The Iraq government proposed to Bangladesh government Sunday to establish direct air connectivity between Dhaka and Baghdad. Iraqi Ambassador to Bangladesh Shakir Qasem Mahdi Al submitted the proposal of starting direct Dhaka-Baghdad flight to Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed...
Crimea’s Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96-percent vote in favour of quitting Ukraine and annexation by Russia in a referendum Western powers said was illegal and will bring immediate sanctions. As state media in Russia carried a startling reminder of its...
Some 63.52 percent of voters cast their votes in the third phase elections in 81 upazilas of the country's 41 districts held on Saturday. According to the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout in Saturday's elections was 63.52 percent. The...
The 94th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being celebrated across the country Monday as the National Children’s Day. The day is a public holiday. On March 17 in 1920, the architect of the nation was born at...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi on the occasion of the 94th birth anniversary...
Kuala Lumpur has made a renewed call for official assistance from south-eastern and south Asian nations including Bangladesh as the search operation for the missing Malaysian jet entered a new phase involving 25 countries. Prime Minister Najib Razak spoke to...
The body of a schoolboy was recovered on Sunday from a canal of Shitalakhhya River in Narayanganj eight days after he went missing. The deceased was identified as Sabbir, 11, a class III student of Gopchar Government Primary School and...
Chinese shares were higher in morning trade on Monday on expectations that the government’s plans for greater urbanisation would boost the economy, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.14 percent, or 2.83 points, to 2,007.17. The Shenzhen Composite...
Tokyo stocks fell 0.44 percent on Monday morning after Crimea voted to break away from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum described by the West as illegal. The Nikkei 225-index, which sank 3.30 percent Friday, slipped 63.45 points to...
Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session 0.33 percent lower on Monday on growing tensions in Eastern Europe, after Crimeans chose to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, in a vote slammed as illegal by the West. The benchmark...
Asian markets were mixed on Monday on renewed concerns over Ukraine after Crimea voted to break away from the former Soviet republic and join Russia, leading the West to warn of further sanctions against Moscow. Investors remain cautious following a...
Several dead bodies were floating in the Meghna River at island Upazila Hatia in Noakhali district, local people say. Police and coastguards, however, claimed their ignorance about the corpses. Locals said they saw the bodies floating in the river since...
Bangladesh's all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and Afghanistan’s pacer Dawlat Zadran have been fined for breach of the ICC’s Code of Conduct in the World Twenty20 opening match at Sher-e-Bangla national stadium at Mirpur in Dhaka on Sunday. Both will lose...
At least 14 leaders and activists of BNP, including the Ishwardi municipality mayor, were manhandled by an angry mob at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna on Sunday afternoon. Witnesses said the mob made the attack on them allegedly for wooing voters...
State Minister for Land Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Jabed has paid a surprise visit to a Chittagong land office and temporarily suspended two land officers and issued order to transfer a peon for their alleged involvement with irregularities and corruption. The state...
A college student and a garment worker have been killed by unidentified miscreants in Chittagong city. The bodies of the two young men were found in a septic tank of an under-construction building on Monday morning. The hands and legs...
At least 15 people, including a union parishad (UP) chairman, were injured in a clash between supporters of Awami League and BNP at Sanyasi Bazar under Rampal upazila in Bagerhat on Sunday evening. Quoting locals, Nizamul Haque Molla, superintendent of...
At least 15 shops and five houses were gutted by a fire that broke out at Borobazar in Kishoreganj town on Sunday night. Pran Nath Saha, deputy director of Kishoreganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire originated from...
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his mazar in Tungipara in Gopalganj on Monday morning marking the 94th birth anniversary of the great leader. President Abdul...
Twenty-two of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve respective export targets for the first seven months (July-January) of the current fiscal (2013-14). The key Bangladesh missions like Washington, London, Ottawa, Canberra and New Delhi failed to achieve...
Unidentified miscreants have shot to death two young men and dumped the bodies in a pond and a ditch at Pashchim Deliai Bazar under Chatkhil upazila in Noakhali district. Local people noticed the bodies floating in a pond and a...
Miscreants stabbed a local activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and cut off the tendons of his two legs and one hand in Charghat upazila in Rajshahi district on Sunday night. The victim was identified as Roki, 22, son of...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited contributed Taka 10 million for organising Asian Games Qualifying Hockey Tournament 2014. In this connection, President of Bangladesh Hockey Federation Air Vice Marshal Mohammad Enamul Bari, NDU, PSC and Managing Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited...
Three members of a family were killed and an unspecified number of people injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a dwelling house at Suabeel village in Fatikchhari upazila in Chittagong district on Monday. Identity of the deceased and the...
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ACCA has confirmed that Chevron Bangladesh has met the quality criteria for the Award of Approved Employer Trainee Development-Platinum and BRAC EPL Investments Limited with Professional Development. This means that all finance and accounting employees who are registered as students...
British mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy Spanish cable television and Internet provider Ono for $10 billion, it said on Monday. Vodafone, flush with cash from the sale of its US joint-venture stake to partner Verizon for $130...
More than 100 million Chinese are to be given vital documents making them officially residents of the country's cities under a broad plan for the urbanisation that is crucial to economic growth. China's new leaders under President Xi Jinping who...
Police have filed three cases over polls violence at Daganbhuiyan Upazila in Feni district. The cases were filed on Sunday night against 267 people. Thirty-seven of them were named, including BNP-backed chairman candidate Akbar Hossain, said Daganbhuiyan Police Station OC...
Crimea's regional assembly on Monday declared independence from Ukraine and applied to join Russia, saying all Ukrainian state property on the peninsula would be nationalised. "The republic of Crimea appeals to the United Nations and to all countries of the...
Two men have been fined and jailed for serving rotten chicken in a hotel in Gazipur district. ‘Surma Hotel’ owner Kashem Ali, 50, and his son-in-law Abu Reza, 28, were the ones punished, police said. Joydebpur police station Sub-Inspector Jahirul...
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