An alleged member of a terrorist group was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with his rivals at Honak in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Mojammel Haque, 40, a resident of Kalarmarchhora village of...
Three people were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Kuril Flyover area of Dhaka city’s Bishwa Road on Monday morning. Identity of the injured could not be known immediately. Inspector Miron Miah of Baridhara Fire Station...
Police arrested 62 Jamaat-Shibir men from a mosque at Chak Chhatari in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday night. Aminur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Bagha Police Station said, tipped off a team of police raided Chak Chhatari Mosque in the...
Detectives in a drive arrested a young man along with 6,000 pieces of Yaba tablets on Chanpur-Comilla highway in Ghosherhat area of Chandpur Sadar upazila on Sunday night. The arrestee was identified as Imran Hossain, 28, hailing from Moddhyarampur area...
Ruling Awami League on Monday submitted its audited financial statement for 2014 to the Election Commission (EC) showing an earning of about Tk95 million. AL office secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap submitted the report to EC secretary Sirazul Islam at the...
A young man died from electrocution in Kalidasganti village in Sadar upazila of Sirajganj on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Monju, 30, son of Momin, a resident of Boikunthopur village in Raiganj upazila. He was a hand-loom worker. Locals...
The S&P BSE Sensex sheds about 200 points in afternoon trade, thanks to weak European markets that were on track to record their worst monthly fall in four years. The German DAX fell over 1 per cent, followed by CAC...
A youth man was killed in a road accident at Kasipur on the Barisal-Dhaka highway in Barisal city on Monday. The identity of the deceased could not be known. Police said the accident occurred when a truck hit a bicycle...
In association with rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary South or South-Easterly gusty wind with a speed of 45-60 kilometer per hour is likely to occur over different parts of the country. The regions are Rajshahi, Rangpur, Pabna, Bogra,...
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Stocks closed lower for the second running session on Monday with turnover remained poor as investors were largely inactive amid lack of direction. The market opened with a negative note which sustained till closure of the session. At the end...
Police on Monday foiled an attempt of two left parties to lay a siege to Bangladesh Secretariat protesting a hike in utility prices. The government has decision to increase gas and electricity prices at consumers lavel. Communist Party of Bangladesh...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday scrapped the High Court verdict that had acquitted Joynal Hazari, a former Awami League lawmaker, in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for amassing wealth illegally. A four-member...
Four people have been arrested for their suspected involvement with killing of a widow and her two daughters in Ullapara Upazila in Sirajganj district. A young widow and her two daughters were killed allegedly by feeding poisoned food in Panchlia...
India's Supreme Court has suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara - the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier this month, the high court had ruled that the voluntary religious practice of santhara was a...
The body of a minor boy has been recovered from a canal in Kathalia Upazila in Jhalakathi district, three days after he had gone missing. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan, son of Shahin Jamaddar, a third-grade student of...
Denouncing the assaults on teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) reportedly by leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), BNP on Monday described it as a shameful and regrettable incident. “This is not enough to describe...
A Sylhet court on Monday asked the authorities concerned to produce three fugitives accused in the Rajon murder case before the court within seven days. The three fugitive accused are — Quamrul Islam, his brother Shamim Ahmed and Pavel, a...
In the first verdict over the 1996 stock market crash, two top officials of Chic Textiles have been found guilty by a special court for share price manipulations. The special tribunal for stock market-related cases sentenced the company’s Managing Director...
The process to merge the Board of Investment (BoI) and the Privatisation Commission by setting up a new authority gathered pace Monday as the Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the 'Bangladesh Investment Development Authority Bill 2015' in this...
Jatiya Party(JP) Chairman Hussein Mohammad Ershad on Monday said Jatiya Party would have to be strengthened before the next national elections. He urged the party workers to reorganise and rejuvenate party activities in all districts to fulfill people's aspirations. Ershad...
Bangladesh and Myanmar have launched a coordinated security clampdown against rebel Arakan Army, while authorities called out army troops to join hands with paramilitary border guards Bandarban after a skirmish in the rugged southeastern hills, officials said Monday. They said...
Indian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended payment of Rs 0.5 million to the family of Bangladesh girl Felani Khatun, shot dead by BSF troops four years ago along India-Bangladesh border in Kurigram. Border Security Force (BSF) along the...
A Khulna court today sentenced seven people including a Union Parisad (UP) chairman to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing a college teacher in 2008. The court fined them Tk5,000 each, in default, to suffer four months more in...
Price of Internet Bandwidth has been trimmed by 41 per cent in Bangladesh aiming to make internet affordable to mass people. Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) came up with the announcement of new price in line with the Prime...
The written tests of the 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination will be held on Tuesday. The examinations will simultaneously be held in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur centres, said a PID handout on Monday, UNB reported....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday urged leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to earn trust and confidence of the students and love the countrymen to be successful in politics. She also urged the BCL leaders to take out 'weeds' from...
A friend in need is a friend indeed. United States extended all possible support to Bangladesh and stood by the South Asian country when a natural calamity struck it. Bangladesh and US have remained friends during disaster, speakers said at...
One national guard member has been killed and about 100 injured in violent protests outside Ukraine's parliament, the interior ministry said. Clashes between nationalists and riot police erupted after MPs gave initial backing to reforms for more autonomy in the...
The drowning claims the lives of at least 50 children a day and 18,000 children a year in the country, while the number of near-drowning incidents per year is over 68,000, a survey said, reports BSS. "More fatal than diseases...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged all governments involved to provide comprehensive responses, expand safe and legal channels of migration and act with humanity, compassion and in accordance with their international obligations, reports UNB. "I commend those leaders and...
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