The Russian government has warned the economy will fall into recession next year as Western sanctions, in response to its role in eastern Ukraine, and falling oil prices begin to bite. Russia's economic development ministry estimates the economy will contract...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd on Tuesday launched a short message service (SMS) for its passengers. From now on, passengers of the national flag carrier will be informed about all related information, including a possible change in flight schedule, through SMS...
The inflow of remittance marked 14.70 per cent rise in November with the country receiving $1168.85 million compared to $1019.03 million in October. The monthly inward remittance also registered more than 10.0 per cent rise over November 2013, according to...
About 72 per cent textbooks which will be distributed free of cost among the primary and secondary-level students have already reached the upazilas (UZs) and the rest will reach all the upazials across the country by December 25, sources of...
Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain on Tuesday asked the heads of various tiers of the lower judiciary to take effective steps to check corruption. “I take serious note of it the information relating to corruption of any judicial officer or...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian car manufacturer "Proton" will open its plant in Bangladesh soon, creating employment opportunity for many Bangladeshis. Newly appointed chairman of Proton and former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said this at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh...
Bangladesh’s top appeals judges will begin hearing Wednesday Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed’s appeal against his death sentence for war crimes case. The case is on the top of the Appellate Division’s business agenda for the day, which...
A fire which broke out at a multi-storey building in Mitford Hospital area in the city’s Chawkbazar has been tamed. ‘Eight fire-fighting units brought the blaze under control after about three hours of hectic efforts with the help of police...
War crimes convict Delawar Hossain Sayedee has been shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from a prison ward of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BMSSU). Sayedee, Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, was taken to the Central Jail in Old Dhaka from the MSMMU...
Bangladesh were 121 for five wickets in 21.1 overs against Zimbabwe in the fifth and last ODI in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Monday evening. Zimbabwe had set Bangladesh a winning target of 129 in the afternoon at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. At...
Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by five wickets in the fifth and last one-day international (ODI) in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Monday evening. Zimbabwe had set Bangladesh a winning target of 129 in the afternoon at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. At one stage, Bangladesh...
A Narayanganj court on Monday sentenced three people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a minor in 2011. The condemned convicts are Wasim, Sadek and Salam. They were tried in absentia. The lifers are Swapan...
The High Court (HC) on Monday rejected a petition challenging the legality of axed telecoms minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui's membership in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament). The bench of justices Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman passed order...
Twenty-four accused in the sensational 7-murder case were produced before a Narayanganj court on Monday. The accused, including former Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) officers Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana, were brought to the court of Senior Judicial...
The government has taken ‘administrative actions’ against the officials and employees responsible for the missing of some 600 blank passports from the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, said Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque on Monday, according to a news...
At least 13 paramilitary troops were killed in an attack by Maoist rebels in central India on Monday, police said, according to a news agency.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is due in Dhaka on December 6 on a three-day official visit. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Monday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had invited him after he expressed his willingness to visit...
A joint meeting of BNP will be held on Tuesday to discuss the country’s latest political situation and chalk our programmes to mark various historical events, including the Victory Day. The meeting will be held at BNP's Nayapaltan central office...
Domestic credit flow maintained a steady rise with going up by 1.7 per cent in September, according to the latest report of Bangladesh Bank (BB).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday handed over Bashundhara Cement Test and One-Day Series trophies to Bangladesh national cricket team for whitewashing visiting Zimbabwe in both versions of the game. She handed over the two trophies to the skippers of Bangladesh...
Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists forced the temporary closure of government headquarters Monday after clashing with police, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of sustained protests in the Chinese-controlled city. Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said...
The Appellate Division has scrapped a High Court verdict that ordered the acquittal of former minister Nazmul Huda and his wife in a bribery case. Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the order Monday which means the case will again go...
Criticising a local research firm, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Monday said now the world's most influential research organisations are branding Bangladesh as the new emerging economic power. The Commerce Minister passed the remarks while speaking as the chief guest...
CHITTAGONG: Three people were killed and three others injured when a bus rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Sarkarhat in Anwara upazila on Monday. Two of the deceased were identified as Gias Uddin, 35, the driver of the CNG auto-rickshaw and...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India said that if Bangladesh wants to buy excess electricity from India, India was ready to sell, according to news received in Dhaka. "India was ready to sell 100 MWs of electricity from the plant...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Monday alleged that the current government has got crazier and more repressive to annihilate the opposition. “When people have got fed up with the brutal and despotic acts of the illegal regime...
Foreign investment in stock market showed steady rise in November with total turnover increasing by 29.88 per cent compared to that of in October. The DSE data released on Monday showed the total turnover by foreign investors in November rose...
Senior journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, died in a city road crash on Saturday night, was laid to rest in Azimpur graveyard (new) on Monday night following his Namaj-e-janaza at the National Press Club (NPC). His 1st Namaj-e-janaza (funeral prayer) was...
India has inched closer to settling a long-simmering border dispute with Bangladesh, possibly signaling a softer line from nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi than when he was in opposition. On Monday, a parliamentary committee urged the government to table a...
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