GOPALGANJ, Jun 19 (UNB): A ferry along with five paddy-laden trucks and two pickup vans capsized in the Madhumati River near Kalna Ferry Ghat in Kashiani upazila early Thursday. Police said when the ferry along with the vehicles and some...
Decapitated body found in Chuadanga Police recovered the decapitated body of an unidentified young man in a field at Jagannathpur village in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga Thursday morning. Damurhuda Model Police Station officer in-charge Shikder Moshiur Rahman said local farmers...
BAGHDAD, June 19 (AFP): Iraqi forces regained full control Thursday of the country's biggest oil refinery after heavy fighting with Sunni militants attempting to seize it, officials said. "The security forces are in full control of the Baiji refinery," Lieutenant...
TEHRAN, June 19 (AFP): Iran and world powers started drafting Wednesday a comprehensive nuclear agreement but still face many sticking points, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. "Today we have slowly begun to draft the final agreement... but there...
NEW DELHI, June 19 (AFP): India's new government struggled Thursday to make headway in its first foreign crisis as it tried to secure the release of 40 construction workers being held in war-torn Iraq, home to some 10,000 Indian expatriates....
KABUL, June 19 (Reuters): Four Taliban militants struck a NATO post in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Thursday, destroying dozens of trucks and sparking a gun battle with polices, Afghan officials said. The attack took place in the...
Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt has resigned, official sources said Thursday, even as the BJP denied that governors appointed by the previous government had been told to go, reports Reuters. A day after Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi quit, Dutt submitted...
YANGUN, June 19 (Reuters): A campaign to isolate Muslims living under apartheid-like conditions is gathering steam in western Myanmar, driven by Buddhist activists emboldened by the country's transition from military rule. Religious violence since 2012 has killed hundreds of Rohingya...
Spain's new king Felipe VI sworn in MADRID, June 19: Spain's new king, Felipe VI, was sworn in on Thursday in a low-key ceremony which monarchists hope will usher in a new era of popularity for the troubled royal household....
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The country's fish production has reached all time high of 3.55 million tonnes in the outgoing fiscal year (FY), 2013-14, thanks to an increase in output of Hilsa and aquaculture fish, officials and experts concerned said. The Department of Fisheries...
SINGAPORE, June 19 (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asian trade Thursday with escalating violence in Iraq sharply in focus as militants attacked the major crude producer's biggest refinery and seized more territory. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for July...
NEW DELHI, Jun 19 (PTI): Gold prices recovered Wednesday by Rs 150 to Rs 28,050 per ten gram in the national capital on emergence of buying at prevailing levels by jewellers to meet rising demand amid weakening rupee. Silver also...
CHICAGO, June 19 (Xinhua): Chicago agricultural commodities rose across the board Wednesday, led by wheat. The most active corn contract for July delivery rose 2.75 cents, or 0.63 per cent, to close at US$4.415 per bushel. July wheat gained 5.25...
PHNOM PENH, June 19 (Xinhua): Cambodia's Soma Group and Thailand's C.P. Intertrade on Thursday signed a joint-venture agreement to build a sophisticated rice milling and refining factory in the western Kampong Speu province of Cambodia. The deal was inked between...
OTTAWA, June 19 (Xinhua): A delegation of Canadian business and government representatives left for Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday to seize the moment when European Union (EU) is forced to diversify its external energy supplies because of uncertainty in Ukraine. A document...
Ukraine's President Poroshenko has declared a week-long unilateral ceasefire in fighting with pro-Russian militants. It comes a day after Mr Poroshenko held his second phone conversation this week with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, according to news agencies. The ceasefire had...
India were reeling at 119 for nine in 34.2 overs when rain interrupted proceedings for the second time in their third and final ODI against Bangladesh on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com. Stuart Binny (25) and tail-ender Umesh Yadav (0) were trying...
LEEDS, United Kingdom, June 19 (AFP): England will hope to go one wicket better when they face Sri Lanka in the second and final Test of their series at Headingley on Friday. Alastair Cook's new-look side were denied victory in...
CURITIBA, Brazil, June 19 (AFP): Ecuador and Honduras coaches Reinaldo Rueda and Luis Suarez will both face their old sides as the two group outsiders look to get their first points of the World Cup when they meet in Curitiba...
SALVADOR, Brazil, June 19 (AFP): Switzerland are trying to pile the pressure on France by claiming the underdog tag for the Alpine neighbours' World Cup Group E clash in Salvador on Friday. Both teams won their openers, with France topping...
Bangladesh is preparing to evacuate its nationals from trouble-hit Iraq, “if necessary”. Minister for Expatriates' Welfare & Overseas Employment Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has said they had already done “preliminary works” in this regard. He, however, said that government has no...
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