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Bangladesh Bank will launch commemorative gold and silver coins worth Tk 100 and regular currency note of Tk 200 on the occasion of birth centenary of Father of the Nation...
Airlines stand to lose $29.3 billion (£23.7 billion) of revenue this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the global airline industry body has warned. The International Air Transport Association (IATA)...
EBay Inc is in discussions with multiple candidates regarding a potential transaction for its classified-ads business, the company said on Friday. The company expects to provide an update regarding the...
A golf tournament for amateur golfers began at Bhatiary Golf and Country Club (BGCC) in Chattogram on Friday. Nearly 200 women and men golfers are competing for championship in different...
A trolley (power tiller with trailer) driver and his assistant were killed in a road crash on Kushtia-Ishwardi Highway in 10 Mile area of Bheramara upazila on Saturday morning. The...
A woman carrying 14 gold bars weighing 1.37kg in her rectum was arrested at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on early Saturday. Nilufer Yasmin, the arrestee, came to Dhaka on...
Trump administration officials on Friday acknowledged that US president Donald Trump’s visit to India next week will not result in even a limited trade deal, saying they still have major...
An elderly man in the northern Italian city of Padua has died after being infected with the coronavirus, becoming the first Italian victim of the disease, Health Minister Roberto Speranza...
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Saturday ordered an investigation into a violent crackdown by security forces on protesters in Khartoum. Hamdok said in a televised speech: “I decided to...
China reported a decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, while its central bank predicted a limited short-term economic impact and said...
The air quality in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has not improved in recent days and its residents continue to face health risks. The megacity ranked second among cities with worst air...
Two more residents of the UAE have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID19), the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced on Friday. This brings the total number of patients...
Grameenphone has said it will deposit Tk 10 billion to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Sunday following a Supreme Court order on a Tk 125.8 billion audit dispute, reports...
China will play two World Cup qualifying games next month in neutral Thailand because of the virus outbreak in the country, FIFA said Friday. China was to host the Maldives...
US stock index futures edged lower on Friday as a spike in new coronavirus cases in China and elsewhere sent investors scrambling for safer assets such as gold and government...
A popular pro-democracy party in Thailand has been dissolved over a loan it received from its leader. The constitutional court ruled a loan of around $6m (£4.6m) to Future Forward...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested two people with 10,000 pieces of fake judicial stamps from Mirpur area in city.On information, a team of RAB-4 arrested Ramij Uddin, 45,...
The seven-day “reduction of violence” deal promised by the Taliban will begin on Friday night, a senior U.S. State Department official said, without specifying the exact time. That will start...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Friday said in the global village one needs to learn other languages but the mother tongue must never be neglected, reports UNB. “The world...
Alphabet and SoftBank’s attempts to launch flying cellphone antennas high into the atmosphere have received backing from global telcos, energizing lobbying efforts aimed at driving regulatory approval for the emerging...
Aggrieved families have demanded immediate compensation for the victims of a devastating inferno in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar last year. They also urged the authorities to relocate Old Dhaka’s chemicals factories...
Veteran Bangladeshi all-rounder Mahmdullah Riyad’s poor performance in Test finally resulted in his omission from the Test set-up. But Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo said his career is not over,...
The 25th span of the 6.15-kilometre long Padma Bridge was installed on the 29th and the 30th pillars at Jajira point in Shariatpur district on Friday afternoon. With the installation...
The outbreak of the new virus threatens to erase $29 billion of this year’s revenue for global airlines, mostly for Chinese carriers, as travel crashes worldwide, according to the International...
The government is working to register Bangla as one of the official languages of the United Nations (UN), Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said Friday, reports UNB. He made the remark...
Tesla Inc said it had resumed tree cutting in Gruenheide, Germany so it can construct its first European car and battery factory following moves by environmentalists to stop local deforestation,...
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran on Friday met Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the latter’s office in New Delhi, reports UNB. During the meeting, the envoy...
China’s chicken farmers had been looking forward to a bumper year, according to Reuters. But an unprecedented lockdown on people and goods to curb the coronavirus outbreak has disrupted the...
Syrian government troops covered by Russian warplanes on Thursday repelled several massive attacks of militants supported by Turkey in Syria’s Idlib, according to the Russian military. Militants supported by artillery...
Walmart’s Flipkart has filed a legal challenge against an antitrust investigation ordered against the company in India, a court filing seen by Reuters showed, following a similar petition by its...
Saudi-led coalition announced Friday it intercepted several ballistic missiles launched by Houthi militia towards Saudi cities, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Turki Al Maliki, spokesperson of the coalition, said that...
German luxury carmaker Daimler on Friday warned of risks for the economy and its own business from the outbreak of coronavirus that is spreading in China and around the world,...
An Indian woman has been arrested and charged with sedition for chanting "long live Pakistan" at a protest in the southern city of Bangalore. Amulya Leona was participating in a...
A prayer leader in his 70s was stabbed in a London mosque on Thursday and the assailant was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police and mosque officials said. “The...
After suffering six consecutive defeats in Test cricket, Bangladesh are eyeing an opportunity to end the drought as they face struggling Zimbabwe in a one-off Test starting Saturday at Sher-e-...
US President Donald Trump will open the world’s biggest cricket stadium in India next week, but critics wonder whether it’s just another vanity project by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in...
Listed Chinese companies are queuing up to issue shares and have already announced plans to raise more than $10 billion in the past week after fundraising rules were relaxed to...
Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China, reports BBC. The evacuees were brought to a health spa in Novi Sanzhary, in the...
Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing said Thursday....
Thousands of people from Bangladesh and India gathered at no-man’s land in Benapole on Friday, marking 'Amar Ekushey', the Language Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day. The Bangla-speaking people...
Convalescent plasma therapy has proved to be effective on severe cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said on Friday. More than 100 patients who have recovered from...
Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid called Thursday for greater trade and investment with Turkey to explore the potentials of the two countries in various sectors, reports Daily Sabah. "There is enormous...
Bangladesh's first woman ambassador in the Middle East is hoping her appointment will help female migrant workers in the region, with a mission to build a shelter at the embassy...
Voting began in the Iranian parliamentary election on Friday as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was seen casting the first vote on the state television, says a Xinhua report. “The...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it has named a non-executive director as board chairman for the first time, to increase transparency and independence, according to Reuters. Former Finance...
Shares across the world fell on Friday and were set for their worst week in four as investors dumped riskier assets for the safety of bonds and gold, with coronavirus...
Bangladesh needs to invest an estimated extra $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities, says a new World Bank report, according to indiaeducationdiary.in. The report,...
In the days after a new virus was identified in China on December 31, global central bankers fell back on past experience for a comforting early analysis, according to Reuters....
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner will be part of a high-powered delegation that accompanies US President Donald Trump to India next week. US National Security Advisor Robert...
South Korea has stepped up measures to contain the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, as confirmed infections rose sharply for a second day, reports BBC. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun...
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