Observing that the problems of ageing are largely being ignored senior citizens of the country have laid emphasis on enacting new laws to ensuring rights and welfare of the elderly people. They also urged the government to establish a full-fledged...
Leader of the opposition in Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) Raushan Ershad has said her party wants to play the due role of the opposition, but maintaining cooperation with the government. “Never in the past, the opposition (in Bangladesh’s parliament) cooperated with...
Leader of the opposition in Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) Raushan Ershad has said her party wants to play the due role of the opposition, but maintaining cooperation with the government. “Never in the past, the opposition (in Bangladesh’s parliament) cooperated with...
Two more people, who suffered serious burn injuries in a fire incident at a hardware shop in the city’s Tejturi Bazar on Thursday afternoon, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday, raising the death toll from the incident to...
Sony on Friday warned customers to stop using its new Vaio Fit 11A laptops due to an overheating battery problem that poses a fire risk and said it may issue a recall. The Japanese electronics giant said 25,905 units had...
US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning after overseeing the botched rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, a White House official said on Thursday. Her departure removes one lightning rod for critics as Obama and...
In separate incidents, police recovered the bodies of seven people at different places in Gazipur district, including the city and Sreepur and Kaliakoir upazilas, from Wednesday night to Thursday. The body of a man was recovered from Dhaka-Tangail railway tracks...
The High Court has asked the government to bring back home 72 children held at different shelter homes in India. Passing the interim suo moto order, an HC division bench comprising justices Farah Mahbub and KM Ejarul Haque Akondo has...
Asia’s markets fell on Friday following hefty plunges on Wall Street as US technology stocks suffered another sell-off, while China released data showing inflation picked up in March but was still below forecasts. Tokyo sank 2.31 per cent by the...
Abut 1,200 maunds of jute were gutted by a fire that broke out at a jute warehouse at Singair upazila in Manikganj on Thursday. Witnesses said the fire erupted at a tin-shed jute warehouse at Charigram village at about 1:00...
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Friday, US officials said, while ruling out any threat of a tsunami. The US Geological Survey said the quake was measured at a depth of around 50 kilometres and was...
Two children drowned in a pond at South Sripur village in Kaliganj upazila on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Nuruzzaman’s daughter Razia Parveen, 6, and her cousin Tamanna Sultana, 3, daughter of Azgar Ali of the village. Witnesses...
As India holds the latest round of its mammoth elections Friday, one man -- polygamist and sect leader Zionnghaka Chana -- has become the voter every local politician wants to know. With 39 wives and 127 children and grandchildren, Chana...
The global oil market is returning to a rough balance but Russia's annexation of Crimea has clouded the outlook with both supply and demand growth to slow, the International Energy Agency said Friday. While the IEA has recently been warning...
China has postponed plans to send a pair of pandas to Malaysia next week, a minister said Friday, as bilateral relations remain uneasy over the disappearance of flight MH370. The two countries agreed in 2012 that China would send the...
The government will install a solar power plant in Sulla upazila of Sunamganj district aiming to give the people of remote haor (wetland) areas access to solar energy facilities. The solar power plant will be installed under a project involving...
Australian leader Tony Abbott says authorities are confident that signals heard in the Indian Ocean are coming from the "black box" flight recorders of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Speaking in China, he said teams had "very much narrowed" the...
A fire broke out at a slum in the city’s Mirpur area on Friday afternoon. Fire service officials said the fire erupted from a shanty at Bhasentek slum around 01:13 pm and soon engulfed the adjacent shanties. On information, five...
Sales of India's once-booming passenger car segment shrank for a second year, hit by a sharp economic slowdown and high borrowing costs that kept customers away from showrooms, data showed Friday. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said it...
At least 13 militants were killed in a bombing and a gunfight in Pakistan's restive tribal areas Friday, the latest clashes in almost a week of infighting between rival Taliban factions. A total of 56 people have been killed in...
Almost 100 people in China died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in the first three months of the year, government figures showed. A total of 24 people died from the disease in March, the National Health and Family Planning...
Global mobile phone giant Vodafone has taken full control of its Indian subsidiary in deals worth $1.7 billion, it confirmed on Friday. "Vodafone announces that it now owns 100 percent of its Indian subsidiary, Vodafone India Limited (VIL)," the group...
European stock markets slid on Friday, joining a fierce global sell-off as investors took flight on resurgent fears about the 'overvalued' technology sector, dealers said. In late morning deals, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 1.18 percent to 6,563.68 points,...
Worried at the suspension of production at Karnaphuli Fertiliser Company Limited (KAFCO) for lack of gas, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has urged the government to resume the gas supply to the plant ‘immediately’ considering its huge importance. JICA Vice...
A senior European Union (EU) official says the 28-nation bloc's foreign ministers will consider broadening the list of people sanctioned because of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. The official said on Friday some EU governments want to beef up...
Twenty-three of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve respective export targets for the first eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal (2013-14). The key Bangladesh missions like Washington, London, Ottawa, Canberra and New Delhi failed to achieve...
A delivery truck ploughed into a bus carrying American students in northern California, killing ten people and injuring at least 30, the California Highway Patrol said. The bus was one of three bringing high school students to tour Humboldt State...
The Palestinian Authority has signed up formally to the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of warfare and humanitarian operations in conflict zones, the treaties' guardian Switzerland confirmed Friday. Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Pierre-Alain Eltschinger said that the Palestinian...
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has provided gas connections to about 500 companies over the last four years violating rules, according to an inquiry conducted by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). “During the inquiry, I’ve detected gas connections...
A cyclone packing winds of up to 230 kilometres an hour hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef coast Friday night, officials said, as tens of thousands of people hunkered down amid warnings of devastation. Cyclone Ita, while downgraded from a maximum...
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