Forty people were killed in fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels for control of Donetsk airport in the east of the country, the local mayor said Tuesday. "Two civilians and 38 participants of the fighting were killed in...
Malaysia on Tuesday released raw satellite data used to determine that missing Flight MH370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean, information demanded by passengers' relatives who are frustrated over the failure to find any wreckage. The Department of Civil...
India's new finance minister Arun Jaitley said restoring growth and containing inflation are the key challenges facing the country’s government, shortly after being handed the critical portfolio today. Jaitley, a top corporate lawyer, said the government was given a strong...
Bangladesh parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has met India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi for discussions for nearly half an hour. The meeting was described as 'courtesy call' but bilateral issues were discussed. The speaker is representing Bangladesh as Prime...
A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) soldier has been injured in a clash with drug peddlers at Benapole union at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore. This happened at the Benapole border check post around 8pm on Monday, BGB’s Jessore battalion commander Lt...
Eleven members of a chemical weapons fact-finding team were abducted as they tried to visit a town where alleged chlorine gas attacks have recently been reported, Syria's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. "Two cars were seized by terrorist groups carrying...
Egyptians are going to the polls on the final day of voting in the country's presidential election. Former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year, is standing against left-wing candidate Hamdeen Sabahi. Mr Sisi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday announced constitution of a dedicated task force to support Japan’s companies to do their business conveniently in Bangladesh. ‘We highly value the Japanese investment,’ the Prime Minister said. She said forty industrial plots in...
China plans to remove six million vehicles that do not meet exhaust emission standards by the end of the year as a way of improving air quality. More than 300,000 vehicles will be decommissioned in the capital Beijing. Recent findings...
Asian markets mostly fell on Tuesday, retreating from the previous day’s gains, but Tokyo bucked the trend as the yen dipped against the dollar. The euro edged up after suffering losses in the previous session. Tokyo rose 0.23 per cent...
The Board of Directors of Prime Bank Limited in its 417th board meeting held recently unanimously elected Azam J Chowdhury as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for two years effective from 1st June 2014...
A jute mill worker was shot to death by some miscreants at Barandipara in Sadar upazila of Jessore on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Hafizur Rahman, 22, a worker of Ahad Jute Mills and son of Abdul Mannan alias...
China is welcoming the new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it wants to strengthen the sometimes troubled relationship between the two Asian giants. Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met with India's ambassador to Beijing on Tuesday to...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday reiterated its concern over the budgetary provision to legalise black money, and called upon the government to refrain from this unconstitutional, unethical and discriminatory provision. TIB also called for greater openness, transparency, public debate...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said their chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a rally together with people in the capital the day she will want to do so. Referring to a media report of a...
India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to crack down on militant groups on Tuesday, while stressing his desire for better relations and trade, the foreign ministry said. Modi "underlined our concerns related to...
Plainclothes police arrested Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar, the prime accused in the murder case of Fulgazi upazila parishad chairman and Awami League leader Ekramul Haque, from the capital on Tuesday. Deputy Commissioner (public relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masudur...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday assured Bangladesh of looking into two long-pending issues -- Teesta water sharing deal and Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). The assurance came when Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury met Modi at Hyderabad House, in...
A suicide bomber killed 13 people at a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad Tuesday while violence elsewhere in Iraq left four dead, the latest in a protracted surge in bloodshed. The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the...
Dhaka Divisional (North) Transport Owners-Workers Oikya Parishad on Tuesday postponed until May 29 its indefinite strike enforced in eight districts of Dhaka division to press home their seven-point demand. President of Mymensingh Motor Owners Association Mamtaj Uddin told reporters that...
Myanmar is considering restrictions on religious conversion, according to a draft bill released in state media Tuesday, the first of several controversial proposals stemming from a rising tide of Buddhist nationalism. The proposed legislation, put forward by the ministry of...
World shares hovered just off an all-time high and the euro was steady on Tuesday, as the European Central Bank made sure there was little doubt in investors minds that global liquidity will continue. Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE opened up...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited the business leaders of Japan to come up with more investment in Bangladesh to avail themselves of its sound macroeconomic approach, pragmatic policies, liberal investment policies and friendly investment climate. “I invite you...
The 2008 financial crisis spurred obesity's spread in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's 34 member countries -- most of whose inhabitants are overweight, an OECD report said Tuesday. The grouping, which includes the world's richest nations, has seen...
Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Limited and Western Marine Group have signed a corporate agreement in the port city of Chittagong recently. Under the agreement, Western Marine Group will use Robi corporate connections and various Robi VAS (value added services)...
Rajuk should go for selling readymade flats instead of the current system of allocating land to selected citizens, the parliamentary standing committee on the Housing and Public Works Ministry recommended on Tuesday. The committee made the recommendation in its second...
Speakers at a press conference on Tuesday said Bangladesh faces enormous loss every year due to river erosion and tidal water intrusion for the lack of enough and permanent embankment across the coastal areas. People migrate to cities in a...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Tuesday said the government will allow community radios to use commercial advertisements so that they could be self-reliant financially. Inu said this at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among 14...
Squally weather may affect the North Bay, adjoining coastal area of Bangladesh and the maritime ports as the deep convection is continuing over the North Bay. The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to...
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Sayedul Hoque has asked the navy and coast guards to keep special surveillance along Bangladesh-Myanmar maritime border to stop intrusion of foreign fishing trawlers into the Bay of Bengal. There should be special patrolling from estuary...
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