There is no plan to separate Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from police, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. Army officers, too, will work in RAB that came into being as an elite police unit in 2004. The...
The trial in photojournalist Aftab’s murder case will begin next month, the Third Additional Metropolitan District Judge Imrul Kayes has said. He fixed Augus 12 as the hearing date on Thursday. Six people accused in the case are driver Humayun...
The High Court (HC) has denied bail to ‘Rana Plaza’ owner Sohel Rana, accused of violating the building code. Rana’s lawyers had sought bail from Justice Nizamul Haque and Justice Jahangir Hossain's bench in the Anti Corruption Commission's (ACC) case...
A village doctor was killed allegedly by his niece at Tarati Kolakanda village at Muktagacha upazila in Mymensingh on Thursday afternoon. The victim was Nasir Uddin, 50, son of late Abdus Sattar of Tarati Kolakanda. Police said, Nasir Uddin's wife...
A worker has been killed in a clash with Ansar personnel over illegal stone quarrying in Sylhet, police say. The skirmish took place on Thursday midnight in the Bholaganj reserved area. Police have identified the victim as Zohur Ahmed, 40,...
A local leader of Jubo League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, was chopped to death and another one was injured in Bogra town on Thursday night. The dead is Golam Hafiz Likhon, 40, vice-president of Jubo League...
A court in Sylhet on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing his paternal uncle in 2012. The convict was identified as Sohel Mia, 22, son of Siraj Mia, a resident of...
Valiant freedom fighter Euke Ching Marma passed away in Friday, family sources said. The 80-year-old had been suffering from old-age complications for a long time, his daughter Renu Marma said. He was the only Bir Bikram awardee indigenous freedom fighter....
A man was arrested along with 50 grams of heroin at Alimganj at Paba Upazila in Rajshahi district on Thursday. The arrested is Manirul Islam, 18, son of Saiful Islam of Panchbibi Upazila of Joypurhat district. Being tipped off, a...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is set to announce the monetary policy statement (MPS) for the first half of the current (2014-2015) financial year on Saturday (July 26), a BB release said on Thursday. The central bank earlier set July 27 for...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation on Thursday, berating parliament for failing to pass legislation to take control over an increasingly precarious energy situation and to increase army financing. Earlier on Thursday, two parties quit the government coalition,...
India blocked an agreement on new global customs rules on Thursday, angering fellow members of the World Trade Organisation who say Delhi’s veto could be costly, economically and politically. At a meeting in Geneva, diplomats from the 160 WTO member...
Two women and a child were trampled to death and 10 other people injured in a rush for receiving clothes distributed as Zakat by a private organisation in Barisal city on Friday. Of the deceased, two were identified as Firoza,...
At least two people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus rammed into a private car at Kashiganj at Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh district on Friday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police said the...
Britain's state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland posted a surge in profits on Friday, boosting its share price, but warned over future earnings. Net profit almost tripled to £1.425 billion ($2.42 billion, 1.8 billion euros) in the six months to the...
Shares in French luxury products giant LVMH fell sharply in early trading on Friday after the company reported disappointing results. The shares were down 5.66 per cent to 133.2 euros in an overall French stock market which was down 0.71...
Internet retail titan Amazon reported a money-losing quarter despite impressive growth in sales, sending shares plummeting by more than 10 per cent. The Seattle-based firm said that it had a net loss of $126 million in the quarter that ended...
Facebook stock jumped to record highs Thursday as strong earnings from the leading social network sparked fresh buying. The shares closed up 5.2 per cent at $74.98, well above the record of $72.03 hit on March 10. The rise lifted...
Asian markets mostly rose Friday following another record close on Wall Street, while the euro dug in against the dollar and yen after rebounding from multi-month lows. Investors were still upbeat after Thursday's strong manufacturing data from China as well...
Europe's main stock markets dropped at the start of trading on Friday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.32 per cent to 6,799.54 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 lost 0.24 per cent to 9,770.24 points and in Paris the CAC...
Oil prices were mixed in Asia Friday as soft gasoline demand in the United States offset upbeat manufacturing data from China, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery dipped eight cents to $101.99 a barrel in...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday left on a five-nation tour of Latin America and the Caribbean that will reportedly see a major Japanese bank extend a $500 million oil exploration loan to Brazil. The visit comes as Chinese...
Japanese inflation eased in June due to the slowing impact on prices from a sales tax hike and surging imports, official data showed Friday, figures that are likely to stoke renewed questions about Tokyo's war on deflation. The Bank of...
Russia's state-held oil giant Rosneft said on Friday it was working on a plans to reduce the effects of Western sanctions over Ukraine, and announced a five-fold jump in second-quarter earnings. ‘Together with our partners -- the world's leading oil...
The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East are looming over a global economy already hit by slowdowns in the US and China. After ‘negative surprises’ from the United States and China, the...
US airlines are flying high again, reporting surging profits and returning cash to shareholders as they reap the benefits of an industry-wide merger wave wrought by the financial crisis. The biggest US airline by revenue, American Airlines, Thursday notched its...
An Indian investment banker turned wildly successful novelist is taking a career turn in Bollywood, with a screenplay he says will tackle social issues in the same vein as the books that made him a youth icon. Chetan Bhagat shot...
World shares dipped on Friday having clawed their way back towards all-time highs after a week of largely reassuring economic signals but rising political tensions. European markets opened with the region's main bourses down 0.1 to 0.6 per cent as...
Veteran journalist and former MP AN Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud has passed away after a battle with cancer. She died at a Dhaka hospital on Friday. She was 66. Baby Maudud had been working as the bdnews24.com social affairs editor....
The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today. It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern...
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