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.
Remittances drop in 8 months
Remittance inflow decreased by 1.15 per cent to $9.76 billion in eight months of the financial year of 2015-16 compared with that in the same period of FY15, according to the Bangladesh Bank data released on Wednesday.
Khaleda, Tarique appear unrivalled leaders in BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and its senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, also Kahleda’s eldest son, appeared as unrivalled leaders of the party as no others collected nomination forms for election to the positions while the deadline expired on Wednesday.
JSD faction observes flag hoisting day
Politicians and civil society leaders on Wednesday urged the government to give state recognition to March 2 as flag hoisting day when in 1971 student leader ASM Abdur Rob first hoisted national flag of Bangladesh at Dhaka University.
Mother killed 2 Banasree siblings:RAB
Rapid Action Battalion officials on Thursday said the mother of the siblings killed inside their rented apartment at Banasree in the city on Monday herself killed them ‘out of frustration.’ RAB had detained the parents and an aunt of the siblings from their village home in Jamalpur on Wednesday and interrogated them.
