The High Court has directed the government to form a 2-member committee to look into the police assault on ETV journalist Akhil Poddar. Asking the home secretary to come up with a report on October 21 after investigating the incident,...
A woman has been sentenced to prison for helping to end her teen daughter’s pregnancy by giving her pills purchased online. Jennifer Ann Whalen, 39, a resident of Washingtonville under Danville of Pennsylvania, USA, has been sentenced to nine to...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw negative trend while Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday amid see-saw, the second session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, shed 0.34...
A defamation case has been filed against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for ‘derogatory’ comments against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week....
A biker was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Ramkantapur under Lohagara Upazila of Narail on Sunday night. The dead is Rabiul Sheikh, 30, son of Moktar Sheikh of Shalnagar village of the Upazila. Police...
The bodies of 10 people killed aboard a Colombian plane that crashed in Amazon jungles have been recovered, officials of the Latin American country said today. A Colombian Air Force helicopter took the bodies to the town of Araracuara, where...
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova is in town to join the International Literacy Day celebrations today (Monday). The UN agency usually observes the day and hands over its literacy award from Paris, but this year it proposed that Dhaka host...
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova is in town to join the International Literacy Day celebrations today (Monday). The UN agency usually observes the day and hands over its literacy award from Paris, but this year it proposed that Dhaka host...
A high profile delegation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Department for International Development (DFID) has highly lauded the success achieved in reducing urban poverty under Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) project in Rangpur city. The delegation...
Bangladesh has not received the promised aid from donors, despite making progress in several fields, a recent report on achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has said. The report – ‘Bangladesh’s progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal 2013’...
Bangladesh has one of the largest national web portals in the world by connecting its 25 thousand departments, says Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu. The minister was speaking as the chief guest at an award-giving ceremony in the city. Explaining...
The reunion of Chemistry Department Alumni Association of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will be held on December 26. The last date for registration is December 15, said a press release. The former students of the department have been requested to contact...
RAB Monday arrested a leader of the banned terrorist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Dhaka. Sagir Hossain, charged for the 2005 serial bomb blasts, was arrested from the capital's Vatara area. RAB-1 Operations Officer Kamrul Hassan told bdnews24.com: "Sagir...
Police have arrested a man suspected to be involved in Thursday's shooting in Dhaka that had left a man wounded and his son dead. Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Saidur Rahman said that one 'Siraj', 30, was arrested...
Each of the floating people, willing to return to their villages, can now get up to Tk 50,000 in loan with a maximum 6 per cent interest per annum. This is part of the government’s initiative to send the uprooted...
Asian shares edged down on Monday, taking little comfort from mixed Chinese trade data, while sterling’s decline after a poll showed rising support for Scottish independence helped bolster the dollar. China’s exports rose more than forecast in August while imports...
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A condolence meeting on late Muhammad Mosharraf Hossain, a former member of the parliament and business leader, was held after Asr prayers on Monday in the board room of The Financial Express at Topkhana Road in the city. Chairman of...
European shares were lower on Monday with weakness on the UK's FTSE 100 offsetting any buying after weak trade data from China. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 Index was lower at the open with heavily-weighted mining stocks like Rio Tinto,...
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Stocks ended lower for the second running sessions on Monday with turnover remained sluggish as investors continued on profit booking. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,608.95 points, shedding 32.49 points or 0.70 per...
US stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street after the S&P hit a new closing high on Friday amid renewed concerns over the crisis in Ukraine. Weak Chinese data showing import growth fell unexpectedly also kept...
The Australian sharemarket closed the day lower despite a private report showing an increase in job ads in August. Some analysts attributed the market's fall to the drop in China imports from major trading partners during August, including from Australia....
The oil price has fallen below $100 a barrel for the first time in 16 months, raising the prospect of cheaper prices at the pump. Brent crude, the most closely-watched benchmark, hit $99.95 in trading on Monday morning, following disappointing...
Gold prices gain in Asia on Monday, underpinned by physical demand ahead of the main gold buying season in India. On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold for December delivery traded at $1,268.80 a troy ounce,...
Prince George is not going to be an only child for long — the toddler will soon have a baby sister or brother to share his fancy digs at Kensington Palace. British royal officials said Monday that Prince William and...
Four children were killed early Monday in a fire on Chicago's South Side and their mother and her boyfriend were critically injured, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. The children included a 5-year-old and a 15- or 16-year-old girl...
Dubai's ruler has endorsed a $32 billion expansion plan for the city's second airport that officials envision will eventually become the worlds biggest, the Middle Eastern commercial hub's airport operator said Monday. The approval sets in motion a vast building...
The world's No. 1 human rights priority should be bringing an urgent end to the gruesome conflicts in Iraq and Syria, the new head of the UN's human rights office said Monday. Zeid Raad al-Hussein, in his first speech to...
Twitter is testing a way to let users go shopping or make charitable contributions between tweets. A small percentage of users will receive tweets from Twitter test partners Monday featuring a ‘buy’ button that lets them make purchases or donate...
Japan's economy shrank more sharply in the second quarter than first estimated and the latest indicators suggest only a modest bounce back since then. The world's third-largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 per cent in the April-June...
Turkish economists say the country's economy grew by 2.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2014, according to 25 specialists in Anadolu Agency's (AA) 'Growth Expectation Survey. The highest economic growth percentage predicted among the economists for Q2 2014...
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