Two die from electrocution
At least two people, including a 75-year-old man, died from electrocution at Madhabpur and Chunarughat upazilas in Habiganj early Tuesday...
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Global executions soar to highest in nine years: Amnesty
The number of people known to have been executed last year was the highest in almost a decade, with Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia responsible for most executions, Amnesty International said on Tuesday...
Aid cuts threaten battle against maternal mortality: UN
Maternal mortality rates have dropped dramatically in the past quarter of a century, but the UN on Monday warned that progress had stalled, risking major backsliding amid unprecedented global aid cuts...
PRE-BUDGET DISCUSSION: Businesses demand tax cuts, duty benefits
The industrialists in the leather goods and ceramic sectors, real estate businesses and reconditioned car traders demanded various tax cuts and duty benefits in the upcoming national budget for fiscal year 2025-26...
World community must work on UN Rohingya food aid cut
THE United Nations鈥� sudden and drastic reduction in monthly food aid, by 52 per cent, could be devastating for more than a million of the Rohingyas now sheltered in Bangladesh. The World Food Programme on March 5 announced that it would reduce its allocation for food for the Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.5 to $6 per person beginning on April 1 and cited...
Construction worker dies from electrocution
A construction worker died on Tuesday after being electrocuted and falling from a five-storey under-construction building in the Batteryghat area of Kamrangirchar in the capital...
NBR clarifies instructions on VAT cut on supershop purchases
The National Board of Revenue, in an instruction issued on Tuesday, clarified that supershops selling goods at the maximum retail price cannot charge an additional value added tax from their customers as the VAT will be included in the retail prices or MRP...
Iran executes 975 in 2024
Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a 鈥榟orrifying escalation鈥� of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday...
Wrist cutting group ringleader Anwar, two associates arrested
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday said that it had arrested Md Anwar who is accused of running drug trades, mugging and extortion for a long time, sometimes involving murders, in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur and its surrounding areas...
Flawed probe, weak prosecution major obstacles to justice: CJ
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Saturday underscored the need for a specialised and independent prosecution service, stating that flawed investigations and inadequate prosecutions remain significant barriers to justice in the country...
College student electrocuted on foot-over bridge
A college student electrocuted on a foot-over bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Monday morning...
LOSING LIMBS IN ELECTROCUTION: BREB chair, PBS official ordered to pay Tk聽10 lakh to child victim
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board鈥檚 chairman and the Satkhira Palli Bidyut Samity manager to pay Tk聽10 lakh within a month to father of 10-year-old Raqibuzzaman as treatment costs after the child lost his right hand and leg due to electrocution in May 2021...
No more 鈥楾om-Jerry鈥� games over hill cutting: Rizwana
Environment, forest, and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has issued a strong warning against the ongoing illegal hill cutting in Chattogram...
US tariff, rate fears rattle global stocks
Stock markets were rattled Wednesday by worries about incoming US president Donald Trump slapping tariffs on imports and the fading prospects for interest rate cuts...
Janata Bank Retired Executives Forum meets JBPLC MD
Members of Janata Bank Retired Executives Forum have recently met with Md Mazibur Rahman, managing director of Janata Bank PLC, said a press release...
Russian gas cut triggers blackouts in Moldova region
The separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria ordered a second day of rolling blackouts on Saturday, as a shutdown in Russian gas supplies starved the pro-Moscow self-proclaimed state of energy...
Policy execution failure one of country鈥檚 key problems
Centre for Policy Dialogue chairman Rehman Sobhan on Sunday said that one of the biggest problems in the country was failure to implement policies...
S Korea surprises with 2nd successive rate cut
South Korea鈥檚 central bank cut interest rates Thursday for the second time in a row in a surprise move, citing stabilising inflation and the need to mitigate growing economic risks...
Hope for justice for Rohingyas
THE public statement of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan KC on the arrest warrant application against General Min Aung Hlaing during his recent visit to Bangladesh is a long-awaited but anticipated development in the ICC鈥檚 quest to ensure justice for the deported Rohingya population currently taking shelter in Bangladeshi refugee camps...
Adani Group lost nearly $55b as US charges sparked rout
India鈥檚 Adani Group conglomerate said Wednesday it had lost almost $55 billion in a stock market rout since US prosecutors last week accused its founder and other officials of fraud.
ECNEC approves 5 projects worth Tk 5,916cr
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Monday approved five projects involving an overall estimated cost of Tk 5,915.99 crore, including one for improving the sewerage system of Chattogram (catchment 2 and 4) with around Tk 5,152.55 crore...
Trump names Scott Bessent as Treasury chief
US president-elect Donald Trump on Friday named billionaire Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, choosing the hedge fund manager to help execute an agenda promising tax cuts and tariffs...
Tariff cuts hardly check price hike: Salehuddin
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that tariff cuts hardly helped in checking price hike of essentials making majority people impatient...
Afghan Taliban carry out sixth public execution since 2021
Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth public execution since their return to power...
Fuel shortage forces Iran to impose power cuts in capital, other provinces
Iran is to impose electricity rationing in Tehran and other provinces from Monday because of a shortage of fuel in power stations, the official IRNA news agency said on Sunday.
Power cuts, austerity reveal energy crisis
Intermittent power outages despite substantial drop in the electricity demand together with the new austerity instruction issued on Monday underscore the country鈥檚 declining energy capacity...
3 of a family electrocuted
Three members of a family died from electrocution at a house at Kadamtala in Sadar upazila of Kurigram district on Wednesday.
US, Europe stocks fall on US inflation data
Shares slipped in New York and Europe Thursday as the latest US inflation report strengthened the case for a slower pace of interest rate cuts...
ECNEC approves rail-cum-road bridge construction project at Kalurghat
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council on Monday approved a Taka 11,560.77 crore new rail-cum-road bridge project over the River Karnaphuli at Kalurghat beside the existing old bridge to ensure smooth and uninterrupted communication system between Chattogram and Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
Pakistan capital at standstill as Imran supporters stage protests
Pakistan鈥檚 capital was locked down on Saturday, swarmed by security forces with mobile internet cut as supporters of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan attempted to seize the streets in protest...