A police man was burnt to death and nine people, including five police members and four prisoners, received burn injuries as an octane cylinder of police vehicle blasted after being hit by a truck in Amzad Bazar area of Chauddagram...
Wall Street closed higher as the Fed policymakers began their two-day meeting. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.8 per cent to 16,739.95. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.9 per cent to 1,995.31 and the Nasdaq composite added...
A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile's northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in the capital of Santiago and bringing flooding from small tsunami waves in some shore towns. Officials reported three deaths. There were no reports of...
Police recovered floating body of a man from the Buriganga River in Pangaon area of Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka district on Wednesday night. The deceased could be known immediately. Locals spotted the body floating in the river at night and...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw positive while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend in early hour of trading on Thursday amid marginal volatility, the last session of the week. After first 30 minutes of the day’s trading,...
A minor boy drowned in a pond at Nayapara in Sribordi upazila of Sherpur district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Siam, 6, son of Chingu Miah of the village. Locals said Siam slipped into the pond near his...
Oil prices were stable on Thursday as a US stock draw tightened the market while Asia's economies showed new signs of weakness. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading at $47.13 per barrel at 0430 GMT, virtually unchanged...
A mobile court on Wednesday sentenced a young man to two months’ imprisonment for taking drugs in Chapainawabganj district town. The convict was identified as Sahidul, 21, son of Hasan Ali, a resident of Shibtala area of the town. The...
An official of the health department was killed as a human hauler (Leguna) hit his motorcycle in Jakiganj municipality area in Sylhet district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Bidhan Chandra Pal, 52, assistant health inspector and a resident...
Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Thursday ahead of a likely policy move by the US Federal Reserve, with stocks in Malaysia outperforming and Singapore hitting a more than one-week high as a big jump in global oil prices boosted...
Hundreds of migrants were involved in the clashes at the border between Hungary and Serbia Wednesday, trying to break through a razor-wire fence. Many of them want to reach Germany, amid divisions within the European Union over how to deal...
Republican front-runner Donald Trump came under heavy attack from his rivals in a contentious US presidential debate Wednesday, and former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina emerged from the back of the pack to lead the charge. Fiorina, a late addition...
Dhaka court granted DB two-days to interrogate Farabi, a former student of Chittagong University. While DB seeking seven-day custody of the suspect after investigations revealed several of Roy’s killers took part in the murder of another blogger Ananta Bijoy Das....
Muggers snatched away a truck loaded with 19 cattle from a group of cattle traders in Mirer Bazar area of Gazipur city on early Thursday. Victim traders said they bought 19 cattle from Rajshahi and were heading towards Noakhali for...
Siddiqur Rahman is taking charge of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) from outgoing president Atiqul Islam in a compromise deal. Rahman and the other members of the Board of Directors will take over in the Annual General Meeting...
The remains of another of 43 missing student teachers have been identified by forensic experts at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, Mexico's attorney general has said. Arely Gomez said the student is Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz of the...
US President Barack Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers...
The Obama administration said Wednesday is was considering how to respond to a Russian proposal for military talks over Syria, where Moscow is expanding its forces even as US warplanes conduct daily air strikes against Islamist militants. US Secretary of...
China stocks extended their rebound on Thursday morning, led by small-caps, as some investors viewed a deepening anti-corruption campaign in the financial industry as being positive to the market. Hong Kong stocks also rose as investors consolidated positions ahead of...
A dispute that threatened to split the Afghan Taliban has been resolved after relatives of late leader Mullah Omar backed his successor, the group says. A spokesman told the BBC that Omar's eldest son and brother swore allegiance to Mullah...
The Supreme Court has quashed a petition to review an earlier verdict, which cleared the film. The four-member appeals bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha scrapped the plea Thursday. “There are no more hurdles for the movie to...
In Makkah’s Grand Mosque mishap, 111 people, including one Bangladeshi, died and over 238 others were injured among at least 40 Bangladeshis. The Saudi government has announced compensation for the family members of the deceased and those injured in the...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested five suspected train ticket scalpers from Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka city on Thursday. The elite force also recovered 27 train tickets and cash Tk0.13 million from ticket scalping. Identity of the arrestees could...
The magnitude-8.3 quake just offshore rattled Chileans, killing five people and shaking the Earth so strongly the tremor was felt in places across South America. Authorities worked into the early hours Thursday assessing damage in several coastal towns that saw...
The deaths of three people from dengue fever in the Indian capital of New Delhi has brought the total toll to 14 in what officials call the worst outbreak of the disease in five years, local media reported Thursday. Nearly...
The 144th BIMSTEC Working Group (BWG) Meeting was held at BIMSTEC Secretariat in Dhaka. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque led the Bangladesh delegation at the meeting. Delegations led by respective High Commissioners/Ambassadors in Dhaka from the Kingdom of Bhutan, the...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday rejected a petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for quashing proceedings of Barapukuria coalmine corruption case against her. An HC bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman Noni and Justice Md Abdur Rob passed the...
Scuffles have broken out in Japan's upper house ahead of a vote on a controversial move by the government to expand the role of the armed forces. The bills would amend Japan's pacifist constitution to allow it to defend its...
An international team of researchers has found a new natural anti-HIV defense. The discovery, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, pinpoints a protein, ERManI, that doesn't allow reproduction of the HIV virus, which causes AIDS....
Singer Sam Smith, who has written the theme song for new James Bond adventure SPECTRE, says it would be "interesting" to see former footballer David Beckham as the popular spy, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The 23-year-old singer also believes Beckham would make...
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