The 3rd session of the 10th parliament will begin on September 1. President Abdul Hamid has summoned the parliament session that will begin at 5pm on the day, said a Parliament Secretariat media release on Monday, according to a news...
A fire broke out in a cosmetics factory at Dalpatti of Chakbazar in old Dhaka on Monday afternoon. Fire service control room sources said the broke out in the tin-shed factory situated on the rooftop of a 3-storey building around...
Deutsche Bank is suing a former top executive of its China operations for $3.9 million, according to reports, accusing him of transferring the sum to an account held by another company at a Chinese bank. Lee Zhang was previously chairman...
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka believes that January 5 election has brought relief by putting an end to violence and hopes upcoming BNP movement will not start it again. “We continue to hope that it (movement) will not be violent,”...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will hold a meeting with non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) on Tuesday as part of its move to improve performance of the banking and non-banking financial institutions. All the chief executive officers (CEOs) and top officials of the...
The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations of 2014 will be published Wednesday. All the examination centres and educational institutions have been asked to collect the results Wednesday from their respective education boards through webmail, said...
Shrugging off the criticisms, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Monday claimed that the National Broadcasting Policy is designed neither to throttle the media nor to establish the Information Ministry’s control and authority over the news industry. “Instead, the National...
GAZIPUR, Aug 9: Two workers died as they fell into an Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) of the garment factory Urmee Knitwear Ltd in Mouchak area of Kaliakoir upazila of the district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Lavlu, 25,...
Rapid Action Battalion(Rab) members arrested a driver of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case, from Patuakhali Sadar upazila on Saturday. The arrestee was identified as Mizanur Rahman Dipu. Rab headquarters sources said tipped off, a...
MEHERPUR, Aug 9: A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Sonapur Majhpara bordering area of Mujibnagar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abdul Khalek, 30, a cattle...
A man was allegedly beaten to death at a drug rehabilitation centre at Brahmanbaria town on Saturday. The dead is Atikul Islam Shafique, 30, son of M Bahar Mian of Kandipara in the town. Local people said the staff of...
The Met Office has advised cautionary Signal No. 3 for the sea ports as a low in the Bay of Bengal could lead to squally weather. In a weather forecast, it said a monsoon low had been formed over the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the party’s standing committee members on Sunday night to finalise her party’s action programmes to force the government for arranging a fresh election under a non-party neutral administration. The meeting is scheduled to...
A fire broke out at a godown (warehouse) of Beximco Industrial Park at Chakrawarty at Gazipur industrial zone in the newly-created Gazipur city on Sunday morning. Fire service sources said the fire broke out in an underground cotton store room...
US jet fighters and drones have conducted four more air strikes on jihadists (Islamic militants) in Iraq, taking out armoured carriers and a truck that were firing on civilians. US Central Command says the Islamic State militants were firing on...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has reiterated that the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) Peace Accord will be implemented fully during the tenure of the government to ensure the rights of indigenous people. ‘The rights of the indigenous...
A local Awami League leader has been gunned down shot at the city’s Agargaon on Saturday night. The dead is Jahangir Kabir, 45, son of M Mustafa of Pacshim Agargaon. Victim’s relative Abdul Gafur said Jahangir, president of Agargaon Taltola...
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The prices of most of the shares in the country’s two bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed sharp rise in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX,...
Travel restrictions on Ebola patients and the absence of direct air links with the affected West African countries made Ebola virus making its way to Bangladesh ‘a remote possibility’. But the viral disease that World Health Organisation terms as ‘one...
Police arrested a man along with 10 gold bars in Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district on Saturday night. The arrested was identified as Sentu Karr, 35, son of Dilip Karr of Uttar Chanla village of Brahmanpara Upazila. Being tipped off,...
An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian man and wounded seven other people on Sunday, medics said, on the third day of renewed fighting that has jeopardised international efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire in Gaza Strip. The parties remained...
Two children drowned in a pond in Hossainpur Upazila in Kishoreganj district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Jannat, 3, daughter of late Manik Miah and Saiba, 3, daughter of Khuki Mia of Pudurghat village in the Upazila. Police...
An Iranian plane carrying 40 passengers crashed in a residential area after taking off from Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Sunday morning, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and its own reporter....
At least 44 people were killed and 11 injured as bus plunged into a dicth off a cliff following a vehicle pile-up on Saturday in southwest China’s Nyemo county, authorities said on Sunday. The bus carrying 50 people, mostly tourists,...
Three Bangladeshi young men were injured in an attack by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Sunday. The victims were identified as Moyna of Gobindakati village, Shamsur Rahman of Boikari village of Sadar Upazila and...
A college student was stabbed dead on Netrakona Government University College campus in Netrakona town on Saturday. The dead is Mirza Aziz Amani Epthi, 17, son of Mirza Azizur Rahman Hablu, a resident of Satpai in the district town. He...
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the hearing on charge framing against 111 BNP leaders, including the party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in three separate cases. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiya fixed the dates when...
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