A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds. His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also convicted and given four-year terms. Prosecutors had accused them...
Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has invited Pakistan's premier Nawaz Sharif as well as other South Asian leaders to his swearing-in ceremony next Monday, a spokeswoman for his party said. Nirmala Sitharaman, from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said all...
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After fall in eight consecutive sessions, the stocks returned to the green on Wednesday amid increased participation of investors in the trading. “Market came back into positivity with investors’ focus on lucrative scrips,” said a stock broker. In the last...
Thailand's military convened crisis talks Wednesday between warring political rivals, vowing to stop the kingdom degenerating into another "Ukraine or Egypt" after imposing martial law to suppress months of street bloodshed. US-led pressure grew for a return to civilian control...
Two minor boys have been run over by a microbus in Sylhet’s Osmani Nagar. Four microbus passengers were also injured in the accident that happened on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway around 9:00am on Wednesday, said Osmani Nagar Police Station OC Juber...
Syria's stocks of a key chemical used to produce the deadly nerve agent sarin have been destroyed, the mission overseeing the destruction of its chemical arsenal said. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN "joint mission confirms the destruction...
A foreign student of a private university has died after falling from the rooftop of a six-storied building in Chittagong’s Khulshi area. Ehsan Irfan, 23, a final year MBBS student of the University of Science and Technology (USTC), was a...
Australian children are among the least active in the world, ranking behind those in Britain and New Zealand, researchers say warning that the sports-mad nation was raising a "generation of couch potatoes". A study released Wednesday showed that more than...
A young man has died after falling from a Joypurhat-bound train. The accident occurred near the Basudebpur Rail Station in Natore district on Wednesday, Naldanga Police Station OC Monir Hossain said. The victim was identified as Hasan Ali, a resident...
Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said on Wednesday. The first attack on Monday afternoon killed 10 in the village...
Dhaka's rail communications with districts in the country’s north-western and northern region have been suspended since Wednesday morning following derailment of an inter-city train in Gazipur district. Gazipur Railway Station master said the wheels of a compartment of ‘Rangpur Express’...
China and Russia agreed a huge gas supply contract in Shanghai on Wednesday, after a decade of talks on the multi-billion-dollar deal, Chinese state energy giant CNPC said. The contract signatures were witnessed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and visiting...
A day labourer was killed and two others injured in a hill slide in Anwara upazila in Chittagong on Tuesday. The dead were identified as Lakhkhan Das, 32, son of Chintaharan Das of Malkhana Bazar area of the upazila. Sub-inspector...
Japanese companies wary of Bangladesh’s violent political situation last year recorded unprecedented sales, much to the amazement of Japanese envoy in Dhaka. Ambassador Shiro Sadoshima speaking to diplomatic correspondents on Wednesday said Bangladesh’s post-elections situation had brought relief for them...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday filed a case against a former deputy general manger of Sonali Bank for allegedly amassing illegal wealth worth about Tk 17.1 million. ACC deputy assistant director Zainal Abedin filed the case against ex-Sonali...
The High Court has ordered Khulna Printing and Packaging Limited (KPPL) to clarify issues raised in media reports alleging the company of 'playing around with numbers'. The bench of Justices Mirza Hussain Haider and Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar on Wednesday...
In a historic judgment, the High Court in India’s Meghalaya state has said that settlers from what is now Bangladesh who have settled before March 24, 1971, should be treated as Indians and enrolled in the voters list, reports the...
The death toll from Pakistani air strikes on militant hideouts in the North Waziristan tribal district reached 60 on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the military. "As per reports so far, 60 hardcore terrorists including some of the...
The country’s per capita income has now increased to $1180 from $ 1044, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday. The Planning Minister revealed this after a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) held...
A meeting of the Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) will be held on Thursday at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganobhaban. The meeting will begin at 7 pm with Sheikh Hasina in the chair, said a party press release...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Wednesday approved four new projects, including ‘Strengthening Capacity of Distribution System of the Rural Electrification’ Project, involving Tk 5,198.33 crore in a bid to enhance the capacity of transmission network...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has suggested the developed economies to make more public investment in innovation and human capital through universities and research centers where from developing countries could also be benefited. The central bank Governor, now in...
The United States piled the pressure on Russia Wednesday over its actions in Ukraine, where the authorities are mobilising tens of thousands of police for a presidential vote in the face of a bloody insurgency gripping the east. Vice President...
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday ordered to maintain status quo on the police drive for two weeks against the use of tinted glass in vehicles. An HC bench comprising Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Mohamamd Khurshid Alam passed the...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Wednesday said the government will not give any permission to import salt this year. “The government has decided not allow salt import to ensure its better price for farmers,” he said this while speaking...
Speakers at an international seminar in the city Wednesday said mistrust between Bangladesh and Myanmar is the main problem that stands in the way to strengthening the bilateral relation between the two neighbouring countries. They said there is no alternative...
A Dhaka tribunal on Wednesday convicted seven people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a trader in Keraniganj in 2010. The convicts are Jahangir, Saidul Islam, Masud Rana, Salauddin, Soleman (1), Solemn(2) and Jashim. Of the convicts,...
Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez on Wednesday launched her long-awaited digital newspaper, the first media outlet since the Cuban Revolution not under state control. Sanchez, 38, whose prize-winning blog Generacion Y is known for its critical take on her communist-ruled homeland,...
India's anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal was sent to jail Wednesday for refusing to pay a bond, just hours after declaring he was ready to fight fresh elections in Delhi to revive his party's fortunes. A Delhi court ordered Kejriwal be...
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