Rupali Insurance, Social Islami Bank Limited, Beach Hatchery, and Mercantile Bank have recommended cash and stock dividends for the year ended on December 31, 2013. The Board of Directors of Rupali Insurance has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend and…
Parliament on Monday formed another 10 standing committees on different ministries. The JS bodies have been formed unanimously as chief whip ASM Firoze proposed the names of the committees. With this a total of 24 standing committees and parliamentary committees…
A bill titled “Palli Sanchay Bank Bill, 2014” has been placed in Parliament on Monday for setting up a specialised bank to facilitate savings and transactions of the earnings of the rural poor and under privileged people. Minister for Finance…
Chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) M Badiuzzman on Monday said the economic emancipation of the country was not achieved even 43 years after the independence due to corruption. Addressing a prize giving ceremony at the Shilpakala Academy Auditorium at Segunbagicha,…
The fifth and final round of voting in 73 upazila parishads in 34 districts was held amid reports of irregularities and election boycott by a number of candidates, mostly the BNP loyalists. The polling was held from 8am to 4pm…
In a reaction to BNP’s criticims against him, Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak on Monday said no political leader has the rights to hurl abuses at the Election Commission. “We people who work at the Commission are the citizens of…
Denouncing election commissioner M Abdul Mobarak’s remark that BNP has joined the upazila polls after rubbing its nose in the dirt, the party on Monday asked him to withdraw his comment and apologise to the nation. “The acting chief election…
Maldives is shutting down its mission in Dhaka on Tuesday, nearly six years after opening it. Its acting high commissioner Ahmed Adil on Monday told journalists that they had to take the decision following the country’s “unprecedented fiscal problems”. “Even…
A day after Russia’s Dhaka envoy ‘thanked’ Bangladesh for abstaining from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution on Crimea, the US ambassador in Bangladesh was found fuming. “I regret that Bangladesh was not able to join the majority on…
Lawmakers in parliament on Monday sharply criticised the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman for their remarks on country’s first President. Speaking on the thanks giving motion on President’s speech, the lawmakers alleged that the…
Ahead of the general elections, political parties in India are attempting to woo voters on social media for the first time.
Altitude sickness is two illnesses, according to Edinburgh scientists.
Disney animation Frozen has become the top-grossing animated film in box office history.
Burmese officials have begun the first national census in three decades, but are refusing to allow people to class themselves as Rohingya.
The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan must temporarily halt its whaling programme in the Antarctic.
England ended their winter of discontent on a new low as they were beaten by minnows Netherlands at the World Twenty20 in Chittagong.
Novak Djokovic stretched like a rubber band to hit a backhand. He sprinted into the other corner and scooped out forehands as if he was wielding a shovel.
At least 40 shanties belonging to 30 families were gutted and three cattle died as a devastating erupted at a slum in Islampur area of the city on Sunday night.
Two children were crushed to death by a train at a railway station in Adamdighi upazila on Sunday afternoon.
Coupled held for involvement Police rescued a madrasa student from Mandrachar Kusria village in Hijla upazila on Sunday, two days after his abduction from Dhulkhola launch station of the upazila.
Fifteen people were injured and 12 houses vandalised in a clash between two rival groups at Bhawal village in Saltha upazila on Sunday evening.
The farmers have produced over 2.94 lakh tonnes of mustard oilseeds during this Rabi season after completion of harvest everywhere in the northern region a couple of weeks ago, official sources said.
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has started entering into online banking era as an effort to going ahead amidst the present time of gradually increasing demands.
Re-excavating work of twoponds and construction of boundary and retaining walls of the Fish Seed Farm (FSF) of the district has been progressing fast.
The construction work of the much-awaited Tentulia Upazila Muktijoddha Complex began here on Sunday.
A man was killed allegedly by his elder brother following feud over a piece of disputed land at Chandrakona village under Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday.
Ministry of Relief and Disaster distributed cheques for Taka 1,10,500 and 235 pieces of tin among 23 natural disaster affected families in Boda upazila of the district today.
The trial will mark the latest round in a long-running series of lawsuits between the two tech giants that underscore a much larger concern about what is allowed to be patented.
A court in Pakistan has charged former military ruler Pervez Musharraf with treason, the first army chief to face such a prosecution. Mr Musharraf is accused of unlawfully suspending the constitution and instituting emergency rule in 2007. He pleaded not…
The impacts of global warming are likely to be “severe, pervasive and irreversible”, a major report by the UN has warned. Scientists and officials meeting in Japan say the document is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impacts…