A suspected ringleader of a robbers’ gang was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nasir Uddin, the kingpin of the robber gang, ‘Nasir Bahini’, and son...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) continued with uptrend after two hours on Tuesday amid choppy trading, the third session of the week. Brokers said the market witnessed some volatility as a group of investors booked...
Two garment workers were killed in separate road accidents in Gazipur city and Sreepur upazila on Tuesday. Police and witnesses said Nosimon, a worker of Design Tex Sweater Factory at Konabari in the city and wife of Abdul Jalil of...
Former captain Ravi Shastri was on Tuesday named interim coach of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh starting June 10. Shastri, who served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup earlier...
Police have unearthed a factory making fake oral rehydration saline in Manikganj Sadar upazila. In a drive at the fake saline factory on Monday night, the law enforcers recovered huge spurious OR saline and arrested five people. The arrestees are...
Myanmar's navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 abandoned migrants to the waters of neighbouring Bangladesh, four days after intercepting it in the Andaman Sea, the country's information minister said on Tuesday. The migrants, who were found drifting on...
The sensex slid sharply soon after the Reserve Bank of India cut repo rate by 25 basis points (a quarter of a percentage point) to 7.25 per cent as Dalal Street investors, in the run up to the central bank's...
Global newspaper circulation revenues are larger than newspaper advertising revenues for the first time this century, according to the annual World Press Trends survey released by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). "The basic assumption of the...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday denied bail plea of BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases filed with Paltan Police Station for arson attack, vandalism and obstructing the work of police. Metropolitan Session's Judge Md Kamrul...
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque has said that Bangladesh earned Tk40.6 billion (Tk4,006 crore) exporting some 69,070 metric tonnes of fish and fish products till April 15 this fiscal year. The minister came up with the statistics replying...
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Stocks returned to the red on Tuesday, snapping two sessions’ upward trend, as investors followed cautious stance ahead of budget announcement. The national budget for the fiscal year 2015-2016 will be announced on Thursday. The market opened positive, but could...
The bodies of eight newborns were found wrapped in a polythene bag floating in the Teesta River in Dimla upazila of Nilphamari district on Tuesday, sending a shock wave in the area. Officer-in-charge of Dimla Police Station Abdul Ali Akand...
Bangladesh has said the issue of human trafficking is a regional and global problem, and it will have to be resolved through regional and global efforts saying poverty is not the only reason behind the menace. "There're some factors and...
Oil prices rose on Tuesday in response to a weaker dollar and expectations that OPEC producers will maintain their group production target at its current level and resist pressure for an increase. The dollar fell against the euro and a...
The Election Commission (EC) has informed the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) that the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has been cancelled. Senior Assistant Secretary of the EC Mohammad Atiar sent an information statement regarding the cancellation of Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration to the Parliament...
FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter, has said he will step down as leader of football's governing body, once a new successor is found. Blatter said at a press conference on Tuesday in Zurich that an extraordinary congress would be convened to...
The government has made Rajshahi’s Ward-21 Councillor Md Nijam Ul Azim acting mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation following suspension of Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul and absence of panel mayors. City Corporation-2 Wing of the Local Government Division issued an order to...
Police arrested a top human trafficker from Puichhari village in Banshkhali upazila of Chittagong district on Monday night. The arrestee was identified as Abdur Razzak, 40. Habibur Rahman, Additional Police Super of Chittagong (South) said Abdur Razzak is one of...
A housewife died of electrocution at Rajanagar village in Shailakupa upazila of Jhenidah on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Monjera Begum, 54, wife of Abdul Majid Master of the village. Firoj Ahmed, local UP chairman said Monjera came in...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has visited the graves of her husband Ziaur Rahman and son Arafat Rahman Koko on Tuesday afternoon, on the occasion of Holy Shab-e-Barat, her media wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan told reporters on Tuesday. The BNP...
President Mohammad Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina greeted all Muslims in the country and elsewhere in world on the occasion of the Holy Shab-e-Barat. In separate messages on the holy occasion, they prayed for peace, progress and prosperity...
Bangladesh drew with Afghanistan 1-1 in a FIFA friendly football match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon. SAAF chamiopns Afghanistan ahead of Bangladesh in the FIFA ranking. Forward Jahid Hasan Emili put Bangladesh ahead by a...
Noting that the development of the areas depend on those who have been in charge of the areas, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the public servants to work with innovative power and idea and keeping in mind how...
Terming human trafficking a heinous criminal act, PM’s international affairs adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi on Wednesday said Bangladesh has been working firmly to deal with the problem. Dr Rizvi came up with the remark while addressing the inaugural session of...
The former Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case was transferred to Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal from the Habiganj Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Tuesday for its quick disposal. Judge of Habiganj Chief Judicial Magistrate court Nishat Sultana passed the order...
Bangladesh has thanked India and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resolving the long-standing border issue. Parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a motion thanking India, four days before Modi’s scheduled Dhaka visit. India’s lower and upper houses ratified the Land...
Former German chancellor and architect of reunification Helmut Kohl is in intensive care after surgery on his intestine, German media reports say. The 85-year-old conservative is in a clinic in the south-western city of Heidelberg, Der Spiegel reports. There has...
Holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, is being observed in the country on Tuesday night with due religious fervour. Muslim devotees started offering special prayers, reciting from the holy Quran, holding milad, zikr and other religious rituals seeking...
Four teams -Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force-reached the Seba zone semifinals of the Meizan Fortified Palm Olein Inter-District and National Kabaddi Championship at the Kabaddi Stadium in the city on Monday, reports UNB....
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