Rapid Action Battalion(Rab) members arrested a driver of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case, from Patuakhali Sadar upazila on Saturday. The arrestee was identified as Mizanur Rahman Dipu. Rab headquarters sources said tipped off, a...
MEHERPUR, Aug 9: A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Sonapur Majhpara bordering area of Mujibnagar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abdul Khalek, 30, a cattle...
A man was allegedly beaten to death at a drug rehabilitation centre at Brahmanbaria town on Saturday. The dead is Atikul Islam Shafique, 30, son of M Bahar Mian of Kandipara in the town. Local people said the staff of...
The Met Office has advised cautionary Signal No. 3 for the sea ports as a low in the Bay of Bengal could lead to squally weather. In a weather forecast, it said a monsoon low had been formed over the...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the party’s standing committee members on Sunday night to finalise her party’s action programmes to force the government for arranging a fresh election under a non-party neutral administration. The meeting is scheduled to...
A fire broke out at a godown (warehouse) of Beximco Industrial Park at Chakrawarty at Gazipur industrial zone in the newly-created Gazipur city on Sunday morning. Fire service sources said the fire broke out in an underground cotton store room...
US jet fighters and drones have conducted four more air strikes on jihadists (Islamic militants) in Iraq, taking out armoured carriers and a truck that were firing on civilians. US Central Command says the Islamic State militants were firing on...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has reiterated that the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) Peace Accord will be implemented fully during the tenure of the government to ensure the rights of indigenous people. ‘The rights of the indigenous...
A local Awami League leader has been gunned down shot at the city’s Agargaon on Saturday night. The dead is Jahangir Kabir, 45, son of M Mustafa of Pacshim Agargaon. Victim’s relative Abdul Gafur said Jahangir, president of Agargaon Taltola...
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The prices of most of the shares in the country’s two bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed sharp rise in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX,...
Travel restrictions on Ebola patients and the absence of direct air links with the affected West African countries made Ebola virus making its way to Bangladesh ‘a remote possibility’. But the viral disease that World Health Organisation terms as ‘one...
Police arrested a man along with 10 gold bars in Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla district on Saturday night. The arrested was identified as Sentu Karr, 35, son of Dilip Karr of Uttar Chanla village of Brahmanpara Upazila. Being tipped off,...
An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian man and wounded seven other people on Sunday, medics said, on the third day of renewed fighting that has jeopardised international efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire in Gaza Strip. The parties remained...
Two children drowned in a pond in Hossainpur Upazila in Kishoreganj district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Jannat, 3, daughter of late Manik Miah and Saiba, 3, daughter of Khuki Mia of Pudurghat village in the Upazila. Police...
An Iranian plane carrying 40 passengers crashed in a residential area after taking off from Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Sunday morning, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and its own reporter....
At least 44 people were killed and 11 injured as bus plunged into a dicth off a cliff following a vehicle pile-up on Saturday in southwest China’s Nyemo county, authorities said on Sunday. The bus carrying 50 people, mostly tourists,...
Three Bangladeshi young men were injured in an attack by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Sunday. The victims were identified as Moyna of Gobindakati village, Shamsur Rahman of Boikari village of Sadar Upazila and...
A college student was stabbed dead on Netrakona Government University College campus in Netrakona town on Saturday. The dead is Mirza Aziz Amani Epthi, 17, son of Mirza Azizur Rahman Hablu, a resident of Satpai in the district town. He...
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the hearing on charge framing against 111 BNP leaders, including the party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in three separate cases. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiya fixed the dates when...
An Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip killed a 17-year-old Palestinian boy on Sunday, medics said. According to emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra, the strike took place in the central town of Deir al-Balah. His death raised to 15 the...
Bangladesh Bank Sunday signed agreement with 32 commercial banks and financial institutions (FIs) to disburse funds under a re-financing scheme of the central bank. Under the agreement, small and medium entrepreneurs will be able to borrow from the BB re-financing...
A suicide attacker targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul on Sunday, killing four civilians and wounding at least 35 others, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the capital as politicians wrangle over election results. The NATO force made...
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Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hit a six-month high on Sunday, as investors took strong position on large cap stocks amid optimism. The total turnover on DSE stood at Tk 7.63 billion, registering an increase of 29.76 per...
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but Japanese authorities did not issue a tsunami warning and there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck at 12:43 pm (0343 GMT) in...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has chalked out 27 work plans to achieve its huge revenue collection target of Tk 1497.20 billion for fiscal 2014-15. ‘As the target is huge for the ongoing fiscal, we don’t have any other...
Only four vessels will continue the search operations for sunken launch Pinak-6. All other vessels of Navy, Coastguards, BIWTA and fire service have been withdrawn. ‘Jarip-10, Kandari-2, Rustam and Nirbhik will take part in the main rescue work,’ Munshiganj Deputy...
France says Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has gone to Iraq to supervise French aid delivery and show support. A ministry statement Sunday said Fabius was visiting Baghdad and Irbil, in the Kurdistan region, and meeting with representatives of Christians and...
India’s top crime fighting body is investigating a $155 million loan by a state-run bank to debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines, a police official said Sunday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was conducting an initial probe into why the 9.5 billion...
The ‘Civil Service Act’ will be passed soon to reform Bangladesh’s public administration and make it ‘efficient and service-oriented’, the prime minister has said. Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said a draft of the Act has already been prepared. ‘We’ll enact...
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