Google is to start building its own self-driving cars, rather than modifying vehicles built by other manufacturers. The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals. Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like...
A local leader of Awami League was killed when a bus hit his motorcycle on Netrakona-Kalmakanda road at Nischintapur in Barhatta upazila on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Majibur Rahman, 40, general secretary of Raipur union unit of Awami...
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Stocks ended higher for the second running session on Wednesday with turnover crossing Tk 3.0 billion-mark after eight sessions as investors went for buying spree on lucrative scrips. The market started with a positive note and the upward trend continued...
Voicing her high hope of keeping up good relations with India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said any problem with neighbouring countries, including India, could be resolved through bilateral talks. “You may have differences over policy, it’s quite natural....
India has set up a special task force to find illicit money, in one of the first decisions taken by the government of new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The special investigation team (SIT) would seize "black money" - cash that...
Police recovered the slaughtered body of a housewife from Charkumaria village of Sakhipur thana on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Fahima Begum, 28, wife of Akter Bepari of Dhalikandi village of Charkumaria union of the thana. Officer-in-charge of...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has inked a Corporate Medical Service Agreement with United Hospital Limited, country’s leading medical service provider to augment medical, hospitalisation, diagnostic and health check-up for the employees of the bank and their dependents. In the...
Plans for a vast trans-Pacific free trade (TPFT) pact including the United States and Australia were "good" but "old-fashioned", former World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy said Wednesday. Lamy, who stood down from the WTO in September, also said that...
Owners of CNG-driven autorickshaws have postponed their strike in Dhaka till June 8. Dhaka Metropolitan CNG Autorickshaw Owners Association called the strike demanding validity of the vehicles to be extended to 15 years. The communications ministry issued a circular on...
Owners of CNG-driven auto-rickshaws have postponed their strike in Dhaka until Junuary 8. Dhaka Metropolitan CNG Autorickshaw Owners Association called the strike demanding validity of the vehicles to be extended to 15 years. The communications ministry issued a circular on...
Police have pressed charges against Mufti Izaharul Islam and his son Mufti Harun Bin Izahar in a case under Acid Control Act over a bomb explosion at a Chittagong madrasa last year. Investigation Officer and Khulshi Police Station SI Md...
Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan are being given the chance to vote early in the presidential election due to be held next week. The main polling stations opened at the Syrian embassies in Beirut and Amman on Wednesday. The...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to Munshiganj district to address a public rally there. Khaleda, also a former Prime Minister, left her residence at Gulshan in Dhaka for Munshiganj Launch Ghat around 2:45pm. The Munshiganj district unit of BNP...
Taliban insurgents Wednesday denounced US plans to keep troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2016, threatening to wage war against the "occupation" until the very last foreign soldier pulls out. Outlining the US strategy to end America's longest war,...
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, contains errors in nine out of 10 of its health entries, and should be treated with caution, a study has said. Scientists in the US compared entries about conditions such as heart disease, lung cancer, depression...
Egypt extended voting into a third day Wednesday in a presidential election seen as a plebiscite on the former army chief, after turnout fell below that in the poll won by the Islamist leader he ousted. The move raised further...
Microsoft has unveiled a "real-time" language translation feature for its internet phone service Skype. Chief executive Satya Nadella said the firm would launch a test version of the service, dubbed Skype Translator, for Windows 8 later this year. The move...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached Munshiganj to address a rally in Munshiganj launch terminal area after the party’s attempt to hold two rallies in the capital were thwarted. Her motorcade started for Munshiganj from her Gulshan residence around 2:45pm...
The Jatiya Party (JP) has nominated Selim Osman, brother of deceased Narayanganj-5 MP Nasim Osman, for the by-poll on June 26. The ruling Awami League has decided not to field its candidate for the seat vacated by the death of...
The verdict for the bombing in Ramna during the Bangla New Year celebrations in 2001 will be delivered more than a decade after the incident. Dhaka’s second Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ruhul Amin scheduled the verdict on June 16 after the...
Entrepreneurs of Kobe City, the sixth largest city in Japan, have shown keen interest to invest in large infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, said its Governor Toshizo Ido on Wednesday. They have shown interest particularly in the areas of water treatment...
Bangladesh government and retailers have largely failed to make public the findings of factory safety inspections ordered after the April 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe that killed and injured several thousand workers, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. Reports should...
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers will be observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world on Thursday. On 29 May, UN offices, member states and non-governmental organizations, will hold events to honour the memory of the UN peacekeepers...
A fire believed set by an 81-year-old dementia patient blazed through a hospital ward for the elderly Wednesday and killed 21 people in southern South Korea, mostly from smoke inhalation, police and fire officials said. The fire on the second...
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (Bapex) is set to start its exploration drilling at Mobarakpur in Pabna to ascertain hydrocarbon potentiality in the country’s northern district. Mobarakpur is located in Santhia upazila of Pabna. “We’ve already completed mobilisation...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday visited development projects at Mithamoin and Ashtagram upazilas in his home district. Accompanied by Communications Minister Obaidul Quader, Abdul Hamid visited the 15-km long Ujanpur-Bajitpur-Ashtagram highway at Kastal union in Ashtagram in an easy bike....
Bangladesh and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to expand cultural ties between the two countries. Cultural Affairs Secretary Dr Ranjit Kumar Biswas and Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun signed the deal at the Cultural Affairs Ministry. Senior officials...
TOKYO: It was a just a signature. But the signature made Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emotional. It was the signature of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which was signed 40 years back, according to a news agency....
Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique on Wednesday withdrew a defamation case filed against the then editor, publisher and a reporter of the daily Manobkantha and the editor of Dhaka Times last year. Latif Siddique, the then...
MUNSHIGANJ: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has branded Rapid Action Battalion as a cancer and called for its immediate dissolution. “Rab has turned into a cancer going beyond any reform” Khaleda told a public rally in Musnshiganj town Wednesday, according to...
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