Day: ডিসেম্বর ১৩, ২০১৪

Rajinikanth releases Tamil action-thriller ‘Lingaa’ – See more at: http://www.risingbd.com/english/detailsnews.php?nssl=20306#sthash.ugDsEP1N.dpuf Desk: Tamil superstar Rajinikanth today turned 64 and made the occasion a memorable one by dishing out his latest flick “Lingaa” to frenzied fans who turned up to witness their matinee idol deliver famous punchlines after about four years. The actor was out of town, […]

Desk: World powers and Iran will resume talks here in Geneva on Tehran`s nuclear programme next Wednesday, said a statement released by the European Union (EU) Friday. The political directors of the P5+1 group — namely China, France, Russia, Britain and the US plus Germany — and Iran will meet Dec 17 in Geneva “for […]

“A tyrannical government is in power right now. This government is harsher than Pakistan’s Yahya Khan,” said party’s standing Committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah at a discussion on Friday. “They (government) won’t leave power if only three or four people die on the street. This government cannot be overthrown without a countrywide mass uprising,” he […]

The government is likely to make profits, for the first time in at least 13 years, from the sale of fuel oil this fiscal year due to declining prices on international markets, officials of state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation said. The government will also be able to save crores of taka it spends annually to subsidise […]

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has come down heavily on a High Court bench for “not properly exercising its discretion and not assigning any reason” in granting anticipatory bail to Hall-Mark group Chairman Jasmine Islam in a corruption case. “We have repeatedly held that it is an extra-ordinary remedy and an exception to […]

Experts and officials from a joint meeting in Dhaka yesterday suggested not using any chemical for the oil spill clean-up in the two rivers of the Sundarbans. Some TV channels earlier quoted BIWTA Chairman Shamsuzzoha as saying the salvage ship Kandari-10 would spray an adhesive to increase the density of the oil which will then […]

From the ruins of a bombed-out palace above Kabul, a young Afghan man bearing a striking resemblance to kung fu legend Bruce Lee is high-kicking his way to Internet fame, aiming to show another side to his war-weary nation. Videos and photos of Abbas Alizada, 20, posted on the Facebook page “Bruce Hazara” show him […]

Stand-in skipper Virat Kohli survived a fearsome blow on the helmet from a Mitchell Johnson bouncer as he scored a defiant century to keep India in the first Test against Australia Thursday. Kohli was heavily struck by the first ball he faced from Johnson, briefly setting nerves jangling following last month’s freak death of Australian […]

Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, head of the Office of Naval Research, said the $40 million laser weapon was fully integrated into systems aboard the USS Ponce at the end of the summer for a year of testing. “This is the first time in recorded history that a directed energy weapons system has ever deployed on […]

Scientists have dealt a blow to the theory that most water on Earth came from comets. Results from Europe’s Rosetta mission, which made history by landing on Comet 67P in November, shows the water on the icy mass is unlike that on our planet. The results are published in the journal Science. The authors conclude […]