A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued warrant of arrest against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed for his ‘disparaging remarks’ against Bangabandhu. Metropolitan magistrate Ataul Haque issued the arrest warrant upon a petition filed by...
European equity indexes were set to rebound on Wednesday, mirroring a late recovery on Wall Street and recouping some of the sharp losses suffered on the previous day. At 0721 GMT futures for the Euro STOXX 50 equity index, Germany's...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her resolve to make Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) a technically sound, strong and capable air force through further modernisation. She was addressing a function at BAF Base Bangabandhu in Dhaka’s Kurmitola on Wednesday marking...
Some miscreants killed a man one month after his abduction and dumped the body in a crop field in Singra Upazila in Natore district at some times between Tuesday and early Wednesday. Locals found the body of Abdus Salam, 38,...
Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi has described the media outlet owners as a major obstacle towards exercising the freedom of expression in Bangladesh. ‘No one, including the state, has the right to suppress the freedom of expression...
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Stocks ended in red today (Wednesday) amid choppy trading with no significant movement of index as investors followed cautious stance amid lack of market’s direction. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,943.72 points, shedding...
The forest department has filed a case against the owners of the two ships involved in Tuesday’s collision leading to a deadly oil spill in Sundarbans’ Shela River. An inquiry has been started about the spillage of more than 350,000...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet President Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban this (Wednesday) evening. ‘Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will make a courtesy call on the President at Bangabhaban at 7:00pm,’ President’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim told the reporters in...
Police arrested an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir along with firearms and bullets and his associate from Achua Koshaipara area of Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi on Tuesday. The arrested are Ahsan Habib, 22, son of Altaf Hossain of Rajapur village...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has dared BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to prove that it is corrupt. Commissioner M Shahabuddin Chuppu claimed that the constitutional institution is working independently and neutrally. Khaleda, accused in several corruption cases, dubbed it ‘corrupt’...
Detectives have arrested five Rohingya women and a Bangladeshi man in Pabna district. They went to Pabna to get Bangladesh passports. They were arrested at the passport office premises in Chhatiani in Pabna town on Tuesday afternoon, Pabna Detective Branch...
Several hours after an inter-city train ploughed through the platform of Chittagong Railway Station, the authorities suspended three employees of Bangladesh Railways (BR) for negligence in duties on Wednesday. The suspended employees are ATM Jahurul Haque, loco master of the...
There is no legal bar to arrest Tangail-3 MP Amanur Rahman Khan Rana over the murder of local Awami League leader and freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed, says Attorney General Mahbubey Alam. His comments came on Wednesday after the Supreme Court...
The government is going to appoint 16,000 primary school teachers in all districts barring the three in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The primary and mass education ministry released a circular making the announcement on Wednesday. It says aspirants have to...
The internal probe by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) blames three of its former officers for the murder of 7 people in Narayanganj, including City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar. The elite police unit submitted...
Hossain Khaled has been elected President of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) for the year 2015. A DCCI press release on Wednesday said Humayun Rashid has been elected as Senior Vice President while Md Shoaib Choudhury Vice...
The rifle that went missing from the armoury of Kashimpur High-Security Central Jail was found in an abandoned pond of the prison on Wednesday, according to a news agency.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Patuakhali on Thursday to commission the newly-built training base of Bangladesh Coast Guard 'CG Base Agrajatra'. The Prime Minister will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects from...
Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India on Wednesday received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for children's rights, according to a news agency.
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A portion of the charity money collected by NGOs is diverted to support the acts of terrorism, said US Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield in Dhaka Monday and called for a combined action to stall such diversion of the...
Two more RAB personnel have confessed to their involvement with seven murders in Narayanganj. Havilders Md Nasiruddin and Babul Hassan gave confessional statements in the courts of Narayanganj Magistrates respectively. With them, 16 members of RAB-11 and two others have...
Dense fog has disrupted ferry operations at Daulatdia-Paturia and Shimulia-Kaorakandi crossing points on the river Padma. The services on the Shimulia-Kaorakandi route resumed only around 3:30am on Monday after a stoppage of about four and a half hours. — bdnews24.com
MAGURA, Dec 8: Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Wapda intersection in Sreepur upazila Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Nazrul Islam, 35,...
The European Union (EU) has wanted an explanation about the effectiveness of the Parliament and the role of the Opposition in Parliament. The 28-nation EU made the demand when the delegation of EU MPs met Awami League Joint Secretary Mahbubul...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has dropped a hint that the much-awaited election to the two Dhaka city corporations (DCC) is likely to be held early next year. She gave the indication during a weekly Cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon when...
The family members of Shankharibazar's tailoring shop owner Biswajit Das, who was killed in Dhaka city two years ago, have demanded that the fugitive convicts in the murder case be hunted down. ‘Two years have elapsed since my son was...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the concerned organisations to complete the work of the 250-bed Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital and the 5-bed Nursing College at Tetuibari under Kashimpur in Gazipur district on time. She laid the...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has accepted the status of Palestine, clearing the way for war crimes in the Occupied Territories to be investigated, Al Jazeera has learned. Monday’s decision amounts to a symbolic victory for the Palestinians who will...
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