Detectives arrested two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for quizzing in connection with Tangail district unit Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed killing case on Saturday night. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police detained MA Rouf, secretary of...
Four people, including Islamia College's Principal Humayun Ahmed, have been detained over the killing of Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam. Ahmed was picked up from Binodpur adjacent to the RU campus on Sunday, Matihar police OC Alamgir Hossain...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
More than 30 per cent production capacity of local textile mills has remained unutilised for long as garment manufacturers are increasingly sourcing their raw materials from abroad. The latter are 'capitalising' on the liberalised rules of origin by the European...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Nov 14: A lighter vessel with cargo sank in the Karnaphuli estuary's Parki Beach area Friday noon. The vessel was carrying 1,200 tonnes of salt from Chittagong to Dhaka. Executive director of lighterage controlling agency Water Transport Cell, Mahbub...
Syful Islam | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
At least Tk 5.6 billion of six state-owned banks (SoBs) remained stuck against 2,02,460 cases filed to recover the money from farm loan borrowers, statistics show. By the end of the third quarter of 2014, since January 1991, some 10,297...
FE Report | 2014-11-15 00:00:00
A garment worker was stabbed to death by miscreants Thursday night at Uttar Sanarpar of Demra in the capital. The Demra thana police said the victim, Md Khatib Mia (20), was intercepted by a gang of miscreants while he was...
NAY PYI TAW, Nov. 14 (Xinhua): Southeast Asian countries hope to achieve the two-way trade goal with China of 500 billion US dollars by 2015 and 1 trillion dollars by 2020, as well as two-way investment of 150 billion dollars...
US President Barack Obama has defended plans to use his overriding executive powers to push through changes to the nation's immigration system, reports BBC. He said Congress had been given ample opportunity to come up with its own plan but...
Washington's South-Asia point person Nisha Desai Biswal is coming to Dhaka. A foreign ministry official has told bdenws24.com that they have been notified about the visit. Her schedule has not been fixed yet, but the US embassy in Dhaka has...
COLOMBO, Nov 14: Sri Lanka will support establishing a bank among South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to help finance infrastructure development in the region, Sri Lankan central bank governor said yesterday. Ajith Nivard Cabraal told Business Standard...
At least 13 people were injured, as a bus overturned in front of Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital at 8:30 pm on Friday. Officer-in-Charge of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Abdul Momen told the Financial Express that the...
A suspected robber was killed and three others were injured in a lynch-mob attack while taking preparation for committing robbery in Shibganj area in Sylhet city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Iqbal Hossain, 32, son of Shamser Ali...
A gas pipe line beside Navana Tower at Gulshan Circle-1 in the city caught fire on Friday night. However, no causality was reported in the fire incident. Duty Officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence Farhuddaman and local people said...
Mystery shrouded the death of s female garment worker in Gazipur city. Police identified the deceased as Sumi Akter, 19, daughter of late Samir Uddin of Mallaikpur village in Pirganj Upazila of Thakurgaon district. She was the worker of Man’s...
Detectives arrested three alleged drug traders at Sitarampur-Bhanga Bridge at Narail Sadar Upazila on Friday. They also recovered 147 bottles Phensidyl from them. The arrestees were identified as Rony Islam, 30, son of Amirul Islam, a resident of Shalgharia village...
A minor boy died after he fell down from the rooftop of a two-storey building at Rajashan in Savar municipality area on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Niloy, 4, son of Mizanur Rahman. Locals said the little boy...
A qazi, marriage registrar, was sentenced to 7 days’ rigorous imprisonment for registering marriage of a child in Nandail Upazila in Mymensingh district on Friday. The convict is Nizam Uddin, a local marriage registrar. Following tip off about a secret...
Robbers looted cash and other valuables from a house at Tirashi village in Dakkhin Surma Upazila in Sylhet on Friday. Locals said a gang of 8-10 robbers stormed the house of Delwar Mia and tied up three inmates of the...
Eminent Language Movement activist Ahmed Shafique inaugurated a cultural programme at the Charukala (Fine Arts Faculty) at Dhaka University on Saturday morning as part of the day-long Nabanna Utsab. The Nabanna Utsab (harvest festival) is celebrated across the country on...
Customs intelligence officials recovered 20 gold bars weighing 2 kilograms (kg) at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in the city's Kurmitola on Saturday. An air passnger from Malaysia was arrested. He was identified as Hashim Mollah, 35, hailing from Teknaf...
A man was killed in a road accident in Dhaka city on Saturday morning. The deceased, aged around 35, could not be identified. Police said he was a rickshaw-puller. They said he was killed as a truck rammed into his...
A strong undersea earthquake hit eastern Indonesia on Saturday, triggering a small tsunami and some panic but no casualties or major damage. The 7.1 quake occurred west of Halmahera island, which is about four hours' flight from the capital, Jakarta....
Novo Nordisk Bangladesh arranged an awareness rally titled “Run for Changing Diabetes” Friday in the city to mark World Diabetes Day. Around 500 participants including the employees of Novo Nordisk, their family & friends joined hands together to run the...
A female college student was killed, allegedly by robbers, during a robbery at Sarail Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Saturday morning. The dead is Ratna, 18, a 1st year honours student of Islampur Kazi Shafiqul Islam College. Locals said a...
Almost all winter vegetables have arrived in the market in Dhaka city in the late autumn, but the bad news is they are pricey. The supply of cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, beans and turnip was abundant in Malibagh, Fakirapool, Mugda, Karwan...
Two good half centuries by ace batsman Tamim Iqbal and ‘master blaster’ Maminul Haque guided hosts Bangladesh to 123 for one wicket on the 4th day of the 3rd and final cricket Test against Zimbabwe in Chittagong on Saturday. The...
US stocks were nearly even on Wednesday afternoon, pausing after a series of record highs in the Dow and S&P 500, while financial shares lost ground after global regulators fined five major banks. Energy shares also dipped along with oil...
Drug makers and philanthropic organisations have joined hands to increase access to family planning information, services and products for women in need in poor countries, including Bangladesh. Pfizer Inc, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the London-based Children’s Investment...
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