The war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict on ‘Razakar’ Md Syed Hasan Ali on Tuesday. Ali, tried in absentia, has been indicted for killing 24 persons and for abduction and torture of 12 other people at Kishoreganj during Bangladesh’s...
A man was shot dead by rivals over land related dispute in Baghbari area of Sylhet city on Sunday midnight. The deceased was identified as Mohibur Rahman, 55, son of Abdul Latif, a resident of the area. Locals said Abdul...
State owned Jute Mills CBA and non-CBA Oikya Parishad has enforced a 24-hour strike at eight state-run jute mills in Khulna division to press home their six-point demands. The strike that began from 6am on Monday will continue till 6am...
Indian equity markets struggled on Monday, tracking weakness in global markets. The Sensex fell as much as 130 points to 26,639 and the 50-shares Nifty fell below the key 8,100 mark. Tata Motors was the top loser in Nifty, falling...
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The Cabinet has approved Motor Vehicles Agreement draft for signing by four South Asian nations – India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan – on June 15. The road transport ministers of the four SAARC states will ink the agreement in Thimpu...
A court in Kushtia on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing a beauty parlor worker on March 27 in 2013. The condemned convict is Mojibur Rahman alias Likhon, son of Mizanur Rahman of the district...
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Stocks witnessed sharp fall on Monday with turnover falling significantly as budgetary incentives virtually failed to revive investors’ confidence. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dipped 75.43 points or 1.63 per cent to settle at 4,542.27...
The High Court on Monday stayed for six months the admission policy of the Education Ministry that asked colleges to enroll students of higher secondary level on the basis of SSC results, allowing Notre Dame, Holy Cross and St Joseph...
A day-labourer was allegedly killed by other labourers over a trifling matter in Deobhog Bazar area of Faridpur upazila of Pabna district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Munnaf Mondol, 48, son of Julmot Mondol, a resident of Deobhog...
The United States has said Bangladesh offers opportunities for investment but corruption remains a serious impediment to its investment and economic growth. The US made the observation in its Investment Climate Statement 2015 on Bangladesh mentioning that Bangladesh witnessed over...
Growth in the Japanese economy in the first quarter has been revised sharply higher, official government data shows. The world's third largest economy expanded 1% in the first three months from the previous three, up from an initial estimate of...
Oil prices slipped on Monday after China's fuel imports dropped sharply and as markets digested an OPEC decision to keep its production target unchanged, a move analysts said would keep the market oversupplied for the rest of the year. China,...
The Cabinet on Monday adopted a thanksgiving and felicitation motion congratulating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her contributions towards making the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh on June 6-7 fruitful. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet...
European shares fell on Monday, weighed down by a drop in agrochemicals group Syngenta although Deutsche Bank outperformed to surge higher after boardroom changes. Bid speculation also lifted the shares of drinks group Diageo and Swiss biotech company Actelion. The...
More than 100 Bangladesh nationals who were rescued by Myanmar Navy last month from a boat near Myanmar’s coast while being trafficked to Malaysia have returned home. Myanmar Border Guard Police handed 150 identified Bangladesh citizens over to Border Guards...
A man has been killed in a road accident near Bogra town. The victim was identified as Sheikh Ansar Ali, 45, son of Sheikh Abdul Jabbar of Palashbari upazila under Gaibandha district. He was a fruit trader by profession. Sheikh...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to file a case against two officials of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) for allegedly misappropriating nearly Tk1.5 million from a health project. The Commission at its regular meeting on Monday...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the 'Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger, Personal, and Cargo Vehicular Traffic with Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal' (BBIN) aiming to boost road connectivity in the region. The approval came...
The government on Monday signed an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a $120 million loan in additional funding for a six-year government-sponsored programme to improve the quality of primary education in Bangladesh. Senior Secretary of the Economic...
Iran's official news agency says one of the country's vice presidents, who was under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been arrested. This is the second such high-profile detention among officials of the former administration, a news agency report said. IRNA's report quotes...
Litterateur Rafiqul Haque, popularly known as Dadu Bhai, who is reputed for his excellent rhymes, will get Bangladesh Shishu Academy Sahitya Puraskar-1420 (Bangla Year). Bangladesh Shishu Academy announced his name for the award in a statement signed by its director...
The US deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asia has welcomed the agreements signed between Bangladesh and India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka. “We look very positively of all agreements signed between India and Bangladesh,” Eileen...
A Sylhet court on Monday placed a local photojournalist, Idris Ali, on a seven-day remand in connection with the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case. Metropolitan Cognisance Court-3 Judge Farzana Yesmin passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate its Dhaka-Singapore-Dhaka flights with newly purchased Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The announcement was made by the Chairman of the national flag carrier Air Marshal (retd) Jamal Uddin Ahmed in Singapore on Friday, a Biman press release...
Additional Principal Information Officer M Joynal Abedin has been made press secretary to the President. The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Monday, a news agency report said. Joynal, an officer of BCS Information Cadre of...
The Department of Narcotics Control arrested five suspected drug dealers along with 7,000 contraband Yaba tablets from the city’s Palashi Toll Plaza on Monday. The arrestees are Md Rezaul Islam, 25, Md Maruf, 29, Md Monir Hossain, 23, Md Mamun...
US President Barack said on Monday he was confident Islamic State militants would be driven out of Iraq and defeated but there would be setbacks along the way. In a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 summit...
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