Section: Bangladesh
Under-fire Man City must revive fading season in Kiev
Manchester City must put a potentially ruinous fortnight behind them as they seek to reboot their faltering season with a big performance in their Champions League last-16, first leg trip to Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
ATM CARD FORGERY : Foreigner, 3 City Bank officials arrested
Detectives lead three people, including a Polish citizen, to DMP media centre in the capital on Monday after they were arrested for illegally withdrawing money from the ATM booths of private banks. — New Age photo A foreigner having ‘forged’ Polish passport and German national identify card and three City Bank card division officials were...
Foreigner, 3 bank officials remanded
TBT Report A Dhaka court on Monday sanctioned six-day remand for the 4 arrestee including a Polish national allegedly involved themselves in the ATM card forgeries. The three others were officials of City Bank, a Bangladeshi privet bank. The court also rejected the bail petitions of the four. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mazharul Islam passed...
Russia wants to fly over US with advanced digital camera
WASHINGTON: Russia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States, AP/UNB reported. Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open Skies...
Missiles in Syria kill 50 as schools, hospitals hit
Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an ‘obvious war crime’ after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the ‘harshest reaction’ if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border. An offensive supported by Russian bombing and Iranian-backed Shi’ite...
Russia warns of new Cold War as east Ukraine violence surges
Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, international monitors warned on Saturday as Moscow responded by accusing the West of dragging the world back 50 years. …read more Source:...
Syria ground operations can happen
Turkey and Saudi Arabia could launch a ground operation against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said yesterday, as Russian prime minister yesterday said the simmering East-West tensions over Middle East and Ukraine have plunged the world into a “new Cold War”. The coordinated plans by Riyadh and Ankara, who...
After 1,000-year split, pope and Russian patriarch embrace in Cuba
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global appeal for the protection of Christians under assault in the Middle East. Nearly 1,000 years after the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity split apart, the meeting at an airport terminal in Cuba was the first...
After 1,000-year split, pope and Russian patriarch embrace in Cuba
Pope Francis (L) and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill address the audience in Havana, February 12, 2016. – Reuters photo Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global appeal for the protection of Christians under assault in the Middle East. Nearly 1,000 years...
Nishikori opens Memphis title defense with win
Sports Desk Top-seeded Kei Nishikori opened his bid for a fourth straight Memphis Open title with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over American Ryan Harrison on Wednesday night, reports AP. Nishikori was cruising through the second set up a break at 5-3. Harrison held serve, then broke the Japanese player in the lengthy 10th game. The American saved four...
