BANGKOK, Nov 22 (AFP): Eight Thai anti- protesters were wounded, one critically, in a pre-dawn grenade attack in Bangkok Saturday, ramping up tensions a day ahead of major rally, officials said. The explosion came two days after one person was...
US-led troops kill 15 in Afghanistan KABUL, Nov 22: The US-led military said Saturday its forces had killed 14 insurgents in military operations in southern Afghanistan, also shooting and killing a civilian who came too close to a patrol. The...
LIMA, Nov 22 (AFP): US President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday discussed the global economic crisis and six-country talks to shutter North Korea's nuclear programmes, the White House said. As they opened their final meeting before...
An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers, reports BBC.Nerves in the ear can be stimulated by light as well as sound and the team from Northwestern University, Illinois, is...
CARACAS, Nov 22 (CNN): Nearly 17 million Venezuelans are eligible to vote in about 600 races for governors, mayors and legislators. But President Hugo Chavez has made it clear the election is really all about one person not on any...
Former UN head Kofi Annan and the former US president Jimmy Carter have cancelled a planned trip to Zimbabwe, reports BBC.They said the government had not granted them visas, making their two-day visit, with Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel, impossible.The...
Fast bowler Dale Steyn took 5-57 as South Africa wrapped up an easy victory over Bangladesh on day four of the first Test at Bloemfontein. Bangladesh were bowled out for 159 despite Mehrab Hossain's 43 not out to lose by...
Simon Katich's unbeaten century put Australia on course for a probable victory in the first Test against New Zealand in Brisbane. Katich hit an unbeaten 131, his sixth Test century, to see his side to a second innings total of...
England have sent left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom for a new scan on his lower back as they seek to determine the extent of his injury problem. Sidebottom (30) was scanned when England arrived in Kanpur, complaining of discomfort before the...
MAR DEL PLATA, Nov 22 (AFP): Feliciano Lopez, who had been handed the awesome task of replacing injured world number one Rafael Nadal, stormed to Spain's rescue Friday when he levelled the Davis Cup final against Argentina. The stylish left-hander...
Bangladesh earned two gold medals on the first day of the 4th South Asian Shooting Championship being held in the Pakistani capital Islamabad Saturday, reports UNB. Commonwealth and SAF Games gold winning Bangladeshi shooter Asif Hossain Khan clinched the individual...
Uttar Baridhara Club earned promotion to the Metropolis First Division Football League outplaying Euro Famous Club by 3-0 goals in a match of the Second Division Football League at Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in...
ORILLIA, Nov 22(AFP): Panama's Celestino Caballero registered a fourth round technical knockout of Steve Molitor, taking the Canadian's IBF super bantamweight title belt at the Casino Rama Friday. Caballero (31-2, 22 KOs) also successfully defended his World Boxing Association belt...
Zimbabwe were all out for just 67 as Sri Lanka took a 2-0 series lead with a crushing nine-wicket victory in the second one-day international in Harare, reports BBC. The tourists needed just 17.4 overs to clinch the win after...
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22 (AP): The United States will open the final round of regional qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup at home against Mexico and finish its run against Costa Rica.The other three teams in CONCACAF'S qualifying tournament, played between...
Dhalpur Tokai team beat Matuail Tokai team by 65-48 points with four lonas in a super three match of the 2nd Orient Bread Tokai Kabaddi tournament at the Kabaddi Stadium in the city Saturday, reports UNB. Dhalpur Tokai team will...
Bachelors SC played to 2-2 draw with Barnak Samaj in the only match of the Green Delta Insurance Metropolis First Division Hockey League at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in the city Saturday, reports UNB.Barnak Samaj led the first half...
MADRID, Nov 22(AFP): Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez will be a Real Madrid player next season, the Marca sports daily reported Friday. "Tevez said 'yes' to Madrid...for next season," claimed the newspaper which added that a deal between Real and...
NEW YORK, Nov 22 (BSS): The United States (US) Congressman Joseph Crowley expressed the hope that Bangladesh's general elections would be held in a free and fair manner with the participation of all political parties."The upcoming parliamentary elections must be...
Jatiya Party (JP) chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad Saturday argued for elections under the state of emergency to ensure a terrorism-free vote, reports bdnews24.com from Bogra."Terrorists will appear again if emergency is lifted," Ershad said while exchanging views with journalists at...
The Election Commission (EC) will finalise a code of conduct for the mass media with suggestions from media personalities for the objective coverage of news during the upcoming elections, reports UNB.The EC has already formed a committee comprising senior journalists...
BNP Secretary General Khondaker Delwar Hossain Saturday said the talks between BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina would have positive impacts on both the parties, reports BSS."Exchange of pleasantries between the two leaders in a...
MYMENSINGH, Nov 22 (BSS): Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman today said the exchange of pleasantries between the country's two top political leaders overnight created a new hope in political arena."The Friday evening's event as witnessed by the nation has created...
Police charged batons on several hundred demonstrators outside Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina's Dhanmondi house Saturday morning as they protested against party's nominations in their constituencies, reports UNB. Witnesses said around 300 protesters called for changing the party candidates...
Speakers at a roundtable in the city Saturday stressed the need for forming an independent commission for preventing all kinds of persecution of children, reports BSS. The speakers were addressing the roundtable in the auditorium of Moni Singh-Farhad Memorial Trust,...
A three-member high-level team from the United Nations (UN) would visit Bangladesh Sunday to scrutinise the staging of parliamentary elections next month, the UN has said, reports UNB."The panel is tasked with assessing the preparations and conduct of the elections...
Eighteen former ministers, MPs and Jatiya Party and PDB leaders Saturday met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office and joined BNP, reports UNB.They are: former Jatiya Party and PDB leaders and ex-ministers Tajul Islam Chowdhury and Lt Col...
The Islami Shasantantra Andolon got registration from the Election Commission Saturday with a changed name as Islami Andolon Bangladesh (IAB) to fit in the changed times in Bangladesh's politics, reports UNB.IAB assistant secretary general Gazi Ataur Rahman and information secretary...
The National Alliance for Election Monitoring (NAEM), a coalition of election observers, Saturday urged all political parties to take part in the coming elections for giving democracy an institutional shape in the greater national interest, reports UNB. With this end...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Nov 22: The production in two units of Sundarban Textile Mills had been suspended from Wednesday last due to no response from any contractor to run production on contract basis. As a result 1,619 workers and employees of...
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