With nearly half the votes counted in South Africa's landmark election, the ruling ANC looked certain to extend its 20-year rule on Thursday, but with sizeable gains for the opposition. Results from more than half the polling centres showed the...
A fire broke out in a commercial building in city’s Elephant Road area on Thursday. Sources at the Fire Brigade control room said the fire broke out on the fourth floor of five-storey BS Bhaban in the area at about...
Newly-appointed Sudanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Hassan E EI Talib presented his credentials to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday. Welcoming the ambassador at the Bangabhaban, the President expressed the hope that the bilateral relations between the two countries...
Results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations will be published either on May 17 or 18. The chairman of inter-education board coordination sub-committee Taslima Begum told bdnews24.com on Thursday that they have sought time from the prime minister. Dhaka...
Member states of the European Union (EU) voiced deep concern over the recent incidents of abduction, disappearance and killing in Bangladesh. EU Ambassador to Bangladesh William Hanna expressed their concern during an interaction with the media at a hotel in...
Denouncing the relocation of trial of its chairperson’s graft cases to Alia Madrasah makeshift court, BNP on Thursday alleged that the government has taken the move in a bid to harass Khaleda Zia and keep her away from politics. "The...
The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday decided to give the Bangladesh Bank (BB) access to National Identity Card’s (NID) nine information instead of the existing six, a commissioner said. The EC will amend its agreement signed with the central bank...
The European Union (EU) on Thursday encouraged Bangladesh to update its regulatory systems and invest more in better infrastructures to accelerate EU investment in the country. “Increased EU foreign direct investment (FDI) would assist the country to reach a higher...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday said any readymade garment (RMG) factory at risk of accident will be shut down immediately to avoid a tragedy like the Rana Plaza. He was talking to reporters after a meeting of Commerce Ministry,...
Terming the present government ‘undemocratic’, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Thursday said the incidents of forced disappearance, kidnapping and killing have marked an alarming rise due to its undemocratic behaviour. He made the remarks while addressing...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Thursday said the central bank is encouraging scheduled banks and financial institutions for financing green projects. He said the central bank considers ‘green banking’ as a socially responsible mode of financing, and...
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said the term “forced disappearance” is being wrongly used for missing persons. "There is no word like forced disappearance rather it should be missing. Many people go missing...
A Singapore-based housing company is interested to build 10,000 apartments under the Purbachal New Town Project of the Capital Development Authority (Rajuk), a minister has said. Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain told bdnews24.com on Thursday that the Singaporean...
The US is stepping up pressure on Syria by levying sanctions against six senior government officials and a Moscow-based bank and its senior executive for supporting President Bashar Assad. The sanctions announced on Thursday by the Treasury Department target Tempbank...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday said the settlement of maritime boundary disputes between Bangladesh and Myanmar provided an excellent opportunity to enhance maritime commerce and cooperation between the two countries. The President said this when Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar Navy Admiral...
The energy-rich Gulf states agreed Wednesday to resolve hurdles obstructing implementation of a long-delayed customs union, particularly revenue sharing, Kuwait's finance minister said. Leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council have set January 1 to implement the customs union, first...
President Abdul Hamid said the settlement of maritime boundary disputes between Bangladesh and Myanmar provided an excellent opportunity to enhance maritime commerce and cooperation between the two countries, according to a news agency. The President said this when Commander-in-Chief of...
US stocks Wednesday opened higher following mixed earnings and ahead of congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 78.45 points (0.48 percent) to 16,479.47. The broad-based S&P 500...
Information Commission on Wednesday submitted its annual report of 2013 to President Abdul Hamid. An Information Commission delegation, led by Chief Information Commissioner Mohammed Farooq, submitted the report to the President during a meeting at Bangabhaban. During the meeting, the...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s caretaker Cabinet has appointed a new acting prime minister after a court removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. Yingluck and nine Cabinet members were forced from power Wednesday by the Constitutional Court, which found her guilty of...
The 153rd birth anniversary of great poet Rabindranath Tagore will be observed Thursday. The government has chalked out elaborate programmes marking the day. This year’s theme of the birth anniversary is ‘Rabindranath and Bangladesh’. President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has chalked out a 14-day programme to mark the 33rd death anniversary of its founder shahid Ziaur Rahman. The observance of the death anniversary of Zia will begin on May 27 and end on June 9....
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Narayanganj on May 14 to console the family members of the seven people brutally killed after abduction there recently. Khaleda, also former prime minister, is likely to address a public rally in front the...
NARAYANGANJ: Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam, lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarker and three others were hit in the heads before strangulating to death with rope. This was disclosed in the post-mortem report of five of the victims. Dr Asaduzzaman...
The government has decided to change the court premises to hold the trial of Khaleda Zia in the ‘Zia Charitable Trust’ and ‘Zia Orphanage Trust’ corruption cases, citing security concerns. Dhaka’s Third Metropolitan Sessions Judge will hear the cases in...
The government is allocating a ‘reluctant’ Sheikh Rehana a house on one and a half Bighas of land in Dhaka’s upscale Gulshan for her being the daughter of the nation’s founding father. The formalities to allot House no. 10 on...
Visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia (regional affairs) Fatema Sumar has said although there are some challenges in the relationship between Bangladesh and the USA, these should not impede the advancement of the ties. “Rather we...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has fined 12 companies and four individuals for violation of the rules and ordinances concerned, according to the DSE website.
BNP on Wednesday briefed foreign diplomats in Dhaka on the latest political developments, law and order and human rights situation, mainly secret killings and forced disappearances, in Bangladesh. The meeting was held at a Gulshan restaurant in the city. Asked...
Speakers at a sit-in programme in the city on Wednesday demanded stopping extrajudicial killings and fair investigation into and trial of every incident of secret killings. They also observed the whole country, including Narayanganj, has turned into a death valley...
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