Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning for an official visit to boost the crucial Bangladesh-Malaysia relations. High government officials accompanying the PM said Malaysia will sign 4 instruments during Sheikh Hasina’s 3-day visit. The...
Terrorists the world over are known to deploy suicide bombers, or ‘human bombs’, to wreak death and devastation on their targets, but have you ever heard of a bird being used as a suicide bomber? The Taliban seem to be...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that her party will announce tougher action programmes shortly. Speaking with the reporters after inaugurating a month-long programme chalked out by Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddha Dal to mark the month of victory on Monday night, the...
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The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, maintaining the previous sessions’ upward trend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
The government is amending the law to increase the pension of retired Supreme Court judges. Monday’s regular Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, approved changes to The Supreme Court Judges (Leave, Pension and Privileges) Ordinance (Amendment) Act, 2014....
Members of the journalist community on Tuesday demanded that government make public the investigation report on journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury’s death in a city road accident. They took to the street and formed a human chain in protest against the...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has fined 7 banks and a financial institute for violating money laundering law. They have been slapped with fines from Tk 0.2 million (200,000) to Tk 2m for not keeping client affidavits and also for not...
A man who arrived in Hazrat Shah Amanat (R) International Airport in Chittagong from Dubai has been nabbed with 14 gold bars and 77 chains. Md Rashid was detained around 8:00am on Tuesday while he was passing the Green Channel...
Police have arrested three more Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel over the murder of 7 people in Narayanganj and remanded them for questioning. Assistant Sub-inspectors Abul Kalam Azad, Bazlur Rahman and Havilder Md Nasiruddin were held on Monday night, said...
Police on Monday night arrested three people from Karbala graveyard in Jessore district while they were ‘trying to dig up the body of Dr Shamarukh Mahjabin Shama’ who had been killed allegedly by her in-laws in Dhaka on November 13....
The High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Tanvir Rahman, an accused in the Sagar-Runi murder case, until police submits report in the case. The HC bench comprising Justice Md Nizamul Huq and Justice ASH Nurul Huda Jaigirdar granted...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 has found journalist David Bergman guilty of contempt. ICT-2 Chairman Obaidul Hasan on Tuesday ordered the British national to stand in court until the proceedings end. He was also fined Tk 5,000 – failing to pay...
Minister for Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader has said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will take responsibility of senior journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury who was killed in a road accident in Dhaka on Saturday night. The minister was speaking...
Some miscreants killed an easy-bike (small human hauler) driver and dumped his body in a baor (water body) in Chowgacha Upazila in Jessore. Being informed, police recovered the body of Rabbi, an easy-bike driver and son of Manju Miah, from...
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Stocks rose sharply for the second running session on Tuesday with turnover value improved slightly as optimistic investors took position on large cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed the 4,900-mark after nine sessions...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday afternoon on the 3-day tour to strengthen ties and address key issues of manpower export and trade. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at...
Shakib Al Hasan has gone up four places in the ICC one-day international ODI bowlers ranking after his sterling performance in the just-concluded Bangladesh-Zimbabwe series. The left-arm spinner now shares fifth place with Australia’s Mitchell Johnson on 680 points. Pakistan’s...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a man and recovered 96 bottles of Phensidyl syrup from him in Bashbari Government Primary School area in Saidpur Upazila in Nilphamari on Monday. The arrestee was identified as Mosharrof Hossin Mosha, 36, son...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said a business council will be formed soon with Ambassadors from European counties to Bangladesh and related chamber leaders in it. The proposed council, styled ‘European Union Business Council’, will work for the expansion...
The information ministry has ordered private television station ‘Channel 16’ off the air in Bangladesh. Reportedly owned by Insight Telecast Company Limited, the channel aired programmes from abroad through a downlink. However, government permission to air programmes ended on November...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for exploring trade and investment between the two chambers. DCCI secretary AHM Rezaul Kabir and Chief Executive...
Bhola Tank-Lorry Owner-Worker Association on Tuesday went on an indefinite strike in the district protesting an attack on a lorry driver by human hauler drivers, according to a news agency.
Dhaka has urged New Delhi to give additional 100 MW of electricity to Bangladesh from Palatana Power Plant in northeastern Indian state of Tripura, according to a news agency.
India will export petroleum products to Bangladesh through its (India's) first cross-country pipeline, an Indian daily reported on Tuesday. Daily Business Standard said Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will shortly begin work...
Malaysia has shown interest to construction low-cost flats under housing projects at Kamrangirchar to provide flats to the poor at an affordable cost. Special Envoy of the Malaysian PM on Southeast Asian Affairs, Seri Samy Vellu, showed the interest as...
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club have made history by beating Pune FC to lift the King’s Cup trophy, becoming the first Bangladeshi outfit to win the competition. Yasin Khan scored the winner in the final in Bhutan as Sheikh Jamal edged...
The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said on Tuesday. The officials declined to give the name or nationality of the woman...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has replaced his interior minister and police chief following a massacre by Islamist group al-Shabab. The president asked Kenyans to unite, and said: "We will not flinch in war against terrorists." Kenya's police chief David Kimayo...
Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."...
Reckless driving has claimed another life of a private university student in the city. Sadi Morshed, 20, a BBA second year student of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), was killed as a bus crashed into his motorcycle in the city’s Merul...
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