Dense fog has been disrupting movement of ferries and other watercraft on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in Padma River since Wednesday night. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) sources said, due to the dense fog, the marking points and the beacons...
Israeli soldiers beat to death a Palestinian minister during a mass rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Palestinian medical sources said in Gaza city and Ramallah. The sources confirmed the death of Ziad Abu Ain, minister...
Railway authorities have formed 2 committees to investigate how a train rammed into the Chittagong Railway Station platform. Three people, including the shunting engine operator, had been suspended over the incident, said East Zone Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Murad Hossain....
Eminent economist Prof Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud was accorded a reception on Wednesday for his outstanding contributions to the country’s economy through his works and researches. Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and vernacular daily Banik Barta jointly accorded the reception...
A pedestrian was killed and a rickshaw-puller injured as a gas cylinder for inflating balloons exploded in Bogra town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Ruku Chowdhury, 18, son of Maksud Chowdhury, a resident of Gohail Road under Sutrapur...
The High Court has revoked the government order on appointment of the new chief of the Naryanganj 7-murder investigating committee. The bench of justices Md Rezaul Haque and Gobinda Chandra Thakur has said in an order that Public Administration Ministry’s...
Assam's PWD Minister Ajanta Neog flagged off trial run of Guwahati-Dhaka bus service on Wednesday. The 32-seater air-conditioned bus of Assam State Transport Corporation carrying a joint delegation of officials of India and Bangladesh left Guwahati’s Inter State Bus Terminus...
Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali, who let the law go up in smoke by lighting up a cigarette at a function to give away prizes to students in July and hurled abusive words at journalists in August, has again...
A young man died from electrocution in Thakurgaon on Wednesday night. The dead is Kantes Roy, 21, a final year diploma engineering student of a polytechnic institute and son of Debendra Nath, a resident of Amhar village of Dinajpur district....
Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in Padma River resumed after 8 hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Thursday morning. Bidyut Kumar Saha, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Aricha Ferry Ghat in Manikganj said they...
Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has been voted the world's sexiest Asian man for the 3rd time in four years. The 40-year-old actor reclaimed the crown, which he lost last year, in the 11th edition of the ‘50 Sexiest Asian Men...
A prison guard died from electrocution at Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday. The dead is Ratan Khan, 35, bearing jail guard badge No. 12450. He was the son of Ali Azam of Jamalpur district. Nayon, another guard at the central...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday expressed profound shock at the death of former District and Sessions Judge of Dhaka Kazi Golam Rasul. PM's Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri said the Prime Minister in her condolence message recalled the contributions...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last session of this week. The day’s trading at DSE started with the new automated trading system as...
The National Power Week 2014 is being observed in the country on Thursday. President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon all to be prudent in using electricity. In separate messages, they wished success of all programmes...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered fake Indian currency notes worth Tk 0.1 million in Chapainawabganj town on Wednesday afternoon. Lieutenant Colonel Abu Zafar Sheikh Mohammad Bazlul Haque, commanding officer of Chapainawabganj BGB Battalion-9, said being informed, a BGB team...
Khagrachhari ‘Transport Owners-Workers Samannay Parishad’will enforce an indefinite transport strike in the district from December 14 protesting a rise in terrorist activities and extortion in transport sector. They announced the programme at a press briefing held at the office of...
A speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka has convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for violating a disabled girl in Madaripur district in 2011. The convict is Farid, a resident of Banshgari village at Kalkini Upazila at...
Operation of flights of several international airlines, which were scheduled to land or take off, faced an unusual delay at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday due to dense fog-caused poor visibility. Sources at the airport said...
US stocks lost more than 1 per cent on Wednesday in the S&P 500's biggest decline since Oct. 13 as another big drop in oil prices hammered energy shares. The S&P 500 has lost 2.4 per cent this week so...
The Bangladeshi female student, who was allegedly raped by a research scholar at Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan in India’s West Bengal state, is leaving the institution. A BBC Bangla report has said that the student would be leaving Santiniketan for...
European stocks fell for a 3rd session in a row on Wednesday as a further plunge in crude prices knocked down the shares of oil majors and oil services groups such as Royal Dutch Shell and Fugro. Shares in Shell...
Three persons suspected to be members of the outlawed Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir have been arrested from Dhaka's Badda area. Badda police station’s OC MA Jalil said that they were nabbed from Badda's Ali Morh area around 11:00pm on Wednesday. He...
Asian stocks fell on Thursday as falling oil prices added to global growth concerns, while the dollar saw a bit of a respite against the yen and euro after successive sharp losses. Spreadbetters expected the bearish tone for equities to...
State minister Mujibul Haque Chunnu has rejected a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report that says women workers in Bangladesh readymade garment industry are harassed at workplace. He said that doubt over genuineness of the report ‘remains’ as majority of...
About 52 hours after its capsize, ‘OT Southern Star 7’ has been salvaged. The sand carrying cargo-vessel-turned oil tanker was pulled out from Shela River in Sundarbans' west zone in Bagerhat district on Thursday morning. The salvage vessels of Ms...
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Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell significantly today (Thursday) as investors were reluctant to make fresh investment on the first trading day with the newly launched trading system. The daily turnover dropped by 68 per cent from that...
The government has appointed 2 new administrators for the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCC) with the terms of 2 incumbent administrators of the city about to end. The public administration ministry issued a circular notifying the appointments on Thursday. Jute...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the country’s 1st-ever coast guard training base. She also inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of 13 other development projects in Patuakhali district on Thursday. At the beginning of her daylong visit to the...
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