Key share price index at the country’s twin bourses — Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) –experienced another bullish session on Monday, with the DSE registering its highest turnover of 2015. The DSE benchmark index, DSEX gained…
Police arrested the father of three girls, who were hacked to death allegedly by their father in Chakaria upazila, from Oxygen area in the port city early Monday. The arrestee was identified as Abdul Gani, 38. Tipped off, a team of…
A court of Dhaka on Monday again deferred submission of the probe report in a case filed against BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia for hurting religious sentiment of the people to June 18. The probe report was scheduled to be…
BNP on Monday voiced deep concern over Awami League-led 14-party spokesman Mohammad Nasim’s assertion that they do not believe in ‘too much of democracy’, BNP on Monday alleged that the government is plotting to annihilate democracy in the name of…
Protesters on Monday demanded immediate action to rescue Bangladeshi would-be migrants who are left ‘floating’ off the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia, as well as stern punishment against human traffickers for their heinous crimes. The demand came from a rally…
A Mumbai nurse who was in a coma for 42 years after being sexually assaulted while working in a hospital has died, hospital authorities said Monday. Aruna Shanbaug suffered severe brain damage and was in a vegetative state after she…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft amendment to the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) between India and Bangladesh, enabling it to be automatically renewed after every five years. The approval was given at the regular meeting…
Two persons were killed and 40 others injured when two buses collided head on at Vellakandi area on Magura-Faridpur highway this afternoon.
Police arrested four people in possession of 4000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Amirabad area in Lohagora upazila early Monday.The arrested were identified as Ibrahim Khalil, 28, son of Jahirul Islam of Hatiya Char in Kishoreganj; Alamgir, 42, son of…
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized two pistols from Gatipara border in Benapole area early Monday.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive held three people with counterfeit currency notes worth Tk 4 lakh from Jamalganj upazila on Sunday.
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a young man from Kheyaghat area in Sadar upazila on Sunday evening on charge of posting cartoon of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook.The arrested was identified as Roman Palowan, 28,…
Police recovered the slaughtered body of a man in Chardighipar area of the city on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Ibrahim Abu Khalil, 55, son of Sad Uddin Al Habib, a resident of the area.
Benapole Port Thana police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler and recovered one kilogram of heroin worth about Taka one crore from Sadipiur village of Benapole frontier last night.The arrested person was Kalu, 45, son of late Amir…
Members of the Coast Guard and the Border Guard Bangladesh in their separate drives in the district on Sunday rescued 13 people who were reportedly thrown into the sea from Malaysia-bound ships and salvaged by Myanmar fishermen earlier.In-charge of the…
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and its front organizations today celebrated the homecoming day of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through the day-long programmes.Chittagong city, north and south district units of AL celebrated the day through elaborate programmes including placing of…
A mobile court here today destroyed foreign brand cigarettes worth around Taka 70 thousand on charge of violating the tobacco control law.Executive Magistrate Shimul Akhtar told local journalists that the mobile court conducted the drives against smoking in public places—at…
Agri experts at a function urged the farmers to farm zinc enriched rice BRRI Dhan 64 in large scale to meet the necessary requirement of micronutrient for a human body and increase disease resistant capacity of children and mothers.“Zinc is…
Grameenphone says it will go for more investment to raise the number of its internet subscribers to 50 million.Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Sethi revealed the plan while talking to reporters of bdnews24.com and several other media outlets on Sunday at…
Islamic State militants said they had taken full control of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday in the biggest defeat for the Baghdad government since last summer.In a statement, the group said it had seized tanks and killed…
“The Sea of Trees”, Gus van Sant’s metaphysical tale set in Japan’s ‘suicide forest’, got a harsh reception from the critics at the Cannes Film Festival, but the Palme d’Or winner seemed unperturbed by the few boos that greeted his…
Asif Kapadia, the director of “AMY”, the biopic on Amy Winehouse that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, said there was no harm intended after the late singer-songwriter’s father harshly criticised the film.Mitch Winehouse insisted he wanted to disconnect himself…
Spain’s biggest selling sports daily Marca summed it up in Monday’s headline after Barcelona wrapped up a fifth La Liga title in seven years and their 23rd overall on Sunday: “Messi’s League”.The Argentina forward scored a typically brilliant goal to…
The death of at least 100 migrants in fight over food that shrank in supplies in boats that carried them at sea near Indonesia has shaken the mind of all people irrespective of geographical, poitical, reigious or ethnic divides, but…
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced a 23-strong preliminary squad for the series against India next month. Opening batsman Anamul Haque and pacer Shafiul Islam have returned to the Bangladesh team after recovering from injuries, according to a statement released…
Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia have told the BBC that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining food. Survivors told of horrific conditions. Three men separately said people were stabbed, hanged…
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has fallen to Islamic State (IS) after government forces abandoned their positions, officials say. The police and military made a chaotic retreat after days of intense fighting. But the US refused to confirm the capture,…
The International Farakka Committee (IFC), New York at a discussion meeting commemorated the Farakka Long March of 16 May 1976 and urged the government of Bangladesh to take initiatives for integrated management of all common rivers including the Teesta. The…
Dear editor, If we looked at the world’s maps a crazed array of boundaries cuts Bangladesh out of the cloth of easternmost India, before slicing up the surrounding Himalayan area and India’s north-east into most of a dozen jagged mini-states.
A Dhaka court on Sunday postponed recording the deposition of the witnesses in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case. Rajib’s father Najim Uddin was present at Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 on Sunday to testify. But acting Judge Shahed Nur Uddin…