The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets dipped on Tuesday. Sydney stocks were 0.33 per cent down when trading closed in today’s session, according to AFP.
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea’s stock markets slid on Tuesday. Seoul’s benchmark Kospi finished today’s trading session 0.70 per cent lower, according to AFP.
It is like coming back to life from the doorstep of death. Shahadat Hossain Shahin, an ex-army man, cannot believe it. Shahadat, a contractor of Bagerhat district town, survived and returned home after the capsize of ‘Pinak-6’ launch in Padma...
A man was killed in a train accident at the railway junction near Jessore Railway Station on Monday night. The dead is ASM Hafizur Rahman, 45, son of Chan Mia of Birampur village in Jessore Sadar Upazila. Police said ASM...
A Battalion Commander level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India has been held discussing ways and means on how to stopping drug trafficking and trespass. An 18-member BGB team, headed by 37 BGB...
Food Department has procured 33,071 tonnes of rice in Jamalpur district till July this year. An official source said, against the target of 33,241 tonnes of rice, the Food Department could procure 33,071 tonnes from the mill owners. The Food...
The workers of Tuba Group staged demonstration in front of the building of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Karwan Bazar in the city on Tuesday morning for unpaid salary and outstanding allowances. Workers allaged that police intercepted...
A German court said it would rule Tuesday on an offer by Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone to pay $100 million to end his trial on bribery charges. ‘The court must review this offer in its entirety, which it will...
Israel has withdrawn all its forces from the Gaza Strip, wrapping up a ground operation launched on July 17, a military spokesman confirmed Tuesday. ‘There were a number of forces inside ... but all of them have left’ the Palestinian...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed deep shock at the loss of lives in a launch capsize in Padma River near Lauhajang in Munshiganj district. In a condolence message, the Prime Minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed...
A British minister who was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet has resigned over the British government's policy on Gaza, she said Tuesday. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a minister at the Foreign Office and minister for faith and...
Asian stocks slipped Tuesday after an HSBC report showed the performance of China's service sector fell to a record low in July, and despite a positive lead from Wall Street. The HSBC China services Purchasing Managers' Index in July slipped...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged ‘utmost restraint’ after Israel and Hamas agreed to begin a new, 72-hour truce Tuesday in their bloody, month-old conflict. The breakthrough came during talks in Cairo on Monday, only days after a similar three-day...
Local people found two unidentified bodies, floating on Meghna River in Chandpur district on Tuesday morning. The corpses were recovered from the Meghna River in Chandpur’s Haimchar Upazila in the afternoon, police said. One of the deceased could be a...
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Stocks closed flat in the green Tuesday after previous day’s hefty gains with turnover declined slightly as late-hour profit booking wiped out most of early gains. The market started with a positive note, gaining 35 points within first 40 minutes...
South Korea on Tuesday slammed Japan's ‘ludicrous’ reassertion of its claim to a set of disputed islets in a new defence white paper, warning it would further strain relations. The white paper released in Tokyo briefly alluded to a set...
Google defended Monday its policy of electronically monitoring its users' content for child sexual abuse after it tipped off police in Texas to a child pornography suspect. Houston restaurant worker John Henry Skillern, 41, was arrested Thursday following a cyber-tip...
French peacekeeping troops killed several militiamen after they came under attack during a patrol in the north of the Central African Republic, an officer with the African peacekeeping force said Tuesday. Backed by war planes, the French troops opened fire...
The visiting US Ambassador at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen J Rapp has said that he is not here to criticise the International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) as he wants to see the tribunals as a role model in the international...
Pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine are hampering the treatment of a growing number of civilian casualties by threatening doctors, hijacking ambulances and looting medical equipment, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. ‘Pro-Russian insurgents' attacks on medical units and personnel are putting...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved four development projects with an outlay of Tk 7.2 billion (Tk 720.70 crore). The approval came from Tuesday’s ECNEC meeting held at the NEC Conference Room in city’s Sher-e-Banglanagar...
At least five shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Fakirhat at Senbagh Upazila in Noakhali early Tuesday. Locals said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a fuel oil shop in the area around...
The United States on Tuesday demanded Sri Lanka enforce its own laws after a meeting of US diplomats and war widows was disrupted by pro-government activists, in the latest rebuke by Washington. The US embassy said activists led by Buddhist...
At least 120 people remained missing till Tuesday, a day after a launch with 300 on board sank in Padma River near Mawa Launch Ghat at Lauhajang Upazila in Munshiganj district. Deputy Commissioner Md Saiful Hasan said 100 passengers were...
The UN Security Council has backed Lebanon's military action against extremist groups but urged it to stay out of the conflict in neighbouring Syria, as Beirut vowed no leniency for the ‘terrorist killers’. Twenty-two Lebanese soldiers were missing, possibly taken...
Two separate road accidents in the city on Tuesday killed a girl and a youth. The accidents took place in Gulistan and Farmgate areas in the morning, police and hospital sources said. A young girl identified as Jesmin Akhter, 18,...
China is investigating a Canadian Christian couple for alleged espionage, state media and their son said Tuesday, a week after Ottawa accused Beijing of cyber-spying. Kevin Garratt and Julia Dawn Garratt ‘are under investigation for suspected theft of state secrets...
An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, though they were unable to immediately confirm casualty details. ‘We are investigating, but it appears that an Afghan army...
The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in West Africa is en route to Atlanta. A chartered plane specially equipped to contain infectious diseases took off at 1:12 a.m. local time (9:12 p.m. EDT Monday) from the airport...
The World Bank has pledged $200 million to help contain the deadly Ebola virus reaping panic across West Africa, as Nigerian authorities say a doctor in Lagos has contracted the disease, the second case in the sprawling city. The confirmation...
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