One more Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troop died at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka last night, raising the number of fatality to six in Wednesday’s blast during a drill at Ghatail Cantonment in Tangail district. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the...
Assailants have shot to death a local unit Jubo League activist and dumped his body at Chandpur village in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila. Informed by local people on Wednesday morning, police recovered the body of Shahadat Hossain, an activist of North...
Three children, including two siblings, have drowned in a pond at Kuakata under Kolapara in Patuakhali. The dead are Fahima, 5, and her cousins Rumi, 7, and Habib, 5. They were playing beside the pond at Khajura Orka village and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the researchers and students of the country to work hard and with utmost responsibility to achieve the desired goal as financial grants for researches and fellowships are awarded to them from the taxpayers’...
Unidentified assailants have stabbed a former left radical leader to death at Madaripur’s Shibchar Upazila. The body of Shamim Khan, 27, was found slashed and motionless near his house around 8am on Thursday, his family members said. Shamim was picked...
Two policemen of Dhaka’s Bhatara Police station have been sued on charges for taking bribe. One Jahangir Miah Ujjwal, claiming to be the editor of a newspaper, filed the case with the court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Thursday....
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Stocks ended another flat session Thursday with turnover decline slightly as most of the investors followed ‘wait-and-see’ strategy. The market opened with a positive note, but could not sustain, eventually ended flat into red. The prime index of the Dhaka...
Canada has urged all the political parties in Bangladesh to engage in a genuine dialogue to reach an agreement soon on a process for the next set of elections that Bangladeshis will consider credible. “We continue to urge all parties...
A Chittagong court has extended bail for BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in two cases. On Jan 20, the BNP’s Chittagong Metropolitan unit President had secured anticipatory bail for four weeks from the High Court in cases of vandalism...
Anju Ghosh of "Beder Meye Jyotsna" fame had filed a complaint with the police in West Bengal. She says in her complaint filed with the English Bazar police station in West Bengal's Malda district that a man called D Mukherjee...
Musician Arfin Rumey has been denied bail and ordered to prison in a case filed by his wife over dowry. Judge Arifur Rahman of a Special Tribunal on Violence against Women and Children passed the order on Thursday following a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government considers relaxing the age limit of the researchers engaged in specific researches so that they could complete their works. “We want to give a chance to the researchers to complete their...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have postponed the execution of death sentence of three Bangladesh nationals. The death penalties were scheduled to be executed on January 22 in Sharjah, said a Foreign Ministry media release here Thursday. The three...
The High Court has ordered a jetty, under construction on the Meghna at Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj, to be removed. Justices Salma Masud Chowdhury and Md Habibul Gani gave the order following a preliminary hearing for a writ petition on Thursday. The...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury met Indian Lok Sabha Speaker of India Meira Kumar in New Delhi on Wednesday evening. During the meeting, they stressed the need for increasing mutual cooperation between the parliaments of two countries, said a press...
Bangladesh needs to demonstrate real progress in enhancement of labour standards and factory safety fulfilling the remaining conditions related to GSP Action Plan and Sustainability Compact by March-end deadline and before the first anniversary of Rana Plaza tragedy, said top...
The recruitment test for the post of assistant teacher at the preprimary section of government primary schools, which was cancelled due to question paper leakage in 17 districts, will be held on March 14. SM Ashraful Islam, additional secretary to...
The government through the central bank can help the owners of garment factories recover the heavy losses caused by political instability across the country last year, says a top banker. “There’s no long-term fund to help the garment sector in...
A lawmaker sprayed pepper spray inside India’s Parliament on Thursday, creating chaos that left his colleagues coughing and crying as they were ushered from the hall, in a protest over a long-contentious proposal to create a new southern state. Lawmakers...
Some 55,000 students will receive scholarship in two categories this year in order of highest marks obtained in the Primary Terminal Examination. “Some 55,000 students will be awarded scholarship in two categories on the basis of their merit in the...
The BNP has said Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam’s remarks on its demand for a fresh election under a non-party government, is ‘unacceptable’. “The present Parliament has been formed through a voter-less election. It is not constitutional,” BNP...
Comcast has confirmed a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $45 billion (£27 billion), creating a company that could control three-quarters of the US cable industry. Comcast will pay about $159 per share for its rival in an...
The jobless rate in Greece reached a record high of 28 per cent in November, according to newly released government figures. The rate increased from 27.7 per cent in the previous month. For those under the age of 25, unemployment...
The second winter storm in two weeks to hit the US South encrusted the region in ice, knocking out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses before pushing toward the heavily populated Northeast. The storm was threatening to...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested a pirate following an attack on them by a gang of buccaneers in the Dhaleshwari River under Sadar upazila early Thursday. The arrested was identified as Ismail Hossain, 38, son of Sandas Majumder of...
NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (AFP): Lanky seamer Ishant Sharma has paid for his inconsistent form by being dropped Tuesday from India's squads for the World Twenty20 and Asia Cup tournaments to be held in Bangladesh. Sharma proved expensive during the...
LONDON, Feb 11 (AFP): Both reeling from embarrassing weekend results in the Premier League, Arsenal and Manchester United will each be determined to restore credibility when they meet at the Emirates Stadium Wednesday. While Arsenal ceded first place to Chelsea...
WELLINGTON, Feb 11 (AFP): New Zealand named an unchanged starting XI Tuesday for the second Test against India but called in new injury cover to replace disgraced duo Jesse Ryder and Doug Bracewell. The selectors turned to Otago all-rounder Jimmy...
SYDNEY, Feb 11 (AFP): Evergreen veterans Brad Hogg and Brad Hodge, with a combined age of 82, were Tuesday called up to the Australian squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh next month. The sprightly Hogg, 43, has been...
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