Some miscreants killed a young man and dumped his body in Dhanmondi Lake in the city at sometime between Tuesday and early Wednesday. However, his identity could not be known. Informed by locals, police recovered the body of the unidentified...
Chittagong's train communications with capital Dhaka, Sylhet, Feni and Brahmanbaria were restored on Thursday morning, over 4 hours after the rail link was snapped in the routes following derailment of a passenger train. The inter-city ‘Mahanagar Provati’ train derailed in...
A bomb ripped through a mini-bus in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least seven passengers, police said. The bombing, which took place on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, also wounded four people, said Shafqat Malik,...
The US Embassy in Dhaka, including its consular section, will remain closed on Sunday and Monday on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Azha. The American Center with the Archer K. Blood American Center Library and the Education USA Student Advising Center...
An estimated 2 million Muslims are streaming into a sprawling tent city near Mecca for the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia says there are 1.4 million visitors to the kingdom for the hajj. The pilgrims are...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the leaders and workers of Awami League (AL) to remain vigil about the local and international conspiracies against the government and further strengthen the party. She gave the directives during her stopover at...
A delegation of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) headed by its President Mohammed Salim, FCMA called on Tofail Ahmed, MP , Minister for Commerce at his office Thursday. The president updated the Minister about the...
Danish lawmakers have confirmed the government's proposal to send seven F-16 fighter jets to join an international coalition to take part in airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group. In a 94-9 vote with 76 absentees, lawmakers on Thursday sent...
A court-martial is accusing 16 Nigerian officers and 72 rank-and-file troops of a string of charges from cowardice to refusing to fight in the country's northeastern Islamic uprising. Thursday's mass trial comes two weeks after 12 soldiers were sentenced to...
Authorities say a blast at an explosives factory in northwestern Bulgaria may have killed as many as 15 people. The explosion, which also left three people injured, occurred near the village of Gorni Lom, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) north...
Officials say that a suicide bomber has killed three army officers and wounded seven others in Kabul, a day after two such attacks killed 11. A district police chief, Hafeiz Khan, said the suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday morning...
The World Bank has approved US$500 million in additional financing for Indonesia’s Local Government and Decentralization Project, which aims to improve accountability in local government regarding the implementation of infrastructure projects. When Indonesia initiated decentralization a decade ago, responsibility for...
The Asian Development Bank plans to allocate $350 million for the development of transport infrastructure in Azerbaijan over the next three years. This was announced in the bank's new strategy of cooperation with Azerbaijan for 2014-2018 approved by the ADB...
Lack of monitoring of the shadow banking system is a risk to financial stability, the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, said late Wednesday. According to the Global Financial report from IMF, shadow banking amounted to around 7 trillion dollars in...
Making an appeal for a non-political movement driven by patriotism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat, or Clean India, Mission on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Mission will aim to make India ‘clean’ by October 2,...
By-elections to different vacant posts of 67 Union Parishads (UP) across 35 districts will be held on November 18. The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday announced schedules for the by-polls to the vacant posts of chairman and member, including the...
Padma Islami Life Insurance Limited (PILIL) will be placed in Z category from existing B category with effect from October 12, 2014 as per Dhaka Stock Exchange (Settlement of Transactions) Regulations, 2013. The company has been downgraded to Z category...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday warned that the government will make a big mistake if it treats their repeated calls for talks over the country’s political crisis as weakness. “BNP wants to have the crisis resolved through...
Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Thursday gave the government 20 days to bring Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddique to book for his anti-Islamic remarks. “Latif Siddique should be hung incorporating a legal provision of death sentence (in the relevant law)...
Inter-bank call money rates witnessed a further increase on Thursday as it reached 9.50 per cent from 9.25 per cent on Wednesday, the highest in recent days, amid pressure for cash withdrawal on the occasion of two major festivals --...
The Environment and Forest Ministry on Thursday urged all to dump waste to be generated from sacrificed animals into dustbins during the Eid-ul Azha. “The blood and unnecessary parts of slaughtered animals can’t be dumped into drains or indiscriminately…those must...
The President of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) has demanded legislation to prevent “catastrophic” outcomes of medical education following the increase in number of medical colleges. Prof Mahmud Hasan speaking at a policy dialogue on Thursday said the growing number of...
The newly-commenced local private US-Bangla Airlines on Thursday started its new Dhaka-Syedpur-Dhaka route with its 76-seat aircraft. The new airlines will operate four flights on the route in a week (Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday), the airlines sources said. The...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) is organising a mega event in December this year aiming at preparing a roadmap to fetch $50 billion by 2021 from apparel export. The event styled "Bangladesh RMG 2021" will be held in...
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home 22 per cent more money in the first quarter of the current fiscal compared to the same period last year. In September, Bangladesh received $1.32 billion in remittance, Bangladesh Bank's Forex Reserve and Treasury Management Division's...
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates 2015 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia of the USA. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus attended the preparatory Gala for the World Summit at Atlanta on September 28, said a Yunus Centre press...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday issued another circular with a four-point directive asking the banks to ensure the smooth operation of ATM (automated teller machine) with adequate security during the holidays on the occasion of Durga Puja and Eid-ul-Azha. The...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Oct 1: A large quantity of seized narcotics worth of Tk 19.3 million was destroyed at the Headquarters of Border Guard Bangladesh, 37 Battalion of Rajshahi on Tuesday morning. The drugs include 29,644 bottles of Phensidyl, 942 bottles of...
DINAJPUR, Oct 1 (UNB): Police on Wednesday recovered the bodies of a couple and their minor daughter from their house at Gunjabari in sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Rony Kumar Singha, 28, son of late Sukumar...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-02 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Oct 1: Prior to the Eid-ul-Azha, the small raw hide traders of Nilphamari district asked the government to introduce licences or identity cards for them. They sought so to rein non-bonafide hide traders of the district who unlawfully dominate...
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