Asian stock markets rose on Monday, taking their lead from strong gains on Wall Street despite weaker-than-expected Japanese growth figures. Global markets rallied last week following a turbulent period, as investors were reassured that the US economy could handle the...
Dollar fetched 101.57 yen on Monday morning, down from 101.81 yen in New York Friday. The yen won support from expectations that the Bank of Japan will hold fire on new easing measures at a two-day policy meeting starting Monday....
A fire broke out at a textile mill at Brahmandi in Narsingdi town on Sunday night, burning down a huge quantity of cotton in its warehouse. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the...
Officials in Nepal say the wreckage of a missing passenger plane with 18 people on board has been located in the western district of Arghakhanchi. The Nepal Airlines plane was flying from the resort city of Pokhara to Jumla when...
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The prices of most of the stocks on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Monday amid volatile trading. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 18.37...
A High Court order has been issued, asking all sign boards, nameplates and number plates of vehicles to be written in Bengali language.The bench of Justices Kazi Reza-ul Haq and ABM Altaf Hossain gave the order after initial hearing of...
Jeweller Mridul Kumar Chowdhury, who was allegedly picked up by a group of people, introducing themselves as Detective Branch (DB) personnel, from near his Chittagong city residence on February 11, was rescued from Burichong upazila of the district early Monday....
An Ethiopian Airlines plane en route from Addis Ababa to Rome has been forced to land in Geneva after being hijacked, Swiss police say. One hijacker has been arrested. The airline said in a statement that all passengers and crew...
The government has decided to extend the term of the Speedy Trial Act by five more years.The cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved the final draft of the Law and Order Disrupting Crime (Speedy Trial)...
Thai government officials are meeting the election commission to discuss how to complete the country's elections. The 2 February general election was disrupted by protesters in some places, so by-elections need to take place before a government can be formed....
Claiming that his party has no link with al-Qaeda’s so-called audiovisual message, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government is trying to get close to the USA by speaking about al-Qaeda threat. “The...
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The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
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The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
Indian police charged the high-profile editor of an investigative magazine Monday with sexually assaulting a female colleague in the elevator of a five-star hotel in the resort state of Goa. Police also said Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal tried to evade...
Department of Environment on Monday fined 42 dyeing and washing factories in Dhaka district Tk 1.26 crore for polluting the water of the Buriganga River. After a hearing at DoE’s Dhaka headquarters, its director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammad Alamgir fined...
Sri Lanka were bundled out for 180 runs in the first ODI of the three-match series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. The visiting team were all-out in 40 overs of the match that was curtailed to...
In the wake of al-Qaeda’s reported threat to Bangladesh, the government plans to strengthen the security of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “We’re specially considering about further beefing up the security of the Prime Minister,” said her security adviser Maj Gen...
Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz warned that tough actions will be taken against election officials in case of any negligence during the upazila polls. He came up with the warning while talking to reporters at the EC Secretariat ahead of...
Robbers kidnapped 40 fishermen along with 10 trawlers at Katka in the Sundarbans under Sharankhola upazila of the district on Monday. Coast Guard of Mongla zone operation division staff officer Lt Commander M Mohiuddin Majumder said gang members belonging to...
State-owned Petrobangla has signed a deal with Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for the hydrocarbon exploration and extraction of oil and gas in shallow-water Blocks 4 and 9 of the Bay of Bengal. ONGC is the first...
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2014 will begin across the country from April 3 due to the ongoing Upazila Parishad elections. The examinations were deferred by two days at a request from the Election Commission because...
The government has a plan to increase the number of railway police, Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque told the Parliament on Monday. “A proposal has been sent in this regard to the home ministry, which is under active consideration of...
A Tk 11 billion compensation suit was filed Monday against seven people, including Jamuna Group chairman Nurul Islam Babul, on charge of publishing ‘false’ reports in his newspaper the Daily Jugantor against East-West Properties Development Ltd. Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, chairman...
Grameenphone (GP) has recently signed an agreement with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to provide them with complete communication solutions under its business solutions package. Commander BN M Shahed Karim, Director, Communication & MIS Wing, Rab HQ and Mahmud Hossain, chief...
A process is on to procure 100 more double-decker and 50 articulated buses for state-owned BRTC under the Indian Line of Dollar Credit to reduce the traffic congestion in Dhaka. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader Monday stated this in Parliament replying...
A process is on to procure 100 more double-decker and 50 articulated buses for state-owned BRTC under the Indian Line of Dollar Credit to reduce the traffic congestion in Dhaka. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday stated this in the...
The probes carried out by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) into the graft allegations against politicians and top officials of government are not eyewash, said ACC secretary M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury on Monday. “We’re probing the graft allegations. The ACC...
The High Court here on Monday granted six months bail to Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu and Hefajat leader Mufti Abu Wakkas in separate cases. An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed...
NEW DELHI: India's embattled government said Monday it had lifted tens of millions out of poverty as it trumpeted its record in the last budget before elections it is widely tipped to lose. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram talked up his...
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