CHITTAGONG: Three compartments of the Dhaka-bound Karnaphuli Express skided off the rails in Chittagong's Mirsarai on Monday. The accident took place between Mirsharai and Mastan Nagar railway stations. Police said one person died in the accident. — bdnews24.com
Fifty-six schedule banks have 8,560 branches across the country, said Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith while replying to a question Monday. — BSS
Interns at Rangpur Medical College Hospital continued their indefinite work abstention for the third day protesting the assault of two of their fellows. Hospital sources said the interns took out a procession on the campus demanding the arrest of the...
Giving high priority to revival of growth and job creation, the Bharatiya Janata Party has promised to contain inflation, pursue tax reforms and promote foreign investments but said no to FDI in multi-brand retail. Released in New Delhi by top...
The High Court has asked for all internal reports of police about the firing on agitating students of Rajshahi University (RU). The bench of justices Mirza Hussain Haider and Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar issued the order based on the hearing...
Tokyo stocks slipped 1.13 per cent on Tuesday morning, tracking falls on Wall Street while a stronger yen hit exporter shares. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 167.24 points to 14,641.61 by the break, while the Topix index of all...
Hong Kong shares were flat in opening trade on Tuesday following two days of losses, while Wall Street provided a negative lead with another sell-off. The benchmark Hang Seng Index edged up 12.99 points to 22,390.14 in the first few...
Chinese shares were flat in the first few minutes of trade on Tuesday following a heavy sell-off on Wall Street. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dipped 1.62 points to 2,057.21. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second...
Advocate Enayet Pir Khan, principal of Barisal Law College and former president of Barisal District Bar Association, died at a local hospital on Monday. He was 75. Enayet Pir, also former general secretary of district Awami League, was whisked off...
A female union parishad (UP) member along with her elderly mother has been heinously tortured allegedly by her husband and his friends at Kalomegh village in Patharghata upazila in Barguna. The victims have filed a case with Patharghata Police Station...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit with her party's standing committee members on Wednesday night. The meeting is scheduled to start at the BNP chief’s political office at Gulshan in the city around 8:30pm, sources at the BNP...
A textile engineer was shot to death by miscreants at Green Road in the city on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Saddin Hossain Sani, 25, son of Sawkat Hossain, a resident of Green Road area, hailed from Nawabganj upazila...
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 1 million from an expatriate’s house in Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet on Monday. Locals said a gang of armed robbers, numbering 10-12, stormed the house of Abdus Sobhan, Saudi Arabia expatriate, at Muhidpur village at...
A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud in Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Reshma Begum, 35, wife of Abdus Salam of Balighat village in Sreepur...
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Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
Indian authorities returned 18 children, who languished in jail for four years for entering the country illegally, to Bangladesh authorities at Jessore’s Benapole on Monday. Border Security Force (BSF) of India and its immigration police handed over the children to...
A woman and her son were chopped to death allegedly by her husband in Paikgachha upazila in Khulna early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Anima Das, 35, wife of Dipak Das, a resident of Kazimosa village, and their son...
Miscreants tortured a man and dumped his body beside Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi highway at Haripur in Chapainawabganj town at some time between Sunday night and Monday morning. Local people found the slaughtered body of the unidentified man, aged around 45, on Monday...
Transport workers enforced bus strike for an indefinite period on all routes of Thakurgaon, Panchagarh and Dinajpur districts on Tuesday demanding a ban on plying of illegal shallow engine-run vehicles on the highways in the region. Nine associations, including Bus...
An alleged drug trader has been arrested at Shibaloya upazila in Manikganj district on Monday afternoon. The arrested was identified as Humayun Kabir Sarkar, 32, son of Sahimuddin, a resident of Dhamshwar village in Daulatpur upazila. Rakibuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Shibaloya...
Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday following another heavy sell-off on Wall Street, with technology stocks taking a beating, while a stronger yen added to downward pressure on Japan’s Nikkei. Eyes are also on a news conference by the head...
Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 22 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than ten inches in length) raiding two launches in Dhaleshwari River in Munshiganj Sadar upazila on Tuesday. Sources at Coast Guard headquarters said a team from Coast Guard Station...
Noted journalist ABM Musa has been put on life support at Labaid Hospital in the city from Monday night. He was taken to the hospital on March 20 as he has been suffering from old age complexities for a long...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged drug peddler in possession of 308 kilograms of hemp in Brahmanpara upazila in Comilla district on Monday. The arrested is Hanif, 32, a resident of Mollika Dighi village in the upazila....
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants in police uniforms killed four soldiers Tuesday in an attack on a special forces' checkpoint in southeastern Yemen, a security official said. The attack is the latest in a series of deadly operations against security forces blamed...
A rare Ming-era wine cup broke the world auction record for any Chinese porcelain on Tuesday, selling in Hong Kong for $36.05 million to Shanghai tycoon Liu Yiqian, Sotheby's auction house said. The tiny white porcelain cup, decorated with a...
A gang of muggers swooped on a policeman and his wife, hacking the cop and taking away gold-made ornaments from his wife in Goran area in the city on Tuesday. The victims were identified as Nazrul Islam, 38, a constable...
Pakistan's cricket chief Najam Sethi has said his predecessor spurned an offer by India to join the so-called "big three" during a major reorganisation of the game's administration. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was initially one of three countries which...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the intra-party conflict among the pro-Awami League lawyers was behind the recent election debacles in Dhaka District Bar Association and Supreme Court Bar Association. In this connection, she put emphasis on the strong...
Ships listening for underwater signals from Flight MH370 have logged no more "pings" and will spend several more days trying to pinpoint a crash site before a mini-sub is launched to scour the seabed, searchers say. A month to the...
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