An earthquake has rattled southern Greece and was widely felt in the capital, Athens. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury and no tsunami warnings. The US Geological Survey gave a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, while the European...
The giant African snail damages buildings, destroys crops and can cause meningitis in humans. But some people still want to collect, and even eat, the slimy invaders. The Agriculture Department is trying to stop them. Since June, department authorities have...
Islamic State fighters executed scores of Syrian soldiers captured when the militants seized an airbase in the province of Raqqa at the weekend, according to a video posted on You Tube on Thursday. The video, confirmed as genuine by an...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine. Putin's statement came several hours after Ukraine accused Russia of entering its territory with tanks, artillery...
The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year, the UN refugee agency said Friday. The tragic milestone means that about one...
The hidden gunman, dressed in long green coveralls and a SWAT-team-style vest and helmet, looks ominous as he takes aim and fires off a short burst. But this isn't a Taliban attack in the heart of Afghanistan's capital — it's...
Hong Kong's simmering summer of discontent gets even hotter Sunday when Beijing is expected to recommend restricting the first direct elections for the Chinese-controlled financial hub's leader, stepping up chances of a showdown with democracy groups. The former British colony,...
Israeli forensic investigators on Friday identified a recently found body as that of a US religious student who disappeared while hiking in Jerusalem last week, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the body was confirmed early on Friday...
A German foundation has organised a ‘closed-door’ dialogue on India-Bangladesh relations in Dhaka. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) said they brought together ‘a small delegation’ of foreign policy experts and MPs from both sides for the Track-II level dialogue. Challenges and opportunities...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced a new cabinet on Friday keeping key members of the economic management team in place and appointing the man who has managed Ankara's affairs with Europe as foreign minister. Outgoing EU Affairs Minister and...
Malaysia Airlines is to cut 6,000 staff as part of recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year. The reduction in staff numbers represents around 30% of its workforce of 20,000. The airline will become completely state owned,...
Some miscreants have slaughtered a local Juba League leader at Ishwardi in Pabna. Musa Hossain, 25, from ‘Mashuria Para Moholla’, was an activist of the ruling Awami League’s youth front, said its Upazila unit president Abdus Salam on Thursday night....
The pilot of an F-15 jet that crashed earlier this week in remote Virginia mountains was killed, military officials now say, bringing a sad end to an exhaustive two-day search involving more than 100 local, state and federal officials as...
The government has sought nomination/proposal for Ekushey Padak 2015, a national award introduced in memory of the martyrs of Language Movement. The award will be given in different categories including language movement, Shilpakala (music, dance, acting and fine arts), liberation...
State Minister for Labour and Employment Mojibul Haque Chunnu has said that government-buyers committee so far visited 7,946 readymade garment (RMG) units across the country and submitted recommendations for necessary steps. The government has also taken initiative to implement the...
The rising water level in the upstream is likely to worsen the flood situation in Bangladesh’s northern and north-western region, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) says. However, the FFWC sees no chance of floods in capital although it...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Thursday rescued a newly born baby stolen by suspected baby lifters from the Infant Ward of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) earlier this month. The RAB action followed a High Court ruling...
The one-off Twenty20 (T20) international between Bangladesh and West Indies was abandoned with no result on Wednesday after rain rendered conditions unfit for play at Warner Park in Basseterre. The visiting Bangladesh cricket team, after winning the toss, scored 31...
A Bangladesh national has been killed in a fatal road crash in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Sources at a hospital at Manama, the capital of Bahrain, identified the deceased as Mohsin Miah, 44, son of Md Abdul Hamid. He...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has suspended two staffers and three security officials of Chittagong Railway Station following demand by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). The BCL activists had reportedly attacked security officials and staff of BR and vandalised counters during a protest...
Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery. Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the...
A college student committed suicide for failing in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations in Boalmari Upazila in Fariudpur district on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sonia Rahman Bhabna, 18, student of Kazi Sirajul Islam Girls College and daughter...
Some miscreants vandalised Darshana Railway Station in Damurhuda Upazila in Chuadanga district and exploded four powerful bombs there on Wednesday night. The explosion created panic among the waiting passengers and locals at Darshana Railway Station. Police recovered an unexploded bomb...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest fluctuations, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down...
Beximco Group, in a loan restructuring proposal to the central bank, is seeking softer terms such as longer time and lower interest rate, to repay more than Tk 50 billion (Tk 5,000 crore) owed by its Textile and Garment Division...
Fifteen fishermen who along with two others went missing during an attack by pirates in their trawlers in the Bay of Bengal in Noakhali’s Hatiya Upazila early Monday were rescued on Wednesday night. The two other fishermen – Zahir Uddin...
The government has extended the contract of the director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Deen Muhammad Nurul Haque, by another year. He was made the DGHS director general on February 24. A public administration ministry’s...
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups following a dispute over jute processing at Hakimpur village in Shailkupa Upazila in Jhenidah on Wednesday. Police and witnesses said the two groups engaged in an altercation...
Ahle Sunnat on Thursday called nationwide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday protesting killing of a leader of the Islami Front, who hosted religion-based TV programmes. Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqui was found murdered in yet-unclear circumstances at his Dhaka residence on Wednesday...
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