The bodies of four Bangladesh nationals who were killed in a fatal road accident in Dubai Saturday would soon be brought back home after settling insurance claims and other compensation, said the Foreign Ministry Sunday. Fifteen Asian workers, including the...
After checking into a New York hospital with cough and cold, exiled writer Taslima Nasreen has been diagnosed with breast tumours. Doctors found the tumours 'quite big' and advised her biopsy to check on possible malignancy. The biopsy report is...
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Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain disorder runs in families. Sven Sandin, who worked on...
At least three people, including a girl, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during a nor’wester that lashed different areas of Shibganj and Nachole upazilas of Chapainawabganj district on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Razia Sultana,...
Tokyo stocks eased 0.15 per cent on Monday morning after range-bound trading while investors waited for the release of fresh data slated for later in the week. The headline Nikkei index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 20.92 points to...
Chinese stocks were higher in morning trade on Monday helped by a record high in US share markets last week, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.54 per cent, or 10.93 points, to 2,022.07. The Shenzhen Composite Index,...
The share prices in Hong Kong’s stock exchange opened up 0.45 per cent on Monday, taking a positive lead from Wall Street which hit a fresh closing high in the previous session. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 98.37 points...
Trinamool Congress MP Ahmed Hassan Imran in the Rajya Sabha is a ‘frontman’ for Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami, CPI(M) Central Committee member Gautam Deb has claimed. Rajya Sabha is upper house of Indian parliament. Imran had ‘close association’ with many senior Jamaat...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the state minister for home not to spare anyone involved in Narayanganj seven murders. Authorities have already removed and sacked three officials of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) for their alleged link to the abduction...
A deadlock in Chittagong University (CU) caused by an internal feud of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) continued for the 5th day. One faction of the university unit of the BCL has enforced a non-stop blockade in protest against the ‘harassment’...
Seoul stocks were higher in morning trade on Monday, helped by a record high in US share markets last week, dealers said. Topix rose by 0.36 per cent a couple of hours into the trade opened after the weekly holiday...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend amid modest see-saw in early hours of trading on Monday, the second trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down...
An inquiry has been started into allegations against interns of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) claiming a local journalist had been denied treatment. A 4-member probe team headed by RMCH’s director Ekramul Bari met photojournalist Gulbar Ali Jewel at his...
Chittagong city Mayor M Manjur Alam has conceded that his four-year efforts to end water-logging have been proved ineffective by this year’s first showers inundated most city areas. Manjur had won the hearts of the port city dwellers and won...
Superstore 'Swapno' has been fined again for violating the tobacco-control law. A mobile court fined one of its Dhaka outlets at Rampura’s Banasree Tk 100,000 for displaying cigarettes on a decorated shelf yesterday. The new tobacco-control law that came into...
A land broker was tortured to death allegedly over land dispute and the body was dumped into Menikhali River in Sonargaon Upazila in Narayanganj district at sometime between Saturday night and Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Tota Mia,...
The drives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) against all artificial coverings, including nontransparent and tinted glasses, from car windows are underway across the capital for the second consecutive day on Monday. The Traffic Department of DMP on Sunday fined 973...
Police have rescued a businessman from the forest in Gazipur hours into his kidnap in Bhawal National Park area in the district. The victim was identified as Gopal Biswas, an exporter of crabs and fishes and resident of Uttara area...
A policeman was killed and two others were injured as a truck knocked down in Gazipur city on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ismail Hossain, 25, a constable of range reserve police, while two other injured were constables Jabbar...
Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port will remain suspended for two days from May 12 (Monday) on the occasion of elections to different municipalities in West Bengal and Buddha Purnima. Kartik Chakrabarti, general secretary...
Miscreants shot to death a man at Ghospara in Savar town on Sunday night. The dead is Azad Rashid, alias Abul Kalam Azad, 55, son of Abdur Rashid of Sub-Registry Office area of the municipality. Witnesses said Azad came under...
Asian stocks were mixed in afternoon trade on Monday despite Friday’s record highs on Wall Street, as fears mounted that the Ukraine crisis could tip over into civil war. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index lost 0.35 per cent, or 50.07 points,...
India's stock market surged to its second consecutive record high and the rupee rallied on expectations exit polls released later on Monday will show the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning national elections. The country’s mammoth election wraps up today after...
Europe's main stock markets diverged at the start of trading on Monday, with London and Frankfurt higher but Paris down. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 0.35 per cent to 6,838.28 points and Frankfurt’s DAX 30 climbed 0.29% to 9,608.93...
Pro-Russian rebels claimed voters supported secession overwhelmingly after a disputed referendum on Sunday in eastern Ukraine that could deepen turmoil in the east European country and further set Russia against the West. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry called the voting a ‘criminal...
The Police Headquarters (HQs) on Monday said they received the High Court order for the arrest of three former Rab officials who had been dismissed following allegations of their involvement in the killing of seven people in Narayanganj city. The...
The committee formed to nab those involved in the Narayanganj multiple murders has summoned Rab-11 members, including the three discharged officers, for interrogation. Narayanganj Additional Superintendent of Police Subrata Halder, the convener of the committee, on Monday said that several...
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya has skipped two consecutive cabinet meetings as the demand for his resignation grows louder following allegations that his son-in-law, a former Rab officer, is involved in Narayanganj 7-murder. Cabinet members have...
The final day of voting has begun in India's general election, with huge crowds turning up in the sacred city of Varanasi, a key election battleground. Opposition BJP leader Narendra Modi is being challenged in the seat by anti-corruption campaigner...
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Stocks closed flat into the red on Monday with volatile trading throughout the session as investors followed ‘wait-and-see’ approach amid cautious trading. After previous session’s sharp decline, the market remained in positive and negative territory several times during the day’s...
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