Ferry service on the Mawa-Kewrakandi river route resumed on Friday morning after a halt for three hours due to poor visibility caused by thick fog. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation manager Sirajul Haque said ferry operation in Padma River on...
A man was killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Nur Mohamad, 45, a resident fo Pashim Leda village under...
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested a man along with 22 bottles of wine at Rathkhola in Faridpur town on Thursday night. The arrested was identified as Jipu Mondol of Laxmipur area in the...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized 16 maunds of jatka from the Dhaleshwari River in Munshiganj Sadar upazila on Friday. Tipped off, a team from Coast Guard Chandpur station conducted the drive in three launches named MV...
A police informer has been murdered at Tongi in the outskirts of Dhaka city, police say. Md Nazir Ahmed, 32, worked as a source of Tongi Model Police Station, Gazipur. Nazir lived in a slum at Ershad Nagar with his...
A mentally ill young man allegedly committed suicide at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Thursday. Police recovered the body of Ruman Chowdhury, 22, son of late Syed Abdur Rauf Chowdhury of Srinathpur village under the upazila on Thursday afternoon...
A female HSC examinee was injured in an attack allegedly by her stalker at Dabarpar Bazar village under Kaunia upazila in Rangpur on Thursday. The victim was identified as Sharmin Akter, an HSC examinee of Haragachha Degree College and daughter...
A man was beaten to death allegedly by his brother-in-law at Palsha at Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Jashim Uddin, 36, son of Amir Master of Bildanga area in Nachol upazila of the district....
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 25 people at Satkhira Sadar upazila while they were being trafficked to India on Thursday. Subedar Kabir Ahmed, commanding officer of Taluigachha BGB camp, said acting on a tip-off that some Bangladeshis were...
At least 60 people were injured in separate clashes at Ashuganj and Sarail upazilas in Brahmanbaria district on Thursday afternoon. Police brought the situation under control by lobbing teargas canisters and firing rubber bullets. At Vuishor village under Sarail upazila,...
India has returned three Bangladeshis arrested while illegally trying to go to Malaysia via sea. The Border Security Force (BSF) handed them over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday night at the Benepole border in Jessore. The youths have...
US stocks rebounded in weekend trade from the previous Federal Reserve-sparked losses, as markets turned to favorable US economic data for inspiration. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 108.88 points (0.67 percent) at 16,331.05. The broad-based S&P 500 advanced...
European stock markets ended mixed on Thursday, after bright data helped Wall Street recover from the prospect of an earlier-than-expected hike in US interest rates. London's FTSE 100 slid 0.47 percent to 6,542.44 points, but the CAC 40 in Paris...
Asian markets moved slightly higher on Friday as bargain-hunters moved in after the previous session's heavy losses, with investors taking a lead from Wall Street and a positive batch of US data. Hong Kong nudged 0.27 percent higher, Sydney added...
Bengali journalist from India Shubhranshu Choudhary has edged out whistleblower Edward Snowden to win the 2014 Google Digital Activism Award. The former BBC producer, whose family hails from what is now Bangladesh, has been honoured by this award because he...
At least 26 people, including several Dhaka University students, were injured when a picnic bus carrying them collided with a truck at Ashulia under Savar upazila, police have said. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Aricha highway’s Beltola area on Friday...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday defended his decision to reveal authorities had spotted possible wreckage from a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, saying he owed it to the families affected. Abbott told parliament in Canberra on Thursday that satellite...
Police suspect enmity of two businessmen behind the murder of an Ansar member in Moghbazar area of Dhaka city. Abdul Alim, 28, was shot dead at around 1:00am on Thursday in front of BTCL colony near Wireless Gate. Ramna Police...
Allrounder Elton Chigumbura struck a fiery half-century to help Zimbabwe achieve a five-wicket win over United Arab Emirates in Sylhet on Friday, keeping their hopes of reaching the next round alive. Chigumbura smashed three sixes and six boundaries in his...
Scores of gunmen took over the headquarters of a federal police battalion in northern Iraq early on Friday before driving a tanker laden with explosives into the building, killing many, a government official said. The commander of the battalion and...
A farmer was killed in a clash over irrigating a cropland at Nagua village in Tarakanda upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Rokonuddin,65. Tarakanda thana officer-in-charge Ali Ahmed said Najimuddin locked into an altercation with his neighbour Taher...
Russia's upper house of parliament on Friday unanimously voted to ratify the treaty incorporating Crimea into Russian territory in defiance of the international community's insistence that the peninsula is part of Ukraine. All 155 senators present voted at a televised...
Almost four years after the world met the global target set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for safe drinking water, and after the UN General Assembly declared that water was a human right, over three-quarters of a billion people,...
At least nine civilians including children and foreigners were killed in a Taliban attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan's interior ministry said Friday, the latest violence to hit the country just weeks before the presidential election. Four teenage...
The international team hunting for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean has not turned up anything so far, and Australia's deputy prime minister said the suspected debris may have sunk. Aircraft and ships have renewed a search...
Thailand's general election held last month was declared invalid Friday after disruption by opposition protesters, setting the scene for possible talks between warring political parties about new polls to end the deadlock. While the ruling from the Constitutional Court further...
Rating agency Fitch has downgraded the outlook for Russia's credit rating fearing an economic fall-out from the Crimean crisis. Fitch said in a statement released on Friday that it has revised the outlook for Russia's debt to reflect the potential...
A new study published in the journal Science finds that the human sense of smell can detect more than 1 trillion odors, far exceeding the number previous studies have indicated. Humans can discriminate several million different colors and nearly half...
The country’s GDP growth will be around 5.6 per cent in the current fiscal year, the lowest in over a decade, says a renowned economist though Finance Minister AMA Muhith still looks optimistic about achieving ambitious 7.2 per cent target....
The World Water Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere around the globe on Saturday, aiming to raise awareness to save water. This year’s theme of the Day is ‘Water and Energy’, directly related to the management of...
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