Shares of Manchester United jumped six per cent on Tuesday after the struggling English Premier League giant sacked manager David Moyes just 10 months into the job. Shares of the popular British football team, traded on the New York Stock...
At least 30 people were injured when the Otobi Furniture factory caught fire at Savar in the outskirts of Dhaka city on Tuesday night. Witnesses said the fire originated from an unknown source at the factory around 10:00pm and it...
An alleged terrorist was killed in a gunfight with police at Avoynagar upazila in Jessore district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam Shikari, 32, son of Muhan Shikari, a resident of the area. When contacted, Avoynagar police...
The half-day hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the arrest of Sadar upazila chairman and Jamaat leader Mokhlesur Rahman, was progressing peacefully in Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday. Pickets vandalised a BRTC bus at Bailtala in Shibganj upazila in the morning. A...
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The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday amid modest see-saw. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
BNP long marchers left Rangpur and are heading towards Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari district on the second and final day of the programme on Wednesday demanding fair share of the river water. The long march caravan started its journey from...
A gang of armed miscreants shot at a local unit Sechchhasebok League leader leaving him bullet-hit at Badda in the city on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Nurunnabi, 35, a stone businessman and Vice President of Badda Sechhasebok League...
Government agencies seized smuggled goods worth over Tk 27.7 million during different anti-smuggling drives in Comilla district in March this year and arrested 173 people in this connection. One revolver, two pistols and five bullets were recovered during the drives....
Malaysian marine police say pirates raided a Japanese tanker in Malacca Strait and pilfered several million liters of diesel fuel it was carrying. A marine police officer said in Kuala Lumpur that the tanker was sailing from Singapore to Myanmar...
Residents of two unions of Keraniganj Upazila of Dhaka district have withdrawn from Dhaka-Mawa highway after blocking traffic on the busy highway for five hours. They lifted the road blockade on Wednesday after being assured that the government would not...
Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday following another Wall Street rally while a provisional report showed a slight improvement in Chinese manufacturing activity this month. Tokyo rose 0.57 per cent by the break, Sydney gained 0.69% and Seoul was up...
Customs intelligence officials detained a young woman along with five gold bars weighting 988 grams from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday. Sources at the airport said customs officials challenged Maria Akhter Lily, 24, for her suspicious...
Otobi's biggest factory gutted in a blaze on Wednesday that destroyed furniture worth hundreds of millions of Taka at Savar in the outskirts of the city. Fire Service officials said the fire broke out around 9:45pm on Tuesday at the...
Miscreants chopped a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and cut off the tendons of his legs and hands in Chapainawabganj town on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Nahid Shikder, organising secretary of the district unit of...
A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his neighbour over a land-related dispute at Nalitabari upazila in Sherpur district on Wednesday. The dead is Surimamud, 60, a resident of Ujan Gangpar village. Quoting locals, police said there was a...
BNP's long march, aiming to press India for allowing Bangladesh to enjoy the due share of the waters of Teesta River, has reached Dalia point of Teesta Barrage. Earlier, the long-march convoy resumed its second and final day journey towards...
Two suspected muggers received bullet injuries in a 'gunfight' with police at Satkhira Sadar upazila on Wednesday. They were identified as Rubel Hossain, 32, son of Giasuddin, a resident of Dargapara village of the upazila, and Rubel Sheikh, 27, son...
Police arrested a local unit leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir at Bholahat upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday. The arrestee, Sohel Rana, is general secretary of Bholahat upazila unit of Shibir, the student front of Jamaat-e-Islami. He is the son...
A man has killed his father-in-law for allegedly filing a dowry case against him in Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj district. The incident took place on Tuesday night, said Belkuchi Police Station OC Abdul Hai Sarker. The killer, Ibrahim Hossain, 25,...
Australia has said it will not abandon the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, insisting that the cost of the operation is not a concern. PM Tony Abbott said if the current underwater search was unsuccessful, a new strategy...
Australia has said it will not abandon the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, insisting that the cost of the operation is not a concern. PM Tony Abbott said if the current underwater search was unsuccessful, a new strategy...
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Stocks closed higher for the fifth consecutive session on Wednesday with turnover crossing Tk 5.0 billion-mark once again as investors went for buying spree on large cap stocks. The market started with a positive note and continued till the market...
The US has warned Russia to tone down its aggressive rhetoric on Ukraine, or face further sanctions. US Secretary of State John Kerry told his Russian counterpart over the phone that Moscow must call for pro-Russian gunmen to lay down...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will soon submit a report on illegal wealth of Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza that collapsed a year ago. More than 1100 people, mostly garment workers, died in the nine-storey commercial building collapse on April...
Russia issued a blunt warning Wednesday it would respond if its interests are attacked in Ukraine, as pro-Kremlin rebels in the restive east of the country braced for a new military offensive by Kiev. The threat by Russian Foreign Minister...
China's yuan currency extended its downtrend against the dollar Wednesday to touch a 16-month low, despite the country's central bank fixing its trading point for the unit at a higher level. The unit fell to as low as 6.2466 to...
French automaker Renault has frozen a project to make commercial vehicles with Russian company Zil because of the fall of the ruble, a Renault spokeswoman said on Wednesday. "Due to the weakening of the ruble, Renault has frozen this project...
The High Court on Wednesday turned down BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's petitions challenging her indictment in two corruption cases – Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader...
Firebrand anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal accused his rivals in India's elections on Wednesday of selling out to big business by accepting hundreds of millions of dollars to bankroll their campaigns. As he arrived in Varanasi to file his nomination papers...
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