KHULNA, Mar 3: A month-long 13th Khulna International Trade Fair-2014 (KITF) begins at the Circuit House Maidan this evening. Khulna Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and Chameli Traders, a business organization jointly organised the fair. The fair will remain...
MOSCOW, Mar 3: Russia's rouble has fallen to a fresh all-time low against both the dollar and the euro after the political turmoil in Ukraine intensified. The rouble fell 2.5% to 36.5 roubles against the dollar and 1.5 per cent...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has affirmed that the Bimstec Permanent Secretariat will start functioning in Dhaka in May. The affirmation came after the signing of a memorandum of association (MoA) on the establishment of the 7-nation...
Police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 50 pieces of Yaba tablet from Naiergaon Bazar at Matalab Dakkhin upazila in Chandpur on Monday. The arrestee is Rani, 24, wife of Saiful Islam, a resident of Naiergaon...
Environment activists have urged the authorities to protect Zinda Park. They observed that Rajdhani Unnayan Kortripokkho (Rajuk) itself has been acting like land grabbers instead of fulfilling its mandate to work for city planning. Criticising Rajuk’s recent move to evacuate...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted a mobile court as part of its anti-adulteration drive at Moghbazar and Hatirpool areas in the city on Monday and fined three restaurants and a chain shop Tk 115,000 on various charges. Mobile court executive...
The third summit of BIMSTEC has kicked off in Myanmar, with the avowed goal of achieving collective prosperity for the seven member nations of South and South-east Asia. The inaugural ceremony began at 8.30am local time on Tuesday at the...
The United States has suspended military engagements with Russia over Ukraine. The Department of Defence of the USA in a statement has said it is suspending exercises and other activities with the Russian military over Russia’s military involvement in Ukraine,...
Two madrasa students were killed and 21 others injured when a picnic bus carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch in Fulchhari upazila in Gaibandha district on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Moksedul Islam and Rakibul Islam Rakib,...
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Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the fourth trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
A teenaged boy drowned while taking bath in a pond in Kalurghat under Chandgaon Police Station in Chittagong city on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Foysal, 18. Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Chittagong Fire Service and Civil...
Two siblings were burnt alive in a fire incident that broke out at their house in Muladi municipality in Barisal on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Chandni, 5, and Hasan, 6, daughter and son of the municipality worker couple...
Two young men were killed as a motorcycle they were ridding turned upside down after hitting a tree in Monoharganj upazila in Comilla district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Alauddin, 26, son of Haji Abul Kalam, and...
An international education institute is working to double the number of US students studying abroad in five years. To reach the goal, the Institute of International Education will focus on recruiting more low-income students and others who have not participated...
Five people were injured in a clash over a land-related dispute in Akkelpur upazila in Joypurhat district on Monday. Police said there had been a longstanding dispute between Ahammad Ali and his younger brother Rezaul Islam over the ownership of...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized a large quantity of Indian medicines and cosmetics in Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga on Monday. Acting on secret information, a team, led by Lieutenant Colonel Maniruzzaman, commanding officer of BGB Battalion-6, intercepted a...
At least five houses and three shops were gutted by two separate fires in Haimchar upazila in Chandpur on Monday. Local people said a fire erupted from a warehouse of one Zakir Hossain at Janata Bazar and it soon engulfed...
The BIMSTEC will help Bangladesh in fulfilling its crucial development goals, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said at the third summit of the regional group on Tuesday. "I reiterate our government’s total commitment to the BIMSTEC. It has the potential to...
South-east Asian city Singapore has topped 131 cities globally to become the world’s most expensive city to live in 2014, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Singapore’s strong currency combined with the high cost of running a car and...
India is among the most dangerous places in the world as far as bomb blasts per year are concerned – next only to Iraq and Pakistan, with even war-torn Afghanistan and Syria doing better, according to The Times of India....
Bangladesh were 70 runs in 24 overs against Pakistan in the Tigers' crucial Asia Cup-2014 match at Sher-e Bangla Stadium at Mirpur in the city on Tuesday. Earlier, host Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat. The match is...
The third summit of BIMSTEC has ended in Myanmar with the call to achieve collective prosperity for the seven member nations of South and South-east Asia. The summit ended on Tuesday with the handover of hammer to the Nepal Prime...
Gunmen attacked four vehicles carrying NATO supplies for Afghanistan in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Tuesday, killing two people, officials said. The vehicles came under fire in the Jamrud area of Khyber, one of seven districts that make up Pakistan's semi-autonomous...
India has put on hold all deals with Rolls-Royce till it completes an investigation into bribery allegations against the Britain-based company, the Press Trust of India news agency said. A federal agency is probing allegations that Rolls-Royce paid bribes for...
Russia could reduce to zero its economic dependency on the United States if Washington agreed sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday, warning that the American financial system faced a "crash" if this happened. "We would...
A US federal court has rejected BP's efforts to halt payments relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Fifth Circuit Court also said an earlier injunction stopping payments to claimants should be lifted. BP had argued that some firms...
At least 50 people, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a trifling matter at Pangasi Haat at Raiganj upazila in Sirajganj Tuesday morning. Officer-in-charge of Raiganj Police Station Anisur Rahman said the...
Terming NRBs as national heroes, Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Tuesday said the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) are massively investing their hard-earned money in many productive sectors these days belying the notion that they are spoiling their money. “It’s...
Five UN peacekeeping troops were wounded Monday when two people on a motorcycle threw a grenade at their patrol in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN force said Tuesday. The UN mission for the stabilisation of...
Militants seized the city council headquarters in the Iraqi city of Samarra and took employees hostage Tuesday, officials said, in the second such attack in the central Salaheddin province in recent months. Clashes broke out between security forces and two...
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