Speaker meets Indian Lok Shabha speaker
Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today called on India’s Lok Shabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan at her office in New Delhi.
Digital diplomacy, teamwork keys to effective digital govts in CICA: FM
Foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali has advocated for pursuing ‘digital diplomacy’, and sought a greater cooperation in digital technology sector among CICA member countries to implement more effective digital governments.
Retail prices of onion, garlic increase
The prices of onion and garlic witnessed a further rise on the city’s retail markets over the week. Traders failed to show any reasonable excuse to increase the prices of onion and garlic but wholesalers and retailers blamed each other for the rise.
Preservation of Old Dhaka historic sites demanded
Local people formed a human chain in front of Mitford Hospital in the capital on Friday demanding preservation of historic places and buildings of Old Dhaka.
BB to make PIN use mandatory for POS transactions
In the wake of recent POS and ATM fraudulences, Bangladesh Bank is going to make mandatory the use of personal identification number while settling transactions by clients through their credit and debit cards using point of sale machines.
Banasree siblings killing: RAB suspects mother’s link
The father of siblings found dead inside their rented apartment at Banasree in the city on Monday, Mohammad Amanullah, on Thursday prosecuted his detained wife Mahfuza Malek Jesmin, 38, on charge of killing their children.
MH370: Likely piece of doomed plane found, U.S. official says
The American tourist who helped find a piece of wreckage that may have belonged to MH370 hopes the debris, if connected with the missing airliner, can provide a clue.
An isolated Osama bin Laden struggled to keep his bodyguards
In the last months of his life, an isolated Osama bin Laden was in a serious dispute with the two brothers who had been pretty much his only connection to the outside world for the previous eight years.
North Korea fires 6 'short-range projectiles,' South Korea says
North Korea on Thursday fired six "short-range projectiles" that flew 100 to 150 kilometers (about 62 to 93 miles) off the Korean Peninsula, according to a press release from the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
GOP reaches a crossroads
Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, notching seven victories -- four more than his closest competitor -- in states from Georgia to Massachusetts on a day that marked a turning point in his quest for the White House.
