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The shortfall in provisions against loans, mostly classified ones, in the banking system has narrowed by over 18 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019 on the back of...
Japan's economy shrank at the fastest pace in almost six years in the December quarter as a sales tax hike hit consumer and business spending, raising the risk of a...
Social media are exposing at least one unsocial aspect of many individuals - a selfish motto of their dreams and demands - that remained largely hidden earlier. While expressing their...
A veritable natural green wall, or what environmentalists would like to call 'natural shell,' sheltering the coastal belt settlements of Bangladesh from the cyclones and storm surges, the Sundarbans is...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday described the proposal of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to hike water tariff by 80 per cent at residential and commercial levels...
Developing countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Indonesia are facing four mammoth development challenges. The first one is about growing graduate unemployment. That is followed by the one (2nd) related...
Returning from a morning feeding his sheep, Jeff McCole, a 70-year-old farmer, paused to take in the bittersweet scene - a few droplets of rain falling onto the remains of...
BEIJING, Feb 18 (BBC): Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began. Data from...
MYMENSINGH, Feb 18: Mat artisans in the district are passing hard days as they cannot compete with plastic products. The families who depend of mat weaving for earning a day's...
President M Abdul Hamid has stressed the need for utilising commerce and investment potentials between Bangladesh and Nepal as visiting Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawall paid a courtesy call...
Parliament on Tuesday passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2020, dropping a provision of having a seal for getting a company registered, which will in turn help Bangladesh improve the ease...
When President Xi Jinping made his first state visit this year to Myanmar and signed new infrastructure contracts, there was no indication of the obstacle about to trip up China's...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid informed the parliament on Tuesday that the government provided Tk 522.60 billion as subsidy to power sector in the last...
Women in Business (WiB) can be considered as an important driver for ensuring gender equality and women empowerment. Without engaging women in economic and entrepreneurial activities at a significant level,...
Signing of phase 1 trade deal between US and China has come at a cost for other partner countries. Bilateral deals are usually dictated by discrimination. With the increasing proliferation...
Recent news that Bangladesh’s central bank approved the conversion of two more local banks to fully-fledged Islamic banks warrants taking a closer look at the Shariah-compliant banking and finance industry...
Some785 restaurants and cafes have been closed in the country since last September, reports MTV TV on Tuesday quoting Tony Ramy, head of Lebanon's syndicate of restaurants owners. The number...
Bangladesh has agreed to allow Nepal to use its Saidpur Airport as part of strengthening trade and connectivity between the two countries. Welcoming the Nepalese proposal, Bangladesh says a technical...
Travel restrictions over a coronavirus outbreak in China have forced Bangladesh to postpone an international archery competition scheduled to be held in the last week of February. Kazi Rajib Uddin...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed a fresh petition with the High Court seeking bail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, citing illness. The petition was moved before...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said he did not discuss about Khaleda Zia’s parole with Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader during their recent telephonic conversation....
A Dinajpur court has sentenced three villagers to death for murdering a tutor following a dispute over fishing in Birampur Upazila in 2011. Additional District and Sessions Judge Anwarul Haque...
A seven-year-old girl was found dead at a bamboo cluster at Manik Hajirtola village under Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj on Tuesday, a day after she went missing. It was suspected...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project involving for enhancing the capacity of Mongla Port with Taka 60.15 billion. Out of the total project...
Various cold-related diseases affected 4,456 people across the country in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room showed that...
Nepal has proposed Bangladesh to use Saidpur Airport as part of strengthening connectivity between the two countries. Bangladesh has welcomed the proposal and a technical expert team will look into...
The High Court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to set up breastfeeding corners at all mills and factories across the country within two months, reports UNB. The HC bench...
A "ghost" cargo ship has washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, brought in by the bad weather that lashed Europe in Storm Dennis, reports BBC. The abandoned...
Stocks slipped into the red on Tuesday, snapping a five-day winning streak, as investors opted for quick-profit on selective large-cap issues. The market opened on upward trend and key index...
Fire incidents caused a property damage of more than Tk 3.30 billion across the country in 2019, official data showed. Those incidents totalling 24,074 also left at least 184 people...
Members of Bangladesh Navy and Fire Service on Tuesday morning retrieved the bodies of a woman and her son from the Sarafvata river in Rangunia upazila in Chattogram five days...
The family of imprisoned BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will decide about seeking her release on parole, the party's secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. "It is entirely up...
A Rohingya woman was killed following an altercation with two other women over a trifling matter at Camp No-24 in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Tuesday morning. The...
At least 17 journalists were harassed in January 2020, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of the victims, two received death threats over phone during the period,...
The head of a leading hospital in China’s central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday, state television said, becoming the second...
The share prices of two companies - Orion Pharmaceuticals and Orion Infusions - have been soaring despite no undisclosed price sensitive information. Within 12 trading days, share price of Orion...
Total number of automated teller machine (ATM) booths in the country reached 10,924 at the end of December last year. The number was 10,280 at the end of 2018, according...
A pedestrian was crushed under the wheels of a truck on Kansat-Chowdala road in Kansat Abbas Bazar area in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified...
Three United Nations (UN) agencies have launched the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy Plus Livelihoods (SAFE Plus) project in Dhaka alongside the Government of Bangladesh to mitigate deforestation and...
An unhealthy competition between travel agencies and irresponsible behaviour of tourists have endangered the natural ecosystem of newly emerged island ‘Char Bijoy’ in the Bay of Bengal, about 40 kms...
Bangladesh International Hotel Association (BIHA) members held a meeting with Finance Minister Mr. AHM Mustsafa Kamal, MP on Monday at his office and discussed various matters relating to hospitality and...
At least 23 people died in a stampede as Nigerian refugees rushed to get food and clothes in a community centre just over the border in Niger on Monday, officials...
Another burn victim of Narayanganj gas fire has died, bringing the death toll to two. Kiron Mia, 45, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka’s Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn...
A day-long workshop on "Prevention of Money Laundering & Combating the Financing of Terrorism" was held at World Trade Center, Agrabad, Chattogram recently. A.K.M. Mohiuddin Azad, Executive Director of Bangladesh...
Apple has warned that disruption in China from the coronavirus will mean revenues falling short of forecasts. The tech giant said production and sales were affected, and that "worldwide iPhone...
India’s annual electricity generation from coal-fired utilities fell in 2019 for the first time in a decade, government data showed, amid a broader economic slowdown and increased use of renewable...
HSBC has said its profits for 2019 fell by 33 per cent, mainly due to its investment and commercial banking operations in Europe. The bank, which makes the bulk of...
Japan’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to support companies to develop secure 5G mobile networks and drone technologies amid growing alarm among Tokyo policymakers over the increasing influence of...
The Trump administration is considering changing US regulations to allow it to block shipments of chips to Huawei Technologies from companies such as Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker,...
Stocks rose steeply in the early hours of Tuesday trading sending the DSE key index above the 4800-mark, as the enthusiastic investors maintained their buying interest on selective large-cap shares....
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