US warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq’s Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent ‘genocide’. Islamic State fighters, who have beheaded and crucified captives in their drive to eradicate unbelievers, have advanced...
A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Mujibnagar Upazila in Meherpur district on Friday night. The dead is Abdul Khalek, 30, a cattle trader and son of Dhulu Mallik of Sonapur...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she learned from her mother, Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, how to make ‘right decisions’ in difficult times. ‘I have seen in my mother the determination to take the right decisions in adverse time,’ Hasina said, adding...
Former railways minister and senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta has expressed his displeasure at the ‘delay’ in resolving the issues regarding payment of overdue salaries and allowances of Tuba Group workers. Speaking at a discussion in the city, he...
Ready-made garment workers in Dhaka, Chittagong and Gazipur have not joined the strike called by protesting Tuba Group workers across all RMG units in Bangladesh.Police said works were going on as usual at factories in these areas on Saturday with...
Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali passed a busy day in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday. He arrived in the Myanmar capital on Friday afternoon to join the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting as Dhaka seeks closer ties with the...
Twenty-six of the 52 Bangladesh missions abroad failed to achieve their respective export targets in the last fiscal year (2013-2014). The key Bangladesh missions like those in Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa, Tokyo and Canberra failed to achieve their export targets...
Police arrested a young man for trying to pass himself off as a survivor of Pinak-6, the launch that sank in Padma River in Munshiganj on Monday. The detainee, Rasel Sardar, 28, of Madaripur’s Kunder Char, made the bizarre claim...
At least two people were killed and three others injured as a truck plunged into a ditch beside Kharkhari Bypass Road under Matihar Police Station in Rajshahi city on Saturday. The dead are Abdur Rahim, 35, son of Jhatu Rahim,...
A youth died from electrocution at Magura town on Saturday. The dead is Shahajalal, 20, son of Abdul Aziz, a resident of Molla Para of the district headquarters. Police said Shahjalal was injured as he came in contact with a...
Ferry services from Shariatpur terminal have been suspended after a part of the pontoon at the terminal broke down. Various southern districts accessed through the river Meghna has been cut off since Saturday morning. The ramp for the pontoon at...
A cargo plane has left RAF Brize Norton carrying British humanitarian aid to Iraq, the BBC understands. The aid drops are part of an £8m package of aid announced by the UK government. Members of the Yazidi community trapped on...
At least three people were killed when a train rammed a four-wheeler on Saturday at Natore Sadar Upazila. Six other people were injured. Police identified the dead as Sajeda Begum, 19, her mother-in-law Julekha Bewa, 48, and grandmother Sundari Bewa,...
A man was chopped to death by miscreants following a conflict over a social matter in Shailakupa upazila in Jhenidah on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed Mandal, 55, son of late Bhedai Mandal of Shingnagar village....
Body of another passenger of ‘Pinak-6’ has been recovered from Meghna River at Noakhali’s Hatia Upazila, five days after the launch capsized in Padma River in Munshiganj district, police say. The deceased was identified as Ahmed Khan, 42, of Faridpur’s...
The government considers enacting a law to make the use of energy-saving devices compulsory for consumers, Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said on Saturday. “Time has come to force household, commercial and industrial consumers through legal instrument to...
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has been invited to launch a social business project in Palermo city, Italy, aiming to address the problem of youth unemployment there. The invitation came when Yunus met Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando at its office...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad left Dhaka on Saturday for Kolkata, India on a six-day ‘private’ visit, said a party official. Ershad’s son Eric Ershad and personal secretary Maj (retd) Khaled Akhter also accompanied Ershad. The JP chief, also a...
Production in garment factories across the country remained ‘undisrupted’ on Saturday despite Tuba Group workers’ call for strike in all garment factories across the country. Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee called the strike demanding their arrears in full, cancellation of...
Leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Saturday demanded immediate formation of an independent broadcast commission. Addressing a press conference in the city, they urged the government not to implement National Broadcast Policy-2014 before formation of the commission. They...
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for improvising India’s relations with Bangladesh further with better connectivity and development of the state. Sarkar made the request during their first meeting held in New Delhi on...
WASHINGTON: Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the...
Tuba Group owner Delwar Hossain has agreed to pay his workers their wages and overtime for July Sunday. He gave this assurance during a meeting with Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) board...
Two workers died as they fell into Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) of garment factory Urmee Knitwear Ltd in Mouchak area of Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district on Saturday. Being informed that two bodies were floating in ETP water of the...
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2014 was celebrated across the country on Saturday as elsewhere across the globe with a call for implementing indigenous people’s rights. The theme of this year’s day was ‘Bridging the gap: Implementing...
Search workers are saying the length of the metallic object detected underwater in the Padma near Mawa matches the length of the sunken passenger vessel Pinak-6. The equipment on board Kandari-2 detected the object underwater Saturday. The object had shown...
MUNSHIGANJ: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Saturday imposed a ban on plying of passengers-carrying vessels on Mawa-Kawrakandi and Daulatdia-Paturia routes due to inclement weather, according to a news agency. “BIWTA stopped plying of launches and sea boats (on Mawa-Kawrakandi...
A Swechchhasebak League (SL) leader was shot dead by miscreants at Bejpara in Jessore district town on Saturday. The victim was identified as Abdul Mannan, town unit president of Swechchhasebak League and son of Abdul Majid of Chandpara village in...
So far 45 bodies of passengers travelling in the sunken vessel Pinak-6 have been recovered from various places downstream of the Padma and other rivers. Of them, 27 have been identified and handed over to families, Munshiganj Deputy Correspondent Saiful...
The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways on Saturday demanded removal of the chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and other officials concerned in connection with the capsize of ‘Pinak-6’ launch. The main causes behind the...
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