Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet President Abdul Hamid on Sunday even as the process to remove Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui from her Cabinet nears completion. Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Awami League, was scheduled to meet the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the Secretariat on Sunday morning. She arrived at the Secretariat around 11:00am. During her stay at the Secretariat, the Prime Minister paid a visit to the Ministry of Textiles and Jute. Sources at the Textiles...
Tropical cyclone Hudhud hit India’s eastern seaboard on Sunday with gusts of up to 195 kilometres an hour (over 120 mph), uprooting trees, damaging buildings and killing at least two men despite a major evacuation effort. The port city of...
At least 45 people were killed in bombings in Baghdad and its rural outskirts on Saturday as the government continued to defend the capital against jihadists who four months ago seized major cities in northern Iraq. Islamic State (IS) fighters,...
A minor girl went missing as a dozen villages have been flooded in Comaniganj Upazila of Noakhali district as an effect of tropical cyclone 'Hudhud' which made a landfall in India’s eastern coasts on Sunday noon. Sources at the local...
Authorities say a passenger train struck people taking photos on a trestle on the California coast and one person was killed and two others were injured. Santa Barbara County Fire spokesman Mike Eliason says the victims were among four people...
Japan is bracing for the arrival of a powerful typhoon, Vongfong, which officials have said will be the strongest storm to hit Japan this year. The storm brought heavy rain and fierce winds to the southern island of Okinawa, causing...
Japan is bracing for the arrival of a powerful typhoon, Vongfong, which officials have said will be the strongest storm to hit Japan this year. The storm brought heavy rain and fierce winds to the southern island of Okinawa, causing...
The mother of an unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, walked with hundreds of protesters on Saturday in the St. Louis suburb, as part of a weekend of demonstrations against police violence. Fresh protests...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday took statement of Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan in connection with a 7-acre land in the city, allocated for journalists during the 2001-2006 regime. ACC deputy director Jatan Kumar Roy quizzed Shajahan Khan for...
Chittagong Stock Exchange Limited (CSE) Sunday launched two new indices, CSE Shariah Index (CSI), and CSE-50 Benchmark Index (CSE-50). Developed by India Index Services and Products Limited (IISL), a subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE, India)...
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Stocks witnessed steep gain Sunday, the opening day after a prolonged 9-day Eid vacation with the key index of the major bourse crossing 5,300-mark as investors' buying spree continued. The market opened with an upbeat mood in the morning which...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now at the Bangabhaban to meet President Md Abdul Hamid. The Prime Minister, who visited the Secretariat today before going to Bangabhaban, reached the presidential palace around 2:00pm. Cabinet Secretary Md Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan is...
Minister for Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technology Abdul Latif Siddiqui has been sacked. The government issued a circular on Sunday removing Latif Siddiqui from the Cabinet. Latif has been widely criticised for his disparaging remarks on Holy Hajj and...
Second quarter earnings from bluechip companies like RIL and TCS, inflation data and investment by overseas investors would dictate trading in the stock market in a holiday-shortened week ahead, say experts. Besides, movement of rupee against the dollar and crude...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Sunday afternoon. ‘During the meeting, they exchanged Eid greetings,’ President’s Press secretary Ihsanul Karim said. The meeting was held after the Holy Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha....
Indian firing across a disputed border with Pakistan has killed 12 civilians and injured 52 in Pakistan so far this month, according to a Sunday press release from the Foreign Ministry. Sartaj Aziz, the adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...
Three compartments of Upakul Express, headed from Noakhali to Dhaka, went off the tracks near Brahmanbaria’s Talshahar Station. At least 10 passengers were injured when they tried to get off the train in panic after it derailed in the outer...
An Afghan police official says two gunmen dressed in police uniforms stormed into a police headquarters in northern Balkh province and opened fire, killing two officers. Sher Jan Durani, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said Sunday that the...
Nepal’s major political parties have started decisive talks on the issues of new constitution, officials said Sunday. The Nepali Congress (NC), Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) and Unified Communist Party of Nepal -Maoist (UPCN-M) are engaged in talks on...
An electric power convention will be hosted by Myanmar later this month to explore ways of settling power shortage and expanding power market in the country, event organiser said Sunday. The 2nd Myanmar Electric Power Convention (MEPC) -2014, scheduled for...
A global low-carbon energy economy is not only feasible, but it could also double electricity production by 2050 while actually reducing air and water pollution, according to a new research, reports UNB. International researchers in what they believe the most...
Speakers at a discussion in the city emphasized Friday on taking multiple steps by the government and other stakeholders for increasing awareness about mental illness, especially Schizophrenia, reports UNB. Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality...
Lakshmipur Police Lines Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Abdul Jalil was murdered, claimed the district's Superintendent of Police Shah Mijan Shafiur Rahman on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. He said the man did not die from gunshot wounds sustained after his sub-machine gun (SMG)...
SYLHET, Oct 10 (BSS): State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan said Friday the government has been implementing various programmes for the development of education because it is the government's top priority sector. He said the country is going...
MYMENSINGH, Oct 10 (UNB): Two siblings were stabbed to death by their rival over a land-related dispute at Rajabaria village in Nandail upazila early Friday. The victims were identified as Tofazzal Hossain (50) and his brother Swapan Mia (35), sons...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 10 (UNB): In separate incidents, police recovered the bodies of three people in Sadar and Shibganj upazilas on Friday morning. Officer-in-charge (OC) of Sadar thana Jasim Uddin said Safiqul Islam, 47, of Mistripara in the district town jumped...
A girl child was brutally tortured to death early Friday and later her body was kept inside a drum in the bathroom of a house in the city's Dhalpur area, reports BSS. The deceased was identified as Maimuna (6), daughter...
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