Staff Reporter
The key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) gained slightly in the first trading day of the week as confidence of the investors restored partly, market sources said. The general index of DSE went up by 67 points in early trading yesterday (Monday), but the uptrend did not sustain with the index [...]

Staff Reporter
At least six persons received severe injuries when an explosion with big bang blown off roof of a tin-shed mess at Masdair in Fatulla early yesterday.Members of different agencies started investigation just after the incident. Police recovered some religious books, ID cards and some evidences from the spot.A team of DB’s bomb disposal unit [...]

Zahid Hasan
Agricultural credit disbursement by the commercial banks and specialised financial institutions recorded a robust growth of 25.51 per cent in the first quarter of current fiscal following some pragmatic measures taken by the central bank.Eight state-owned banks and financial institutions along with the private commercial banks (PCBs) distributed Tk 2533. 37 crore as farm [...]

Staff Reporter
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) refuelling stations in Savar area are facing serious problems due to low pressure or no pressure of gas, CNG statioin sources said.“Around 28 CNG stations from Nabinagar intersection to Chandina and Ashulia are incurring a huge loss due to low pressure or no pressure of gas for the last [...]

BBC News
An intense “super typhoon” has made landfall in the northern Philippines, lashing the area with heavy rain and winds of up to 225km/h (140mph).At least one person has been reported killed, and thousands have fled their homes. Emergency services are on alert, and many schools are closed.Typhoon Megi is the strongest storm the Philippines [...]

Staff Reporter
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reportedly asked the cabinet members to maintain close contact with leaders of the Islamic political parties, except Jamaat-e-Islami, and to assure them that religion-based politics would not be banned.The Prime Minister gave the directives at the regular cabinet meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat, according to insiders.Sources said Sheikh Hasina [...]

Staff Reporter
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said the Constitution containing its original provisions would be sent to the press next week for reprint.He said this while talking to reporters at his office in the Secretariat after calling on Turkish ambassador M Vakur Erkul.“We came back to the original Constitution of 1972 through the Fifth [...]

Sagar Biswas
Trafficking different types of intoxicating drug through Bangladesh has increased in recent days, which becomes a major concern of the high-ups in the government.According to the intelligence sources, international drug syndicates have been using the country as a safe corridor for smuggling drugs. The syndicates also see Bangladesh as an alternate route when the [...]

Ehsanul Haque Jasim
In the face of the situation created by the Government on different issues, the main opposition BNP is likely to observe another hartal (general strike) and other anti-government programmes before Eid-ul-Azha, sources in the party said.The party observed its announced first and last hartal during the period of the Government on June [...]

Staff Reporter
Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Shipping at a meeting yesterday expressed its satisfaction over restoring normal situation in the Chittagong Port after army deployment.The meeting, held at Sangsad Bhaban with its chief Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury Liton in the chair, termed the initiative of the ministry to overcome the stalled situation in the port [...]