A local leader of Krishak League was killed as lightning strike hit him at Shapla Bonde at Sadar upazila in Kishoreganj on Thursday morning. The dead is Motiur Rahman, 70, president of Itna upazila unit of Krishak League, associate body...
A motorcyclist was killed as the vehicle he was riding crashed into a roadside tree at Atwari upazila in Panchagarh district on Thursday. The dead is Mahbub Alam, 28, son of Amanullah Bachchu, a resident of Dhakkamara in Sadar upazila....
The verdict in the war crimes trial of BNP leader Zahid Hossain, alias Khokon Razakar is expected any day. The International Crimes Tribunal-1 headed by Justice Enayetur Rahim concluded his trial in absentia on Thursday. On Aprl 9 this year,...
A court in Khulna on Wednesday sentenced 18 people to life term imprisonment for killing a lawyer in 2000. The lifers are Sunil Boidya, Subhash Mandol, Arun Biswas, Amar Sarkar, Basudeb Sarkar, Nripen Biswas, Binoy Sarder, Joyonto Sardar, Tapos Biswas,...
Appreciating Bangladesh's achievements in various areas, the United States (US) has said it has kept pressing Bangladesh for a greater political inclusion to ensure a more stable and prosperous future. "In Bangladesh, we continue to press for greater political inclusion,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Kazuhiko Higuchi as the new Country Director for its Bangladesh resident mission. “I am looking forward to working for Bangladesh, and the people of Bangladesh,” said Mr. Kazuhiko Higuchi. “Bangladesh is progressing fast...
British High Commission in Dhaka will remain closed on Sunday and Monday on the occasion of Easter Sunday and Easter Monday respectively. Sylhet office of the British High Commission and Department for International Development (DFID) office in Dhaka will also...
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Stocks returned to the green Thursday after previous session's correction with lower turnover as investors moved cautiously. The market started with upward trend and the positive trend continued till the market closure amid modest see-saw, eventually ended marginally higher. At...
Bad weather, murky water and strong currents are hampering the search for survivors of the South Korean ferry disaster. Emergency services are still searching for nearly 300 people missing after a ship carrying more than 470 people sank. Officials say...
A bicyclist was killed as a bus rammed his bicycle at Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday night. The dead is Farid Uddin, 35, son of Abdul Kuddus of Nungola of Gomastapur upazila of the district. Sadar Police Station's Sub-inspector...
Indians are voting in the biggest day of the general election pitting the ruling Congress party against the main opposition BJP. Nearly 200 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots in 121 seats in 12 states, including Karnataka, Rajasthan,...
Russia and Ukraine sat down Thursday for Western-backed talks on the escalating crisis in the former Soviet republic as Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the authorities in Kiev of dragging the country towards the abyss. In a dramatic worsening of...
Police have detained a man for murdering his elder brother in Sadar Upazila of Sherpur district. Sohrab Ali, 50, stabbed his brother Kashem Ali, 55, over a land dispute on Wednesday night. The killer was nabbed after evidence was found...
Malaysia warned Thursday that the cost of the search for flight MH370's wreckage in the vast depths of the Indian Ocean will be "huge", the latest sobering assessment by authorities involved in the challenging effort. "When we look at salvaging...
Iran is complying with the terms of last year's interim nuclear agreement with six world powers and is continuing to reduce its most sensitive uranium stockpile, a monthly update from the U.N. atomic agency obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday....
European stocks dipped on Thursday as disappointing earnings from U.S. tech heavyweights Google and IBM dampened the previous session's upbeat tone on Wall Street, and the dollar weakened on dovish remarks from the Federal Reserve. Google Inc fell as much...
A Dhaka court has rejected bail petitions of the chairman and the managing director of Destiny 2000 Ltd in a couple of corruption cases. Meher Nigar Shuchona, the Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka, passed the order in two...
Sina Weibo, widely known as China's version of Twitter, is to go public in the United States Thursday at a price below expectations after a recent sell-off in technology stocks. The microblogging subsidiary of Chinese Internet behemoth Sina was to...
Artists have structurally different brains compared with non-artists, a study has found. Participants' brain scans revealed that artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery. The research, published in NeuroImage, suggests that an...
A majority of deputies in Turkey's ruling AK Party have voted in a secret ballot in favor of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan running in the country's first direct presidential election in August, senior party officials said on Thursday. The vote...
A delegation of UK Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, led by its chairman Iqbal Ahmed, called on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday. During the meeting, the delegation explained the aims and objectives of the Chamber to the...
The exit of Saudi's spy chief was the result of US pressure over his stance on Syria but does not signal a shift in Riyadh's goal of toppling the Damascus regime, experts say. Riyadh, as is usual, did not elaborate...
Algerians voted on Thursday in an election President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is expected to win after 15 years in power, despite speaking only rarely in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. With the dominant National Liberation Front (FLN) party, allied...
Eminent citizens and civil society members on Thursday sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to rescue abducted Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’ Association (Bela) chief executive Syeda Rizwana Hasan. “We hope the law enforcing agencies will regain...
Bangladesh’s High Commission in London has been pulled up for ‘irregularities, mismanagement and lack of transparency’ in spending public money by the CAG, the country’s highest audit body. High Commissioner Mohammed Mijarul Quayes, a former foreign secretary, has been blamed...
India appointed a new navy chief on Thursday, nearly two months after his predecessor was forced to quit over a submarine accident that killed two sailors off the Mumbai coast. The government installed Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, 59, who has...
India appointed a new navy chief on Thursday, nearly two months after his predecessor was forced to quit over a submarine accident that killed two sailors off the Mumbai coast. The government installed Admiral Robin K Dhowan, 59, who has...
Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday said the government will take necessary steps to reclaim the natural canals in and around the capital. While visiting sites illegally filled on the banks of the Balu River in Gulshan...
Overturning the trial court verdict, the High Court on Thursday acquitted all the four condemned convicts in the sensation eight BCL men killing case of Chittagong. A designated HC death reference division bench comprising Justice Abdul Hye and Justice Krishna...
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