Bangladesh Bank (BB) has advised the country’s all scheduled commercial banks to keep open their branches on July 11 (Saturday) to facilitating the payment of salaries and bonuses of ready-made garment (RMG) workers. In a circular issued on July 2...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-07-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sought permission from the government to inspect the Probashi Kalyan Bank (PKB) and the Palli Sanchay Bank (PSB) in a bid to ensure good governance in the management of the banks, a senior central banker said....
After the signing of a deal on Karnaphuli Tunnel, another Chinese firm on Friday expressed its interest to build a tunnel under the Jamuna River. The company - Zhejiang Construction Investment Group Co Limited - wants to take up the...
At least five people, including a woman, have been killed when a bus rammed into a battery-run three-wheeler in Tangail on Friday morning, police said. The mishap on the Bangabandhu Bridge-Tangail-Dhaka Highway near Shibpur-Kostapara left another person injured. The victims...
Two people were electrocuted at a six-storey building at Mouchak in the capital on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Shohag Hossain (17), who served as office peon, and Nasirul Islam (18), an electric lineman of HM Technology, located...
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has finalised long-term contracts with 13 companies, including Malaysia's Petronas, to import refined oil products which will start from the second half of this year, reports BSS. The premium for 180-centistoke (cst) quality fuel oil...
FE Report The United Nations will organise an international conference on 'Financing for Development' on July 13 in Addis Ababa for enhancing aid flow to the least developed and developing countries. The United Nations is going to organise the 3rd...
KHAGRHACHHARHI, July 3 (bdnews24.com): A member of Bangladesh Ansar has shot dead his colleague in Khagrachhari after a brawl, police say. The shooting took place at Dighinala Upazila's Headman Parha Ansar Camp on Friday afternoon, local police station OC Md...
Bangladesh Bank has advised the country's all scheduled commercial banks to keep open their branches on Saturday (July 11) to facilitate the payment of salaries and bonus of RMG Workers, reports UNB. In a circular issued on July 2 by...
NARAYANGANJ, July 3 (UNB): Two schoolboys drowned in the Buriganga River in Fatullah of Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sourav, 13, son of Mamun Miah of Deobhog Banglabazar in Fatullah, and Alif, 12, son of Sentu...
Mystery shrouded the deaths of two employees of an office at Mouchak Tower in the city’s Siddeshwari Circular Road area. Sohag, 15, and Nasirul, 18, were found dead in an office room at Mouchak Tower on Friday. They were identified...
Advance bus tickets sale for Eid holiday-makers will start on Wednesday (July 8) at Mahakhali Bus Terminal in Dhaka city. Advance bus tickets for July 15 and 16, focusing the upcoming Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, were sold out in just four hours...
Some miscreants have slaughtered a man and dumped the body in a bush on the bank of Halda River in Nazirhat under Fatikchhari upazila of Chittagong district. Being informed, police recovered the body of Azam Khan Babu a bush of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wajed Joy has expressed the hope that Bangladesh would become a higher middle-income economy by the end of the Awami League-led government’s current tenure (2019). In a Facebook post,...
Tens of thousands of Greeks have attended rival rallies in Athens ahead of a crucial referendum on Sunday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was greeted with huge cheers when he told supporters to vote "No" to the terms of an international...
India, home to some 300 million cattle, has deployed 30,000 Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along Bangladesh border to stop cattle smuggling. The BSF troops are now guarding the border this year as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led...
Four members of a family have been hacked to death over a land dispute in Mymensingh’s Nandail Upazila. The murders took place in the Upazila’s Bashanti village around 10:30pm on Friday, said Nandail police OC Syed Abdullah. The deceased are...
Police have recovered a bullet-ridden body from Magura’s Shalikha Upazila. The victim was blindfolded and his hands were tied. Shalikha police OC Abu Jihad Khan said that the locals called the police after finding the body in Piarpur field on...
Andre Carrillo and Paolo Guerrero each scored second-half goals to help Peru defeat Paraguay 2-0 in the Copa America play-off match to decide the third place on Friday. Carrillo scored from just inside the penalty area in the 48th minute...
Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year - stop cattle from crossing illegally into Bangladesh. Roughly every other night, troops armed with bamboo sticks and ropes...
Verification of people living in Indian enclaves along India-Bangladesh border will start from July 6. Officials of India’s home and external affairs ministries, jointly with the state governments concerned, would carry out the survey, government sources said. After verification of...
A man has been shot to death by unidentified gunmen in Ananda Bazar area of Netrakona town. Police and locals identified as Anjan Kumar Das Buttu, 33, son of Ganga Coran Das, resident of Cooperative Bank Road in the district...
A sudden strike by workers who refuel aeroplanes at Toronto’s largest airport have led to cancellation of more than 200 flights in the Pearson Internationa Airport. Hundreds of other flights to and from Toronto have been delayed due the strike...
Ten detectives have been tasked with interrogating four held over seizure of liquid cocaine blended in edible oil at Chittagong Port. This seizure questions the oft-held impression that Bangladesh only faces a narcotics threat from neighbouring Myanmar, from where heroin...
Bangladesh’s only memorable moment against South Africa came in their victory in a match in the 2007 World Cup. Since then, the Tigers have no victory under their belts against the Proteas, even in familiar home condition. But from the...
A man has been killed in a head-on collision between a sand-laden vessel and a trawler in Ichhamoti River in Alampur area of Shreenagar upazila of Munshiganj district. Sub-Inspector of Shreenagar Police Station Uttam Kumar confirmed the accident and said...
Argentina head into Saturday's Copa America final seeking their first major silverware in 22 years while hosts Chile aim to end a century-long jinx by winning the trophy for the first time. The two Andean neighbours meet in Santiago's national...
A decomposed body of a child has been recovered from the bank of a pond in Singroil village under Nachole upazila in Chapainawabganj district. The deceased was identified as Mobarak Hossain, 11, son of Muktar Hossain of the village. He...
The new financial year has began amid strong trend in major economic indicators, raising the prospect of achieving higher growth and more economic stability in the coming days. The key economic indicators, including per capita income, remittance earnings, foreign currency...
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