The sitting of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) resumed at 11:09am on Sunday with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. The day’s proceedings began with recitation from the Holy Quran. The 2nd session (budget session) of the current...
A farmer was electrocuted at Kalujuri village in Golapganj in Sylhet on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Anu Mostafa Mia, 25, son of Sharof Uddin of the village. Locals said Anu went to his crop land for ploughing and...
A college student was chopped to death by miscreants in Moheshwarpasha area in Khulna city on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Rubel Hossain Mollah, 22, a 3rd year student of Government BL College of Khulna, and son of...
Police are yet to find a lead in the case of shooting of Awami League central working committee member Enamul Haque Shamim, four days after the incident. The Detective Branch of police is also investigating the matter alongside the local...
Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town – which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a...
A local Jubo League leader was injured allegedly in an attack by Jubo Dal activists at Sreepur upazila in Magura district on Saturday. The injured was identified as Rafiq Khandakar, 48, president of Sreepur union unit Jubo League. Aoulad Hossain,...
The Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh on Sunday confirmed the schedule of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s maiden Dhaka visit from Wednesday (June 25), a day after her office said she would be visiting Bangladesh on invitation from her counterpart...
The government has taken a programme to prepare an error-free modern digital database on genuine freedom fighters (FF), Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told Parliament on Sunday. 'Original certificates with nine security barcodes will be given to freedom...
Jebunnesa Afroz, wife of late Awami League MP Shawkat Hossain Hiron, has been sworn in as a Parliament member of Barisal-5 constituency. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at her office on Sunday morning. The seat fell vacant...
Train communication between Sirajganj and Ishwardi has been suspended as two bogies of a freight train derailed in Raipur area in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila on Saturday night. Sirajganj Railway Station sources said two container carriages of a Sirjganj-bound train loaded...
Jatiya Party presidium member Kazi Firoz Rashid, MP, on Sunday urged the government to give chance to the investors to invest ‘black money’. Speaking on point of order in the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament), Firoz, also a former state minister, said:...
The export success of South Korea’s TV dramas has spawned a hard-selling world of branded entertainment that uses product placement to push everything from smartphones to lipsticks. The so-called Hallyu (Korean Wave) of TV shows and pop music has long...
Treasury bench members in the House on Sunday continued appreciating the proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015 terming it a people-centric and implementable proposal, which would ensure welfare of the people and development of the country. Taking part in the...
Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) has recently signed a subordinated bond agreement with the institutional subscribers in a function held at Hotel Ruposhi Bangla in the city. IDLC Finance Limited is the lead arranger while MBL is the issuer of the...
A tribunal in Dhaka dealing with war crimes cases sent war crimes suspect Akram Hossain Khan of Bagerhat’s Morelganj upazila to jail after police produced him before it on Sunday. Police arrested Akram on Friday and produced him before the...
Deputy Speaker Advocate Fozley Rabbi Mia adjourned the House at 1:30pm on Sunday. The sitting of the House will resume at 5.20pm. The current session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) restarted at 11:09am today with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin...
Two people, including a college student, have been killed after being hit by trains in two separate incidents in Dhaka city. One of the dead has been identified as Farhad Hossain Sharan, 21, Kamalapur Railway police OC Abdul Mazid said...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) launched Flex Cube Universal Banking System (FCUBS), one of the globally reputed Core Banking Systems (CBS) at Bank’s Corporate Branch Sunday. As part of UCB’s continuous effort of providing service excellence, new CBS would be...
Chittagong's rail links with rest of the country have been snapped after a bridge subsided following heavy rains. The bridge adjacent to Bhatiari rail station along the Dhaka-Chittagong route subsided on Sunday, a railway official said. ’Train services have been...
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The market edged marginally lower on Sunday with turnover dropped further as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments amid shaky sentiment. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange ended at 4,322.26, shedding 6.14 points or 0.14 per...
Terming the current regime repressive one, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday asked the country’s people to get ready for ousting the government through a strong movement. ‘’People have got fed-up with the continued oppression and repression by this regime....
Two leaders of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP are running a smear campaign against Bangladesh’s export-oriented readymade garments (RMG) sector, the commerce minister has alleged. Briefing reporters on Sunday on his recent US visit, Tofail Ahmed said some people...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) mobile banking service ‘mCash’ is now available at mobicash service of Grameenphone throughout the country. A service launching ceremony between IBBL and Grameenphone was held at a local hotel on Sunday. Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing...
Train communications of the port city of Chittagong with the rest of the country resumed on Sunday afternoon, after six hours of suspension. Train services on Chittagong-Dhaka and Chittagong-Sylhet routes were suspended in the morning as a railway bridge subsided...
President Abdul Hamid returned home on Sunday night wrapping up his 10-day visit to Bolivia and the USA. A regular flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the President landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:55 pm. Finance Minister AMA Muhith,...
Residents of greater Khulna on Sunday staged demonstrations in the city demanding a specific allocation in the national budget for fiscal year 2014-15 for the development of the region. Greater Khulna Development Action Coordination Committee staged a sit-in programme at...
The government is in a process to add submarines to Bangladesh Navy’s fleet apart from incorporation of maritime patrol aircraft and maritime helicopter in an effort to enhance ‘deterrence’ in the Bay of Bengal. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful...
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan has said they will not budge from their demand for holding the national election under a non-party caretaker administration even if the government holds dialogue with them. ‘The country’s people want a free and...
A fire broke out at a factory of Pran Agro Limited at Ekdala on the outskirts of Natore town on Saturday. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit in the office room of the mastered...
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