BERC eyes use of energy security fund for LNG, LPG import cost

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission has drafted the guidelines on the use of energy security fund created last year from the sales of gas, giving priority to meeting import cost of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas.

MCCI remembers Gulshan attack victims

Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday arranged an event in memory of those who lost their lives on July 1 Gulshan cafe attack in the capital.

Khaleda secures bail in nine cases

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and her party leaders on Wednesday appeared in four sessions and magistrate’s courts in Dhaka for charge hearing and securing bail in 12 of cases corruption, sedition, and political violence.

Spl bus, rickshaw services launched for diplomatic zone

Dhaka North City Corporation on Wednesday launched twenty air-conditioned buses and 500 rickshaws designated only for the diplomatic zone in the capital.

WAR CRIMES: Shakhawat gets death sentence

Former Jamaat MP from Jessore Md Shakhawat Hossain, 62, was on Wednesday sentenced to death while his seven war crimes accomplices to jail until death.

Trump: 'Second Amendment people' could deal with Clinton

Donald Trump set off a fierce new controversy Tuesday with remarks about the right to bear arms that were interpreted by many as a threat of violence against Hillary Clinton.

Waaaait! Ryanair passenger makes a mad dash across tarmac to catch plane

You run to the boarding gate, only to find it closed. But you can see your plane, just now rolling across the tarmac. If only you could run out there and flag it down!

US troops lost weapons to ISIS in firefight

US troops abandoned equipment and weapons after they came under fire from ISIS fighters, the Pentagon acknowledged Tuesday.

'Iron Lady of Manipur': World's longest hunger strike ends

With a lick of some honey that was spooned onto her palm, human rights activist Irom Sharmila on Tuesday ended her 16-year hunger strike in India -- the longest such fast in the world.

Telcos ‘break promises’ of giving compensation for call drops

The country’s mobile phone operators are yet to start compensating subscribers for call drops in their own network ‘breaking their promises’ made to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission three weeks back, said telecom regulator officials.