Wall Street stocks finished at new records after a jam-packed week of economic news that culminated with a solid US jobs report on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 207.11 (1.24 percent) to 16,924.28, while the broad-based S&P 500...
Europe's main stock markets advanced on Friday, as traders welcomed data that showed the US economy has recovered to a pre-crisis jobs level. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies climbed 0.66pc to close at 6,858.21 points, while Frankfurt’s DAX...
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has criticised some research organisations for questioning 6.12 per cent growth of GDP in fiscal year 2013-2014. Taking part in the discussion in Parliament on the supplementary budget for the outgoing fiscal, Matia said: ‘We got...
Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez has pulled out of World Cup opening ceremony in Brazil, FIFA said on Sunday, four days before the tournament kicks off. Lopez, who recorded the official World Cup song, ‘We Are One,’ with rapper Pitbull and...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan has reiterated that there is no reason for disbanding Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). He said the elite force has achieved various successes since its formation. ‘People appreciated RAB when they recovered huge arms and...
Police have arrested five people, including two personnel of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in Dhaka on charges of an attempt to snatch a piece of land. Uttarkhan Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Younus Ali said there were disputes over ownership of...
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The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday after previous day’s sharp decline. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went...
Police have arrested five people, including two personnel of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in Dhaka on charges of an attempt to snatch a piece of land. Uttarkhan Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Younus Ali said there were disputes over ownership of...
Voting for the newly-formed Naldanga upazila (UZ) at Natore is going on peacefully on Monday. The polling began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm without any break. The voter turnout was less in the morning due to rain but...
Heavily armed militants launched an assault on Pakistan's busiest airport in the southern city of Karachi, leaving at least 21 dead including 10 militants in a six-hour siege that the army quelled at dawn. Explosions and gunfire rang out as...
Some 100,000 hectares of land could emerge from Bay of Bengal as about 7 billion tonnes of silt fall into it each year from China and India, says Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju. 'Another Bangladesh is emerging from...
Three farm labourers were killed and eight others injured as a pickup van they were ridding overturned on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Shibalaya upazila of Manikganj district on Monday. The deceased, identified as Samidul, Choyra, 33, and Khalil, hailed from Alokdia...
Debashish Saha Rony, the stalker who crushed a woman with his motorbike for protesting her daughter's abuse at Faridpur, has been sentenced to death. Chapa Rani Bhowmik, 48, a female worker of Faridpur Sugar Mill, was brutally killed at Madhukhali...
The prices of most of the shares in South Korea's capital markets advanced on Monday. Seoul stocks rose 0.10 per cent at the end of the day's session, according to AFP.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on the seventh day of their drive on Monday recovered more cache of firearms and ammunitions from Satchhari jungles along the Indian border at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district. The RAB team which is continuing...
The BPL anti-corruption tribunal, investigating match fixing in Bangladesh Premier League, has released judgment details. The final hearing started from January 19 this year. The tribunal released a short version of the verdict on Feb 26 and made the detailed...
A teenaged boy was hacked to death and ten other people were injured by armed robbers who raided five homes in two villages at Sirajdikhan Upazila of Munshiganj on Sunday night. The dead, Rinku Shil, was only 16 and lived...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed her firm optimism that her current tour of China will further cement Dhaka-Beijing bilateral ties and open up a new avenue for economic and political cooperation. ‘It’s a big achievement of my visit...
A carpenter has died as a vehicle ran over him at Gabtoli under Darus Salam Police Station in the city, hospital sources said. Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost in-charge, quoting family members and locals, identified the victim...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) have teamed up to extend quality health services in 330 Smiling Sun clinics all over Bangladesh. USAID Mission Director Janina Jaruzelski and DFID Country...
A couple was killed when lightning struck them at Azul village at Enayetpur union under Mahadebpur upazila of Naogaon district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Abdul Matin, 45, and his wife Renu Begum, 35, of the village. Police...
A rickshaw van puller was killed in a road accident at Kolabari village under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Zillar Rahman, 65, son of Kasim Uddin of Shibnagar Chapadasi village under Kansat union...
HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua): Vietnam's exports have seen a sharp decrease by 29.9 per cent in the riot-hit first half of May against the previous period, according to newly-released statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs. The statistics released...
PARIS, June 7 (AFP): A $10 billion fine that the US is reportedly preparing for BNP Paribas bank for violating sanctions could hurt negotiations on a mega transatlantic trade deal, France warned again on Friday. Speaking a day after French...
A power department office in Jhenaidah's Maheshpur was vandalised by locals enraged by an outage lasting several hours, reports bdnews24.com. Police said a mob ransacked the office of the West Zone Power Distribution Company (WZPDCL) Friday night, infuriated at not...
S&P holds Saudi credit rating at AA-/A-1+ RIYADH, June 7: Standard and Poor's on Friday held its sovereign credit rating for Saudi Arabia, the world's top crude exporter, at AA-/A-1+ with a positive outlook. "In our view, Saudi Arabia's government...
ATHENS, June 7 (AFP): The Greek economy did markedly better than expected in the first quarter of this year, shrinking by 0.9 per cent over a year instead of 1.1 per cent estimated in May, the statistics office said on...
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