Miscreants exploded hand bombs before shooting a businessman at Dhaka’s Moghbazar and snatching Tk 3 million away from him. Splinters from the explosion have left five more injured, Ramna Police OC Moshiur Rahman told bdnews24.com on Tuesday. Abul Kashem, proprietor...
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Stocks returned to the green on Tuesday after previous session’s flat movement with improved turnover as investors took position on large cap stocks amid optimism. The market started with a positive note which continued till the market closure. DSEX, the...
Britain's 12-month inflation slid to 1.6 per cent in July from 1.9 per cent in June, official data showed on Tuesday, and easing pressure on the Bank of England to raise rates. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation measure headed...
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark over a week ago, soared higher from last Thursday to...
Community Health Systems, a major US hospital operator, said Monday that hackers likely from China broke into its systems and stole identification data for some 4.5 million patients. Community Health said the hackers infiltrated its systems in April and June...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave the Ecuador embassy in London until it is guaranteed he will avoid extradition to the United States, his lawyer said Tuesday. The Australian, who has been holed up in the building for two...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to file a case against an alleged money-launderer for siphoning off about Tk 3.28 billion. The Commission at its recent meeting approved a proposal for filing the case against Mohammad Sabbir, owner of...
Attacks on aid workers reached a new peak in 2013, with 155 relief staff killed, and danger levels remain high this year, according to figures released Tuesday. Afghanistan topped the list of countries where aid workers faced greater risk, with...
Monira Begum, presidium member of the Jatiya Party (Kazi Zafar), has joined the National People’s Party (NPP), led by Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu. Nilu was expelled from the BNP-led 20-party alliance in July for attending Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Iftar...
Emirates, a global connector of people, places and commerce, has announced special returnfares for both Business Class and Economy Class travellers from Bangladesh to select destinations in the USA, Europe, Africa and Middle East. Passengers travelling from Dhaka can book...
An Indian court Tuesday ordered the release of a woman who has staged a 14-year hunger strike in protest at human rights abuses in the country's remote northeast, her lawyer said. ‘The court has set her free,’ lawyer Mani Khaidem...
The Enforcement Directorate of India on Monday interrogated award winning film director Aparna Sen and West Bengal Textile Minister Shyampada Mukherjee about Saradha Chit fund Scam. The central investigating agency asked the duo to be present at its Kolkata office...
At least six people including two infants were killed when a vehicle hit a roadside bomb in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. The attack came in Salarzai area of Bajaur tribal region, which lies on the Afghan border...
Praising the policy of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the digitisation process of Bangladesh, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said the country has made remarkable progress in the field of information technology (IT). He opined comprehensive plan comprised with new policy...
The UN refugee agency said Tuesday it was poised to mount a massive aid operation for 500,000 Iraqis driven from their homes by jihadist rebels. ’In response to the deteriorating situation in northern Iraq, UNHCR is this week launching one...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed Tuesday for the two men vying to succeed him to end their dispute over election results and save the country from further violence and economic decline. Afghanistan has been paralysed for months after the first...
A court in Riyadh has sentenced an Al-Qaeda member to death for the 2004 kidnap and murder of US citizen Paul Marshall, local media reported on Tuesday. The court specialising in terror cases also imposed jail terms of four to...
Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah have killed a top jihadist from the Islamic State group in Syria who allegedly planned bloody attacks in Lebanon, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Hezbollah fighters had killed...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Malaysia for its decision to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh. She also thanked the Malaysian government to give legalisation to the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. The Prime Minister extended her thanks when visiting Malaysian...
The remains of at least 15 Malaysians killed when a jetliner was shot down over Ukraine will be returned to their home country this week, the first Malaysian victims of the disaster to be flown home, the country's defense minister...
China has since June arrested nearly 1,000 members of a Christian sect which Beijing refers to as a ‘cult’, state media said on Tuesday. Those arrested are members of ‘Almighty God’, a Christian group which has found followers in some...
A passenger train struck a crowded rickshaw, killing 21 people at a railway crossing in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a railway official said Tuesday. All the passengers and the driver of the motorized rickshaw died in the accident...
A panel prosecutor has claimed that the charge of aiding, abetting and facilitating Pakistani occupation forces to carry out wartime offences brought against ATM Azharul Islam has been established beyond any reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Barrister Tapos K Baul came up...
Pope Francis on expressed his desire to travel to China, ‘even tomorrow’, but urged that the Catholic Church there be allowed to do its ‘job’. ‘You ask me if I want to go to China? Certainly, even tomorrow,’ he told...
Three relatives of Pope Francis, two great nephews and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina, police said Tuesday. The dead include a baby of eight months and a two-year-old toddler, police commissioner Carina Ferreyra said....
With conferring Bangladesh Bank Award 2013, the central bank at a programme on Wednesday is paying its highest tribute to two eminent economists for their lifetime and distinct contribution to the economy and the development of the country. The central...
Honduran authorities say they have seized 42 properties that belong to an alleged drug-trafficking family with links to Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Prosecutor spokesman Carlos Vallecillo says 200 police officers, soldiers and investigators simultaneously raided the properties in the provinces...
Indian police have arrested two men accused of raping a nurse at one of New Delhi's top luxury hotels, a senior officer said Tuesday, days after the prime minister used a high-profile speech to condemn sex crimes. The alleged attack...
An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea, scientists said Tuesday. The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing island of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Malaysia for its decision to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh. She also thanked the Malaysian government to give legalisation to the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. The Prime Minister extended her thanks when visiting Malaysian...
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