Bangladeshi Hajjis will now be allowed to carry maximum 47kg goods on the return flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd from Saudi Arabia. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, who is now staying in Makkah to perform hajj,...
Police are installing closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at 14 entry points of the capital. "Some of the cameras have been already installed on a trial basis. The rest will be done within a day or two. I will go...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will remove the waste of cattle markets and sacrificed animals from the city within 36 hours of the first day of Eid-ul-Azha, said DNCC administrator Faruq Jamil Tuesday. Addressing a press conference at DNCC office,...
Some miscreants hacked a university student to death near Jahangirnagar University (JU) in Savar on Tuesday evening. The dead is Ashraful Alam, 22, hailed from Khulna district. He was a 2nd year student of Daffodil International University (DIU). A friend...
A trawler, loaded with sacrificial animals, sank in Jamuna River in Daulatpur Upazila in Manikganj district on Tuesday. At least 22 cattle drowned in the capsize. However, 14 people of the trawler managed to swim ashore. Police and witnesses said...
A policeman allegedly committed suicide by taking poison in Khalilganj area in Kurigram Sadar Upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Prakash Chandra Roy, 41, a constable of the district court. He hailed from Lalmonirhat district. Local sources...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night sat with top leaders of the 20-party alliance to take stock of the country’s political situation and work out the BNP-led coalition’s next course of action. The nearly 1-and-half-hour long meeting began at...
Rumours of Jamaat-e-Islami's former Ameer Ghulam Azam’s death have been dispelled by the authorities of MSMMU Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. A day after Jamaat issued a statement expressing concern over his health, rumours of condemned convict Ghulam Azam’s...
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The prices of most of the shares on the country's twin-bourse – the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the 4th session of the week....
A fire, which broke out at a spinning mill in West Bhurulia in Gazipur city early Wednesday, was doused in the morning. However, no injury was reported. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at...
A schoolboy died from snakebite at Harindi village under Sreepur Upazila in Magura district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan, 11, a class V student of a government primary school at the village and also the son...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia early Wednesday to perform Holy Hajj. The President left Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport by a regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at 2:00am. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, Agricultural Minister Matia Chowdhury,...
An engine-propelled boat loaded with 25 sacrificial animals capsized in Shitalakkha River in Narayanganj district leaving at least 11 cattle drowned in the river on Tuesday. However, the people of the boat, managed to swim ashore. Cattle traders who were...
BGB personnel recovered 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablets in Naf River in Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday midnight. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sources said being tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in Sluice Gate Number-5...
Stocks in Asia were mixed in subdued trade with Japanese shares falling on profit-taking while shares in Australia were lifted by a stronger US dollar. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average ended down 0.6% at 16082.25 with the dollar hovering around ¥109.81,...
Two separate cases were filed on Wednesday against Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui for hurting religious sentiments of the Muslims. Latif Siddiqui made some derogatory remarks at a views-exchange meeting with expatriates from Tangail in New York on...
Tokyo shares opened slightly lower Wednesday on a survey by the Japanese central bank which said the index for big non-manufacturers' sentiment worsened in September from three month earlier. At 9:15 a.m., the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 21.59 points,...
The Australian stock market is trading flat after an extremely volatile morning session. The market started the day lower and was down 0.77 per cent as of 1030 AEST, but recovered all of its lost ground by lunchtime. At noon...
European shares were mixed in morning trade on Wednesday, with investors taking cues from weak US markets in the previous session and looking ahead to Thursday's European Central Bank (ECB) meeting. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 Index edged lower with...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance says it will go for a massive agitation after Eid-ul-Azha if the government does not remove Abdul Latif Siddiqui from the Cabinet and Parliament. BNP’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the...
New Zealand stocks have lifted with investors lured back to the bourse's relatively high yields. The NZX 50 Index rose 19.546 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5274.583 on Wednesday. Within the index, 29 stocks rose, 14 fell and seven...
Most Indian stocks rose as software exporters climbed after the rupee weakened to a seven-month low amid concern the US Federal Reserve may raise interest rates. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), Infosys Ltd. (INFO) and Wipro Ltd., India’s largest technology...
The President, prime minister, foreign minister and 12 other members of the Cabinet are now out of the country, all at the same time which is something rare. President Abdul Hamid has set off for Saudi Arabia on a Biman...
A global glut of oil sent prices skidding this summer, and demand is expected to remain soft in the coming months. Brent—the global benchmark—and US benchmark crude have fallen about 15% from their mid-June highs and closed the quarter at...
Citibank, N.A., Bangladesh and United Development Initiatives for Programmed Actions (UDDIPAN) recently signed a banking agreement which will enable Citibank, N.A. to expand its microcredit disbursement channels in Bangladesh. Mr. Rashed Maqsood, Managing Director and Citi Country Officer for Bangladesh...
Gold on Wednesday started the fourth quarter where it ended to the third, and that’s in the dumps. The selling was even more pronounced in platinum, which pushed down to levels sot seen in five years. At last check, gold...
Bangladesh have progressed to the semifinals of the Asian Games Twenty20 Cricket beating minnows Kuwait by a massive 203 runs on Wednesday. The defending champions will face Sri Lanka in the last four of the competition. Bangladesh lost the toss...
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