BB profit halved in FY15
The net profit of Bangladesh Bank decreased by 49.04 per cent to Tk 1,038 crore in the financial year 2014-2015 compared with that of Tk 2,037 crore in the FY 2013-2014 due to a dull situation in local and international business.
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE : Khaleda wants UN-supervised probe
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday demanded international investigation under the supervision of the United Nations into the incidents of enforced disappearance in the country.
I can’t imagine it: Zafar Iqbal
Writer and computer scientist Muhammad Zafar Iqbal on Sunday said that he had never imagined that students could beat up their teachers.
10 injured as BCL men attack SUST teachers
At least 10 teachers were injured as Bangladesh Chhatra League attacked teachers at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology who were staging protests for the removal of the university vice-chancellor on Sunday.
Thai police arrest suspect in Bangkok bombing
Thai police have arrested a suspect in a bombing that killed 20 people and wounded scores more at a shrine in Bangkok this month, authorities said Saturday.
Marco Rubio on world leaders: Vladimir Putin a 'gangster,' Kim Jong Un a 'lunatic'
When it comes to his assessment of world leaders, Sen. Marco Rubio isn't pulling any punches: Russia's run by a "gangster" and North Korea a "lunatic." The 2016 Republican presidential candidate made a foreign policy speech Friday morning in South Carolina, in which he riffed on his unvarnished opinions on various enemies of the United States.
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway's first black Jean Valjean, dies after fall
Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who made history as the first African-American to play the lead role in a Broadway production of "Les Miserables," died Friday night in New York.
BNP, JP want cancellation of power, gas price hike
Different political parties and groups, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Jatiya Party, on Saturday demanded cancellation the latest hike of gas and electricity prices terming it unjustifiable.
MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZE IN LIBYA : Death toll includes 24 Bangladeshis
The death toll of Bangladeshi migrants in the tragedy of Thursday late night’s boats capsizes off the Libyan coast en route to Italy reached at 24, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Saturday late evening.
Austria: 71 refugees found in abandoned truck probably died of suffocation
Dozens of refugees -- most likely fleeing war-ravaged Syria -- probably suffocated inside a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway, authorities said Friday.
