An unidentified man was killed and two other people were injured during a gun battle between two rival outfits at Manikchhari in the hill district of Khagrachhari on Friday. Locals said the gunfight took place between the activists of Santu...
Workers of a readymade garments (RMG) factory went on a rampage demanding wage and Eid bonus in Tongi in Gazipur district on Friday. Police said the workers of Zaber and Zobair Fabrics of Noman Group staged demonstration in front of...
Hijras or transgenders in Bangladesh will now be able to exercise their franchise. They are free to identify themselves as males, females or hermaphrodites in their national identity cards (NID). The Election Commission (EC) is amending the NID registration rules...
Asian markets were mostly lower on Friday after a Malaysia Airlines jet came down in battle-wracked Ukraine, sparking geopolitical tensions and sending Wall Street tumbling as the US claimed the aircraft had been shot down. Tokyo fell 1.00 per cent,...
Shares in Malaysia Airlines tumbled almost 18 per cent on Friday after one of its passenger jets crashed in violence-wracked Ukraine, just months after the carrier was hit by the loss of a plane over the Indian Ocean. The firm...
US stocks tumbled Thursday after a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine in an incident that some Ukrainians blamed on pro-Russia separatist forces. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 161.48 points (0.94 per cent) to...
The Russian defence ministry said Friday that a Ukrainian radar station of surface-to-air missiles was operating on the day a Malaysian airline crashed in the country's rebel-held east killing all 298 on board. ‘On July 17 Russian radio-technical facilities recorded...
India, after losing the toss, they were bowled out for 295 on the second day of the second Test at Lord's on Friday. They added just five runs to their overnight 290 for nine when, in the second over of...
At least 5,576 Iraqi civilians have been killed this year in violence, the United Nations said on Friday. At least 11,665 have been wounded since January, when Sunni insurgents led by al Qaeda offshoot now known as the Islamic State...
General Electronic Co (GE.N) posted a 13 per cent rise in quarterly net income on Friday, helped by increases in sales of its jet engines and oil and gas equipment. Second-quarter net income rose to $3.55 billion, or 35 cents...
Drugmaker AbbVie (ABBV.N) succeeded in buying Shire (SHP.L) on Friday in a $53 billion deal that will allow the US company to slash its tax bill by reincorporating in Britain. AbbVie, which makes top-selling arthritis drug Humira, is paying about...
Google Inc's chief business officer, one of Chief Executive Officer Larry Page's key lieutenants and the company's main liaison to Wall Street, is leaving the Internet search company, the latest high-ranking executive to depart. Nikesh Arora, who joined Google nearly...
World leaders demanded an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine in a tragedy that could mark a pivotal moment in the worst crisis between Russia and the West...
British stocks fell on Friday as investors sought safety after a passenger plane was shot down in Ukraine, reviving fears about the conflict there, while shares in housebuilders underperformed following a broker downgrade. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index was down...
BSkyB's plan to buy Rupert Murdoch's pay-TV assets in Italy and Germany for perhaps as much as 10 billion euros is a bold bet on long-term growth at the expense of short-term profit, but the pioneering British media firm has...
A son of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who was sentenced to a year in prison for possession and use of hashish, was arrested early Friday at a train station south of Cairo, security officials said. Abdullah Morsi, 19, was...
A former Black Panther who hijacked an airplane in 1984 and diverted it to Cuba has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Miami. William Potts, 57, will be eligible for early release on parole after seven years. US...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government is carrying out ‘mass killing’ by using law enforcers like its party ‘cadres’. In a statement, Mirza Alamgir said, ‘The government which grabbed power by force through the...
A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices have been sentenced to 20 years in jail for murdering a British holidaymaker on Christmas Eve and raping his Russian partner in the southern resort of Tangalle in 2011. The Colombo...
Israel was prepared to ‘significantly widen’ its ground offensive against militants in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday. He said the military was targeting the Hamas tunnel network, which it could not do ‘only from the...
Transport for London (TfL) said on Friday it had awarded a 1.4 billion pound contract to run Britain's Crossrail rail service to MTR Corporation, the Hong Kong Metro operator. The 15 billion pound project, due to open in 2018, will...
A super typhoon slammed into China on Friday killing one person, as the government ordered an all-out effort to prevent loss of life from a storm that has already killed at least 64 people in the Philippines. Typhoon Rammasun, with...
A passenger trawler has capsized in Shitalakhya River after being hit by a cargo boat, on Friday noon. The mishap took place at Central Kheyaghat area. BIWTA has begun the rescue operation. Quoting witnesses, Naval Police Camp in-charge Nazrul Islam...
The Lok Sabha on Friday approved the budget for 2014/15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government last week presented its maiden budget that sought to revive a flagging economy and mend public finances, according to Reuters.
South Africans marked Nelson Mandela's birthday on Friday with charitable acts in honor of the former president, whose death in December prompted a global outpouring of tributes. People picked up litter, cooked at homes for the elderly and donated food,...
Commonwealth Games women's singles badminton champion Saina Nehwal has pulled out of next week's Glasgow Games due to lack of fitness and failure to recover sufficiently from blisters on her feet. The Indian survived a match point in the 2010...
Ukraine's emergency services have found two black boxes at the crash site of a Malaysian airliner, Interfax-Ukraine quoted an adviser to the governor of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. ‘Two black boxes were found by our emergency services. I have no...
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk) has been asked to revise its deal with Malaysian authorities for the construction of planned 8,400 flats under its Uttara residential housing project, according to a news agency. Instructing Rajuk to ensure environmental standards and all...
GAZIPUR: The second death anniversary of celebrated fiction writer, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed will be observed Saturday, according to a news agency. Different socio-cultural organisations have chalked out various programmes to mark the day. On the occasion, a Qurankhawani...
Buet Planners, an association of graduate planners of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, hosted an Iftar party for planners Friday. The Iftar party was held at the Central Cafeteria of Buet. Rajuk chairman GM Jainal Abedin Bhuiyan, Buet Alumni...
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