Monira Munni | 2014-08-16 00:00:00
The government has filed a case with the labour court against a readymade garment (RMG) factory for continuing production defying an official directive for evacuation of the unit on safety ground. On August 06, the Department of Inspection for Factories...
BAGERHAT: At least 22 participants of the Dhaka-Rampal long march were injured in an attack by miscreants in the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Project area under Rampal upazila Friday. The organisers of the long march claimed they were attacked by 40-50...
A man attacked along with his brother by miscreants at the Aziz Super Market in Shahbagh has died in hospital. Md Giasuddin Razu (33) died at Briton Hospital in Hatirpool Friday afternoon after getting stabbed around Thursday midnight. His brother...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered a Vishnu statue worth Tk 70 million from the city's Uttara area Friday. On secret information that a group of smugglers would gather at a park in Uttara sector 5 with the Vishnu...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested another accused in connection with Pinak-6 launch capsize incident from a house in the city's Khilkhet area early Friday. The arrested persons was identified as Omar Faruk Limon (27), son...
The growing disparity in incomes and access to social opportunities in Asia-Pacific developing countries not only threatens social stability but is also a key constraint to the region's economic dynamism, according to a survey report posted on the website of...
NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (AFP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first Independence Day speech on Friday restated his solidarity with the wider South Asian region but held back from mentioning India's great rival Pakistan which is also celebrating its...
Bangladesh is well ahead of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in terms of 'state of peace' though Nepal and Bhutan took the leading role as peaceful states in the South Asia, according to 2014 Global Peace Index (GPI) released recently, reports...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-08-16 00:00:00
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troops have been put on alert along the border belt to prevent encephalitis virus carriers from getting into the country, officials have said, as it now spreads the fatal brain fever in neighbouring Myanmar. The directive...
QUETTA, Aug 15, (agencies): Gunmen armed with automatic weapons, grenades and wearing suicide vests attacked two military airbases in southwestern Pakistan early Friday, leaving eight militants dead after Pakistan security forces opened fire, officials said. Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will take out processions across the country today(Saturday) with black flags protesting the killing of over 2,000 innocent Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, reports UNB. In the capital, the leaders and activists of the alliance...
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says, report agencies Speaking in Geneva, MSF President Joanne Lui called for strengthened international co-ordination led...
A flare-up in tensions in Ukraine on Friday threatened to derail the climb in US stock markets, but traders finally dismissed geopolitics to deliver another week of gains on Wall Street. Stock finished a volatile Friday session mixed, but the...
European stock markets rose solidly on Friday, building on gains from the previous day as tensions appeared to ease over the Russia-Ukraine crisis, while the euro advanced versus the dollar. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.72 per cent to...
Dhaka University vice chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique has recommended forming a commission to identify the conspirators behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other members of his family. He made this recommendation while addressing, titled ‘Life and...
Some share markets in Europe and Asia tumbled on Friday after news that Ukrainian artillery destroyed part of a military convoy that crossed from Russia into eastern Ukraine. European shares gave up solid gains, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 slumping 1.01...
Islamists have massacred villagers in northern Iraq where hundred per cent residents were from minority Yazidi sect. The jihadists not only killed the males of Yazidi sect in the village, they also raped women and abducted young women and children,...
US on Friday urged Russia to stop its ‘provocative’ activities after Ukraine said it had destroyed part of a Russian military convoy that entered its territory. US National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden warned that ‘the escalation in Russian activity...
At least three people went missing as a boat capsized after being hit by a ferry in Padma River near Daulatdia Ferry Ghat (terminal) at Goalanda Upazila in Rajbari district on Friday night. Of the victims, two were identified as...
The water flow of Teesta River rose sharply due to downpour and onrush of hill water, inundating 40 villages in several Upazilas of Nilphamari and adjoining districts in the last 72 hours ending at 6am on Saturday. The inundation has...
Two minors drowned in a pond inundated by rain water in Madhabpur Upazila in Habiganj district on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Suma Akter, 8, and Ruma Akhter, 2, daughters of Shamim Miah, a resident of Kalikrishnanagar village....
Normal life was thrown out of gear in the city due to incessant rains that led to its roads water clogged and gridlocked. The downpour badly disrupted the city’s road communications with the port city, southern, south-western and northern districts....
Due to strong monsoon, deep convection is taking place over North Bay. Squally weather may affect North Bay, adjoining coastal area of Bangladesh and the maritime ports, a Met office bulletin has said. The bulletin forecast more rain in some...
A stone-throwing mob attacked the convoy of former cricket star and opposition politician Imran Khan as he led supporters through the eastern city of Gujranwala to Pakistani capital, presenting the 15-month-old civilian government with its biggest challenge yet. Clashes broke...
A fire broke out at the residence of Mohamamd Mozzammel Haque, superintendent of police (SP) of Bogra, at Malatinagar in Bogra town on Saturday. Fire service sources said electric short circuit sparked the fire in a living room on the...
The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 312,157,627.35 on the basis of cost price and Tk 304,548,777.00 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 14 August 2014. The face value per...
NRB Bank has recently inaugurated Ashulia Branch in Ashulia. The Branch was inaugurated by Mr. Iqbal Ahmed OBE, Chairman, NRB Bank; while directors Mr.Tateyama Kabir, Mr.M Badiuzzaman, Mr.Kamal Ahmed and high officials of the new generation private commercial bank and...
Humanitarian aid is being distributed to hundreds of thousands of Yazidi people, fleeing Islamic militants in Northern Iraq. Unicef representative Marzio Babille told the BBC it was one of the largest humanitarian responses he had seen in 50 years. He...
Floods have caused breaches on the flood control embankment along Muhuri and Kahua rivers, leaving over 250,000 people of 14 villages in Fulgazi Upazila (UZ) of Feni district marooned. The affected villages include Uttar Shreepur, Dakkhin Shreepur, Bijoypur, Purba Nilokkhi,...
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