The regional office of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution (BSTI) has expedited drives against the manufacturing of substandard and adulterated food and realised fine amounting to Tk 30,000 in Rajshahi city. According to the officials concerned, the BSTI in assistance...
Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for Bangladesh’s initiatives to protect rights of the girl children. Lake has hailed the prime minister during a meeting with her on the sideline of the Girl Summit at...
Two bodies of the eleven missing fishermen of ‘FB Maa-2’ have been recovered from a shoal called Char Nijam in Meghna River at Bhola. The fishing trawler sank on Sunday with 18 fishermen on board, 200 km off the Char...
Shadow Foreign Secretary of the UK Douglas Alexander has lauded the role of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, and was looking forward to seeing her due role and participation in the...
US stocks on Tuesday finished higher following a busy day of corporate earnings and a report showing the highest level of existing-home sales in eight months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 61.81 points (0.36 per cent) to 17,113.54 points....
The High Court has summoned the deputy commissioner (DC) of Cox’s Bazar district for not implementing its earlier order. The bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal gave the order after hearing a plea by the...
The Palestinian decision-making body led by US-backed President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday endorsed demands by Hamas for halting Gaza hostilities with Israel, a closing of ranks that may help Egyptian-mediated truce efforts. With Israeli and US encouragement, Egypt has tried...
Europe's main stock markets fell at the start of trading on Wednesday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index losing 0.26 per cent to 6,777.45 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 eased 0.07 per cent to 9,727.43 points and the CAC 40 in...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena feels existing justice system in Bangladesh can be misused and so needs change. ‘In Bangladesh and throughout South Asia, justice traditionally has relied largely on confessions by the perpetrator,’ Mozena said on Wednesday....
Three children received injuries as a crude bomb they were playing with mistaking it for a toy went off in Lalbagh area in the city on Wednesday. The injured children, identified as Rifat, 4, son of late Amzad Hossain, Sultana...
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Stocks returned to the red Wednesday, after two session’s upturn as a section of investors booked short-term profit on large cap stocks. The market opened with positive note, but could not sustain. DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock...
A man was killed and 25 other people were injured in head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Hathazari upazila in Chittagong district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Saifuddin, 22, a truck rider. Sources at...
A train carrying the remains of many of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in a Ukrainian government-held city on Tuesday on the first leg of their final journey home to be reclaimed by their families. Five...
Doctors' reluctance to go to rural areas is not just a problem facing Bangladesh – policymakers in the United States have faced the same problems. However, while the US has come out with plans to overcome the challenge, Bangladesh authorities...
The black box flight recorders from the Malaysian airliner downed in eastern Ukraine have arrived in Britain, the Ukrainian government's special investigation commission said on Wednesday. ‘Today ... the black boxes from the airliner Boeing 777 arrived in Britain under...
A British government investigation has found evidence that Muslim fundamentalists successfully gained control of some schools, raising fears that pupils are now vulnerable to radicalisation. It said there was an ‘effective take-over’ by like-minded people of a number of schools...
The top US diplomat defied a Federal Aviation Administration ban and flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday in a sign of sheer will to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gaza Strip despite little evidence of progress in ongoing...
Italy's Costa Concordia will set sail on its final voyage Wednesday as survivors look on, two-and-a-half years after the luxury cruise ship crashed and sank in a nighttime disaster that left 32 people dead. The rusting liner, which has been...
Bangladesh has requested the United Nations (UN) to recruit peacekeepers from the country at ‘policy and commanding-level’ posts in the coming days. State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam conveyed the request to visiting under-secretary-general and head of the...
Bank of England policymakers unanimously agreed to keep its main interest rate at a record low level of 0.50 per cent, according to minutes of the last meeting published on Wednesday. Members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), including bank...
The ex-general who lost Indonesia’s presidential election to Joko Widodo will challenge the result in court, his campaign team said Wednesday, A move that could spell weeks of uncertainty for the world's third-biggest democracy. Widodo, the reform-minded governor of Jakarta...
Members of Korea-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KBCCI) participated in a relief donation programme for rehabilitation of the survivors of the tragic drowning of MV Sewol in South Korea. S. M. Kamaluddin, President of KBCCI handed over the donation...
A parliamentary watchdog has recommended dropping multiple choice questions (MCQs) from the preliminary test of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations. Currently, job seekers have to sit a 1-hour-long 100 mark MCQ exam in the preliminary test administered by Public Service...
The euro touched multi-month lows against the dollar and yen on Wednesday as investors fret about the impact on the eurozone economy of possible fresh sanctions against Russia following the downing of Flight MH17. In late afternoon Tokyo trade, the...
Six children from the same family were killed in an air strike by government forces on a village in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing local residents, said three...
Britain is still exporting arms and military equipment to Russia, according to a parliamentary report released Wednesday just hours after Prime Minister David Cameron rapped France for selling weapons to Moscow. Cameron has urged the EU to ban military sales...
A suicide car bomb explosion ripped through a police checkpoint in Baghdad Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding more than 40, police and medical sources said. The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at an entrance to the northwestern neighbourhood...
The Qatar-backed head of the Syrian opposition's interim government was sacked, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, once again exposing the sharp divisions between the opposition's main backers. Since the National Coalition was created in late 2012, rivalries between Riyadh and...
South African inflation was steady at 6.6 per cent in June, as the economy continued its weak streak, data from the national statistics agency showed on Wednesday. Household goods and food were the main drivers of inflation, with cash-strapped consumers...
Sweltering temperatures across Japan have left at least three people dead and 3,000 others taken to hospital with heatstroke in the course of a week, officials said Wednesday. The state weather agency said temperatures topped 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees...
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