A high-powered inter-ministerial committee was expected to finalise the list based on the suggestions and recommendations from different chambers, business houses and trade experts, the Daily Star newspaper reported.
Paving the way for Air India's entry into the largest global airlines' grouping, Star Alliance today unanimously decided to recommence the national carrier's integration process that was suspended in 2011.
Barack Obama, who takes office as America's first black President on Tuesday, is the biggest-ever assassination target in US history, a media report said.47-year-old Obama has taken on the most important job. But it is also the most dangerous, and he knows that there are extremists who want him dead, the Daily Star reported.White supremacists have vowed to kill him and the Central Investigative Agency bosses are taking no chances.
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The actor died on Friday after suffering a heart attack at a gym in Mumbai. He was 46.
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The latest crackdown on senior AL leaders, including its general secretary Abdul Jalil, and Hasina's cousin Sheikh Selim, known to be loyal to her, has dealt her a severe blow.
Former Bangladesh cricketer Shakil Kasem, in a column, referred to Team India as the World Cup's overrated and over-hyped minnows.
Tasneem Khalil, a Bangladeshi journalist who works for the Daily Star and the CNN, was picked up by the military intelligence in May 2007 and kept in detention for over 22 hours. The Bangladeshi intelligence agencies suspect that he was an Indian spy and he was providing vital information on Bangladesh to India.
Bangladesh Inspector General of Police Abdul Qayum, however, said the information 'seems incorrect'.
Speculation is ripe that Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton may soon split after it has emerged that she will have to wait for another eight years to marry the second-in-line to the British throne.
'Marriage was never a pit stop after which my life would change.'
'There have been people who are the sons and the brothers of superstars, but they have not lasted more than one or two movies.'
The 53-year-old actor started dating his London-based barrister fiancee last September. They became engaged in April.
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In a step intended to create more jobs for locals and help them grasp techincal know-how, Bangladeshi authorities have decided to bar all foreign nationals, including Indians, from working in the country for the next five years.
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The 54-year-old mega-rich Middle East envoy recently jumped on the Heathrow Express, which allows passengers to buy a ticket on board. But when the ticket collector came to first class, a red-faced Blair could not cough up the 24.50 pound fare, as he did not have enough cash in his wallet, the Daily Star reported on Wednesday.
Former captain Mashrafe Mortaza and two other Bangladesh cricketers, Nazmul Islam and Nafees Iqbal have tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus. The 36-year-old Mortaza was reportedly unwell for the last couple of days and tested positive for the contagious disease on Saturday. He is currently in self-isolation at his residence in Dhaka.
Formula One legend Michael Schumacher has reportedly lost a lucrative endorsement deal with companies as they no longer see him as a viable role model for their products.
People move on, get attached to other people, ending a close bond. But we rarely see that on screen, observes Aseem Chhabra.
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday instructed her home minister to initiate immediate action against those who incited violence using religion as she asked the people not to trust anything on social media without fact-checking.
'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen.'
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Three militants of an Al Qaeda-linked banned Islamic extremist outfit have been arrested in Bangladesh, including the mastermind of the murders of two prominent secular bloggers in the country this year.
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A survey has recently revealed that people, especially women, engaging in self-love or masturbation can produce better orgasms.
A former Bangladeshi minister from Jatiya Party was on Sunday indicted by a special court here on 16 war crime charges, including genocide, committed during the country's 1971 liberation war.
Bangladesh are ready to play Twenty20 Internationals in Pakistan next month but the Test series must take place in a neutral venue, the chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Nizamuddin Chowdhury said. PCB's assertion notwithstanding, Bangladesh remain wary of touring Pakistan for a lengthy period, Chowdhury told the Daily Star newspaper.
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