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Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that criminals will not be allowed to use their political identities as shields. The road transport and bridges minister made the remarks...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that ruling ‘party men’ are badly tarnishing the country’s image in the international arena by indulging in rape and violence...
VAT intelligence team has unearthed concealment of sales information worth Tk 1.47 billion from Ujala paint factory. A team of VAT intelligence conducted a raid at the factory’s Shingair Road...
Britain’s Prince William launched a multi-million-pound environmental prize on Thursday, teaming up with celebrities including footballer Dani Alves and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to launch a prize aimed at tackling...
The country’s foreign exchange (forex) reserve crossed US$40 billion mark for the first time on Thursday following lower import payment obligations and higher growth of inward remittance. The forex reserve...
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman on Thursday said several spells of flooding affected 5.2 million people in 34 districts this year. He gave the information while...
US President Donald Trump has refused to take part in a virtual TV debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Earlier the commission deciding the October 15 Miami debate's format...
Alibaba-backed Indian financial technology firm Paytm is aiming for a million apps on its ‘mini app store’ by the first quarter of 2021, it said on Thursday, seeking to challenge...
Prices of rice, onions and some vegetables witnessed a hike again last week adding more woes to the consumers. Broiler chicken witnessed a slight hike too during the period. Prices...
Walton, the leading Bangladeshi electronics company, has awarded 26 individuals and organisations for their outstanding branding activities under its ongoing Digital Campaign Season-8. The awards were handed over in a...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has introduced automated challan system to facilitate deposition of some 196 types of revenues and fees to national exchequer. NBR Chairman Abu Hena Md...
Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque said in spite of ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters, the production of food grains (rice, wheat and maize) has increased to around 45.3 million metric...
The government plans to introduce capital punishment for rape cases as protests have continued over the recent incidents of sexual violence against women. A proposal for the legal amendment will...
Chinese has advised Indian media not to violate the ‘One China’ principle and not to address Taiwan as a country after publication of advertisements on Taiwan’s national day on Saturday...
State-run Northern Electricity Supply Company Limited (NESCO) will install some 500,000 pre-paid electricity meters in Rajshahi division to serve consumers better. State Minister for the Ministry of Power, Energy and...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered lower court concerned to dispose of within three months a case lodged over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of then leader of...
State Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak has said has said about 70 per cent of the victims of cybercrimes in the country are teenage girls. The state minister came...
NRB Commercial Bank Limited launched its 76th Branch at Loknath Bhaban (2nd floor), 89 Shari Potti, Bhanga Bazar, Bhanga, Faridpur on Thursday. Chairman of the bank Mr SM Parvez Tamal...
American poet Louise Glück has been named the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the seven-member Nobel Committee, the Prize was given to Ms Glück “for...
Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died...
Bangladesh has registered 20 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the death toll to 5,460. The caseload jumped to 374,592 after 1,441 people tested...
People from different walks of life, including students, staged demonstrations across the country for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday as anger mounted over the growing incidents of rape and...
City Bank on Thursday launched Real Time Cash Deposit Machine for the first time in Bangladesh at Head Office ground floor. Bank’s Managing Director & CEO Mashrur Arefin inaugurated the...
The World Trade Organization is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its 25-year history after it was announced that the final choice to be...
US Embassy Dhaka has announced the call for applications for the 2021-2022 Community Solutions Program (CSP), according to a statement issued on Thursday. The CSP is a year-long professional development...
The Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded Thursday after several years of controversy and scandal for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade, reports AP. In 2018 the award...
Stocks slipped into the red on Thursday, after a single-day break, as shaky investors went on a selling binge on major sectors issues. Markets opened on an upbeat note and...
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has said that movie-going is facing a real threat of extinction. Her new superhero movie has been delayed three times during the coronavirus pandemic, reports...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering additional local Covid-19 restrictions for parts of northern England as the second wave of the novel coronavirus accelerates, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...
A Gaibandha court has sentenced three people to death in connection with a double murder case in Sundarganj upazila of the district. Gaibandha District and Sessions Judge Dilip Kumar Bhoumik ...
Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year or 1 every 16 seconds, according to a new joint report. A stillbirth is defined in the report as a baby born...
Bangladesh's GDP growth is forecast to slow down to 1.6 per cent in the fiscal year 2021 as the country struggles with the devastating impact of the lingering Covid-19 pandemic,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is getting all the district hospitals ready with ICUs and oxygen supplies to provide healthcare services to people in the case of...
Italy on Wednesday made it mandatory to wear face masks outdoors nationwide in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as new infections jumped to the highest daily...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally opened the amazing Itna-Mithamoin-Austagram all-weather road in Kishoreganj district to traffic. Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 29.73–km spectacular road through a video-conference from her official...
Unemployment is seen as the biggest worry over the next 10 years for business executives around the world, closely followed by concern about the spread of infectious diseases, according to...
Global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have exceeded 36 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The global case count reached...
India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd REDY.NS to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine and has...
The gas supply has been turned off to the neighbourhood of Matikata in Dhaka for 8 hours due to repair work on a pipeline, said Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution...
The securities regulator has fine fined a sponsor shareholder of Prime Islami Life Insurance Tk 40 million for selling shares in breach of rules. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission...
The board of directors of Marico Bangladesh Ltd has decided a phase-wise investment of Tk 2.27 billion for the purpose of increasing manufacturing capacity. Marico, one of the listed multinational...
Australia will require partners of existing residents to pass an English language test before gaining a permanent visa, its government says. The controversial immigration requirement, if approved by parliament,...
Stocks witnessed a positive trend in early trading on Thursday as bargain hunters continued their buying interest on sector-wise issues amid expectations. Following the previous day’s slight gain, the Dhaka...
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris clashed early and often over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic during their debate on Wednesday, as the White...
A case has been filed against a police constable for allegedly violating a young girl in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj district. A beautician on Wednesday filed the case with Siddhirganj Police Station against...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Myanmar to urgently end the arbitrary and indefinite detention of approximately 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in squalid and abusive camps in Rakhine State. Recent measures...
Operating profit of Samsung Electronics, South Korea's tech behemoth, hit the highest in two years in the third quarter (Q3), the company said Thursday. Preliminary figure for operating profit amounted...
The board of directors of Summit Power Ltd has recommended a 20 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The company’s total cash dividend...
US President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in a...
The expatriates' welfare ministry is creating a databank on returned and stranded migrant workers whose work permits and visas have expired and they cannot rejoin their works abroad. The ministry...
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