DHAKA Brandon Scherff Youth Jersey , May 6 (Xinhua) -- An 80-km marine drive built along the Bay of Bengal in southeastern Bangladesh opened to traffic on Saturday.
The Bangladesh army, under the supervision of the country's Roads and Highways Department Ryan Kerrigan Youth Jersey , constructed the marine drive.
Speaking to the press, Project Inspector Lieutenant Colonel KM Mehedi Hasan said that the Cox Bazaar-Tekhnaf Marine Drive is one of the longest of its kind in the world which is 80 km in length.
He hoped that Cox's Bazaar will be able to attract more local and foreign tourists with this road.
The marine drive has already been making contribution to a tourist-friendly ambiance along with economic growth in the sea beach towns of Cox's Bazar district where hotels Sean Taylor Youth Jersey , cottages and resorts are being constructed.
Each year Sean Taylor Womens Jersey , tens of thousands of visitors flock to see high rise waves of Bay of Bengal by standing on the sands of Cox's Bazaar, which is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope.
MOSUL, Iraq, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi military said its troops freed Telkief, a town north of Mosul, from Islamic State (IS) group militants on Thursday.
Telkief, 20 km north of Mosul, was recaptured amid continued efforts by government forces to free the remaining IS-held neighborhoods in northeastern Mosul, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarallah, from the Joint Operations Command, said in a statement.
The operation to capture Telkief, which had been under government siege for almost two months, started at dawn and involved several hours of heavy street battles, Yarallah said.
Currently, government forces are in full control of the Nineveh Plain, which lies to the east and northeast of Mosul, the capital of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh.
In addition, army forces drove out IS militants from the luxurious Nineveh Oberoi hotel in Mosul after fierce clashes, Yarallah said.
The battles continued throughout the day against IS militants to free remaining neighborhoods and former presidential palaces in Mosul, in an area locally known as the left bank of the Tigris River, which divides the city.
The commander of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) forces said on Wednesday that CTS troops are now in full control of the main part of the eastern side of Mosul.
"CTS forces have completely retaken control of the eastern side of Mosul," Lt. Gen. Talib Shghati told reporters.
"The only neighborhoods left in Mosul are in the northern part of the city which the army units are fighting to liberate soon," Shghati said, adding that Mosul's five bridges over the Tigris river are all under security forces' control.
He said CTS troops have so far killed 3,300 IS militants and destroyed 300 car bombs in the Mosul battles.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of a major offensive to retake Mosul, the country's second largest city, on Oct. 17.
The second phase of the offensive, to free the eastern bank of Mosul, began on Dec. 29.
Battles in Mosul decreased in December when extremist militants started using civilians as human shields, resorted to suicide car bombings and mortar and sniper attacks.
Mosul, 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, has been under IS control since June 2014, when Iraqi government forces abandoned their posts and fled, enabling IS militants to gain control of parts of Iraq's northern and western regions.
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BERLIN, April 26 (Xinhua) -- When talking about Bayern Munich's Champions League semifinal opponent Atletico Madrid, Thomas Mueller never mentions words like ""goal"" or ""football festival"". The 26-year-old striker instead gives the impression he is talking about a brawl in a dark corner of the school playground.
""We can imagine what will happen. We will have to deal with several smaller or bigger provocations and taunts. We know about the special role of the ball-boys at Atletico and the influence of Atletico coach Diego Simeone. A lot of things might happen that are beyond what is permitted,"" Muller predicted.
Bayern defender Benatia compared Atletico's arena Vincente Calderon with hell: ""It will be like that and very complicated in general.""
Juan Bernat is pinning his hopes of a fair game on the shoulders of the English referee Mark Clattenburg: ""I hope they will clamp down on Atletico' s aggressive game."" The German tabloid ""Bild"" predicted: ""The coaching zone will turn into a swearing zone"" after Atletico Simeone and Bayern coach Pep Guardiola are regarded to be hot-tempered.
At the same time 45-year-old Spaniard Guardiola and his squad are emphasizing that they are prepared for the highly charged atmosphere in Madrid. Therefore their game plan contains solutions like self-control, a strong will to make it into the final and to fight back.
""We can be hard too,"" Mueller said with a broad smile in his face. In this moment, he might have been thinking about his teammate Arturo Vidal, who is adored by Bayern's fans as their ""football warrior"" as he is the Bayern's hard man. After some problem to get adjusted to Bayern's special game style, the midfielder has adapted to the new environment.
""We know Atletico has a lot tough no-nonsense players for whom the game is a matter of life or death. Therefore it will be a difficult job, but we have developed into a strong team with a great spirit as well,"" Arturo Vidal said.