Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel on Friday rescued 13 people, including nine women and two children, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border at Benapole union at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore district. Being tipped off, a team...
A German delegation will arrive in Dhaka today (Saturday) to assess factory safety and workers’ rights in Bangladesh, a year after the collapse of a nine-storey building that housed five garment factories when the disaster struck it at Savar. The...
For the first time, the Chinese have become the biggest foreign buyers of apartments in Manhattan, real estate brokers estimate, taking the mantle from the Russians – whose activity has dropped off since the unrest in Ukraine. Wealthy Chinese are...
Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury was admitted to United Hospital in Dhaka on Saturday. Family sources said on Friday, Mayor Arif was admitted to Mount Adora Hospital in Sylhet city after he complained of severe chest pain at...
Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma has expressed satisfaction over the post-election peaceful climate in Bangladesh, saying they do not want to see any form of violence in the South Asian country. “It’s good to see that the political climate in...
BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on Monday (April 28) while ‘mass hunger strike’ on May 4 to register its protest against what it said the repressive acts of the government. BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir...
Benapole land port at Sarsa in Jessore district is struggling to function amid severe power cuts with availability not exceeding six to eight hours a day. The power crisis is disrupting export and import operations between Bangladesh and India through...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon SAARC member nations to work together to fight terrorism, trafficking of women and children and arms smuggling. She came up with this observation when cabinet secretaries of the SAARC countries called on her...
US President Barack Obama threatened Russia on Friday with new sanctions over its actions in Ukraine as the Ukrainian Prime Minister also came out with tough words against Moscow. Russian attempts to start conflict in Ukraine will lead to military...
The 15th Annual General Meeting of First Security Islami Bank Limited was held Friday at Hotel Agrabad, Chittagong. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Mohammed Saiful Alam, Chairman, Board of Directors of First Security Islami Bank Limited. Among others...
At least two local Jubo League activists were killed in separate attacks at Benapole and Putkhali at Sarsa Upazila in Jessore district on Saturday. The dead are Iman Ali, 27, son of Anis Uddin of Shibnathpur Baroputa village and Lalon...
BPP University Law School, a leading provider of legal education in the UK has launched their first ever distance learning programme for law undergraduates in Bangladesh, allowing them to work towards a globally-recognised LLB degree online.BPP University has also partnered...
Contraband gold weighing 106 kilograms have been recovered from the toilet of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka. The Biman flight had arrived from Dubai and the gold was found abandoned in the...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Saturday said Bangladesh’s relation with the United States is not ‘comfortable’ politically though the ties in economic field are okay. “Politically, their (US) pressures aren’t comfortable, not good either, and beyond norms,” he told reporters...
Five members of the US-led NATO force in Afghanistan died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country on Saturday, NATO officials said, adding the cause of the incident was being investigated. In line with NATO policy, the...
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose above 1,300 dollars per ounce on Friday on escalating tensions in Ukraine. The most active gold contract for June delivery rose 10.2 dollars, or 0.79 per cent,...
The head of the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), Keiko Honda, will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday and stay on until Apr 30. MIGA is the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the Washington-based global...
A Japanese whaling fleet left port Saturday under tight security, marking the first hunt since the UN's top court last month ordered Tokyo to stop killing whales in the Antarctic. Four ships departed from the northeastern fishing town of Ayukawa...
The G7 group of economic powers has agreed to intensify sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. A G7 statement gave no detail of the sanctions, but US officials said they could announce measures by Monday. The West accuses...
Thai authorities have made a rare arrest of one of the leaders of the country's anti-government protest movement on charges including insurrection and inciting unrest, an official said Saturday. Former opposition lawmaker Sakoltee Phattiyakul is one of only a handful...
A Brazilian former army colonel who admitted torturing and killing political prisoners under military rule up to the 1980s has been found dead. Paulo Malhaes, 76, was killed by three men who entered his home outside Rio de Janeiro on...
Two soldiers and three suspected rebels died in a gunbattle in restive Indian Kashmir, police said Saturday, soon after the killing of a poll official in India's marathon general elections. Violence has spiked in the disputed Himalayan region since the...
A North Korean nuclear test within days "cannot be ruled out" analysts said Saturday, after new satellite imagery showed heightened activity at the test site. The report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) chimes with other findings...
Apple offered to fix some older iPhone 5 smartphones with flawed on-off buttons. The California-based company said a "small percentage" of iPhone 5 models manufactured through March of 2013 may have on-off buttons that stop working or work intermittently, in...
Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) is going to organise a three-day trade fair, ‘Showcase Bangladesh 2014’, in Kuala Lumpur in November. The showcase, the third of its kind, will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC)...
Some 17,500 workers became jobless following the closure of 16 garment factories in Dhaka city after the inspection by Accord, an association of European garment buyers. Disclosing the figure, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Atiqul Islam...
Indian premier Manmohan Singh, whose ruling Congress party is trailing in election opinion polls, has suffered another blow with his half-brother opting to support the Hindu nationalist opposition, according to media reports Saturday. "I feel very sad. I have no...
Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman on Saturday said the ceiling on tax exemption for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities by banks and financial institutions should be raised. “For enjoying the income tax rebate, I think, the minimum limit for expenditure...
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