Kurdish peshmerga forces protecting the Mosul dam, said to be Iraq's largest, repelled a jihadist attack on Thursday, a spokesman said. ‘Daash (Islamic State) launched an attack on Mosul dam but the peshmerga repelled it,’ Halgurd Hekmat said. ‘They left...
Doctors and aid agencies are trying to capitalise on a truce in Gaza to evacuate more wounded Palestinians for life-saving medical treatment in east Jerusalem, Israel and Jordan. More than 9,500 Palestinians were wounded during four weeks of fighting between...
Hundreds of people from Iraq's Yazidi community have fled to Turkey after jihadists took over large swathes of territory in northern Iraq, Turkish officials said on Thursday. An attack by the Islamic State (IS) group at the weekend sparked a...
Jihadists from the Islamic State group have seized parts of a military base in Syria's Raqa province in fierce fighting that left dozens dead, a monitor said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the extremist group was engaged...
US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Thursday said the existing bilateral relations between Bangladesh and the USA is broader, deeper, closer and stronger than any time before. Dan Mozena said this at a press briefing held at Faridpur...
Police have recovered 23 abandoned handmade bombs on Thursday from Dhaka’s Begunbari area. Tejgaon Industrial Zone Police Station OC Md Salahuddin said that the bombs were found around 7am from the area besides Hatirjheel. Bomb squad will be called in...
The Bank of England on Thursday opted to keep its main interest rate at a record-low level of 0.50 per cent. The British central bank's nine-member monetary policy committee decided also to maintain the level of cash stimulus in the...
Rescue operations are continuing on Thursday to spot the sunken Pinak-6 launch after it went down in Padma River on Monday with more than 300 people on board. Tugboat ‘Kandari-2’, equipped with powerful search equipment, started looking for the double-decked...
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an alleged drug trader and recovered 890 bottles of Phensidyl syrup from a house in Dinajpur town on Wednesday. The arrestee was identified as Sabina Begum, 34, a resident of Sundara Jaliapara of the...
The world's top insulin maker, Novo Nordisk, reported rising quarterly profits on Thursday and said studies required to release long-acting insulin Tresiba in the US would be completed sooner than previously thought. Net profit in the second quarter rose by...
InterContinental Hotels Group said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its Le Grand hotel in Paris to Qatari group Constellation for 330 million euros ($441 million). It said that Constellation planned to invest over time an estimated 60...
A billionaire Hong Kong tycoon has said he will sue Google over search results which link him to organised criminal gangs, after a court dismissed the Internet giant's objections. Albert Yeung first filed a lawsuit against Google in August 2012...
The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at its regular policy meeting Thursday, two months after easing monetary conditions in the 18-country euro area. As widely expected, the ECB's decision-making governing council decided to hold the bank's...
German reinsurance giant Munich Re said on Thursday that its profits were up strongly in the second quarter and the company was on track to meet its full-year targets. Munich Re said in a statement that it’s net profit jumped...
German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom said on Thursday that earnings rose sharply in the second quarter, driven by the strong performance of its US subsidiary. ‘It's harvest time for Deutsche Telekom on both sides of the Atlantic,’ the group said...
The death toll from Monday’s launch capsize in Padma River at Munshiganj’s Lauhajang rose to 29 with the recovery of 7 more bodies on Thursday. Divers found the body of a woman around 8:30am today in the river near Mawa...
The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China has killed 615 people, state media said Thursday, as hopes of finding any more survivors faded. Rescue efforts in the southwestern province of Yunnan, where the 6.1-magnitude...
A gazette has been issued to promulgate the government’s new broadcast policy. The Information Ministry released the gazette on Thursday afternoon to put the policy into effect, Joint Secretary (broadcast) Md Abul Hasan has said. The Cabinet on Monday approved...
Siam Commercial Bank Pcl, Thailand's third-largest lender, said on Tuesday it expected 2014 housing loans to grow 7 per cent on the year on expectations that economic recovery would spur demand in the second half of the year. The bank...
Seven senior civil servants have been promoted to the rank of Secretary. The Ministry of Public Administration in an order on Thursday effected the elevation. The number of secretaries now stands at 74 – three of them are acting secretaries,...
Wall Street stocks Thursday opened higher as central banks in Europe and Britain kept interest rates unchanged and US weekly jobless claims fell. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 57.54 points (0.35 per cent) to 16,500.88....
Speakers at a roundtable discussion in Dhaka on Thursday demanded cancellation of the National Broadcasting Policy, 2014 saying it is contradictory to the constitution. They feared that the government would use the policy as a weapon to gag the media...
Defending Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan over the tragic Pinak-6 launch capsize incident, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said there is no reason for the minister to resign over the matter. “What happened was unfortunate …although there has been marked...
Amid the confusion of salary disbursement, agitating garment workers on Thursday backtracked from their indefinite countrywide strike but announced demonstrations for Friday while a countrywide strike on Saturday protesting ‘police attacks’ on them and the arrest of their leaders. Tuba...
The government has observed that ‘there exist no adivasis in the country’, and urged the media as well as the civil society not to use the word to mention the communities who are defined as ‘ethnic minorities’ in the constitution....
Election to Haimchar upazila (UZ) parishad in Chandpur will be held on September 7. The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday issued a gazette notification announcing the election schedule for the upazila. Earlier in January this year, the commission announced election...
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday stressed the need for increased economic cooperation between Bangladesh and Nepal, particularly in the power sector. The President said this when visiting Nepalese Energy Minister Radha Kumari Gyawali met him at Bangabhaban, according to a...
Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak on Thursday said the election to Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) is likely to be arranged in April-May next. “There’s a possibility that the CCC polls will be held before the completion of its five-year tenure...
BNP on Thursday termed ‘heinous and inhuman’ the police attack on the workers of Tuba Group who were on a movement demanding their dues and festival bonus. In a statement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also compared...
A consignment of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) reached Agartala, the capital of Tripura state in India, via Bangladesh saving time and money, reports Indian media on Thursday. This was the first consignment being shipped through Ashuganj river port...
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