Supermarket giant Coles could axe up to 600 jobs from its Melbourne head office in an effort to cut costs and free up funds to drive grocery prices lower. Coles wants to cut 500 to 600 jobs, or about 20...
Bangladesh wants to work together and move ahead with a ‘Bay of Bengal partnership for Blue Economy’ to secure sustainable development among the coastal or littoral states ensuring an inclusive and people-centric blue economy. “The blue economy must be inclusive...
Rules and regulations will be amended to elect the Board of Directors of Grameen Bank after Bangladesh Bank expressed its inability to do that, the finance minister has said. According to Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, ‘something else in place of...
Two people died from electrocution in Chittagong and Jamalpur districts on Sunday. In Chittagong, Mohammad Roni, 25, son of Monir Hossain, hailed from West Rupsha village in Faridganj Upazila, was electrocuted after he came in contact with a live electric...
The 3rd session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) begins today (Monday). A number of bills are likely to be placed during this session, including the widely discussed 16th amendment bill aiming to restore parliament’s authority to impeach Supreme Court...
A college student was shot dead in Radhanagar in Pabna town on Sunday night. The dead is Akter Hossain Masud, 20, a 4th year student of the Accounts Department at Government Edward College in Pabna and son of Maksed Ali,...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has said that the people, inspired with the deals of Bangabandhu, are now united to develop the country with non-communal spirit. He said though the killers brutally killed Bangabandhu along with most...
Thousands of people in the United Kingdom on Sunday paid tributes to Princess Diana who died in a car crash 17 years ago. People in different cities in other countries in Europe, Canada and the United States also recalled the...
Police have seized 10 gold bars from man who arrived in Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station by an inter-city train from Chittagong on Monday morning. ‘Sujon’ aka ‘Babar’, 26, was on the ‘Turna Nishitha Express’ that arrived in Dhaka from the...
Police are yet to make any headway into the murder of Islamic Front leader Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi. ‘The motive for murder is still unclear,’ detective police’s Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Nazmul Alam said on Sunday afternoon. Islami Chhatra Sena enforced...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the second session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 15.96 points or...
The administrative committee investigating the Narayanganj 7 murders has questioned Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police SM Mahfuzul Haque for more than an hour. He testified before them from 2:30pm to 4:00pm at the probe body head Shahjahan Ali Molla’s...
Pomegranate has many health benefits, and it can do wonders for one’s skin too. From playing the role of powerful antioxidant to a product of anti-ageing, the fruit can help in many ways, suggests Wren Holmes, brand manager of natural...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed has said that the number of women registering as voters were far below normal mark, this year. He called upon all to inspire women to register in greater numbers as voters. Explaining he...
Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal has called upon the people of the country to complete the unfinished work of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of independent Bangladesh. ‘We are working relentlessly to take the country head with prosperity and...
The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined the authorities of a readymade garment (RMG) factory Tk 1 million (10 lakh) for polluting the environment in Keoa area in Sreepur Upazila. A team of DoE led by Md Alamgir, director (Monitoring...
A young man was killed as a BRTC bus knocked him down after crashed into a road divider in Farmgate area in the city on Monday. The bus was headed for Gulistan around 7am when it hurtled over the divider,...
A cargo ship that sunk in Meghna River in Chandpur district on August 26 has been located after about six days. However, BIWTA officials say chances of recovering ‘MV Chitalmari’ is slim as there are no rescue ships that can...
The Awami League (AL) has submitted to the Election Commission (EC) an audit report for the year 2013 showing a surplus of Tk 57 million. The ruling party, in its audit report, cited its earning Tk 124 million in 12...
Pakistani anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building on Monday, forcing the channel briefly off air as they clashed anew with police and pushed further into a sprawling government complex in the capital, Islamabad, in an effort to reach the...
A medicine company employee and another person were killed in a road accident near Shitalakhkha Bridge in Kapasia Upazila in Gazipur district on Sunday night. The dead are Yakub Ali, 30, son of Morshed Alam of Borama village of Trishal...
Japanese government and business leaders pledged support Monday for visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's effort to modernize his country's economy. Modi is visiting Japan with a delegation of more than a dozen Indian tycoons, seeking to take still relatively...
China's manufacturing growth decelerated in August due to weaker global demand and a slowdown in domestic investment, two surveys showed Monday. HSBC Corp.'s purchasing managers index fell to 50.2 from July's 18-month high of 51.7 on a 100-point scale on...
Growth in the UK's manufacturing sector has slowed, according to a survey by the EEF trade association. The manufacturing body, which conducted the quarterly survey between 30 July and 20 August, said members had reported a slowdown in both orders...
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Stocks closed slightly higher on Monday after two sessions' fall as investors took position on some selected stocks amid cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,554.97 points, gaining 5.45 points or 0.11...
Thailand's consumer prices eased further for the third consecutive month in August, leading some economists to predict that the country's central bank will keep its interest rate unchanged at least for the rest of the year. The headline consumer-price index...
Prices of goods and services were fairly flat in August, making the chance of an interest rate hike less likely. The flat result for the latest TD Securities/Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge followed a 0.2 per cent rise in July....
Egypt revised up its annual consumer price inflation rate to 11.04 per cent for July from an earlier figure of 10.61 per cent, the statistics agency said on Monday, after the government cut subsidies on fuel. It revised up monthly...
An accused in a murder case has submitted his nomination papers for Phulgazi Upazila Parishad (UZ) by-election. The Upazila chairman’s post fell vacant after the murder of Ekramul Haque. Mahatab Uddin Ahmmed Chowdhury Minar, the prime suspect of the murder...
State-run United Bank of India on Monday became the first lender to declare debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines and its promoter Vijay Mallya as wilful defaulters. ‘We have declared Vijay Mallya and three other directors of Kingfisher Airlines as wilful defaulters,’ United...
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