The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an inquiry against Chief Whip of Parliament ASM Feroze and his brother ABM Reza over their alleged involvement with loan forgery. The commission had asked the chief whip and his brother to appear before…
Dr Muhammad Mujibur Rahman, former Professor and Head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Rajshahi, presently a New York based academic scholar specialized in Islamic philosophy and thoughts speaking at a seminar viewed that Islamic ideology…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘Surplus Public Servants Absorption Bill, 2014′, subject to the vetting of the Law Ministry, with a view to maintaining the continuity of the Public Servants Absorption Ordinance 1978. The approval was…
A Chittagong court has withdrawn a tax evasion case against former Chittagong City Corporation mayor and Awami League leader ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. Divisional Special Judge Ataur Rahman issued the order on Monday, more than four years after the home ministry…
The High Court has granted acting BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir bail for six months in a case of bombing. The bench of Justices Borhanuddin and KM Kamrul Kader issued the order on Monday.
India’s policy towards Bangladesh would not change even if there is a change of regime in New Delhi after the elections, its high commissioner in Dhaka has said. The Lok Sabha elections started on Monday and would continue for a…
Indians have begun voting in the world’s biggest election, with the ruling Congress party pitted against the Hindu nationalist BJP opposition. The nine-phase ballot begins on Monday and concludes on 12 May. Votes will be counted on 16 May. More…
Customs officials have seized 53 gold bars from a passenger on transit at Chittagong’s Shah Amanat Airport. The contraband gold was found on Anis Chowdhury, 34 and it weighed more than 6 kgs, said Airport Customs Assistant Commissioner Moshiur Rahman…
Mickey Rooney, the child actor who became the world’s top box-office star, has died aged of 93, US police say. Born in Brooklyn, he began his career aged 18 months in his parents’ vaudeville act, Yule and Carter, and never…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have carried Prince George off the plane at the start of their three-week tour of New Zealand and Australia. It is the first official tour for eight-month-old Prince George, who was awake as the…
An Australian vessel searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected signals consistent with those from aircraft black boxes. Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield acquired the signal twice, once for more than two hours, Australia said. Air Chief Marshal…
Patna: Experts from Bangladesh and different parts of the country participated in the symposium jointly organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Patna University, and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Saturday. As many as 47 participants discussed…
For demanding salary increase, and protest continuing labour termination strike by labourers is continuing in Modern Pharmaceuticals Ltd in Jhenidah since Sunday morning.
New York — Andrea Jung has been named President, CEO and a director of Grameen America, the fastest-growing microfinance organization in the United States. Ms. Jung, the former Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc. and longtime champion of women’s…
After heartbreaks in two finals, Sri Lanka lifted their first World Twenty20 trophy comprehensively beating India six wickets in the final on Sunday. The Lankans produced a brilliant all-round display to topple favourites India with 13 balls remaining at the…
Berlin — Michael Guhle met the love of his life on the beach of a little fishing village in Vietnam.
Washington – Former US president George W. Bush said relations with Vladimir Putin grew “increasingly tense” during his White House years, as he unveiled his portraits of world leaders, including the Russian head of state.
Paris – Roger Federer saved Stanislas Wawrinka’s blushes after the Australian Open champion suffered a shock defeat to unheralded Kazakh Andrey Golubev in the Davis Cup quarter-finals on Friday.
Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Roberto Azevêdo and Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) Mukhisa Kituyi will visit Bangladesh by the middle of the current year.
Argentina’s leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirshner, has become godmother to the child of a lesbian couple who was baptised in a Catholic church.
A delegation of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST), led by its Vice-chancellor Prof Al-Nakib Chowdhury, met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Sunday.
A soldier who killed three men at a US Army base on Wednesday had an argument over a request for leave shortly before the shooting, reports say.
The outgoing Managing Director & CEO of the state run Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Kevin Steele, is likely to stay with Biman for couple of months more although he was supposed to leave the organisation at the end of the next…
A private university student was killed as he was hit by a speedboat while swimming in the sea at Laboni Point here on Sunday.
Australia thrashed England by six wickets to win a third successive Women’s World Twenty20 title.
Amid increase in submission of fraudulent documents, the US Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday advised Bangladeshi applicants to apply directly for a visa with genuine documents to avert permanent ban from entry into the United States.
Quito – Villagers and experts warily eyed an Ecuador volcano Saturday that spewed a 10-kilometer (six-mile) high column of ash a day earlier in a spectacular eruption.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh on Sunday signed an agreement for US$110 million in loans to support the country’s private sector infrastructure projects including in renewable energy.
Speakers at a seminar on Sunday urged the government to take steps for allocating sufficient fund for BADC in the next budget in a bid to ensure farmers’ rights.
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