One person was killed and 10 others went missing as a passenger-packed trawler capsized in Shitalaksya River in Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Lemon Hossain, 22, operator of Pran-RFL Group and son of Kajol...
At least five houses were gutted by a fire that broke out at East Bolirhat under Bakolia Police Station in Chittagong city on Monday. Fire service officials said the fire erupted from a house in the area and it soon...
Police in a drive arrested an alleged terrorist at Kaunia village in Ramganj upazila Lakshmipur district on Monday night. The arrested was identified as Kamal Uddin, son of Rasul Karim, a resident of Faridganj upazila of neighbouring Chandpur district. Police...
The Awami League (AL) has changed the candidate whom it had earlier backed for the chairman post in Sreepur Upazila election in Gazipur. The decision has been taken following a clash between supporters of the renegade AL candidate Abdul Jalil...
A young housewife allegedly committed suicide in Tala upazila in Satkhira district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Rojina Begum, 20, wife of Zakir Hossain, a resident of Uttar Nalta village. Matiar Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Tala Police Station,...
A man was beaten to death allegedly by his nephew over a family feud in Fulbari upazila Kurigram district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Kader Bux, 57, son of late Bachchu Miah, a resident of Noadanga village. Locals...
Police arrested six alleged robbers along with a pistol and a knife from different areas in Sylhet city on Monday. The arrestees were identified as Masum Ahmad, 22, son of Azir Uddin of Kohairgarh village and Dipu Debnath, 29, son...
Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal from Arpara Bazaar in Shalikha upazila in Magura on Monday evening. The arrestee was identified as Maniruzzaman alias Chocolate, convener of Shalikha upazila unit of the BNP’s youth wing. Biplob Kumar...
Former prime minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohammad will pay a two-day visit to Bangladesh from March 15. Dr Mahathir Mohammad will arrive in Dhaka on Saturday, an official at his office at Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur has said....
US Secretary of State John Kerry has rejected an offer of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin until Moscow engages with US proposals to tackle the crisis in Ukraine. Mr Kerry told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Moscow's military...
A man travelling on a stolen passport on a missing Malaysian jet was a young Iranian who is not believed to have terrorist links, Malaysian police say. They say the 19-year-old - named as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad - was...
Troubled Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt Gox has won temporary bankruptcy protection in the US. A judge in Dallas, Texas, agreed to protect the firm's assets and temporarily halt two US lawsuits while bankruptcy proceedings occur in Japan. The firm filed...
Maoist rebels have killed at least 20 policemen in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police say. The patrol was on its way to provide security to workers building a road in Sukma district when rebels fired at them, officials say....
The World Bank is supporting the Government of Bangladesh through the Emergency Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Project (ECRRP) to help restore the lives and livelihoods of people in the coastal belt of Bangladesh affected by the Cyclone Sidr and Cyclone...
Elephants are able to differentiate between ethnicities and genders, and can tell an adult from a child - all from the sound of a human voice. This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild...
The 9th round of joint working group (JWG) meeting on trade between Bangladesh and India begins in Dhaka on Wednesday to review the current status of bilateral trade and discuss measures to improve trade ties further. Joint Secretary, Ministry of...
The body of a Krishak League leader, apparently killed by stabbing, was found at Fatehpur in Hathazari upazila on Tuesday morning. On information, police recovered the body identified as Mohammad Wasim, 35, general secretary of Fatehpur union unit of Krishok...
The Israeli military says one of its unmanned surveillance aircraft has crashed in the Gaza Strip after experiencing a technical malfunction. The military says it's investigating what caused the Skylark drone to go down on Tuesday. Israel uses drones to...
A gunman shot dead a Swedish-British journalist in central Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, a rare daylight murder of an expatriate in a city often hit by Taliban suicide attacks. The Taliban denied responsibility for the killing in an upmarket...
China will launch a trial programme for private firms to set up banks, the country's banking regulator said Tuesday, with Internet giants Tencent and Alibaba reportedly among the first applicants. Most Chinese lenders are state-controlled and banks founded by private...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the private sector entrepreneurs to come forward with service-oriented mentality to supplement the government efforts for further development of the country’s health and health education sectors. “The private sector has to work with...
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Stocks returned to the positive Tuesday amid choppy trading with turnover came down below Tk 4.0 billion mark once again as investors remained cautious. The market saw fluctuation in first part of the trading session, but rest of the session...
Ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday said that he was still the country's legitimate president and commander-in-chief, saying he believed he would be able to return to Kiev soon. "I remain not just the sole legitimate president of Ukraine...
Two policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were were shot dead by armed men on Tuesday, police said, the latest setback to efforts to eradicate the crippling disease. Militant strikes and threats of violence have badly hampered...
Pro-Moscow lawmakers in Crimea voted for independence from Ukraine on Tuesday in a precursor to a referendum this weekend for the region to become part of Russia. The local assembly approved a "declaration on the independence of the autonomous republic...
The all-pervasive graft in the country is unlikely to be eliminated from society if the culture of impunity does not go, said executive director of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Dr Iftekharuzzaman on Tuesday. The corrupt people cannot be brought...
Four women were killed and 15 people injured as a train hit a minibus carrying readymade garment (RMG) workers near Jalalihat Station in Chittagong Tuesday morning. Three of the deceased were identified as Yasmin, 22, of Maheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar,...
An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said. "Three martyrs have died in a Zionist (Israeli) strike," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. The three were members of Islamic...
Nepal is considering a plan to lease Himalayan peaks to private tourism companies, an official said Tuesday, in a bid to ease traffic on Mount Everest and help jumpstart the economy. The proposal would involve hiring out some of the...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday expressed the hope that Bangladesh is going to be an oil producing country. “Even, it could emerge as an oil exporting country,” he said, addressing a ‘Meet the...
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