Former chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Ghulam Rahman on Tuesday took over as the president of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB). Ghulam Rahman served as the ACC chairman for four years. Earlier, he was the chairman of the...
The visiting six-member Iranian parliamentary delegation had been at the One-stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday. DMCH Director Brig Gen Mostafizur Rahman welcomed the team led by Fatemeh Rahbar, head of the Iran Parliamentary...
Siam Commercial Bank Pcl Thailand's third-largest lender, said on Tuesday it expected 2014 housing loans to grow 7 per cent on the year on expectations that economic recovery would spur demand in the second half of the year. The bank...
Amid criticisms by BNP over ‘The National Broadcasting Policy, 2014’, Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said Awami League (AL) does not believe in media gagging. “Awami League doesn’t believe in gagging the media. There has been massive development...
Rajshahi Motor Sramik Union went on an indefinite strike in the district on Tuesday afternoon to press home its six-point demand, including a ban on the movement of unauthorised vehicles on roads and highways. The decision to enforce the strike...
India has agreed to allow Bangladesh to import electricity from Nepal through its territory, said State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid. The minister stated this on Tuesday following his meeting with Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran...
Italy said Tuesday it is expelling a Moroccan imam caught on video inciting violence against Jews during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. The imam was filmed during a Friday sermon in a mosque near Venice last month calling...
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki on Tuesday said he was optimistic the latest ceasefire in Gaza will hold, even as Palestinians renewed efforts to haul Israelis before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. A 72-hour truce took hold in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed her firm optimism that the Japanese government would provide more assistance for Bangladesh's socioeconomic development. "As our government has been working hard for the welfare of the country and people, I hope that...
Detective police have pressed charges against BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 40 other BNP men over last year's vandalism in the run-up to the Jan 5 general election. Sub-Inspector Dipak Kumar Das submitted two charge-sheets to...
A British minister who was the first Muslim to sit in the cabinet resigned on Tuesday over the government's ‘morally indefensible’ policy on Gaza. The decision by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a minister at the Foreign Office and for faith and...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has asked Awami League supporters not to extort anyone for National Mourning Day programmes. Quader made the call at an event to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sheikh Kamal, elder son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Alleging that the government is trying to put the National Broadcasting Policy in place in a bid to gag the media, BNP on Tuesday demanded the ‘black rule’ be annulled forthwith. “The questionable current cabinet which is there by prolonging...
One US soldier was killed and 15 more were wounded Tuesday when a man in Afghan military uniform opened fire at an officer academy in Kabul, a US official said. ‘We can confirm that one American was killed and 15...
The Planning Ministry is going to organise the country’s first-ever development fair, aiming to engage people from all walks of life in development activities. The Development Fair 2014 will be arranged either at the end of the current month or...
A section of journalists demonstrated Tuesday demanding cancellation of the National Broadcasting Policy 2014 saying that it has been formulated to gag the voice of the media. They held a rally and brought out a procession in front of the...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday returned home after receiving treatment at a Singapore hospital. He reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 7pm in a regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The BNP spokesman went to...
MUNSHIGANJ: Pinka-6, the launch that sank in the Padma River near Mawa Ghat in Lauhajang upazila Monday with over 250 passengers on board, could not be salvaged even after 32 hours of the accident due to strong currents in the...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Mozammel Hossain, former deputy managing director (DMD) of Jamuna Bank, to surrender before the designated court in connection with a graft case accusing him of swindling about Tk 12.0 billion...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the World Breastfeeding Week-2014 at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital on Wednesday. Health Minister Mohamamd Nasim came up with the information at a press briefing at the Secretariat on Tuesday, according to a...
The acting President of BGMEA has said Left leaders are playing politics on the Tuba Group issue despite a pledge by the management for payment of unpaid salaries and allowances, according to a news agency. The statement of SM Mannan...
Tuba Group managing director Delwar Hossain was released from Dhaka central jail on bail on Tuesday night. Earlier, on July 24, a High Court bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq and Justice M Nazrul Islam Talukder granted a two-month...
Heavy fighting has erupted in a suburb of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, local officials say. There are reports of civilian casualties as government forces battle to retake the city from pro-Russia separatists, the city council said,...
Georgina Prodhan of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world last week to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's alleged violations of its users' privacy, stepping up a years-long data-protection campaign. Schrems, a thorn in Facebook's...
Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman of Reuters from Baghdad | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping across much of northern Iraq in June. Capture of the electricity-generating Mosul...
Gopal Sharma of Reuters from Kathmandu | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Nepal $1.0 billion in concessional loans to help build power plants and roads during a visit on Sunday aimed at shoring up support in a region where China is making inroads. Both India and China...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with the new Dhaka city BNP convening committee on Tuesday night apparently to put the leaders of its crucial unit in a war mood for a fresh movement by resolving their infighting....
Martin Petty of Reuters from Hanoi | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Japan will give six navy boats to Vietnam to boost its patrols and surveillance in the South China Sea, Japan's foreign minister said last week, in the latest sign of a strengthening of alliances between states locked in maritime rows...
BEIJING, Aug 4 (AP): Rescuers dug through shattered homes Monday looking for survivors of a strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province as the death toll rose to at least 398 people, with more than 1,800 injured. About 12,000 homes...
PATNA, Aug 4 (AP): Rescue workers in eastern India urgently evacuated tens of thousands of people Monday after a deadly landslide in neighboring Nepal blocked a river that could burst its banks and submerge scores of Indian villages. Authorities in...
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