The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has come out in support of the fight against income inequality, with Fund economists saying income redistribution efforts can strengthen economic growth. Plunging into a debate over the gap between rich and poor that is...
Three people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine plunged into a roadside ditch in Muradnagar upazila in Comilla district on Friday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Nazim...
Global warming will reduce the world’s crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, according to a draft UN report, Japanese media said on Friday. The...
Unidentified miscreants have killed a young man and dumped his body near a field at Nandishree village under Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet. The victim is Sujat Ahmad, 31, son of late Rais Ali, a resident of the village. Yunus Miah,...
The second phase of Upazila (UZ) polls on Thursday were marred by violence in several places, in which chairman candidates also came under attack. In Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali, one man was killed when police opened fire on a group...
Indian police arrested a Bangladeshi young man from Borochhara Bazaar in Meghalaya state of India on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Amir Hossain, 30, son of Kanchan Miah, a resident of Pahartali village of Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district....
An Awami League (AL) activist, injured on Thursday in an attack allegedly by supporters of a BNP-backed candidate at a polling station in Chaugachha upazila in Jessore, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday. The deceased was identified...
A pedestrian was killed in a road accident near Centre of Polli Bidyut in Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Helal Uddin, 45, son of Abdul Malek of Badiar Chowra village under the...
The BNP has maintained its lead over the Awami League in the Upazila Parishad (UZ) polls, finishing ahead in the second phase of the vote in a benchmark of its strong support base at the grassroots. After Thursday’s voting at...
A minor boy has died from electrocution in Roynagar area in Sylhet city. The deceased as identified as Yamin Bakht Chowdhury, 9, a class IV student of Sylhet Islami Academy and a resident of Razbari Bashundhara area in the north-eastern...
A youth was stabbed to death by his rivals in Dakshin Khan area in the city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Raihan, 23, son of late Abdul Matin and a resident of Ainujbagh under Dakshin Khan Police...
Police failed on Thursday to detain Subrata Roy, head of the unlisted Sahara conglomerate, a day after the Supreme Court ordered his arrest for failing to attend a hearing. Sahara and Roy, 65, have been accused of contempt for failing...
A youth died falling off the rooftop of a building in Lalbagh area in the city on Friday. Contacted, sub-inspector Galibul Islam of Lalbagh Police Station said, being informed, police rescued the unidentified man, aged about 35, from a place...
Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, volunteer wing of BNP, from Magura town on Thursday evening for attack on police and vandalising vehicles. The arrestee was identified as Kutub Uddin Ahammad, president of the...
One of India’s most flamboyant tycoons, Subroto Roy, has been arrested after he surrendered to the police. The Supreme Court had ordered the arrest of the Sahara group chief on Wednesday after he failed to appear before judges in a...
Expressing her firm optimism to fight with the developed countries in many areas within 2041, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said, the country can prosper under pro-liberation force. "Bangladesh is progressing fast because of pro-liberation force is in power. With...
Oil prices fell further in Asian trade on Friday owing to concerns over soft US economic data and the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for April delivery, eased 36 cents to $102.04 in...
Bangladesh pacer Mashrafe-bin-Mortaza has been ruled out of the ongoing five-nation Asia Cup cricket tournament due to an injury, national cricket team’s physio Bibhab Singh has said. He said the decision had been taken to give the pacer adequate rest...
A powerful bomb went off at a police station in Chittagong city injuring at least three police men who were preparing a seizure list after arresting a 'terrorist'’. Two of the injured were identified as Zahangir Alam, inspector (investigation) of...
Two alleged robbers were killed in separate lynch-mob attacks in Bhaluka and Gafargaon upazilas in Mymensingh district on Friday. One of the deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 30, while identity of the other could not be known immediately. Abul...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two people along with 300 bottles of Phensidyl on Jakiganj-Sylhet road in Jakiganj upazila in Sylhet on Thursday night. The arrested are: Mohammad Khokan, 35, son of Tayeb Ali of Raznagar upazila of...
India's new-look middle-order had its first serious test in the absence of vastly experienced trio of MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh, and it stuttered badly against Sri Lanka's spinners. Ajantha Mendis, completing a three-man spin attack on a...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Rajbari district on Saturday. During her visit, Khaleda will address a public rally as the chief guest at Rajbari railway ground in the afternoon. The BNP-led 19-party alliance will organise the rally. Sources at...
Two people were killed and five others injured as a bus rammed a pickup van in Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh district on Friday morning. One of the deceased was identified as Amirul, 30. Identity of the other deceased could not...
Seven policemen have been killed by suspected Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police say. They were on their way to provide security to workers building a road in Dantewada district when rebels set off a landmine under...
Ukraine's security authorities said on Friday they had regained control of two airports on the volatile Crimean peninsula that had been seized by gunmen that officials in Kiev said had links to the Russian military. "There was an attempt to...
Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, reported last year the second best performance of its history, the country's central bank said Friday, virtually making every Norwegian a millionaire. The so-called oil fund is fed by the state's oil...
The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough new anti-gay law that has drawn criticism from around the world. World Bank officials said they wanted to guarantee the projects the loan was destined to...
The Myanmar government has suspended the operations of one of the biggest aid agencies working in violence-hit Rakhine state. Speaking to the BBC, a presidential spokesman alleged that Medecins Sans Frontieres () was biased in favour of Rakhine's Muslim Rohingya...
Hundreds of jobless civil servants on Friday protested in Athens as the government met with EU-IMF creditors to finalise a new round of some 11,500 public sector layoffs. Teachers, school wardens and cleaners demonstrated outside the ministries of finance and...
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