A prisoner, who was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment in a case under Narcotics Control Act, died at Magura Sadar Hospital on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Khalil Fakir, 48, son of Chad Ali Fakir of Jatrabari area...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has strongly condemned Taliban attack on a school at Pakistan’s Peshawar which claimed at least 141 lives, mostly of students, on Tuesday. In a statement, she said: ‘This form of cruelty of the Taliban is aimed...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, maintaining the previous session’s negative trend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 13.11 points or...
The world, along with Pakistan have mourned the death of about 150 people, mostly students, in a deadly attack carried out by Taliban on a military-run educational institution in North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan announced a three-day national...
The World Bank (WB) has approved some $ 1.1 billion for 3 projects in Bangladesh that would benefit almost 36 million people. The three projects are aimed at improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural...
Asian share markets were mixed with Japan's Nikkei recouping 0.5 per cent of its recent hefty losses. MSCI's index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.2 per cent from a nine-month trough. In Europe, the FTSE is seen opening...
European shares staged a late rebound on Tuesday as the Russian rouble recovered a good chunk of the day's losses against the dollar and oil prices also gained ground. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European shares closed 1.8 per cent...
US stocks fell for a 3rd day in a volatile session Tuesday. Energy shares rebounded, keeping the S&P 500 and Dow mostly in positive territory. The S&P 500 moved more than 44 points, while the CBOE Volatility index jumped 15.4...
A truck driver was killed and another person injured in s collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Sylhet city on Wednesday morning. The dead is Pranoy Kumar, 32, a resident of Shibaloya Upazila of Manikganj...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday discharged BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from a defamation case which was filed for calling former state minister for law Qamrul Islam ‘insane’. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Anwar Sadat passed the order...
A septuagenarian man was chopped to death at Mohammadpur Upazila in Magura district on Wednesday. The dead is Alek Sardar, 70, of Raipur village. Police said a gang of local miscreants called Alek out of his house at Raipur while...
The two Ansarullah Bangla Team men arrested in Dhaka on Tuesday night were making a remote-controlled aerial surveillance devise to photograph important structures in Bangladesh for carrying out attacks on pin-point targets, police say. Being tipped off, a team of...
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Stocks plummeted for the fifth straight sessions on Wednesday with turnover improved slightly as most of the investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went down further by 40.72 points or 0.83 per...
The Pakistani prime minister lifted a moratorium on the death penalty on Wednesday, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a school, killing 132 students and nine teachers, a government spokesman said. Pakistan began three days of mourning on Wednesday for...
The officer-in-charge of Sylhet's Osmani Nagar Police Station died during a series of clashes between two rival groups of transport workers over establishing dominance in the area on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday approved the removal of moratorium on death penalty after the carnage in Peshawar killed about people. Addressing an All Parties Conference (APC) in Peshawar, the prime mnister announced that the moratorium on death penalty,...
Police arrested three young men on Wednesday in connection with the gruesome murder of a Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal leader and three members of his family at Lobonkota village in Bhaluka Upazila in Mymensingh. The arrestees were identified as Rafiqul Islam,...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday expressed deep shock at the killing of children in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. ‘I’m deeply shocked at this barbaric and heinous massacre … I strongly condemn such a savage killing...
The Pay and Services Commission has finalised a new salary structure for government employees. It recommended Tk 80,000 as highest salary and Tk 8,200 as lowest. The commission proposed 100 per cent increase in salaries for employees at the very...
Twenty-seven of 53 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets for the July-November period of the current fiscal (2014-15). The key Bangladesh missions like the ones in Washington, Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Ottawa, Rome and the...
Police on Wednesday thwarted an attempt of dental technology students to lay a siege to the Health Ministry to press home their several demands, including registration from the Dental Council. Assistant commissioner (Ramna Zone) Shiblee Noman said several hundred students...
Claiming that the country is now under the grip of the cohorts of 1971 occupation forces, BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has called upon people from all walks of life to get united to save Bangladesh’s besieged democracy. ‘Democracy...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to restrain her son Tarique Rahman. "He behaves and talks like an animal. Unless he is controlled, people will teach him a lesson," Hasina said while speaking at an Awami...
Those from Bangladesh seeking UK visa will now have their applications processed in Delhi. "The United Kingdom Visas and Immigration (UKVI), as part of its global strategy, is reducing the number of locations around the world where decisions are made...
Outgoing US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena Wednesday said political parties in Bangladesh need to use their political space peacefully to strengthen democracy. “Of course, the political parties need to use political space peacefully…we discussed the important role that...
US and Cuba are to start talks to normalise diplomatic ties in a historic shift in relations between the two countries, media reports say. American officials have told US media the US is looking to open an embassy in Havana...
TOKYO, Dec 15 (AFP): Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he would work to convince voters of the need to revise Japan's pacifist constitution the day after scoring a thumping election victory. The premier, who was re-elected by a landslide...
HONG KONG, Dec 15 (AFP): Hong Kong's leader declared an end to more than 11 weeks of sit-in protests by pro-democracy demonstrators after police cleared the last remaining camp and arrested a handful of peaceful protesters Monday. A committed core...
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