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Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid the nationwide general strike. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 14.94 points or 0.29 per cent...
A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official was beaten to death allegedly by a gang of smugglers in Lakshmidanri border point in Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Subedar Nazrul Islam, in-charge of Bhomra BGB camp in...
Health Secretary Mohammad Neaz Uddin Miah, accused of obtaining freedom fighter (FF)’s certificate through forgery, voluntarily went on retirement on Thursday. However, a reliable source at the ministry said he resigned over allegations of holding fake FF’s certificate. On October...
Shakib Al Hasan is on a roll in his comeback series, bagging five wickets after scoring a century in a Test for the second time on Thursday. The allrounder walked away with a five-wicket haul after scoring a century in...
The committee investigating Saturday’s (Nov 1) massive power outage across the country have sought more time to file its findings. On Thursday, power division’s Additional Secretary Kaykaus Ahmed –the chief of the probe body – said they were yet to...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Wednesday night arrested Abu Bakkar, a top activist of outlawed outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad Al Islami (HuJI), who was sentenced to death for the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb blast. RAB’s media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan...
Imran H Sarker, one of the bloggers who initiated a movement through a Facebook call demanding death to all war criminals, cannot open his account on the social networking website. ‘Whenever I’m trying to log in to the account, it...
Suspected Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked police with grenades in Rajshahi city on Thursday, the 2nd day of Jamaat e-Islami’s 48-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown). Khandaker Nur Hossain of Boalia Model Police Station said Jamaat-Shibir activists took out a pro-hartal procession in the...
(Scores at tea on Thursday: Bangladesh 433 and 78 for 2 (Mominul 27*, Mahmudullah 2*) lead Zimbabwe 368 (Masakadza 158, Chakabva 101, Shakib 5-80) by 144 runs. Shakib Al Hasan had laid down a difficult blueprint if the Tigers were...
A man was shot to death allegedly by India's Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Adatala border point under Sapahar Upazila in Naogaon district on Thursday morning. Locals identified the deceased as Ashraful Islam, 38, son of Yusuf Ali, a...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a fake member of National Security Intelligence (NSI) and a fake human rights activist in Ghorastand area in Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila on Wednesday. The arrestees were identified as Rasel Zahan, 29, son of Boro...
A housewife drowned in a pond in Dhukuria Bera village under Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj district on Wednesday afternoon. The dead is Bilkis Banu, alias Bilkis Khatun, 23, wife of Abul Baki, of Kalagachi village. Locals said Bilkis Banu drowned...
A coaching centre and a beauty parlour were gutted by a fire that broke out in Siddheswari area in the city on Thursday. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the beauty parlour on...
Some 177 families, who were affected badly by the Padma River erosion, received assistance in Bagha Upazila of Rajshahi district on Wednesday afternoon. Each of the beneficiary families got 30 kilograms of rice and Tk 500 in cash provided by...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said that businesspeople, especially the RMG owners, will be provided with all necessary facilities, including gas, power and loan, so that they can run their businesses without any hassle. ‘If industry owners relocate their factories...
The government plans to shift the Rohingya refugee camps from Cox's Bazar's Khutuppalang and Nayapara. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting with the officials of the disaster management and relief ministry on Thursday said the camps would be shifted...
Three journalists have been injured and an Ansar member has lost his rifle as villagers attacked a team from Titas Gas that has gone to cut illegal gas connections at Narsinghdi. The incident happened at Mulparha village under Panchdona union...
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Stocks ended flat in positive zone Thursday after three sessions’ fall with sluggish trading activities as investors followed cautious stance amid the nation-wide strike. The market opened with a positive mood in the morning, which continued till the market closure...
Police have arrested a man at Mirpur in the city for allegedly killing his wife and son. The arrestee is Amanullah Aman, 35, a resident of Mirpur’s Middle Paikpara. The victims have been identified as Irin Aktar Arju, 26, and...
Bangladesh were 201 for five wickets in 64.0 overs on the 4th day of their cricket Test against Zimbabwe in Khulna on Thursday afternoon. Hosts Bangladesh made 433 in their first innings against Zimbabwe’s 368. Bangladesh lead the tourists by...
Dhaka has said Bangladesh is interested to be a ‘pilot country’ in the Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) Forum of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said this while addressing a plenary session...
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided unconditional mobile phone cash transfers to assist people whose homes and livelihoods were severely affected by the devastating floods in the northwest of Bangladesh in August last. WFP has reached nearly 19,500...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address her party’s scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Saturday. BNP is going to arrange the rally at 2pm to mark the civil-military ‘uprising’ that led to the release of then army...
Two people were killed and four others injured as a truck collided with a CNG-run autorickshaw at Banshbaria in Sitakundu Upazila of Chittagong District on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Md Harun, 28, driver of the autorickshaw and Rasheda...
A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the labour wing of BNP, was found dead at Boalmari village in Daudkandi Upazila of Comilla district on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Mokhlesur Rahman, 45, president of Boalmari union unit...
The preliminary test of the 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations under the Public Service Commission (PSC) will be held on February 6. “Earlier, we had a plan to hold the examination in mid-December. But now we have decided to...
The Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned acting High Commissioner of Pakistan in Dhaka Ahmad Hussain Dayo and conveyed the disappointment of Bangladesh over the comments made by a Pakistan Cabinet member on a recent ICT verdict. Terming the comments unwarranted...
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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned 26 officials of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), including its managing director (MD), by mid-November over allegation of irregularities in Tk 13 billion loans taken by Ananda Shipyard. On Thursday, the ACC served...
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said on Thursday that Mawa ferry ghat will be shifted to Shimulia by this month for facilitating construction work of the long-awaited and much-talked-about Padma Bridge, according to a news agency.
The admission test for the honours courses of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) for 2014-2015 academic session will be held on Saturday next, according to a news agency.
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