BAGERHAT, Dec 24: The expert team of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is working to assess the extent of impacts caused by the oil spill following an oil tanker capsize in the Sundarbans, will submit its report to...
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and pioneer of Social Business, has ranked 5th among global influential thinkers in the Global Thought Leader 2014 survey. The survey was carried out by Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler...
WASHINGTON, Dec 24: Police said Wednesday they shot dead an African American teenager after he allegedly pointed a handgun at an officer in a town near Ferguson, Missouri, scene of a prior police shooting that sparked nationwide protests. St. Louis...
Christian community across the country is celebrating the holy Christmas today (Thursday) commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ amid festivity and religious fervour. Christians are offering special prayers, illuminate churches, decorate Christmas trees at homes and places of worship and...
A fire gutted hundreds of different kinds of shops in Singapore market in Chittagong cit on Wednesday evening. The fire went up in flames around 6:40pm and was brought under control at night, police and eyewitnesses sources said. Over 400...
Three siblings were injured as fire erupted from a gas pipeline in Kaliganj under Dakhkhin Keraniganj Police Station in the outskirts of Dhaka city on Thursday. The injured were identified as Shaheen, 26, son of Hossain Sheikh, and Shaheen’s two...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has directed her party’s senior leaders of Gazipur to make the 20-party alliance’s December 27 rally a success at any cost. Khaleda, a former prime minister, urged them to foil all the obstacles to the rally....
The death toll from Tangail road accident has risen to 10. The accident took place at Ashura under Madhupur Police Station on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Habibur Rahman, 50, his daughters ‘Hena’, 28, and ‘Ayesha’, 12, Firoza...
A medical test conducted on actress Naznin Akter Happy has revealed that she did not sleep with any man under duress. The medical test was conducted on Happy at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on December 14, a day...
Around 98 per cent of free textbooks meant for distribution among school students reached the Upazila headquarters by December 24, a week before the beginning of a new academic year. Md Abul Kashem Miah, Chairman of National Curriculum and Textbook...
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo outpaced Argentine Lionel Messi to occupy the No 1 spot in The Guardian’s list of top 100 footballers of the world-2014. The list published in its entirety by the British newspaper, contains a few surprises. According to...
The two JMB men, arrested in Dhanmondi on Tuesday, have said that apart from helping the JMB men accused in Burdwan blast case to cross over into India, they were coordinating the terrorist activities in the two countries. During preliminary...
An eight-month pregnant housewife has suffered serious burn injuries in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Matlab Dakkhin Upazila in Chandpur. The victim, Lucky Chakrabarty, 25, was undergoing treatment at Chandpur General Hospital on Thursday. Lucky was married...
US stocks closed flat in a short session on Wednesday. Both the S&P 500 and Dow touched intraday records, and the Dow closed at a slight record, the day's moves were slight and volume was light with many market participants...
Firefighters with the help of police and local people doused the fire which broke out in a slum in Gabtoli area in Dhaka city on Wednesday night. Four people, including a woman and a child, sustained burn injuries after the...
European stocks inched up on Wednesday in a shortened session ahead of the Christmas break. Shares in British medical device maker Smith & Nephew Plc surged 7 per cent. Oil major BP Plc gained 1.1 per cent, outpacing oil and...
Two allaged criminals were killed in separate incidents of gun battles with police in Pabna and Comilla districts on Thursday. A mugger was killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and cops in Gokulnagar village under Ishwardi Upazila in Pabna...
Police have failed to submit investigation reports in 2 cases filed over Rana Plaza collapse, 20 months after the multi-storey building caved in at Savar town killing more than 1100 people and maiming scores. Investigation officer (IO) of the cases...
A man was hit and killed by a train in Gazipur district on Wednesday night. The accident occurred around 8:30pm near Tongi Upazila’s Boubazar area, said Railway Police's Assistant Sub-Inspector Zia Uddin. The unidentified man, aged around 20, suffered head...
At least two Bangladesh nationals were killed in a building collapse in Subang Jaya in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur city in Malaysia on Wednesday aternoon. One of the deceased was identified as Mohammad Sumon Mollah, 30. The other Bangladeshi...
A man was killed and 10 other people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Sadarpur village in Sadullahpur Upazila in Gaibandha on Wednesday afternoon. The dead is Saiduzzaman, a resident of the village. Police said there...
Two cases have been filed against 150 leaders and workers of BNP, Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal in connection with Wednesday’s clash with Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in Bakshibazar in Old Dhaka. Former president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)...
A 50-kilometre-long tailback was created on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway following an accident in Burichong Upazila in Comilla district on Thursday. A vegetables-laden truck turned turtle in Nimsair area near Mainamati in the morning. The truck lied diagonally on the busy highway...
Police have detained 54 people in connection with series of clashes between BNP supporters and Awami League activists in Old Dhaka’s Bakshibazar when Khaleda Zia appeared before a special court there. Awami League MP Chhabi Biswas was critically injured and...
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 0.8 million from a house at Sultanpur at Satkhira town early Thursday. Abu Bakkar Siddique, owner of the house, said a gang of 7/8 armed robbers stormed his house around 2:45am by breaking open the...
The prime accused in Mymensingh four-murder case on Thursday reportedly confessed to his involvement in the killings. Miscreants chopped to death Rafiqul Islam Bachchu, general secretary of Habirbari union unit of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, his wife Parul Akhter and their...
Garment workers blocked a road at Dhaka’s Mohammadpur in protest against the repeated postponement of salary payments by the authorities of a factory. Locals said workers of Azim Garments held demonstrations near Mohammadpur Bus Stand around 1:30pm on Thursday, disrupting...
‘The Interview,’ the provocative comedy that triggered a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures, went straight to US consumers on Wednesday in an unprecedented online debut after hacker threats prevented its wide release on Christmas day. The film was available for...
Some miscreants hurled 3/4 bombs at the residence of BNP’s Chittagong city unit general secretary Dr Shahadat Hossain on Badsha Mia road in Chakbazar in the port city early Thursday. Witnesses said the criminals hurled the bombs targeting the flat...
Police on Wednesday night arrested Rajshahi’s Bagha municipality mayor Akkas Ali on charge of making offensive comments on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam. Aminur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Bagha Police Station, said on information,...
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