The High Court will deliver its verdict on Tuesday on the legality of a letter sent by the top court to the anti-graft body asking it to halt probe into...
Hundreds of people have marched in Hollywood in support of victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by the #MeToo social media campaign. The march follows a torrent of assault...
At least two troops of Assam Rifles were killed and six others injured Monday in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in India's northeastern state of Manipur, officials said. The IED...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive detained a suspected arms trader along with six foreign pistols and 18 rounds of bullets from Chalkpara border area in Shibganj...
Police arrested Md Murtuz Ali, 40, a member of ward no-4 of Nannar Union Parishad, on charge of raping a garment worker in Dhamrai upazila of the capital on Saturday...
The board of directors of Western Marine Shipyard has decided to raise the paid-up capital of the company by way of offering rights shares, said an official disclosure on Sunday....
A school teacher in Dohar on the outskirts of Dhaka city received Tk 0.1 million after he bought a Walton brand refrigerator on Thursday. Ajit Kumer Sarker, an assistant head...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 24 Bangladeshi nationals, who were trafficked to India eight years back, while they were entering the country through Sadipur border in Benapole on...
David Silva scored twice on Saturday as Spain extended their unbeaten run to 15 matches by thrashing Costa Rica. Full-back Jordi Alba drilled an unstoppable opener before Alvaro Morata pounced...
The commuters of Narayanganj district are facing enormous sufferings as a very few public transports were allegedly leaving the district for the capital since Sunday morning ahead of the BNP's...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will deliver her first major speech in Dhaka in nearly a year and a half at the Suhrawardy Udyan rally on Sunday. She will convey an...
Some of Bangladesh's banks don't have 'in-depth' look into the problem of spiraling non-performing loans (NPL) while many others try to frame remedial strategies perfunctorily. Such observations came out from...
The government has sought around US$1.83 billion worth of assistance from Japan for bankrolling six development projects, officials said Saturday. Officials at the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said they have...
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans have rallied in Barcelona on Saturday to demand the release of separatist leaders held in prison. Wearing yellow ribbons on their lapels backing the region's...
Antar Islam, a teenager, who was found dead in a litchi orchard in Sadar upazila on Friday, was killed over his aunt's extramarital affairs. Farhat Ahmed, superintendent of Thakurgaon Police,...
With an aim to reduce road accidents in the country to 50 per cent by 2020, the national road safety strategic action plan has been approved. The action plan got...
An Indonesian visual effects museum that encouraged visitors to take selfies with a waxwork of Hitler against a giant image of the Auschwitz extermination camp has removed the exhibit after...
Former Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, also the president of port city unit of Awami League, has been hospitalised early Sunday. Mohiuddin, who has been suffering from kidney and heart...
Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) has urged the finance minister to exclude some components, including sponsors' investments in mutual funds (MFs), from the banks' exposure to the capital market. It...
Unknown miscreants hacked a cattle trader to death at Milonpur in Birganj upazila on Saturday night. Md Sharif (38), son of Chan Miah of Araji Milanpur village, was stabbed brutally...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said detectives are working to trace those who have gone missing, including NSU teacher Dr Mubashar Hasan and journalist Utpal Das. The Minister made...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday alleged that Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was forced to step down by sending government agency men abroad. "You've observed the condition of the...
US President Donald Trump landed in the Philippines on Sunday for a summit of Southeast and East Asian nations, hours after offering to mediate on competing claims to the South...
The United Nations says it heard consistently about sexual violence from Rohingya women, including gang-rape of women by multiple soldiers. UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in...
BNP will cripple the country, if comes to power, as it already paralysed the city roads in the name of rally. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader made the remarks...
With the growing internet usage over the years, the private data of more and more people are being stored on several internet platforms. Most of these platforms are search engines...
Dhaka Stock Exchange today published the EPS of 17 companies. The following table shows the current situation of EPS compared to the last year. ICB, IFADAUTOS, NPOLYMAR, APOLOISPAT, BSCCL, and...
Republic of Ireland held Denmark to a scoreless draw in the first leg of their World Cup playoff in Copenhagen on Saturday night. The Irish defended deeply from the first...
The 18th session of the 10th parliament that began on Sunday will continue until November 23. The decision came at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the current...
There are over 16 million people in Bangladesh living with a disability [Source: centre for Disability in Development]. That is close to 10 per cent of the population or one...
The government plans to implement a project to resolve the waterlogging problem in Chittagong port city. Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain came up with...
President Donald Trump's 12-day Asian tour has been an example of transactional approach within the paradigm of international relations. We have seen a similar direction during his initial tour in...
Myanmar police Sunday arrested an ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk who has a history of stoking sentiment against Rohingya Muslims, the country’s beleaguered minority, reports Reuters citing a Myanmar newspaper. Parmaukkha was...
The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday has asked the police to bolster security around its offices amid media reports that militants are plotting terror attacks. The commission is gearing up...
The success of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 is more than evident from the fact that it has been roping in more and more illustrious cricketers from around the...
The 53rd Annual General Meeting of Eastern Housing Limited was held recently in Dhaka. Manzurul Islam, Chairman of Eastern Housing Limited presided over the meeting. The shareholders approved 22 per...
Frequent alcohol drinking kills new cells in key brain regions, with females being more vulnerable, a new study on mice said Thursday. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch...
Managers and field staffs conference-2017 of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB), Rangpur Zone was held at ASOD Training Centre Saturday. Managing Director of RAKUB Md. Muin Uddin addressed the meeting...
Sarwar Hossian Tipu, 42, a resident of Alir Moor in Badda area of the capital, died after a bus rammed into his motorcycle in front of CNG refueling station at...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed an upward trend in early hour of trading Sunday as investors are active on sector-wise stocks. Following the previous...
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, said on Saturday its Singles’ Day sales extravaganza hit $25.4 billion, smashing its own record from last year and cementing it as the world’s biggest...
Egyptian military jets destroyed 10 vehicles carrying weapons, ammunition and smuggled goods near the country’s western desert border with Libya, the army said on Saturday. Egypt’s porous border with Libya...
Mass graves containing at least 400 bodies have been found near Hawija, an Iraqi city that was occupied by Islamic State (IS) fighters until last month. Kirkuk province's governor, Rakan...
From the moment Saad al-Hariri’s plane touched down in Saudi Arabia on Friday November 3, he was in for a surprise. There was no line-up of Saudi princes or ministry...
Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities on Sunday caught four admission seekers for using proxies to sit for their exams and securing the top merit list in the entry test for the...
US President Donald Trump said he had "good discussions" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin when they met briefly at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam. In a Tweet on Sunday, he...
Comilla Victorians thrashed Rajshahi Kings by huge nine wickets to register their second win in the 5th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Chasing...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that the judiciary is now freed of burden on his reaction to Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha resignation on Saturday. "A person should not remain...
WHILE rural people, despite many problems of life, can at least sleep peacefully at night, the urban people cannot. Noise pollution is one of the causes. Hundreds of vehicles ply...
The High Court directed on Sunday the government to clear the 'ambiguity' in the Children Act within January 15 next year. A bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice...
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