YANGON, Mar 30 (AFP): Myanmar Wednesday swore in Thein Sein as its new president, an official source said, completing an official transfer of power from the ruling junta to a nominally civilian government. Myanmar's military government has been officially dissolved,...
KABUL, Mar 30 (AP): Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th...
ABIDJAN, March 30 : Fighting broke out Wednesday between forces loyal to internationally recognised Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara and his rival's troops in a town 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro. "There has been shooting for...
SHENZHEN, Mar 30: China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines, and days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty. The three, two...
DUBAI, Mar 30: A Dubai court has jailed an Italian for four months for sexually molesting a woman who was drugged and drunk on a flight from Jakarta, an Emirati newspaper reported on Wednesday. The National said the court heard...
PESHAWAR, Mar 30: Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber riding on a motorbike blew himself up near a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. "The bomber came on a motorbike and detonated...
The vested property will be returned to the affected people soon for the interest of nation, said Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira Wednesday, reports UNB. "The government is going to pass an act aiming at returning the vested properties to...
Home Minister Sahara Khatun Wednesday said gradually all the city roads will be rickshaw-free. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the parliamentarians of Dhaka at her ministry, she said they decided to uphold the decision of gradually withdrawing all...
The Shibaloy upazila administration in Manikganj culled 6,000 bird-flu infected hens and 29,000 eggs at Pioneer Breeders at North Kashadah village Wednesday. Upazila Livestock Department sources said bird-flu virus was detected in sample of perished hens and eggs of Pioneer...
SYDNEY, Mar 30 (AFP): Ricky Ponting was Wednesday included in the Australian squad for their mini tour of Bangladesh next month where he will be taking orders from new captain Michael Clarke for the first time. The 36-year-old quit as...
PARIS, March 30 (AFP): Defending champions Spain beat Lithuania 3-1 on Tuesday to remain unbeaten in their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, while the Netherlands edged Hungary in an eight-goal thriller in Amsterdam. Spain now have a six-point lead in Group...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 30 (AFP): Asian qualifying draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, made in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday. Round 1 Malaysia v Taiwan Bangladesh v Pakistan Cambodia v Laos Sri Lanka v Philippines Afghanistan v Palestine Vietnam...
MOHALI, India, Mar 30 (AFP): Tens of thousands of Indians and a handful of Pakistanis packed the stadium for their cricket World Cup clash on Wednesday in a friendly atmosphere that belied diplomatic tensions between the countries. "We love the...
SHENZHEN, Mar 30: China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines, and days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty. The three, two...
DUBAI, Mar 30: A Dubai court has jailed an Italian for four months for sexually molesting a woman who was drugged and drunk on a flight from Jakarta, an Emirati newspaper reported on Wednesday. The National said the court heard...
PESHAWAR, Mar 30: Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber riding on a motorbike blew himself up near a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. "The bomber came on a motorbike and detonated...
The vested property will be returned to the affected people soon for the interest of nation, said Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira Wednesday, reports UNB. "The government is going to pass an act aiming at returning the vested properties to...
Home Minister Sahara Khatun Wednesday said gradually all the city roads will be rickshaw-free. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the parliamentarians of Dhaka at her ministry, she said they decided to uphold the decision of gradually withdrawing all...
The Shibaloy upazila administration in Manikganj culled 6,000 bird-flu infected hens and 29,000 eggs at Pioneer Breeders at North Kashadah village Wednesday. Upazila Livestock Department sources said bird-flu virus was detected in sample of perished hens and eggs of Pioneer...
It was difficult to imagine that this semi-final could live up to the extreme pre-match hype but at the halfway point, India and Pakistan had justified the build-up, according to website cricinfo. Sachin Tendulkar played one of the luckiest innings...
MOHALI, India, Mar 30 (AFP): India's Sachin Tendulkar was made to wait for his 100th international hundred when, after being dropped four times, he was out for 85 against Pakistan in the World Cup semi-final Wednesday. The 'Little Master' --...
COLOMBO, Mar 30 (AFP): Daniel Vettori, who stepped down as New Zealand one-day captain after the five-wicket World Cup semi-final defeat against Sri Lanka, admitted his team fell just short once again. Tuesday's defeat at the R. Premadasa stadium was...
COLOMBO, March 30, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's national press showed rare unity Wednesday in hailing the national team's qualification for the World Cup final after beating New Zealand in a tense last-four encounter. "Sri Lanka in ICC final again,"...
Mamun RashidThe state owned commercial banks(SCBs) in Bangladesh have come a long way after their conversion into a public limited company. Between the years 2007 and 2009, there has been a substantial improvement in asset quality, capital adequacy ratio(CAR), asset,...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's plastic goods makers have been hit hard as prices of raw materials have been increasing by leaps and bounds since the beginning of the crisis in northern Africa (NA) and Middle East early this year,...
LONDON, Mar 29 (agencies): International powers gathered in London Tuesday to map out Libya's future as support grew behind the idea of Muammar Gaddafi going into exile. British Foreign Secretary William Hague called for Gaddafi to face the International Criminal...
DAMASCUS, Mar 29 (AFP): Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri on Tuesday tendered his government's resignation to President Bashar al-Assad, who promptly re-appointed him caretaker premier, state media reported. "President Bashar al-Assad today accepted the resignation of the government of...
Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Mar 29: Qatar is providing the rebels in Libya with much needed supply of oil, diesel and cooking gas to stave off a crisis. Qatar has sent two oil tankers with 3800 tonnes of liquefied gas to...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 29: Executive Engineer and four others of Raozan 210 megawatt (MW) Thermal Power Plant unit 2 in Chittagong have been suspended for negligence of duty. The PDB authority has taken the action following explosion of a boiler...
Siddique Islam The country's overall imports grew by nearly 44 per cent during the first seven months of this fiscal, led by food grains, petroleum products and capital machinery, officials said Tuesday. Letters of credit (LCs) against imports worth US$...
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