Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Joypurhat camp seized 400 sacks OMS rice, a truck and a motorcycle and arrested 4 criminals who were connected to trafficking of rice from Barokandi Bazar under Panchbibi Upazila in the Joypurhat district...
Two young men were crushed under the wheels of trains in separate incidents of Gazipur Sunday.Sub-Inspector of Tongi railway police camp Abul Khair said Dhaka-bound Dhumketu inter-city express train knocked down Ripon (28), when he was crossing the rail line...
Police recovered a body of a young man from Taltala garden in Kusumdi village of Mithapukur Union in Alfadanga Upazila Saturday.The victim was identified as Liton Munsi (28), son of Late Saikat Munsi of Kusumdi village. He was a cargo...
Police recovered body of a housewife named Ferdousi Begum (20), from her house at Gokornaghat of the Brahmanbaria town Saturday. Ferdousi was wife of Shahin Mia of Gokornaghat. Her body was hanging from the ceiling of the room. Sadar Thana...
Police recovered body of a young man, aged about (24) from Bakua area on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Ullapara Upazila of Sirajganj Saturday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police suspected that miscreants following a previous enmity...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed smuggled drugs worth about Tk 90 million at the BGB office in Jessore Saturday.The destroyed drugs include 15,690 bottles of phensidyl, 2400 bottles of foreign liquor, 65.5 litres of stolen liquor, 4.5kg of hemp...
VATICAN CITY, Apr 24 (AP): Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, packed with about 100,000 pilgrims and tourists and ablaze in the bright colors of spring flowers as the faithful marked the church's most joyous...
TRIPOLI, Apr 24 (Reuters): Government forces retreated in Libya's coastal city of Misrata after two months of siege, but seized a rebel town in the remote Western Mountains, with no sign yet of Muammar Gaddafi being dislodged from power. "Misrata...
AMMAN, Apr 24 (Reuters): Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said Sunday, as popular opposition to Syria's authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad increased following bloody attacks on pro-democracy protesters. Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad have killed...
SANAA, Apr 24 (Reuters): Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down within weeks in return for immunity from prosecution, but protesters said they would keep up their demonstrations until he went. Protesters, who have taken to the...
BAN NONGKANA, (Thailand), Apr 24 (agencies): Heavy fighting erupted Sunday for a third day between Thai and Cambodian troops, with gunfire and explosions heard on both sides of the disputed border as the United Nations renewed calls for a lasting...
PESHAWAR, Apr 24 (Reuters): The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed Sunday after thousands of people blocked a key highway in Pakistan to protest against U.S. drone strikes, officials said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance...
KOLKATA, Apr 24 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said he was surprised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about the State government's "overall failure". "I am surprised at what the Prime Minister said yesterday. I don't know...
TOKYO, Apr 24 (agencies): Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami, the military...
PUTTAPARTI, (India), Apr 24 (AP): Hindu holy man Sathya Sai Baba, considered a living god by millions of followers worldwide, died Sunday in a hospital near his southern Indian ashram, a doctor said. He was 86. Sai Baba had spent...
JUBA, Apr 24: At least 55 people were killed and scores wounded in fighting between south Sudan's army and rebel militiamen, the latest in a wave of bloody clashes in the soon to be independent state, a government official said...
KABUL, Apr 24: Roadside bombs killed three NATO service members and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials...
SEOUL, Apr 24 : North Korea has again threatened to destroy the United States and South Korea. The communist North issued its latest war rhetoric on the eve of its army's anniversary. The official Korean Central News Agency says that...
MADRID, Apr 24: The parents of a Spanish photojournalist who was captured by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi say they received a phone call from him in which he said he was well but in a Tripoli jail....
MEXICO CITY, Apr 24: Five women, all apparently connected to a beauty parlor, were found brutally murdered in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco on Saturday morning, state police said. The semi-naked and bound bodies of two women and a...
Police recovered body of a housewife named Ferdousi Begum (20), from her house at Gokornaghat of the Brahmanbaria town Saturday. Ferdousi was wife of Shahin Mia of Gokornaghat. Her body was hanging from the ceiling of the room. Sadar Thana...
Police recovered body of a young man, aged about (24) from Bakua area on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Ullapara Upazila of Sirajganj Saturday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police suspected that miscreants following a previous enmity...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed smuggled drugs worth about Tk 90 million at the BGB office in Jessore Saturday.The destroyed drugs include 15,690 bottles of phensidyl, 2400 bottles of foreign liquor, 65.5 litres of stolen liquor, 4.5kg of hemp...
Siddique Islam With the government going for increased borrowing from the banking system to meet its budget deficit in the last quarter of the current fiscal, the banks are likely to face additional pressure on their liquidity position. Financial institutions,...
Doulot Akter MalaThe much-waited expansion proposal of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Sunday got approval of the secretary-level committee with an aim to boost revenue collection upon being equipped with adequate manpower and infrastructure facilities. The revenue board eyes...
Mushir AhmedBallooning energy subsidy has posed the biggest challenge to the policy-makers as the government prepares the budget for the fiscal year (FY), 2011-2012, an official said Saturday. The official said the size of energy subsidy would be more than...
FE ReportBangladesh Thai Aluminium sued the head of the stock scam probe body chief and its other members Sunday demanding deletion of a part of the probe report it says "falsely" accuses the firm of laundering money. BD Thai's legal...
Syful Islam Malaysia will send back up to 55,000 illegal Bangladeshis after they flouted its strict visa rules and found jobs there illegally, manpower recruiters said Sunday. The workers went to Malaysia with student and tourist visas but stayed on,...
FE ReportFinance Minister AMA Muhith said Sunday that the probe committee report on share market scam would be published after getting opinions of a number of organisations including Bangladesh Bank (BB) on the report. "We have sought opinions from a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Sunday Bangladesh wants to continue its effort along with other neighbouring countries to alleviate poverty from the South Asian region. She said this when the visiting Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma along with his delegation...
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