Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday directed the First Securities Services Limited (FSSL) to remove Kazi Saifur Rahman from the post of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. The commission also said that Rahman should be...
Bangladesh Navy seized Monday a Myanmar flag carrying trawler in the deep sea with at least 625 people on board, including many Myanmar nationals, heading towards Malaysia illegally. A source at the Naval Headquarters told UNB that the trawler was...
Hearing on the leave to appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia against the High Court (HC) order in connection with Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, started at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday. The five-member...
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) is extending its home loan coverage to rural areas aimed at developing planned and modern housing in villages while protecting cropland from indiscriminate use. The state-owned house financing organisation will offer cheaper loan for...
India's National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Burdwan blast, has handed a list of suspects to Bangladesh. "The NIA team has provided certain names in connection with the Burdwan incident," Police's Detective Branch Joint Commissioner Manirul Islam told reporters on...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-17 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Nov 16: The weeklong Rash Mela, one of the biggest festivals of the Hindu community concluded on Saturday night at Mahiganj Pareshnath temple premises in Rangpur city. On the occasion of the closing ceremony a large number of visitors...
MEHERPUR, Nov 16 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a salon owner with the throat slashed from a mango orchard at Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased identified as Paresh Das,40, a resident of Chuadanga district...
NARSINGDI, Nov 16 (BSS): Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive programme to cultivate Boro paddy in the six upazilas of the district after harvesting Aman. DAE office sources said a total of 54,750 hectares of land...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 16 (BSS): Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here today said people with disabilities caused by spinal cord injuries need community support for their proper rehabilitation. They viewed that community people should take up the responsibility of creating an...
CHUADANGA, Nov 16 (BSS): Two students were killed in two separate incidents in different places of Chuadanga Sadar upazila of the district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Jayed Bin Fahim, son of Abdul Mannan of Chuadanga Bara Masjid...
MOULVIBAZAR, Nov 16 (UNB): A man was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran over him in Kusumbagh area on the Moulvibazar-Sylhet Highway in the district town on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Satan Badya, 55, son of late...
RANGPUR, Nov 16 (BSS): The government has fixed an all-time record target of producing 9.55 million tonnes winter vegetables from 0.49 million hectares of land in the country during the current 2014-2015 Rabi season, official sources said. The fixed national...
JOYPURHAT, Nov 16 (BSS): Harvest of transplanted (T) Aman paddy, a highly valued crop, has been progressing fast in all the five upazilas in the district during the current season. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and farmers are expecting...
Body of a youth recovered in Barisal Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified youth from Arialkha river at Mirganj Ferryghat under Babuganj upazila of Barisal Saturday night. Being informed, a team of police from Babuganj thana rushed to...
Jan Strupczewski of Reuters in Brussels | 2014-11-17 00:00:00
The euro zone economy grew more strongly than expected in the third quarter as France beat market forecasts and Germany narrowly avoided a recession, but the bloc remains weak and could need further stimulus. European Union statistics office Eurostat said...
Alistair Smout and Guy Faulconbridge of Reuters in Perth, Scotland | 2014-11-17 00:00:00
Scotland may seek another independence vote if Britain's rulers fail to honour their pledge to grant it further autonomy, outgoing Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond warned last week, less than two months after Scots spurned independence. Salmond, in his...
Phil Stewart of Reuters in Baghdad | 2014-11-17 00:00:00
The United States' top military officer told American troops on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Saturday that the momentum in the battle with Islamic State was "starting to turn", but predicted a drawn-out campaign lasting several years. General Martin...
Amy Sawitta Lefevre of Reuters in Bangkok | 2014-11-17 00:00:00
Thousands of Rohingya boat people who have left Myanmar in the past month have yet to reach their destinations, say relatives and an advocacy group for the persecuted minority, raising fears their boats have been prevented from reaching shore. About...
TOKYO, Nov 16 (AFP): Residents of Japan's Okinawa Sunday elected a governor who opposes plans to relocate a US military base within the island chain, a fresh setback in efforts to resolve a thorny issue in military relations. Voters in...
MIRANSHAH, Nov 16 (AFP): Airstrikes and ground clashes between Pakistani troops and militants in the troubled northwest early Sunday left three soldiers and 34 militants dead, the military said. The attacks happened in the village of Datta Khel in the...
TRIPOLI, Nov16 (Reuters): Armed clashes broke out in Libya's capital Tripoli closing down the city's main working airport, local residents and an official said on Sunday. Tripoli has been mostly calm since the Libya Dawn force, an armed faction allied...
MADRID, Nov 16 (AFP): Spain's interior minister warned in an interview published Sunday there was a "real" risk that Catalan government's push for independence could degenerate into violence. "A process of these characteristics, by its very nature, generates radicalism. And...
KABUL, Nov 16 (Reuters): An outspoken female Afghan lawmaker survived a suicide bombing attack on her vehicle on Sunday, suffering slight wounds, but three civilian bystanders were killed, a police spokesman said. Member of parliament Shukria Barakzai is a women's...
LUCKNOW, Nov 16 (AP): A collision between a minibus and a speeding truck in northern India killed 12 people Sunday, and eight others were killed in a western state when a truck hit people waiting at a roadside bus station,...
TEXAS, Nov 16 (AP): A federal agency that investigates chemical accidents has announced that it will send a team to a Houston-area industrial plant where a chemical leak killed four people. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Saturday night that...
Muslims discovered Americas: Erdogan ISTANBUL, Nov 16: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus. Speaking Saturday at a gathering of Muslim leaders from Latin America, Erdogan...
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