The rain has come to the inhabitants of Dhaka city at last after about one month of balmy, blazing heat. Several areas of the city experienced rain on Saturday afternoon. Dark cloud stared covering the sky of the capital around...
The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 351,426,303.74 on the basis of cost price and Tk 380,668,902.63 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 22 May 2014. The face value per...
An analysis of government budget sees a declining trend of allocation in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for last four years. The allocation in FY 2010-11 was 2.4 percent of the total budget that disappointingly came down to only 1.2...
A group lawyers, from a rally of Jatiyabadi Ainjibi Forum in the city on Saturday called for a nationwide ‘stop work’ on Sunday after police foiled their proposed rally at Supreme Court premises in the morning. Police said the Jatiyatabadi...
Two persons have died in a head-on collision of a truck and a micro-bus at Savar’s Baliarpur. Five more people were also injured in the accident on the Dhaka-Aricha highway on Saturday morning, said Savar Model Police Station SI Farhad...
CNG refuelling station owners in Dhaka on Saturday announced to enforce a strike for an indefinite period from June 8 if the government fails to implement their 5-point recommendations of an energy ministry committee by June 7. Addressing a post-general...
Awami League (AL) office secretary and Prime Minister's special assistant Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap on Saturday said there is no alternative to Sheikh Hasina’s leadership for the country’s development. Addressing a seminar at the Jatiya Press Club marking Sheikh Hasina's...
Ericsson on Saturday appointed heads of the recently-announced new business units --- business unit Radio and business unit Cloud & IP. The two units are formed by a split of the current business unit Networks in a bid to accelerate...
United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) has recently signed an agreement with Grameenphone Ltd to provide UCB Mobile Financial Services “UCash” to customers via Grameenphone’s MobiCash distribution network. Mir Jahir Uddin Ahmed, executive vice president & head of Mobile Financial Service...
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif has trashed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s warning that the situation may go out of control if fresh election is delayed. “The government is not afraid of Khaleda Zia’s warning as it knows about...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines plans to hire crew, maintenance and flight insurance from a Category-1 country in a desperate move to resume its Dhaka-NY-Dhaka flight. Currently, Biman is not allowed to fly to the USA as its aircraft are under category-...
BAGERHAT: At least seven people, including two children, were killed and four others injured in a collision between a microbus and a bus in Taiyab’s Battala area on Khulna-Mawa Highway in Fakirhat upazila Saturday. The identities of the deceased could...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Saturday said woman entrepreneurs will get more than 30 per cent allocation in the industrial and economic zones on priority basis. “It’s a matter of great pride for us as a nation that our...
If the rivers surrounding Dhaka city cannot be protected from the unchecked pollution, the 400-year-old city will get destroyed, observed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque Saturday. Referring to a High Court order directing the authorities concerned to protect the...
RAJSHAHI: Transport Owners and Workers Federation has called an indefinite strike in all districts under Rajshahi division from 6am Sunday to press home its six-point demands, including a ban on the movement of unauthorized vehicles on roads and highways, according...
Owners of CNG-driven autorickshaws have threatened to call a three-day strike in Dhaka from Tuesday. They issued the threat on Saturday, days after the Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association made a similar threat. Dhaka Metropolitan CNG...
A gunman has killed seven people in drive-by shootings near the Californian city of Santa Barbara, US police say. The shootings took place late on Friday in Isla Vista near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus, according to a news...
US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena on Saturday said Bangladesh can become a mighty player in the global IT and in other sectors by dint of hard and creative work by each young entrepreneur in the country. “I believe fervently...
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port declared Saturday the next course of programmes to shore up support for their movement on various issues, particularly stopping the Rampal Power Plant, to save the Sundarbans. The...
Planning Minister AHM Mostofa Kamal on Saturday said the construction of marine drive along the 120-km Cox’s Bazar sea beach will be completed by 2015. He said this while inspecting the construction work on the marine drive at Cox’s Bazar...
An independent mayor in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets was on the verge of a surprising re-election victory on Saturday despite an official government inquiry into his handling of the borough's finances. Bangladeshi-born Lutfur Rahman, standing under a...
Banglalink signed a Priyojon partnership agreement with Nando’s and Barista on Saturday that will avail its users with a 12-per cent discount on any food at the restaurants throughout the year. The agreement was signed at a press conference organized...
Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haq has been killed as per a blueprint crafted by local Awami League leader Jihad Chowdhury in which over 50 people took part, says the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). “Jihad Chowdhury masterminded the killing of Fulgazi...
Hong Kong shares rose 0.25 per cent in early exchanges on Friday, extending the previous day’s gains and following another pick-up in New York. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 56.69 points to 23,010.45 in the first few minutes, according...
The government has taken a move to arrange video conferencing of detainees with the court in place of their personal presence during hearing of cases. The move came after militants snatched several detainees on February 23 when they were being...
Europe's main stock markets drifted up in subdued trading on Thursday as the region began voting in parliamentary polls, as investors reacted to global economic data releases and company updates. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies ended the day...
Wall Street stocks were somewhat higher in early trade on Thursday after mixed data for Europe and China and a report showed a surprisingly large rise in US jobless claims. About 35 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Separate questions papers for each education board and two exams a day for students are being proposed by the body probing the leak of HSC question papers. The committee’s chief and education ministry’s additional secretary Sohrab Hossain said that they...
The US has led widespread international criticism of a military takeover in Thailand as the South-East Asian nation spent its first night under curfew. US Secretary of State John Kerry said there was ‘no justification’, and $10m in bilateral aid...
A woman was gang-raped after abduction, her minor son was killed and his body dumped in a pond in Gangachhara upazila in Rangpur district on Thursday. Abdul Mannan, officer in charge (OC) of Gangachhara Model Police Station, said the victim,...
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