Police recovered the hanging body of a schoolgirl at Navaron More at Sarsa upazila in Jessore district on Tuesday night. The deceased Sumi Khatun, 14, a class-X student of Navaron Burujbagan Girls High School and daughter of Malaysia expatriate Jahangir...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against 46 fugitive officials of Destiny Group in two cases for alleged swindling of investors' money. Judge M Jahurul Haque of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge's court took cognizance of the charges in...
Khondker Fazle Rashid has been appointed as Advisor of The Premier Bank Limited. He was the Managing Director of Dhaka Bank before joining The Premier Bank Limited. Mr. Rashid an MBA from IBA, Dhaka University started his banking career in...
Khondker Fazle Rashid has been appointed as Advisor of The Premier Bank Limited. He was the Managing Director of Dhaka Bank before joining The Premier Bank Limited. Mr. Rashid an MBA from IBA, Dhaka University started his banking career in...
A woman was killed in a clash between two groups over demarcation of their houses at Mahidpur village in Jakiganj upazila of Sylhet district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Hajera Begum, 32, wife of Habibur Rahman, a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Wednesday afternoon from Beijing after wrapping up her six-day official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister...
Transport owners and workers have enforced an indefinite strike in Chuadanga to protest 'vandalism'. Bus services were suspended on all routes of the south-western district since Wednesday morning. Auto-rickshaw drivers damaged two buses in the morning to protest a demand...
Kh. Asadul Islam Ripon has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited (ACAML). The new MD & CEO will help further develop ACAML’s growing equities platform and expansion into diversified financial products...
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) has launched an initiative, titled '2020: Empower 5000' which aims to help 5000 women entrepreneurs graduate from micro to SME level and bring them into the mainstream of the private sector by...
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid has been involved in extensive discussions with academics and representatives of civil society over the question paper leak of public examinations. The Education Minister said at the meeting, which started around 10:00am on Wednesday, 'I...
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Stocks inched up marginally on Wednesday with turnover declined slightly as investors concentrated on sector-specific movements amid cautious trading. The market started with an upward and the positive trend continued till the market closure amid modest see-saw. Eventually, DSEX, the...
A passenger-packed trawler, on its way to Malaysia, is stuck at the Bay of Bengal after its engine broke down, locals and Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel reported. The trawler, with 350 passengers on board, was going to Malaysia, according to...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says her country is ready, on and off the pitch, for the football World Cup which starts on Thursday. In a TV address, she said "the pessimists" had been defeated by the determination of the Brazilian...
As many as 500,000 people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took control of it, the International Organization for Migration says. Troops were among those fleeing as hundreds of jihadists from the...
OPEC has reached a "consensus" to maintain its oil output ceiling, Venezuela's energy minister said Wednesday, as the cartel's members met to formally agree the no-change decision. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which accounts for one third of...
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) rescued 693 people including 553 men, 73 women and 67 children while they were being trafficked through different points of the border in the last five months of this year. According to the available statistics of...
The 15th Annual General Meeting of Nitol Insurance Company Limited was held recently at Trust Milonayaton, Old Airport Road in the city.. A.K.M. Monirul Hoque, Chairman of the Company and Member of the Executive Committee of Bangladesh Insurance Association (BIA)...
A Chinese committee has ruled against an employer who fired 40 workers for going on strike, state-media said Wednesday, highlighting rising labour activism in the world's second largest economy. A manufacturer in the eastern Chinese province of Fujian sacked 40...
The BNP will launch a movement if the government refuses a dialogue with it for holding a fresh election immediately, its spokesperson has said. ‘We want a fair and all-inclusive election immediately. That’s why our leader (Khaeda Zia) wants a...
The European Commission is to open a formal investigation into Apple, Starbucks and Fiat in relation to tax arrangements with three EU countries. The firms' arrangements with Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg will be investigated. Announcing the move, tax commissioner...
The seven Bangladeshi crewmembers who were released by the Somali pirates last week will arrive here on Thursday. An official at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said an Emirates flight carrying the crew is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the government will float a tender on the much-hyped Metro Rail project in December next. “The tender for implementing Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (DMRTDP) will be floated in December this year,”...
The present Indian government will have a stronger engagement with its neighbours, including Bangladesh, as it looks forward to do more together for greater cooperation in the region, said a prominent Indian analyst in Dhaka on Wednesday. Dr C Raja...
The government will launch a countrywide mass awareness campaign against human trafficking, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said on Wednesday. “Local administration and union parishad offices across the country will issue circulars tomorrow (Thursday) to...
Verdict of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Tribunal over the Bangladesh-India maritime boundary dispute is likely to be announced within this month. Additional Foreign Secretary (UNCLOS) at the Foreign Ministry Khurshid Alam said the specific...
Three days after their appointment, five High Court Judges are going to take oath of office on Thursday. Chief Justice M Muzzammel Hossain will administer the oath at 10:30 am at the auditorium of the Supreme Court annex building, SC...
Election to Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) will be held on August 30 to pick new leadership for the next two years (2014-16). The BKMEA Election Board announced the polls schedule on Wednesday. As per the schedule, voting...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday informed the House that the number of fire stations in the country will be increased to 549 by 2021. She said the government plans to implement a Tk 1.63 billion-project to procure modern equipment...
At least five Bangladeshis have been killed and 40 others injured in the Bay of Bengal when a group of traffickers opened fire on people in a trawler travelling to Malaysia illegally, coastguards say. Altogether 340 Bangladeshis were on board...
The Election Commission has decided to use the electronic voting machines in the local government elections. The commission Wednesday ordered its IT wing to keep some 1230 EVM ready for use in next elections of local government bodies, according to...
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