Businesses start crying, says FBCCI president

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry president, Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, on Monday said that business people had started to cry being hapless victim of ‘destructive’ political programmes.

Protests rock Brazil

About 1.5 million protesters hit the streets across Brazil on Sunday in a major show of anger against leftist president Dilma Rousseff, who faces crises from a faltering economy to a massive corruption scandal at state oil giant Petrobras.

Mujib’s 95th birth anniv today

The 95th anniversary of birth of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed today in a befitting manner.

Hill people enforce blockade in Dighinala, 11 arrested.

Road communications between Dighinala of Khagrachari and other parts remain snapped as the Dighinala Bhumi Raksha Commitee enforced a blockade of the upazila for Monday protesting at police-army attack on Sunday’s march towards Babuchara.

Helpline launched for RMG workers.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments on Sunday launched a telephone helpline for the readymade garment workers so that they could raise any concern about possible fire,

50 die after bus plunges off road in southern Brazil.

Brazilian authorities on Sunday put the death toll at 50 after a bus carrying worshipers to a religious event plummeted into a ravine on Saturday.The bus veered out of a curve and plunged more than 1,100 feet in the rural area of Serra Dona Francisca,

Ali Zafar: World needs to help us out of extremist darkness.

December 16, 2014 was a dark day, not just in our nation's history, but the world's.Young innocent children were brutally massacred in a school in Peshawar along with their teachers.

Protesters demand President's ouster in Brazil, decry corruption.

Demonstrators took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday, protesting corruption and demanding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.Her administration is struggling amid a weak economy.........

Govt swallows Tk 265cr losses by giving benefits to IGWs.

The government has suffered a revenue loss of around Tk 265 crore in five months after it cut the rate for international call termination by the international gateway (IGW) operators patronising the politically licensed IGW operators,

Cop kills schoolboy after abduction.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a schoolboy from a police constable’s house in Sylhet city on Saturday night, three days after he was kidnapped for ransom.