Officials of Bank and Financial Institutions division under the Ministry of Finance took part in a training programme on capital market recently. Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) arranged the programme where state minister for finance MA Mannan was present...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said that the regional campus of South Asian University will be established in Bangladesh. The education minister said he had made a proposal to establish the regional campus of SA University in Bangladesh and...
The World Trade Center (WTC) in New York opened for business on Monday, over 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US city. Employees at publishing giant Conde Nast are starting to...
India's capital, Delhi, is headed for fresh elections after the main parties said they were unable to form a new government. Delhi has been without a government since February, when the then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal quit after an anti-corruption...
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal hit a century against Zimbabwe on the second day of second Test in Khulna today. Beside Tamim, ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan also was playing a responsible knock for the Tigers scoring a half-century. Earlier on...
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid has said that the government will appoint a consultant to assess the current situation of the country’s power transmission system. Observing that the country’s power transmission and distribution system has been 30-35...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to cut ties with war criminals, terrorists and militants, saying there will be no place for them in Bangladesh. ‘It is good to launch movement along with the...
A team of India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to visit Dhaka next week to get additional inputs about the activities of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) following the arrest of two JMB leaders last week in Bangladesh, Indian...
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Ace Bangladeshi allrounder Shakib Al Hasan hit a century, followed by opener Tamim Iqbal's one, on the second day of second Test against Zimbabwe at Khulna stadium today. Shakib this morning reached his half-century in T20 mode. But after lunch,...
Saturday’s collapse of national grid has hit RMG and cold storage industries hard. Country -wide power outage resulted in production loss, sudden rise in production cost, delay in shipment and increase in shipment cost in the RMG industry. Vice president...
The central bank has extended the timeline by three and half years to repay the money it owes to its clients. In 2006, Bangladesh Bank took over the bank and appointed an administrator following a financial scam involving Tk 6.5...
Gunmen shot dead at least five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province on Tuesday in an attack on Shia Muslims during one of their most important religious festivals, the state news agency SPA reported. Nine people were wounded by the...
Customs Intelligence officials on Tuesday afternoon recovered gold weighing 6 kilograms (kg) at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in Dhaka. Customs Joint Commissioner Kazi Mohammad Ziauddin said six gold bars were recovered from a passenger. ‘Six gold bars...
Bangladeshi and Indian experts have jointly drawn up a power transmission line route from Suryamaninagar in north-east India to Bangladesh’s Comilla district. The meeting, held in Agartala, the capital of India’s north eastern state of Tripura, decided on the route...
A 36-day-old-girl, who was thrown violently onto a bed by her father in Patgram Upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Friday, died at a local hospital on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Habiba Akter Hasi, daughter of Hasibul, 24,...
M Kamaruzzaman, sentenced to death for wartile offences, was taken to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur on Tuesday. Jail sources said Kamaruzzaman, who was kept at Part-2 condemned cell of Kashimpur Jail, was taken to Dhaka...
Singer Mohammad Ali Siddiqui passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday following prolonged illness. Family sources said, Siddiqui, who was suffering from various old-age complexities, fell seriously ill in early October. He was admitted to Labaid Hospital and later...
A gang of pirates kidnapped 14 fishermen who were fishing in Bay near Chargangamati in Kuakata in Patuakhali district on Tuesday morning. Witnesses and local fishermen said the 14 fishermen were catching fish with two trawlers in the water off...
Americans are preparing to vote in mid-term elections which will decide who controls the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 race for the White House. Polling booths open on Tuesday beginning 07:00 US Eastern Standard Time (12:00 GMT)....
Traffic on Dhaka-Aricha highway was disrupted for several hours on Tuesday after a bus and truck crashed into each other in Dhamrai Upazila of Dhaka district. At least 15 bus passengers were injured after the collision at the Bathuli Bridge...
The Election Commission (EC) is preparing to hold election to reserved women seats in Upazila (UZ) Parishads by the end of December. The polls are likely to be held after secondary-level tests examinations for fifth and eighth grade. The schedules...
A nuggety Tamim Iqbal century was complemented by a stroke-filled one from Shakib Al Hasan as Bangladesh cashed in on the painstaking foundation they had laid in Khulna to make 433. Zimbabwe's bowlers struggled to reprise the discipline they had...
Four workers sustained burn injuries as hot water from a boiler pipe spilled on them at a ready-made garment factory in the city’s Tongi area on Tuesday noon. Police said water spilled out of the boiler pipe after it developed...
The probe panel on Saturday’s power outage across the country says submission of its report has been delayed due to the public holiday on Tuesday. The 8-strong committee visited the Ramkrishnapur Sub-Station in Kushtia’s Bheramara Upazila on Tuesday. Bangladesh suffered...
Some people are ‘trying to save’ the son of a top police officer who allegedly ran over a man while driving his father’s car without a licence in Dhaka city. Zafar Sadique, 23, son of CID’s Additional Deputy Inspector General...
Reaffirming that their movement will be a non-violent one, BNP Dhaka city unit convener Mirza Abbas on Tuesday warned the government of dire consequences if it tries to obstruct their programmes. “Our movement will be non-violent and peaceful. Don’t try...
The government deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in Dhaka and several other cities across the country on Tuesday evening to maintain law and order and ensure peace. Several platoons of BGB troops have been deployed in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Chittagong...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce another spell of nationwide 48-hour hartal (shutdown) on Wednesday and Thursday protesting the death sentence awarded to its top two leaders for war crimes. The 2nd spell of 2-day shutdown will begin at 6:00am...
The Wednesday’s meeting of the BNP national standing committee has been rescheduled for November 13 due to hartal called by Jamaat. BNP chairperson's press wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed this to UNB on Tuesday. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to...
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