Ukraine is drawing up plans to withdraw its soldiers and their families from Crimea, Kiev’s security chief says. Andriy Parubiy said they wanted to move them "quickly and efficiently" to mainland Ukraine. Earlier, pro-Russian forces seized two naval bases –...
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has published the seat plans for the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) written examinations on compulsory subjects. It was published on the PSC website on Wednesday afternoon. The written tests, beginning on Monday (March 24)...
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The prices of most of the shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index...
A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at Kaliganj upazila in Satkhira district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sarmin Sultana, 11, student of Class V and daughter of Soleman Gazi of Soilpur village under the upazila. Police...
A minor boy was hacked to death by miscreants and the body was dumped in a field in Bera upazila in Pabna district on Wednesday. Police quoting locals said second-grader Ramin, 9, son of Habibur Rahman Khan of Boalia and...
Russia and the United States exchanged threats on Wednesday at a tense UN security council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with the Russian envoy saying the US ambassador's "insults" are jeopardising Moscow's willingness to cooperate with Washington on other diplomatic...
Police recovered 500 crude bombs from an abandoned house at Fulgazi upazila in Feni district on Wednesday night. Acting on secret information, police conducted a drive at the house at Hasanpur village and recovered the 500 crude bombs at about...
A trucker was arrested along with 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet at Moijjartek under Karnaphuli Police Station in Chittagong city on Thursday. The arrested is Nurul Islam, a truck driver and a resident of Purba Pankhali village at Teknaf upazila...
Asian markets fell on Thursday after the head of the US Federal Reserve hinted that the central bank could raise interest rates sooner than expected. The comments by Janet Yellen followed an expected third successive cut in the Fed's quantitative...
French soldiers have killed about 40 Islamist fighters, including some senior commanders, in Mali in recent weeks, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday. "We have conducted operations over the past weeks," Le Drian said, adding that "about 40" fighters...
Transport workers called an indefinite strike in Rajshahi district on Thursday morning protesting imprisonment of their five fellows. A mobile court sent five truck drivers to jail on March 11 awarding them one year’s imprisonment and fining them Tk 30,000...
The Dhaka District and Sessions Judge’s Court on Thursday cancelled the bail of Tazreen Fashions chairperson Mahmuda Akter and ordered her to surrender within 15 days. Judge Md Abdul Majid issued the order and also sought explanation from two judicial...
A mobile court in a drive fined eight fish traders at Zinzira and Aganagar kitchen markets at Keraniganj upazila for selling different kinds of formalin-mixed fish including jatka on Wednesday. Led by executive magistrate Abul Bashar Mohammad Fakruzzaman, the mobile...
Hong Kong stocks tumbled 1.79 per cent on Thursday after the head of the Federal Reserve suggested US interest rates could start to rise from early next year. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 386.53 points to 21,182.16 on turnover...
Indian writer and journalist Khushwant Singh is no more. The renowned raconteur passed away at the age of 99, India’s NDTV reported today. NDTV quoting his son Rahul Singh said Khushwant Singh breathed his last at his home in Sujan...
Australia said Thursday that two objects -- one estimated at 24 metres (79 feet) long -- had been spotted in the Indian Ocean, the "best lead we have" in the search for a Malaysian passenger jet. Four search aircraft had...
Late night bombings at a Baghdad cafe left 13 people dead, officials said Thursday, pushing the toll from a day of nationwide blasts, shootings and shellings to at least 46. The violence has been primarily driven by discontent in the...
An official of RTV, a private television station, has been hit and killed by a train in Dhaka city on Thursday. The dead is Polash Roy, son of Bhanu Roy of Astogram upazila in Kishoreganj. Witnesses said Polash was crossing...
Seven Taliban suicide attackers stormed a police station in the centre of Jalalabad city in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 policemen in a major assault ahead of the presidential election. The target of the three-hour truck bomb and gun...
Thirty gold bars weighing 3.5 kilograms were seized at Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Chittagong on Thursday. Sources said Air Customs officials recovered the gold bars worth Tk 10.5 million from the possessions of two cleaners of Bangladesh...
Kiev will never recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea and will fight for the "liberation" of the strategic Black Sea peninsula, Ukraine's parliament said in a resolution adopted on Thursday. "Ukraine will never cease to fight for the liberation of Crimea...
Separate pay scale for the employees of the central bank and state-owned banks (SoBs) is in the offing. The announcement will be made very soon, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said while addressing the annual conference of Janata Bank, a state-owned...
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Stocks rebounded Thursday, breaking fifth session’s losing streak with turnover dropped almost three months low as natural buy pressure helping the market to make some recovery. The market opened with a positive note and the uptrend continued till the market...
Nepal clinched a nine-runs victory over Afganistan in their last and final preliminary round match of the World T20 qualifying round at Chiitagong on Thursday. Afghanistan won the toss and decided to send Nepal to bat first. Subash Khakurel scored...
A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has convicted four men of the gang rape of a photojournalist last year. The men have been found guilty of five offences, including gang rape, unnatural sex and destruction of evidence. Sentencing...
Japan on Thursday passed its biggest-ever budget, a $937 billion spending package aimed at propping up growth as consumers brace for the country's first sales tax hike in over 15 years. A total of 136 lawmakers in the 242-member upper...
Match facts: March 20, 2014, Bangladesh v Hong Kong. Start time 1930 local (1330 GMT). Venue Chittagong. At the start of the qualifying round of the World T20, Hong Kong (HK) skipper Jamie Atkinson had wanted his team to play...
The government on Thursday set the procurement prices for rice and paddy at Tk 31 and Tk 20 per kg respectively. The Boro rice and paddy procurement drive will begin on May 1 while that of wheat on April 1,...
A mysterious illness has killed at least 23 people in southern Guinea in six weeks, but the disease has yet to be positively identified, the health ministry announced Thursday. "A feverish sickness whose first symptoms were observed on February 9...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said that introducing private partnership in the state-owned banks through offloading of shares will begin within the tenure of the present government. “Such process is already in place at Rupali Bank to some extent...
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