A man was killed and two others were injured in a road accident in Dhanua area of Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Karim Sarder, 65, a resident of Charbhairobi village in Haimchar upazila...
A man was killed in a reported ‘shootout’ between a gang of terrorists and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in Haidarabad area of Gazipur city on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mamoon, a resident of Tongi town of...
Asian shares rose on Tuesday after Greece's latest budget proposals raised hopes it would stave off a debt default and reach a deal with lenders later this week. Financial spreadbetters predicted Germany's DAX .GDAXI to gain as much as 0.7...
Police arrested a young man in possession of 1,700 pieces of Yaba tablet at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka city on Tuesday morning. The arrestee was identified as Elias Hossain, 22. Rafiqul Islam, sub-inspector of Kamalapur GRP Police Station said...
A Dhaka court has sentenced three people to life imprisonment each for killing schoolboy Salman Fahad Patwary in Savar in 2013. The lifers are Salman’s uncle Abdur Razzak, his aunty Fatema Begum and another relative Jahid Hossain. According to the...
A man was killed allegedly by his nephew at Chwakkrisnapur village in Bera upazila of Pabna district on Monday. The victim was identified as Mozai Hossain, 40 a resident of the village. Jasim Uddin Sarker, officer-in-charge of Aminpur police station,...
Oil prices fell on Tuesday on worries over a global glut, while surveys showing a contraction in manufacturing activity in China and Japan also dragged on market sentiment. An expected drawdown in US crude stocks, however, put a floor under...
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Stocks edged marginally down for the fourth straight sessions on Tuesday as investors remained cautious amid reduced trading during Ramadan. The market opened with a positive note, but could not sustain as the session progressed. DSEX, the prime index of...
A man was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants on Argarahat-Gomostopur road in Kocchyaduba area of Shibpur upazila of Chapainawabganj on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Mozaffor Hossain, 45, son of Wazed Ali, a resident of Ekhlaspur village...
Extending its bull run for the eighth consecutive session, the benchmark BSE Sensex rose nearly 90 points in the afternoon session, driven by above normal monsoon and positive global cues. Global stocks were up as Greece's latest budget proposals raised...
The progress rate in implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) has been 43 per cent in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told Parliament on Tuesday. A total Tk778.42 billion was...
Two people, including a woman, were killed as a boundary wall collapsed on them at West Madarbari Railgate in Sadarghat area of Chittagong city on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Zannatul Ferdous Kushum, 35, and Sujit Chakrawarty, 27, a...
The High Court (HC) has stayed ten more cases against former minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui over his comments on Holy Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat. The bench of Justices Md Nizamul Huq and Farid Ahmed heard the matter on Tuesday and...
The government has undertaken projects to bring activities of the police department under digital wireless communication system as well voice communications. "Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions have already been brought under digital wireless communication system," State Minister for Home Affairs...
Due to strong monsoon, steep pressure gradient persists over North Bay under its influence squally weather may affect North Bay, adjoining coast area of Bangladesh and the maritime ports, said a met office release Tuesday. Even heavy to very heavy...
The High Court (HC) today upheld the lower court order that took the charges into cognizance in a graft case over purchasing a government house against BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed. A division bench of the HC comprising Justice Md...
The consular section of the US Embassy in Dhaka in collaborat1ion with the Embassy’s Education USA student advising center, will host events titled ‘Student Visa Day’ on June 25 and July 9 in the city. Over 700 Bangladeshi students who...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in a drive arrested a man along with 17 cobras at Ghakar Char Lake City Housing Project here on Tuesday morning. The arrestee could not be identified immediately. Tipped off, a team of Rab-2 conducted...
A section of former students of Islamic University (IU) on Saturday kept its Vice Chancellor Prof Abdul Hakim Sarker confined to his office on Tuesday, protesting the recent recruitment of some teachers. Campus sources said the administrative building were put...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has included transgender population in the Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) programme of the country's banking sector. "The expenses for improving the living standard of the state recognised transgender population would be considered as CSR activities", the central...
Chittagong Metropolitan Police in a drive detained three men with 130 gold bars from Ruby Gate area under city's Baizid Police Station Tuesday. The identities of the arrested could not be known immediately. Based on secret information, a team of...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 502 bottles of phensidyl in three plastic bags from a compartment of Sirajganj local train. Receiving secret information members of RAB conducted raid in Sirajganj local train and recovered the phensidyl from the...
In an effort to smoothen motor traffic during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, CNG filling station will be open round the clock, says Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader. Filling stations will be open for 24 hours in the ten days between July...
Pakistan's prime minister called for emergency measures as the death toll from a heatwave in southern Sindh province topped 450. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said it had received orders from Nawaz Sharif to undertake immediate response measures, BBC...
A three-member probe committee has been formed to look into Monday night’s train-pickup collision at Rasulpur level crossing in Sadar upazila that left five people dead. Headed by Railway Divisional Transport Officer Mahbub Alam, the committee has been asked to...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said Myanmar has agreed to return abducted BGB member Nayek Abdur Razzak without any condition. “Last night I came to know through TV channels that they have put a condition to Razzak’s...
A strong earthquake struck off an island chain south of Tokyo on Tuesday, but officials said there was no danger of a tsunami. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the earthquake measured a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 and was very deep, about...
The officer-in-charge of district Detective Branch of Police has been closed to the Chittagong Range DIG office and 10 policemen have been transferred to different districts for their suspected involvement in Yaba smuggling and human trafficking. The transferred policemen include...
Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) will return Nayek Abdur Razzak of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) within a couple of days as it has sent a letter to the BGB on Tuesday evening calling for a flag meeting in this regard....
The long-awaited Barisal-Bhola 230kV power transmission line has finally gone into operation amid a high hope that it will help improve the electricity supply in the country’s southwestern region, particularly the districts located in Barisal and Khulna divisions. Project director...
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