NATO said Wednesday it will deploy more air, sea and land forces in eastern Europe in response to the worsening crisis in Ukraine. "Today we have agreed a package of military measures," NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after a...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Wednesday sought enhanced cooperation from Turkey in expediting Bangladesh’s development. Terming bilateral ties with Turkey very excellent, she said there is a scope for Turkey to extend cooperation in the areas of trade, commerce,...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said he knows nothing about the arrest of an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence agency by Indian RAW members in Dhaka. “I know nothing yet about it. I read it in the newspapers,...
South Korean rescuers, including elite navy SEAL divers, worked frantically under floodlights Wednesday to find nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank with 459 on board, mostly high school students bound for a holiday island. Lee Gyeong-Og, the vice...
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) chief Nasser al-Wuhayshi has pledged in a rare video appearance to pursue the war against the Western "crusaders" everywhere possible. The video posted online shows Wuhayshi addressing scores of jihadists in a rugged terrain...
A female member of Afghanistan's parliament was recovering in hospital Wednesday after being shot the previous night, officials and her sister said. The interior ministry said Mariam Koofi, a member of parliament from the northeastern province of Takhar, was shot...
Turnout in India's multi-phase election is so far almost eight percentage points higher than last time, data showed Wednesday, reflecting enthusiasm for polls expected to bring the opposition Hindu nationalists to power. Polling in five of the ten phases has...
Tens of thousands of workers were on strike Wednesday at a factory in southern China which makes shoes for Nike and Adidas, rights groups and a worker said. More than 30,000 employees at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in...
Bangladesh is expected to renew its memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with South Korea on sending workers on government-to-government basis in May this year. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain disclosed this while talking to reporters after...
Agitating doctors of Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (Birdem) Hospital called off their strike on Wednesday afternoon after withdrawal of the police official allegedly involved in the Sunday night’s Birdem incident. The doctors...
Election to 14 upazila (UZ) parishads in 10 districts will held on May 19, The Election Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced the schedule of the 6th-phase polls at a press conference at the...
Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB) organised a conference to create awareness against money laundering and financing of terrorism . The conference was held at the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla Wednesday. An open discussion session was held...
BNP has sought an explanation from the government over the report of an Indian daily that India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has arrested a Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI agent from a Bangladesh airport. “A report of...
The High Court started hearing Wednesday on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. An HC bench...
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) sealed off a milk candy factory at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday on charge of candies with adulterated ingredients and low quality milk. The mobile court also fined...
Even though BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali has been traceless for the last two years, his family members and party colleagues are still hopeful of his safe return. Two years back on April 17, 2012, former BNP MP Ilias...
Both Dhaka and Moscow have failed to complete negotiations to initial a deal which both sides termed the ‘third and final contract’ for the construction of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project. According to official sources, the deal was scheduled...
A High Court division bench Wednesday took up for hearing the appeals filed by four condemned convicts, including war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, in the sensational Chittagong 10-truck arms smuggling cases, according to a news agency. The...
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday issued a rule upon the government to explain as to why it should not be directed to set up a high-powered cell to monitor government and private hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and diagnostic centres....
In the wake of drowning incidents, particularly in the bay, the ministry of education has decided to issue an order soon over the study tour and picnic by students. “Any student or a group who will go on study tour...
China's economy expanded by 7.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year, better than what many were expecting. But it is a slowdown from 7.7 per cent growth in the final quarter of last year. Other data released...
Tokyo stocks rose 0.82 per cent on Tuesday morning after a rally on Wall Street and as the yen weakened against the dollar in response to upbeat US economic data. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 114.55 points to 14,024.71...
Chinese shares eased in early trade on Tuesday ahead of the release of first-quarter economic growth data later in the week, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.50 per cent, or 10.60 points, to 2,120.94. The Shenzhen Composite...
A gang of miscreants hurled a powerful bomb at a watch shop in Sherpur town on Monday night. However, no injury was reported in the explosion which extensively damaged ‘Habib Watch Co’ the watch shop at Kakoli Market on Shaheed...
Police recovered the body of a madrasa student at Tewariganj Bazar under Sadar upazila in Lakshmipur district on Monday midnight. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, an Alim (Class XI) student of Charmatua Madrasa and son of Abul Kashem...
Nearly a dozen opinion polls across India have so far predicted the BJP emerging as India’s single largest party – and some have predicted that the NDA coalition it leads could come within hand-shaking distance of a majority in the...
Global trade is expected to increase by 4.7 per cent in 2014, better than the average of 2.2 per cent in the past two years, on the back of projected improvements in the developed economies, the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
Suspected stalkers shot to death a man at Banshkhali upazila in Chittagong district on Monday night. Family sources and local people said Fazlul Qader Manik, 27, son of Noor Ahmed of Uzanipara village was shot dead presumably as he protested...
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), investigating the killing of Jubo League leader Milki, on Tuesday submitted the charge-sheet before a Dhaka court accusing 12 people, mostly Jubo League leaders and activists, in the sensational murder case (details to come), according...
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