Twelve-year-old 'Motaleb', who had suffered burns in a fire that gutted a hardware store in Dhaka's Tejgaon on Thursday, has died. His death takes the toll in the blaze to four, including two others who had succumbed to their injuries...
A local Awami League (AL) leader has been strangled to death at Madhabpur under Osmaninagar Police Station in Sylhet. The dead is Javed Ali, 50, organisation secretary of Usmanpur union unit of AL in Osmaninagar and son of late Tahir...
At least four people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at Pirganj upazila in Rangpur district on Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police...
Airport Armed Police (AAP) recovered 600 grams of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka city arresting a man on Friday night. The arrested was identified as Abul Hossain, a passenger of Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG-085) flight from...
Selima Ahmad, one of the top entrepreneurs of the country and founder of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI), has won this year’s Oslo Business for Peace Award. She won the Oslo Business for Peace Award-2014 for her...
Police in a drive recovered three powerful bombs at Dighirpara in Jessore town on Friday night. The law enforcers also arrested two people in this connection. The arrested are Mizanur Rahman, son of Abdul Kader of Kharki area, and Rubel...
At last eight shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Nurnahar Market at Rajbari town early Friday. Local sources said the fire originated from an electric shot circuit at a shop at the market at about 4:30...
Three people, including a Bengali settler, were gunned down and 10 others injured in separate attacks by armed miscreants in Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts on Saturday. In Bandarban, a man was shot dead and 10 other people received bullet injuries...
Two children drowned in Padma River at Tongibari upazila in Munshiganj on Friday. The deceased were identified as Sadia, 8, daughter of Syed Banduksari, and Trishna, 10, daughter of Shyamol Das of Hasail village. Local people said the two minors...
Police in separate drives arrested three people along with a pistol, four rounds of bullet and 44 pieces of Yaba tablet at Jhikorgachha upazila in Jessore district on Friday night. The arrested are Kabir Hossain, 25, son of late Motaleb...
A mobile court in Rajshahi on Friday sent three construction workers to jail awarding them six months’ imprisonment each for sexually harassing a girl in Godagari upazila. The convicts are Nayem Ali, 19, son of Shamsher Ali, Khayrul Islam, 19,...
A young man died after falling from the rooftop of a moving bus at Sarsa upazila in Jessore district on Saturday. The dead is Tuhin, 34, son of Sadek Ali, a resident of the upazila. Witnesses said Tuhin while travelling...
Two motorcycle riders were killed and another was injured as their bike slewed sideways off a bridge into a canal at Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj district on Friday night. The dead are Masum Billa, 22, and Jony, 23, son of...
A local activist of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth front of the BNP, was shot dead by unknown miscreants at Lakshmipur Sadar upazila on Saturday. The dead is Kamal Hossain Babul, an activist of Bashikpur union unit of Jubo Dal and...
A Bangladesh national, whose conviction and sentencing for illegally entering Malaysia was set aside by the High Court, has filed a case against Malaysian government. Alamin Sheikh Badsha, 28, filed the suit against the Malaysian government, director-general and investigating officer...
US stocks fell in early trade on Friday, following European markets downward after a disappointing earnings report from Wall Street banking giant JPMorgan Chase. About 35 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 90.23 points (0.56 per cent)...
Europe’s stock markets ended the week with sharp declines on Friday, part of a global equities sell-off sparked by poor results from the banking sector and fears of over-valuation in tech. London’s FTSE 100 was down 1.21 per cent compared...
Dutch-Bangla Bank donated further Tk 150 million to Dhaka Ahsania Mission to meet up the cost of 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors measuring a total of 1,02,175 sft of the country's biggest cancer hospital - Ahsania Mission Cancer & General...
A fire at a Noakhali school has destroyed its administrative building, school authorities say. The Shibpur Muslim High School at Noakhali Sadar Upazila caught fire at around 4am on Saturday. Locals initially tried to put out the fire, school’s headmaster...
Iran has accused the US of acting illegally by refusing a visa to the new Iranian envoy to the UN in New York. Iran's UN mission spokesman Hamid Babaei called the decision to bar Hamid Aboutalebi "regrettable", but did not...
Armed men dressed in camouflage clothing have seized a police station in eastern Ukraine, officials say. Police said the gang fired shots and used stun grenades to seize the offices in Sloviansk, near the Russian border. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov...
Bangladesh has returned to the list of the world’s top 10 remittance recipients. The latest issue of Migration and Development Brief, quoting a World Bank release, shows Bangladesh occupying 8th place in the list of the world’s top ten remittance...
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will likely continue for "a long time", Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Saturday, a day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected. The Australian-led search for...
Ita, a tropical cyclone, battered Australia's Barrier Reef coast Saturday, knocking out power and phone lines for thousands of people and threatening floods, despite weakening as it headed south towards major tourist resorts. Tens of thousands of people hunkered down...
A tell-all book by an ex-aide to India's Premier Manmohan Singh depicting him as a powerless political puppet hit bookstores this weekend, stirring new controversy in the midst of a bitterly fought election. The book, giving ammunition to opposition critics...
Over two years after the gruesome murder of Sagar and Runi, investigators are now claiming that two people killed the journalist couple but unable to say who they exactly were, intensifying the mystery further. “Now we’re sure there had been...
President Barack Obama's income declined in 2013 as sales of his books slowed, but he paid a higher tax rate, his tax documents show. In 2013 the president made $481,098, down from $608,611 in 2012. He paid an effective tax...
The co-pilot of missing Malaysian airliner MH370 attempted to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said Saturday citing unnamed investigators. The call ended abruptly possibly "because the aircraft...
Alliance Capital Asset Management Limited has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of MTB Unit Fund. The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 349,967,532.24 on the basis of cost price and Tk 384,785,278.81 on the basis of...
The internal feud of the Ganajagaran Mancha has taken a new turn as several self-proclaimed organisers of the platform relieved Imran H Sarker of his duties as the spokesperson. They held a press briefing on Saturday in front of the...
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