Dhaka, April 21 (IANS) The Bangladesh Election Commission has decided to deploy the army from April 26 to 29 in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation areas to check any untoward incident during the upcoming city polls. Election Commissioner Mohammad Shahnewaz made the announcement at a press briefing here on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. Chief Election Commissioner […]
Islamabad, April 21 (IANS) Seventeen condemned prisoners were executed in various jails in Pakistan on Tuesday, which marks the higgest number of executions in the country since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted. In Central Jail in Gujranwala, three convicts were hanged. In Faisalabad also, three convicts were executed for mudrders they had committed. […]
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Referring to the recent capital tax gains demand of Rs.40,000 crore from foreign funds, the government on Tuesday asserted it will not give in to any demand for waiver on tax of previous years. “The government will not yield to the demand of FIIs (foreign institutional investors) to withdraw tax […]
Pakistan and China would together fight terrorism to root it out, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday addressing a joint sitting of parliament’s both houses, which was convened to honour visiting Chinese President XI Jinping. “Our joint efforts against terrorism have succeeded so far but we need to intensify our efforts,” Sharif said. […]
A young cricket player, Rahul Ghosh, was on Tuesday hospitalised after sustaining a head injury during a local league match, a day after the tragic demise of former Bengal Under-19 team captain Ankit Keshri. Ghosh had to be rushed to the Nightingale Hospital in central Kolkata after he got injured while fielding during the second […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday conferred an award on Tripura’s Mandwai block where every tribal family has a bank account. Mandwai block’s feat in financial inclusion and financial literacy, besides according benefits to tribals, has made it a role model. Mandwai’s Block Development Officer (BDO) Monohar Biswas said: “Of the 12,910 families comprising 55,050 […]
As yet another black man died, this time in police custody, unleashing a fresh wave of protests asking whether black lives matter, a media report spoke of some 1.5 million missing black men in the United States. For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men, the New York Times […]
A Japanese high-speed train broke its own world speed record on Tuesday, clocking 603 kilometres per hour (374.69 miles per hour), after having set the previous record less than a week ago. The maglev — magnetically levitated — train broke the record during a 42-km test run in Yamanashi, a district about 35 km west […]
An elephant that had strayed from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district into neighbouring Bangladesh was allegedly gunned down by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a forest official said on Tuesday. “We have been told by the BSF that a male elephant which had strayed across the border into Bangladesh was gunned down by the BGB,” State […]
At least six coaches of two Rajdhani Express trains were damaged in a fire that broke out at the maintenance yard of the New Delhi Railway Station on Tuesday, officials said, adding that an inquiry has been initiated. The trains were idling at the yard after dropping off the passengers at the station. According to […]