Law enforcers have arrested eight more persons for suspected involvement in the snatching of JMB militants from a prison van in Mymensingh two months ago. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested them from different parts of the country on Wednesday,...
A training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) caught fire while landing on a runway of Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport at Potenga in Chittagong on Wednesday. Additional Deputy Commissioner (Immigration) at the airport Mizanur Rahman said the training...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad expressed his deep shock at the death of Nasim Osman, the Naryanganj-5 MP and Jatiya Party's Presidium Member who died at a hospital in India on Wednesday. In a condolence message in the morning, Ershad...
A man, injured in a train-bus collision near Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Tuesday night, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 4. The dead is Al Amin, 18, a rickshaw-puller...
Prof Mahmudur Rahman has been chosen as member of the World Health Organisation’s international experts review committee on poliovirus.He is also a member of such a committee set up to review the Middle East Coronavirus (MERS). That makes him the...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages on Wednesday, expressed deep shock at the death of lawmaker Nasim Osman. President Abdul Hamid, in his condolence message, expressed profound shock at the premature demise of Nasim Osman....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday underscored the need for using science and technology in all development activities, saying it has opened up the doors to advance the nation towards prosperity at a faster pace. “I’m determined to develop a...
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Stocks closed flat into the red on Wednesday after three sessions’ correction with turnover improved slightly as investors went for last minutes buying spree on large cap stocks. Wednesday was the last trading day of the week as tomorrow (Thursday)...
The Hajj flights carrying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will start operating at the end of August, said Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon. “Our Hajj flights are likely to begin on August 27 and end on September 28,”...
Bangladesh Railway has formed a 4-member inquiry committee on Wednesday, headed by its divisional transport officer, to ascertain the reason behind Tuesday night’s train-bus collision at TT Para at Kamalapur in the city, which left four people killed. The three...
The Hajj flights carrying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will start operating at the end of August, said Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon. “Our Hajj flights are likely to begin on August 27 and end on September 28,”...
Ukraine's military is "on full combat alert" against a possible invasion by Russian troops massed on the border, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said in a ministerial meeting in Kiev on Wednesday. "Our armed forces are on full combat alert," he...
Narendra Modi, the man tipped to be India's next prime minister, has voted in his home state of Gujarat in the seventh phase of the general election. He cast his vote at a school in the city of Ahmedabad. All...
There is heavy security across Iraq as the country votes in its first parliamentary elections since US troops withdrew three years ago. Polling began at 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and closes at 18:00. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping...
Thailand will hold a new general election on July 20, a top poll official said Wednesday, in an effort to resolve a deadly six-month political crisis. Election Commission (EC) secretary general Puchong Nutrawong said the new voting date had been...
Three decomposed corpses were seen floating on Shitalakkha River in Bandar area of Narayanganj district. The identities of the dead could not be ascertained immediately. Police have been able to salvage one of the corpses, Port Police OC Aktar Morshed...
At least 100 people, mostly civilians, were killed in twin car bomb attacks claimed by jihadists in a pro-regime area of Syria's Homs, an NGO said Wednesday, updating an earlier toll. The attack on Tuesday was the deadliest of its...
Afghan forces backed by Nato air power have repelled an assault by more than 300 militants including foreign fighters on an army base close to the Pakistani border, officials say. They say that the fighting took place in south-eastern Afghanistan,...
Impact evaluation research and the evidence generated can help governments design and deliver programmes that successfully improve lives and reduce poverty, said participants at a senior level conference in the city on Wednesday. The senior-level Evidence-to-Policy workshop was organised by...
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that Russia is already in recession and slashed its growth forecast for 2014 citing the effect of the Ukraine crisis on investment. "If we define recession as negative growth in two quarters in...
An Australian and Chinese consortium on Wednesday won a 98-year lease on the world's biggest coal export port for Aus$1.75 billion dollars (US$1.62 billion), the New South Wales government said. New South Wales Premier Mike Baird said some Aus$1.5 billion...
Over 9,000 children have been recruited as soldiers in South Sudan's brutal four-month long civil war by both government and rebel forces, the UN's human rights chief said Wednesday. "More than 9,000 children have been recruited into armed forces by...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena on Wednesday announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide US$26 million through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to benefit 130,000 school children in Bangladesh’s poorest areas. The contribution is...
NARAYANGANJ: The bodies of six people, including that of abducted panel mayor Nazrul Islam, were recovered from the Shitalakhya and Dhaleshwari Rivers Wednesday afternoon, three days after their abductions. Port thana police here recovered the floating body of Nazrul Islam,...
Green activists at a discussion on Wednesday urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to put an end to growing sound pollution in the capital. They said though the government has announced Sound Pollution (Control) Rules (2006) to cut...
Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has suffered a loss of about Tk 1,500 crore for erasing call records from its international truck exchange (ITX), says a study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). It reveals that there was no international...
Qatar's much-delayed new international airport, built at a cost of $15.5 billion, welcomed its first commercial flight on Wednesday. A flydubai budget airline jet carrying passengers from Dubai touched down at midday at the Hamad International Airport. The flight was...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a rally in Gazipur on Thursday afternoon on the occasion of great May Day. Jatiya Sramik League will organize the rally at Bhawal Badre Alam Government College ground. This will be the first public...
Brunei will introduce a tough Islamic penal code from Thursday, its leader has announced. Sharia punishments that will include the severing of limbs for theft and death by stoning for adulterers will be brought in over three years. Brunei already...
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