Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to have a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron during her 3-day UK visit beginning on July 21. The Prime Minister will fly for the United Kingdom to attend the Girl Summit 2014...
The fear of rain spoiling urgent repairs of highways looms large as the government races against the clock to ensure hassle-free travel of Eid passengers. Several highways, including Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Mymensingh arterial roads, have been filled with potholes with the...
A minor girl who was pronounced dead in the Philippines has woken up at her own funeral. Philippines media report said, the three-year-old girl was declared clinically dead by the physicians of medical in Zamboanga del Sur in southern Philippines’...
Miscreants abducted a college student in Sylhet city on Monday. The victim was identified as Nasrin Akhtar, a student of third year (Accounting) of Modon Mohan College. Witnesses said that Nasrin with her classmates were waiting for a rickshaw in...
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Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday amid volatility, the third trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 0.34 points...
The Cabinet has approved a draft of the ‘Bangladesh Railway Board (repeal) Act 2014’. Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan has said after a Cabinet meeting. He said, ‘The proposed law intends to bring some changes to the railway board...
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was hacked to death while another was injured by their rivals at Akhalia under Jalalabad Police Station in Sylhet city on Monday night. The dead is M Abdullah, alias Kochi, 25, son of...
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Sadar Upazila of Sylhet on Monday evening. The arrestee was identified as Jalal Ahmed, general secretary of the upazila unit of Jamaat and chairman of Jalalabad Union Parishad. Kotwali police said a...
Police arrested four alleged robbers from in front of Jagannathpur Primary School at Satkhira Sadar upazila on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Jahangir Gazi, 40, son of Shahaj Uddin Gazi, a resident of Debaria village, Shawkat Gazi, 50, son...
The official website of FIFA (www.fifa.com) has featured a picture of the 3.5-km-long national flag of Germany that Bangladesh farmer Amzad Hossain made in support of the German World Cup football team. The Germans won the World Cup beating Argentina...
Israel approved an Egyptian-proposed deal that would halt the week-old Gaza shelling war on Tuesday but the Palestinian territory's dominant Hamas Islamists responded suspiciously, saying they had not been consulted by Cairo. Hamas's armed wing vowed its attacks would ‘increase...
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday he will stand down as foreign secretary after four years to serve as leader of the British House of Commons. ‘I will not stand as an MP (member of parliament) in the...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday again extended time for further investigation into Maj Gen Manzur murder case. Allowing the time-extension plea sought by special police super of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Abdul Kahhar Akond, also investigation officer (IO) of the...
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Stocks returned to the red on Tuesday, a day after upturn as investors followed cautious stance ahead of Eid festival. Only seven trading sessions are left ahead of Eid vacation. “Investors’ sentiment still remains shaky and their prompt need to...
Hamas rejected an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel on Tuesday, moments after Israeli Cabinet accepted the plan, throwing into disarray international efforts to end a week of fighting that has killed 192 Palestinians and exposed millions of Israelis...
The government on Tuesday appointed Mohammad Ziauddin, Ambassador at-Large of the Prime Minister, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States. Ziauddin will enjoy the rank and status of State Minister in his new appointment, says a Foreign...
Pubali Bank Limited has reduced the lending rate for helping expansion of industry and economic development. Apart from this, the bank has introduced SMS-based banking services for the customers to give them up-to-date and prompt service.The bank reduced the interest...
Salaries and bonuses of workers of readymade garment (RMG) units will be paid within July 26, State Minister for Labour Mujibul Haque Chunnu has said. Garment factory owners failing to do so would have to face the consequences, he added....
China told the United States on Tuesday to stay out of disputes over the South China Sea and leave countries in the region to resolve problems themselves, after Washington said it wanted a freeze on stoking tension. Michael Fuchs, US...
A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper,...
Microsoft Corp is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years as the software maker looks to integrate Nokia Oyj's handset unit, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the company's plans. The reductions, expected to be announced...
Four secretaries have been transferred and given new postings in the latest administrative reshuffle. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification in this regard on Tuesday. It says Posts and Telecommunications Secretary Abu Bakar Siddique has been made...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on the need to resolve a decades-old border dispute during talks before the BRICS summit in Brazil, a statement said Tuesday. The leaders also pledged to strengthen trade and...
The Indian government has announced a new penalty of $579 million on the country's largest private company, Reliance Industries, for failing to meet commitments to supply gas for the fourth year in a row. Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told parliament...
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved six development projects involving Tk 78.39 billion. The approval came from an ECNEC meeting held on Tuesday at the NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the city. Briefing reporters after...
China will dedicate itself to ‘perfecting’ the role developing countries play in international affairs to give them better representation and a greater say, President Xi Jinping said ahead of a summit of BRICS nations in Brazil. China has already started...
A Bangladeshi young man was picked up allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from near Molani border point in Haripur upazila in Thakurgaon on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Tofazzal Hossain, 30, son of Bazlur Rahman of...
Twelve people were killed on Tuesday and up to 120 injured when a Moscow underground train derailed between two stations during the morning rush hour, the Emergencies Ministry said. Injured passengers were carried on stretchers, bloodied and bandaged, out of...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Tuesday set September 4 to pass an order whether to initiate contempt proceedings against New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) for making ‘biased, baseless, utterly false, fabricated and ill-motivated allegations’ in its...
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