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Toyota Q4 operating profit down 52pc

2011-05-12 00:00:00

TOKYO, May 11 (Reuters): Toyota Motor Corp posted a 52-per cent fall in quarterly operating profit Wednesday and gave no annual forecasts, as expected, as it struggles to measure the scope of the disruption to production after the March 11...

'Digital signature can remove service delivery obstacles'

2011-05-12 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, May 11 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong seminar here today said various obstacles relating to the public service deliveries and normal livelihood could be removed through substantial promotion of digital signature system. Likewise, they also viewed that the existing...

IG Prison visits Khulna jail

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Our Correspondent KHULNA, May 11: The jails of the country will be turned into reformatories and that training, rehabilitation and welfare fund to be formed for the prisoners are under process. Besides, a meditation programme is also being implemented for...

5 jailed for violating woman in Jhalakati

2011-05-12 00:00:00

JHALAKATI, May 11 (UNB): A tribunal Monday sentenced five people to five years imprisonment each for trying to violate a woman. The convicts are Manik Khan, Jahid Hossain alias Shaju, M Wahid, Tiger Monir and Tutul Gazi of Rajapur Upazila...

Stern actions against criminals in Rangpur div ordered

2011-05-12 00:00:00

RANGPUR, May 11 (BSS): Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Rangpur Range Binoy Krishna Bala has ordered Police to take stern actions against the criminals for further improving law and order situation in Rangpur division. He directed police to conducted duties...

Student killed in football match clash

2011-05-12 00:00:00

KHAGRACHRI, May 11 (BSS): Rubel Hossain, a student of class nine of Guimara High School under Ramghar Upazila was killed in a clash of a football match at Hatimura village under Ramgar Upazila in the hilly districton Tuesday. Local people...

Lightning kills one in Benapole

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentJESSORE, May 11: An elderly woman died on the spot as lightning struck her during a nor'wester at Baroanchra under Benapole port police station, Jessore Wednesday morning. The dead was identified as Asia Khatun (50), wife of Late Shahadat...

Nazim Uddin obtains PhD

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentNATORE, May 11: Assistant Professor Nazim Uddin obtained a PhD degree from Jahangirnagar University. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Research Reactor". His doctoral research supervisor was Dr. SM Azharul Islam of dept. of physics in Jahangirnagar University...

Red Crescent Day observed in Gopalganj

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, May 11: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Day-2011 was observed with a befitting manner in Gopalganj, recently. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Gopalganj district unit organised elaborate programme to mark the day. Hoisting the national & Red crescent...

Nor'wester lashes 60 villages in Pabna

2011-05-12 00:00:00

PABNA, May 10 (UNB) : Tornado tattered 60 villages in 5 unions of Bera Upazila and two others unions in other upazilas on the bank of Jamuna, leaving over 100 injured Tuesday. The injured were admitted to different hospitals of...

Hemp trader gets 2 years' jail

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A mobile court headed by NDC Natore and Executive Magistrate Md. Rezaul Karim arrested one hemp peddler Jamal Uddin ( 25) with 3 packets of hemp from his residence and sentenced him to 2 years term of imprisonment Tuesday evening....

Farmer killed in road accident

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A farmer was killed when his power tiller plunged into a roadside ditch near Sharsha Bazar at Sharsha Upazila of Jessore Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Oliar Rahman (40), son of Rajab Ali of Nijampur village of the upazila.Police said...

Extremist suspect held

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Police have arrested an alleged leader of underground Biplabi Communist Party (BCP) in possession of a gun and five bullets at Pratappur village under Sadar Upazila of Jhenidah. Jhenaidah police superintendent Mohammad Rejaul Karim told the news agency that a...

Housewife killed for dowry

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband for dowry at Para village in Domar Upazila of Nilphamari early Tuesday.The deceased was identifies as Putul (25), wife of Dulal Hossain of the village.Police said Dulal married Putul nine...

Youth gets six months jail

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A mobile court of Bogra Tuesday convicted a youth and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for teasing a college girl.The convict was identified as Shaheb Ali (24), son of Golam Rabbani of Bhutbari village in Dhunat Upazila. Police said...

UN chief calls for ceasefire in Libya***

2011-05-12 00:00:00

TRIPOLI, May 11 (agencies): U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for an "immediate, verifiable ceasefire" in Libya where rebels are fighting to end Muammar Gaddafi's 41 years in power. Ban was speaking in Geneva after talking with Libya's Prime Minister...

Troops kill protester in south Yemen

2011-05-12 00:00:00

SANAA, May 11 (AFP): Yemen's security forces opened fire Wednesday on anti-regime protesters in the city of Taez killing one and wounding five, medics said, as Gulf states urged Yemenis to press on with a transition plan. Wednesday's death brought...

Tanks shell Syrian city

2011-05-12 00:00:00

AMMAN, May 11 (Reuters): Army tanks shelled a residential district in Homs on Wednesday, said a rights campaigner in Syria's third city which has emerged as the most populous center of defiance against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. "Homs is shaking...

Two Swedish men jailed for life over Philippine cybersex den

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Young women and girls are often forced to work as cybersex chat girls, reports BBC. Two Swedish men, arrested in 2009, have been jailed for life for running a cybersex operation in the Philippines. A court in the southern Philippines...

Yemeni Qaeda chief vows jihad will intensify

2011-05-12 00:00:00

DUBAI, May 11 (AFP): The leader of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch has warned that jihad will become more "intense and harmful" following the slaying of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, SITE monitoring group reported Wednesday. Nasir al-Wahishi, leader Al-Qaeda in...

Kerry heads for Pakistan to soothe fury over bin Laden raid

2011-05-12 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, May11: Senator John Kerry will travel to Pakistan in coming days to put relations "on the right track" after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a surprise Navy SEALs raid, but he is likely to face fury from...

Calls for mass Egypt protest after sectarian violence

2011-05-12 00:00:00

CAIRO, May 11: Egyptian pro-democracy activists have called for nationwide "unity" protests amid fears of widespread sectarian unrest following the latest clashes between Muslims and Christians. Activists are calling on the country's Christians and Muslims to come out on Friday...

India's top court refuses to re-open Bhopal gas case

2011-05-12 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, May 11: India's Supreme Court turned down Wednesday a government demand to re-open the case into the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and hand harsher sentences to seven men convicted of negligence. -AFP Thai opposition politician shot ahead of...

BANGKOK, May 11 (AFP): A Thai opposition politician close to fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra was shot in an attack which the government said

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Wednesday appeared to be politically-motivated with an election looming. -AFP

Hemp trader gets 2 years' jail

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A mobile court headed by NDC Natore and Executive Magistrate Md. Rezaul Karim arrested one hemp peddler Jamal Uddin ( 25) with 3 packets of hemp from his residence and sentenced him to 2 years term of imprisonment Tuesday evening....

Farmer killed in road accident

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A farmer was killed when his power tiller plunged into a roadside ditch near Sharsha Bazar at Sharsha Upazila of Jessore Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Oliar Rahman (40), son of Rajab Ali of Nijampur village of the upazila.Police said...

Extremist suspect held

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Police have arrested an alleged leader of underground Biplabi Communist Party (BCP) in possession of a gun and five bullets at Pratappur village under Sadar Upazila of Jhenidah. Jhenaidah police superintendent Mohammad Rejaul Karim told the news agency that a...

Housewife killed for dowry

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband for dowry at Para village in Domar Upazila of Nilphamari early Tuesday.The deceased was identifies as Putul (25), wife of Dulal Hossain of the village.Police said Dulal married Putul nine...

Youth gets six months jail

2011-05-12 00:00:00

A mobile court of Bogra Tuesday convicted a youth and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for teasing a college girl.The convict was identified as Shaheb Ali (24), son of Golam Rabbani of Bhutbari village in Dhunat Upazila. Police said...

B'desh League Sheikh Jamal thrash Ctg Abahani

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club crushed Chittagong Abahani Limited by 6-0 goal in the lone match of the GrameenPhone Bangladesh League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. With the day's result, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club...