HM Ershad has addressed Parliament through a poem he wrote for a peaceful Bangladesh. The Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman read out his composition – ‘Our journey begins … want to build our beloved Bangladesh’ - during his concluding speech at...
India’s Border Security Force (BSF), deployed on south Bengal frontier of the Indo-Bangladesh border, have seized contraband and gold worth over Rs 100 million and held about 244 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants in June, an official release said on Thursday. Besides...
Firefighters doused the fire which broke out at a tannery plant in Zigatola area in the city on Friday morning. However, no casualty is reported. Fire Service sources said the fire erupted at ‘Bhulua Tannery’ at Tannery More in the...
Four policemen of a Chuadanga court have been closed to the district police lines on charges of dereliction of duty. The punitive action was taken against Ishak Ali, sub-inspector of the court, constables Azizul Haque, Touhidul Islam and Shaheen Mia....
Hurricane Arthur has made landfall on North Carolina’s Outer Banks off the US East Coast. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Arthur reached land about 11:15 pm Thursday between Cape Lookout and Beaufort, North Carolina. Arthur was a...
A man was killed and 15 other people were injured in a clash between two groups of people over a land-related dispute in Hatibandha Upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Alom Mia, 35, son of...
A court in Kurigram has sentenced six people to life in prison for murder in Phulbari Upazila. Kurigram Additional Sessions Judge Nur Mohammad Shariar Kabir delivered the verdict on Thursday in the ‘Shamsul’ murder case. The court also fined each...
The bodies of two Bangladeshi siblings Swapan and Milon, who were killed in a missile attack on their residential camp in Benghazi city in eastern Libya, arrived at home on Friday morning. A flight of Turkish Airlines carrying the two...
The government has allocated 17,716.85 tonnes rice under special Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme for the poor of Rangpur division to assist them in celebrating the holy Ramadan month and Eid-ul-Fitr festival. According to official sources, over 1.77 million VGF...
Hamas has offered to halt its rocket attacks if Israel stops its air raids on the Gaza Strip. A source with the Palestinian militant group said Egyptian intelligence officials had brokered a potential ceasefire. Israel has not commented. In the...
Allegations that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) systematically bribed doctors in China are credible, says an investigator hired by the firm. Peter Humphrey was hired only to investigate who was behind a suspected smear campaign against GSK. But after he finished...
A flyover has collapsed on to vehicles in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, killing two people. The concrete and steel bridge, which was under construction, fell on to traffic on a busy highway. The front of...
Rolf Harris is due to be sentenced for indecently assaulting four girls - including one who was seven or eight - in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The musician and artist, 84, was found guilty of all the 12 charges...
India will provide four new vaccines free of cost as part of a programme to reduce child mortality, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. They include one for rotavirus, which kills thousands of children a year. The disease causes dehydration...
A curfew has been imposed in Myanmar's second city, Mandalay, following two nights of violence in which local police say two men died. Reports say a Buddhist man died after being slashed with a sword by Muslims and that another...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his first visit to Indian-administered Kashmir amidst a protest shutdown called by separatist groups. Modi inaugurated a railway line in the Jammu region before travelling to Kashmir Valley to launch a hydro-power station and...
The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad. The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, General Sir...
The boss of the High Speed Two (HS2) rail project has said he plans to pay as many as 30 people more than the prime minister's £140,000 salary. The coalition government has repeatedly said public servants should not be given...
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is due to be sentenced after he was found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones. Coulson, who went on to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron, will be sentenced...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed above 17,000 for the first time, buoyed by investor confidence about the global economy. The US stock index, which is made up some of the biggest global firms, rose 92 points to finish...
China's top newspaper on Friday dismissed fears that the autonomy of the former British colony of Hong Kong was being eroded, saying Beijing's policy had not and would not change, following mass pro-democracy protests earlier in the week. Hong Kong...
Google Inc GOOGL.O GOOG.O on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having implementing Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. The Guardian protested the removal of...
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season has hit the North Carolina coast, a wet and windy spoiler of the July Fourth holiday for thousands of Americans as authorities ordered them to evacuate exposed areas. Hurricane Arthur crossed the coast...
With all the hoopla over the Dow topping 17,000 out of the way, the market's next focus will be whether the fast-approaching earnings season can justify US stocks continuing their climb further into record territory. Many factors point to a...
World stocks were enjoying the view at an all-time high on Friday, lifted by a strong week of US economic data and promises from the European Central Bank that cheap money will be sloshing around for years. European shares opened...
Asian shares and the dollar firmed on Friday, catching a lift from US stocks' surge to record highs after US jobs data showed the lowest unemployment rate in six years and underscored the strength of the economic recovery. MSCI's broadest...
Honda Motor Co is expanding to the state of California a US regional recall of vehicles over potentially explosive air bags made by Takata Corp, the automaker said on Friday, after a complaint that said a driver was injured in...
General Motors Co will recall 27,051 Spark mini cars in South Korea due to a defective transmission mount, the latest in a string of global recalls by the US automaker. The gearbox mount may destabilize and cause a drop in...
South Korea will get a yuan clearing system in the capital Seoul, expanding the list of states with direct access to trade in the Chinese currency. China's central bank has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Bank of...
A FIFA member is the source of thousands of illegal ticket sales at the World Cup, a Brazilian police chief says. Police commissioner Fabio Barucke said ‘someone from FIFA’ and ‘an intermediary from Match Hospitality’, FIFA's ticket agency, channelled the...
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