The rising water level in the upstream is likely to worsen the flood situation in Bangladesh’s northern and north-western region, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) says. However, the FFWC sees no chance of floods in capital although it...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Thursday rescued a newly born baby stolen by suspected baby lifters from the Infant Ward of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) earlier this month. The RAB action followed a High Court ruling...
The one-off Twenty20 (T20) international between Bangladesh and West Indies was abandoned with no result on Wednesday after rain rendered conditions unfit for play at Warner Park in Basseterre. The visiting Bangladesh cricket team, after winning the toss, scored 31...
A Bangladesh national has been killed in a fatal road crash in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Sources at a hospital at Manama, the capital of Bahrain, identified the deceased as Mohsin Miah, 44, son of Md Abdul Hamid. He...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has suspended two staffers and three security officials of Chittagong Railway Station following demand by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). The BCL activists had reportedly attacked security officials and staff of BR and vandalised counters during a protest...
Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery. Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the...
A college student committed suicide for failing in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in Boalmari Upazila in Fariudpur district on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sonia Rahman Bhabna, 18, student of Kazi Sirajul Islam Girls College and daughter...
Some miscreants vandalised Darshana Railway Station in Damurhuda Upazila in Chuadanga district and exploded four powerful bombs there on Wednesday night. The explosion created panic among the waiting passengers and locals at Darshana Railway Station. Police recovered an unexploded bomb...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest fluctuations, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down...
Beximco Group, in a loan restructuring proposal to the central bank, is seeking softer terms such as longer time and lower interest rate, to repay more than Tk 50 billion (Tk 5,000 crore) owed by its Textile and Garment Division...
Fifteen fishermen who along with two others went missing during an attack by pirates in their trawlers in the Bay of Bengal in Noakhali’s Hatiya Upazila early Monday were rescued on Wednesday night. The two other fishermen – Zahir Uddin...
The government has extended the contract of the director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Deen Muhammad Nurul Haque, by another year. He was made the DGHS director general on February 24. A public administration ministry’s...
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups following a dispute over jute processing at Hakimpur village in Shailkupa Upazila in Jhenidah on Wednesday. Police and witnesses said the two groups engaged in an altercation...
Ahle Sunnat on Thursday called nationwide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday protesting killing of a leader of the Islami Front, who hosted religion-based TV programmes. Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqui was found murdered in yet-unclear circumstances at his Dhaka residence on Wednesday...
Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to be officially sworn in after winning the country's first ever popular vote for head of state. Mr Erdogan, who served three terms as prime minister, has vowed to give more power to...
A case has been filed over the murder of Islami Front leader, TV show host Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi. His son Faisal Farooqi filed the case against about eight unidentified men with the Shere Bangla Nagar Police Station past midnight...
The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea's ferry disaster on Thursday abandoned a hunger strike aimed at forcing lawmakers to set up a full independent inquiry. The Sewol ferry sank off South Korea's southern...
A Thai court has dismissed murder charges against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva linked to a bloody crackdown on protesters in 2010. Mr Abhisit was Thailand's leader when anti-government ‘red-shirt’ protesters blockaded Bangkok for 10 weeks. In the end the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor. Nearly 40 per cent of Indians have little access to financial services and are...
Malaysia Airlines staff tried to contact the crew of missing flight MH370 by satellite phone after it disappeared from radar, Australian authorities have announced, with details about the failed call now being used to refine the suspected final path of...
Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. He becomes the sixth fatality in Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country. The doctor had treated a patient, who later...
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Stocks closed lower on Thursday after three-session gaining streak with turnover rose slightly as investors booked some profit on selected stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,577.99 points, shedding 21.47 points or 0.46...
The US is trying to determine if a second American fighting with the Islamic State group has been killed in Syria. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the US has no independent confirmation of reports of a second American...
A Bangladeshi national has been stabbed to death in the United States.Cab driver Kamal Uddin, 47, hailing from Chittagong’s Anwara Upazilla, was found dead on a street in Connecticut’s Stamford City. The cab he used to drive was found abandoned...
A mystery illness has overwhelmed a small town in northern Colombia as scores of teenage girls have been hospitalised with symptoms that parents fear could be an adverse reaction to a popular vaccine against cervical cancer. Authorities say they still...
The mother of a hostage American journalist pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video directed at the Islamic State group, while new images emerged of mass killings, including masked militants shooting kneeling men after the capture of a strategic...
President Barack Obama faces a familiar question as he contemplates airstrikes in Syria: Should Congress have a say in his decision? Obama was barreling toward strikes last summer when he abruptly announced that he first wanted approval from congressional lawmakers....
Six people died and 21 others were missing after a landslide hit a village in southwestern China, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The official Xinhua News Agency said 77 houses collapsed or were buried in the landslide Wednesday night in...
Police say two women are in custody after a Sunwing flight bound for Cuba was forced to turn back to Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Regional police responded to the flight at around 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Police say the passengers...
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