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...
Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to be officially sworn in after winning the country's first ever popular vote for head of state. Mr Erdogan, who served three terms as prime minister, has vowed to give more power to...
A case has been filed over the murder of Islami Front leader, TV show host Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi. His son Faisal Farooqi filed the case against about eight unidentified men with the Shere Bangla Nagar Police Station past midnight...
The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea's ferry disaster on Thursday abandoned a hunger strike aimed at forcing lawmakers to set up a full independent inquiry. The Sewol ferry sank off South Korea's southern...
A Thai court has dismissed murder charges against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva linked to a bloody crackdown on protesters in 2010. Mr Abhisit was Thailand's leader when anti-government ‘red-shirt’ protesters blockaded Bangkok for 10 weeks. In the end the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor. Nearly 40 per cent of Indians have little access to financial services and are...
Malaysia Airlines staff tried to contact the crew of missing flight MH370 by satellite phone after it disappeared from radar, Australian authorities have announced, with details about the failed call now being used to refine the suspected final path of...
Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. He becomes the sixth fatality in Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country. The doctor had treated a patient, who later...
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Stocks closed lower on Thursday after three-session gaining streak with turnover rose slightly as investors booked some profit on selected stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,577.99 points, shedding 21.47 points or 0.46...
The US is trying to determine if a second American fighting with the Islamic State group has been killed in Syria. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the US has no independent confirmation of reports of a second American...
A Bangladeshi national has been stabbed to death in the United States.Cab driver Kamal Uddin, 47, hailing from Chittagong’s Anwara Upazilla, was found dead on a street in Connecticut’s Stamford City. The cab he used to drive was found abandoned...
A mystery illness has overwhelmed a small town in northern Colombia as scores of teenage girls have been hospitalised with symptoms that parents fear could be an adverse reaction to a popular vaccine against cervical cancer. Authorities say they still...
The mother of a hostage American journalist pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video directed at the Islamic State group, while new images emerged of mass killings, including masked militants shooting kneeling men after the capture of a strategic...
President Barack Obama faces a familiar question as he contemplates airstrikes in Syria: Should Congress have a say in his decision? Obama was barreling toward strikes last summer when he abruptly announced that he first wanted approval from congressional lawmakers....
Six people died and 21 others were missing after a landslide hit a village in southwestern China, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The official Xinhua News Agency said 77 houses collapsed or were buried in the landslide Wednesday night in...
Police say two women are in custody after a Sunwing flight bound for Cuba was forced to turn back to Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Regional police responded to the flight at around 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Police say the passengers...
A fiery Pakistani cleric who has been leading a mass rally outside parliament demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation said on Thursday that he has ‘shut the door’ on further talks with the government. The development was a worrisome sign...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for creating domestic market of Bangladeshi goods and raising the buying capacity of the people to strengthen the base of the economy. ‘It won't be proper to only consider the export. We will have...
French President Francois Hollande has ruled out an international partnership with Syria's leader to fight against the Islamic State group, saying any alliance with Bashar Assad would play into the militants' hands. In a wide-ranging speech Thursday to international ambassadors,...
Some miscreants slaughtered a man and dumped the body in Batiapara village in Alamdanga Upazila of Chuadanga district on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Md Tokon alias Kayar Tokon, 40, son of late Moslem Uddin Mandal, hailed from...
A discussion on ‘Public Administration as an Academic Discipline and Understanding Bureaucracy: Perspective Bangladesh’ washas been at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), on Wednesday. Department of Public Administration of BRUR organised the 1st discussion under ‘The Public Administration Lecture Series’...
The updated Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) recommends setting up an authority, Bangladesh Building Regulatory Authority (BBRA), to bring all agencies that accord approvals for the construction of new structures under a single umbrella, aiming to enforce the building code...
The Philippine economy grew at its fastest pace in more than a year in the second quarter even as government spending slowed, strengthening views the central bank will raise interest rates again to curb inflation. The Southeast Asian economy remains...
The Embassy of the United States of America will remain shut on Sunday on the occasion of America’s Labour Day. A press release, issued today by the US embassy in Dhaka, said the embassy’s consular section, Archer K Blood American...
France's new pro-business Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron ran into trouble with trade unions on Thursday for suggesting companies could be allowed exemptions to France's 35-hour week. Introduced by a previous Socialist-led government in 2000 in a bid to redistribute work...
Japan’s Senior Vice Minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Yoshitaka Sakurada has called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter’s office at the university campus. Senior Deputy Director-General of Science and...
A Bangladeshi man was injured after being beaten by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Benapole union at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore on Thursday. The victim is Abdul Malek, 28, son of Arshad Ali of Agrabhulat village. Border Guard...
German unemployment posted a small but unexpected increase in August but the jobless rate held steady at just 6.7 per cent, the Labour Office said on Thursday, suggesting the job market in Europe's largest economy remains intact. The number of...
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