Some miscreants shot to death a man and injured 6 other people as they refused to pay them illegal toll in Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district on Sunday evening. The dead is M Ishaque Miah, 60, son of late Lal...
South African woman Rolene Strauss won the Miss World 2014 beauty pageant in London on Sunday, the organisers said in a statement. Hungary's Edina Kulcsár came 2nd and Elizabeth Safrit, representing the United States, came 3rd. This year’s pageant, the...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition cruised to a big election win on Sunday, ensuring he will stick to reflationary economic policies and a muscular security stance, but record low turnout pointed to broad dissatisfaction with his performance. NHK public...
Forest officials have claimed that oil spill from a sunken oil tanker in Shela River in Chandpai Range in the Sundarbans has not killed any dolphin. However, environmentalists have expressed the fear that the oil slick may endanger dolphins, especially...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Monday, maintaining the previous session’s negative trend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 15.82 points or...
It will take only 4 hours to travel by road from Chittagong to Dhaka after May-June next year. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said this while talking to reporters after inaugurating the renovation work of Tiprabazar-BARD road in...
Forest Department officials and staff look fighting a losing battle to manually clean up the spilt-oil from Shela River in Chandpai Range in the Sundarbans as the slicked oil has already dissolved in the waters of Shela River and different...
The government has decided to give Tk 40 instead of Tk 30 for collection of per litre oil leaked into waterways in the Sundarbans after oil-tanker ‘OT Southern Star 7’ sank in Shela River spilling 358,000 litres of furnace oil....
The leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) have said that proper and sincere steps have not yet been taken to materialise the dreams and desires of the martyrs of 1971 liberation war. Several millions people have been killed...
The government will build modern and green satellite towns in areas surrounding the Dhaka city. Initiative has been taken to implement the plan, which aims at reducing the mounting pressure on the densely-populated city. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer...
Asian shares prices came under pressure on Monday as oil prices briefly sank to fresh 5-1/2 year lows in choppy trade. Investors were nervous after US shares posted their biggest weekly fall in 2-1/2-years last week on losses led by...
Several people have been taken hostage by at least one armed man at a Lindt cafe in Sydney, Australia. Hundreds of armed police have sealed off the normally busy Martin Place in the central business district. At least three people...
Some miscreants have chopped to death an employee of a food company in Dhaka city on Monday. The dead is Md Shahjahan, 60. He used to work as a security guard for the factory of ‘Ahmed Food Products’ nearby the...
The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a drive arrested 10 people along with arms from Rampura and Mugda areas of the capital on Sunday night. The DB officials said a team of detectives conducted the drive...
A female garment worker was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband in Fatullah Upazila in Narayanganj district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shraboni, 22, daughter of Faruk Miah, hailed from Jaypurhat district. Victim’s family alleged that her...
Miscreants looted valuables worth Tk 0.5 million from a house after doping five members of a family in Jhikorgacha Upazila in Jessore district on Sunday night. Relatives of the victims said a gang of miscreants sprayed some kind of doping...
The Appellate Division has summoned daily ‘Prothom Alo’ editor Matiur Rahman and joint editor Mizanur Rahman Khan to appear before it in person on January 5 to explain a contempt-of-court allegation regarding an op-ed published in the vernacular daily on...
Customs Intelligence officials seized 150 cartoons of illegally imported cigarettes and detained a man at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in the city on Sunday night. The detained was identified as Masud Rana. Sources at the Customs Intelligence said the...
A three-day international tourism fair- Chittagong Travel Mart-2014 begins in the port city of Chittagong on Thursday. Premier travel publication --The Bangladesh Monitor-- is arranging the fair for the sixth time. Organisations from home and abroad, including airlines, tour operators,...
The cargo vessel that hit an oil tanker in the Sundarbans has been seized from Narayanganj. Four of its crew have been arrested from the ship. On December 9, the vessel 'MV Total' hit tanker 'OT Southern Star-7', which was...
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Stocks edged marginally lower today (Monday) amid choppy trading as most of the investors are yet to be familiar on the newly introduced trading system. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went down further by 14.30...
European shares held steady on Monday after posting their biggest weekly loss since mid-2011 in the previous session, with a halt to oil's sell-off lifting energy stocks. The STOXX Europe 600 oil and gas index rose 1.4 per cent as...
Police seized 700 bottles of Phensidy syrup from a coal-laden truck in Atapara under Panchbibi Upazila of Joypurhat on Sunday. A team of Panchbibi police intercepted the Dhaka-bound truck coming from Hili Land Port on Hili-Panchbibi Road and recovered the...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested a young man in possession of 200 pieces of Yaba tablets from Bhaberber village under Sharsha Upazila in Jessore on Sunday night. The arrested is Musa Mahmud, 35, son of Ahed Ali Sarkar, of...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested an alleged drug trader in possession of 980 bottles of Phensidyl at Chamagram in Shibganj Upazila in Chapainawabganj district early Monday. The arrested is Golap Hossain, 36, son of Abdul Mannan, of the village....
Bangladesh Bank will disclose the revised road-map on implementation of Basel-3 very soon to ensure capital adequacy of the banks. Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman said this in a Bankers Meeting today (Monday). He said the implementation period of Basel-3...
Pedestrians with the help of local people detained two police personnel allegedly for their attempt to mug a man near Matshya Bhaban under Shahbagh Police Station in the city on Monday. The accused police men were identified as Constable Nur...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday summoned the managing director of Rupali Bank and the chairman of Westmont Power (Bangladesh) Limited to face its grilling in connection with a loan scam. ACC investigation officer and deputy director Mir Zainul...
Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (Haab) president Mohammad Ibrahim Bahar on Monday urged the government to reduced the Moallem fee for next year’s Hajj to Tk 30,000 as against existing Tk 0.12 million. “We also urge the government to allow...
Australian police locked down the center of the country's biggest city Monday after an armed man walked into a busy downtown Sydney cafe, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag, igniting fears of a jihadist attack. Police...
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