French cement group Lafarge, which intends to merge with Swiss group Holcim, reported on Tuesday that weak trading conditions in Europe had improved in the first quarter and stood by its targets for the year. But net profit fell by...
The World Bank (WB) urged the authorities concerned to expedite construction of Siddhirganj 335-megawatt (MW) peaking power plant. The WB came up with the advice after routine review of the project implementation by a joint team of the multi-donor agency...
Egyptian presidential favourite and former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group "will not exist," should he win. In his first interview with Egyptian TV, he added that two assassination plots against him had...
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting here on Tuesday stressed the need for taking effective steps to protect the four rivers surrounding Dhaka city - Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag and Balu - as per the High Court order issued earlier in this...
General workers and employees of a RMG factory at East West Industrial Park in Gazipur continued their work abstention for the second consecutive day on Tuesday protesting alleged tortures and intimidation by the park union leaders. More than 1,000 workers...
Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Alexander A Nikolaev on Tuesday said the people of Bangladesh and its major political stakeholders will decide the necessity of new elections saying Russia does not impose any model on any country. “Bangladeshi people and its...
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday sacked his finance minister for approving a tax deal which he said damaged the state budget. The move comes as the European Union's newest member is struggling to revive its recession-hit economy and...
President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday urged all to work from one’s respective position to uphold the real history of country’s Liberation War. The President made the exhortation when an 11-member delegation of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Parishad, led by its...
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting in Dhaka on Tuesday stressed the need for taking effective steps to protect the four rivers surrounding Dhaka city -- Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag and Balu -- as per the High Court (HC) order issued earlier...
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif fought back Tuesday against increasingly scathing criticism from hardliners, saying his pragmatic approach to diplomacy had stolen Israel's thunder. After years of bellicose rhetoric from ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Zarif said the new government had...
Narayanganj Lawyers Association on Tuesday threatened to lay a siege to the Rab-11 office on May 11 (Sunday) if the accused in the seven-murder case are not hunted down by the time. President of Narayanganj Bar Association Advocate Sakhawat Hossain...
Clashes near an Iraqi city held by anti-government fighters and bombings targeting soldiers killed at least eight people Tuesday, officials said, the latest casualties of a protracted surge of nationwide violence. The government has blamed external factors such as the...
Economists at a discussion in Dhaka on Tuesday underscored increasing budgetary allocation for strengthening the local government (LG) bodies to reach facilities at marginal level. They said the government has given 2.37 per cent of development allocation of the total...
Europe's aviation watchdog has announced new proposals to make it easier to find flight recorders, known as black boxes, from missing planes. The plans include extending the transmission time of underwater locating devices fitted on the black boxes from 30...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said Bangladesh will sign a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Chile soon. “Chile has decided to provide quota-free, duty-free market access for Bangladesh from 1st January, 2015. We're preparing a draft agreement to sign...
Emergency services at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) have resumed after remaining suspended for three and a half hours. Gate of the emergency department was reopened around 4:30pm on Tuesday after authorities have assured that action would be...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Tuesday decided to send a proposal to the Finance Ministry to extend the time for special 20 per cent quota in all IPOs for the affected small investors by one year till...
Bidyut Opoychoykari Oboidha Batterychalito Rickshaw-Van Protirodh Committee on Tuesday urged the government to ban plying of the battery-run rickshaws and vans immediately. Power is being wasted for such vehicles and people are being killed in road accidents caused by battery-driven...
President Barack Obama's aunt was buried Tuesday in her birth nation of Kenya, family members said, after her death last month in the United States. Zeituni Onyango, half-sister of Obama's father, died aged 61 from cancer and respiratory problems, according...
Pakistan's parliament on Tuesday voted unanimously to lift a ban on YouTube, in a non-binding resolution that was nonetheless welcomed by free speech campaigners as an important symbolic move. The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012...
Grameenphone (GP) reported revenue income of Tk 24.9 billion for the first quarter of the current year, up 6.1 per cent from the same period of last year owing to increased voice outgoing from new subscribers, data revenue with momentum...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against three officials of Dhaka South City Corporation for violating its earlier order. After preliminary hearing a petition, an HC bench comprising Justice Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Ashraful Kamal...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday approved initial public offering (IPO) proposal of Ratanpur Steel Re-Rolling Mills (RSRM) to collect Tk 1.0 billion from the capital market. The approval was given at a meeting of the commission...
The idea of solving Bangladesh’s energy problem through nuclear power generation is ‘broadly accepted’ by all major political stakeholders in the country, said Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Alexander A Nikolaev Tuesday. “I think the idea of solving the energy problem...
Wall Street stocks Tuesday opened lower following a decline in the US trade deficit as investors kept an eye on rising violence in Ukraine. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 56.68 (0.34 percent) at 16,573.87. The...
NARAYANGANJ: Six days after the recovery of seven bodies in the district, the local administration Tuesday said there has been little progress so far in the investigation into the case filed over the gruesome murders. “Though we (police) have made...
A Dhaka court has framed charges against the accused for the murder of police official Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Shapna Begum. Charges have been pressed against the couple's teenage daughter Oishee Rahman and two others. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge...
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will invest around $1.20 billion in power and other priority sectors in Bangladesh during the next fiscal year. JICA chief representative Bangladesh office Mikio Hataeda stated this during a meeting with Planning Minister AHM Mustafa...
Outgoing Belgium Ambassador to Bangladesh Pierre Vaesen on Tuesday said his country would take pragmatic initiatives to resolve visa-related problems facing by Bangladeshi citizens. The envoy, based in New Delhi, made the assurance when Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali raised...
In the wake of growing incidents of abduction across the country, the Home Ministry on Tuesday issued a circular asking for the removal of all artificial coverings as well as nontransparent and colourful glasses from car windows. Artificial coverings on...
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