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Many confuse between access to and availability of food. Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate, was the first to point out the mismatch in a number of his essays on food...
When there is already quite a good number of hospitals in the country and more are being built both in the public and private sectors, we are witnessing the contrasting...
What a coincidence! The 1st day of Falgun that heralds the advent of the king of seasons -the Spring and the Valentine's Day -a day dedicated to love, embrace each...
Both the books are published by Banglaprakash. A War Widow is a social novel epitomizing the untold sufferings of a war widow who had to endure a lot of agony...
To people of Bengal, Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Mirza Ghalib, is the most popular Urdu poet. Ghalib's poems, known as Gazal or Sher in Urdu, have immense...
After being diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer at an advanced stage, my father died in December 2019 at 71. The ordeal we all went through over...
Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children, presumed murdered, from a home in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan. The bodies were found at the house near KC Model...
Bangladesh High Commission in London has started the formal registration of Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Kingdom and Ireland to provide them with the National Identity Card (NID). The inaugural...
Outgoing Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon has set his sights on winning Awami League's nomination to contest the by-elections to the Dhaka-10 parliamentary seat vacated by...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said huge employment opportunities will be created after the beginning of vehicular movement on the Padma Bridge. “Those who are growing up now and...
A total of 78 aspirants collected application forms to get Awami League (AL) tickets to contest in the by-election to five parliamentary seats. The polls will be held in Dhaka-10,...
In 2019 global defence spending rose by some 4 per cent over 2018 - the highest year-on-year increase in a decade. The figures are included in this year's Military Balance...
Seven aspirants have bought BNP’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming by-polls to three parliamentary seats in Dhaka, Bagerhat and Gaibandha. They collected the nomination forms from BNP’s Nayapaltan central...
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg accepts that global tax reforms mean it may have to pay more taxes in different countries, excerpts of a speech he is due to deliver...
War criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday noon. He died around 2pm while undergoing treatment at DMCH, said Bacchu Mia, inspector of...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has stressed the need for bringing discipline in media sector as the country saw an exponential growth of mass media in the last 10 years....
Urging the BNP to shun negative politics, Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the court is the legal authority to grant...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday called upon the local entrepreneurs to produce modern fire safety equipment to reduce import dependence of the country. The country has to import most...
India’s halt on Malaysian palm oil imports has disrupted global edible oil trade flows, with Indonesia diverting supplies to feed India, Malaysia rushing to tap markets left behind by Jakarta,...
Five people have drowned after an engine-run boat sank on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district. The boat was headed to Shuvolong from the DC Bungalow area on Friday morning when...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the loss of lives following the outbreak of ‘Coronavirus’ in Wuhan city and other places in China. She conveyed her sincere...
A senior Chinese health official said on Friday 1,716 health workers have been infected by the coronavirus and six of them have died. National Health Commission vice minister Zeng Yixin...
Samsung Electronics said on Friday that board chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was sentenced to jail in December for sabotaging union activities, had offered to resign, without elaborating on a reason....
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a suspected member of banned militant outfit 'Allahr Dal' from Gangni upazila on Thursday night. The arrestee was identified as Russel Ahmed, 30,...
A stoppage-time Cristiano Ronaldo penalty rescued a 1-1 draw for Juventus at 10-man AC Milan on Thursday in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final. Ante Rebic’s volley gave...
China’s foreign ministry said on Friday it urges the United States to immediately stop suppressing Chinese companies without reason, after US prosecutors unveiled a new indictment against Huawei Technologies. Such...
Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live...
Asian shares edged up on Friday, on course to post the second straight week of gains, helped by hopes governments will make provisions to soften the impact on their economies...
Five construction workers have been killed in a collision between a bus and a Nasiman in Kashiana upazila of Gopalganj district. The crash occurred on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in the...
Tesla will recall 3,183 Model X vehicles in China, because of a potential issue that could make steering harder and increase the risk of a crash, according to the country’s...
The country's premier bourse will hold a mock trading session for listed treasury bonds soon in a move to activate the long-awaited trading of such government debt securities through bourses....
Ten most-traded companies accounted for 24 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with Khulna Power Company Ltd. generating the highest turnover. Market analysts said...
The authorities of Islamic University formed Bangabandhu Counseling Cell on the campus. A press release, signed by IU acting registrar SM Abdul Latif, was issued in this regard on Friday....
China’s coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due...
The Justice Department of the US has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and several subsidiaries, accusing the company of a brazen scheme to steal trade secrets...
Investment in Bangladesh by overseas firms was far below their initial pledges in the past three consecutive years through 2018. Such a picture was painted in a written speech by...
COX'S BAZAR: Young Rohingya women of the trawler that sank in the Bay of Bengal recently were going to Malaysia in hopes of getting married, most of the rescued Rohingya...
Youths with their animated vigour and colourful mind are joining the celebrations of Pahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of spring, on Friday to leave a message to all...
The government has started searching alternative markets to source garlic and other essential items to avert any possible disruption in supplies that might occur due to the China virus threat....
The prices of various disposable medical instruments have been showing an upward trend for past two weeks due to decline in their shipment from China as an effect of lethal...
Customers have to pay an additional 11 per cent for money transfer through direct carrier billing, though uses of other channels cost less, industry insiders said. This type of billing...
Global ratings agency Fitch warns the execution of an interest rate cap will pose "severe" downside risks to Bangladesh's financial stability. "We believe an eventual implementation of a blanket interest...
GAZIPUR, Feb 13 (UNB): Violating various government rules and regulations, illegal brick kilns continue to sprout in the districts adjacent to the capital casting hazardous impacts on the environment and...
At least four developments marked this year's Aman rice production season. They are: (a) bumper production, (b) lower paddy price at the growers' level and higher price of rice at...
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in an epidemic form in China is giving a nightmarish time not only to that most populous country on the planet but also to...
That the stock market is not in sync with the country's overall economic performance is an undisputable fact. Even the men in authority do not deny it in public. The...
British finance minister Sajid Javid resigned on Thursday, a surprise move that underlined Prime Minister Boris Johnson's desire to tighten his grip on government in a long-planned reshuffle by jettisoning...
Finance Minister said revenue collection has not dropped in the current fiscal year compared to that of the previous fiscal, amid economists’ observation that revenue collection is declining and the...
Rising global temperatures and warming ocean waters are causing one of the world's coldest places to melt. While we know that human activity is causing climate change and driving rapid...
Just as the 2008-11 Great Recession inflicted a mortal blow on neo-liberalism (the philosophy of preaching a market economy, pumped by deregulation and favouring unbridled private sector domination), Wuhan's coronavirus...
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