Slightly fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, pushing the average number of applications in the past month to an 8-year low. The US Labour Department said Thursday that weekly applications fell 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000 in the...
At least four people were killed in a road accident on Khulna-Jessore highway in Khulna city on Friday afternoon. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Police said they were killed in a collision between a bus and a human...
A trawler with more than 100 passengers on board capsized in Meghna River in Noakhali district on Friday afternoon. Police and locals said most of the passengers have been rescued but an unspecified number missing since the over-crowded trawler ‘Rebeka’...
Urging their party followers not to be upset over the bragging by the ruling party leaders, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday said this regime must be ousted through a strong movement, according to a news agency. Fakhrul, the...
TANGAIL: Seven more people have been arrested in connection with the arson attack that left a woman and her three daughters dead at Sohagpara village in Mirzapur upazila Tuesday. However, police could not arrest the mastermind, Jahangir Hossain, even after...
Minister for Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader said "Sound bombs exploded in London would not provoke any agitation in Bangladesh." The minister was referring to oft-repeated statements made by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vice-chairman Tareq Zia, who is in...
The severe cyclonic storm ‘Hudhud’ over the West Central Bay and adjoining East Central Bay moved slightly northwestwards and intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm (ecp 984 hpa) over the same area, according to a . It was centered...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou Friday called on Beijing to "let some people go democratic first" as he expressed support for protesters who have paralysed parts of Hong Kong for nearly two weeks. Taiwan has been watching closely the events...
Thailand's coup leader made his first official overseas trip Thursday to neighboring Myanmar for meetings with another former general who has steered his country to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. The visit by Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand's appointed prime...
Some local miscreants beat a man to death at Islamganj Bazar under Shudhram Police Station in Noakhali Sadar Upazila on Wednesday night. The dead is Nurul Amin, 40, son of late Suja Mian of Purba Durgapur of the Upazila. Police...
The US-led coalition pounded positions of the Islamic State group in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Thursday in some of the most intensive strikes in the air campaign so far, a Kurdish official and an activist group said....
A suicide bomber struck at the center of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Thursday, setting off his explosives at a gathering of supporters of the rebel Shiite Houthis who recently overran the city, security officials said. The massive blast...
Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected US drone strikes, hours apart, have killed at least five militants in a northwestern tribal region near Afghanistan. Two intelligence officials say the first attack hit a vehicle in the village of Datta Khel in...
The American Embassy in Dhaka, including its consular section, will remain closed on Sunday on the occasion of Columbus Day, an American holiday. The American Centre with the Archer K. Blood American Centre Library and the EducationUSA Student Advising Centre...
The 1st Hajj return flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines bringing home some 419 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia has been delayed by four hours. Flight BG-2012 was scheduled to leave Jeddah International Airport of Saudi Arabia at 1:30am on Wednesday. The...
India has warned Pakistan of heavy retaliation if it does not stop ‘unprovoked firing’ in Kashmir. Indian Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said India would make it ‘unaffordable’ for Pakistan if the attacks continued. These are the strongest comments yet from...
The chief executive officer of US retail clothing chain Gap is stepping down, the company said on Wednesday. Glenn Murphy will resign as its chairman and chief executive in February after being in the role for over seven years. He...
The share-price boom at US energy firms has gone bust, due to slumping global growth and tumbling crude prices. Companies that drill for oil and natural gas and provide services at the wells were among the most popular investor bets...
Gold climbed to its highest in nearly two weeks on Thursday as expectations of an early hike in US interest rates eased and the dollar lost traction after the release of minutes of the last Federal Reserve policy meeting. Spot...
Despite weaker than expected global growth and stable or declining commodity prices, African economies continue to expand at a moderately rapid pace, the World Bank has said. The African regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to strengthen to 5.2%...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday sought more financial assistance and investment from the developed countries for further uplift of Bangladesh. ‘We need more financial help and investment from the developed nations for further uplift of Bangladesh,’ she said when...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its global growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015 and warned that the world economy may never return to the pace of expansion seen before the financial crisis. In its flagship half-yearly world economic...
RAB personnel on Wednesday arrested seven men from Dhaka and Munshiganj districts and Manikganj’s Aricha in connection with the Tk 20 million BRAC Bank robbery in Joypurhat town last month. RAB Media Wing Deputy Director Rumman Mahmud said the suspects...
French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The academy said the award of eight million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) was "for the art of memory with which he has evoked...
The pace of Britain's economic recovery slowed somewhat in the third quarter of this year, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said on Tuesday. The think tank estimated gross domestic product rose 0.7 per cent in the...
Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) countries in Dhaka on Thursday reiterated their call for the complete abolition of death penalty and establishing a moratorium on executions in Bangladesh. “The European Union reaffirms its absolute opposition to the use of...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee for allegedly amassing illegal wealth. ACC deputy director Manzur Morshed filed the case with Ramna Police Station in the capital, ACC public relations...
The first batch of Bangladeshi hajjis returned home from Saudi Arabia as the return hajj flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd began on Thursday. The first Biman flight, ‘BG-2012’, carrying 416 Bangladeshi hajjis landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will take next course of action on the basis of the reports of its observer appointed for the National Bank Limited (NBL). “The central bank will wait for its observer's report about the NBL. On the basis...
Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu on Thursday said the city's Chikley Lake would be turned into an eco-friendly and beautiful entertainment park soon, according to a news agency.
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