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The first week of February has seen President Donald Trump - US's 45th President - being acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. This ended a US...
The first Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) between Bangladesh and Qatar will be held in the city on Monday. The meeting will begin at 10:30am at state guesthouse Meghna, reports UNB....
The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work, as another 70 people...
Although any production function comprises four elements (i.e. land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship), the geneses are land and labour. Capital has become a core element for the production function lately...
A female Chinese national was admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) with fever on Sunday. Zing Zong, 29, an employee of a Chinese company at Uttara Export Processing Zone...
The election commission has fixed March 29 for the election to the Chattogram City Corporation. The by-polls to Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 parliamentary seats will be held on the same day,...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has rubbished reports in the Kuwaiti media linking an unnamed Bangladeshi lawmaker with a human trafficking ring operating in the Middle-Eastern country. Responding to a...
Three United Nations (UN) agencies along with the government of Bangladesh on Sunday launched the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy Plus Livelihoods (SAFE Plus) project to mitigate deforestation and...
The High Court (HC) on Sunday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain within a week as to why it shall not declare illegal their inaction in taking...
Shikkha Tori, which literally means ‘the boat of education’, is an innovative programme by non-government organisation BRAC that allows children living in some of the most flood-prone and low-lying regions in...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Sunday asked the officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to ‘catch’ the identified foreign tax-dodgers working in Bangladesh. He came up...
Cambodia's readymade garment (RMG) exporters are expecting that the suspension of the European GSP facility would lead to an increase in export orders for Bangladesh in the EU market. They...
A first year HSC student of Dhaka Udyan Government College, Md Nahiyan Rafi (17), has got heart disease and needs immediate treatment to survive. He has been suffering from ventricular...
Tulip, the spring-blooming ornamental flower famous for its dazzling beauty that usually grows in colder countries, is now largely being cultivated commercially in Gazipur. Tulip, the national flower of Turkey...
The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell on Sunday and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work, as another 70 people...
Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Saturday Mike Bloomberg would not generate the “excitement and energy” needed to win the White House, focusing on a rival still not...
Stocks kept soaring with the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hitting two and a half months on Sunday amid growing investors’ confidence in the market. The market...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said the government is yet to receive any appeal for the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole. “I haven’t received any...
The number of fire incidents in slums across the country increased in 2019 compared to that of 2018, official data showed. However, the extent of property damage in such incidents...
The High Court has ordered the government to form a separate task force in all districts to monitor and keep unfit and unlicensed vehicles off the streets. The secretaries to...
ALOHA Bangladesh organized its 13th National Level Abacus & Mental Arithmetic competition 2020 recently at Bashundhara International Convention City (ICCB) in the capital. The day-long competition was participated by 3500...
A total of 12 Bangladeshis were killed in violence-related incidents along the country's border in January 2020, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday put emphasis on allocating more fund for technical and vocational training from the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust to develop a skilled and efficient...
The Town Hall Meeting-2020 with East Bengal Region branches of Standard Bank Ltd was held on Saturday at "The Peninsula", Chattogram. Managing Director & CEO of the bank Mr. Khondoker...
China is giving 500 sets of what it calls, the ‘most advanced kits’, to Bangladesh to identify coronavirus cases as a gesture of goodwill and strong faith that Bangladesh has...
First Security Islami Bank Ltd won by 18 runs against Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd at Bankers Championship Trophy-2020 held on February 15 at City Club Ground, Mirpur. First Security Islami...
It was a gleeful day for Ruku, Munni, Asma, Rajib, Ankhi and others from Mirpur branch of the underprivileged children's school Obhizatrik. These children along with their friends came to...
SYLHET: The Pailgaon Zaminderbari of Jagonnathpur upazila in Sunamganj would be protected as a 'reserved archaeological site'. A team from the Directorate of Archeology led by its Regional Director for...
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out retaliatory air strikes on Saturday that killed at least 30 people including civilians, in the latest flare-up of a...
Singapore has confirmed that a fifth Bangladeshi migrant worker has been diagnosed with coronavirus taking the number of patients with the disease in the city state to 72. Like the...
Saudi Arabia has deported 5,500 Bangladeshis from the kingdom since the beginning of this year and 145 of them were sent back on Saturday. The latest batch of Bangladeshis was...
Iran and Saudi Arabia appeared no closer to bridging their differences on Saturday with both sides sticking to their positions and regional facilitator Oman seeing no breakthrough before US elections...
A group of readymade garment (RMG) workers blocked the road in Savar’s Birulia demanding outstanding dues on Sunday morning. The workers claimed that at least five of their colleagues were...
Stocks witnessed a sharp rise in the early hours of trading on Sunday as investors maintained their buying interest on major sectors’ shares. Market analysts the central bank’s market supportive...
Twitter said on Saturday that an official Twitter account of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) media Twitter account had been hacked and temporarily locked. The accounts were...
The Awami League has nominated its local leader Rezaul Karim Chowdhury to run for the office of Chattogram mayor, ending AJM Nasir Uddin’s hopes for reelection on the ruling party...
Awami League Advisory Committee member and former state minister for LGRD and cooperatives advocate Rahmat Ali passed away on Sunday. He was 76. A five-time former Awami League MP from...
The flow of passengers to and from Bangladesh on China route has been hit hard because of coronavirus pandemic in China and some other countries. The passengers' flow is almost...
At present, the market share of assets of the Islamic banking industry is around 25 per cent of the country's total banking assets. Among the top 35 jurisdictions in terms...
Exports of processed food items declined substantially so far this fiscal year (FY) due to higher operating costs and raw material prices than the competitors. The export earnings fell 11...
Britain will “turn off the tap” of foreign, low-skilled labour and require all skilled workers wishing to come to the country to have a job offer and meet salary and...
The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak's epicentre was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died...
Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur is programmed for a joint working group (JWG) meeting on February 24 to discuss reopening of Malaysian market for Bangladeshi workers. To this effect, officials said,...
Merchant bankers have suggested offering special fiscal incentives, including tax and VAT waivers, to help woo large and renowned companies to the stock market. They felt since mobilisation of funds...
The VAT intelligence team has asked banks to provide details of private companies having yearly transaction or balance of Tk 1.0 billion or more. The move is intended to locate...
Few cities, even the poorer or developing ones, witness so many fire incidents like Dhaka. At least two or three big and disastrous blazes occur in the city every year....
With the approval of the Bangladesh Maritime Zones Act, 2019, last year, doors are now wide open for the country to exploit the rich marine resources in the Bay of...
Amidst growing concern over the culture of tax exemptions, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) late last week issued yet another regulatory order waiving advanced income tax (AIT) on chemical...
DPS STS School Dhaka organised the fourth DPS Model United Nation (DPSMUN IV) conference from Thursday till Saturday (February 13 to 15) for students to become great delegates and to...
It produces 70 per cent of the world's cocoa and yet Africa has very little hand in making the final product - chocolate. But one producer in Sao Tome and...
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