The High Court on Tuesday relieved former Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda of contempt of court charges. An HC bench comprising Justice Kazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain passed the order in the presence of Shamsul...
Journalist Abul Bashar, editor of now defunct ‘Weekly Chashi Barta’ died on Monday in Faridpur after prolonged illness. Family sources said Abul Bashar breathed his last at his residence at Raghunandanpur in the suburb of Faridpur town. He was 65....
Tech giant Apple has unveiled iOS 8, its latest operating for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, USA. Reports say iOS 8 will be available this Autumn -- late September -- as...
A young man was found dead at Kaliabakri village in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mukul Hossain, 31, son of Nurul Islam of the village. Victim's family members said Mukul remained missing after...
Police say they have arrested nine smugglers responsible mainly for bringing in contraband gold into Bangladesh. The members of Detective Branch (DB) of police have picked up the nine from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka with 70 gold...
A septuagenarian man was killed in a road accident at Mirpur upazila in Kushtia district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Fahim Sarder, 75, of Khandakbaria village of the upazila. Officer-in-charge of Mirpur police station, Sahidul Islam Sahin, said...
Two women have died after being run over by a bus in Raiganj Upazila in Sirajganj district. Two other persons were injured in the accident on the Sirajganj-Bogra highway in Sholo Mile area around 4:15am on Tuesday, said Hatikumrul highway...
Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday, taking their cue from another record close on Wall Street following improved manufacturing data in the United States and China. The dollar held steady while the euro continued to face pressure ahead of Thursday's...
Mercantile Bank Limited celebrated its 15th anniversary at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city Monday. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed was present as the Chief Guest on the occasion and presented the Mercantile Bank Achievement Award-2014 to 10 prominent personalities...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to play its due role for speedy completion of Doha Round in the greater interest of the least developed countries (LDCs). ‘It is the right time for completion...
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Stocks ended lower on Tuesday with turnover dipping below Tk 4.0 billion-mark on the major bourse as investors kept their attention to the upcoming national budget. The market opened with positively yet it failed to sustain the momentum. Eventually, DSEX,...
Several Google websites have been blocked in China, a monitoring service said Tuesday, as authorities step up arrests and censorship before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. A stepped-up police presence is visible on Beijing's streets, while dozens...
India's hawkish central bank kept key interest rates unchanged Tuesday at its first meeting to set monetary policy since new pro-growth Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office. After meeting in the financial capital Mumbai, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...
Syrians in government-held areas voted Tuesday in presidential election in which incumbent Bashar al-Assad is looking to boost his grip but which the exiled opposition has slammed as a "farce". Assad is facing two little-known challengers and is expected to...
Police in London have arrested the leader of Pakistan's MQM party, Altaf Hussain, on money-laundering charges. Officers are searching a residential address in north-west London, where a 60-year-old man was detained. Mr Hussain has lived in the UK since 1991,...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $1 billion US security plan for eastern Europe aimed at allaying fears over a resurgent Kremlin and the escalating pro-Russian uprising in ex-Soviet Ukraine. Obama launched a major tour of Europe in Warsaw...
Thailand's junta said Tuesday that it was ending a curfew in the major tourist resorts of Pattaya, Koh Samui and Phuket imposed after last month's military coup. The measure will be scrapped "to create a favourable climate for tourism", the...
Former Editor of The Daily Bhorer Kagoj Benazir Ahmed died of a cardiac arrest in a city hospital on Tuesday morning. He was 69. Benazir Ahmed was taken to Ibn Sina Hospital from his sister's residence at Shankar in Dhanmondi...
RAB have unearthed a huge arms cache in the Satchharhi jungles of Habiganj's Chunarughat Upazila from what was once perhaps the headquarters of the now-weakened All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF). The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has in the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday mourned the death of former Editor of The Daily Bhorer Kagoj Benazir Ahmed who passed away of a cardiac arrest in a city hospital on Tuesday morning. In a condolence message, the Prime Minister...
Hitting back at the Prime Minister for her remark that Ziaur Rahman was involved in Bangabandhu murder, BNP on Tuesday said Sheikh Hasina has brought the false allegation in a bid to divert people’s attention to a different direction from...
Europe's markets slid on Tuesday but losses were capped as weaker-than-expected eurozone inflation data cemented expectations that the European Central Bank would implement monetary easing later this week, dealers said. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies reversed 0.33 percent...
Train communications on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes remained suspended for two hours on Tuesday following the derailment of a train at Pubail Railway Station in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur district. Pubail Railway Station master Tahurul Islam said the locomotive and...
About BNP’s threat to wage a movement after Ramadan, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya on Tuesday said they will not sit idle if BNP launches the movement. “BNP leaders have threatened to wage a movement after...
The United States on Tuesday shut its airforce base in Kyrgyzstan that had been the main transit hub for troops going to Afghanistan, a move expected to boost Russia's influence in Central Asia. Washington was forced to shut the Manas...
AKM Shamim Chowdhury, a senior official of BCS (information cadre), on Tuesday took over as the Press Secretary to the Prime Minister. A press release issued by the Prime Minister Office (PMO) on Tuesday said Shamim Chowdury, a freedom fighter,...
The budget session of the 10th parliament will continue till July 3 as Finance Minister AMA Muhith is set to place the national budget for fiscal 2014-15 on June 5 at 3:30 pm. The decision came at a meeting of...
Shelling of conflict-hit Iraqi city Fallujah killed 18 people and wounded another 43 Tuesday, according to Doctor Ahmed Shami at the city hospital. The shelling, which hit a market, municipal offices and in the vicinity of the hospital itself, struck...
The 10th parliament opened its first budget session on Tuesday afternoon. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury chaired the session that started at 5:04 pm with recitation from the Holy Quran. This is the second session of the current parliament, elected...
A court in Comilla on Tuesday sent 32 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed for killing a BGB man in 2013. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Amlan Kushum Bishnu passed the order when they surrendered to the...
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