities tried to cover up, in a video obtained by AFP...
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