Three policemen and another person have been injured in an encounter between law enforcers and Yaba peddlers at Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf. The gunbattle took place at Keruntali village under Hoaikong Union around 2.30am on Thursday, said Teknaf Police Station OC...
The BNP has begun talks with grassroots leaders in an attempt to revitalise the party. A meeting with leaders of the Panchagarh district at the BNP headquarters at Naya Paltan in the city on Thursday set the ball rolling. “The...
The government has formed a committee to probe the allegation of question paper leak in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam under the Dhaka education board. Dhaka board secretary Prof Abdus Salam Hawlader is heading a five-member probe team constituted...
Asian markets rose on Thursday, taking their lead from a Wall Street rally after minutes from the US Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting showed no support for an early rise in interest rates. While early gains were pared after China...
Several hundred people from all walks of life gathered at the National Press Club (NPC) in the city on Thursday to pay their last respect to noted journalist ABM Musa. His second namaj-e-janaza was held at the NPC after Zohr...
A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to chairman of Tazreen Fashions Mahmuda Akhter Mita on Tk 20,000 bond in a case over the devastating fire in the garment factory that claimed over 100 lives in 2012. Judge of Dhaka...
Voters went to the polls in New Delhi on the first major day of India's marathon national election Thursday, with the capital a key battleground for a new anti-corruption party which shot to fame last year. Almost a fifth of...
Chinese exports and imports fell sharply in March, data showed Thursday, as officials noted that the world's second-largest economy faces headwinds from tougher regional competition and "friction" with trade partners. The figures are potentially another cause for concern about the...
The education ministry has set June 8 to hold the postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam under the Dhaka education board, said minister Nurul Islam Nahid. The exam which was scheduled for Thursday was postponed Wednesday night on allegations of...
Teams are focusing on a narrowed search area in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, after more signals were heard earlier this week. Thursday's search was set to involve up to 14 aircraft and 13 ships, the agency...
A pair of mangoes grown in southern Japan sold Thursday for a whopping 300,000 yen ($3,000), a record price for the fruit's first auction of the season, Kyodo News reported. The "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun)-brand mangoes were...
Two local leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) were injured in an attack by miscreants at Jhikargachha upazila in Jessore district on Wednesday night. The victims were identified as Aminur Rahman, 25, office secretary of Kashipur union unit of JCD...
Former Maoist rebels or security force members who committed crimes during Nepal's civil war could be granted an amnesty except in cases of rape under planned legislation, a senior lawmaker said Thursday. The government late Wednesday introduced a bill in...
A court in Manikganj on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry in 2010. The court also fined convict, Abu Hanif, son of Korban Ali, a resident of Dhankora village in Saturia upazila, Tk 20,000....
Russia's Foreign Ministry accused NATO on Thursday of using the crisis in Ukraine to boost its appeal to members and justify its existence by rallying them against an imaginary threat. Russia and the West are locked in a Cold War-style...
Bank of America has agreed to pay $783m in fines and refunds to settle accusations it misled customers about its credit card services. The bank will refund $738m to affected customers and pay $45m in penalties to US regulators. The...
A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured as the vehicle they were riding rammed into a roadside tree at Sharsha upazila in Jessore district on Thursday. The dead is Maruf Hossain, 25, son of Shah Alam of...
UK scientists have challenged the idea that the Titanic was unlucky for sailing in a year when there were an exceptional number of icebergs in the North Atlantic. The ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage 102 years ago, with...
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Stocks ended another flat session Thursday with turnover on the prime bourse dipped below Tk 5.0 billion-mark as investors remained cautious.The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) --- DSEX--- ended at 4,592.73 points, losing 1.59 points or 0.03...
Two people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Sunamganj and Moulvibazar on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Sobhan, 70, a resident of Majumdarichar village of Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district, and Rashed Ahmed, 13, son...
China unveiled a plan Thursday allowing cross-trading between Hong Kong and Shanghai's stock markets in the latest move by mainland leaders to open up the country's capital markets and promote the yuan as an international unit. The China Securities Regulatory...
Experts Tuesday stressed the need for mainstreaming the disaster management in policy making to address the emerging natural and man-made calamities with a view to ensuring the country's sustainable economic growth, reports UNB. "If we fail to mainstream the disaster...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 8 (BSS): Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim today said that Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has approved the proposal to upgrade the Chittagong Medical College (CMC) as university. The students will be attending classes at Chittagong...
Police will mount tight security across the country so people can celebrate Bengali New Year's Day, Pahela Baishakh, peacefully, reports UNB. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting on security measures on Pahela Baisakh at the conference room of...
Bangladesh will sign a treaty on research with European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in June next, reports UNB. The decision was taken at a meeting between Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and CERN director general Prof Rolf-Dieter Heuer at...
A Dhaka court Tuesday took into cognizance the charge sheet (CS) against Oishi Rahman for murdering her parents, reports BSS. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court sent the case to Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judges Court after accepting the CS as it is...
Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali told parliament Tuesday that the government has so far enrolled 16,47,005 people as disabled persons under its Disability Identification Survey Programme since June in 2013, reports BSS. Replying to a question from ruling party...
Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 22 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than ten inches in length) raiding two launches on the Dhaleshwari River under Sadar Upazila of Munshiganj district Tuesday, reports UNB. Sources at Coast Guard headquarters said, a team...
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