Twitter Inc investors who heeded the advice of high-profile banks such as Goldman Sachs Inc and Deutsche Bank AG to buy the social media company’s shares might be kicking themselves. Much more accurate calls were made by Wells Fargo, Atlantic...
With just less than six months to go before the US elections in 2014. a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll took an in-depth look at which way voters are leaning and which issues are important to them at this point...
A man was injured by bullet during a ‘shootout’ between police and a gang of armed muggers in Abdullahpur in the city’s Uttara on Monday. The injured was identified as Sabuj, 28. Uttara West police claimed that he is a...
A court in Dhaka granted bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a vandalism case filed about one-and-half years ago. Waaz Kurni Khan Chowdhury, Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s court, granted the bail after the BNP...
Miscreants killed a young man somewhere else and dumped the body in a pond at Pubail in Gazipur city at sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Local people found the body, aged around of 25, wearing check shorts, in...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has formed a probe body to look into the alleged involvement of its personnel in the abduction and murder of seven people, including a city corporation councillor and a lawyer, at Narayanganj. RAB's Director General...
Police have not finished investigating the cases filed over violence during a rally organised by Hifazat-e Islam in Dhaka exactly a year ago. Police says the 42 cases filed after the Hifazat-inspired violence are ‘multidimensional’ and not easy to probe....
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Stocks ended flat in positive on Monday amid volatile trading throughout the session with turnover rose slightly as investors remained cautious to take position. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,506.44 points, gaining only...
An Israeli NGO is on Monday launching a smartphone app that allows users to find the remains of Palestinian villages that now lie inside modern-day Israel. The launch is timed to coincide with Israel's 66th independence day, which begins at...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to Iran on Sunday in a visit seen as an attempt to improve relations frayed by the kidnapping of Iranian border guards. The conflict in Syria will also be on the agenda, along...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith met Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Kazakhstan at his office at Astana in Kazakhstan on Sunday. During the meeting, held on the sidelines of the ongoing 47th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors...
Authorities launched an air and sea rescue operation Monday to find 11 crew members from a Chinese cargo ship after it collided with another vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong's teeming waters. Four helicopters and more than 20 ships...
Pro-Russian militants just outside Sloviansk are retreating amid attacks by Ukrainian troops, reports say. Government forces have taken a TV tower in the suburbs and rebels were pulling back deeper into the city, the Russian Interfax news agency said. Heavy...
Two suspected dacoits have been killed in an ‘encounter’ with police at Ramu Upazila in Cox’s Bazar. Four policemen have also been injured in the gunfight, said Ramu Police Station OC Saikul Islam. The dead were identified as Anwar Hossain...
A woman leading protests over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria has been detained on the orders of the president's wife, activists say. Naomi Mutah took part in a meeting called by First Lady Patience Jonathan and...
The cabinet on Monday approved the proposal of signing an agreement between Bangladesh and Serbia on visa waivers for the official and diplomatic passport holders of both the countries. The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the...
Russia warned Monday that Europe's peace was at risk over the escalating crisis in Ukraine, where deadly fighting raged around a flashpoint eastern city and the interim president warned of "war". European leaders fearing all-out civil war was breaking out...
Islamist-backed businessman Ahmed Miitig was confirmed on Monday as Libya's new prime minister, after a chaotic session of the interim parliament in the strife-ridden North African country. The General National Congress confirmed the 42-year-old's appointment, making him Libya's youngest and...
Nigerian Militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in April. About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the government. "I abducted your girls," Boko Haram leader Abubakar...
The World Health Organization warned Monday warned that the crippling disease polio has reemerged as a public health emergency, after new cases surfaced in a range of countries. "The conditions for a public health emergency of international concern have been...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday fined three individuals and one company for non-compliance of the Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969. The BSEC has imposed penalty of Tk 1.0 million upon Abdur Rahim, Tk 0.2 million upon Mahfuzur...
Saudi health authorities announced on Monday that the death toll from the MERS coronavirus has reached 115 since the respiratory disease first appeared in the kingdom in 2012. Three people died on Saturday after contracting MERS in the commercial capital...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has enhanced transit expenses released by the authorised dealer banks to $500 from $200 for Bangladeshi students studying abroad. In this connection, the central bank on Monday issued a circular to all authorised dealers of foreign...
Issuing a strong note of warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government would not spare anyone involved in the recent abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj. “We won’t spare anyone involved in the abduction and...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday said that the country's civil society has been given full freedom to express their views. “The civil society of the country has been given full freedom to express their views,” the President was quoted by...
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Fatema Z Sumar will start her two-day visit to Bangladesh on Tuesday. During her visit, Sumar will meet government officials and business leaders to discuss Bangladesh’s role in...
A strong earthquake shook northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday evening, and some light damage was reported. People were evacuated from the main airport in Chiang Rai, a northern Thai city near the epicenter. Parts of the ceiling and some...
The death toll from Saturday’s launch capsize in Kolagachia River in Golachipa upazila of Pa rose to 17 with recovery of one more body on Monday. The divers found another body at Dharandi Char around 10 am. The identity of...
Iran is negotiating with the leading international auction house Christie's to hold sales inside the Islamic republic to support its blossoming art scene, it was reported on Monday. Dubai, across the Gulf from south Iran, is currently a hotspot for...
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