Our Correspondent KHULNA, Nov 16: Additional District and Session Judge Court- 3 Tuesday sentenced two brothers to death and their wives to life imprisonment in a farmer' murder case. The judge also fined both wives Tk. 10,000 each and in...
TANGAIL, Nov 16 (UNB): An activist of an outlawed party was killed following internal conflict at Beel Muril Guchhu village in Sadar upazila in Tangail Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Mobarak Hossain, 40, activist of Purbo Banglar Communist...
DINAJPUR, Nov 16 (UNB): A mobile court in Dinajpur on Tuesday convicted seven drug peddlers and sentenced them to different terms of imprisonment for selling and consuming drugs. BGB officer Major Muntasur Mamun Siddiqui said they launched separate drives in...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Nov 16: The Small and Medium Enterprise Foundation (SMEF) has commissioned a study on SME cluster mapping and in this connection a team of two members of a firm named 'Young Consultants' arranged a view exchange meeting...
BENAPOLE, (JESSORE), Nov 16 (UNB): A young man was stabbed to death by some miscreants in Jhalaipotty area of Jessore town Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam Sujon, 25, son of Abdus Samad of Najir Sangkarpur area...
Contraband goods recovered Coast guards recovered huge amount of contraband goods worth about Tk. 0.5 million from rejection lane of Mongla Tuesday. Coast guard source said that on information they recovered 2000 kgs of cable chain and 500 litres of...
AMMAN, Nov 16 (Reuters): Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus early Wednesday, the first such reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Members of...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Nov 16 (AFP): A major salvo of US missiles Wednesday destroyed a Pakistani Taliban base on the Afghan border, killing up to 18 militants including possible Al-Qaeda fighters, local officials said. Five US drones fired up to 10...
CANBERRA, Nov 16 (AFP): US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States did not fear China and was not trying to exclude it from the benefits of its rise, but warned Beijing must play by global rules of...
KATHMANDU, Nov 16 (AFP): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is to visit Nepal in December, the government in Kathmandu said Wednesday, marking the first visit by a leader of the world's number two economy for a decade. "Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai...
KABUL, Nov 16 (Reuters): About 2,000 Afghan community and political leaders will gather Wednesday in Kabul under tight security for four days of deliberations on the country's most pressing issues, including ties with main ally the United States. The meeting,...
MUMBAI, Nov 16 (AFP): Bollywood's golden couple, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her husband Abhishek, became proud parents for the first time Wednesday with the birth of a baby girl who joins a celebrated acting dynasty. India's normally breathless television news...
BEIJING, Nov 16 (AFP): Twenty people, 18 of them children, were killed in a head-on collision between a hugely overloaded school bus and a truck in northwestern China Wednesday, local authorities and state media said. The small nine-seater bus, from...
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters): An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader said Tuesday that Tehran was willing to share its controversial nuclear technology with neighbouring countries, suggesting it could help Turkey build an atomic power plant. The United States, European...
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (AFP): Pentagon chief Leon Panetta clashed with US lawmakers Tuesday as he defended the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq next month, with the Obama administration coming under fire for the pullout. In a charged hearing before...
CANBERRA, Nov 16 (AFP): US President Barack Obama Wednesday denied pressuring Australia to reverse a ban on selling uranium to India but said he would "watch with interest" how the issue played out. Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved to lift...
KOLKATA, Nov 16 (AFP): India strengthened their chances of winning the second Test and the series despite the West Indies' improved batting show after a first-innings collapse on the third day on Wednesday. The West Indies, dismissed for 153 in...
Bangladesh moved to the quarter final in boy's singles in the Sony Rangs 25th Bangladesh International ITF Junior Tennis Championship at Ramna National Tennis Court Complex in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. In the day's boy's singles event, Mohammad Jamil...
National cricketers will begin a weeklong training camp from tomorrow Friday in Chittagong ahead of their home series against Pakistan, reports UNB. Fifteen cricketers have been called up for the camp. They are Imrul Kayes, Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 (AFP): Asia's football body said Wednesday that six players, including Japan's Shinji Kagawa and Keisuke Honda, had been shortlisted for its coveted Player of the Year award. Others in line for the award are Iranian defender...
TOKYO, Nov 16 (AFP): Results from the World Cup women's volleyball tournament Wednesday (top three teams qualify for the London Olympics next year): USA beat China 3-2. Dominican Republic beat Serbia 3-2. Italy beat Germany 3-2. South Korea beat Algeria...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and Transcom Foods Ltd Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to organise the KFC Women's Super League that will begin on November 25 at Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the...
DUBAI, Nov 16 (AFP): Bangladesh can tour Pakistan in April next year but they need security clearance from the game's governing body, a top official from Bangladesh Cricket Board told the agency Wednesday. International cricket has been suspended in Pakistan...
Hosts Chittagong Division earned the 3rd outright victory in their 4th match of the Walton 13th National Cricket League beating Dhaka Division by 26 runs on the 3rd day of the four-day affairs at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong...
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia, Nov 16 (AP): Substitute Sergio Aguero's 85th-minute goal completed Argentina's comeback for a 2-1 victory over Colombia in South American World Cup qualifying Tuesday. Lionel Messi had leveled the scores in the 61st after Colombia had taken a...
Delta Life Ins postpones AGM The authorities of Delta Life Insurance have stated that due to a temporary injunction of the High Court on holding of the company's 19th annual general meeting (AGM) due for the year 2004, the authorities...
FE Report The world economic climate has worsened in the fourth quarter, as indicated by increasingly negative expectations from economic experts, according to the World Economic Survey (WES), published November 16 by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the...
Mohammad Mufazzal Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sits today (Wednesday) with the top bosses of the ministry of finance, the central bank, the securities regulator, the revenue board, the ICB and the associations of banks and insurance companies in a bid...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The state-owned commercial banks (SCBs), the corporatisation of which was merely an eyewash, are, according to media reports, experiencing liquidity shortage. The SCB that were major providers of funds to the call money market even some months...
Bangladesh will not raise any objection to the European Union (EU) move to allow duty-free access to 75 Pakistani products incorporating tariff rate quota on six garment items for a period of two years, reports BSS. "EU indicates its readiness...
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