A half-day hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance protesting police swoop on its procession, passed peacefully in Gaibandha district today (Sunday). Anisuzzaman Khan Babu, convener of the district unit of the 20-party alliance, announced the shutdown programme from a...
Jihad, the child trapped in a pipe, kept responding for six hours since the launch of the rescue operation by Fire Service and Civil Defence men on Friday afternoon, witnesses said. The four-year-old boy had spoken several times and even...
Four people have died while at least 14 others injured in separate road accidents in Naogaon and Sirajganj districts. A bus tumbled into a ditch killing 2 in Naogaon while two others died in separate accidents in Sirajganj on Saturday....
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in separate drives seized a large consignment of contraband drugs in Charghat Upazila in Rajshahi district on Saturday afternoon. Additional director Kamrul Hasan, acting commanding officer of BGB Battalion-37, said a BGB patrol team conducted...
Zookeepers wearing gorilla suits have helped rear an endangered abandoned baby gorilla in Ohio so she can join an adult group. The 16 human surrogates have spent 3 months feeding, nurturing and gently introducing the baby, Kamina, to adult female...
The tragedy of child Jihad has driven his father, Nasiruddin Fakir, to file a case against the proprietor of a construction company and an engineer of Bangladesh Railway (BR). The child had fallen into a 600 feet deep water pipe...
With the completion of the autopsy on Jihad’s body on Sunday morning, the autopsy conductors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) came up with the observation that the four-year-old boy died from drowning. The autopsy was completed by a three-member...
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed has said that the ruling party will not be allowed to hold public rallies in any place of the country. ‘Awami League will not be allowed to hold rallies in any place...
Another court in the city has issued an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman on charge of giving defamatory and seditious speech staying in London. The case was filed by Abdul Aziz, assistant general secretary of Dhaka...
There was no Bangladeshi citizen on board the missing Air Asia flight carrying 155 people from Indonesia, which lost contact with air traffic control today. Flight QZ 8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Stocks went down for the third running sessions today (Sunday) with turnover dipping below Tk 2.0-billion-mark again as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments ahead of year closing. The market opened with a negative note and the downward trend...
The United States has expressed concern at disappearance from the radar screen of an AirAsia flight in South East Asia and also said that it is monitoring the situation. Washington’s concern came after an Airbus A320-200 of AirAsia with 162...
Bangladesh and China reviewed the entire gamut of their bilateral relations at a Foreign Minister-level meeting in Dhaka on Sunday. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali led the 19-member Bangladesh side while his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi the 13-member China team...
A boy died from suffocation after a piece of meat got stuck in his throat in Jhumjhumpur village in Jessore district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Al Amin, 12, son of Kalam Molla, a resident of the...
Habiganj Municipal Mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, charged with the murder of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, has surrendered to a Habiganj court and has been sent to jail. Gaus, the BNP’s Habiganj district unit general secretary, surrendered to the...
Two construction workers have died from electrocution in Old Dhaka's Islamabag. The victims were identified as Md Asadul, 18, and Kora Mia, 45. The incident took place while they were working at a building construction site near Islamabag’s Ershad Colony...
A young housewife, who attempted to kill herself on December 22, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon. The dead is Papia, 20, wife of Sabuj Ali, a resident of Fakirabad area in Mirpur Upazila in Kushtia...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the government has taken step for making the existing Detail Area Plan (DAP) of Dhaka City more realistic to cope up with the need of time. Lakes, water bodies and open spaces should...
A Dhaka court has remanded Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal President Moazzam Hossain Alal for three days in police custody in a case over Wednesday's clashes in Dhaka's Bakshibazar. The BNP's youth affiliate chief was arrested at his Mohammadpur home late on...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) on Sunday urged the BNP-led 20-party alliance to withdraw their hartal called for Monday in the interest of the country’s political stability and economic progress. In a statement, the apex...
China has proposed signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh to boost trade ties between the two countries, minimising the trade gap against Bangladesh. The Chinese side came up with the proposal at bilateral talks between the two countries...
Oliver Holmes and Omar Fahmy of Reuters in Cairo | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Syria said on December 27 it was willing to participate in "preliminary consultations" in Moscow aimed at restarting talks next year to end its civil war but the Western-backed opposition dismissed the initiative. Two rounds of peace talks this year...
Strobel and Phil Stewart of Reuters in Baghdad | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The U.S. government is preparing to boost the number of private contractors in Iraq as part of President Barack Obama's growing effort to beat back Islamic State militants threatening the Baghdad government, a senior U.S. official said. How many contractors...
Peter Apps of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
From financial crisis in Russia to cyber warfare with North Korea, 2014 has generated new flashpoints right into its final days, setting 2015 up to be just as turbulent. Almost all of the major confrontations, such as the battle with...
Daniel Dickson and Johan Sennero of Reuters in Stockholm | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Sweden's three-month-old minority centre-left government announced a deal with the opposition on December 27 to sideline the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who hold the balance of power in parliament, and avert a fresh election. Sweden's normally stable politics were thrown into...
Our Correspondent RAJSHAHI, Dec 28: Due to mixing of sugar and harmful dying agents, legendary date-molasses (Gur) of Rajshahi is posing a health threat for consumers. It is learnt, a section of dishonest traders were engaged in mixing sugar, flour,...
Our Correspondent JHENIDAH, Dec 28: A colourful rally led by Kalaroa Upazila Parishad chairman Firoj Ahmed Swapan in presence of film actor Ilias Kanchan, founder and chairman of Nirapad Sarak Chai Andolan, was held in the the upazila headquarters Friday. ...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 28 (UNB): A young housewife, who attempted to kill herself on December 22, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Papia, 20, wife of Sabuj Ali, a resident of Fakirabad...
RANGPUR, Dec 28 (BSS): The weather marked sharp improvement today following disappearance of fog amid a sunny sky in the northern districts bringing remarkable easiness to the common people, official and local sources said. The situation improved by and large...
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