The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Tuesday pressed charges against 12 people for the murder of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milki. The investigating officer of Rab 1, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kazemur Rashid submitted the charge-sheet at the...
Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday, with Wall Street providing a strong lead after rebounding from a two-day sell-off thanks to better-than-expected retail sales data. However, Hong Kong and Shanghai lagged the regional uptrend ahead of the release on Wednesday...
Doctors of BIRDEM demonstrated at Shahbagh in the city on Tuesday after an alleged assault by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. The human chain they formed blocked traffic on the street in front of the hospital...
Some 40 prisoners of Bagerhat jail fell sick on Tuesday morning due to food poisoning after they were served with improved diets on Monday on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh. Sources at the district jail said 19 of the sick...
Afghanistan's deputy minister of public works, Ahmad Shah Wahid, has been kidnapped in Kabul, officials say. Four armed men in a vehicle opened fire on the minister's car and abducted Mr Wahid while he was on his way to work,...
China's demand for gold is set to rise by about 20% over the next few years, the World Gold Council has estimated, as the population becomes more wealthy. The council estimates private sector demand for gold in China will rise...
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Bangladesh Masud Ahmed submitted 17 audit reports to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office this (Tuesday) morning. PM’s Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil said the CAG handed over to the Prime Minister one...
Two more people succumbed to their injuries, raising the number of fatalities to six in two separate incidents of trucks ramming ‘Leguna’ in Gazipur on Tuesday. A truck rammed a Leguna (a 4-wheel human hauler) killing five Leguna passengers at...
Nigeria will mount a massive security operation to protect a World Economic Forum on Africa planned in Abuja next month, following the bomb attack by suspected Islamist militants on the capital's outskirts on Monday, the event's Nigerian hosts said. "Our...
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Stocks returned to the green Tuesday after two session fall with turnover improved significantly as the investors went for buying spree mainly on large cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed 4,600 points mark...
The Appellate Division has ended the hearing on Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's appeal against his death sentence meted out by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). A five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain, ended hearing of both the...
Sina Weibo, widely known as China's version of Twitter, is set to go public in the United States this week -- after three weeks of sell-offs took their toll on technology stocks. The microblogging subsidiary of Chinese Internet behemoth Sina...
An Italian court on Tuesday ordered former prime minister and billionaire tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to do a year of community service following his conviction for tax fraud, Italian media reported. Berlusconi will have to respect a curfew and will be...
Russia declared Ukraine on the brink of civil war on Tuesday as Kiev said an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Moscow separatists was underway, though the crackdown appeared to get off to a slow start, if at all. Twenty-four hours after an...
The Russian economy could be set back to zero growth this year, the finance minister warned on Tuesday amid growing spending on Crimea and capital flight. Finance minister Anton Siluanov said at a government meeting that Russia's economy faced "the...
The government has sent a report on progress in fulfilling conditions needed to get back the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) in the US market, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said. "Most of the 16 conditions set by them have...
Business jet maker Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. on Tuesday announced a deal to sell 60 aircraft to a Chinese leasing company, one of the largest orders in the US company's history. The agreement, signed with Minsheng Financial Leasing Co. in the...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his ministry will conduct a coordinated drive on highways across the country from May to minimise traffic congestions and road accidents. The minister said this while visiting renovation works on Ghorashal-Tongi road in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said a natural historical museum and another most modern museum will be built in the country. The Prime Minister said this when a four-member delegation of Bangladesh National Museum, led by Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman...
A motorcycle rider was killed and another injured when the Magura-bound bike was knocked from rear by a Jessore-bound truck in Madhukhali upazilla in Faridpur district on Monday evening. Madhukhali police identified the decease as Rubel Sheikh, 25. The injured...
A delegation of UK-Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry Ltd (UKBCCI) on Tuesday met Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discussed various issues, including trade promotion. UKBCCI Chairman Iqbal Ahmed led the 10-member delegation at the meeting held at the...
Iraq has closed Abu Ghraib prison, made infamous by Saddam Hussein's regime and US forces, due to security concerns following a mass breakout last year, the justice ministry said Tuesday. The country is suffering a protracted surge in violence that...
A powerful bomb exploded with a big bang, injuring four women at Tilpara under Khilgaon Police Station in the city on Tuesday morning. Police identified the injured as Ambia Khatun, 33, Ratna Rani, 30, Hiron Bashi, 45, and Selina Begum,...
The UN weather agency on Tuesday warned there was a good chance of an "El Nino" climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean this year, bringing droughts and heavy rainfall to the rest of the world. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)...
The UN weather agency Tuesday warned there was a good chance of an "El Nino" climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean this year, bringing droughts and heavy rainfall to the rest of the world. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Drug Administration (DA) building at Mohakhali in the city. “After completion of the building, the department would be more capable to serve people,” the minister hoped....
Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country's civil war. They would signal a further internationalization of the conflict, with new rockets suspected from...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the FHI360Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project on Tuesday signed an agreement with the WorldFish Centre and Dnet to utilise mobile money payments within their agriculture and health programmes...
Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents onto lorries. Sources said...
Mentioning that protecting the country and ensuring the welfare of its people is the main motto of her party, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has said they will restore democracy in the country at any cost. “We’ve liberated the country, but...
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