Customs officials have seized 41.5 kilograms of gold worth about Tk 200 million in separate drives in Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka’s Kurmitola. Four people have been arrested for their alleged involvement with the gold smuggling. Customs Intelligence...
Customs officials have seized 41.5 kilograms of gold worth about Tk 200 million in separate drives in Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka's Kurmitola. Four people have been arrested for their alleged involvement with the gold smuggling. Customs Intelligence...
Hong Kong stocks edged up 0.13 per cent in the first few minutes of trade on Monday following gains on Wall Street as bargain-hunters moved in after last week’s losses that were fuelled by the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight...
Slain Narayanganj City councilor Nazrul Islam’s wife Selina Islam Beauty and his younger brother Abdus Salam have submitted their nomination papers for the bypoll to a Narayanganj ward. They submitted the nomination paper to district election officer Tarifuzzaman. On April...
The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets edged up on Monday. Sydney stocks were 0.12 per cent up at close, according to AFP.
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea’s stock markets rose on Monday. Seoul’s benchmark Tpoix were 0.47 per cent higher at the close to today’s session.
A wave of corporate deals and generally positive quarterly earnings competed for attention this week with gloomy news developments in Ukraine and Gaza, ultimately leading US stocks higher. For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 156.37 points (0.92...
Oil prices slipped in Asian trade on Monday but analysts said they were supported by concerns of an escalation of the Ukraine crisis after the crash last week of a Malaysian airliner. Investors were also keeping an eye on developments...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive detained six people with huge quantity of illegal instruments of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in Chittagong city on Sunday evening. The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Nizam Uddin, 32, Mohammad Jahed,...
A fish trader was killed and seven others were injured in a road accident in Tarash upazila in Sirajganj on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Dipuk, 35, son of Taleb of Beparipara of Sirajganj town. Police and locals...
Five children have been rescued from being trafficked to India at Jessore’s Sarsa Upazila. A woman, Roxana Khatun, resident of a Benapole, has been arrested in this connection. The children, all boys below the age of ten, are also from...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the second trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 14.37 points or...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Monday morning for London on a 3-day official visit to the United Kingdom to attend the 1st Girl Summit. The Premier is going to the UK at the invitation of her British counterpart...
The UN Security Council is expected on Monday to adopt a resolution demanding that separatists in eastern Ukraine grant unrestricted access to the site of the downed Malaysian Airlines jet. Australia is taking the lead on the measure that calls...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Bangladesh government to disband Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), a crime busting unit of Bangladesh police. In a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the HRW said the government should take...
Ferry service on Mawa-Kewrakandi waterways resumed on Monday morning after a halt for 13 hours due to high waves in Padma River. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) manager Sirajul Haque said ferry operation on the Mawa-Kewrakandi route remained suspended...
Muggers chopped to death a biker and injured another one at Shalaipur in Pabna Sadar Upazila on Sunday night. The dead is Anwar Hossain, 35, son of late Abul Hossain of Ekdanta village of Atgharia upazila of the district. Police...
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No. 3 (three) as the well-marked low over North Bay and adjoining coasts of Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal state still persists,...
Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka district on Monday. The deceased, identified as Imtiaz, 40, and Kawsar, 30, both businessmen,...
Europe's main capital markets flattened at the start of trade on Monday, as cautious investors tracked geopolitical developments in east Europe’s Ukraine and the Middle East. In initial deals, London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index was almost unchanged at 6,749.12 points,...
Young people should be encouraged to take up agriculture to reduce Bangladesh’s dependency on food import, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in Dhaka one day before leaving for London to attend the first-ever Girl Summit. The two-day Girl Summit will...
With hardly a week is left for Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, Rajshahi city has been caught by 'Eid shopping fever' with modern and traditional shopping malls bustling with shoppers from all walks of life. Thousands of...
A family of nine Palestinians, including seven children, were killed on Monday by an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza, said emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra. The deaths bring to 485 the number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched...
US Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims' remains. Kerry demanded that Moscow...
Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinian militants on Monday after they crossed the border from Gaza through two tunnels, the military said, as the death toll from the two-week conflict passed 500. With the UN Security Council calling for...
The 24-hour bus strike, enforced by Dhaka Inter-district Bus Owners’ Association, demanding a cut in compensation money to be paid to the families of the victims of a bus crash in Wazirpur upazila , continued on Dhaka-Barisal and Dhaka-Madaripur highways...
The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip after holding an emergency closed-door meeting on the crisis. The talks came after the UN chief described Israel’s shelling of a Gaza City suburb as ‘an atrocious...
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Stocks returned to the green Monday with turnover on the prime bourse crossing Tk 3.0 billion mark after 13-session as optimistic investors went for buying spree. The market opened with a positive note and continued till the market closure. DSEX,...
US fast food chains McDonald’s Corp and KFC-parent Yum Brands Inc apologized to Chinese consumers on Monday and said they will stop using a Shanghai meat supplier after Chinese regulators shut the firm down over food safety concerns. McDonald's and...
Eleven fishermen went missing as a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal in southern part of Bhola district on Sunday evening. The trawler carrying 18 fishermen sank in the Bay while they were fishing at Challish Pani under Daulatkhan...
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