A new disease called Chikungunya that causes painful and sometimes crippling symptoms has spread in the capital Dhaka, raising a public health alarm. The mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus first broke out in the northern Chapainawabganj district in 2008 and a year...
Wife of MP Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury Nixon died on Tuesday night after reportedly falling off the roof of the six-storey building they lived in at Gulshan-2, Dhaka. Muntarin Mujib Chowdhury, 33, allegedly slipped and fell, Nixon's personal assistant Khandker Jahidur...
Tokyo stocks rose 0.42 per cent at the opening on Thursday, tracking rallies on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was picking up. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 59.42 points to 14,363.53 in early trade....
May Day today (Thursday). The historic May Day is being observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world befittingly. In Bangladesh, May 1 is being observed with a fresh vow to establish the rights of workers. The 1st of May,...
Europe's main stock markets closed mixed on Wednesday, and the dollar slid, as data revealed a slump to US growth, while traders awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting. London’s FTSE 100 index of leading companies added 0.15...
Supporters of Narayanganj City Councillor Nazrul Islam, whose decomposed body was found in Shitalakhya River in Narayanganj district on Wednesday, have removed their blockade on Dhaka-Chittagong highway. Police, however, kept the road closed till Thursday morning. Siddhirganj Police Station OC...
Wall Street stocks on Wednesday moved somewhat lower in early trade after a report showed US economic growth slumped significantly in the first quarter. About 35 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 10.92 (0.07 percent) to 16,524.45....
A team of Narayanganj's Bandar Police Station recovered the body of another person from Shitalakkha River on Thursday, raising the number of dead bodies rescued from the river to seven within 20 hours. The body, with its hands and feet...
Oil prices eased in Asian trade on Thursday as the US economy stalled in the first quarter of this year while US crude stockpiles rose, suggesting weaker demand. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for June delivery slipped six cents to $99.68...
The dollar moved in a tight range in Asia on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve said it would make another cut to its stimulus as the economy picks up, but first-quarter GDP figures disappointed. In midday Tokyo trading, the...
Hardly 16 hours after recovery of half a dozen dead bodies from Shitalakhya and Dhaleswari rivers in Narayanganj, one more body has been recovered from Shitalakkha River in Bandar Upazila of Narayanganj. Bandar Police on Thursday recovered the body of...
Pro-Moscow separatists seized government offices in more Ukrainian towns on Wednesday, in a further sign that authorities in Kiev are losing control of the country's eastern industrial heartland bordering Russia. Gunmen who turned up at dawn took control of official...
The gold prices fetched $ 1289.19 at 0400 GMT today compared with $ 1,288.50 on Wednesday. Earlier, prices of the precious metal fluctuated between US $1,292 an ounce and $1,297.75 on the London Bullion Market on Tuesday and Wednesday, according...
Bangladeshis suffer heart attacks at least 10 years before those in the West, says a new study. The preliminary results of the study find presence of toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, copper and mercury in human blood that doubles...
Asian shares were mixed on Thursday as most markets closed for public holidays, with Tokyo tracking Wall Street higher after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was picking up. Tokyo’s Nikkei was up 0.71 per cent by the break,...
The government has decided to install closed-circuit (CC) cameras at all important intersections in cities across Bangladesh to prevent abductions. The decision came amid widespread criticism over a spate of abductions over the past few months. Among the abductees killed...
At east 32 Bangladesh nationals have been arrested in Jessore district on their way to enter India illegally. Border Guard Battalion (BGB) personnel rounded up the 32, including women and children, at a field at Benapole border under Sarsa Upazila...
Green activists have urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to put an end to growing sound pollution in Dhaka and other cities in the country. They said though the government has announced Sound Pollution (Control) Rules (2006) to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has summoned the State Minister for Home and ordered him to take immediate steps to arrest those involved in the abduction and murder in Narayanganj in the last few days. Police recovered the bodies of Narayanganj...
Ten platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troops have been deployed in Narayanganj city and Siddhirganj area amid growing panic among local people following the recovery of bodies of seven abductees in two rivers on Wednesday and Thursday. BGB personnel...
Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy has expressed her disappointment over handling of the cases of abductions in Narayanganj city and the other parts of the district and the delay in recording the condition of dead bodies of...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) says several groups participated in snatching of militants from a prison van in Mymensingh, without knowing about each other. Its officials said this was revealed during interrogation of eight of those arrested for involvement with the...
A World Bank coordinated research has predicted that China will surpass USA to become the largest economy in the world within this year. USA has been the number one economy in the world since it overtook the UK in 1872....
Britain's bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group said on Thursday that first-quarter net profit sank by almost a quarter to £1.15 billion ($1.94 billion, 1.40 billion euros). That compared with earnings after taxation of £1.53 billion in the same period of 2013,...
A leader of an outlawed party was hacked to death by miscreants at Noapara village at Magura Sadar upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Tyeb Ali Shikder, 40, son of late Mozahar Ali of the village. Officer-in-charge of...
A local activist of Jamaat-e-Islami suffered bullet injuries in a ‘shootout’ between Jamaat activists and police at Satkhira’s Debhata upazila on Thursday. The injured is Faruque Hossain, 48, of Dakkhin Parulia village of Debhata. Officer-in-charge of Debhata Police Station Quazi...
A day-long hartal (shutdown) has been called for Sunday (May 4) in Narayanganj in protest against abduction and killing of a senior lawyer who was also a member of the district bar association. The Narayanganj Jila Ainjibi Samiti announced the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged both the owners and workers to be careful about their responsibility to maintain productivity in industries and for their mutual benefit. “The industrial sector suffered a colossal loss in the past due to unwise...
One woman has been killed and nine others injured in a bomb attack aboard a train at a station in the southern Indian city of Chennai, officials say. Explosions were reported in two carriages of the train, which was travelling...
Supporters of murdered Narayanganj City Councillor Nazrul Islam have set fire to the office of another councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the case over his abduction and killing. Witnesses say hundreds of men went on the rampage after...
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