Canada and France on Tuesday urged the major political parties in Bangladesh to sit and ‘negotiate a framework’ to hold future elections in a ‘non-violent’ and inclusive way through a change in ‘political culture’. Canadian High Commissioner Heather Cruden and...
Croatia's ex-prime minister Ivo Sanader was found guilty Tuesday of embezzling millions of euros in public funds while in power and sentenced to nine years in jail, his second graft conviction in two years. The two-year-long trial, which also found...
The Election Commission has cancelled the nomination papers of two candidates for the seats kept aside for women in Parliament on charge of telephone default. They are Awami League candidate Sabiha Nahar and Jatiya Party contender Khorshed Ara Haque. Returning...
Fearing violence, the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday postponed election to Sreepur upazila (UZ), Gazipur which was scheduled to be held on March 15. Talking to reporters at the EC Secretariat at noon, Election Commissioner Abu Hafiz said, "The election...
Emerging economies are expected to hold down global growth with their "sub-par" performance, the OECD forecast on Tuesday, warning that the risk of recent turmoil hitting developing markets could intensify. But advanced economies are expected to post strengthening growth, although...
Malaysia's military believes it tracked a missing jetliner by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a military source said. In one of the...
A VIP mobile number has sold for more than two million dollars at a charity auction in Abu Dhabi, it appears. The number, 777-7777, and its accompanying bumper package from Middle Eastern phone company Etisalat, sold for 7,877,777 dirhams ($2.1m),...
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday said his ministry will support the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in investigating the corruption charges against Petrobangla chairman Dr. Hussain Monsur and some of its some other managing directors. “ACC’s...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of six Proshika high-ups, including its chairman Kazi Faruk, in a fraudulence case. Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the order following pleas filed by the lawyers of the complainant....
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad arrives Dhaka on Saturday to attend the convocation of the University of Information, Technology and Sciences (UITS) to be held here on the same day. Dr Mahathir is scheduled to arrive here...
Pragotishil Chhatra Jote (PCJ) on Tuesday announced to postpone their ongoing movement at Rajshahi University (RU) against fee hike and continuation of evening Master’s programmes. Leaders of the PCJ which had been leading the movement at the university made the...
An independent expert committee will be formed to help protect the Halda River, the country’s only breeding ground for carp fish. The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting arranged at the conference room of Fisheries and Livestock Ministry to...
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday overrode a High Court order that granted bail to former senior police official who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in a bribery case filed in 2003. Following an appeal filed...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Tuesday sought investment from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop a tourist exclusive zone under public-private partnership at Samarang at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar. The minister came up with...
US investment firm Baron Capital has bought a quarter of all Manchester United shares available on the New York Stock Exchange, it has been revealed. The company now owns 24 per cent of all shares in the Old Trafford club...
Visiting Indian Women’s team won the three-match T20 series with one match to spare after beating Bangladesh Women’s team by 8 wickets in the day’s match at Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. Earlier, on Sunday...
BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Tuesday alleged that the government seeks to hike the power tariff to let the pro-government businessmen plunder public money. “Awami League had opted for quick rental power plants to make quick commission. Now they’re...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday warned that law enforcement agencies will deal with an iron hand if BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia tries to unleash chaos in the country again in the name of movement and hartal. “Shun anarchic acts;...
A week-long Francophonie festival titled, ‘2014 Bangladesh Francophonie Week’, will simultaneously begin in Dhaka and Chittagong on Thursday. The festival will showcase French culture through film and music with a common desire to work together towards a better future. The...
The Taliban on Monday vowed to target Afghanistan's presidential election, urging their fighters to attack polling staff, voters and security forces before the April 5 vote to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai. Previous Afghan elections have been badly marred...
The cabinet today approved the draft of "The National Hajj and Umrah Policy, Hijri 1435 (2014 AD)" and "The Hajj Package, 2014". The approval was given at the regular meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister...
Scientists have identified four new man-made gases that are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. Two of the gases are accumulating at a rate that is causing concern among researchers. Worries over the growing ozone hole have seen...
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Stocks closed lower for the second running session Monday amid thin market participation as most of the investors remained cautious. The market opened with positive note like previous session, but could not sustain. At the end of the session, the...
The Supreme Court in the Maldives has sacked the country's elections chief and handed him a suspended jail term after he criticised judges during last year's chaotic contest to choose a president. Less than a fortnight before parliamentary elections are...
Another victim of the Jamuna oil tanker explosion in Chittagong has died after 11 days of struggle to live. Nazim Uddin, 40, succumbed to his burn injuries at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Monday. Nazim died around 9.30am,...
A local leader of Awami League died of cardiac arrest after being chased by police at Gobindapur village in Bijoynagar upazila here early Monday. The deceased was identified as Hasan Ullah Sardar, 65, president of ward no 1 unit of...
Japan's current account deficit widened to a record 1.5tn yen ($15bn) in January, the largest since records began in 1985. In further bad news, the country's economic growth figures were also revised downwards. Japan's economy grew by 0.7% in 2013,...
Uli Hoeness, president of European football champions Bayern Munich, has gone on trial in a Munich court accused of tax evasion. Prosecutors accused him of avoiding more than 3.5m euros in tax. Aged 62, the former World Cup-winning German international...
A man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into a prison using a drone, Australian police say. The drone was "hovering in the vicinity of a prison" in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon, police said in a statement....
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