Our Correspondent PABNA, Oct 11: Four persons including two children and a housewife were killed in separate incidents at two upazilas in Pabna in last 24 hours. Two children drowned in a pond at Gohailbari village in Pabna Sadar upazila...
Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Oct 11: Rapid Action Battalion RAB-5 members of Joypurhat camp arrested 2 drug traders with 18 lakh 56 thousand Indian contraband drugs and livestock medicine from Hakimpur of Dinajpur and Sadar upazila of Joypurhat district on Tuesday...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Oct 11: Although cold storage owners duly informed the farmers and traders to take release of their stock of potato within October 15, the traders are reluctant to take delivery of their potatoes at this time as...
RANGAMATI, Oct 11 (UNB): A man was killed and 10 others were injured when a bus plunged into a road side ditch at TV Center area in Rangamati on Monday. The deceased was identified as Rahamat, 32. Police said, the...
Our Correspondent GOPALGANJ, Oct 11: Emission of black smoke from spurious fuel used in motor vehicles poses a serious threat to public health in the district. The open sale of spurious fuel like diesel, petrol, kerosene, mobil by a section...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 11 (BSS): Railway authority in Chapainawabganj recovered its 13.88 katha land from the clutches of Chapainawabganj District Bus Owners Association on Tuesday. Divisional Land Officer of Bangladesh Railway, Rajshahi Kiron Chandra Roy and Executive Magistrate Subrata Pal along...
The National Conference on Promotion of Apprenticeships in Bangladesh will be held in Dhaka today (Wednesday) in the city. The conference will provide participants with an overview of Bangladesh's current apprenticeship system, provide an update of the current Technical and...
NEW DELHI, Oct 11: The Indian economy will achieve near 8 per cent growth in the current financial year despite the global slowdown, while lowering inflation remains a challenge in the short term, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a...
KABUL, Oct 9 (AFP): An Afghan woman MP was in a critical condition Sunday, her doctor said, after entering the eighth day of a hunger strike to protest against her expulsion from parliament over alleged vote fraud. Semin Barakzai, one...
SYDNEY, Oct 9 (AFP): A female soldier serving with Australian forces in Afghanistan was allegedly sexually assaulted on a military base, officials said Sunday, just days before the release of a report into defence abuse cases. The soldier, whose rank...
CAIRO, Oct 11 (AP): Egypt's ruling military has condemned a surge in deadly violence as an attempt to undermine the state, and warned it will act to safeguard the peace following a night of clashes that drew in Christians, Muslims...
TEHRAN, Oct 11 (AFP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out Tuesday against the weekend flogging of a student convicted of insulting him, saying other, more powerful people criticised him with impunity, the presidency website said. "Since influential people can freely...
TRIPOLI, Oct 11 (AFP): Clothes hang to dry and boots lie on the doorstep of pretty houses: the luxurious quarters of the Gaddafi family in Tripoli have been converted into a five-star headquarters by a soldiers of Libya's new regime....
BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (AF): Two bomb attacks minutes apart in west Baghdad Monday evening killed at least nine people and wounded more than 20 others, security officials said, amid nationwide violence that left 12 dead. The first explosion occurred at...
HONG KONG, Oct 11 (AFP): Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the story that the Second World War had started, turned 100 in Hong Kong Monday as a memoir of her is near completion. The centenarian was joined...
YANGON, Oct 11 (AFP): Myanmar announced a mass prisoner amnesty Tuesday, raising hope for the imminent release of hundreds of political detainees in what would be a major sign of change in the authoritarian state. More than 6,300 prisoners will...
GENEVA, OCT 11 (AP): The U.N. human rights office has called on Israel to stop attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says Israel has a...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11 (AFP): A Pakistani court Tuesday suspended a policeman's death sentence pending his appeal against conviction for killing a provincial governor who wanted to reform controversial blasphemy laws. The Islamabad High Court held a preliminary hearing to admit...
BOGOTA, Oct 11 (AFP): Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet in Paris in the coming days on the Palestinian bid for UN recognition, Foreign Minister Ryad al-Maliki said here Tuesday. Maliki said Abbas would depart...
THIMPHU, Oct 11 (AFP): Bhutan's king, an Oxford graduate and "prince charming of the Himalayas", is set to marry Thursday at what promises to be an emotional moment for the 700,000 adoring subjects of his isolated nation. Jigme Khesar Namgyel...
KABUL, Oct 11 (AFP): Opium production in Afghanistan is set to rise by nearly two-thirds this year, with farmers' revenues set to soar compared to last year's harvest blighted by disease, the United Nations said Tuesday. Ten years after the...
TAIPEI, Oct 11 (AFP): Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted Tuesday that further United States arms sales to Taiwan were needed as China continued with its ambitious military modernisation plans. Rumsfeld, who considers himself "a longtime friend of Taiwan",...
Bangladeshi swimmer Palash Chowdhury, a BKSP student, earned silver medal in the "run-swim-run" of life saving event of the First South Asian Beach Games at Hambantota in Sri Lanka Monday, reports UNB. Sri Lankan competitor Shahana Rupasinghe won the gold...
Power Development Board (PDB) makes a good start in the National Bank Metropolis Premier Division Volleyball League beating Azad SC by 25-19, 25-11, 23-25, 25-18 points in the opening match at the Dhaka Volleyball Stadium in the city Tuesday, reports...
National players studded Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club advanced to the final of the Walton Women's Football League crushing Farashganj SC by 16-0 goals in the first semis at the Bangabandhu National Stadium Tuesday, reports UNB. They will play the final...
Dhaka DSA reached the super league of the Southeast Bank 22nd National Youth Hockey Championship eliminating Sherpur DSA by 11-0 goals at the Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium Tuesday, reports UNB. Three more teams--Rangpur, Dinajpur and Naogaon DSA--also qualified for...
SYDNEY, Oct 11 (AFP): Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland on Tuesday said allegations made in a London court implicating Australian players in match-fixing were baseless claims made by a person of "dubious repute". The details emerged as Mazher Mahmood, the...
NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (AFP): The International Cricket Council's plans to hold the inaugural world Test championships in 2013 came unstuck on Tuesday over the commercial viability of the event. The ICC's executive board, which met in Dubai over the...
KARACHI, Oct 11 (AFP): Pakistan on Tuesday announced it will employ the Decision Review System (DRS) during its one-day series against Sri Lanka later this month and against England early next year. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) release said it...
Syed Mamun of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) bagged double crown in Table Tennis competition of Jatiya Press Club (JPC) held Tuesday at JPC auditorium, reports BSS. Jatiya Press Club is holding sports competition among its members in celebration of the...
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