KIEV, Nov 16 (Reuters): Ukraine and Russia have agreed the new price of Russian gas supplies, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday citing a government source, a move that could help Kiev to regain access to a $15 billion International...
Monira Munni back from Chittagong A sustainable and environment-friendly ship recycling project has been undertaken by the Ministry of Industries (MoI) to help develop country's ship- breaking industry and capacity building for sound management of hazardous materials. The ship recycling...
FE Report The fifth annual e-Asia-2011 conference and exhibition with the slogan of 'Realising Digital Nation' will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city on December 1 in a bid to reinforce technology in the regions. State Minister...
NEW DELHI, Nov 16 (AFP): India's cabinet has approved allowing foreign direct investment in the country's burgeoning pension sector in a fillip to the government's economic reform process, a spokesman said Wednesday. Global financial players have long been lobbying for...
TOKYO, Nov 16 (BBC): The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has warned that the country's economic growth may be hurt by the eurozone debt crisis, flooding in Thailand and a strong yen. It said the euro crisis was stifling demand from...
Arafat Ara Sale of Walton refrigerators grew by 30 per cent over the 11 months of this year due to the rising demand and maintenance of quality of the product in the country, officials said. "Consumers prefer purchasing our refrigerators...
NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Nov 16 (AFP): The depth of the eurozone crisis and the risk of export markets evaporating is pushing Southeast Asia to speed up creating its potentially huge common market, officials said today. At a summit this week...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 16 (BSS): A vast tracts of char land on the river bed of the Brahmaputra and the Teesta have been brought under different crops and vegetables cultivation during the Robi season. According to sources, hundreds of river eroded...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR Nov 16: The extraction of date juice has started in full swing in different parts of Rangpur district. People of the region extract juice from date trees every year during the winter. The season brings a festive...
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...
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