Japan's Nikkei surged almost 8 per cent on Wednesday in its biggest one-day jump since late 2008. The benchmark index closed up 7.71pc at 18,770.51 points. A day earlier, the index saw all the gains it had made this year...
At least two people in Lebanon have died after a sandstorm engulfed parts of the country as well as regions of Syria, Israel and Jordan. Cities across the region have been covered in orange dust. It has even resulted in...
A senior officer of Sonali Bank’s Bagerhat district branch went into hiding after an incident of financial misappropriation was found in the branch by an internal audit carried out by the branch committee. Sources at the branch said a three-member...
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Minister Tarana Halim on Wednesday said the re-registration of SIMs will start on Sunday (Sept 13) and continue till December 13. The junior minister said this while talking to reporters after a views-exchange meeting...
Former US foreign minister and presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton has apologised for using a private email server for official communications, according to a news agency. - biplab
Police have arrested three persons for torturing a minor boy on allegations of theft in Ramganj Upazila in Lakshmipur district. The boy, ‘Yaseen’ has been admitted to the Ramganj Upazila Health Complex. Those arrested are Delwar Hossain, Abdus Salam Patwary...
Police have rescued a middle-aged woman from Munshiganj who was ‘abducted’ two days ago from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. Several arrests have been made over the ‘abduction’. The kidnappers called up the family and demanded Tk 0.1 million (Tk100,000) for the captive’s...
At least 20 people have been injured in a clash between students of a private university and police in Dhaka’s Rampura. The students of East-West University on Wednesday afternoon blocked the Pragati Sarani at Aftabnagar demanding withdrawal of the value...
Those who went to India after it swapped the enclaves with Bangladesh have already got their national identity cards (NID), but those who stayed back are still stuck in the 'process' of becoming Bangladeshi voters. Bangladesh’s Election Commission says it...
Police have detained a man in Dhaka city over the death of his pregnant wife. Tanzila Rahman Binty, 30, was brought to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) by her husband Shah Alam early on Wednesday. Doctors declared her dead....
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend on Wednesday, the 4th session of the week. Investors saw the fall since morning in the benchmark indices of the country’s twin-bourse. DSEX, the key index...
Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan has been named captain of the A team to play a three-day match against Bangladesh A in this (September) month. Dhawan had been ruled out of the second and third Test in Sri Lanka last month...
Bangladesh Embassy in Tashkent in collaboration with Unesco organised a seminar titled ‘Bangladeshi Fashion Design’ at the Embassy Chancery on Wednesday. Addressing the function, Bangladesh Ambassador Mosud Mannan said the seminar will help many local fashion designers who are already...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her firm optimism that Bangladesh would get the GSP facilities from the United States through implementing the action plan despite the multifaceted conspiracy of a vested group. She said no superpower but some...
Malaysia’s Axiata Group and India’s Bharti Airtel are exploring possibilities of merging business operations of their telecommunication subsidiaries in Bangladesh. In separate media statements on Wednesday, the companies clarified that the discussion for combining businesses of Robi Axiata Limited and...
The man Thai police believe masterminded last month's deadly Bangkok bombing fled to Bangladesh the day before the attack and travelled on a Chinese passport, officials said on Wednesday. The man emerged as a key suspect in the Aug 17...
Several images of a man beating up a woman in broad daylight in Sylhet’s busy Ambarkhana have gone viral, triggering an outpouring of condemnation and protests in social media. Many have demanded arrest of the man, identified as Topu Ahmed,...
Bangladesh's public university teachers have asked Finance Minister AMA Muhith to offer public apology for his ‘incoherent’ comment about their demonstration to press for a separate pay scale. The Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association (FBUTA) warns the minister that...
A Bill that proposes to make it mandatory for government officials to get permission from authorities to marry foreigners has been placed in the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad (parliament). It also has the provision for the government to sack officials who...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to file 54 cases in connection with swindling out of about Tk10 billion (Tk1,000 crore) from state-run Basic Bank Limited. The Commission at a meeting on Tuesday approved proposals to file the cases...
Billions of taka lying idle with the BTRC will be spent to set up Wi-Fi hotspots and internet connections in remote areas, and telecoms services at the time of natural disasters, the government says. After the issue of the unused...
writes Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Virginia, USA | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
A catastrophic famine hit the east African countries in 1984. Ethiopia and Sudan were worst affected. Drought had destroyed the crops in successive years, livestock gradually extinguished and people began migrating to urban and semi-urban areas. The international community was...
writes Robert Young Pelton for Reuters | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
This summer a quarter of a million people fled across the Mediterranean by small ships and rafts. Lured by smugglers and forced onto discarded fishing boats, the migrants are directed to head north and call for help when they are...
Obtaining national identity card (NID) is again fraught with the old snags. For many, it is an awful experience despite claims by the authorities concerned that the system has been much eased than before. Ever since the NIDs -- wrongly...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
Farm mechanisation has progressed slowly but steadily in Bangladesh. It started with the adoption of modern irrigation technology in the late fifties that ushered in the Green Revolution. Low-lift power pumps, shallow tube wells and deep tube wells revolutionised irrigation,...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
It seems one acquires a licence to be lawless if he just owns a motorcycle in Dhaka or other cities and towns. If not, why do the traffic police simply ignore riders of motor bikes driving through crowded footpaths in...
The prime minister and other ministers often talk about progress and development. But when we read international journals we get a different picture. Economist Year Book 2014 put GDP growth at 5.7 per cent and the rate of inflation at...
The news of Bangladeshi cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife torturing a minor is really sad and disgraceful. The law-enforcement agencies must take a tough stand on the matter, if it is true, so that others learn a lesson from...
Over the last few months several bloggers were brutally murdered. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of Ganajagoron Moncho activist Shahriar Majumdar, Niloy Chatterji, Muktomona blogger Ananta Bijoy Das and the writer Ashiqur Rahman Babu and Avijit Roy...
M Jalal Hussain | 2015-09-09 00:00:00
The real estate sector plays a pivotal role in the economy, environment, people's lives and society as a whole. Societies and businesses cannot function efficiently without the services of residential and commercial properties that provide facilities to offices, shops, factories...
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