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...
Asian stock markets were mostly lower on Thursday as investors took a breather after the previous day's rally, taking their lead from a retreat on Wall Street. The euro continued to face pressure from the dollar and the yen ahead...
Dhaka Bank Limited received the 1st Prize from Dhaka South City Corporation Wednesday for taking the leadership role in branding and decorating Dhaka City in connection with ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014. The prize along with a Certificate was formally...
The number of people in the world who are obese or overweight has topped 2.1 billion, up from 875 million in 1980, the latest figures published in the Lancet show. And not one country is succeeding in treating it, said...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief journalists on Saturday about her recent visit to Japan. State Minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam told journalists on Thursday that the Premier’s office would inform the details of the press meet later....
Sri Lanka missed its foreign investment target last year because of bureaucratic delays, which would pull down economic growth in the formerly war-torn island, a minister said Thursday. Investment Promotion Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said red-tape and other bureaucratic delays...
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have shot down a military helicopter near Sloviansk, killing 14, outgoing President Olexander Turchynov says. The aircraft was reportedly hit after dropping off troops at a military base. The town of Sloviansk has seen fierce...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has said Bangladesh firmly believes in the continued relevance of Non Aligned Movement (NAM) in the changed global realities. “We must assure that the groundswell of solidarity that nurtures our movement never dries up when...
The government will implement a number of projects, including 1200-megawatt Matarbari Ultra Super Critical coal-fired power plant in Cox’s Bazar with a Japanese loan package under the 35th Official Development Assistance (ODA), said the State Minister for Foreign Affairs in...
Bangladesh Bank on Thursday sent a letter to the Bank and Financial Institutions Division of the Finance Ministry recommending dissolution of the state-owned Basic Bank for widespread ‘irregularities and corruption’. Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman sent the letter addressing...
The Health Ministry has suggested the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to increase taxes on tobacco and tobacco products in the national budget for fiscal 2014-2015. “I would like to request the Finance Minister through the NBR to enhance taxes...
A mobile court in Savar on Thursday sealed off a fake medicine factory and sentenced its nine employees to different terms of jail. The mobile court, led by UNO and executive magistrate Quamrul Hasan Mollah, raided the factory ‘SF Laboratory’...
Bangladesh and Algeria on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on foreign office consultations, the first-ever bilateral agreement signed between the two countries. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra signed the MoU in the...
BNP, its associate bodies and different socio-cultural organisations will observe the 33rd death anniversary of its founder late President Ziaur Rahman on Friday with various programmes. On this day, May 30, 1981, Zia was assassinated by a group of disgruntled...
Bangladesh on Thursday strongly protested the firing and detaining a member of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) patrol team by Myanmar Border Guard Police along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, and demanded his immediate release. The Myanmar envoy in Dhaka, U Myo Myint...
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