JESSORE, July 19: A youth was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Jessore Saturday. Anisur Rahman, 30, hailing from Satkhira Sadar Upazila, was arrested on Friday from Dhaka. Police claimed he was a listed criminal. — bdnews24.com
Members of the Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested the imam of a mosque run by the Civil Aviation authorities with 18 gold bars, weighing 1.800 kg, and 18,240 US dollars at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Saturday. The...
NARAYANGANJ, July 19: The Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested one of the aides of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case filed over the sensational seven murders in Narayanganj, from the bordering area of Akhaura upazila in Bramanbaria...
Bangladesh’s progress in reducing early marriage has been praised worldwide on the eve of the Girl Summit. Between 1990 and 2013, the number of women dying at childbirth in Bangladesh fell by 70 per cent with an opportunity to achieve...
Police have recovered fake notes worth Tk 66,000 from two men whom they arrested in Chittagong's Oxygen area on Friday night. The counterfeit notes were recovered ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the festival in which transactions are usually high. Three men including...
The government should make a sound national policy to use the country’s marine resources for national interest. The views were expressed in a views-exchange meeting in the city on Saturday. Speakers at the meeting said any effort to use the...
At least seven factories were gutted in a fire in Islambagh Namapara in the city's Lalbagh area on Sunday. Sources at the Fire Service and Civil Defence said the devastating fire which broke out at a plastic factory in Islambagh...
Western countries have demanded that Russia put pressure on Ukrainian rebels to allow unhindered access to the site of Thursday’s Malaysia Airlines jet crash. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that time was...
A man was arrested with six kilograms of contraband gold at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Kurmitola in Dhaka on Sunday. The arrestee has been identified as Md Iqbal, 32, hailing from Chittagong district. Iqbal returned from Dubai on...
Police held two ex-cops in Talgachhi Bazar under Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj district on Saturday while trying to collect illegal toll from traders. The arrested are: Abdul Hye Sarker, 68, former sub-inspector (SI) of the district Special Branch and its...
By creating their own multilateral financial institutions, the BRICS emerging-market powers are shaking up global economic governance but remain far from dismantling the post-war system dominated by the West. For the past 70 years, the International Monetary Fund and the...
Fresh Israeli bombardments killed at least 12 more people in Gaza on Sunday, medics said, as the army intensified a 13-day campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory. Sunday’s deaths brought the toll to 355 Palestinians, and seven Israelis, including two...
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah and other cities during his official visit starting on Sunday to broker peace in the Middle East, the spokesperson’s office has said. ‘The Secretary-General is travelling to the Middle East this...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 24.87 points...
Tokyo investors will be keeping an eye on simmering geopolitical tensions this week in the aftermath of a Malaysia Airlines jet crash in Ukraine. Fresh economic data, including Japanese trade figures for June, will also be on investors’ radar screens...
Russian capital markets took a further tumble at the weekend after the crash the Malaysian Airlines jet crash with 298 people aboard in Ukraine dramatically raised tensions between the Kremlin and the West. The disaster which claimed the lives of...
A local leader of Awami League (AL) was chopped to death by miscreants at Jahangirnagar village in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Altaf Hossain, 35, organising secretary of AL Mathainagar union unit....
Bangladesh Railways (BR) and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) on Sunday morning started selling advance tickets of trains and buses ahead of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr to facilitate homebound Eid passengers to reach their destinations ahead of the greatest religious festival...
A pirate gang leader was killed in a ‘shootout’ between his cohorts and police in Sarankhola Upazila in Bagerhat district on Sunday. The dead is Namir Talukder, 38, chief of Namir Bahini and son of Suntal Talukder, a resident of...
A Dhaka court has ordered a judicial investigation into the alleged custodial killing of 'jhut' dealer Mahabubur Rahman Sujon at Mirpur Police Station. The victim's wife Mamtaj Sultana Lucy filed a case against 10 people, including Mirpur police OC Salauddin...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday stayed the bail granted by the High Court (HC) to BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case. The Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice M...
The government will take ‘administrative steps’ against Bangladesh Ambassador to Lebanon AFM Gousal Azam Sarker, who has been called back, upon his return home. ‘There had been no other alternative than calling him back. Administrative steps will be taken upon...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has met her elder son Tarique Rahman in Dubai after 3 years. Both were on their way to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique, accused in a number of cases at home, has...
Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has made an appeal to Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to return to cricket. Shakib had been slapped with a 6-month ban by the BCB after he went to play in the Caribbean Premier League, which...
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Stocks ended lower Sunday after previous session’s flat movement as cash-hungry investors sold shares ahead of Eid festival. Only four trading sessions are left ahead of Eid vacation. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX) went down...
Lauding Narendra Modi’s efforts to reach out to all of India’s neighbours, US Ambassador-designate to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has said the US shares India’s desire for a South Asia that is better and more interconnected. ‘It is refreshing...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a High Court verdict that had ordered a vehicle owner to compensate the victim of a road accident. A full bench headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain issued the...
The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94 with six missing as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas, authorities said Sunday. The typhoon has since blown to southern China but a new storm, named...
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