The death toll in a road accident on Friday on Daulatdia-Khulna Highway at Rajbari Sadar Upazila rose to 10. Police, hospital sources and local people said 10 people have been killed in the head-on collision between two buses at Basantapur...
Rab investigations have found evidence of its own officers being involved in Nayarayanganj 7 murders, several sources inside the elite force say. It has found no proof that suggests involvement of anyone besides Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel and fugitive...
Scandal-hit Barclays will shrink its investment bank in a radical restructuring that will axe 19,000 jobs across the entire group over the next two years, it said on Thursday. The British lender will this year cut 14,000 positions, or one-tenth...
The dollar was delicately balanced in Asia on Friday as investors braced for disputed local independence referendums in Ukraine that could further ramp up global tension and undermine optimism, analysts said. While traders were largely holding their breath for events...
Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Jubo Dal and an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami at Kolaroa upazila in Satkhira district on Thursday. The arrested are: Siddikur Rahman, president of Joynagar union unit of Jubo Dal and son of...
Four people have been detained at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport with over 1.03 kilogramme (kg) of contraband gold. Police identified the detainees as Md Salauddin, Md Hafizur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman and Alamgir Molla. They came separately from Singapore and...
The proposed $ 35 billion merger between US-based Omnicom Group Inc and French rival Publicis Groupe SA has been called off as the challenges in forming the world’s largest advertising agency proved too immense for the partners. The deal, heralded...
Pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine ignored a public call by Russian President Vladimir Putin to postpone a referendum on self-rule, declaring they would go ahead on Sunday with a vote that could lead to war. The decision, which contradicted the...
The government has shaken up the Narayanganj police administration by transferring two inspectors, 40 sub-inspectors (SI) and 39 assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) of police following the abduction and killing of seven people that outraged the nation. They were shifted to police...
The cost of updating the voter list this time is expected to be around Tk 590 million, which is Tk 210 million more than the last time, according to Election Commission (EC) officials. Over 60,000 people will be involved in...
A microbus veered into a roadside ditch killing two men at Komorpur in Faridpur district on Friday. Two other passengers were also injured in the accident. Karimpur police outpost in-charge Arif Khan identified the victims as Mahbubur Rahman and Golam...
Four live grenades have been recovered in Kaukhali upazila in Rangmati. Sources said a group of children while taking bath in a pond near Ghagra Bazar on Thursday afternoon. Their parents noticed a bomb-like object floating in the water and...
Asian stocks were mixed in morning trade on Friday after weak Chinese inflation data raised concerns about the risk of deflation in the world's second-largest economy. Tokyo was up 0.59 per cent by the break as bargain hunting reversed opening...
Lt Col Anowar Latif Khan has been appointed as the new Commanding Officer (CO) of Rab-11 in Narayanganj. The appointment comes a week after the removal of Lt Col Tarek Sayeed Mahmud, former CO of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-11 following...
BNP Standing Committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy has been released from prison after securing bail in a case of violence. Hundreds of his supporters greeted him as he walked out of the Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur district on Friday morning....
Although four years have elapsed since the High Court direction to procure necessary rescue equipment, the government is yet to comply with it, leaving the country largely unprepared to carry out any search and rescue operation in case of any...
A young man was shot to death by miscreants at Kamarjuri in the city early Friday. Police said being informed by locals, they recovered the bullet-ridden body of the unidentified young man, aged 30/32, from a paddy filed in the...
A young man was shot to death by miscreants at Kamarjuri in the city early Friday. Police said being informed by locals, they recovered the bullet-ridden body of the unidentified young man, aged 30/32, from a paddy filed in the...
Apple is eyeing a $3.2 billion buyout of Beats Electronics, a California firm founded by rapper Dr. Dre that makes headphones and other products, in what would be Apple's biggest acquisition yet, news reports said Thursday. A deal could be...
Local people caught three young men while they were attempting to abduct a female school teacher of a government primary school at Magura Sadar uapzila on Thursday. Magura thana officer-in-charge Jahangir Alam said a gang local miscreants swooped on Labani...
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 1 million from an expatriate’s house at Rautkhai village under Osmaninagar thana in Sylhet city on Thursday. Witnesses said a gang of robbers, numbering 7/8, stormed the house of Dubai expatriate Salam Mia and kept...
Officials from the European Union, Russia and Ukraine will meet Monday in Brussels for further talks on the future of Russian gas supplies to Kiev and Europe. They will prepare the ground for a second round of talks at ministerial...
Russia has held a huge parade to mark 69 years since the Soviets defeated the Nazis, amid a surge of patriotism over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin said it was a day when an "overwhelming force...
The last rebels were set to leave Syria's battleground city of Homs on Friday, handing a symbolic victory to President Bashar al-Assad in what was once dubbed the capital of the revolution. For two years the rebels fought to keep...
Apple plans to release its new iPhone in August, a month earlier than expected, after sales were hit by new big-screen models from its rivals, a major Taiwanese newspaper reported Friday, citing supply chain sources. The Economic Daily News quoted...
Saudi Arabia's death toll from MERS has risen by five to 126 fatalities since the mystery respiratory virus first appeared in the kingdom in 2012, the health ministry said Friday. Two men, aged 47 and 60, died in the western...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Friday narrowly escaped from a crash at Kapasia in Gazipur district. The car carrying Mozena and another man almost fell in a roadside ditch after skidding as its driver lost control over...
One of Japan's most popular cartoon creations, Doraemon, a robot cat from the future with a magic pocket and a portal to anywhere, is to make his debut on US TV this year, officials said Friday. TV Asahi, which partially...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Friday narrowly escaped from a crash at Kapasia in Gazipur district. The car carrying Mozena and another man almost fell in a roadside ditch after skidding as its driver lost control over...
China has refused to approve the release of biblical epic "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, which has already been banned in a string of Muslim countries for religious reasons, industry sources said. Paramount Pictures tried to secure a release slot for...
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