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People-centric cross-border trade in local products through participation and partnership is a key for India-Bangladesh border area development, said Bipul Chatterjee, executive director, CUTS International. “Trade is not just about...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudia Airlines will operate 10 chartered flights to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) within Sept 30 to carry back stranded Bangladeshi expatriates to this middle...
The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) demanded the grant-based funding pledged by industrialised nations to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change to the affected countries. The first ever 'Global...
The central bank has set a ceiling of 20 per cent interest on credit card bills to protect the interests of customers. The rate will be effective from Oct 1,...
Befitting the constantly transforming trends of time, the nature of man-to-man interactions also undergoes changes. These rapports come in many forms, suiting to the vogues in place at certain periods....
Onion prices continue to remain high in Dhaka kitchen markets, despite imports coming into this country from neighbouring India. In markets like Anondobazar and Shyambazar, for instance, onions — a...
Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones died of an apparent heart attack while in India to commentate on the Indian Premier League. He was 59. Cricket Australia and Indian television network...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Global Compact and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have established the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility on Thursday, an initiative to...
LankaBangla Foundation held Food Assistance Program 2020 for the flood victims of Chilmari and Ulipur Upazila of Kurigram district on September 22 and 23. More than 2,000 relief packets were...
Four students of Chittagong Independent University have receieved laptops as gifts from the vice chancellor of the university, says a press release. The management of the university was happy for...
Saudi expatriates gathered in front of Biman and Saudi Airline offices in the city on Thursday for having their air tickets confirmed to go back to Saudi Arabia, reports UNB....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has provided a total of Tk 17.5 million as financial assistance for 35 families of the victims of Narayanganj mosque blasts. An amount of Tk 0.5...
Representatives of the international community supporting the Rohingya in Bangladesh on Thursday reiterated certain reservation about shifting the Myanmar nationals to coastal land of Bhasan Char from camps in Cox’s...
The prices of gold have fallen by Tk 2,500 per bhori on all four categories of the precious metal uniformly on Thursday. The local jewellers cut Tk 210 on per...
Water level in many of the rivers and tributaries in the Ganges basin recorded a rising and falling trend in the past twenty-four hours ending this morning on Thursday like...
A Barishal court on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Hijla upazila in 2013 over dowry. The condemned convict is Monir Hossain,...
Bangladesh has posted 1,540 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 355,384. The death toll jumped to 5,072...
Thailand’s digital ministry filed legal complaints with cybercrime police after the two social media companies missed 15-day deadlines to comply fully with court-issued takedown orders from Aug. 27, the digital...
The United Arab Emirates will resume issuing visas to foreign visitors to all seven of its regions as of Thursday after a six-month suspension imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
The High Court on Thursday ordered judicial inquiry into the alleged murder of a schoolgirl who later returned home alive in Narayanganj. Besides, the court also asked Narayanganj chief judicial...
The High Court has ordered judicial inquiry into the alleged murder of a schoolgirl who later returned home alive in Narayanganj. Besides, the court also asked Narayanganj chief judicial magistrate...
Stocks posted a marginal gain on Thursday after volatile trading as investors were active on both sides of the trading fence. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday arrested a teenage boy from the city's Banani area for his suspected involvement in the killing his four-year-old sister. The arrestee is...
Uber Technologies Inc-owned Middle East business Careem is seeing its ride service recover more quickly than expected from the coronavirus crisis, while its delivery business is larger than before the...
The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed September 27 (Sunday) for passing its order on two bail petitions filed by Destiny Group Managing Director Md Rafiqul Amin in two money laundering...
Planning Minister MA Mannan has said human errors may have triggered problems at Padma Bridge and rail link projects over vertical and horizontal clearances between the approach roads and the...
As China's ByteDance raced to seal a deal with Oracle Corp and Walmart to keep its video-sharing app TikTok operational in the United States, an apparent breakthrough came last Wednesday...
The Government has reappointed Syed Shahriyar Ahsan as Managing Director (MD) of Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) for next two years. Mr Syed Shahriyar Ahsan completed his Masters and MBA Degree...
Progress against corruption can be made even under the most challenging conditions, a new World Bank report finds. At a time when unprecedented levels of emergency funds have been mobilised...
The total number of mobile phone subscribers nearly doubled in in the last eight years thanks to the government’s commitment and push to digitise the country. However, the number of...
Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said on Thursday. Prize money...
Vietnamese businesses exported nearly 850 million medical masks in the first eight months of this year, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs. More than 70 enterprises exported over...
In a significant development, Oman on Thursday lifted restrictions on the entry of Bangladeshi workers into that country. “This is a very good news for us. We have just received...
Italy may apply well-targeted closures where necessary to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while another general lockdown is unlikely, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told la Stampa daily in...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen promised on Thursday to help the island’s key semiconductor industry overcome difficulties and consolidate its leading position, offering support to a sector increasingly caught up in...
Canada has entered a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday (local time), warning that the country was on the brink of a surge...
Stocks witnessed choppy trading in early hours of trading on Thursday as investors were active on both sides of the trading fence. Meanwhile, Walton Hi-Tech Industries shares continued to soar...
Indian actor Kangana Ranaut, who has been vocally suggesting that there exists a ‘drug mafia’ in Bollywood, has tweeted, presumably, in response to the summons served to actors Deepika Padukone,...
US President Donald Trump declined on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 03 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and said he...
Asian shares fell on Thursday following a slump on Wall Street overnight, as a series of warnings from US Federal Reserve officials underscored investor worries over the resilience of the...
A fourth Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating an investigational Covid-19 vaccine has begun enrolling adult volunteers, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Wednesday. The trial is designed...
The coronavirus crisis is lasting longer than expected and it will take some countries years to return to growth, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund said on...
Walton Hi-Tech Industries made a flying trading debut on Wednesday as its shares price jumped 50 per cent -- the highest allowable limit, riding on investors' 'irrational hype' over the...
Bangladesh has requested Bhutan to provide details, including possible format and date, of signing the proposed preferential trade agreement (PTA) between the two countries. The commerce ministry of Bangladesh recently...
Prices of rice increased further in major wholesale markets across the country in the last few days after remaining almost static for three weeks. The hike in the wholesale level...
The performance of government ministries and agencies in project execution was below the mark in the first two months of the current fiscal compared to the same period last year,...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked its field offices to issue tax acknowledgement slips immediately after submission of returns by the taxpayers. The income tax wing of the...
CHATTOGRAM: The seasonal traders who collected raw hides here at low prices during Eid-ul-Azha last month, sold their unsold 0.1 million pieces of hides last week, finally getting rid of...
Bangladesh signed on Wednesday agreements with two Japanese consultancy firms for developing Matarbari port at Moheshkhali sub-district in Cox's Bazar. As per the deals, the government will pay Tk 7.0...
The volume of fixed deposits with the banking system fell by 2.41 per cent in the second quarter ending in June compared to January-March, dwindled by lower interest rate. The...
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