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Zahir Raihan: Teacher beaten due to protest against copy supply in first term exam in Roti government primary school. Roti school in Dhorkhar union of Akhaura Upazila. Sohel Miah(25) inhabitant of the side of school attack assistant teacher Mohammad Shariful Islam(35) due to stop him supply copy. He was badly injured in this incident. According to the reports and findings last 23.04.2014 Sohel Miah was ... Read More »

The Congress Party came up with a master stroke on Tuesday as an influential mafia don-turned-politician pledged support to the Congress candidate in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) from where the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi is contesting. Mukhtar Ansari’s support to Congress candidate Ajay Rai is a rude jolt to Modi. Neither the BJP nor Modi can afford ... Read More »

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government on Tuesday cut off the electricity supply to several major official buildings for non-payment of bills, including Parliament, the prime minister’s offices and the president’s official residence. Pakistan is blighted by rolling power cuts, caused in part by people not paying their bills, with government offices among the worst offenders. Ordinary people struggle without electricity for ... Read More »

NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court delayed green-lighting an independent investigation into corruption in the Indian Premier League after the Board of Control for Cricket in India asked a new panel to be appointed. The court last week asked Justice Mukul Mudgal, who headed a three-man commission that found Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan guilty of being in contact ... Read More »

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The six children of Ahmed and Rokaya Khatib shuttle between two parental homes during the week, spending time with their mother in occupied Jerusalem or with their father in the West Bank. Theirs is not another story of a family broken up by divorce. The Khatibs are being kept apart by Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement in east ... Read More »

WASHINGTON — Americans in the southern and eastern US braced for more violent weather on Tuesday after a string of tornadoes and other storms killed at least 29 people, news reports said. Some 75 million people were at risk from storms that could unleash hail, winds and twisters on the affected regions, according to the National Weather Service.   Emergency personnel ... Read More »

MOSCOW — Russia warned Tuesday that American astronauts on the International Space Station could be hurt by new US-led sanctions over the escalating crisis in Ukraine, where pro-Moscow militants seized more public buildings in the east. Washington was resorting to “Iron Curtain” policies from its Cold War-era playbook with the new Western sanctions, which were driving the Ukraine crisis towards “a ... Read More »

DAMASCUS – At least 14 people were killed on Monday in a rebel mortar attack on Syria’s capital Damascus, as four new candidates registered to run in next month’s presidential vote. The new candidates bring the number of people hoping to compete in the June 3 election to 11, including incumbent President Bashar Al-Assad.   A Syrian youth, wounded by mortar ... Read More »

LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh — A television debate show in northern India has ended in horror after a spectator set himself ablaze and embraced a local politician, leaving both men fighting for their lives, police and a witness said on Tuesday. The election show on India’s state-owned national TV channel Doordarshan was being recorded in a park on Monday in Sultanpur, a ... Read More »

Nasiranagar Purbavag Union council by election schedule announced for Chairman post due to Union Parishad chairman and BNP leader Mohammad Sayem Miah was killed in a road accident. In the context of the vacant post of Chairman – election schedule has been announced. Voting will be held on May 26. By election Returning Officer and Upazila executive officer Md. Abdur Rashid, signed the public ... Read More »

AGARTALA: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has prepared a masterplan to establish railway connectivity between the northeastern states, Bangladesh and Myammar. According to NFR chief engineer (construction) Harpal Singh, a survey of one of the proposed railway projects connecting Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar has already begun.   Photo courtesy: Google He said, according to the plan ... Read More »

LOS ANGELES: Celebrity couple Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are reportedly contemplating about getting hitched. The couple, who have sons Sasha and Samuel Kai together, had apparently planned a wedding in 2008 as well but it could not take place, reported Radar Online. “While Noami and Liev have had their ups and downs, including a canceled New Year’s Eve wedding ... Read More »

Medical insurance companies in Saudi Arabia said they have not yet received any instruction from the Health Ministry to provide insurance coverage to patients suffering from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The deadly coronavirus has infected 339 people, including expats, and has claimed 102 lives in the Kingdom. However, a senior insurance executive, who requested anonymity, said P.K. ABDUL ... Read More »

NEW DELHI — Indian police said on Monday they had found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi. The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name Rodick Andrew Reymond. The body was found on Sunday morning at a market in the capital, ... Read More »

BANGUI, Central African Republic — At least 22 people including three staff members of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres were killed during a weekend attack by gunmen on a Central African hospital, in the latest atrocity to hit the violence-plagued country. The brutal attack in the northwest was blamed on the rebels known as the Seleka, whose coup in March last ... Read More »