Indians have begun voting in the world’s biggest election, with the ruling Congress party pitted against the Hindu nationalist BJP opposition. The nine-phase ballot begins on Monday and concludes on 12 May. Votes will be counted on May 16. More...
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Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the second trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
Andrea Jung has been named President, CEO and a director of Grameen America, a top microfinance organisation in the United States. Jung, the former Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc. and longtime champion of women's issues, joins Grameen America...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) have discovered yet another gold haul in the country’s second largest airport. They seized 53 gold bars from a passenger on transit at the port city’s lone international airport on Monday. The gold...
He has stood in every Indian parliamentary election since 1962 – and lost every one – but that has not deterred 78-year-old Shyam Babu Subudhi from throwing his hat into the ring once again. Dr Subudhi is a homeopathy practitioner...
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP’s Acting Secretary General, has obtained a six-month bail from the High Court in a murder case filed by police last year. The bench of justices Borhanuddin and KM Kamrul Kader granted the bail to the...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday underlined the importance of chalking out educational programmes by the country’s universities in line with the global job market. “Educational programmes need to be worked out in line with the international labour market. In the...
Hong Kong stocks fell 0.59 per cent on Monday morning following heavy losses on Wall Street, despite an upbeat US jobs report. The benchmark Hang Seng Index slipped 133.65 points to 22,376.43 by the break on turnover of HK $...
At least 14 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Gangarampur Bazar in Shalikha upazila in Magura on Sunday night. Maniruzzaman, an official of Magura Fire Service, said the fire originated from an electric shot circuit at...
Vice chancellors (VC) of several universities have demanded an end to campus politics by teachers and students of public universities. They made the suggestion at a recent meeting of University Council, a forum of the VCs, following the death of...
Asian markets retreated on 0Monday, taking their lead from a heavy sell-off on Wall Street despite a healthy US jobs report, while the dollar struggled to regain losses suffered against the yen at the end of last week. Tokyo’s benchmark...
At least 10 cops were injured in a clash with Islami Chhatra Shibir activists at Uttar Kathaltali village in Barlekha upazila in Sylhet on Sunday night. Police and locals said the activists of the local unit of Shibir, the student...
Although Boro cultivation at Muria Haor in Sylhet is frequently affected by flashfloods, the government has taken no remedial measures so far. Each year, huge Boro paddy on a vast track of land in Muria Haor gets inundated by flashfloods,...
A fire broke out at a dwelling house at Mirboxtula in Sylhet city on Sunday night burning down valuables worth more than one million taka. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric shot circuit at a room...
A Chittagong court has withdrawn a tax evasion case against former Chittagong City Corporation Mayor and Awami League leader ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. Divisional Special Judge Ataur Rahman issued the order on Monday, more than four years after the home ministry...
Swiss cement firm Holcim is to buy French rival Lafarge to create the world's biggest cement maker with combined sales of 32bn euros (£26.5bn; $44bn). Under the terms of the deal, Lafarge shareholders will receive one Holcim share for each...
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview published Monday that his Lebanese Shiite group was behind a blast that targeted Israeli troops on the border between the two countries last month. "Yes, the explosion in the Shebaa Farms that...
A candidate who was virtually unknown just months ago was elected Costa Rica's president Sunday, becoming the first third-party member to win the highest office in decades. Luis Guillermo Solis with the moderate Citizen Action Party (PAC) soundly defeated ruling...
Japan and Australia will announce a free trade deal Monday, reports said, in a rare opening of Japan's protected markets, even as talks to ink a huge Asia-Pacific agreement run into trouble. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Australian...
The Communist Party won a surprise victory against President Vladimir Putin's ruling party in a mayoral race in Russia's third largest city of Novosibirsk, election officials said on Monday. Communist lawmaker Anatoly Lokot won 43.75 percent of the vote against...
Ctg train crash kills one Reported by: UNBconnect Reported on: April 7th, 2014 02:54:26 pm Mirsaria, (Chittagong) Apr 7 (UNB) – A female passenger was killed and 10 people were injured as three compartments of a train derailed at Abunagar...
An Australian navy ship has detected new underwater signals consistent with aircraft black boxes, the search chief said Monday, describing it as the "most promising lead" so far in the month-old hunt for missing Flight MH370. Retired Australian defence force...
Media organisations are renewing a call for the release of three al-Jazeera journalists who have been held for 100 days since being arrested in Egypt. The trio, including former BBC reporter Peter Greste, went on trial in February, accused of...
Three compartments of the Dhaka-bound Karnaphuli Express went off the rails in Chittagong's Mirsharai on Monday. Railway control room said the accident took place between Mirsharai and Mastan Nagar railway stations around 12:30pm on Monday. Police are saying at least...
Top Indian drug giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said Monday it had agreed to buy its troubled peer Ranbaxy for $4 billion in stock, ending its ill-fated six-year control by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo. The deal will create India's biggest drugs manufacturer...
Indian police have lodged a criminal case against three Israeli diplomats for allegedly abusing and injuring an airport immigration official, despite them enjoying diplomatic immunity, an officer said Monday. A scuffle broke out late Saturday when the consular officials were...
Ukraine's embattled prime minister on Monday accused Russia of trying to "dismember" his country by plotting seizures of government buildings in eastern regions that are seeking to break away from Kiev. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's latest volley against Ukraine's giant...
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Stocks returned to the green Monday, a day after negative trend with turnover improved slightly as investors took position on large cap stocks amid optimism. The market opened with a positive note and the uptrend continued till the market closure....
India’s policy and interest towards Bangladesh would not change even if there is a change of regime in New Delhi after the elections, which started from Monday, its high commissioner in Dhaka has said. Pankaj Saran on Monday said relationships...
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