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February 16, 2010 9:21 AM
The executive committee of the Partners in Population Development has decided to construct a permanent Secretariat building in Dhaka soon. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who chaired the meeting of the executive committee in Dhaka on Monday told AIR that the Bangladesh government has provided...
February 16, 2010 9:08 AM
In one of Europe's worst rail disasters, 25 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains during morning peak hour near Brussels in Belgium. Railway officials said the trains collided during the morning rush hour at Halle, southwest of Brussels. The provincial gove...
February 15, 2010 8:55 PM
Indian-origin lawyer Rashad Hussain, a hafiz of the holy Quran, will be America's new special envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Countries. The post vital to President Barack Obama's bid to repair the US' strained relations with the Islamic world. Obama said, Hussain was nominated t...
February 15, 2010 8:54 PM
Iran has released on bail opposition leader and former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh who was jailed for taking part in anti-government activity. The ISNA news agency said Mr Aminzadeh was released on bail of 700,000 US dollars pending a possible appeal. He had been arrested after the disp...
February 15, 2010 8:24 PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States believes Iran is becoming a military dictatorship. Speaking in front of students in Qatar today, Ms Clinton said Iran's elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard, is "in effect, supplanting the government." Clinton'...
February 15, 2010 8:22 PM
The Colombo Fort Magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for Dhanuna Tilekaratne, son-in-law of retired General Sarath Fonseka over the alleged Hicorp transaction. At a media briefing today the police spokesperson SSP Jayakody said that Criminal Investigation Department ( CID) this morning had opene...
February 15, 2010 8:15 PM
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed on the need for quick disbursement of funds promised at the Climate Change Summit held in Copenhagen last December. Inaugurating the two-day conference of the Bangladesh Development Forum-2010 in Dhaka today, she said the funds will help in supp...
February 15, 2010 8:14 PM
Five extremists were today jailed up to 28 years by an Australian court for plotting violent attacks to protest the country's involvement in War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy handed out the sentence to the five men found guilty in Octobe...
February 15, 2010 8:08 PM
The Bangladesh government on Monday decided to rename the Zia International Airport after the great Muslim saint Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The decision to rename the airport of Dhaka was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Prime Minister's Press Secreta...
February 15, 2010 8:08 PM
Five Muslim extremists were today jailed up to 28 years by an Australian court for plotting violent attacks to protest the country's involvement in War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Anthony Whealy handed out the sentence to the five men found guilty in...
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