TANGAIL, Feb 2 (BSS): Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident in Salonga area on Tangail-Bangabundhu Bridge Highway at Kalihati here on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Rifat, 14, son of Abdul Halim and Imrul, 17, son of...
GAZIPUR, Feb 2 (BSS): A father and his daughter had been killed following an explosion of a septic-tank at Tongi under the district on Saturday night. The deceased are identified as Mohammad Mostafa, 70, and his daughter Mukta, 22. Tongi...
Youth found dead in Rangpur The body of n unidentified youth was recovered under a bridge in Rangpur's Satmatha area on Saturday. Local people found the body lying under Angur Mia's bridge over Shyamsunduri canal in the morning and informed...
Mike Dolan of Reuters from London | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
When the corporate cash dam bursts, everything will be ok, right? Well, maybe. Investors betting that the past year of more than 20 per cent gains in western stock markets can be echoed, or at least sustained, through 2014 have...
David Gaffen and Francesco Canepa of Reuters from New York/London | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
A full-scale flight from emerging market assets accelerated recently, setting global shares on course for their worst week this year and driving investors to safe-haven assets including US Treasuries, the yen and gold. US stocks slumped, putting the benchmark S&P...
Sumanta Dey of Reuters from Bangalore | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
Emerging Asian economies will contribute less to global growth in 2014 than earlier expected even as their major trading partners in the West show signs of recovery, a Reuters poll showed last week. From China to India, Indonesia, Taiwan and...
PRAGUE, Feb 2 (AFP): The Czech Republic Fed Cup team will be without world number six Petra Kvitova in the first-round tie against Spain in Sevilla on February 8-9, it said on its Facebook page as she battles agianst illness....
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
No-one really expected a lasting Syrian peace deal and political solution to emerge in Switzerland over the fourth week in January. The Geneva II peace talks convened through the joint efforts of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Arab...
Abul Basher | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
The last two sentences of the monetary policy statement (MPS H2FY14) announced on January 27 for the second half of the fiscal year 2013-14 are probably the most important points to note. The sentences are: "The outcomes of the monetary...
The country's frontier seems to be very porous as far as the entry of drugs banned by the Drug Administration (DA) for reasons of safety of people's health is concerned. Officials manning the sea, land and air ports are, allegedly,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
The government reportedly has decided not to extend any help to the illegal Bangladesh workers, who have been rounded up by the Malaysian authorities recently with illegal migrant workers from other countries recently. The Bangladesh mission in Kuala Lumpur would...
Neil Ray | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
A yearly alumni reunion is an occasion for renewal of camaraderie for all learners -fresh or former - with an alma mater serving as their common fountainhead. Even teachers at the institution or department concerned are likely to be products...
The Ekushey Book Fair has secured a very special place in the heart of Bangladeshi people. Everyone, including old and young, waits enthusiastically for this book fair. Although we are not known as ardent book readers, the reading habit has...
Media reports say that even the oil-rich Middle East is exploring the possibility of bio-fuel from desert plants. Boeing, Etihad Airways and Honeywell UOP, a petroleum refiner company, are jointly conducting research to produce aviation fuel from the plants that...
All of us know that bacteria are harmful for humans but it is not true always. Although some bacteria cause many diseases, they can also save lives. There are some friendly bacteria present in the environment and researchers have been...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh is a country with enormous potential to grow faster than any other least developed countries (LDCs) of the world. Its strategic geographic location has made it an attractive destination for the ancient merchants as well as the modern multinationals....
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-02-03 00:00:00
For Bangladesh's Test cricket, January 30 was a day of unbelievable contrasts. It was the day when the arrogant move of India, Australia and England (IAE) to rob the country of its Test-playing status failed in the ICC (International Cricket...
BANGKOK, Feb 2 (AFP): Opposition protesters blocked voting at thousands of polling stations in Thailand on Sunday, triggering angry scenes in the capital over an election that plunged the strife-racked kingdom into political limbo. Despite weeks of mass street demonstrations...
KABUL, Feb 2 (AFP): Afghanistan's presidential candidates held rallies in Kabul on Sunday at the start of a campaign to elect Hamid Karzai's successor, as the killing of a frontrunner's aides highlighted the security threat to the poll. Gunmen shot...
NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (AFP): Tourists travelling to India from up to 180 countries will no longer have to queue up at their local consulates to obtain visas under reforms expected to be approved this week, local media reported Sunday....
DAMASCUS, Feb 2 (AFP): The death toll from regime airstrikes on Syria's Aleppo has risen to 85, a monitoring group said Sunday, as the conflict grinds on after 10 days of inconclusive peace talks. The latest fighting came as a...
German kidnapped in Yemen: Ministry SANAA, Feb 2: A German citizen snatched from the Yemeni capital is being held in a tribal region in the east, a foreign ministry official told AFP Sunday. The man in his 60s was kidnapped...
After a comprehensive defeat in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Mirpur, Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan believes that fielding improvement is the key to bounce back in the second Test in Chittagong, reports bdnews24.com. The second and last...
Batsman Sabbir Rahman and pace bowler Muktar Aliare likely to earn maiden call-ups to the Bangladesh Twenty20 squad, for the two-match series against Sri Lanka from February 12, reports Cricinfo. These will be Bangladesh's last matches before the World Twenty20,...
SYDNEY, Feb 2 (AFP): England's sorry tour of Australia finally ended with a whimper Sunday-a crushing 84-run defeat to give the hosts a clean sweep of the three-game Twenty20 series. The Australians, with man-of-the-match George Bailey smashing an unbeaten 49...
TOKYO, Feb 2 (AFP): Japan advanced Sunday to the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time under the modern format, albeit in anti-climactic fashion after Canada's Frank Dancevic retired from his match with Kei Nishikori. Canada's injury jinx continued when...
Little Friends Club beat Prantik Krira Chakra by 2-0 goal in the Kool Metropolis 2nd Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur Sunday, reports UNB. With the day's result, Little FC secured 9...
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