A bridge has collapsed in southern China, killing 11 people, state media and officials say. The stone arch bridge was being constructed illegally at a village in Gaozhou City, Guangdong province, the officials said. It collapsed on Saturday, killing five...
Twenty-four of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve respective export targets for the first three quarters (July-March) of the current fiscal (2013-14). The key Bangladesh missions like Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa and Canberra are those which failed...
The government has chalked out elaborate programme to mark the 153rd birth anniversary of great poet Rabindranath Tagore on May 8. This year’s theme of the birth anniversary is ‘Rabindranath and Bangladesh’. The main programme will be held at Osmani...
Bangladesh has received World Health Organization (WHO) certificate as a polio-free country. Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Mumbai Samina Naz received the certificate from Governor of Maharashtra K Sankaranarayanan in a programme held at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Saturday,...
Professionalism both among journalists and owners can play a key role in promoting press freedom in a young democracy like Bangladesh, a discussion in Dhaka was told on Sunday. Speakers at the seminar said money should not be the only...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) apprehends that the tendency of siphoning off money will increase for three types of ‘uncertainty’ that the country and its people are going through right now. “The tendency of siphoning off money will increase because...
The United Nations (UN) secretary-general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year. Ban Ki-moon told delegates at a gathering...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will soon introduce 300 new buses in the capital aiming to reduce traffic jam. He came up with the information while talking to reporters after inspecting traffic situation...
Bangladesh apparently has become a ‘death valley’, says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. “There is wailing across the country. Seven people were abducted, killed and dumped in a river in Narayanganj,” she said. “Bricks had been tied to the bodies to...
Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the Narayanganj abduction case, was under surveillance, but went into hiding at one stage, State Minister for Home Assaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Sunday. “Nur Hossain and his close relatives had been under the watch...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the export volume to neighbouring India would increase further if some complexities related to connectivity, infrastructure and tariff are removed. “Bangladesh’s export to India is on the rise. It’ll increase further if connectivity,...
Eight people, including two children, were found dead in separate places of Moulvibazar, Laxmipur, Brahmanbaria, Munshiganj and Chittagong districts Saturday and Sunday. In Moulvibazar, police recovered the body of a young man from Digalgazi area in sadar upazila Sunday. In...
Some 1200 telephones in Chowmuhoni and its adjoining areas of Noakhali district became inactive due to the underground cable theft. Three underground cables on the south side of Begumganj Bridge were stolen on the night of April 26. As a...
Bangladesh’s food grains storage capacity will reach 3.0 million tonnes by 2020, Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam told a workshop on Sunday. The Food Directorate organised the workshop to discuss modern food storage facilities project at the cirdap auditorium. “The...
The Election Commission, over three phases, will collect data of possible voters from May 15 to September 10 this year, with a view to updating the country’s electoral rolls. Enumerators will go to door-to-door data collection from May 15 to...
TRIPOLI: Ahmed Miitig, a businessman backed by Islamists, was named Libya's new prime minister on Sunday after winning a vote in parliament, a parliamentary official announced, according to a news agency. After a chaotic session of the General National Congress...
Akib Khan, a student of MSS second batch of the Department of Economics at Dhaka University, got the ‘Prof Dr Nasreen Khundker Memorial Gold Medal 2012’ while Nahin Rahman and Ashraf Hossain of MSS 4th batch ‘Prof Dr Nasreen Khundker...
Seven more bodies have been recovered from the site of Saturday’s launch capsize in Patuakhali’s Galachipa, raising the death toll in the mishap to 15. At least 13 more passengers are still missing, according to locals, according to a news...
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday demanded resignation of the present government as it has failed to ensure the security of people’s lives. “It’s the duty of the government to ensure public security. If...
A passenger train derailed in western India on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 100, police said. The engine and four of the 20 coaches jumped the tracks near Roha station, 110 kilometers (70 miles) south...
Fast-growing Middle East carrier Etihad Airways will soon offer wealthy passengers who think first-class seats are a bit too tight a miniature suite featuring a hived-off bedroom, private bathroom with shower and a dedicated butler. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier announced...
Narendra Modi has said ‘illegal Bangladesh migrants in India should pack and leave’, but he does not believe that can bedevil relations with Dhaka if he comes to power. ‘I will make every effort to have the best possible relations...
A man drowned in a pond at Tongibari upazila in Munshiganj district on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Ohid Bepari, 35, a resident of Dorabati village. Witnesses said Ohid along with some of his friends went down into...
Police recovered at least 20 bombs at Shibganj Upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Saturday. Informed by local people, a team of Shibganj Police Station conducted a drive at Dilalpur recovered 20 live bombs from a mango orchard in an abandoned...
A female madrasa student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a beam of her house in Chhatak upazila in Sylhet on Friday. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 13, a student of Kalaruka Dakhil Madrasa and daughter of...
Police are raiding the house of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in a case of abduction and murder of seven men including Narayanganj City Councillor Nazrul Islam in Narayanganj. Inspector Moinur Rahman of police’s special branch said they started the...
Rescuers in Afghanistan are sifting through mud for a second day after a landslide that is feared to have buried at least 2,000 people. The UN said more than 350 bodies had been recovered in the remote north-east Afghan province...
A Noakhali businessman has been released 24 hours after he was kidnapped. Captors set free Abul Bashar, 42, at Banglabazar under Begumganj Upazila in Noakhali on Saturday morning. They left Bashar on a road blindfolded, with his hands and legs...
Samsung has been ordered to pay $119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents. A jury in California delivered its verdict in a federal court in San Jose on Friday in the latest lawsuit...
Police have arrested three young men for their suspected involvement with abduction and murder of seven people in Narayanganj. The law enforcers have also seized a microbus from the house of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in a case over...
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