Md Shah Jahan | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has resumed probe into the much-talked-about Padma Bridge graft conspiracy after collecting necessary information from Canada. The graft allegation case came to a halt due to non- availability of some crucial evidences from Canadian authorities. ACC...
Syful Islam | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
Chinese funding for construction of a deep-sea port in Bangladesh may see a breakthrough soon as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to visit Beijing next month, officials say. A meeting at the ministry of foreign affairs last week took...
RAJBARI, May 9 (UNB): At least 10 people were killed and 40 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on the Rajbari-Faridpur Highway at Basantapur under Rajbari Sadar upazila early Friday. Four of the deceased were identified as...
President Vladimir Putin is making his first visit to Crimea since Russia annexed it from Ukraine in March, reports BBC. He told crowds marking the 1945 Soviet victory over the Nazis that Crimea had shown loyalty to a "historical truth"...
NARAYANGANJ, May 9 (Agencies): Police came up with a big haul of drugs and weapons during a raid on a truck stand controlled by Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the seven-murder case, at Shimrail in Siddhirganj Friday afternoon. A...
Arafat Ara | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
The Bangladeshi migrant workers were forced to give Tk 1.20 billion as ransom during the last one and a half years after being trafficked and held hostage by unscrupulous recruiters and their agents in Iran, said a report of an...
Family members of the seven-murder victims pushed for the arrest of prime suspect Nur Hossain alive for unmasking all those involved in the heinous incident. The demand came when a delegation of BNP-backed Sammilita Peshajibi Parishad (SPP), a professional body,...
NEW DELHI, May 9: India President Pranab Mukherjee will not cast his vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Mr Mukherjee's Press Secretary Venu Rajamony said Friday the President took such a decision to maintain his neutrality in the political...
COMILLA, May 9: A policeman was killed as a microbus ran over defying his signal on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of the district Thursday night. The deceased was identified as M Delwar Hossain, 52, a constable of Daudkandi...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
A large number of parks and open places in the city have been occupied illegally, squeezing the breathing spaces of dwellers in the overpopulated capital. Nearly one-third of the capital's open spaces, which is much lower compared to the population...
FE Report The Shippers Council of Bangladesh (SCB) has urged the government to declare raw jute an agriculture product and raise the export subsidy on jute yarn to 10 per cent from 7.5 per cent. They also called upon the...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
Water resources officials are accelerating efforts at the top level over executing the Padma Barrage project to save some 21 south-west districts of the country from water crisis and salinity. Sources in the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) said the...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-05-10 00:00:00
Detection of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) Tuberculosis (TB) and child TB patients has lately been increasing thanks to the introduction of new diagnosis machines and the extensive awareness programme undertaken by the government, experts said. They, however, expressed concern that...
NARAYANGANJ, May 9 (UNB) : Despite the denial of permission for a rally here, BNP chairperson Khaleda will visit the district on May 14 (Wednesday) to console the family members of the seven people brutally killed after abduction recently. The...
A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is among six people arrested from a Dhaka University (DU) dormitory on Friday for kidnapping a businessman. The arrestees had kept the man, Farhad Islam, at a room in Jagannath Hall of DU....
The body of a timber trader was recovered in Daulatpur in Khulna city on Friday, 22 days after he had gone missing. The dead is Nikhil Debnath, a resident of Gonon Babu Road in the city. Nikhil’s wife Kanon Debnath...
An administrative committee probing Narayanganj 7 murders will visit Narayanganj and talk to the families of the victims today (Saturday). The committee, formed at the High Court's behest, has asked them to be present at Narayanganj district deputy commissioner’s office...
Heavy downpour and onrush of water from hills have inundated different areas of Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district, leaving 500 families marooned. Boro paddy on 50 hectares and Aus on five hectares of land also got damaged due to the...
A fire at a private hospital in Chittagong has been put out. The fire broke out at 'CSCR Hospital' in Prabartak Morh area in the port city around 8:00am on Saturday, fire service officials said. Three firefighting units rushed to...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel have rescued a missing Dhaka schoolgirl from the Patenga area of the port city of Chittagong, acting on an ‘abduction’ complaint lodged by her family. Rab-7 team raided a house in Patenga’s Kathgarh neighbourhood on...
European stock markets closed lower on Friday, with London’s FTSE 100 sliding 0.36 per cent to 6,814.57 points. Germany’s DAX 30 lost 0.27 per cent to 9,581.45 points while the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.66 per cent to 4,477.28...
A housewife was found dead at her house at Shibganj in Chapinawabganj district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sumi Akter, 22, wife of Rahim, a resident of Dewanjaigir under Shibganj municipality. Quoting locals, police said Rahim along...
The government is thinking of bringing the payment of house rents under the banking channel with a view to bringing both the house owners and the tenants under the tax net. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) in a recent...
At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident in front of Battail Ansar Camp in Kushtia town on Friday night. Of the deceased, one was identified as Rabiul Islam, 25, son of Farid Hossain,...
Miscreants have raped a 12-year-old girl after confining her mother in Barguna district. The incident took place in Chaltatali village in Sadar Upazila on Friday. The girl was admitted to Barguna General Hospital, said Barguna Police Inspector (Investigation) Pulak Chandra...
Showing a new twist in the ongoing abduction spree, a farmer was kidnapped by miscreants in Chuadanga Sadar Upazila on Friday. The victim was identified as Ainal Haque, 43, son of late Azgar Ali of Mohammadjuma village. Victim’s brother Bazlur...
Three persons of a family including an eight-month-old baby died after a huge chunk of earth from a hill fell on their house at Moulvibazar. The incident took place at the south Shahbazpur tea garden at Barhalekha Upazila on Saturday,...
A schoolteacher and his son were killed as a truck crashed into a motorcycle they were riding in Rangpur city on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Raushan-uj-jaman, 45, and his son Shuvo, 10. Rangpur police control room sources...
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