The budget session of the 10th Parliament was prorogued on Thursday after 24 sittings that passed 37 bills, including two private members’ bills. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation order of the President at 3:33 pm. This...
Euro zone firms expanded at their slowest rate in six months in June while cutting the prices they charge, surveys showed, signalling business conditions remain tricky as monetary authorities prepare to give a policy update. Business activity in France, the...
Passengers on a new Japanese railway service will be able to relax in specially-designed foot baths, it's been reported. The East Japan Railway Company is to run a new Shinkansen (bullet train) service between Shinjo and Fukushima in the north...
US stock index futures ticked up in light volume on Thursday after the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials closed at a record, ahead of a short session on Wall Street that is packed with economic data. *The key government...
US employment growth is expected to have continued at a solid clip in June, which would further dispel fears about the economy's health and underscore its momentum heading into the second half of 2014. Nonfarm payrolls probably increased by 212,000...
UK airports have said they are running as usual, amid tightening security following US warnings over a ‘credible threat’ of terrorism. Heathrow and Gatwick both said they were operating ‘as normal’. Staff at Manchester are swabbing hand luggage. Number 10...
The High Court has ordered the removal of all battery-run and motorized rickshaws from the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong. Five petitions had been filed with the HC, seeking permission to run such vehicles in the two City Corporation areas....
India's Supreme Court has said that women are increasingly misusing the tough anti-dowry law to harass their husbands and in-laws. The judges said the law was enacted to help women, but it was being used as ‘a weapon by disgruntled...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the nation will never forget BNP-Jamaat nexus for their violent acts in the name of resisting the January 5 elections. ‘The BNP-Jamaat alliance always unleashed such kinds of spiteful acts whether it was...
Argentina are playing far below their best, are over-reliant on Lionel Messi and must improve if they are to beat Belgium in their World Cup quarter-finals, according to Diego Maradona. ‘We still haven't got started,’ Maradona, who won the 1986...
Special Envoy to the Prime Minister and Chairman of Jatiya Party Hussein Mohammad Ershad on Thursday urged all to forget the past and establish real democracy by involving all. Addressing the closing sitting of the current budget session in parliament,...
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has shot dead a prominent MP in the capital, Mogadishu. Ahmed Mohamud Hayd was killed in a drive-by shooting after he left his hotel in a heavily policed area, witnesses said. His bodyguard...
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, but continued to suggest the labor market was steadily improving. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 315,000 for the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that her government would not allow any further destructive politics in the country in the name of movement. “The movement of BNP-Jamaat is just killing people and arson, nothing else. We don’t want...
BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday sent a legal notice to Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud giving him two weeks’ time to prove that he has deposited money in Swiss Bank. Barrister Kaiser Kamal sent...
Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has launched an exclusive ‘DelightEid Offer’ for its customers. With every purchase of a new Galaxy S5, customers can get an instant cashback and save at least Tk 7,000 to as much as Tk 15,000 during this...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Information and Communication Technology adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Thursday said he will use ICT to make Awami League (AL) stronger and more dynamic. "I want to make Awami League family stronger organisationally apart from the...
The Electoral Commission in the UK has found that the mayoral, local and European elections in May in Tower Hamlets in London were poorly resourced. The east London borough’s election count took more than five days to complete and is...
Prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets rose on Wednesday. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.1%, recovering from losses earlier in the week. On Monday, the market fell 0.9% on the final trading day of the financial year...
A top US military official says a key role of the American troops in Iraq is assessing whether the country’s security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs. General Martin Dempsey, chairman...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained and questioned by police on Tuesday as part of an influence-peddling investigation, prosecutors said, an unprecedented measure for any probe involving a former French president. Sarkozy appeared before a judge late on Tuesday,...
Police recovered 1,827 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a mango-laden truck at Gomastapur upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday night. Being tipped-off, a team of police conducted a search in the mango-laden truck parked in front of Sanchu Market...
As the leaders of influence, imams and olama mashaikh are playing vital role in the social building process alongside cutting various social curses and misconceptions, speakers at an Iftar party and doa mahfil said in Rajshahi on Tuesday. For the...
Leaders of the BFUJ and DUJ have congratulated the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu, members of the parliamentary standing committee on information and all members of parliament for passing the ‘Journalists’ Welfare Trust’. In...
A man was killed allegedly by his nephew in Osmaninagar in the city on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Kodris Ali, 55, son of late Siddique Ali of East Tilpara village under Osmaninagar Police Station. Locals said there had...
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The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 10.99 points or...
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan was conferred with top French civilian award – ‘Knight of the Legion of Honour’. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented the prestigious award to the 50-year-old actor at a function on Tuesday for his outstanding contribution...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved five development projects including the Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Project (UGIIP). The UGIIP aims to establish gender friendly good governance in 31 pourasabhas (municipalities) across the country. The...
The sitting of the Jatiya Sangsad resumed at 11.27am today (Wednesday) with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. The day’s proceedings began with recitation from the Holy Quran, according to BSS.
Three separate bills have been placed in Parliament to enable small ethnic groups to join the district councils of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing, State Minister for the CHT, tabled the bills - ‘Rangamati Hill District...
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