TANGAIL, Oct 19: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Sunday the government was going to launch 11 medical colleges on January 10, the Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "Classes of the...
Members of Bangladesh Coastguard detained 24 people along with an engine-driven boat from the Bay of Bengal under Sadar upazila of Cox's Bazar district Saturday night, foiling their bid to go to Malaysia through the sea illegally. Acting on a...
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Gibson met BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday night. The hour-long meeting that began around 8:15pm was held at the BNP chief’s political office at Gulshan in the city. BNP Vice Chairman Shamsher...
A youth died from electrocution at a restaurant in Dhaka's Tejgaon area on Sunday. The dead is Md Delwar Hossain, 22, a waiter in a hotel. Staff of the residential hotel-cum-restaurant said Delwar was repairing a damaged power cable on...
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel allegedly picked up 2 Bangladeshi young men from Haripur border in Thakurgaon district on Sunday night. The victims were identified as Enamul Haque, 25, son of Nurul Islam, and Hasan Ali, 18, son of...
Md Al-Amin, News Editor of the report24.com, an online news portal of Bangladesh, died of cardiac arrest at a Dhaka hospital on Monday. He was 46. His family members and colleagues said Al-Amin passed away at the ICU of Ibrahim...
A court in Sylhet has sentenced a man to life term and another to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) for possessing contraband drugs. Sources at the Special Sessions Judge’s Court said Faruq Ahmed, 27, son of Abdun Nur of Loharmahal...
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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 the early hours of trading on Monday after previous day’s biggest fall. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have recovered 40,000 Yaba tablets from a boat at Jailyapara channel of Naaf River under Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar. Being tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive at the channel and found three...
A school teacher was killed and five members of his family sustained bullet injuries as some miscreants opened fire on them in Chakaria municipal area in Cox’s Bazar. The dead is Narayan Das, 33, son of Profulla Ranjan Das. Sources...
The High Court (HC) has directed the health ministry and other concerned authorities to take immediate steps to identify people carrying Ebola virus at all the entry points of the country, including airports, sea ports and land ports. An HC...
A Dhaka court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against sacked telecom minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui for failing to respond to its summons in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims with his rant on Holy Hajj and...
Southeast Asian stocks rose on Monday, with Indonesian shares hitting their highest in more than two weeks amid expectations of a cut in fuel subsidy and easing political tensions. Gains in the region were also supported by brighter sentiment regarding...
China shares rose on Monday on speculation of further policy easing after news that the country's central bank was set to inject funds into to several banks, while Hong Kong's market gained on positive US data. The news helped push...
Hong Kong's market gained on positive US data, the Hang Seng Index gained 0.4 per cent to 23,116.69 points after US consumer sentiment posted its biggest rise since 2007 in October. The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday interrogated a former deputy secretary of the Housing and Public Works Ministry in connection with the allegation of causing a loss of Tk 150 million to the government by allocating plots to journalists,...
Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, is celebrating 25 years in Bangladesh. This historic milestone is being marked by the announcement of the opening of a new state of the art zips factory in...
Two alleged robbers were held in Bharaura Bagan under Srimangol Upazila in Moulvibazar on Sunday. The arrestees are Jasim Miah, 32, son of Bazlu Miah, a resident of Lakhai Upazila of Habiganj district and Paran Miah, 38, son of late...
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Stocks tumbled for the third running session on Monday amid choppy trading with turnover falling further as late profit booking sale pressure wiped-out early gains. The market opened with a positive mood, gaining 47 points within the first 30 minutes...
Japan's trade minister resigned Monday amid growing controversy over allegations that she misused campaign funds. Yuko Obuchi said at a news conference that the investigation is ongoing, and would interfere with her duties as minister of economy, trade and industry....
Charges were framed by a Dhaka court against BNP leader MK Anwar in a case filed under the ICT Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Jahurul Haque indicted Anwar on Monday and said he would hear testimonies on November 23. Anwar...
Herbert Oberhaensli, Vice president of Nestlé S.A., Switzerland inaugurated a clean drinking water facility donated by Nestlé Bangladesh Ltd at Paburia Chala Ideal High School at Sreepur in Gazipur recently. Sanjay Khajuria, Sr. Vice President of Nestlé India Limited and...
Police recovered the slaughtered body of a madrasa student from Jela Parishad Market in Kaliganj in Keraniganj Upazila on Monday morning. The dead is Raihan, 12, a hifzu student of Talimul Noisha Madrasa. Jamal Uddin Mir, officer-in-charge of Keraniganj Police...
Tokyo shares closed remarkably higher Monday with its benchmark Nikkei stocks index rocketing about 4 per cent and recovering to the 15,000 threshold due to a news report on expected reforms of Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund and a weaker...
The Australian share market has closed almost one per cent higher, its fifth straight session in positive territory. At the close on Monday, the benchmark SP/ASX200 index was 47.7 points, or 0.9 per cent, higher at 5,319.4, while the broader...
European stocks fell after worse- than-estimated financial results, while gold and German and British government bonds rose. Asian equities headed for the biggest gain in two years led by Japan on speculation the country’s public pension fund will buy more...
Detective Branch of Police on Sunday night arrested a man from Baburtola area in the port city in connection with the threat to blow up the Chittagong court building. The arrestee is Nasir Mohammad, 46, a resident of the area....
At least 20 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two buses in Natore district. Police say the collision between buses has left a further 20 injured. Monday afternoon’s mishap took place on the Banpara-Hatikumrul highway. Bonpara highway...
Egypt's former petroleum minister Osama Kamal said global crude oil prices are set to fall drastically, predicting afurther erosion of as much as a third in the coming days. ‘I expect crude oil prices to touch $60 per barrel. This...
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