Hundreds of flag-waving supporters mobbed Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi as he arrived in New Delhi on Saturday morning, smiling and flashing victory signs after his party’s crushing victory in the 16th Lok Sabha elections. Modi, 63, flew to New...
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel intruded into Bangladesh and picked up a boy from border area in Ranishongkoil upazila in Thakurgaon district on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Mohammad Hossain, 12, son of Abdul Majid, a resident of...
West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress put up a spectacular show, sweeping the Lok Sabha polls in the eastern state to emerge as the fourth-largest party in the Indian parliament. The BJP signalled its rise as a force by eating into...
There was a time when he sold tea at a railway station in Gujarat as his family battled poverty. After toying for a while with the life of a renunciate, he finally took to politics. A determined man who had...
A prisoner has been found dead, hanging in the toilet of the Boalia Model Police Station in Rajshai. Police say Ruhul Amin, 18, committed suicide around 11:00pm on Friday. Ruhul Amin was detained with 250 grams of cannabis on Friday...
Political parties in Bangladesh need to stop using state agencies and state resources to reward supporters and punish opponents to promote democracy in the country, said Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Saturday. It observed that the rule of law,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government has given top priority to education to build an educated nation as no country could achieve desired development without education. “It’s not possible to be built a hunger-and poverty-free nation without...
Police rescued a boy at Sadar upazila in Bagerhat district on Saturday morning, 12 hours after his kidnap from neighbouring Pirojpur district. The victim is Rashedul Islam, 15, a Secondary School Certificate examinee and son of Dulal Mia of Shikarpara...
Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of MTB Unit Fund. According to the declaration, the total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 351,853,589.71 on the basis of cost price and Tk 382,764,334.19...
Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the world's worst-hit country to 163. The health ministry website also revealed on Saturday that 520 cases have been recorded...
The death toll in Turkey's worst ever mining disaster rose to 299 on Saturday as a new fire hampered rescue attempts, the energy minister said. Taner Yildiz told reporters that three miners were still thought to be underground based on...
Police arrested an accused in the case for killing Saad Inbe Momtaz, a student of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, from a house in Gaibandha on Saturday. The arrested is Antar Chowdhury. Acting on a tip off, a team of...
Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in "some areas of patent reform". But the...
A Narayanganj court has granted police five days to question two former Rab-11 officers, arrested for suspected involvement with the 7 murders. Senior Judicial Magistrate Chandi Rupom issued the order on Saturday. Earlier, police produced the former Rab officers in...
Results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations have been published and 91.34 per cent of students have passed the tests. As many as 142,276 examinees have got GPA-5. This year, a total of 1,303,331 out of 1,432,727 candidates appearing...
Rajshahi Education Board has topped the success rate in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations. The result shows the pass rate in the board is 96.34 per cent. The success rate in Dhaka board is 93.94 per...
Thousands of people joined a rally in Myanmar's main city on Saturday to call for changes to a military-drafted constitution that bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president. The former political prisoner-turned-politician has been campaigning to amend...
Boys were just ahead of girls in their rate of success in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations. Among the 1,303,331 who passed, 671,961 are male candidates. 91.84 per cent of the boys who sat for the...
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh met President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday to submit his resignation along with the resignation of his Council of Ministers. Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister chaired the last Cabinet meeting as the Prime Minister...
Twenty-two more bodies were recovered on Saturday from a launch that sunk in Meghna River at Munshiganj's Gazaria. Fifty-five dead bodies have been found so far after 'MV Miraj-4' sank with almost 250 passengers on Thursday afternoon. Authorities say 45...
A Business Conference consisted of managers of Chittagong zone of United Commercial Bank Limited was held on Saturday at a local club of Chittagong.Managing Director of UCB Mr. Muhammed Ali presided. A Press Meet was also held with journalists of...
Laos Defence Minister and Deputy PM Douangchay Phichit has reportedly been killed along with other senior officials in a military plane crash. The aircraft came down in the northern province of Xiangkhouang, nearly 500km from the capital Vientiane where its...
The Unnayan Onneshan called for prudent management of the economy as the economic growth in the current fiscal year is likely to experience a decelerating rate for the third time in a row from those of the preceding years. The...
Ukraine's election body issued a stark warning Saturday that it may be impossible to hold next week's crucial presidential election in the east, where a pro-Moscow insurgency is threatening to plunge the country into all-out civil war. And Russia also...
Accusing the government of creating a smokescreen over the arrest of the accused and investigating into the incident, BNP has expressed doubt over the fair trial of Narayanganj seven-murder case. “After buying a long time, two accused Rab officials were...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said Bangladesh's friendly relations with India would remain unhurt with the change of government in New Delhi. “It’s of no use to be overenthusiastic by BNP as it is a government-to-government and country-to-country relation....
Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall. Weighing in...
The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day was observed in the country on Saturday as elsewhere across the globe. The theme of this year’s day was ‘Broadband for Sustainable Development’. This year, the national important programmes marking the day were...
Saudi Arabia is "considering" sanctions against the Netherlands after an anti-Islamic stunt by far-right politician Geert Wilders, the Dutch foreign ministry said on Saturday. In November, the anti-Islamic lawmaker printed stickers imitating the Saudi flag, replacing its text with blasphemous...
CNG fuel station owners on Saturday threatened to go on strike if the government fails to meet the 5-point recommendation made by a high-level Energy Ministry Committee to solve their problems. “We’ll wait until our next meeting on Saturday next....
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