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Total cost for the Bangabandhu Railway Bridge Project, to be implemented by Bangladesh Railway under the Ministry of Railways within December 2025, reached Taka 167.81 billion. The Executive Committee of...
Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Amir Khan are drawing criticism from fans for maintaining silence even as violence in the Indian capital claimed 47 lives, reports UNB....
At least four people, including a member of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were killed in a clash between BGB members and villagers at Gazinagar Bazar area in Matiranga upazila...
A Pirojpur court on Tuesday ordered to send former Awami League MP AKM Awal and his wife Lyla Parveen to jail in three separate graft cases on charges of grabbing...
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has received investment proposals amounting to around 20.50 billion US Dollar from 151 local and foreign business entities, officials said. Out of the investment proposals,...
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on Monday said they stood ready to help member countries address the human and economic challenges of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, including...
Major international airline Emirates is asking staff to take unpaid leave for up to a month at a time due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has led to flight...
Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday Kenta Kon will become its chief financial officer and the roles of some executives will be consolidated, as the Japanese automaker attempts to improve...
An organisation of primary assistant teachers on Tuesday urged the government to make their jobs permanent within a short time. They made the call at a human chain at Jatiya...
BNP mayoral candidate in recently-held Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections Ishraque Hossain has filed a petition with the election tribunal seeking cancellation of the gazette on DSCC election result...
First Security Islami Bank sponsored International Public Speaking Competition (IPSC)-2020 held at BAF Shaheen College, Dhaka. The champion of the competition was Saleh Sakib Ahmed from Bangladesh University of Engineering...
The UN's special envoy for Libya has resigned saying his efforts to bring peace in the North African country was damaging his health. Ghassan Salame tweeted that "my health no...
Mercantile Bank Limited has recently signed an agreement with Chattagram WASA. The agreement was signed by Adil Raihan, Deputy Managing Director and CSBO of the Bank and Golam Hossain, Deputy...
The total number of internet subscribers has reached 99.246 million at the end of January 2020, according to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator. There were 91.421 million subscribers...
Betel leaf farmers in Lakshmipur district recorded huge sales in the last season. Md Belal Hossain Khan, deputy director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), said betel leaf farmers earned...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited along with five banks jointly organized Digital Banking Fair recently at the Shahid Daulat Maidan of Cox’s Bazar Public Library. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Additional Managing Director...
United Nations agencies and NGO partners on Tuesday launched the 2020 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis and sought $877 million. Building on the efforts and success...
A total of four prisoners died in different jails across the country in January 2020, according to an independent rights body. Of them, two were undertrials while as many others...
A woman who made more than 1,200 nuisance calls to the Met Police in attempts to get herself arrested has been jailed for ten weeks. Jelena Bobrova, 54, has pestered...
The air quality in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka improved drastically after rain on Tuesday morning. The city ranked 17 worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 10:50am. Dhaka recorded 13.6mm...
Global shares and oil prices extended their rebound on Tuesday on mounting speculation policymakers around the world would move to ease the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, ahead of...
Apple Inc has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday as optimistic investors are showing their appetite on sector-wise shares. Following the previous day’s modest gain, the Dhaka Stock...
Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for...
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) put forward on Monday a set of recommendations to the government that include development of bond market and infrastructure for the country's...
The country's capital market requires more companies having good fundamentals to enhance the market cap to GDP (gross domestic product) ratio like other neighbouring countries. The chairman of Dhaka Stock...
Ten most-traded stocks accounted for 23 per cent transaction of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Monday while Far Chemical Industries topped the turnover chart. Market insiders said investors continued to...
The cultivation of wheat is on the decline in Rangpur agriculture region during this current season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur official sources said wheat has been cultivated...
Naogaon district has seen gradual increase of Malta cultivation for the last few years due to profitable price and good demand of the citrus fruit round the year. Malta orchards...
The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within, and airports in hard-hit countries were ramping up screening of travellers. World Health Organization (WHO)...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $200 million loan to Bangladesh to increase access to electricity and improve service efficiency in Dhaka and the country’s western region....
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, or ICB, has requested the government to cut interest rate on term deposits it took from banks to support the stock market. Presently, the corporation...
Tax revenue shortfall aggravated further, hovering to a deficit worth Tk 374.97 billion against its target until January of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, largely due to fall in...
Indian government would lift the ban on onion exports on March 15, said its commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal in a tweet on Monday. The decision to allow onion...
Payra coal-fired power plant, the country's largest electricity generation unit, is waiting for a rise in mercury for higher demand of electricity to initiate commercial operation from its 660 megawatt,...
Employment growth in the manufacturing sector has decelerated in recent years, accelerated by investment in higher productivity, according to an economist. Rizwanul Islam, visiting senior fellow of the Centre for...
The National Board of Revenue, or NBR, has reached a consensus over offering a string of tax incentives to promote long-term debt market in Bangladesh. The incentives include withdrawal of...
After winning the first of the three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe, Tigers are now eying to wrap up the series today (Tuesday) when they will take on the visitors in...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 02: Getting a satisfactory price, onion cultivation has increased in Rajshahi region this year. Sources said, due to exorbitant price of onion during the current season, the farmers...
Prices of onion, one of the main cooking ingredients, dropped further in Dhaka markets in the last couple of days following lifting of ban on export of the spice by...
Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday at Ganabhaban in Dhaka. Briefing the media, PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim...
The coronavirus outbreak is plunging the world economy into its worst downturn since the global financial crisis, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned on Monday. The organisation...
Foreign capital inflows constitute part of the world's savings. Over the past three decades world savings in proportion to world income has fallen. The decline in world savings implies that...
To become a 'developed' country from a 'developing' background involves a huge jump. Is Bangladesh capable economically to make that leap? A lot will, of course, depend upon how high...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has fixed maximum 9 per cent interest rate on the import of nine essential commodities for keeping the prices of the commodities at tolerable level during...
Yet another woman falls from rickshaw and dies following snatching of her vanity bag. In another such highly tragic incident, a woman caught in the straps of her bag was...
Against the backdrop of the increasingly erratic behaviour of nature, the season of monsoon nowadays begins much ahead of its normal time. The otherwise blissful season in the country, now...
At a seminar on February 25, the Chairman of the Bangladesh Security Exchange Commission (BSEC) regretted that the BSEC, which is share market watchdog, was made responsible even for price...
A nine-day SME product fair will kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital on Wednesday, aimed at promoting local products both in domestic and international markets....
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora has said the coronavirus has no relation with the mercury level. “We should not sit idle...
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