Around Tk 9,070 crore of investors money was swindled out by cooperatives and money-lending organisations over the last one year, says a new study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). “According to news reports published in newspapers during March 10,…
A Ganajagaran Manch activist has been stabbed in the capital’s Banglamotor. Hasibi Shahidi Shishir, who took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday afternoon, accused Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker of masterminding the attack. Right after the incident,…
Sometimes it feels like these Kate and William photo ops are generated in some sort of factory in a Mad Libs-style assembly line: “Let’s put her . . . in a ferris wheel . . . with ribbons in her…
Will he or won’t he? With Cristiano Ronaldo currently struggling with a thigh injury, Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti has to decide whether to risk the fitness of his most important player in Wednesday’s Copa del Rey final against Barcelona.…
Signs have been detected that a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific known as El Nino is imminent, presaging changes to global weather patterns in the months ahead, the World Meteorological Organization said.
The combination of fire and extreme weather could accelerate tree mortality in the Amazon, a study has suggested.
Michael Jackson’s mother has been ordered by a US court to pay AEG Live $800,000 (£480,000) for costs defending the failed negligence case she brought against the concert promoter.
India’s Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling. “
The acting President of Ukraine, Olexander Turchynov, has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists.
Western hysteria surrounding Russia’s seizing of Crimea is rooted in a larger problem with U.S. foreign policy—“the Munich 1938 syndrome.”
Money matters: Across the world, people of different generations are worried about their financial well-being in retirement.
A case was filed on Tuesday against 13 people in connection with the killing of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader Ismail Hossain Panjer.
Two people, including a college girl, allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents in Chittagong and Sylhet on Monday.
Police in a drive arrested an alleged terrorist at Karpara in Ramganj upazila on Tuesday.
Police recovered a policeman’s pistol, looted by some muggers on Sunday night, from Kandipra village under Solonga Police Station on Monday night.
Elections to another 21 upazila parishads are likely to be held late next month, election commission sources said Tuesday.
A sexagenarian man was killed and five people were injured in a clash between two feuding groups at Chagladah village in Terokhada upazila on Monday night over establishing supremacy.
Security has been beefed up in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila so people can vote peacefully in Wednesday’s polls.
At least 20 people, including seven cops, were injured in a triangular clash involving activists of Awami League and BNP-Jamaat and police Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) submitted the charge sheet against 12 people for the murder of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Milki on Tuesday noon. Investigation Officer (IO) of RAB-1, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kazemur Rashid submitted the charge…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday expressed her vow to restore democracy in the country at any cost. “We have made the country independent but it has been threatened. Our movement to sustain our independence will continue,” she said while…
The EU and the US say they will impose “further costs” on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, as unrest continues in the east of the country. EU foreign ministers said on Monday they would expand a list of names targeted…
A robotic submarine deployed to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean has had its first mission cut short. The Bluefin-21 was sent to search the sea floor for wreckage after signals believed to be…
A truck rammed into a four-wheeler, ‘Leguna’, killing four passengers at Chandra of Gazipur’s Kaliakoir Upazila on Tuesday. Police said five more were injured in the accident in front of Chandra Forest Office on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at 8am.
The fourth edition of Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2014 is set to be held from June 19 to 21, at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka. The event is organised by Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD) in…
A bank official was killed as a train hit him at Charkhutar intersection level crossing under Rajpara Police Station in the city on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Humayun Kabir, 55, a resident of Hargram Munshipara in the…
Bangladesh garment factory owners say they are soaking up much of the cost of nearly doubling wages as some global retailers balk at price hikes, leaving less money for safety improvements urged by apparel chains after last year’s Rana Plaza…
Hundreds of residents from Bangladesh and Inida met for over two hours at the Amarkhana border on Monday, the first day of the Bangla New Year. Men, women and children thronged the border, exchanging greetings from either side of an…
Four students of a private university in Dhaka went missing and two others died as they drowned in the bay in Saint Martin Island here on Monday. The deceased were identified as Imran Habib, 22, and Saddam Hossain, 21. Witnesses…
Former caretaker government chief Fakhruddin Ahmed met Finance Minister AMA Muhith in Washington on Sunday. Fakhruddin, who headed the military-backed caretaker government in 2007-08, has been living in the United States since the Dec 2008 parliament elections.