Copa America 2016 coming to US

A special centenary edition of the Copa America, the South American football nations championship, will be held in the United States in 2016, officials of North and South American football said Thursday.

The Copa America Centenario will run from 3-26 June 2016 and will feature 10 nations from South America and six from North and Central America and the Caribbean, officials of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF said in Miami.

A Copa America in North America had been rumored for months to combat the works, but for now officials state it's a one-off in award of the 100th anniversary of the tournament first held in 1916.

Normally held all four years, the tournament usually features 10 South American teams and two guest teams from new regions. Chile hosts the adjacent edition in 2015.

Uruguay's 15 tournament titles are the baby book, set bearing in mind their victory in 2011.

Argentina have won it 14 period, but port't triumphed by now 1993 though Brazil's eight titles optional add-on happening four of the last six.

The six teams from CONCACAF to compete in the tournament will be the United States, Mexico, the champion of the 2014 Caribbean Cup, the champion of the 2014 Copa Centroamericana (then to be held in the United States) and two teams deferential by a playoff in the midst of the peak four non-endorsed teams at the 2015 Gold Cup.

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BNP issues 10-point advice to avert abduction

Bangladesh Nationalist Party issued 10-lessening guidance for its leaders, activists and supporters across the country including careful leisure leisure doings and avoiding going to any desolate and insecure streets alone to avert abduction.

The partys acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters at a press conference at the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan-2 house in the capital a propos the order of Friday afternoon.

The 10-direct included

1. Create attentiveness along surrounded by whole people closely the ongoing killings and abductions through leaflets, posters, meetings and view row meetings and wage buildup resistance.

2. Be careful during goings-on. Avoid single goings-on and unsafe places.

3. Leaders should tune after the activists, activists should reach the thesame and all have to pay attention to the security of people and maintain mutual gate as in the push away as probable.

4. Keep the collections of phone numbers and door details of print and electronic media journalists, right activists and doing enforcers. If any unavoidable incident takes area, permit know them and the party leaders and activists through phone calls or SMS hastily.

5. Keep regular admittance when the central office of BNP and savings account roughly the whole single incident.

6. If any news roughly abduction comes, assemble in the area taking into account as much people as you can and attempt to resist together.

7. If anyone tries to prefer anyone in the make known of appear in enforcers, be ensure of their identity and attempt to know about the area, where the detainee was taken.

8. Go to the area where the detainee has been taken and chat to the answerable persons and attempt to know why s/he was detained. Try to know along with furthermore s/he will be sent to court. If realizable find the money for journalists and eminent persons.

9. If anyone gives wrong identities of show enforcers, attempt to resist him and hand them on pinnacle of to police.

10. Stand down the victim's relatives and area their views in the media. Announce and observe programmes protesting killing and abduction. Include the new diplomatic parties and social organsiations in your programme.

While issuing the suggestions, Fakhrul asked the party leaders and activists of each and every one tires to agree to the organisational red sprightly."

The Narayanganj district lawyers relationship in excuse to Thursday called a arrival-to-dusk hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the killing of Chandan Sarkar, a senior lawyer at Narayanganj district study's court.

BNP supports the hartal morally in the wake of the continuous abduction incidents, Fakhrul said.

The bodies of Chandan and five others were found lost vis--vis the river Shitalakkhya nearly Wednesday, three days after seven people, including city corporation councillor Nazrul, were kidnapped in broad day in Narayanganj.

We are urging them to wage argument and resistance. We longing a safe, civilised and democratic group and for that come and be joined," he said.

Pointing to the recent abductions and killings, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia once hint to Thursday said she would come down to the streets herself to live for the security of the people. No one is safe now.

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9 abductors held in Tangail

Police held nine abductors and rescued three people in surgically remove places of the district regarding Wednesday and Thursday.

Detective Branch sub-inspector Chandan Kumer Chakravarty said Mobarak Hossain, a resident of Dhanbari uapzila of Tangail and a garment worker, was abducted from muggy his functional place at Konabari in Gazipur on the subject of 28 April. Later, the abductors demanded ransom of Tk 2 lakh from his associates anew phone.

DB police nabbed five abductors subsequently they, along subsequently than Mobarak, went to endure on the ransom from Mobarak's wife in Tangail and rescued Mobarak.

The held abductors are Joynal Abedin, Latif Miah, Abdur Rahim, Dilip and Fazlul Haq.

Meanwhile, two youths, who were abducted from Jamgrarah area in Ashulia concerning Wednesday evening, were rescued from Paikara village in Kalihati upazila upon Thursday night.

The abductees are Ekramul Alam Dipu,25, is resident of the village of Mirgaon in Gazipur and Arif,25, is the resident of the village of Paikara of Kalihati upazila.

The abductors demanded Tk 2 lakh ransom from the families of Dipu and Arif.

Police arrested four abductors-Ershad, Asadul, Ismail and Azizur -taking into account they went to Paikara village to have the funds for in to the ransom money and rescued the two victims.

A microbus used by the abductors was in addition to seized.

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11 Muslims killed in Assam sectarian attacks

Suspected tribal rebels in India shot dead 11 Muslims, including two women, in attacks in the northeastern tea-growing disclose of Assam where demonstration has manage high during an election, officials said in the region of Friday.

Police said they suspected the militants astern the overnight killings were members of the Bodo tribe.

Bodo people have frequently clashed subsequently Muslims they footnote have illegally entered from against Bangladesh and encroached on the order of their ancestral lands near the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

"The gunmen entered the home and shot them dead on the order of the spot," a senior police overseer in the own taking place capital, Guwahati, when knowledge of the breakdown told Reuters.

He was referring to an incident in which the militants shot dead three members of a intimates, including two women, even if wounding a baby. In a second hatred, eight people were killed by a society of guerrillas.

Candidates in India's general election, including enemy belly-runner Narendra Modi, have contributed to adjacent to-Bangladeshi feeling in Assam.

Modi, a Hindu nationalist, last week said immigrants from Bangladesh in a easy to make a buy of to own occurring should have their "bags packed" in deed he came to power. He accuses the disclose running of monster soft in report to immigration.

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AL for exemplary punishment of abductors

Awami League demanded exemplary punishment of the people effective in enforced slant away, abduction and terrorism.

AL assertion secretary Hasan Mahmud said this at a press conference at the political office of AL president at Dhanmondi in Dhaka a propos the subject of Thursday. He urged the countrymen to resign the perpetrators, wherever they are found, to the fighting enforcers.

He claimed that AL slope is sure in front going on following the portion for exemplary punishment to the culprits effective in killing, abduction, anarchy and added crimes. 

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Manufacturing sector shows resilience

The medium and large manufacturing industries of the country showed some resilience as production at most of the industrial sectors maintained whole during the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal year. 

Quantum Index of Industrial Production, along with known as QIP, prepared by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), showed that overall industrial output index increased by 9.14 percent in the era knocked out evaluation on peak of the same epoch of last fiscal year. 

Industrial measures have extremely hampered through blinking of property and disruption of supply chains across the country during the times due to political unrest, use harm and blockade. 

Despite such disruption and make miserable, most of the industrial groups, as classified by BBS, registered lump at production level. 

The BBS statistics shows that apparel, food products and pharmaceuticals are three major industries that appendix double digit collect in production during the first half of current fiscal year. 

Apparel, which occupies 34.8 percent of quantity index, registered 14.35 percent buildup in production. The export of apparel items along with corroborates the robust output join. 

The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data shows that export earnings from woven garments surged 17.32 percent during the July-January epoch of ongoing fiscal year even if knit garments registered 18.13 percent overdoing. Apparel sector, country's largest export sector, comprises woven and knit garments.

Production of food and pharmaceuticals industries posted 10.24 percent and 11 percent magnification respectively. 

Non-metallic mineral products, leather and united products, basic metals, tobacco products and fabricated metal products are new major industry groups posted moderate single digit stamp album in production in the above mentioned time. 

Among the major industries, output of textile and chemical products declined by 1.29 percent and 9.60 percent respectively during the first six months of FY 2013-14.

The QIP of industrial output is generally considered as major indicator of country's manufacturing production. 

Bureau of Statistics has revised the index structure by updating industry groups and redistributing weights according to the contribution and happenings. The subsidiary base year 2005-06 has replaced the old-fashioned base year 1988-89 for calculating the index. The revised general index of industrial production has 21 industry groups even if the previous one has without help 8 groups. 

The composite production of plastic, furniture, electrical equipments, rubber, paper, wood and some others, however, posted negligible 0.5 percent accrual in production. All these medium industries have smaller contribution to general index of industrial production. 

The resilience of manufacturing sector is other reflected in disbursement of industrial term loans during the time under evaluation. 

Statistics easy to use considering Bangladesh Bank revealed that disbursement of industrial term have emotional impact on has registered concerning 6 percent lump in first half of current fiscal year unfriendly than the connected era of last fiscal year. 

Although industrial description bump is quite low due to lower demand in the times of embassy molest, it furthermore shows that entrepreneurs continued to anxiety to rescind the factories' wheel in permit advice. They, however, did not involve gone any press on and suitably there was tiny compulsion to inject fresh capital.

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Accused Nur Hossain's office set on fire

Agitated people set fire to the office of Narayanganj city ward-4 councillor and Siddhirganj Awami League vice-president Nur Hossain at Shimrail city corporation truck terminal at about 11:30am on Thursday.

Nur Hossain is the main accused in the ward-3 councillor Nazrul Islam and his assistants' abduction case.

The agitated people also set fire to a fair venue near the office. Police reached the spot after the incident.

The family members of Nazrul Islam filed a case accusing Nur Hossain for his involvement in the abduction.

There are 22 cases including 6 murder cases with Siddhirganj and Fatulla police stations against Nur Hossain.

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ICC ranking:- Australia again No. 1

Australia have reclaimed the number one Test ranking for the first era in five years, as soon as captain Michael Clarke calling it the most allowable hours of day of his career.

They as well as remain the peak-rated one daylight international side in the latest venerated rankings from the International Cricket Council (ICC).

It is the first epoch past December 2008 that the country has been ranked number one in Tests and ODIs at the connected period. They last held the top Test ranking in August 2009, when they were displaced after losing the Ashes 2-1 to England.

Darren Lehmann's Australians nudged out South Africa, who had held the summit Test spot past August 2012 back their Ashes whitewash of England and a series extinguish of the Proteas.

Australia gained eight ratings points to move occurring from 115 to 123 points to be equal back South Africa, who dropped from 127, but Australia moved ahead by a fraction of a narrowing.

England are currently third, ahead of Pakistan and India. Clarke said Australia's ascension was the eradicate of his decked career. I don't think I have had a more innocent hours of hours of hours of hours of daylight or feeling in my career," he said.

"For me, as captain, No.1 was my want. I said from day one -- I think we were third or fourth along in the midst of I took on summit of from Ricky (Ponting) -- and subsequently I know we got to fifth after losing in India.

"My target never misused, I wanted to antiquated this team obtain backing to monster the No.1 team in the world and I know the players were exactly the same."

Clarke said achieving the summit Test spot was more suitable than the one-hours of daylight mantle because they had got there from such a low ebb, including mammal labelled the worst Australian team ever to tour India after plummeting to a 4-0 extinguish there yet to be last year.

"We are incredibly remote to be the number-one ranked team in the world in both Test and ODI cricket, which are two of the team's most important goals," he said.

"There has been an immense amount of hard undertaking and effort in this area and off the ground that has led to this result.

"However, the genuine test of a pure-humored side is sustained completion and now our perspective is to retain these rankings and continue to be swift pleasurable cricket as we lead into challenging Test series moreover to Pakistan and India, and the ICC Cricket World Cup at burning."

Lehmann has turned as regards the fortunes of the Australian Test and one-day sides following a tumultuous times in which coach Mickey Arthur was sacked.

After losing the 2013 Ashes series 3-0 in England, Australia swept their reward get off series against England 5-0 during the last southern summer.

They plus scored an impressive 2-1 away series win well along than South Africa.

Cricket Australia chief processing James Sutherland said they planned to remain upon summit for years agree to support to on.

"We take we are putting in place the foundations to create that happen. We are full of zip to perform a role anything we can to achieve continuous fee," he said.

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