The Justice Department has asked Citigroup for more than $10 billion to settle claims the bank misled investors on mortgage-backed bonds sold before the 2008 financial crisis, a report said Friday. US prosecutors broke off talks with Citi and are...
At least 10 people, including four women and four children, were burnt to death in a fire during a series of clashes between two groups of people over blasting crackers at Kurmitola ‘Bihari’ camp at Kalshi in the city on...
The Information Commission, mandated to enforce the Right to Information Act and increase transparency and accountability in government and non-government agencies, is into five years of its existence. The Right to Information Ordinance was passed under the last caretaker regime...
Police in a drive arrested nine leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its president and general secretary, in Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga district on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Bakul, president of the district unit Chhatra...
The bus strike, enforced by Chuadanga Bus-Truck Workers’ Union, protesting vandalism of some vehicles by ‘easy-bike’ drivers in the district town was called off on Saturday. The strike was withdrawn following a meeting held with the local administration on Friday...
Iraq's most senior Shi’ite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the...
Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have recovered a powerful grenade, one pistol and bullets from a bus at Benapole local bus stand in Jessore. The seized arms and ammunition had originated in India, said Benapole Sadar Company Commander Subedar...
The stock market ended flat in the first week after the announcement of the new budget amid high volatility as higher capital gain tax imposition in the proposed budget disappointed the investors most. The week featured all five trading sessions....
Photojournalist Zahirul Haque has died in a Delhi hospital, his family members say. He was on life support for last three days at the HBS Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi. Haque’s daughter-in-law Sajia Zahir told bdnews24.com about...
Renowned photojournalist Alhaj Zahirul Haque has died in a Delhi hospital, his family members say. He was on life support for the last three days at the HBS Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi. Zahirul Haque’s daughter-in-law...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has requested US Congressman Steve Chabot to support Bangladesh for GSP restoration as well as granting duty-free market access of Bangladeshi apparels to the US market. In response, Chabot, also Chairman of the US Congress Sub...
India's approach towards Bangladesh in the coming months will be ‘largely problem solving’, its High Commissioner in Dhaka has said. Pankaj Saran has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already conveyed to Bangladesh’s Speaker that ‘he was committed to maintaining...
A woman was killed by a lightning strike in Kamalganj upazila in Sylhet district on Friday. The dead is Azma Bagum, 29, wife of Mashahid Miah, of Kalenga village. Locals said thunderbolt struck Azma while she was going outside with...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said the government will take stern actions against the culprits involved in violence at Kalshi in Pallabi that left 10 people dead. ‘It’s a serious incident…those involved in it will be...
University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury on Saturday said the quality of higher education would improve if universities remain calm and peaceful, session jam free and free from criminalisation of politics. He said tertiary education will...
Robbers kidnapped 50 fishermen from Lothimarar Char and Aruabaya areas in the Sundarbans under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat district early Friday. Coast Guard Mongla zone operation division staff officer Lt Commander M Alauddin said gang members belonging to notorious ‘Abbas...
Vowing afresh to continue the fight against state-sponsored terrorism, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday blamed the ruling party cadres and members of the law-enforcement agencies for the killing of 10 people at Bihari camp in the city’s Mirpur area....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman need to be remanded if the trial of Ziaur Rahman killing case has to be held. “If anyone has to be put on a remand that...
A four-member inquiry committee has been formed by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to investigate the killing of 10 people during a series of clashes between two groups of stranded Pakistanis at Kurmitola Bihari camp of Kalshi under Pallabi police...
Bangladesh government has advised all the Bangladesh nationals in Iraq to remain alert and avoid conflict zones there for averting any untoward incidents. “According to the latest reports, all expatriate Bangladesh nationals in Iraq are safe and they’ve been advised...
NARAYAGANJ: A court here Saturday placed former Rab official Lt Col Tareque Sayeed on a fresh four-day remand in connection with the sensational Narayanganj 7-murder case. Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate K M Mohiuddin passed the order when police produced him...
BARISAL: The by-election in Barisal-5 constituency that fell vacant following the death of Awami League MP Shawkat Hossain Hiron will be held Sunday. The Election Commission said the voting will start at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm...
The World Bank (WB) Board of Executive Director’s approved a $107-million credit for the Mizoram State Roads II -- Regional Transport Connectivity Project to improve transport connectivity for the landlocked state of Mizoram and to help open up the potential...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has sought increased British investment in Bangladesh’s prospective areas, particularly in garment, shipbuilding, software, ICT, power and pharmaceutical industry. He urged the British investors and businessmen to take advantage of tax holiday, infrastructure, land and...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the current government is trying to hang onto power using the state machinery. “The government is using Rab, police and other state machinery in its bid to cling to power...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday swiped at Dr Kamal Hossain again for his stance against the uncontested winning of MPs in the last election saying that he also got elected unopposed once. “There’s one person who is against the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government would award the job of constructing the deep seaport at Soandia in Cox’s Bazar to that company which will be able to do the job at the quickest time. “We’ve got...
As formalin-treated fruits have flooded the markets, a Dhaka University teacher Saturday suggested using a special chemical having strongest bad odour with the imported formalin to stop its use in food items. Prof ABM Farroque of Pharmacy department came up...
Customs officials seized 138 gold bars, weighing 16 kg, at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Saturday night. Mashiur Rahman Mondal, assistant commissioner (customs) of the airport, said a flight of ‘Flydubai’ from Dubai landed at the airport around...
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