DHAKA: Gionee, One of the China’s largest mobile manufacturers companies, has officially been launched in Bangladesh for the first time. The opening ceremony was held in Eastern plaza shopping complex of the city on Thursday. Country Manager of Gionee Bangladesh Fidel and Managing

DHAKA: A worker was electrocuted in Railway Colony area under Shahjahanpur Thana of the city on Friday.The deceased was identified as M Sahed, 30, employee of a bedding store and son of Abu Naser oat Romapur village of Chatkhil Thana in Noakhali district.Shahkahanpur Thana Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and no major damage was expected.Australian news website 9news.com.au reported on Friday morning.The quake hit at a depth of 19 kilometres,

PANCHAGAR: Six people including two women and a child were killed and another injured in a road accident in Charmile area under Sadar Upazila of the district Friday morning.One of the deceased was identified as Mostafizur Rahman, 35, auto-rickshaw driver, while details of other deceased

DHAKA: More than 123,000 Kiwi people have signed on for the 2015 40 Hour Famine including 740 school groups across the oceanic country New Zealanders to raise funds for large number of poor families in Bangladesh, reports news site Scoop.co.nz on Friday.New Zealand’s 40 Hour Famine

DHAKA: The Chief Justices of Bangladesh and Thailand Surendra Kumar Sinha and Direk Ingkaninanda agreed to exchange visits of the judges and trainee judges between the two countries with a view to sharing of best practices and technical capacity building in the delivery of justice.The

DHAKA: State minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said the government is set to enhance efficiency of police department so that the department can perform in a more professional manner.The state minister also said the number of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel will

BANDARBAN: District transport owners and workers announced an indefinite transport strike protesting the vandalism and assaulting workers.Bandarban Paribahan Malik-Shramik Oikyo Parishad, an organization of transport owners and workers, general secretary Subrata Kanti Das made the

DHAKA: Bangladesh has expressed its intentions to help build houses especially for the earthquake-affected Nepalese.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed the intentions while talking to her Nepal counterpart Sushil Koirala in telephone conversation on Wednesday.Nepal premier also thanked

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her incumbent government is implementing the initiatives taken by father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The premier made the assertion at a Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and industries (BCCI)-organized program at

DHAKA: Government has chalked out elaborate programs to mark the 116th birth anniversary of the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.The main program will be held in Comilla from May 25.Culture ministry public relations officer (PRO) Mollah Ahmed Kutubuddin said this on Thursday.Theme of the

COXSBAZAR: Detective branch police arrested war crimes accused Zinnah Ali, Nurul Islam and Osman Goni from their houses in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. Acting on tip-off, police teams detained them after raiding their houses in Moheshkhali upazila in the afternoon.District DB OC Dewan Abul

DHAKA: The government will give special security to ten noted individuals including Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) AAMS Arefin Siddique and Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Home Affairs, made the remark on Thursday, a day after a letter

PANCHAGARH: Lightning killed two women in Aloakhoya union of Atoari upazila in Panchagarh district on Thursday.The deceased were identified as Budo Rani (50), wife of Palanu Chandra Singh and her neighbor Sabita Rani (30), wife of Ishwar Chandra.Witnesses said the women were busy in their

MALAYSIA: Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak asked the authorities concerned to search and rescue the illegal migrant boats in the sea.He made the order on Thursday.Expressing his deep concern over the plight of migrant people on the shores of southeast Asian countries, the premier said

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) Thursday postponed Bar Council Election for three months following writ petitions alleging anomalies in the existing voter list.An HC bench comprising Justice Kazi Rezaul Haq and Justice Abu Taher M Saifur Rahman passed the order and issued a rule asking to

DHAKA: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 17 Bangladeshis while they were trying to intrude Malaysia from Shahporir Dip area of Teknaf early Thursday.Among the detainees, 10 people hail from Narsingdi, three from Narayanganj and Chittagong each and one from Habiganj.BGB

DHAKA:  Prominent photo journalist Monwar Ahmed died at city’s Banganadhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) early Thursday.He was 75.Monwar Ahmed had been suffering from several diseases including Liver Cirrhosis for last six months.He breathed his last at the hospital around

DHAK: A three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair-2015 has been kicked off at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in city Thursday, with a target to earn 15 million USD from the event.Organized by Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD), Civil Aviation and

DHAKA: Malaysia will repatriate about 1,000 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants who came ashore in Langkawi, an archipelago in the Andaman Sea, 30 kilometers northwest of Malaysia, on May 11.Kuala Lumpur-based English newspaper The Malay Mail, the state-run news agency Bernama, reported on