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...
Students affairs adviser of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) Prof Sultan Uddin Bhuiyan and the provost of the university’s Ashraful Haq Hall Prof Rafiqul Islam have resigned. Their resignations came on Tuesday amidst allegations of negligence following the killing of Saad...
A daylong seminar titled, ‘Fast Track Future Leader’, was held at the Business Studies Faculty Conference Hall of Dhaka University Tuesday. ‘Leveraging ICT for growth, employment and governance’, a project of the Ministry of ICT, and Dhaka University (DU) IT...
Etihad Airways, national airline of the United Arab Emirates, saw its total revenue increased by 27 per cent to US$1.4 billion during the first quarter of 2014. The airline’s cargo revenue also increased by 26 per cent to US$243million, placing...
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad joined office Tuesday after 43 days of stay in the United States. He returned home Monday. Rakibuddin along with his wife went to the USA on March 3 amid the countrywide staggered upazila elections...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Tuesday asked all concerned to ensure overall security as well as improving the services at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Speaking at an inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat on the overall security...
Defending party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman’s recent remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, BNP Tuesday asked the Awami League to come up with evidence if there is any mistake in the BNP leader’s assertions. “Tarique Rahman’s recent statement in...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking 14 people, including the Industries Secretary and the director general of Department of Environment (DoE), to explain why contempt of court charges should not be drawn against them for flouting its...
Sabbir Hasan is one of the four students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) who went missing in the Bay of Bengal at St Martin’s Island Monday afternoon. Before leaving Dhaka for Cox’s Bazar Saturday, Hasan had posted...
Security has been beefed up in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila (UZ) so that people can vote peacefully in Wednesday’s polls. The vote in the upazila was postponed on March 30 following a stay order by the High Court. It was scheduled...
Elections to another 21 upazila (UZ) parishads are likely to be held late next month, election commission (EC) sources said on Tuesday. The EC may announce the schedule for the sixth phase of the polls on Wednesday, the sources said...
SUNAMGANJ: At least 12 people, including a policeman, were injured in a gunfight between police and robbers at Bukardanga in Chhatak upazila early Tuesday. Police arrested Raju, a robber of Biswanath upazila in Sylhet, from a local bazaar under Jamalganj...
BARISAL: A female doctor of Barisal General Hospital allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in the city’s Kaunia area Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Dr Lubna Jahan, 31, who was serving the radio-pathology department of the government hospital...
MAIDUGURI: Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped more than 100 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a senior security source told AFP. Asked to confirm media reports that 200 girls had been taken from a school in...
Samsung Electronics Bangladesh, in exclusive association with Robi Axiata Limited, officially announced the launch of the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series, the Galaxy S5. The Galaxy S5 was unveiled by Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, chief operating officer, and Matiul...
Samsung Electronics Bangladesh, in exclusive association with Robi Axiata Limited, officially announced the launch of the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series, the Galaxy S5. The Galaxy S5 was unveiled by Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, chief operating officer, and Matiul...
Around Tk 90.70 billion of investors money was swindled out by cooperatives and money-lending organisations over the last one year, says a study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). “According to news reports published in newspapers during March 10, 2013...
President Abdul Hamid and his wife Rashida Khanom on Tuesday night hosted a reception at Bangabhaban on the occasion of Bengla New Year, 1421. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain, cabinet members and PM’s advisers attended...
Health and Family Planning Minister Mohammad Nasim said the law against food adulteration will be enforced strictly. “Those involved in food tainting will get stringent punishment,” he said during a visit to National Food Security Laboratory in the city’s Mohakhali...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to form an expert committee for formulating a policy to halt the fast reduction of agricultural lands and the use of those in non-farm activities. The court also issued a...
Bangladesh has been elected member of the South-South Steering Committee for Sustainable Development (SS-SCSD). The success came at the third high-level forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development under the theme of ‘South-South Cooperation, ICT and Financing for Sustainable Development’...
The four students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) who went missing in the Bay of Bengal near St Martin’s Island Monday are still untraced. Thirty-four students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the...
The Russian economy may see zero growth this year because of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's finance minister has admitted. The minister, Anton Siluanov, warned the country's economy faced "the most difficult conditions since the 2008 crisis", Russian news agencies said....
MEPs have backed rules for a banking safety net to minimise the risk of further EU taxpayer-funded bailouts. A new European authority will have the power to wind up or restructure failing banks - the so-called Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)....
A sharp fall in the price of petrol helped to keep US consumer inflation well below the Federal Reserve's 2 per cent target in March. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.2 per cent last month, up from 0.1 per cent...
LONDON: Europe's main stock market indices closed lower Tuesday, weighed down by concerns after a flare up of tensions in Ukraine. London's FTSE 100 ended down 0.64 per cent compared to Monday's closing level, at 6,541.61 points. Germany's DAX 30...
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