Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Thursday morning, wrapping her four-day official tour of Japan. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minster and her entourage, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 6:50 am....
Tokyo stocks ended the morning session flat on Thursday as the stronger yen hit exporters and investors booked profits following a five-day winning streak. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 7.23 points to 14,663.72 by the break, while the...
The prices of most of the shares in Chinese stock markets rose in morning trade on Thursday after an unexpected rise in the previous session improved investor expectations, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.10 per cent, or...
Hong Kong shares opened 0.22 per cent higher on Thursday, extending a recent uptrend, despite losses on Wall Street that were fuelled by profit-taking. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 51.87 points to 23,131.9 in the first few minutes, according...
US stocks on Wednesday moved lower in early trade following mixed earnings and as Valeant Pharmaceuticals International significantly raised its bid to acquire Allergan. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 33.30 points (0.20 per cent)...
European stocks mostly rose on Wednesday, but Frankfurt retreated from the key 10,000-points barrier following disappointing unemployment data. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index of top shares slipped 0.02 percent to 9,939.17 points from Tuesday’s record closing level, having risen as high...
The prices of most of the shares in Australia’s capital markets witnessed a downward trend on Wednesday. Sydney stocks dipped 0.15 per cent at the break. Meanwhile, South Korean (Seoul) stocks were flat today, according to AFP.
A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old. Judge Zakir Hossain of the city’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Special Tribunal-2 also fined Md Chhagir Tk 50,000 on Wednesday. Five have testified in the...
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The prices of most of the shares on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday amid modest see-saw, the last trading day of the...
Police have arrested two suspected drug peddlers and recovered 30 kg hemp and a private car from their possessions at Moulvibazar Sadar upazila. The arrestees were identified as Basir Miah, 25, son of Hushiar Ali of Lamakazi village under Jalalabad...
Police have arrested a local Awami League (AL) leader on charges of his suspected involvement in the murder of Fulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque in Feni town. Belal Hossain Patwari, 48, was arrested in Khagrachhari’s Matiranga around 2:30am on Thursday,...
The High Court has ordered a probe into suspected corruption by Patuakhali Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in auctioning obsolete equipment and materials. The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain have issued the order on...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 577 bottles of Indian wine worth over Tk 0.8 million from a bordering village at Companyganj upazila in Sylhet on Wednesday. Tipped off, the border guards conducted a drive at Siddipur frontier village and...
The body of a housewife was recovered from a septic tank at Jorgachha village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district on Wednesday night, three days after she had reportedly gone missing. The deceased was identified as Mariam Akhter, wife of...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested a man with 96 fake notes of Tk 1,000 denomination from Jamtala area of Sunamganj town on Wednesday. The arrested is Humayun Kabir Sarker, 30, son of Abbas Ali of Keshabpur...
A 17-year-old schoolboy at Pirojpur's Bhandaria upazial has invented an automated firefighting device, which he claims, can control a big fire in any establishment at three stages. Sabbir Khan, a class XII student of Amanullah Higher Secondary School at Radhanagar...
At least three people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Goainghat and Zakiganj Upazilas of Sylhet district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Shahab Uddin, 18, son of Azir Uddin of Khalarchhari village, and Zarina Begum,...
The High Court has allowed Notre Dame College to hold admission tests overruling a government order. The bench of justices M Moazzem Hossain and Md Badruzzaman has stayed an education ministry circular that mandates college admission based on SSC results...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military. But a lower than expected turnout...
The capital development authority, Rajuk, will write to the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to examine whether a high-rise building in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur is fit for use after a gas line explosion there. Rajdhani Unnayan Kortripokkho (Rajuk) has...
A gang of armed miscreants swooped on a contractor on Culvert road in the city's Arambagh area on Thursday morning and sprayed bullets on him, leaving him dead on the spot. The deceased was identified as Sultan Ahmed, 42, a...
Miscreants have snatched away at gunpoint Tk 200,000 from a foreign student in Chittagong city. The student was also injured while trying to stop the muggers in Prabartak Intersection around 8:30am on Thursday, said Panchlaish Police Station OC Abu Zafar...
In a surprise move, police have been deployed for the security of Narayanganj-5 by-polls contestant Rafiur Rabbi, father of slain A-level student Tanvir Mohammad Twaki. Rabbi, a leader of 'Nagarik Andolan', says he did not ask for police protection. Five...
Police recovered the slaughtered body of a Jubo League activist from Senpara of the city’s Kafrul area on Thursday. The deceased, identified as Mizanur Rahman, 22, activist of ward no 94 unit Jubu League and son of Nuru Mia of...
Police in South Korea say Lebanon’s ambassador to the Asian country has died in a car accident. Officers say Ambassador Jad Saeed El-Hassan was driving his car by himself Thursday when it hit another vehicle inside a tunnel in Seoul....
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Stocks ended flat into the red on Thursday amid choppy trading throughout the session as investors remained cautious ahead of budget announcement. The market strated with a positive note but did not sustain. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...
The area where acoustic signals thought linked to the missing Malaysian plane were detected can now be ruled out as the final resting place of flight MH370, Australian officials say. The Bluefin-21 submersible robot had finished its search of the...
India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi instructed top ministers Thursday to prepare their agendas for the first 100 days but did not reveal which of the country's many problems would be tackled first. The pro-business leader was sworn in as...
One person has been shot dead in a clash between activists of two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Comilla unit. BCL is the student wing of ruling Awami League. The infighting erupted into violence in the Munsef Bari area...
One person has been shot dead in a clash between activists of two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Comilla unit. The infighting erupted into violence in the Munsef Barhi area in the district town around 1pm on Thursday, said...
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