Members of newly-formed River Police conducted drives against catching hilsa in three districts and held 17 fishermen along with ‘current net’ and hilsa worth about Tk 1.6 million in 24 hours ending at 6:00 am on Wednesday. The districts are...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized 60 gold bars weighing about 7 kg from an aircraft of Regent Airways on Wednesday evening. Tipped off, a special team of customs officials conducted a search in the aircraft of Regent...
International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Bangladesh off-spinner Sohag Gazi from bowling in international cricket for suspect bowling action, according to a news agency.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked the members of Bangladesh Police for maintaining law and order and traffic system through performing their responsibility with utmost professionalism during the holy Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja. The Prime Minister extended her thanks to...
The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal no 2 as the cyclonic storm ‘Hud Hud’ over Southeast Bay and adjoining area moved slightly west-northwestwards and now lies over...
A German and two American scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells, according to a news agency.
Pakistan Rangers continued to fire across the international border with India throughout the night and well into Wednesday, killing at least two more people and injuring two dozen, according to a news agency.
A strong, shallow earthquake that shook the Weiyuan city area of Yunnan province of China overnight killed at least one person, damaged buildings and prompted thousands to camp outside as aftershocks continued to strike the area, officials said on Wednesday,...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Wednesday urged the Ministry of Local Government and Cooperatives to take action against the administrator of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) for leasing out open spaces around four important public hospitals in the city to...
The World Bank has said Bangladesh has found its way back to political stability and has forecast that GDP growth will recover as a result, rising to 6.2 per cent. But it said that this would depend on continued macroeconomic...
The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) -- both North and South -- have launched a clean-up drive to rid the city of animal waste left behind by slaughters during the Eid-ul-Azha. About 13,000 cleaners, employed by the city corporations, started working...
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar M. Khan visited Dhaka Monday and met high-ups from the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). The PCB chief’s visit to Dhaka is part of his marathon tour which starts with his visit to India on...
Asian shares inched tentatively higher on Tuesday as the focus turned to an imminent policy decision from the Bank of Japan. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up about 0.1 per cent, wobbling between positive and negative...
A fire in the house of an expatriate early on Tuesday led to the death of a woman and three of her daughters at Tangail's Mirzapur. Police say they suspect that the house was set on fire by sprinkling petrol...
The dollar edged higher on Tuesday, showing resilience in the wake of the previous day's slide, which was seen as a temporary setback for dollar bulls.The dollar rose 0.3 percent against the yen to 109.11 yen. On Monday, the dollar...
Four people were killed and five others injured in road accidents in Tangail and Khagrachhari districts on Tuesday. In Tangail, a septuagenarian woman and a teenage girl were killed as a private car, being hit by a bus, plunged into...
Rimex Footwear Limited, one of the fastest growing and leading footwear companies of the country will offload shares through initial public offering (IPO) for business expansion. ICB Capital Management Limited (ICML), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has...
Samsung Electronics has forecast a 60 per cent fall in quarterly operating profit from a year ago, missing estimates, because of slowing Galaxy smartphone sales. The world's biggest mobile phones and TV maker said it expects an operating income of...
A US drone strike has killed at least eight people in Pakistan's volatile tribal region of North Waziristan, officials say. Reports say two missiles hit a house and a car in the Shawal region late on Monday. It is the...
Representatives of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters have agreed to hold formal talks with the government. No date has been set but the students made it clear the talks would be called off if the remaining demonstrators were cleared from the...
A nurse's assistant in Spain is the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa in the current outbreak. Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato announced Monday that a test confirmed the assistant has the virus. The woman helped...
Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury, the prime suspect of a madrasa explosion in Chittagong's Lalkhan Bazar, has evaded arrest for a year. Police say they have no idea of the Hifazat-e Islam leader's whereabouts. Although they claim that efforts are on...
The Myanmar government pardoned 3,073 prisoners Tuesday as part of an amnesty that rights groups said included more than a dozen political prisoners, a month before a summit of regional leaders convenes in the country. The Ministry of Information announced...
The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has issued a red alert along the border areas here so that the huge rawhides, generated during Monday’s Eid-ul-Azha, cannot be smuggled out of the country. The BGB imposed a restriction on movement of goods-carrying...
A man was killed and at least 10 people were injured in an attack allegedly by Jubo League men in Shibalaya upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Shahinur Rahman Shahan, 40, son of Nasiruddin of North Teota...
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes — a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source. The Royal Swedish Academy of...
Indian and Pakistani troops have fired bullets and mortar shells across the border between Kashmir and Pakistan for a second day, with both accusing the other of provoking the violence. Police in both countries said troops exchanged fire for hours...
Ten shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Chandraganj Paschim Bazar in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The fire originated at a shop around 5am from an electrical short circuit around and it soon engulfed nine other adjoining...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is celebrating his 62nd birthday in the wilderness of Siberia as supporters from across Russia create tributes in his honor. Putin celebrated his birthday Tuesday in the Siberian forest some "300-400 kilometers (185-250 miles) from the...
About 150 Sri Lankan fishermen are stranded in the Myanmar sea after drifting there during bad weather, an official said Tuesday. Fisheries Ministry spokesman Narendra Rajapaksa said the ministry has received reports that three boats and 15 fishermen are already...
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