Arafat Ara | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
A significant number of Bangladeshi workers are now getting jobs in the war-torn countries without being assured of job security there, sources said. They said as the government was unable to create a desired level of overseas employment, it was...
Eighty-one more upazila (UZ) parishads in the country's 41 districts are going to polls today (Saturday) in the third phase of the staggered local government elections. The voting will open at 8am and continue until 4pm without any break. The...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-03-15 00:00:00
A 150-megawatt power generation project was required to be revised for the third time by raising the cost nearly 200 per cent due to failure of the project executing agencies to complete the work in time, officials said Friday. Government...
LONDON, Mar 14 (AFP): The United States and Russia failed on Friday to resolve a Cold-War-style crisis sparked by Moscow's military intervention in Crimea and the Ukrainian peninsula's weekend referendum on joining Kremlin rule. US Secretary of State John Kerry...
FE Report Processing of compensation claims for the Rana Plaza victims will officially start from March 24 from an office in Savar, according to a statement issued by Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC). Welcoming the launch of the Rana Plaza Arrangement...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 14: A fire broke out at a factory at Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in the city on Friday morning. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the factory Sanko Optical Co...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad arrives in the city today (Saturday) to attend the second convocation of the University of Information, Technology and Sciences (UITS) to be held in Dhaka on the same day. President Abdul Hamid...
Muggers shot the caretaker of a house to death and took away his motorcycle at Mirpur in the capital early Friday. The deceased, identified as Saidur Rahman (34), son of late Mekabbar, hailed from Nurandi village in Sadar upazila of...
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq said on Friday the government will take steps to ban Jamaat-e-Islami by June this year for its involvement in crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971. "The government is thinking of...
Four members of a family, including a woman and her two children, were burned to death in a fire at Binodpur village under Sadar upazila in Munshiganj district Saturday. Three of the deceased were identified as Firoza Begum, 25, wife...
The third phase of the Upazila (UZ) polls started at 8am on Saturday. In this phase, 81 Upazila Parishads (council) in 41 districts will go to the hustings. Polling will go on until 4pm. “We are all ready and determined...
A lynch mob has killed three people suspecting them to be robbers at Trishal Upazila in Mymensingh district. The incident occurred at Kathal Rajabari village under Kalirbazar around 10pm on Friday, said Firoz Talukder, the OC at Trishal Police Station....
The much-talked-about T+2 trading cycle (trading day plus two days) for share settlement is set to be introduced at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country’s premier bourse, on April 16, aiming to give a further boost to the share...
Rail communications on the Dhaka-Chittagong route, which remained suspended following derailment of a container train in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district, resumed after four hours on Saturday morning. Kishore Narayan Chowdhury, an official of Bhairab Rail Station, said a bogie...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received cheques of financial assistance from various corporate houses, banks, insurance companies, telecom operators and private sector entrepreneurs for hosting the ICC T20 World Cup cricket tournament and staging the ‘Lokkho Kontho’ at the National...
Police arrested a man along with firearms and ammunition on the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway at Belpukuria under Puthia upazila in Rajshahi on Friday. The arrested was identified as Sharif Ali, 34, son of Liakat Ali of Shabti village in Narayaganj port...
Although the newly passed Anti Corruption Commission (Amendment) Act, 2013 has given more power to the ACC to conduct probes into graft allegations, its investigation and inquiry officers are facing hassles in collecting documents due to complications in interpretation of...
A Shibir activist was killed in an attack allegedly by rival party men during the third phase of voting in the ongoing upazila elections in Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Jamaat-e-Islami's district unit claimed the murdered youth was an...
The growing diplomatic crisis over Ukraine rattled markets, producing the deepest declines in US stocks for a single week since January. All three indices fell, with the biggest losses coming in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which sank 387.05 (2.35...
A carpenter killed self by hanging from the ceiling of his room after strangulating his wife to death over family feud in Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh sometimes between Friday night and early morning Saturday. The deceased were identified as Khokon...
Bangladesh has joined the international community in searching a Malaysian jet which has been ‘missing’ for a week. Two patrol aircraft and as many frigates will be deployed to assist the international community in tracing the Malaysian missing aircraft from...
Malaysia's former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohammad arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning to attend the convocation of the University of Information, Technology and Sciences (UITS). A special aircraft carrying Dr Mahathir landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport...
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday arrested 11 suspected JMB members from different areas of Mymensingh district in connection with Trishal convicted militants snatching incident. The defectives also during the drive that...
India's Border Security Force (BSF) have sent five Bangladeshi nationals back home after they completed two years in an Indian jails for illegally entering into the neighbouring country. They were handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the Benapole...
A BNP-backed chairman candidate at Muladi Upazila in Barisal district has pulled out of the local government polls. Chairman aspirant Abdus Sattar Khan alleged ruling party supporters had taken over polling centres in the Upazila (UZ) during the third phase...
Eight candidates stayed away from the race in upazila (UZ) elections in Barisal, Bagerhat and Shariatpur districts on Saturday on various allegations. In Barisal, four chairman candidates, including a BNP-backed one, withdrew from polls in Muladi upazila alleging that the...
Share prices in Russia’s top bourses plunged to a four-year low at the weekend as jittery investors dumped their holdings ahead of a referendum in Crimea over its bid to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. Moscow’s two main...
Gunmen killed five soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint on Saturday in a brazen morning attack the military blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi. The attack came two days after gunmen killed a soldier in Cairo,...
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