Killers getting away in Bangladesh: US envoy
US ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat said on Wednesday that killers in Bangladesh were getting away with murder.
B’desh can accelerate growth using youth bulge: UNDP report
Bangladesh is now a home to 10.56 crore of working-age people, creating an excellent opportunity for the country to accelerate its growth by properly utilising the demographic dividend.
Defaulted industrial loans post 17.77pc rise in H1
The total amount of defaulted loans in the industrial sector in the July-December period was Tk 2,980.03 crore higher than that in the same period of the previous fiscal year, 2014-15, due to a dull business environment and a lack of effective loan recovery measures by the scheduled banks and the non-bank financial institutions.
Chhatra Union’s 64th founding anniv observed
Bangladesh Chhatra Union on Tuesday observed its’ 64th founding anniversary on Dhaka University campus.
RU professor murder: Madrassah teacher, imam held
Police arrested the imam of a mosque and a madrassah teacher in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee from the slain teacher’s village home at Baghmara on Tuesday.
LGBT magazine editor killing: No arrest yet
Two cases were field for the killing of Xulhaz Mannan, one of the editors of the country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban, and his friend Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in Xulhaz’s Kalabagan apartment in Dhaka on Monday, but none was arrested.
Trump, Clinton score major victories
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton scored huge victories Tuesday that bring them closer to a monumental duel for the White House in the fall.
Pentagon adopts Israeli tactic in bombing ISIS
The U.S. has adopted a unique Israeli battlefield tactic in its fight against ISIS: exploding a missile above a building to warn civilians inside that it's about to be bombed.
Venezuela blackouts: 'We can't go on living like this'
About the only thing that can be counted on around the clock at Gustavo Diaz's home these days is the gas stove.
U.S. sends F-22 warplanes to Romania
Two of the world's most advanced warplanes have touched down in Romania for the first time, near the shores of the Black Sea and just a short hop from Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula and Russia.
