Two people, including a rickshaw van-puller were killed in separate road accidents in the city’s Darus Salam and Mohakhali. In the first incident, an unidentified man was killed and three cops were injured as a private car hit a police...
Chinese state media on Friday branded Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations. A report by broadcaster CCTV criticized the iPhone's ‘Frequent Locations’ function for allowing users...
Child and nutrition experts have said breast milk is the best food for the infants and young children and breastfeeding fosters optimal growth and development of a baby’s brain. ‘It is the foremost duty of all mothers to start breastfeeding...
A local Awami League leader was shot to death by unidentified miscreants in Rajbari Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Abdus Sattar, 45, president of ward-7 Awami League under Pachuria union and son of Sukhi Mahmud...
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said on Thursday that it is time for US stock market investors to tread carefully after the run-up on Wall Street. ‘In my mind, it is time to be cautious about the US stock markets,’...
US stock index futures were modestly higher on Friday, indicating a rebound from recent losses, though major indexes remained on track for their biggest weekly decline since April. The S&P 500 has fallen for three of the past four sessions,...
Britain's banks are in the process of paying out 1.2 billion pounds ($2 billion) to compensate small businesses that were mis-sold complex interest rate hedging products, data from the UK financial watchdog showed on Friday. The figure represents about a...
An overloaded minivan ferrying children home from kindergarten in China's Hunan province has crashed into a pond, killing all 11 people on board. The van was carrying eight kindergarten pupils and two teachers, as well as the driver. It was...
Several university students from China's western region of Xinjiang have said that they are being banned from fasting during the month of Ramadan. The three Muslim students we spoke to did not want their identities revealed as they fear government...
Tributes have poured in for celebrated Indian actress Zohra Sehgal who has died in the capital, Delhi, aged 102. Sehgal had been ill for several days and suffered a heart attack at a city hospital on Thursday evening. In a...
A US man convicted of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a Chinese state-owned company has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. A California judge also fined businessman Walter Liew, 56, more than $28m (£16m) for the crime....
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 15 people, including women and children, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border at Benapole in Jessore on Friday. Officer-in-charge of Benapole Port Police Station Apurba Hasan said acting on a...
An Indian Hindu priest perform rituals for the success of the Argentina football team in the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for football fans on the banks of the holy river Ganges in Kolkata on July 10, 2014....
Asian shares recouped early losses on Friday as sentiment in the region proved resilient to Portuguese bank concerns amid signs offshore funds were returning to emerging world assets. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan recovered to be a...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ move to appoint a reputed international agency for assisting it in sourcing a variety of aircraft faces a setback as it did not yet get any acceptable response. The last date for submission of tender paper was...
No heavy cargo except garments, fuel and perishables will be allowed on roads for three days before and two days after Eid, the communications minister has announced. Obaidul Quader also said Friday that Eid leave for all railway staff and...
Bangladesh needs to be serious about preservation, exploration and optimum utilisation of marine resources through adopting a comprehensive policy as recent triumphs against India and Myanmar over maritime boundary disputes have opened up enormous opportunities for the country, say marine...
BENAPOLE: Benapole port and customs will remain open on the two weekly holidays until Eid-ul-Fitr to facilitate the import of essentials. Assistant commissioner of Benapole customs house Mohammad Mahbub Hasan said normal activities of the port and the customs will...
Rising numbers of students have applied to start university courses in the UK this year, data shows. Some 659,030 people submitted applications by the end of June - up 4pc on the same point last year, reports BBC. The final...
At least eleven people have been killed and 20 others injured when a bus ran over several pedestrians after losing control and then fell into a roadside ditch in Barisal’s Ujirpur Upazila, according to a news agency. Ujirpur Police Station...
BENAPOLE : Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge Indian clothes, imitation jewellery, cosmetics, vehicle parts and Phensidyl syrup worth about Tk 8.10 million from different borders here Thursday night, according to a news agency. A BGB patrol team...
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RANGPUR, July 10: The farmers in 8 districts under Rangpur division are worried as sale of substandard and adulterated Aman paddy seeds has become rampant in the region during the peak sowing season. A number of farmers at different districts...
RAJBARI, July 10 (UNB): Three people, including a police constable, were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident on the Daulatdia-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila of the district early Thursday. Two of the deceased were identified as Constable...
GAIBANDHA, July 10 (BSS): Two villages under Shaghata upazila in the district were brought under rural electrification network by Gaibandha Palli Biddyut Samity (GPBS)Wednesday. A simple ceremony was also held on the occasion at Anantapur Government Primary School of the...
RAJSHAHI, July 10 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here today have expressed grave concern over gross violation of tobacco control law in the region and urged the authorities to take punitive measures to resist the violation. They categorically said that...
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NILPHAMARI, July 10: Filaria still exists as an alarming disease for thousands of people in this region. The disease borne by a particular type of mosquito is a curse particularly for the hardcore poor people who cannot afford to use...
SIRAJGANJ, July 10 (UNB): A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term rigorous imprisonment for killing his wife for dowry in 2010. The convict was identified as Haider Ali, son of Jadab Ali, a resident of Purna...
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JESSORE, July 10: Members of 23 Border Guard Battalion arrested 16 Bangladeshis from Putkhali frontier under Benapole port police station while they were going to India illegally on Wednesday evening. Of the arrested, 12 are men, three women and a...
Prime Minister's IT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has rejected BNP's claim on the South Talpatti island and advised the party's leaders to visit the place. He also asked whether BNP founder Ziaur Rahman had given away the island to...
MOULVIBAZAR, July 10 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from a water body in Sadar upazila on Wednesday afternoon. Police said local people spotted the floating body of the young man, aged around 30, in Barokarua...
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