KANDAHAR, Apr 25 (agencies): Insurgents freed hundreds of prisoners, including Taliban commanders, after tunneling into an Afghan jail Monday, officials said, in a serious security setback ahead of the planned start of foreign troop withdrawals. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief...
Abdul BayesTHE aim of all developmental drives, in Bangladesh and beyond, is to reduce hunger and malnutrition that afflict a vast number of people. Hunger, a general term related to not getting enough to eat, is possibly the worst form...
TRIPOLI, Apr 25 (Reuters): NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life. Firefighters were still working to...
THE state of thousands of rootless children living on the streets of urban centres, including Dhaka, is, to say the least, appalling. Two separate reports, prepared by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and the Ministry of Social Welfare...
KANO, (Nigeria), Apr 25 (AFP): Three bomb blasts have hit a city in northeastern Nigeria, leaving a number of people killed and wounded in an attack believed to have been carried out by an Islamist sect, police said Monday. The...
Saquib AhmedBangladesh was ranked 137th in a list of 159 countries about a couple of years back by the Geneva-based United Nations Agency for Information and Communications Technology that publishes report on the state of information and communication technology (ICT)...
BANGKOK, Apr 25 (agencies): Cambodia accused Thailand Monday of damaging ancient jungle temples at the centre of their bloodiest fighting since a bitter border dispute flared up almost three years ago. Twelve soldiers have died and tens of thousands of...
The Child Parliament (CP) is a platform for young people from 12 up to 18 years of age, and is meant to create leaders. Children from all strata of society are represented - from rural and urban areas, school going...
JUBA, (Sudan), Apr 25 (AFP): A top militia chief has surrendered in south Sudan after clashes that killed more than 160 people, the army said Monday, as the soon to be independent nation reels from a string of bloody battles....
Health care service is a basic human right and the government is responsible for ensuring this service for its people. But Bangladesh is lagging behind in this sector due to corruption and mismanagement. And it is a critical problem in...
AMMAN, Apr 25 (agencies): Syrian troops backed by tanks, snipers and knife-wielding security forces stormed the southern city of Daraa early Monday, killing at least five people in a clear escalation of the crackdown on a five-week uprising against President...
A front page news report on electronic textbooks was published in a local English daily recently. It was yet another example of discrimination against the poor. In this case, poor students who need free textbooks will suffer; whereas the rich...
STRASBOURG, (France), Apr 25 (AFP): Anti-nuclear protests were to be held along the Franco-German border Monday, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima. Several Easter Monday protests were to...
BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug 03 (AP): Colombia defeated Mali 2-0 on Tuesday to become the first team to win its openng two matches and guarantee itself a place in the knock-out phase of the Under-20 World Cup. Jose Valencia scored in...
MINSK, Apr 25: The Belarusian health ministry says the death toll from a subway bombing in Minsk two weeks ago has risen to 14. The ministry said a 41-year-old man died in the hospital early Monday. The blast on April...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Aug 3: BSTI -Khulna conducted a drive at Boyra Cold Storage of the city Tuesday and seized of formalin mixed 2500 kgs dates and 100 kgs of grapes. Tk. 20,000 was fined to the owner of the commodities....
CULIACAN, (Mexico), Apr 25: Mexian brothers face the gallows in Malaysia, standing trial Wednesday for allegedly working in a factory where police found $15 million in methamphetamine. If convicted, they face Malaysia's mandatory sentence of death by hanging for drug...
SATKHIRA, Aug 3 (BSS): A task force raided Chalta area under Kaliganj thana of Satkhira district on Monday morning and recovered smuggled Indian Sarees. Acting on a secret information a task force comprising BGB, police and local administration led by...
BEIJING, Apr 25: Former President Jimmy Carter said on Monday he hopes to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his son and presumed heir during a visit this week that will concentrate on Pyongyang's nuclear program and foodaid needs....
MOULVIBAZAR, Aug 3 (UNB): A mobile court here on Tuesday fined owners of two grocery stores for selling essential commodities at exorbitant prices. RAB sources said owners of Janani Enterprise and Nasir Traders at a market in Srimongal upazila were...
LONDON, Apr 25: As preparations step up for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, an opinion poll Monday showed two-thirds of British people believe the country is better off because of the royal family. However, only 37% said...
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Nilur Kahmar village in Nageshwari upazila Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Lucky, 25, wife of Azim Uddin of the village. Police quoting local people said following a quarrel with...
N'DJAMENA, Apr 25: Voting began Monday in the first round of Chad's presidential election which the incumbent Idriss Deby Itno is virtually assured of winning after his three main rivals boycotted the polls -AFP
Police arrested five highway robbers including a ringleader at Shimultoli diversion on Sherpur-Jamalpur highway early Monday while taking preparation to commit robbery. Police nabbed notorious ringleader of Morakandi area of sadar upazila Ajad alias ZKalu Dakat,30 and his associates-Mobarak Ali,22,...
WASHINGTON, Apr 25: The United States held hundreds of inmates who were either totally innocent or low-risk for years and released dozens of high-risk Guantanamo inmates, according to leaked classified files. The new leaks reveal that inmates were held without...
A mobile court here on Monday awarded a youth one month imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl. Police said Sumon Hawlader gave bad proposal to Shapla Akter, daughter of Liton Hawlader of Dabhit Co. Para in front of Hawkers' market...
NEW DELHI, Apr 25: Indian police on Monday arrested Suresh Kalmadi, the top organiser of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, following a probe into allegations of widespread corruption surrounding the event. -AFP
A court here on Monday sentenced 13 people to different terms of jails-from five to nine years- for committing robbery at Jabra village in Gheor upazila in 2008. The convicts are Raja Mia, Rezaul Karim, Bachchu Mia, Alauddin, Lavlu, Mostafa,...
SHICHIGAHAMAMACHI, (Japan), Apr 25 : Soldiers prodded marshy ground with slender poles and cleared mounds of rubble by hand Monday as 25,000 troops mounted Japan's largest search yet for the bodies of nearly 12,000 people missing in last month's earthquake...
Outraged by persistent power outages, local people attacked two officials of Sarsha palli bidyut office, leaving them injured Tuesday morning. The injured were-Mafijur Rahman, Deputy General Manager and Shariful Islam, Assistant General Manager of the power office. Local people said...
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