Unidentified miscreants shot a couple to death in Gazalia union under Lama Upazila in Bandarban district on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said a group of armed people riding on motorcycles spread bullets on Tharnsi Tripura, 45, and his wife Tripurani, 30,...
Bangladesh were 42 for 1 wicket in 11 overs in their first innings of the second cricket Test between Sri Lanka and the Tigers at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Wednesday. Imrul Kayes was batting on 17 runs...
Two children died as a microbus ran over them in Rajshahi’s Puthia on Wednesday. Locals blocked the Rajshahi-Natore highway to protest the death brining traffic on the highway to a halt for some time. The deceased have been identified as...
Accusing BNP Chairperson Khalead Zia of unleashing violence by her ‘terrorist outfits’, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the BNP chief to rein in her ‘terrorist and hooligan groups’. “You (Khaleda) must control these elements…you let loose them against...
A Chittagong court has framed charges against five people including Bangladesh Railway’s former east zone General Manager Yusuf Ali Mridha over corruption in recruitment. Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge and Special Tribunal-1 Judge SM Mojibur Rahman on Wednesday also fixed Feb...
Kumar Sangakkara reached his maiden test triple-century on Wednesday to lead Sri Lanka to a mammoth first innings score of 587 on the second day of the second test against Bangladesh. Sangakkara reached the landmark in emphatic fashion by hitting...
Police have been granted five days to interrogate Md Saidur Rahman Shahid alias Shahid Commissioner in a case of illegal possession of firearms. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Abdus Salam gave the order on a police petition seeking to remand Shahid,...
Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved the Industries Ministry’s proposal to renew Bangladesh’s contracts with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to import urea fertiliser under state-level arrangements. A meeting of the Cabinet body, with its...
Criticising the Prime Minister for what she said defending her party activists’ action on the Rajshahi University campus, BNP on Wednesday alleged that Sheikh Hasina is pampering terrorists and instigating them against democratic forces. “The Prime Minister’s remark defending her...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday questioned an official of Maxim Group in connection with the alleged swindling of about Tk 1,500 crore of the investors’ money by the multilevel marketing company. ACC deputy director Nur Hossain Khan grilled...
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Stocks closed flat Wednesday after volatile trading throughout the session with turnover decline further as investors witnessed a cautious trading amid profit booking tendency. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) --- DSEX --- went up slightly by...
Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Wednesday. During the meeting, the army chief apprised the President of various ongoing modernisation programmes of Bangladesh Army. The President gave...
Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation, a commercially operated technical wing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), will work as consultant for the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) of the proposed Dhaka Tannery Estate in Savar. The BUET’s...
Bangladesh’s export to Turkey during 2013 calendar-year crossed US$ 1 billion-mark while the total bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Turkey during the period stood at US$ 1.2 billion. Turkey’s export to Bangladesh during 2013 was about US$ 196 million (US$...
The Election Commission will sit in a meeting Sunday instead of Thursday to finalise the security measures for the staggered upazila elections. The commission rescheduled the date of the meeting on security for the countrywide upazila polls, starting February 19,...
All Bangladesh citizens working abroad to get machine readable passports (MRPs) by March 2015, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told Parliament Wednesday. “Issuing machine readable passports (MRPs) for Bangladesh citizens abroad has already started…it’s expected that all Bangladesh...
All Bangladesh citizens working abroad would hopefully get machine readable passports (MRPs) by March 2015, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told the Parliament on Wednesday. The State Minister also said that MRPs are already being given to Bangladesh...
The schedule for the third phase of the upazila polls is likely to be announced by Sunday with voting set for March, an election commissioner said Wednesday. Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz told reporters that the schedule will be announced...
CVS Caremark, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products, its chief executive has said. The announcement drew swift praise from President Barack Obama, who said the move would save lives....
Awami League Wednesday trashed BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s claim that 300 people were killed in the joint forces’ operation saying that no one was killed or faced forced disappearance. “Our media is on guard. Khaleda Zia delivered blatant lies convening...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has awarded three of its best performing project teams in Bangladesh as part of its efforts to promote efficient project implementation. Stefan Ekelund, officer-in-charge for ADB’s Bangladesh Resident Mission, presented the awards to the winning...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the world community has accepted the results of the January 5 national election in Bangladesh.“The world community has accepted the recent (national) election as the affirmative achievement against the terrorist acts and violence...
A Bangladeshi youth was found dead while his friend unconscious at a bus stop of Jalan Chain Feri at Penang in Malaysia. The two, in their 30s, were found lying on the bench by passers-by at 6:50pm on Monday, reports...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with her party’s standing committee members on Thursday night. The meeting is scheduled to start at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office around 8pm on Thursday, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said. The...
Robi Axiata Limited has introduced instant messaging (IM) service, Robi Bangla Messenger service, for its all subscribers recently. The service allows users to use Bengali in an instant messenger service for the first time. Unlike other instant messengers which are...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members allegedly picked up a pro-BNP UP chairman from Katgar area under Patenga Police Station in Chittagong early Wednesday. The victim was identified as Omar Faruk, chairman of Hazirpara union under Laxmipur Sadar upazila and organising...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce a countrywide daylong hartal Thursday. However, Chapainababganj district will remain out of the purview of the shutdown programme. In a statement Friday, Jamaat acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman had announced the shutdown programme...
LONDON: European equities edged slightly higher on Wednesday in reaction to economic data out of the eurozone and lacklustre jobs data from the US, traders said. Markets were looking ahead to the European Central Bank’s monetary policy decision due Thursday...
Parliament has constituted the Business Advisory Committee and four standing committees. They were formed on Wednesday, a week after the new assembly went into session. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has been made chairman of the 15-member Advisory Committee. The four...
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) wants to cooperate with Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) in promotion of trade and investment between Dhaka and Tokyo. JETRO Country Director Kei Kawla spoke of this cooperation when he met DCCI president...
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