The Russian ruble fell to a new record low against the euro on Wednesday amid fears of a Ukrainian default and a slowdown in the Russian economy. The euro surged to 49.39 rubles at around 0915 GMT, dropping below the...
Skipper Mushfiqur Rahim hit 117 off 113 balls to lift the hosts to 279-7 in the Asia Cup match against world champion India in Fatullah on Wednesday. Rahim's second one-day century followed his 133-run stand for the third wicket with...
A Missouri man was executed early on Wednesday for raping and murdering a 15-year-old schoolgirl, authorities said, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a flurry of petitions seeking a stay. Michael Taylor died by lethal injection 25 years after...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government is determined to take forward the country facing all odds, including the political trouble. “Political disturbance has become a common phenomenon in the country; we have to continue our works facing...
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Stocks edged marginally down on Wednesday after two sessions of positive trend with turnover dipping below Tk 4.0 billion mark once again as investors took cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note but could not sustain. At the...
Britain's economy grew by less than previously thought last year, but still registered the fastest rate of growth since before the financial crisis, revised official data showed Wednesday. The nation's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 1.8 percent in 2013,...
The Supreme Court (SC) has stayed the High Court (HC) order which vacated eight positions of directors at Pubali Bank Ltd. Chamber Judge Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Wednesday afternoon following a plea by the bank authorities....
A court in China has accepted a case filed by Chinese citizens seeking compensation from Japanese firms over forced labour during World War Two. The 37 plaintiffs include lawyers, academics and individuals who say they were forced into labour. They...
Two Indian navy sailors are missing and seven others are in hospital after inhaling smoke during an accident on board a submarine off the Mumbai coast. The INS Sindhuratna was being tested at sea when smoke triggered the automatic closure...
Pakistan on Wednesday unveiled its first ever counter-terrorism policy after battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, announcing that every act of militant violence would be met with retaliation on their bases. Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali...
Global banking giant HSBC said on Wednesday that it had agreed to sell its Kazakhstan division to JSC Halyk Bank for US$176 million in cash. The disposal of HSBC Bank Kazakhstan is part of the group's strategy to sell non-core...
Apprehending vote fraud in the 2nd phase of upazila elections, BNP on Wednesday warned that they will stage strong demonstrations across the country in case of any polls manipulation. “The BNP candidates, leaders and activists are being attacked, harassed, and...
An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced 26 people to death for founding and leading a "terror group" that aimed to target ships in the Suez canal, judicial sources said. The court referred the verdict to the mufti, a top...
Hezbollah has said it will respond to an alleged air strike by Israel warplanes on one of its bases on the Lebanese border with Syria on Monday. The militant Shia Islamist movement described the attack as a "blatant assault on...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate Aslamul Haque, a ruling party MP (Dhaka-14), on March 5 next over the allegation of illegal wealth accumulation by him. The Commission on Wednesday sent a notice to Aslamul asking him to be...
International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm, will provide additional $265 million for the ongoing Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Mohammad Mejbahuddin and World Bank Country Director Johannes Zutt signed an...
The government has decided to demolish all illegal structures, including bazaars, on both sides of roads and highways across the country to improve the traffic situation. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet committee on road safety...
The Ambassador of Chile to Bangladesh, based in New Delhi, Cristian Barros, Wednesday invited Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to start business in Chile under an initiative ‘Startup Chile’. The envoy informed that the Chilean government has taken an initiative, titled ‘Startup Chile’,...
A week after the first phase polls in 97 upazilas (UZs), the residents of 115 upazilas parishads of the country’s 52 districts are going to vote on Thursday to pick their long list of representatives to upazila parishads in the...
GAZIPUR: Miscreants vandalised 11 idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in a temple at Bataniachala in Kaliakoir upazila early Wednesday. Suryamohon Sarkar, general secretary of Sarbojanin Puja Mandir, said a gang of unidentified miscreants swooped on the temple sometime at...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her optimism that the GDP growth in the current fiscal year would hit 6.5 per cent and even more although the World Bank apprehended that it might come down to 5.7 per cent...
NEW DELHI: India's top court Wednesday ordered the arrest of the head of the giant Sahara business group for failing to appear in a case involving repayment of billions of dollars illegally collected from small investors. The Supreme Court issued...
The Election Commission has asked the law enforcers to be on ‘maximum alert’ to hold the second phase of the Upazila Parishad election smoothly Thursday. Polls will be held in 116 Upazilas and some 20 million voters are expected to...
India’s Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned Wednesday taking “moral responsibility” over the spate of mishaps involving naval warships in the last seven months, the Hindu reported. Admiral Joshi, who had about 15 months more left in service, submitted his...
Some 8.3 million employments were created in the last five years due to various pragmatic steps of her immediate past government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Parliament on Wednesday. Citing statistics, she said that at present, each percentage of...
Awami League MP-elect from Jessore-1 constituency Sheikh Afil Uddin who was yet to be sworn in came under attack by his party men in Jhikargachha upazila on Wednesday. Witnesses said supporters of ruling party-backed candidate in the upazila polls Monirul...
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman is unhappy about the lack of initiatives to bring feminist writer Taslima Nasrin back home. His reaction came at a view-exchange meeting on empowerment of women held at CIRDAP auditorium in the...
As part of her move to rejuvenate her party’s grassroots leaders through district tours, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to Rajbari on Saturday to address a public rally. Khaleda will address the rally to be organised by her party-led...
BANGKOK, Feb 25 (AFP): Thailand risks sliding into civil war after a wave of political violence that has claimed 21 lives including several children, top security and army officials warned Tuesday. Near-daily gun and grenade attacks in protest-hit Bangkok have...
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