Twin bombs planted on a train killed one person and wounded 14 others in the southern Indian port of Chennai Thursday, the latest attack during ongoing national elections, officials said. The low-intensity blasts occurred in carriages of an overnight train...
The pound has hit a near five-year high against the dollar after a survey suggested that UK manufacturing grew faster than expected in April. Sterling hit $1.6921, before falling back to $1.6906, and against the euro it rose 0.1 per...
Russia has filed a dispute challenging the European Union's energy market regulations, saying they violate international trade rules. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says Russia's case takes aim at an EU policy that bans suppliers from owning transit facilities such...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 35 people, including women and children, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border at Benapole, Jessore on Thursday morning. Commander Farid Uddin of BGB battalion 23 said acting on a...
Antibiotic resistance -- when bacteria change so antibiotics no longer work in people who need them to treat infections -- is now a major threat to public health worldwide, according to a new report of the World Health Organization (WHO)....
The Jamaican government has announced it is scrapping controversial plans for a tax on bank withdrawals. The measure, which was to have been part of the country's 2014-15 budget, had prompted widespread criticism because of its perceived unfairness. Finance Minister...
The stock market is opening little changed as investors absorb news about the jobs market and corporate deals. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 14 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 16,595 as of 9:44 am Eastern time Thursday. The...
Bangladesh cricket head coach Shane Jurgensen spoke in favor of his resignation decision saying that the decision to quit is not an emotional one. Jurgensen disagreed with the comment ‘emotional decision’ made by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) directors Jalal Yunus...
Police have recovered the body of a middle-aged man on the Mirpur end of the Mirpur-Airport flyover. The man, apparently in a good physical condition, was stripped of clothes. Cantonment Police Station OC Atiqur Rahman said the body bore several...
Apparently holding BNP responsible for unleashing the recent secret killings, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon the BNP chief to shun the movement of clandestine attacks and return to the path of normal movement. "Why the country's people...
The historic May Day was observed in the country on Thursday as elsewhere across the world with a fresh vow to establish the rights of workers. The May Day, also known as International Workers’ Solidarity Day, commemorates the historic uprising...
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at a busy checkpoint in central Afghanistan, killing at least 13 people on Thursday, an official said. The Taliban insurgents quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. Six police were killed along with seven...
Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country. The move, announced in a decree, came as pro-Russia militants seized the regional prosecutor's office in the eastern city of...
Malaysia Airlines has asked relatives of passengers on board flight MH370 to leave the hotel accommodation it is providing and return to their homes. It is closing the family assistance centres set up after the plane vanished on March 8...
Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of killing and forced disappearance, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Thursday said people are anxious and panicked as they have no security. “Everyone is scared and no one has peace in their...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board shifted the Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) venue from Fatullah to BKSP grounds No 3 and 4 in Savar on Thursday. The third round, four-day matches, first-class cricket league will now be held on May 3 instead...
RANGPUR, Apr 30 (BSS): Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu said cost-free health services are being provided to poor mothers, pregnant women and newborn babies for reducing maternal and child deaths in the district. The RCC...
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JHENIDAH, Apr 30: It has been 127 years since workers in United States of America (USA) demonstrated together at the Haymarket in Chicago to press homer their charter of demands, including an eight-hour workday. However, all is not rosy with...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-01 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Apr 30: A bumper production of sweet pumpkin has been achieved in Nilphamari. The farmers are cultivating the vegetable commercially both in the highlands and sandy char (shoal) areas across the district. Farmer sources said 1200 to 1500 pumpkins...
MYMENSINGH, Apr 30 (BSS): Jute farmers of the district are showing keen interest to cultivate jute during the current season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target to cultivate jute on 10,000 hectares of land with the production...
SATKHIRA, Apr 30 (BSS): A minor girl was killed in a road accident in Makundrampur Choumuhani area under Kaliganj upazila here on Tuesday. The dead was identified as Provat Bala, 7, daughter of Sukumar Bala at Shrirampur village of the...
RU Correspondent | 2014-05-01 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Apr 30: Snatchers stabbed two Rajshahi University (RU) students critically injuring one of them on Tuesday night at Binodpur Bazar area near the university. The victims were identified as Saiful Islam and Mahbub Alam, both third- year student...
BAGHDAD, Apr 30 (agencies) Iraqis headed to the polls Wednesday in their first national election since US forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeking a third term amid rising violence. Iraq's western province of Anbar...
BEIRUT, Apr 30 (AP): Syrian activists say a government airstrike has hit a school in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least nine people, including three children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local Aleppo Media...
KABUL, Apr 30 (AFP): Afghan forces repulsed an assault by hundreds of militants, many from across the border in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, in the biggest clashes since the presidential election almost four weeks ago. NATO air support was called...
BANGKOK, Apr 30 (AFP): Thailand Wednesday set new elections for July 20 to try to end a deadly six-month political crisis, even as legal challenges threaten to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra out of office. The nation, riven by years...
Sharif visits London as Britain urged to cut Pakistan aid LONDON, Apr 30: British aid to Pakistan should be cut unless there is proof the funds help stop Islamic extremism, a report by lawmakers said Wednesday as Prime Minister Nawaz...
Bangladesh Captain Mushfiqur Rahim expresses the hope Shane Jurgensen will overturn his decision to resign as head coach. But he hasn't gone into more detail since he is bound by a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) edict not to speak about...
Five players jointly lead the Open Group of Mohammedan International School Chess Championship securing full two points after the second round matches at the Club Pavilion in Motijheel Wednesday, reports UNB. The leaders are: FM Mohammad Fahad Rahman, Rafshan Bin...
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