Police have arrested 15 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Satkania and Lohagarha Upazilas in Chittagong districts. Police raided different locations of the two Upazilas early on Saturday and made the arrests. Ten of them...
Thailand's opposition leader Saturday refused to commit to elections mooted for July to end an ulcerous political crisis, instead calling for prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to resign before new polls later in the year. The kingdom has been without a...
An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison Saturday over protest violence, state television reported. The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Morsi supporters and put them on mass trials...
Police found nine more bodies Saturday after a deadly rampage by tribal separatists in India's remote northeastern Assam state, taking the death toll to 32 following two days of violence. The latest fighting in the area, a site of frequent...
Leftist Egyptian presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi denounced Saturday what he said was the continuation of abuses that marked the regime of ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak, as election campaigning got underway. Sabbahi faces an uphill battle in the May 26-27 poll...
Police on Friday night recovered the hanging body of GM Babar Ali, the Barisal bureau chief of the ‘Dainik Amar Desh’ from a house in Patuakhali. Babar Ali, 56, was a former general secretary of Barisal Press Club. He is...
Pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine say they had freed seven international military observers taken captive in the town of Sloviansk a week ago. The observers are linked to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The news came...
Polls are being held in the biennial elections of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) today (Saturday). A total of 924 voters are casting votes to elect 27 EC members of two panels led by Mohd Abul Bashar and...
DR Congo, one of the world's biggest gold producers, on Friday formally opened one of the continent's largest gold mines in the far northeast of the country. Production at the Kibali mine started in the third quarter of 2013 but...
Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, is working on a plan to exit India, media reports said Saturday, amid political uncertainty about the future of multi-brand retail in the South Asian giant. The reports in the Times of India and...
Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of MTB Unit Fund. The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 350,069,890.90 on the basis of cost price and Tk 387,498,935.02 on the basis of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought support of the local engineers to lessen dependence on foreign consultants while preparing and executing development projects particularly big ones. In this regard, she urged Engineers Institute of Bangladesh (IEB) to constitute some...
A businessman of Sylhet who was allegedly abducted 13 days back was rescued from Joydevpur of Gazipur district on Friday. The victim was identified as Saifur Rahman Shamser who ran a grocery shop at Roykhail village in Dakkhin Surma upazila....
A housewife was killed when a mud wall collapsed on her during storm at Bhoberber village in Benapole district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 30, daughter of Kalu Mondal. Police and family sources said a...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Saturday said Bangladesh and India must invest for each other’s futures and work together to make the best use of India’s northeast’s potential ensuring a win-win situation. “The destinies of our two people are...
Over 20 passengers went missing as a launch capsized in the Kolagachchia River in Golachipa upazila in Patuakhali amid bad weather on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses said the launch, MV-Shathil-1, carrying over 50 passengers, sank in the river around 3 pm...
BNP will stage an eight-hour mass hunger strike programme across the country on Sunday to register its protest against the government’s repressive acts and ‘growing incidents’ of extrajudicial killing and abduction. In the capital, the party will observe the programme...
Eight more bodies were recovered Saturday from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month, reports said, amid concern that some of the missing may never be found. Seventeen days after the 6,825-tonne Sewol capsized and sank, 236 people...
The Yemeni army on Saturday killed a top Al-Qaeda operative with Chechen links as it pressed an offensive against jihadist hideouts in the restive south, the defence ministry said. Abu Islam al-Shishani was the second foreign jihadist to be killed...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will build an enough advance stock of five Ramadan essentials in an effort to help ensure smooth supply of those items during the fasting month beginning in July next, said officials on Saturday. The...
Afghan officials gave up hope on Saturday of finding any survivors from a landslide in the remote northeast, putting the death toll at more than 2,100, as rescuers turned their attention to helping the over 4,000 people displaced. Officials expressed...
Chinese authorities have slapped Internet giant Sina Corp. with a fine of more than $815,000 over "unhealthy and indecent content", the company announced. The "administrative fine" of 5.1 million yuan ($815,038) was imposed by the Beijing Municipal Cultural Market Administrative...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday blamed the current wave of abductions on an unidentified quarter trying to create anarchy in the country. “But since we are in power, the government in no way can avoid taking a share of...
Civil society organisations promoting human rights accused the government of favoring multinational companies (MNCs) with tax rules. They also demanded stopping further extension of value added tax (VAT) net as planned for the upcoming budget as it is ‘regressive to...
India's Sun Pharma said Saturday it will take "appropriate action" after a court suspended the generic giant's $3.2-billion takeover of troubled rival Ranbaxy while insider trading allegations are probed. The Andhra Pradesh High Court order, dated April 25 but which...
Tau Investment Management, a New York-based growth equity firm, which is committed to investing US$1 billion in transforming global supply chains, will make its official launch here on Sunday. Over the next three years, Tau will first target textile and...
In the wake of recent spate of abduction and secret killing, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Saturday formed a 40-member anti-kidnapping squad to resist kidnapping bids, arrest kidnapers and rescue victims in the city. DMP joint commissioner Monirul Islam...
Seven bodies, including four of women and two of children, were recovered from the Kolagachia River in Golachipa upazila of Patuakhali district after a launch capsized amid stormy weather on Saturday afternoon. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Sub-inspector...
Veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar says he believes Narendra Modi will not be the next Prime Minister of India and that he has reasons to believe that. Speaking at a roundtable in Dhaka Saturday he said even if Modi comes...
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