A man was beaten to death in a clash between two groups of villagers at Koiardhari village in Chauddagram in Comilla on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Abdul Halim, 45, of the village. Police said the clash ensued...
India's inflation slowed in April, thanks to an easing in food and fuel prices, government data showed Thursday, but analysts warned of fresh price pressures that underline challenges facing the next government. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI), the closest watched...
Robi Axiata Limited officially inaugurated its flagship customer experience center – Robi Lounge – at the Jamuna Future Park Thursday. Robi’s flagship customer experience lounge has been designed to increase customer satisfaction by integrating sales and after-sales services in an...
Afghanistan's presidential election will go to a second-round vote on June 14 between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani, final results showed Thursday. The head-to-head election will choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in...
Demand for oil this year will be slightly higher than expected, the IEA forecast on Thursday, even though a weaker outlook for global economic growth will weigh on consumption. Oil prices are expected to remain high, and the IEA said...
Former President Hussein Muhammad Ershad on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Radar purchase case, filed over two decades ago. The Jatiya Party (JP) chief also demanded justice when the court read out charges brought against him by 12 witnesses. The...
A Chinese official was found to have kept more than 100 million yuan ($16 million) in cash at his home, in the country's latest apparent corruption scandal, a report said Thursday. Police deployed 16 money-counting machines to count the stash...
Airport armed police personnel arrested three people and recovered five gold bars weighing 600 grams worth about Tk 2.4 million from them at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in the city on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. “We arrested two...
Eight bodies were recovered from the Meghna River in Gozaria upazila here on Thursday afternoon after a launch capsized amid bad weather. Coast Guard members pulled out the eight bodies from the river soon after the accident. Three of the...
The election tribunal, headed by a High Court judge, on Thursday rejected the petition challenging the validity of Law Minister Anisul Huq’s participation in the 10th parliamentary election contesting from Brahmanbaria-4 constituency. Justice Soumendra Sarkar delivered the verdict after hearing...
Some 500 digital telephone lines of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) in Benapole remain out of order for the last two years due to digging of drains and construction of footpaths along a two-kilometre area of the municipality. As a...
Continuing his verbal tirade against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu on Thursday said Khaleda Zia’s demand for disbanding Rab has proved again that she is still engaged in conspiracies to protect militants and terrorists. “Khaleda’s demand...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for a new interpretation of the constitution, which could pave the way for the military to fight overseas. His call came hours after a panel of advisers - picked by Mr Abe -...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Thursday alleged that BNP wants to create a constitutional vacuum in the country. “BNP wants to create a constitutional vacuum in the country…their conspiracy is neither against Sheikh Hasina nor Awami League, it’s rather...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Thursday said some 46 lakh new voters are expected to be enlisted in the new voter rolls. Inaugurating the voter-list updating programme on the Shibalaya upazila parishad premises, the CEC noted those...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said BNP wants a good relation with India based on equality and mutual respect to resolve the disputes with the neighbouring country. “The person who is now the Prime Minister...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Thursday observed that ensuring the workers-friendly environment is what really matters for the readymade garment (RMG) sector of the country. Responding to the reporters’ queries at a press conference at the Kushtia...
A car bomb killed at least 17 civilians and wounded dozens more on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey on Thursday, a monitoring group said. Women and children were among the dead in the blast...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to Japan on a four-day visit from May 25-28, which is expected to further bolster Bangladesh-Japan relations in all areas of co-operation, says the Foreign Ministry here on Thursday. During the visit, the Prime...
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) signed a $120 million agreement on Thursday with a tri-nation joint venture company USDKGEL to build a 60 megawatt wind power plant at Cox's Bazaar. As per the agreement, the power plant will be built...
Four people were killed and 12 others, including an Army man, injured in a triangular collision involving a bus, an ambulance and a tractor in Chouddagram upazila of Comilla district on Thursday afternoon. One of the deceased was identified as...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development voted Thursday in favour of Libya becoming a member country, a move that could see it eventually receive EBRD financing. The bank's board of governors approved membership for the north African country on...
US stocks opened lower Thursday following a mixed bag of economic data and corporate earnings. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 46.68 (0.28 percent) to 16,567.29. The broad-based S&P 500 declined 5.66 (0.30 percent) to 1,882.87,...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia applied for a machine readable passport (MRP) to Agargaon passport office on Thursday. Khaleda, who had long been using red passport for holding the portfolios of the prime minister thrice and leader of the opposition in...
The government will stop the long-running food-for-work programme (FWP), designed to help the jobless rural poor, as the country has overcome food shortage, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Thursday. The programme, known in Bengali as KABIKHA, employs rural poor...
United Airways (BD) Limited launched its maiden Dhaka-Doha flight on Wednesday. Capt Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury, chairman and managing director of the United Airways (BD) Ltd, formally inaugurated the first Doha flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday night. The...
Foreign buyers of US Treasury securities increased their holdings in March to a record high. The Treasury Department says total foreign holdings rose 1 per cent to $5.95 trillion from $5.89 trillion in February. China, the largest foreign buyer of...
Diplomats of the European countries in Dhaka on Thursday urged the government to remove the institutional obstacles to greater and quicker European Union (EU) investments in Bangladesh. They mentioned power, infrastructure, IT and services sectors where investment process needs to...
Around 40 fishing trawlers sank in the Meghna River and over 150 thatched houses were damaged as a nor’wester lashed different unions of Kamalnagar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The fishing trawlers capsized in Ludhua, Patabania, Katoria, Matabbarnagar and Matihar areas...
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