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Seamark Group wins Best Agricultural Exporter Award

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Seamark Group is one of the largest seafood and agriculture product processing and exporting organisation in the world now. Recently, Standard Chartered Bank organised an agro award giving ceremony where Seamark Group won the best Agricultural Exporter Award. Iqbal Ahmed OBE, Chairman and Chief Executive of Seamark Group, received this award from Agricultural Minister Begum Motia ...

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Beijing to host 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics

Beijing has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, beating the bid of Kazakhstan’s Almaty. Having hosted the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese capital will be the first city to host both a summer and winter Games. Beijing and Almaty were considered outsiders when the 2022 bid race opened two years ago. But after a host of European ...

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Mahmudullah frustrated after rain turns out to spoil the match

All-rounder Mahmudullah expressed his disappointment after rain again spoiled the third successive day’s match of the second and final Test of National Polymer two-match Test Series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNSC) at Mirpur. He was talking to the pressmen on Sunday at the conference room of SBNSC at Mirpur, reports BSS. “It’s really very frustrating that rain has ...

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Messi played his best Argentina games at Copa America

The forward was heavily criticised following his country’s failure to win the tournament but the head coach is adamant his performances were excellent. Messi was slammed by critics and some supporters following the Albiceleste’s final defeat on penalties to host nation Chile, with the Barcelona star having scored just once during the competition. However, the 28-year-old was named in the ...

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Sjostrom breaks 100m butterfly record

Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom broke the women’s 100m butterfly record on Sunday as Sun Yang and Katie Ledecky retained their 400m freestyle titles at the world championships. China’s Sun, the reigning 400, 800 and 1500m world champion and record holder over the mile, clocked three minutes 42.58 seconds to win his final by more than a second as Britain’s James Guy ...

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Ronaldo ‘gives football agent Mendes Greek island’

The multi-millionaire Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has given his agent Jorge Mendes a Greek island as a wedding present, media reports say. The island has not been named but the price tag could run into the millions, reports say. Spain’s Mundo Deportivo website says Ronaldo knows the Greek islands well from holidays. Mr Mendes married his partner Sandra in ...

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Australian PM knocks back Indigenous constitution plan

Australia’s Prime Minister has rejected a proposal to consult Aboriginal people first about recognising them in the nation’s constitution. Aboriginal leaders want their own people to agree first on how to move towards constitutional recognition for the country’s first peoples. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said such a move would not gain broader support. Indigenous Australians are not mentioned in the ...

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California fires: Evacuation orders given to 13,000

Evacuation orders have been given to 13,000 people in California as firefighters struggle to contain some 20 wildfires. Some 9,000 firefighters worked throughout Monday in steep terrain and rugged conditions, officials said. The biggest blaze – the so-called Rocky fire north of San Francisco – has already consumed more than 90 square miles (233 sq km) of land. On Monday ...

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German MP Patzelt opens home to two Eritrean migrants

A German conservative MP, Martin Patzelt, has taken two Eritrean refugees into his home and is helping the young men find jobs locally. Mr Patzelt, of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), lives near Frankfurt/Oder, in eastern Germany. The Eritreans have been staying with him for a month. Such initiatives help to “get rid of the polarisation and hostility” towards ...

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Anti-Houthi forces recapture Yemen’s largest army base

Backed by Arab coalition assault, forces fighting with loyalists of exiled President Hadi take back al-Anad in Lahej Forces battling Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have captured the country’s largest military base following intense clashes which left dozens killed. In a statement on Monday, the government of exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi claimed complete control of al-Anad base in Lahej ...

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