Twenty-six people convicted of terrorism-related crimes were executed in Iraq three days ago, the Iraqi Justice Ministry confirmed in a statement on Tuesday, according to CNN. One of those executed was Adel al-Mashhadani, a militia leader in Baghdad who was...
The wife of an expatriate has been killed by unknown assailant in Satkhira district. Police recovered the body of the victim from inside a septic tank of a technical college building in Tala upazila. The deceased was identified as Shahanara...
A major conference aimed at finding a political solution to the three-year conflict in Syria that has left 100,000 dead is due to start in Switzerland. The Syrian government and the main opposition are attending the Geneva II summit along...
A teenaged boy was burned alive in a devastating fire at Feroj Shah Colony under Akber Shah Police Station in Chittagong city on Wednesday. The identity of the dead was not known immediately. At least seven houses and a grocery...
A man was killed and two other people of his family were injured as a minibus crashed into their CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Kashipur in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Abdul Khalek, 42, son...
A union parishad (UP) chairman has been critically injured in a bomb attack in Phultala Bazar under Phultala upazila in Khulna district. The victim was identified as Azizul Haque, UP chairman of Shubhorara Union under Abhyanagar upazila in neighbouring Jessore...
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The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)- witnessed sharp rise in early hours of trading Wednesday, maintaining the previous session’s upward trend. After first 30 minutes of...
At least two people were killed when three trucks ran into one another and of the lorries fell off a bridge at Baraigram upazila in Natore district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified Selim Reza, 35, the driver of an...
Former president and Jatiya Party chief Hussein Muhammad Ershad on Wednesday appeared before a special court to depose in Major General Abul Manzur murder case, filed with a Chittagong police station about 19 years ago. One of the accused in...
Police’s Detective Branch has detained three Africans from Dhaka’s Uttara area with equipment to produce fake US dollars. The arrests were made during a raid in Uttara’s Sector-5 on Wednesday morning, DMP Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman said. The DB team,...
A half-day hartal, called by the local unit of Jamaat-e-Islami in Meherpur district protesting the killing of its leader Tarique Mohammad Saiful Islam, ended without any incident of violence on Wednesday. No long-route buses entered or left the district town...
A Dhaka court has set Feb 10 to deliver the verdict on the murder of Major General Abul Manzur in 1981. The court of the first Additional District and Sessions Judge Hosney Ara Akter set the date on Wednesday after...
BNP joint secretary Khandaker Mahbub Uddin Khokon and a former MP Sakhawat Hossain Bokul were released from Kashimpur jail on Wednesday morning. Jail authorities said that freed Khokan and Bokul around 11am from Dhaka Central Jail in Kashimpur in Gazipur...
Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov on Wednesday congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her assumption of office of Bangladesh Prime Minister for the third time. In a message to Bangladesh Prime Minister, Karimov said traditional friendship and bonds between the two friendly countries...
Indian High Commission (HC) in Dhaka will celebrate the Republic Day of India in the city on Sunday. The celebrations will be held at the New Chancery Complex in Baridhara, said a media release issued by the Indian High Commission...
The government on Wednesday identified six projects as the fast track ones and directed the authorities concerned to implement those on priority basis. The projects were identified at the first meeting of the reconstituted Fast Tract Project Monitoring Committee held...
A collection of documents used by prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials to help convict top Nazis is being put on public display in Berlin ahead of its auction in Israel. The Berlin Jewish Education Center says the documents going on...
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Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed Tk 8.0 billion-mark Wednesday, also two-month high level, powered by investors' buying spree amid positive expectation in coming days. Along with high turnover, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says he believes there is little hope of success for the Syrian peace talks. Rouhani's remarks come as an international conference to try and resolve Syria's civil war is starting Wednesday in the Swiss resort of...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says he believes there is little hope of success for the Syrian peace talks. Rouhani's remarks come as an international conference to try and resolve Syria's civil war is starting Wednesday in the Swiss resort of...
Indian minister Shashi Tharoor is incapable of harming his wife Sunanda Pushkar, let alone kill her, says Shiv Menon, Pushkar’s son from an earlier marriage. He also said his mother was too strong to commit suicide, said Menon in a...
Bharti Airtel has put the company's Bangladesh tower assets on its divestiture list, says the 'Times of India'. It says the world's fourth largest mobile telephony firm is seeking to raise more than $2 billion by selling its infra networks...
The Facebook phenomenon will eventually demise, according to a study by the Princeton University. Researchers, who are using diseases to model the life-cycles of social media, find it much like an infectious disease that spreads fast and dies out of...
Brushing aside the ruling party’s allegation that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has made treasonable remarks about joint forces’ drive in Satkhira, the party on Wednesday claimed that Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam spread falsehood over it. “There’s nothing...
One person was killed in a fire early on Wednesday in a colony in the port city. Locals alleged that the fire was deliberately started at the 'Nahar Manjil' colony in the Akbar Shah area. The Fire Service have filed...
Pro-Vice Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University (JU) Prof MA Matin has been made its acting Vice Chancellor (VC). The Education Ministry on Wednesday issued a notification in this regard, said a handout, according to a news agency.
A court here on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of top five BNP leaders, including Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, in three cases. The two others are BNP chairperson’s adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain and her...
The Election Commission (EC) has planned to take foolproof security measures to deal with any possible violence during the countrywide staggering upazila parishad elections, beginning on February 19. As part of strengthening the security measures, the commission mulls deploying 21...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will quiz two court stenographers on Thursday in connection with the allegation of illegal wealth accumulation by former judge Motahar Hossain. The Commission has recently sent letters, signed by ACC deputy director and inquiry officer...
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