Spanish firm Let’s Gowex, which offers free wifi in public spaces including in Paris and New York, says it will issue a written response on Monday to a damaging US report that sent its shares plummeting. Market regulators suspended Gowex...
Senegal’s president on Friday sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure, who has only been in power since September, less than a week after her ruling party was beaten in local elections. ‘Ms Aminata Toure’s functions have been terminated,’ said a decree...
Ukraine's embattled new leader agreed on Friday to immediate crisis talks with rebel commanders and Russia aimed at stemming the bloodshed that has threatened his country's survival and ruptured East-West ties. Clashes in the economically-vital border regions of Lugansk and...
France's CMA CGM Group, one of the world's top container shipping companies, plans to develop India's largest container port in a joint venture with local Adani Ports & SEZ, the partners said on Friday. The 50:50 venture will add a...
A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends over extramarital relationship in Mirpur upazila in Kushita district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain, 35, son of late Hamza Hossain of Mallikpur Kulpara village. Police...
The 4-day road and waterway blockade, enforced by Bangalee Chhatra Parishad and Parbatya Nagorik Parishad protesting the 3-day tour of a team of International Commission on Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs to the hill region, is going on peacefully in the...
A huge quantity of rice and wheat was allegedly stolen from the stock of the government food warehouse at Matlab Dakkhin upazila of Chandpur district. Sources said following an instruction from the deputy commissioner of Chandpur, executive magistrate Runa Laila...
Robi Axiata Limited (Robi) Saturday announced the appointment of Matiul Islam Nowshad as Chief Corporate and People Officer (CCPO) effective from 01 July 2014. In his new role of CCPO, Mr Nowshad will be responsible for the People and Corporate...
UCash, mobile financial service of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) recently signed an agreement with Progressive Life Insurance Company Limited at the Corporate Head Office of UCB. As per the agreement, Insurance premium collection of Progressive Life Insurance Company Limited...
Heavy rainfalls due to active monsoon over Bangladesh have caused immense sufferings to the inhabitants of the city as well as many places in Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions. The downpour has inundated the streets of Dhaka under knee-deep water...
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that his party is getting ready for streets movements and national elections at a time. He came up with the comments while talking to the reporters in the city...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday asked members of the President Guard Regiment (PGR) to discharge their duties with sincerity maintaining the chain of command. ‘I hope you’ll be fully loyal to your chain of command in discharging your duties and...
A man abducted his former wife after killing her brother in Paikortoli village in Dogachhi union in Joypurhat Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sabuj, 18, son of Abu Taleb of the village. Quoting family members, Abdur...
Dhaka Bank Limited celebrated its 19th anniversary on Saturday. Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed, Founder & Director of Dhaka Bank Limited attended a doa mehfil with other high officials of the Bank. Later, on the same occasion, Dhaka Bank donated Tk.1.2...
Chairman of specialised state-owned BASIC Bank has resigned amid allegations of loan irregularities. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Abdul Hye Bachchu came to his Minto Road residence on Friday and handed over his resignation. A day later, Muhith said ‘The...
Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam on Saturday said the defeated forces of 1971 are hatching conspiracy against the country and its democracy. ‘The BNP-Jamaat has been hatching conspiracy with an evil design to turn Bangladesh into a safe place for...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday instructed the concerned authorities to stop digging of the roads to ease the traffic congestion and to facilitate homebound passengers ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr. He also ordered to take immediate measures to flash...
A Taliban bomb attack on the outskirts of Kabul set fire to some 200 fuel trucks that the militants claimed were supplying foreign troops in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. The tankers were set ablaze as they sat in a...
The convoy of the International CHT Commission was allegedly attacked by activists of six Bangalee organisations in Rangamati on Saturday. It left two people, including an officer-in-charge of a police station, injured. An eight-member representative team led by Commission co-chair...
A woman and her daughter were electrocuted at Charbashi village at Kalihati upazila in Tangail district on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Sumela Begum, 80, and her daughter Vasani Begum, 45, of the village. Officer-in-charge of Kalihati thana...
Transport workers in Sunamganj have called an indefinite strike in the district. They are protesting the punishment meted out to one of their workers by a mobile court. Vehicles were off road on all routes within the district since on...
The Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee is set to consider in its Sunday’s meeting an offer of the Malaysian government to construct 8,400 residential flats for Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk), the capital’s development authority. The Malaysian government has offered to construct...
The government would soon reshuffle the board of directors of state-owned commercial and specialised banks, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Saturday. Of the eight state-owned banks, Sonali Bank, Agrani Bank, Janata Bank and Rupali Bank are commercial banks and...
Bangladeshi nationals living in Iraq are so far safe and no Bangladeshi nurse has been held hostage in Tikrit, a strategically important city of Iraq, said the Bangladesh Ambassador in Baghdad on Saturday. A number of local media quoting Indian...
Ending their 66 years of illegal occupancy over 75-bigha Bangladeshi land along Benipur border in Jibannagar upazial of Chuadanga, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has handed it over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). BGB took over charge of the land...
A fire broke out at a sweater factory on Sataish Road of the city’s Tongi area on Saturday afternoon. Fire service officials said the fire originated on the third floor of ‘SA Sweater Factory’ around 5:30pm and it soon raged...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said upholding the chain of command is essential in conducting a disciplined force and an effective command channel in the Army can help accomplish any task. The Prime Minister was addressing a function at...
SATKHIRA: A man was killed and six people were injured as a bus caught fire following the explosion of its gas cylinder on Satkhira-Jessore road in Sadar upazila Saturday. The identities of the victims could not be known yet, according...
The Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is likely to deliver its judgment on the maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India on Tuesday. A Bangladeshi diplomatic source confirmed the date. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is...
Still struggling to reorganise her party in the wake of its January 5 election boycott, BNP chairperson Khaleda has caused widespread displeasure among her alliance partners, especially the Islamist ones, by including a faction of Samyabadi Dal into their platform...
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