The 94th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed across the country Monday as the National Children’s Day. The day was a public holiday. On March 17 in 1920, the architect of the nation...
Saudi Arabia has barred 46 Bangladesh agencies from sending Hajj pilgrims this year pending an investigation on their alleged link to human trafficking, a Bangladeshi official said. “The Saudi authorities have served show cause notices to the agencies on alleged...
The first meeting under the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) between Dhaka and Washington will be held in the last week of April next, said an official on Monday. “The meeting will be held in the last week...
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, will stage demonstrations across the country Tuesday protesting the hike in power tariffs and jailing of top BNP leaders. The programme is also meant for mounting pressure on the government to release...
In a major discovery for understanding the origins of the universe, US scientists said Monday they have detected echoes of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. The “first direct evidence of cosmic inflation” was found by a telescope at...
Chevron Bangladesh and the Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS), a local NGO, have jointly launched a comprehensive two-year vocational training programme for youths in urban and semi-urban areas of Sylhet Sadar upazila, near Chevron Bangladesh’s Jalalabad gas field. The...
LONDON: European and US stock markets shrugged off Monday Crimea’s decision to join Russia, focusing instead on some positive corporate news, dealers said. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 advanced 0.38 per cent to 6,552.45 points, bolstered by news that British mobile...
SIMFEROPOL: The European Union and Washington Monday sanctioned top Russians and Ukrainians deemed responsible for a breakaway vote in Crimea that has fanned the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Official results from Sunday’s disputed referendum showed 96.77 per...
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Monday denounced the jailing of senior BNP leaders, saying it is devoid of political etiquette. “This is not the right attitude to send the senior leaders of BNP to...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury had a courtesy call on Pany Yathotou, Laos Parliament Speaker and IPU Asia-Pacific Group Chairman, at Geneva in Switzerland on Sunday. Expressing her satisfaction over the existing relations between Bangladesh and Laos, Dr Shirin Sharmin...
BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday urged the opposition leaders and activists to get united for creating a strong resistance against the government’s repressive policy. “I want to tell the party leaders and activists that the days are over...
Local Awami League (AL) on Monday called a half-day hartal in Damurhuda upazila headquarters for Tuesday demanding the cancellation of upazila polls result and withdrawal of the UNO. The shutdown call came from a rally held in Thanamor in the...
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a local Jubo Dal activist in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Babar Hossain, an activist of the BNP’s youth wing and son of Tofail Ahmed of Sonapur village in...
An assistant presiding officer was killed as a tractor rammed his motorcycle at Jhalua in Nandail upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Ripan Kumar Datta, deputy assistant agriculture officer of Gouripur upazila. Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Nandail...
Miscreants stabbed to death a young man at Lalghat in Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district on Saturday night. The dead is Fazlu Miah, 22, a worker of Bagli coal depot and son of Abdul Kuddus, a resident of Puranghat village...
Three leaders of the BNP, including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have been ordered to prison. The two others are Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas and Abdus Salam, member secretary of the party’s Dhaka Metropolitan unit. Metropolitan Magistrate...
The day-long hartal (shutdown) called for Sunday by the local unit of Jamaat-e-Islami in Satkhira’s Kaliganj Upazila has failed to evoke a response from local people. The dawn-to-dusk general strike was called to protest irregularities during Saturday’s polls to the...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy has started for his mother Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s constituency Rangpur on a two-day visit. Joy would address a rally organised by the local Awami League at the Rangpur Zila School ground on Sunday afternoon. He would...
The UAE's apex court has set a precedent when it overturned jail and deportation sentences issued by two lower courts against two Bangladeshi men accused of theft, on the grounds their confessions were wrested in the absence of an interpreter....
India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 around the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in the Bay of Bengal and are awaiting fresh instructions from Malaysia, a defence official said. “The entire operation is on...
A man was killed in a road accident in Chittagong city on Sunday morning. The dead is Md Nasir, 50, a resident of Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria distirct. Police said a battery-driven rickshaw overturned in Chaktai area under the port...
The BNP will hold protest rallies across Bangladesh on Monday after a court sent three party leaders including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail on Sunday. Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme this (Sunday)...
Love and cause knows no boundaries – as Portuguese lady Maria Conceicao has proved. She ran seven ultra-marathons in as many continents in less than seven weeks to raise $ 1 million for poor Bangladeshi children. Maria, now in Bangladesh,...
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Stocks ended lower for the third running sessions Sunday with turnover on the prime bourse dipped below Tk 3.0 billion-mark once again as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments. The market opened with a negative note and the downtrend...
Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim elected to bowl against newcomers Afghanistan in the World T20, Group A cricket tournament opener, a surprising decision considering he had earlier said how difficult it is for his team to chase in T20s. The hosts...
Afghanistan were 15 for one wicket off three overs against Bangladesh in their World Twenty20, Group A cricket tournament opener at Sher-e-Bangla national stadium at Mirpur in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon. Earlier, Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim elected to bowl against...
Afghanistan were 69 for seven wickets off 14 overs against Bangladesh in their World Twenty20, Group A cricket tournament opener at Sher-e-Bangla national stadium at Mirpur in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon. Earlier, Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim elected to bowl against...
Green Delta Insurance Company Limited has approved 15% stock dividend and 15% cash dividend for its shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2013. The approval was given at the 28th Annual General Meeting of the company, held on Saturday...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 made drastic changes in altitude and direction after disappearing from civilian radar, U.S. officials told CNN on Friday, raising questions for investigators about just who was at the controls of the commercial jetliner that went missing...
Malaysian authorities on Sunday were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of the pilots of the missing jetliner, after it was established that whoever flew off with the Boeing 777 had intimate knowledge of the cockpit and...
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