BCB XI too good for Zim

Struggling Zimbabwe cricket team’s morale suffered a big blow the before the five-match one-day international series when they lost to Bangladesh Cricket Board XI by 88 runs in a warm-up in Chittagong on Wednesday.

4 Taliban militants killed in failed Afghan attack

Four Taliban militants targeting a compound housing foreign workers in the Afghan capital were killed on Wednesday night in a failed assault there, the police said.One attacker died when he detonated a vehicle packed with explosives near the gate of the Green Village compound in eastern Kabul,

BFIDC depots glut with rubber

Imported raw rubber from India, Malaysia floods market

Four killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack

Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police,

China blames rise in violence on drug smuggling from Southeast Asia

An increase in the smuggling of synthetic drugs like methamphetamine from Southeast Asia has fuelled a rise in violent crime in China this year, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday. In the first nine months of the year, police recorded more than 100 incidents of violent crime blamed on methamphetamine,

Hathurusinghe wary of ODI backlash

Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe is looking forward to facing a stiffer challenge from the Zimbabwean side in the five-match one-day internationals.

President orders arrest of RU teacher’s killers

The president, Abdul Hamid, on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to immediately arrest those involved in the killing of Rajshahi University teacher AKM Shafiul Islam and ensure their punishment.