Struggling airline Qantas has announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs, after reporting a heavy financial loss. It is part of the Australian carrier's plans to cut costs by A$2bn ($1.8bn; £1bn) over the next three years. The cuts were announced...
PM Yingluck Shinawatra's opponents, who are seeking to replace her, say the programme was rife with corruption. If found guilty, she could be removed from office and face a five-year ban from politics. Thailand's political crisis has become increasingly violent...
A farmer was murdered allegedly by his rivals over a trivial matter at Patalia village under Jamalpur municipality area on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Khokan, 60, of the village. Jamalpur Sadar Police Station sub-inspector Abu Bakkar Siddique said...
Asian markets mostly rose on Thursday in cagey trade following a positive close on Wall Street and before the congressional testimony of US Federal Reserve head Janet Yellen later in the day. Australia's main index was hit by a slump...
India will support establishment of the secretariat of the Bay of Bengal for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Bangladesh. New Delhi will contribute 32 per cent of the cost of establishing the secretariat in Dhaka as a mark...
Ukraine's interim leader on Thursday warned the Russian navy in Crimea to keep its troops in their bases, after pro-Russian gunmen seized government buildings in the peninsula's capital of Simferopol. "Any troop movements will be considered as military aggression," acting...
Umar Akmal hit a fighting unbeaten century to lift defending champions Pakistan to 248-8 in their crucial Asia Cup match against a disciplined Afghanistan in Dhaka on Thursday. The 23-year-old right-hander led the recovery with a 89-ball 102, hitting a...
Terming poverty the main enemy of South Asia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged all, including poets and littérateurs, to work together to ensure peace in the region by freeing it from poverty. “The main enemy of this South...
At least 10 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the national security headquarters in Somalia's capital, officials and a Reuters witness said on Thursday. "A suicide car bomb targeted a national security car passing along these tea...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s Barisal city unit has called a daylong hartal for Sunday in the southern divisional city and Sadar upazila in protest against what it claimed occupying the polling centres and vote rigging in the upazila (UZ) during...
Candidates backed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said they would withdraw from polls at two Upazila Parishads – Kabirhat and Companiganj - in Noakhali on Thursday. They alleged ruling party supporters had taken over polling centres and assaulted their...
An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir was killed in police firing during a clash between law enforcers and BNP activists in Sonaimuri upazila Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Saddam Hossain. Police and witnesses said the clash broke out...
Two Indian naval officers who went missing after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai have been found dead, the defence ministry said Thursday. "The two officers who were earlier declared missing have been located in the (submarine) compartment...
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Dhaka stocks closed flat Thursday amid volatile trading throughout the session with turnover crossed Tk 6.0 billion mark after 12-session as investors took position amid optimism. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) --- DSEX --- ended at...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said on Thursday, the government would begin construction of Padma Multi-Purpose Bridge in June this year. "The work order would be issued in June this year for beginning construction of the main bridge," he said after...
Nine people were killed Thursday in a "gas cylinder" explosion in the Qatari capital, state television reported. The explosion tore through a restaurant attached to a mall in Doha, Qatar Television said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast...
Accusing the ruling party men of resorting to terrorism and vote fraud at many centres, BNP on Thursday said a grand festival of polling station capture was going on across the country in the second phase of upazila elections. “Our...
A soldier armed with two automatic weapons shot dead five of his colleagues as they slept early Thursday before killing himself in restive Indian Kashmir, police and the army said. The soldier, who was on night duty, walked into the...
A US federal court has ordered Google to remove from YouTube a crude anti-Islam film which sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world. In a 2-1 decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favour of an actress...
Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov has warned Russia against any "military aggression" in Crimea. He said Russia's troops from Russia's Black Sea Fleet should not move outside their naval base in Sebastopol. The warning comes after armed men seized Crimea's...
North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea Thursday, Seoul's defence ministry said, in an apparent show of force to coincide with South Korea-US joint military exercises. A ministry spokesman told the news agency the missiles, with an estimated...
Israeli forces opened fire and killed a Palestinian they were seeking to arrest in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, after the man had barricaded himself inside his house, Reuters witnesses said. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the home of...
ACC grills Mannan Khan, ex-MP Jabbar Reported by: UNBconnect Reported on: February 27th, 2014 06:13:52 pm Dhaka, Feb 27 (UNB) – The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday interrogated former State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said at present, there is no possibility of any stock market collapse and no scope to plunder money from the capital market. “Stock market collapsed in 2010… after various measures taken by the government,...
A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into the 1981 murder of Maj Gen Md Abul Manzur following a plea by the state. Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge Khandaker Hasan Mahmud Firoz gave the order Thursday. The CID has...
The Cabinet Committee on Law and Order Thursday decided to find out the sources of criminal activities being conducted in the name of religion. The committee also decided to launch a mobile court drive against illegal car parking on roads...
President Abdul Hamid Thursday asked the country’s universities — both the public and private ones — to play a supportive role like social welfare organisations apart from providing quality education keeping the country’s interest above everything. “Education must not be...
LONDON: Official figures show some 212,000 more migrants moved into Britain than left in the 12 months that ended in September, with the number of Romanians and Bulgarians increasing dramatically. The net migration figure represents an increase over the previous...
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said the second phase election in 115 upazila parishads Thursday was peaceful except a few stray incidents. “Today’s polls have been completed by and large peacefully except a few incidents of violence in some...
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