BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the country’s law and order situation is alarming. Criticising the government for ‘sharp slide in law and order’, the BNP leader said the country’s people are now suffering from a...
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Liberation War Affairs has recommended to recover 343 shops of Gulistan Complex from illegal occupants. The meeting of the committee with chairman AB Tajul Islam in the chair, was attended, by Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM...
Apple Inc invited media to a ‘special event’ in its hometown of Cupertino, California, on September 9, when the iPhone maker is expected to unveil the latest versions of its best-selling smartphones. The launch date came as no surprise, as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said even though Bangladesh adheres to a free market ideology the government must rein in prices to meet the needs of the people. ‘We can have a free market economy only after safeguarding the rights...
Speakers at a meeting in Rangpur city have called upon all concerned, including common people, for resisting social erosions to ensure peace in the society. Addressing the meeting as the chief guest Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu...
Five children drowned in separate places in Thakurgaon district on Thursday afternoon, within half-an-hour of one incident after the other. ‘Hridoy’, 10, son of one Md Solaiman of Jagannathpur village under Thakurgaon Sadar Police Station, drowned while taking bath in...
The prices of most of the shares in China’s stock markets rose on Friday morning. Shanghai Composite Index marked a 0.16-per cent or 3.45-point rise in early hours the session to stand at 2,199.27 points. The Shenzhen Composite Index edged...
The share prices in Hong Kong’s stock exchange opened flat this (Friday) morning. Hang Seng Index edged up 7.19 points to 24,748.19 points within a few minutes of trade, according to a news agency.
Apparently opposing the new national broadcast policy, Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad has called upon the government not to stifle the media as it may invite danger for itself. ‘Don’t gag the media. If you do this you may...
India will launch regular shipping services to Bangladesh very soon, a move seen by the observers aimed at boosting ties with the immediate neighbour. While the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is taking preparation to start fresh shipping lines to...
The newly-constructed Excel Load Station has been opened near Sonamasjid Land Port under Shibganj Upazila in Chapainawabganj district. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the Excel Load Station at Koilabari on the Chapainawabganj-Sonamasjid highway on Thursday afternoon. According to the Chapainawabganj...
Police are saying the murders of two religious figures in Dhaka in a span of eight months are chillingly similar. Eight months ago, six men, including the self-styled Pir Lutfur Rahman Faruk, were slaughtered in his Dhaka home. Police are...
A court in Comilla has sent 14 people, including three union parishad members, to jail in UP member Nurul Alam Khandaker murder case. Senior judicial magistrate of Comilla Shafiqur Rahman passed the order rejecting their bail petitions when they were...
Local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar and 55 others have been charged in court with the killing of Feni’s Phulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque. Police submitted charge-sheet to the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate of Feni Md Khairul Amin...
A farmer was killed by lightning strike at Charkultia village at Kalukhali Upazila of Rajbari on Thursday. The dead is Mosharraf Mandal Siraj, son of M Sajo Mandal of the village. Lightning struck Mandal while he was washing jute plants...
A big haul of gold has been unearthed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in Dhaka. A man has been arrested for the gold haul. Customs Intelligence sources said, they seized 8.4 kilograms of gold worth Tk 42...
Police have been unable to secure any significant information from the retired army major arrested over his ‘objectionable’ Facebook status on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Md Shamsuzzoha, 45, worked as senior specialist for Grameenphone. He was arrested by Detective Branch...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the residence of Fazlur Rahman Razu in Kalabagan in the city on Friday morning to pay her last respect to the late Awami League leader. Razu, Vice President of Dhaka City unit of AL and...
Several communities were evacuated and some international flights were diverted Friday after a volcanic eruption on Papua New Guinea. Authorities in the South Pacific nation had evacuated communities close to Mount Tavurvur which erupted early Friday in Rabaul district on...
Hundreds of rescuers hunted Friday for survivors of a massive landslide in southwestern China that killed at least 14 people. More than 600 members of specialized search and rescue teams were working in a pair of destroyed villages in Guizhou...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon held talks on the latest developments in Gaza on Thursday. Both men held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 6th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance...
President Barack Obama is going on a fundraising sweep through New York and Rhode Island as he continues to help Democrats raise money for November's elections. Obama headlines three events on Friday. Two are just north of New York City,...
Police say a leftist group is claiming responsibility for an arson attack on Berlin's subway system that is causing delays for thousands of commuters. Police spokesman Klaus Schubert said Friday an anonymous online message from the group claims it set...
China showed off the growing sophistication of its defense industries Friday by featuring its newest attack helicopters and main battle tanks at a multinational live-firing military exercise in the country's north. State media said the new hardware performed to expectations...
The chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy has confirmed that a US Coast Guard vessel fired on an Iranian fishing boat in the Persian Gulf but insists the incident was not a ‘clash.’ The US Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the World Health Organization said. A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency also assumes...
A court in Netrakona has convicted three people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man at Alampur village in Durgapur Upazila of Netrakona district on January 12 1998. The convicts were also fined Tk 50,000 each,...
President Barack Obama suggested Thursday that the US might impose new economic sanctions on Russia, blaming it squarely for the warfare in eastern Ukraine. But he ruled out any military options and proposed no shift in an American-led strategy that...
A Taiwanese actor arrested on drug charges along with the son of Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan was released Friday after two weeks in detention, amid a broad anti-drug crackdown in China's capital that has ensnared several celebrities. Kai...
About 400 meters of a flood control embankment at Sheikhpara in Sariakandi Upazila in Bogra district collapsed on Friday, flooding 50 villages rendering over 50,000 people marooned. Three unions in Sariakandi and two under Dhunat upazila were flooded by waters...
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