Miscreants shot a young man to death at Boalmari village at Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga early Monday. Local farmers found the body of the man, aged around 30, at Sadarpur field at the village around 10:00am and informed police. The...
A housewife and her daughter were slaughtered by unknown miscreants in the CDA Residential Area in Agrabad of Chittagong city on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Rizia Khatun, 50, and her daughter Saima Akhtar, 18. Tanvir Arafat, assistant...
A truck driver and his assistant (helper) were killed as the vehicle plunged into a roadside ditch at Raipur under Daudkandi upazila in Comilla district on Monday. The dead are Dulal Mia, driver of the truck, and his helper Manjur....
A college student drowned in a pond at M M College in Jessore town on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Shubho, 20, an honours 6th semester student of Jessore M M College and son of Jahid Hossain, a...
The Cabinet in a meeting on Monday afternoon approved the draft of the 'Toll Policy, 2014', according to a news agency.
The half-day hartals (shutdown), called by the local units of BNP and its allies, have been observed peacefully in three upazilas of Khulna on Monday. Local units of the BNP and other components of the 19-party alliance led by it,...
A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murder. The group, members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a larger trial involving more than...
Russian troops have seized control of a Crimean naval base at Feodosia, the third such attack in 48 hours, Ukrainian officials have said. Defence spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said the Russians had attacked the base from two directions using armoured personnel...
Asian markets climbed on Monday despite fresh evidence indicating that China’s manufacturing sector is shrinking as Tokyo rebounded from a heavy sell-off in the previous session. The dollar edged up slightly against the yen but investors remain on edge over...
Gunmen in Yemen killed at least 20 Yemeni soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in Hadramawt province on Monday, the official news agency Saba reported. "Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint" near Reida,...
South Korea launched a gold trading exchange for the first time on Monday in a bid to help counter the country's burgeoning black market in the precious metal. Smuggled gold is traded secretly through underground markets in South Korea and...
Vehicles will now have to pay toll for using national, regional and district highways under Roads and Highways Department (RHD) of the Ministry of Communications, Bangladesh. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting in the city on Monday. Prime...
At least eight people were killed and 18 were missing when a massive landslide slammed "like a freight train" into a mountainside community in the northwestern United States, rescue officials said. The wall of mud, rocks and trees smashed into...
Eighteen people were injured, five dwelling houses vandalised and looted, and a business establishment was torched in the post-Upazila polls violence in two districts on Monday. A series of clashes between the supporters of chairman candidates affiliated with BNP and...
Ukraine's acting president announced on Monday that the ex-Soviet nation's troops have been given orders to withdraw from Crimea following the peninsula's seizure and annexation by Russia. "The national security and defence council has reached a decision, under instructions from...
A visiting European parliamentary delegation sees no point in holding an early election unless all political parties take part. Jean Lambert, leader of a four-member cross-party delegation, said in a media meet on Monday that they still stood by the...
Finnish telecom company Nokia on Monday said the sale of its handset business to US technology giant Microsoft would be delayed by a few weeks until April 2014. Nokia said that it continued to make progress with Microsoft in the...
China has demanded a clear explanation from the United States following reports that it infiltrated the servers of the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei. The company said it would condemn the invasion of its networks if the reports in the New...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson on Monday expressed concern over the media reports of ‘interference’ and ‘transgressions’ in the upazila polls now being held in phases, and hoped that the Election Commission would investigate it ‘fully and transparently’...
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Stocks witnessed sharp decline Monday for the second running session and the key index of the prime bourse dipped below 4,500 points mark as most of the investors went for selling spree. Meanwhile, a group of investors staged demonstration in...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde on Monday urged China to carry out reforms to make its economic growth model more inclusive, cleaner and sustainable. "While headline growth numbers remain impressive, this disguises some serious obstacles that need to...
DHL Express, the world's leading express company, has recently signed an agreement with Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL), to provide international express delivery to the bank and its customers. An official corporate signing ceremony took place between DHL Express Bangladesh...
The more active a mother is, the more physically active her child will be, suggests a UK study of 500 mums and four-year-olds. But many mothers' exercise levels fell way below recommended levels, it said. Researchers from Cambridge and Southampton...
A Dhaka court has sent 13 people to jail in a triple murder case. Senior Judicial Magistrate Afroja Shiuli passed the order on Monday afternoon turning down the bail petitions of the accused. Earlier, in the morning, the 13 accused...
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder on Monday, a defence lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement. The ruling was the biggest mass death...
Victims of child sexual abuse could soon be identified more quickly thanks to law enforcement agency work on a cloud-based archive of abuse material. The database has been created to help investigators cope with the vast amount of images abusers...
An Australian plane has spotted two objects in the hunt for the missing Malaysia plane, and a ship has arrived in the area to find them. The objects could be picked up in the southern Indian Ocean in a few...
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports demanded a fair share of Teesta River waters at a protest rally in Nilphamari. The committee took out a procession in the city in Monday also to protest...
The dollar held steady Monday following a surge last week on comments from Federal Reserve head Janet Yellen as Tokyo shares rebounded from a six-week low. In afternoon trading, the greenback fetched 102.43 yen, rising from 102.23 yen in New...
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