KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 21 (AP): The first plane sent Friday to fly over one of the remotest places on Earth returned empty-handed from its hunt through rough seas for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, Australian...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The government is set to miss its revised ongoing Aman rice procurement target during the current season although its collection has lately shown an upward trend compared to that of the last season's achievement. The government on November 27, 2013...
The death of a pregnant housewife, who is claimed by her husband to have hanged herself, in the city's Matikata area under Cantonment Police Station Thursday night, is still shrouded in mystery. Police detained the victim's husband for interrogation in...
SAVAR, Mar 21: At least 50 people, including some Dhaka University students, were injured as a picnic bus collided head-on with a truck at Ashulia on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Friday morning. Ashulia thana officer-in-charge Badrul Alam said the Mankganj-bound double-decker...
COLOMBO, March 21: Sri Lanka's economy grew a weaker-than-expected 7.3 per cent last year, the country's central bank said today as it kept interest rates at multi-year lows as it looks to boost private investment and lending. The Central Bank...
Admission tests in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have witnessed a low turnout of applicants this year and its vice chancellor has blamed it on snags over admission system and repeated postponement of the test schedule. "I have...
A young housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband on Friday. Police recovered the body of Ranu Begum, 19, wife of Sabbir, 25, from her room at Najarganj Khalpar under Keraniganj Model Police Station in the afternoon. Sabbir...
India has reassured Bangladesh that its Border Security Force (BSF) is exercising ‘utmost restraint’ in an effort to bring down the killing of Bangladesh nationals at the border to zero level. The assurance came during a foreign secretary level meeting...
Jim Bolger, special envoy to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Sunday) on a two-day visit. An official at the Foreign Ministry said Jim Bolger, also a former Prime Minister of New Zealand,...
BNP has alleged that the Election Commission has been working in favour of Awami League-backed candidates in the 4th upazila (UZ) polls. "The Election Commission is working to make ruling party-supported candidates winners in the upazila elections. We along with...
Myanmar has said it is building new checkpoints along its border with Bangladesh in volatile Rakhine state. Myanmar’s Home Minister has informed the Myanmar parliament that the government is also resuming the construction of a fence along the border. Khin...
The S&P 500 hit a new intraday record on Friday afternoon but stocks then pulled back ahead of the weekend amid profit taking and caution over the Ukraine crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 28.28 points (0.17 percent)...
Four workers sustained burn injuries in a fire ensuing from a boiler explosion at a factory in Keraniganj upazila in the outskirts of the city on Saturday. The identity of the victims could not be known immediately. Witnesses and employees...
The Old Brahmaputra, once a mighty river running through Narsingdi district, is now dying because of unabated discharge of factory wastes and chemicals apart from encroachment. Some 100 dyeing factories and textile industries set up over 5-6 kilometers of the...
The bodies of a couple, who went missing in a boat capsize in Kaptai Lake on Wednesday, were recovered on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Alauddin Patwari, an American expatriate, and his wife Ireen Sultana. Mohamamd Imtiaz Ahmed,...
Unidentified miscreants have shot dead two persons including a woman at Goalanda in Rajbarhi. Police, however, could not ascertain the cause of the murders immediately on Friday. Three young men riding a motorcycle shot Salmi, 40, who lived at the...
A Bangladeshi is among the victims of Thursday’s Taliban attack on a restaurant of a Kabul luxury hotel usually considered safe and frequented by foreigners. The attack, two weeks before a presidential election, left nine dead – four of them...
Police arrested two alleged terrorists along with a gun and a number of bullets and bombs at Sadar upazila in Jhenidah district on Friday evening. The arrested were identified as Bishawjit Kumar, 24, son of Nitya Gopal, and Sazzatur Rahman,...
Families of railway security staff who suffered death or injury during pre-poll violence are looking for jobs, not financial compensation. They say that compensation only brings some relief for a while. For several months in the rundown to the January...
A night guard of a sand quarry was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Adalot Para at Brahmanbaria town on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mokbul, 35. Informed by local people, police recovered the body and sent it...
The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday withdrew 21 presiding officers appointed at Kalaroa Upazila (UZ) in Satkhira for the fourth phase of the UZ polls. Confirming the matter, Kalaroa Upazila Election Officer Benzir Ahmed said the 21 presiding officers were...
Two weeks after a Malaysia Airlines airliner went missing with 239 people on board, officials are bracing for the “long haul” as searches by more than two dozen countries turn up little but frustration and fresh questions. The international team...
Police arrested six fugitive accused from different parts of Moulvibazar district on Friday. The arrested were identified as Mamun Mia, 20, Dulal Pal, 30, Rumman Mia, 22, Midul Ahmed, 28, Musa Mia, 45, and Tofail Ahmed, 29. Acting on secret...
A man has been killed and two other people have been injured in a bomb explosion at Sonagazi upazila in Feni district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Dulal Mia, 35. Locals said Dulal Mia was hit by...
A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) will arrive in Dhaka on Monday on a two-day visit (March 24-25) to discuss post-election scenario in Bangladesh and see the progress made in the readymade garment industry after the Rana Plaza building...
At least nine people, including two Bangladeshis, died in an attack on a 5-star hotel in Kabul at the weekend. One of the Bangladesh nationals killed in the gun attack was identified by Bangladesh's permanent representative to the UN, Dr...
More than 1,200 supporters of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi will face charges starting from Saturday, the country's biggest trial since the Islamist president's ouster by the army in July, judicial sources said. The mass trial is part of a crackdown by...
A light aircraft used for skydiving crashed in an airfield in eastern Australia on Saturday and burst into flames, killing all five people on board, police said. The plane veered left shortly after taking off from the Caboolture airstrip, 50...
A collision between two passenger buses and a petrol tanker killed 35 people in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, with many of the victims burning to death. A bus travelling to Karachi collided with the tanker in the early...
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