Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said late Monday he would not extend a truce with pro- Russian rebels in the country's east, vowing instead to go on the attack. ‘After examining the situation, I have decided, as commander-in-chief of the armed...
A report on ‘The Palli Sanchay Bank Bill 2014’ aimed at setting up a specialised bank to facilitate savings and transactions of the earnings of the rural poor and under privileged people was placed in parliament on Tuesday. Chairman of...
Brac University vice chancellor Professor Dr Ainun Nishat is leaving the private varsity while his successor Dr Syed Saad Andalib will join on July 14 for a term of four years. President and Chancellor Abdul Hamid has confirmed the appointment...
Coast Guard personnel have detained a person with 150,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from a fishing trawler at the Outer Anchorage of Chittagong Port. The Coast Guard raided the trawler near Sandwip Channel on Monday night and nabbed Md Aziz,...
Customs officials on Tuesday seized gold ornaments weighing two kilograms (kg) from a passenger’s handbag at Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Patenga of Chittagong. The passenger, Monwara Begum, 45, returned from Dubai on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman addressed the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt faculty Monday on impact of remittance inflows into developing economies. In his presentation, Governor Rahman highlighted significance of wage earners’ remittances in socioeconomic development of...
Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group. Israel's security cabinet, which held an emergency...
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on Tuesday passed the ‘Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust Bill 2014’ aimed at ensuring welfare of the poor, insolvent, sick and wounded journalists and the family members of deceased journalists. Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu moved the...
The parliamentary committee attached to the foreign ministry has identified ‘mutual lack of trust’ as the key deterrent preventing solutions to disputes between Bangladesh and Myanmar. The watchdog has suggested frequent bilateral discussions to overcome the difficulties. The panel discussed...
Lionel Messi has been the key to Argentina's perfect start at the World Cup, scoring four of their six goals in three straight group wins, and the South Americans hope his blistering form continues when they face Switzerland in the...
Workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory in Gazipur on Tuesday agitated for several hours to push their management to pay their Eid bonus. Around 4,500 workers of Aman Tex in Boiragir Chala locality at Sreepur Upazila joined the protests...
'I find it deeply disturbing we are going in that direction,' former secretary of state says. Hillary Clinton blasted the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling, announced Monday, that craft chain Hobby Lobby and other ‘closely held’ for-profit companies do not have...
A total of Tk 5.93 billion (Tk 592.98 crore) has been spent for the maintenance of Bangbandhu (Jamuna) Bridge till June 2014, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader told Parliament on Tuesday. Replying to a starred question of Enamul Haque of Rajshahi-4...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained and was reportedly being questioned by financial investigators Tuesday in a corruption probe that is rattling France's conservative political establishment. A judicial official said Sarkozy was in custody in the Paris suburb...
Match Preview: The United States will have the opportunity Tuesday to move into the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the first time since 2002 and just the third time in history. There's two ways the Round of 16 match...
European and Asian stocks helped markets get the second half of the year off to steady start on Tuesday, helped by upbeat Chinese data and bets that record-low interest rates will remain in place for some time yet. Investors were...
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with many calling for the city's leader to be sacked, in what could turn out to be the biggest and most passionate challenge to Chinese Communist Party rule...
The U.S. Supreme Court has opened up a new front in the battle over corporate rights by ruling that family-owned and other closely held corporations can mount religious objections to government action. Monday's decision came in a case in which...
Iraqi-British Hadid is the first woman to win the top prize in the competition, now in its seventh year. The Heydar Aliyev Centre features Hadid's signature elaborate curves and undulations. Previous winners include the London 2012 Olympic Torch, the Plumen...
Malaria parasites can manipulate the body odour of mice, research in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests. Researchers believe parasites may change odours in order to help them with a key stage in their reproduction. And...
Engineering and metal workers in South Africa have gone on strike after talks on Monday failed to reach an agreement over pay. The country's largest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), claims that more than 200,000...
The High Court has asked why it should not issue a rule for steps to frame a law to protect the rights of domestic servants. The bench of Justices Salma Masud Chowdhury and Md Habibul Gani gave the order on...
Morgan Stanley(MS.N) wants to pay out a smaller portion of wealth management revenue to the retail brokers who generate it, the final and perhaps most difficult front in Chief Executive James Gorman's drive to reduce staff costs across the bank....
Six people including two women and two children have been killed in a truck-auto-rickshaw collision in Brahmanbaria on Tuesday. Police are yet to confirm the victims’ identities. Khatihata Biswaroad Highway Police outpost's Sergeant Noor said that the accident occurred around...
Iraq's new parliament ended its inaugural session Tuesday after failing to make any progress in choosing a new prime minister even as the country faces a militant blitz that threatens to rip it apart and a spike in violence that...
The government is going to set up a 60MW solar power project at Raozan in Chittagong in the private sector. Once implemented, officials said, state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will purchase electricity from the private sector ‘solar park. “This will...
Unhappy at the things done by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government so far at New Delhi, India’s northeastern state of Assam’s main regional political party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has urged the government to make public the details of...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will host an Iftar party on Wednesday for the leaders of different political parties. The Iftar party will be held at the city’s Bashundhara Convention Centre. Party sources said top leaders of all political parties, including...
President Abdul Hamid said Tuesday it is possible to build a happy and prosperous society if the affluent section of society comes forward for the welfare of the ignored and deprived community, according to a news agency. “I think it’s...
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