Australian shares rose on Tuesday as rising United States index futures firmed while Woodside Petroleum's $8 billion takeover approach for Oil Search boosted confidence in energy stocks overall. By 0230, the S&P/ASX 200 index was up 52.6 points or 1.1...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed the charge against Awami League MP Abdur Rahman Bodi in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for accumulating wealth beyond known sources. Judge of Dhaka Special Court-3 Abu Ahmed Jamadar framed...
Japanese stocks fell on Tuesday, taking the benchmark Nikkei index into negative territory for the year to date, after soft trade data out of China added to concerns over the economic health of one of Japan's main trading partners. The...
A mobile court in Rajshahi has sentenced a young man to six months’ imprisonment for teasing a schoolgirl sexually in Godagari upazila of the district. The arrestee was identified as Jony Ahmed, 18, son of Ismael Hossain, a resident of...
At least 25 people were injured, 15 among them bullet-hit, in an attack by a rival group over establishing supremacy in Shanikdia area of Sadar upazila of Pabna district on Monday night. Sohel Hossain, Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station said...
Stressing that education is a basic right, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said children must be enrolled in class I without any written admission test. “Whenever a child turns to the age of getting admitted to class I, he...
European equities climbed higher on Tuesday, with Germany's benchmark DAX share index outperforming the broader stock market after a strong set of German trade data. At 0711 GMT, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index was up 1.0 per cent at 1,413.52...
India's stock markets were trading over 1 per cent higher on Tuesday in a volatile session, with indexes recovering from year-lows boosted by financial stocks on speculation that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may dilute its proposed guidelines on...
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Stocks slipped into the red on Tuesday after showing feeble turnaround in the previous session as investors mostly followed cautious stance. The market opened in buoyant mood in the morning, but these early enthusiasms faded away, as sellers took control...
China stocks fell more than 1 per cent on Tuesday morning despite market-soothing measures announced overnight, as investors continued to sell shares amid economic uncertainty. But index futures rose in tiny volume after regulators imposed tough trading restrictions. The CSI300...
An alleged Yaba peddler was bullet-injured in a clash between police and drug peddlers at Ichhakur in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district on early Tuesday. The injured was identified as Mansur Ali, 45, son of Hamid Sheikh, a resident of...
Students of Michael Madhusudan College (MM College) vandalised houses of two local Jubo League leaders following a conflict over establishing supremacy on the college campus in the district town on Monday. Sikdar Akkash , officer-in charge of Kotwali Police Station...
Police arrested four young men in possession of 400 pieces of Yaba tablets from Emidpur area on the Biswanath-Rashidpur road in Biswanath upazila of Sylhet district on Monday night. The arrestees were identified as Jahirul Haque, 25, son of Lifai...
Greece's coast guard says its patrol vessels picked up nearly 500 migrants in 11 search and rescue missions over the past 24 hours in the eastern Aegean Sea. The people, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were found in small...
In an age of 24-hour news in which people are exposed to more footage from world trouble spots than ever before, the image of one dead Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach demonstrates the enduring power of the...
After enthralling sports fans with the bat, Indian cricketer Suresh Raina is now set to woo the music aficionados as he lends his voice to a song in the upcoming film 'Meeruthiya Gangsters'. The song 'Tu Mili Sab Mila' was...
A Dhaka court on Monday placed 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associate student body Islami Chhatra Shibir, including two former Jamaat MPs, on a three-day remand each in a case filed under the Explosive Substance Act. Dhaka...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has ordered all banks to accept notes of all denominations, including torn bills and coins, warning them of ‘punitive measures’ if they do not comply. In a circular issued ahead of the coming Eid-ul-Azha on Monday...
Hardware worth Tk 100 million for VoIP operations has been confiscated at the Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Kurmitola, Dhaka. Customs intelligence officials seized the equipment, which can be used for international call terminations through an IP-based network, from...
A pedestrian has been killed after a boundary wall collapsed and fell on him in Vatara area in Dhaka city. Police, quoting witnesses said, a boundary wall caved in and fell on a passerby when he was walking in the...
Public university teachers, who refrained from work to press for a separate pay scale and other demands, say they are waiting for the decision of a Cabinet committee tasked with removing discrimination in pay structure. But an organisation of public...
The government has asked Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to take initiatives for re-registration of all mobile SIMs. The order came a day after the BTRC chairman said ‘properly’ registered SIM cards did not need to be registered again. Minister...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said that Bangladesh’s export to Japan would exceed US $2-billion mark in the next three years. “Our export to Japan has doubled in the last five years. The export volume continues to grow to the...
A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-led mobile court has raided Apollo Hospitals pharmacy in Gulshan, Dhaka, and unearthed contraband medicines. Illegal drugs worth about Tk1 million were seized from the pharmacy during Tuesday’s raid, Executive Magistrate Firoz Ahmed said. The RAB-run...
Armed robbers attacked a camp of Bangladesh nationals in Ajdabiya, a Libyan city 850-kilometre (km) off its capital Tripoli, leaving a dozen Bangladeshis wounded with bullets, said a Bangladeshi diplomat on Tuesday. “Four of the injured expatriate Bangladeshis had to...
A bill titled ‘Trademark (Amendment) Bill, 2015’ was placed in Parliament on Tuesday to correct some clerical mistakes of the previous law and extend the timeframe for resolving any dispute under it. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu placed the Bill...
A Bill titled ‘Bangladesh Coinage (Amendment) Act, 2015’ was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) on Tuesday aiming to bring the Tk5 coin under government notes and coins. Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed the Bill in the Parliament and it...
Police arrested two young men along with 10 gold bars on the Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway under Lohagora Police Station in Chittagong district on Tuesday afternoon. The arrestees were identified as Kawsar Hamid, 21, son of Abdur Rahman and M Saiful,...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith says he sees no good reason why public university teachers are not working to demand a separate pay scale and scrapping of the selection grade in the new pay scale. “The most educated section of the...
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