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...
South Africa pulled off a nail-biting two-run victory against New Zealand for their first win in a Group 2 match of World T20 at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Monday. Jean-Paul Duminy was awarded the Man of the...
The commerce ministry has proposed bulk import of Ehylene oxide gas replacing the current cumbersome practice of bringing it in cylinders. The proposal includes setting up a bottling plant of the gas making it easy and cheaper for the local...
United Airways (BD) Limited will resume its flight on Chittagong-Muscat-Chittagong route from April 15. The one way fare for Chittagong-Muscat starts from Tk 21,988 and return fare Tk 41,485 (inclusive of all taxes), says a press release. Weekly three flights...
Consumers have been requested by icddr,b not to buy fake saline, which is reportedly being sold in the market in the name of icddr,b saline. Original packets of icddr,b branded rice based oral saline produced by the icddr,b Employees’ Multipurpose...
On the closing day of the re-hearing on summing-up arguments, both the prosecution and the defence lawyers made contradictory claims over the fate of war crimes accused, the 1971 villainous Al Badr supremo Motiur Rahman Nizami, and now Jamaat-e-Islami ameer....
A three-member delegation of Tohoku University of Japan called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office on Monday. Prof Dr Toshifumi Takada of Accounting School of the university is leading the delegation while the...
West Indies women’s team made a good start in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 beating England eves team by nine runs in the Group B opener at the Sylhet Stadium Monday. Sent into bat first, the West Indies women scored...
Uttara Bank, United Insurance and Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company Ltd approved cash and stock dividends Monday for the year ended on December 31, 2013. The Board of Directors of Uttara Bank has recommended 15 per cent cash dividend and 10...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised Executive Development Programme (EDP) at Muhammad Younus Auditoriam of Islami Bank Tower Sunday. Presided over by Mohammad Adbul Mannan, Managing Director of the Bank, Prof. Dr. Abdulhameed Fouad Al-Khateeb, Director of IBBL & representative of...
Visiting former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Dr SY Quraishi on Monday said there is nothing wrong with any unopposed election, but it is a ‘matter of thinking’ if it happens on a large scale. “There’s nothing wrong…if a...
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