Tarana vows to wipe out corruption
Vowing to eradicate corruption from her ministry, state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said there is no way for her ministry to favour corrupt people, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Fakhrul goes home from hospital
The acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, went to his house at Uttara in the city leaving a city hospital on Thursday.
People in frenzy to reach home
People streamed out of the capital on Thursday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones living in outlying districts on overloaded buses, trains and launches.
WAR CRIMES: Forkan given death penalty
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Thursday unanimously sentenced Md Forkan Mallick to death for the war crimes he had committed in Mirzaganj thana of the then Patuakhali sub-division during the country’s Liberation War.
Greece votes 'Yes' on bailout bill
The heavily indebted country needs the bailout money to avoid bankruptcy and a 'Grexit' from the euro, but the reforms are extremely unpopular.
First on CNN: Former President George H.W. Bush in the hospital after fall
Former President George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck, but "it was not life threatening," his spokesman Jim McGrath told CNN.
China: Clothes come off in viral Uniqlo sex video
The "hottest" shopping destination in Beijing is putting one of the world's most popular clothing chains in the hot seat.
First on CNN: Sources say MH17 report blames Russian missile for shooting down plane
It's been nearly one year since 298 people were killed after a commercial passenger plane broke up over the Ukraine.
65pc of selected shops yet to install ECR, POS in six years
The National Board of Revenue has made very little success in persuading the shopkeepers from 11 categories to install electronic cash registers or point of sales at their shops in half a decade of the introduction of the system.
AL men, law enforcers on extortion spree: BNP
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday alleged that ruling Awami League men and law enforcers were now celebrating ‘grand festivals of extortion’ everywhere centring Eid-ul-Fitr. At a briefing at the BNP central office, BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon said that tyranny of extortionists had been increased everywhere and the government failed to stop it.
