Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has dubbed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia a "murderer" and a "sick mind". Speaking at an Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Udyan Saturday, Hasina brought up BNP's movement during the last national polls and Khaleda's Aug 15...
A three-day programme of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), marking its 36th founding anniversary, begins Sunday. The programmes include discussion, hoisting party flag, placing wreaths at the grave of party founder and taking out a colourful procession, according to a news...
NARAYANGANJ: Three members of Rab-11, who were arrested Wednesday, reportedly made their ‘confessional’ statements separately Saturday over their involvement in the sensation seven-murder incident. The statement of Habildar Emdadul Haq was recorded at the court of senior judicial magistrate Chandni...
Bangladesh will seek “specific timeline” from Myanmar to repatriate its nationals during Sunday’s foreign secretary level talks, a senior foreign ministry official says. Dhaka will put forth its position even as it wants to give the bilateral relations “a boost”...
NARAYANGANJ: BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed said Saturday the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder incident proves that the government is no longer in control of the law enforcement agencies. Not only the leaders and activists of the ruling party, but also...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) urged Saturday the parties concerned to withdraw hartal called for Sunday. “Any negative activities, including hartal, will have a negative impact on the country’s economy and image; and discourage foreign...
The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as...
Tesco shares have dropped sharply after Britain's largest retailer by revenue issued another profit warning and slashed its dividend to shareholders by 75 per cent. The supermarket giant says market conditions remained challenging, cutting its forecast for 2014-2015 trading profits...
The United States has delivered the first shipment of weapons to Lebanon to help bolster its military as it faces a growing threat from Islamic militants amid the fallout from neighboring Syria's civil war. The weapons were displayed at the...
Inflation in the 18 countries that use the euro sank to 0.3 per cent in August. A worrying sign of economic weakness that is putting pressure on the European Central Bank to take drastic steps to save a stalling recovery....
A top North Korean banker in charge of Kim Jong-un's slush funds is seeking asylum after fleeing Russia with approximately $5m (£3.01m), a South Korea newspaper has reported. According to the JoongAng Ilbo daily, Yun Tae-Hyong, a senior official at...
Great Western Bancorp Inc, the US subsidiary of National Australia Bank Ltd filed with US regulators on Thursday for an initial public offering. Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that NAB, Australia's No. 4 lender by market value, had tapped Deutsche...
Malaysia's plantations-to-motoring conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd posted a 9 per cent drop in fourth-quarter net profit as lower palm output hit sales and sluggish commodity prices and volatile currency markets also weighed on its businesses. The weaker earnings at the...
Over 0.78 million (7.8 lakh) people have so far been marooned following further deterioration of flood situation due to inundation of fresh areas in the Brahmaputra basin during the past 24 hours till 6am on Friday. Besides, erosion has damaged...
On June 9, with his 150-year-old Portuguese corporate dynasty close to collapse, patriarch Ricardo Espirito Santo Salgado made a desperate attempt to save it. Salgado signed two letters to Venezuela’s state oil company, which had bought $365 million in bonds...
The government will not succeed in staying in power for long, BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said. ‘They don’t have any ground beneath their feet,’ he said at a discussion on Friday. ‘It is about time they...
Morgan Stanley has quietly filed plans to build and run one of the first US compressed natural gas export facilities, the first sign the bank is plunging back into physical commodity markets even as it sells its physical oil business....
US consumer spending fell in July, with a drop in auto purchases accounting for most of the weakness. Income growth also slowed in July. The Commerce Department says consumer spending edged down 0.1 per cent last month after a 0.4...
Newly-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken over the charge of the Presidency from outgoing President Abdullah Gul. The handover ceremony took place in the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Thursday, according to message received in Dhaka on Friday....
Senegal has recorded its first case of Ebola in an outbreak that is ravaging its West African neighbors, the Ministry of Health said Friday. The infected person is a young man from Guinea, Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told...
BNP has chalked elaborate programmes to celebrate its 36th founding anniversary that falls on Monday. The party has centrally taken a 2-day programme to mark the founding anniversary, said a party press release on Friday. As per the programmes, the...
Pakistan's prime minister on Friday denied asking the country's military chief to mediate with opposition leaders and protesters who have camped for two weeks outside parliament in the capital, Islamabad, demanding his resignation over alleged voting fraud. Prime Minister Nawaz...
Taking a dig at the government for its ‘repressive’ acts, BNP on Friday alleged that the regime has turned even more desperate as people have started raising their voice against its misrule. In a statement, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza...
Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT tycoons that begins Saturday in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The two countries have...
State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam requested Turkish EXIM Bank to reduce the rate of interest on the US $ 300 million annual Line of Credit, which would be utilised by the private sector ventures in Bangladesh. During a...
Asian shares slumped on Friday, pulling back from a more than six-year high touched this week, after flaring Ukraine tensions spoiled investor risk appetite. But spreadbetters predicted a steadier open ahead in Europe, suggesting the fears were receding. They expected...
A human chain was formed in front of the ruined Rana Plaza at Savar town on Friday demanding due compensation for the victims of the incident. Garments Sramik Trade Union organised the human chain programme in the morning. The injured...
The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl while he was teaching her to use an Uzi say they feel sorry for the child. Instructor Charles Vacca was standing next to the girl on...
Brazil's government says the country's gross domestic product contracted 0.6 per cent in the second quarter compared with the previous three months, sending the country's economy into a recession. The government's IBGE statistics bureau said Friday it was the second...
Twitter plans to open an office in Indonesia over the coming months as it seeks to boost revenues in the social-media-addicted nation. Several market monitors have declared Jakarta as the world's most active city of tweeters. Twitter does not publicise...
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