Nazmul AhsanThe Planning Commission (PC) has finalised the guidelines and allocation rules for the next annual development programme (ADP), attaching a special priority to promoting balanced regional development, sources said. The other projects to receive priority in areas of resource...
LOS ANGELES, Mar 23 (AFP): Legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty Elizabeth Taylor, who captured hearts in "National Velvet" to launch a film career that spanned five decades, has died aged 79. Taylor had been in hospital in Los Angeles...
TRIPOLI, Mar 23 (agencies): A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said Libya is "ready for battle" as Western leaders mulled their next steps on the fifth day Wednesday of UN-backed military strikes on his oil-rich country. "We will win this battle," footage...
DARAA, Mar 23 (AFP): Syrian security forces fired Wednesday on anti-regime protesters near a mosque, killing six and wounding scores, rights activists said as the government blamed a "gang" for the violence. Hundreds of people had gathered at the Omari...
SANAA, Mar 23 (AP): Yemen's parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws Wednesday after the country's embattled president asked for new powers of arrest, detention and censorship to quash a popular uprising demanding his ouster. The move escalates the showdown between Ali...
SEOUL, Mar 23: Seoul said Wednesday its military would launch major live-fire drills this week to mark the first anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean warship near its border with the North. South Korean jet fighters and artillery...
PESHAWAR, Mar 23; Mine and bomb attacks targeting police in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killed one person and wounded 11, including nine officers, police said. In the first attack a donkey cart went over a mine buried by the roadside...
NARATHIWAT, Mar 23: Unknown gunmen stormed a house and shot dead three civilians, including a couple who volunteered for the authorities, in Thailand's troubled deep south, police said Wednesday. Up to 15 men, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, stormed...
GAZA CITY, Mar 23: Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al Quds Brigades, vowed Wednesday to fire rockets at cities deep inside Israel as it entered "a new phase" of resistance, a spokesman said. "The Al Quds Brigade has entered a...
TAIPEI, Mar 23: Taiwan's air force said Wednesday that two out of four missiles missed their targets during a drill earlier this week, two months after a similar failure left military leaders red-faced. -AFP
KABUL, Mar 23: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday again urged the Taliban to join peace negotiations and pleaded with them to stop attacking schools in the war-torn country, The Afghan government and its international partners have in recent weeks...
FE ReportThe securities regulator has fined Tk 0.10 million each to 11 brokerage houses who illegally lent margin loans to their clients to buy Z-category shares, officials said. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday slapped the fine on the...
Nazmul AhsanThe Planning Commission (PC) has finalised the guidelines and allocation rules for the next annual development programme (ADP), attaching a special priority to promoting balanced regional development, sources said. The other projects to receive priority in areas of resource...
LOS ANGELES, Mar 23 (AFP): Legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty Elizabeth Taylor, who captured hearts in "National Velvet" to launch a film career that spanned five decades, has died aged 79. Taylor had been in hospital in Los Angeles...
COLOMBO, Mar 23 (AFP): Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss believes spin king Muttiah Muralitharan will be fit to face England in Saturday's World Cup quarter-finals. The 38-year-old off-spinner-who has a world record 530 one-day wickets-pulled his hamstring in the Group...
G4S has been selected as the official security services provider and tier three sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic and Paraolympic Games by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and Paraolympic Games, says a press release. A...
AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 23 (AFP): Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson believes he holds the key to dismissing Indian dangerman Virender Sehwag in Thursday's World Cup quarter-final. And the statistics back him up with the muscular left-armer having claimed Sehwag's wicket...
Cricket fever in Bangladesh appeared to be over after the national team crashed out of the World Cup with few takers for Wednesday's quarter-final between Pakistan and the West Indies, reports AFP. For the first time in the tournament, the...
AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 23 (AFP): International Cricket Council chief Haroon Lorgat on Wednesday blasted media allegations that the World Cup match between Australia and Zimbabwe was under investigation for match-fixing. The Times of India claimed on Tuesday that the February...
NARATHIWAT, Mar 23: Unknown gunmen stormed a house and shot dead three civilians, including a couple who volunteered for the authorities, in Thailand's troubled deep south, police said Wednesday. Up to 15 men, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, stormed...
GAZA CITY, Mar 23: Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al Quds Brigades, vowed Wednesday to fire rockets at cities deep inside Israel as it entered "a new phase" of resistance, a spokesman said. "The Al Quds Brigade has entered a...
TAIPEI, Mar 23: Taiwan's air force said Wednesday that two out of four missiles missed their targets during a drill earlier this week, two months after a similar failure left military leaders red-faced. -AFP
KABUL, Mar 23: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday again urged the Taliban to join peace negotiations and pleaded with them to stop attacking schools in the war-torn country, The Afghan government and its international partners have in recent weeks...
FE ReportThe securities regulator has fined Tk 0.10 million each to 11 brokerage houses who illegally lent margin loans to their clients to buy Z-category shares, officials said. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday slapped the fine on the...
Nazmul AhsanThe Planning Commission (PC) has finalised the guidelines and allocation rules for the next annual development programme (ADP), attaching a special priority to promoting balanced regional development, sources said. The other projects to receive priority in areas of resource...
LOS ANGELES, Mar 23 (AFP): Legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty Elizabeth Taylor, who captured hearts in "National Velvet" to launch a film career that spanned five decades, has died aged 79. Taylor had been in hospital in Los Angeles...
Skipper Shahid Afridi led from the front as formidable Pakistan crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets to reach the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1999 Wednesday, reports AFP. Afridi spearheaded a spin assault on the flat-footed...
AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 23 (AFP): India face a nervous wait to find out if opening batsman Virender Sehwag will be fit to face Australia in Thursday's World Cup quarter-final at the Sardar Patel Stadium. Sehwag missed India's final group match,...
AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 23 (AFP): Australia captain Ricky Ponting praised India great Sachin Tendulkar ahead of their World Cup quarter-final clash, but joked they both might need wheelchairs to play in the 2015 edition. Ponting goes into Thursday's match in...
AHMEDABAD, India, MAR 23 (AP): Ricky Ponting has no plans to retire, rejecting mounting speculation Wednesday that he'll stand down as Australia captain after the World Cup. Ponting told a packed news conference on the eve of Australia's World Cup...
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