The rescue of Bangladeshi nationals abroad is unlikely to affect the country’s overseas job market, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has said. In the last one week, Thai authorities rescued scores of Bangladeshis from forests near...
Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) on Monday decided to write to the LGRD Ministry to remove Nur Hossain, prime accused in the sensational 7-murder case, and his nephew Shahjalal Badal as counsillor. The decision was taken at the monthly NCC meeting...
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The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, 3rd session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went...
A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for molesting a two-year-old child at Hamjarbagh in the port city in 2012. The court also fined the convict, Tarek Aziz, 28, a resident of Hamjarbagh area, Tk 50,...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been accused of hurting religious sentiments and inciting communal hatred through her remarks. AB Siddiqui, president of ruling the ruling party’s affiliate ‘Jananetri Parisad’, filed the case at Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday....
Police arrested 22 leaders and workers of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from in front of BNP central office in Naya Paltan and its nearby areas in the city on Tuesday. Police claimed that a team of Paltan Police Station conducted...
Mystery shrouded the death of a school girl whose body was recovered from her house in Araihazar Upazila in Narayanganj district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sajeda, 14, a class VII student of Radhanagar High School and...
Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and then was engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed....
Asian shares languished after giving up small gains on Tuesday, as modest relief on data showing the Chinese economy grew slightly more than expected was replaced by lingering concerns of weakening momentum in the world's second-biggest economy. European shares might...
European shares fell in early trading on Tuesday, adding to the previous session's losses as data showing a slowdown in Chinese economic growth kept investors on edge, offsetting better-than-expected quarterly sales from Apple. Shares in oil giant Total fell 1.2...
Lars Rebien Sørensen is one of the best-performing CEOs in the world, according to a new study by the Harvard Business Review. The prestigious business journal rates Novo Nordisk’s CEO 6th overall in its top-100, making him the only chief...
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Stocks rebounded Tuesday after three sessions’ fall with turnover improved slightly as investors went for buying spree on large cap stocks. The market opened with a positive mood which continued till the market closure. DSEX, the prime index of the...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been given five years in jail for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In court in Pretoria, Judge Thokozile Masipa also gave Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence for a firearms charge. Pistorius has now been...
Six dwelling houses were gutted by a fire that broke out in Mongla Upazila in Bagerhat district on Monday afternoon. Sources at Mongla fire service and civil defence office said the fire originated from a kitchen stove at a house...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that miscreants killed Bangabandhu and his family on August 15, 1975 to destroy the spirit of the liberation war and put the country under the control of the defeated forces. ‘This (August 15)...
Two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir have been handed over to the police after they were caught circulating leaflets while conducting a mock test at Rajshahi University. They are - Imadul Haque Imdad, and Habibur Rahman. They were conducting a...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation and BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and 8 others in case filed against them for vandalism, according to private TV channel.
One person has been killed and 30 others injured in a road accident at Mursalain Bridge in Rajshahi. A Taherpur-bound 'Sabbir Paribahan' bus overturned after hitting an unidentified disabled man standing on the side of the bridge around 11:00am on...
The government on Tuesday directed all medical coaching centres to suspend their activities till the admission tests for medical and dental colleges are held. The order came through a circular issued by Health Ministry with a view to ensuring transparency...
A Dhaka court has ordered police to investigate allegations that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has hurt religious sentiments and incited communal hatred through her remarks. The charges were brought by AB Siddiqui, president of the ruling party’s affiliate ‘Jananetri Parisad’,...
Police in separate drives have arrested 200 fugitive accused in various cases in four districts of Sylhet division. Sources at Sylhet district police media centre said separate teams of police conducted drives in different areas of the four districts from...
Describing Bangladesh as a prospective country in South Asia, Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima said on Tuesday that the government should pursue its 'look east' policy in economic activities for achieving desired progress. 'Not only western countries like Europe...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia goes to Bogra on Wednesday as she embarks on a tour of Nilphamari to address a public rally, aiming to mobilise public support in favour of 20-party alliance’s demand for holding fresh polls under a non-party...
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has inaugurated the Mary Robinson Centre in Ireland. President Robinson and Prof Yunus drove together to Ballina, County Mayo, 234 kilometers west of Dublin, and visited the home where President Robinson was born and grew...
Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Shiro Sadoshima Tuesday said Bangladesh is standing around a very important ‘strategic corner’ and it must take full advantage of all global initiatives for its next stage of economic development. “…from this strategic perspective Bangladesh occupies...
A South African judge Tuesday sentenced Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius to five years in prison for the negligent killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. At the culmination of one of the most...
The High Court Tuesday summoned the chairman, managing director and company secretary of Bangladesh Commerce Bank (BCB) to appear in person before it on November 10 to explain their alleged contempt-of-court charge. Passing the interim order after hearing a petition...
TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will stand by its neighbor Iraq in its fight against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group. Rouhani told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Heidar al-Abadi Tuesday that Iran "will remain on the...
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