The government has approved Annual Development Programme (ADP) of Tk 803.15 billion for the upcoming 2014-15 fiscal -- Tk 203.15 billion more than the revised ADP of the current fiscal. The approval came from a meeting of the National Economic...
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Stocks closed flat in red on Tuesday for the eighth straight sessions with turnover dipped below Tk 2.0 billion-mark once again as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended...
Rafiur Rabbi, father of murdered teenager Tanvir Mohammad Twaki, said he will contest the Narayanganj constituency left vacant by Jatiya Party MP Nasim Osman’s death. ‘I have decided to contest the by-polls for Narayanganj-5 parliamentary seat as an independent candidate....
Ukraine's richest man called Tuesday for workers to rally against the pro-Russian insurgency in the east, in an impassioned plea for an end to the bloodshed issued just days before the country's crunch election. The appeal by billionaire powerbroker Rinat...
Eleven Yemeni soldiers and 14 Shiite Huthi rebels were killed Tuesday during clashes in a stronghold of the insurgents in the north of the country, medics said. Dozens of other combatants were wounded in the gunfight that erupted on the...
China has denounced US charges against five of its army officers accused of economic cyber-espionage. Beijing says the US is also guilty of spying on other countries, including China, and accuses the US of hypocrisy and "double standards". China has...
Thailand's army chief invited both sides of the kingdom's bitter political divide to talks Tuesday, hours after imposing martial law following nearly seven months of anti-government protests. "We are in the process of inviting both sides to talk but at...
Miscreants slaughtered a young man and dumped the body in a pond at Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira district at sometime between Sunday night and Monday. Police recovered the body of Mohammad Hossain, 22, son of Rafikul Islam Gazi, a resident...
Turkey has charged three more people with manslaughter over the country's worst mining disaster, including the CEO of the company operating the pit, reports said on Tuesday. Can Gurkan, the chief executive of mining company Soma Komur, general manager Ramazan...
Three people died when a pickup van and a truck collided in Tangail's Mirzapur Upazila on Tuesday. The accident took place near Mirzapur Filling Station on Dhaka-Tangail Highway around 2:30am, said Gorai Police Station OC Jobaidul Alam. The dead were...
Japanese scientists unveiled a robot with a sense of humour Tuesday, and claimed it was capable of knowing when its jokes had fallen flat. The pint-sized roller-skating EMIEW2 -- pronounced like the flightless bird -- is able to have a...
Khadiza Khatun Sumi, the young domestic worker accused of assisting the murders of Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Begum, has been granted bail. Dhaka Additional Sessions Judge and Juvenile Court Judge Mosammat Zakia Parvin passed the...
Narendra Modi will be sworn in as Indian prime minister and form a government on May 26 after winning the general election in a landslide last week, his right-wing party said Tuesday. "Narendra Modi's swearing-in as prime minister will be...
India's next Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already told the Home Ministry to set up a new department to combat illegal migration from neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan. Modi has told Home Secretary Anil Goswami to set up the...
Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidates have won two posts of Upazila (UZ) Parishad chairmen each in the elections held in four UZs in Rangpur district on Monday. Returning Officer Md Shahidul Islam announced the unofficial results...
Forced labour generates illegal profits of at least $150bn a year, a study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) says. The profits are far higher than previous estimates and the ILO wants governments to tackle the problem. Some 21 million...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the law enforcement agencies for immediate arrest of the miscreants linked with the killing of Fulgazi Upazila (UZ) Parishad Chairman and local Awami League (AL) leader Ekramul Haque. She said Ekram was a young...
The EU's executive on Tuesday disbursed 100 million euros for Ukraine, the first tranche in a 1.61-billion-euro package to help the struggling country find its economic feet. The bloc's acting Economic Commissioner Siim Kallas, who is visiting Kiev on Tuesday,...
European aircraft maker Airbus will finish the year neck-and-neck with arch-rival Boeing in terms of orders, Airbus' commercial chief John Leahy said on Tuesday. "I think we'll end up this year even, maybe Airbus even slightly ahead," Leahy told a...
Another case was filed against Narayanganj city councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the seven-murder case, and five of his associates on charge of killing a schoolboy about eight years ago. Kazi Aktar Hossain, father of victim Tipu Sultan,...
Bangladesh has expressed its hope to promote trade and investment relations with the CICA member states and project the country using the full membership status. Bangladesh formally received the full membership of ‘Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in...
Thailand's caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan on Tuesday called for fresh polls to be held on August 3 in a bid to end the nation's political turmoil, after the military imposed martial law across the kingdom. He told reporters that...
Members of Criminal Investigation Department of police on Tuesday arrested a man along with 50 kg explosives from Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital. The arrested was identified as Swapan, 40. Contacted, Deputy Commissioner (Public Relations) Masudur Rahman of...
Bangladesh wants to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Philippines to boost trade between the two countries, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said on Tuesday. Tofail, now in Manila, conveyed the interest during his meetings with the leaders of...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Tuesday said necessary steps will be taken to stop piracy so that people return to movie houses. He made the remarks during a meeting with the executive committee members of Bangladesh Cine Journalist Association...
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah will travel to Iran on May 31 amid a recent thaw in Tehran's relations with Gulf states, the Iranian foreign ministry said Tuesday. Relations between Iran and the Gulf states have been frosty for...
Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA's launch pads and multi-billion dollar complexes famous for training astronauts and launching historic missions to space, scientists said Tuesday. From Cape Canaveral in Florida to mission control in Houston, the US...
The High Court (HC) will deliver its order on May 25 on two writ petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of the appointment of a special judge who framed charges against her in the Zia Charitable...
US stocks Tuesday opened lower following a mixed batch of quarterly earnings reports from retailers. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 35.70 (0.22 percent) to 16,476.16. The broad-based S&P 500 declined 3.38 (0.18 percent) to 1,881.70,...
Airtel Bangladesh Limited has signed a corporate deal with Link3 Technologies Limited. Under the deal, Airtel Bangladesh Limited will provide Link3 Technologies with Airtel’s voice and bulk messaging services. Rajnish Kaul, Chief Operating Officer of Airtel Bangladesh Limited, exchanged documents...
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