Afghan officials say Taliban insurgents have killed eight people in a bomb attack targeting election officials in southern Kandahar province. Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, said Sunday that the employees were in the district of Maruf conducting voter registration, when Saturday night’s attack occurred.A defense ministry’s deputy spokesman, Fawad Aman, says Taliban detonated four stolen Humvees ...

Consumers to pay Tk 975 for double burner, Tk 925 for single one Dhaka, Jun 30 : The average gas price has been raised by 32.8 percent for retail consumers with effect from Monday (July 1). Chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission Monwar Islam announced the decision on Sunday. As per the new price hike, the household consumers having ...

Dhaka, June 30 : Parliament on Sunday passed the Tk 5,23,190 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2019-20, themed as ‘Bangladesh on a Pathway to Prosperity: Time is Ours, Time for Bangladesh’. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved the Appropriations Bill, 2019 seeking a budgetary allocation of Tk 6,42,478.27 crore which was passed by voice vote. Following the proposal ...

Dhaka, Jun 30 : Telecoms giant Nokia has disowned the comments one of its senior executives made about rival Huawei, reports the BBC. Nokia’s chief technology officer Marcus Weldon told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using the Chinese hardware. He said Huawei’s telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks. In ...

Have you noticed the rush and chaos you carry around the entire day when you begin your day in a hurry? Unfortunately for most of us, the day begins with snoozing of alarms, skipping breakfast and rushing through morning ablutions. But you can change things around and begin your day on a positive and healthy note by making minor changes ...

File photo Sylhet Office : At least 13 rail bridges with ‘Dead Stop’ signs are being used on 179-kilometre Sylhet-Akhaura route, leaving thousands of passengers vulnerable to accidents. A ‘Dead Stop’ sign at rail bridge instructs train to stop first before crossing it and then run at only a five-kilometre per hour. Sources at Railway East Zone said six trains ...

A total of 43 containers were dropped on the sea from a local cargo ship while it was heading towards Dhaka’s Pangaon from Chattogram. The incident was took place on Sunday morning as the ship was caught in heavy weather near the Hatia Channel of the Bay of Bengal. According to the officials of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), ...

Photo: President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Panmunjom, Jun 30 : With grins and handshakes, President Donald Trump welcomed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone Sunday, seeking to revive talks on the pariah nation’s ...

Photo: Cardi B performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Brussels, Jun 30 : A music festival in Belgium featuring major stars like rapper Cardi B came to a chaotic end before it had even started. Security concerns were ostensibly the reason behind the cancellation of the VestiVille festival in Belgium on Friday, though local officials ...

Rio De Janeiro, Jun 30 : Firefighters say at least four people were killed and one wounded at a bar in the city of Belford Roxo in Rio de Janeiro state amid reports that a group of men had opened fire there with guns. The fire department’s press office said that an unknown number of people were taken to hospitals ...