9 Bangladeshis held while trying to infiltrate US
Mexico detained 94 illegal immigrants, including nine Bangladeshis, packed into a truck bound for the US border, authorities said Tuesday. Among the people found near the southern city of Tuxtla...
View ArticleDhaka taps BJP to salvage land boundary pact
As New Delhi rues lack of political support for land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, foreign minister Dipu Moni is making a last-ditch attempt to salvage the agreement protocol by directly...
View ArticleStocks return to the green
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse gained on Wednesday after witnessing downtrend for the last four days. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose 184...
View Article4 credit card frauds held
Detectives arrested four IT experts from different parts of the capital on Tuesday for cheating credit and debit cardholders out of their money using fake cards. Several fake debit and credit cards,...
View ArticleTycoon attacked for refusal to sign Bangladesh deal
Sir Philip Green’s clothing empire has been criticised for shunning a new initiative aimed at improving safety standards at Bangladeshi clothing manufacturers in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in...
View ArticleWorld waits for royal baby name
The Duke of Cambridge and his wife are “still working on a name” for their son, the duke has said, as the new family spend their first night at home. The world caught a glimpse of the third in...
View ArticleRony arrested
Embattled ruling party lawmaker Golam Maula Rony was arrested at Baridhara area in the capital Wednesday afternoon shortly after a Dhaka court cancelled his bail and ordered his arrest for beating up...
View ArticleNon-MPO teachers threaten 72hr rail, road blockade
Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions on Wednesday threatened to launch a 72-hour road, rail and waterway blockade programme from August 12 unless their institutions are brought...
View ArticleOrder on Yusuf indictment Aug 1
This May 12 photo shows Rapid Action Battalion men taking Jamaat leader AKM Yusuf to Rab-2 office after arresting him at his house. A tribunal in Dhaka will decide on August 1 whether it will indict...
View ArticleWar criminals, collaborators off voters list
The Election Commission (EC) decided on Wednesday to exclude convicts sentenced by the International Crimes tribunal (ICT) as well as those convicted under Bangladesh Collaborators Order, 1972 from the...
View ArticleRun regular administrative functions, HC asks JU
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Jahangirnagar University authorities to take necessary steps so that the regular administrative functions of the university are not hampered in any manner. In...
View ArticleUS to review GSP in December
The US will review the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facilities for Bangladesh in December, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said Wednesday. The foreign secretary was talking to newsmen after...
View ArticleJCD factions clash in city
Two cocktails were blasted as factions of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) engaged in a chase and counter-chase before the BNP headquarters at Nayapaltan in the capital on Wednesday. The incident took...
View Article116 kg gold seized at Shahjalal airport
Searching a Biman flight at ShahjalalInternationalAirport in the capital, customs officials on Wednesday seized 1,065 gold bars weighting around 116 kilograms. The gold would be worth around Tk 54...
View ArticleAll parties to take part in polls: Ashraf
Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam Wednesday expressed confidence that all parties, including the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, would take part in the next general...
View ArticleAttacks on cops kill 9 in Iraq
Militants attacked a police station in north Iraq yesterday with mortar rounds and automatic weapons, killing nine police, while six people died in other violence, security officers and doctors said....
View ArticleAttacks on cops kill 22 in Mexico
Heavily-armed men assaulted Mexican federal police units in a carefully planned attack in which 22 people were killed, most of them assailants, in six towns, the government announced Tuesday. The...
View ArticleOne killed in Somalia car blast
At least one person was killed and several others were wounded yesterday when a car bomb exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the latest in a string of attacks, police said. The blast targeted a...
View ArticleFresh Bulgaria turmoil as violence flares
Calls grew for fresh elections in the EU’s poorest country Bulgaria yesterday after a 40th straight dlay of anti-government protests turned violent, leaving at least 20 people injured. The clashes...
View ArticlePutin to visit Iran for nuclear talks: Report
President Vladimir Putin is to visit Iran in August to try and restart talks on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme, Russia’s Kommersant daily reported yesterday. Putin’s visit is planned for...
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