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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated that the ongoing drives against corruption, drugs and terrorism will continue to protect the society from these menaces. “We've already announced zero tolerance policy...
Seven workers have been burnt while melting iron at a steel mill in Dhaka’s Kadamtoli. The accident occurred at Kamal Steel Mills around 4am on Sunday, said Kadamtoli Police Inspector...
University of Skill Enrichment & Technology (USET), the first skill enrichment university in the country, is starting its academic program from March 01, 2020. The university is starting the admission...
A total of 14 people were killed and 27 others injured in 548 fire incidents caused by gas cylinder blasts in Dhaka division in 2019, official data showed. In the...
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tazul Islam on Sunday asked Union Parishad (UP) officials concerned to earn the people’s respect with good works. “The world doesn’t approve...
A Thai soldier who went on a rampage in a northeastern city that ended in a standoff in a packed shopping mall killed 26 people and wounded at least 52,...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Sunday morning. It had an AQI score of 258 at 08:44am. The air was classified as ‘very unhealthy’....
Vision 2025 to create a startup and VC-friendly ecosystem has been launched at the Bangladesh regional event of the biggest startup competition in the world Startup World Cup. It has...
Organisers scrambled on Sunday to shore up the Singapore Airshow, which is going ahead under a cloud of health and economic concerns after dozens of exhibitors pulled out of Asia’s...
The number of registered motorised vehicles in the country witnessed a slight rise in 2019 compared to that of 2018, according to BRTA. A total of 504,130 vehicles got registration...
Though the government is simplifying rules and enhancing the efficiency of the system for quicker passport delivery, passport seekers across the country are not getting their passports in time, delaying...
Three mobile showrooms were damaged in a fire in Alkarmor area of Rajshahi city on Sunday. Abdur Rashid, acting deputy director of Rajshahi Fire Service, said the fire broke out...
The 4th Bangladesh National Round of the 61st Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, 2020 was held at the University of Asia Pacific - UAP. University of Dhaka...
The board of directors of Singer Bangladesh Limited has recommended 77 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2019. The board has also decided to increase...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday as investors followed mostly cautious stance. Following the previous three days’ correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the...
A mother and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi in the US, authorities said. The father was the lone survivor of...
US and Afghan forces came under attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said in Kabul, as they launched investigations into what the New York Times described as a deadly...
Ruhul Amin Rasel, a senior journalist of Bangladesh Pratidin, was given the 'Centre for NRB (non-resident Bangladeshis) Award-2020' for his contribution in the field of expatriate business journalism. Foreign Minister...
Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nine-year-old war in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty...
The government is pressing ahead with its plan to offload shares of three state-owned commercial banks on the stock exchanges, officials said. The authorities have started primary work on divesting...
Mymensingh is a land of natural beauty and diversity. The local zamindars had a great contribution in building the Mymensingh division as a place of education, literature, culture and heritage....
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) will reach the break-even point in next two years. "To improve financial capabilities and reduce the dependency on imported fertiliser, the state-owned BCIC has already...
The number of new coronavirus deaths on the Chinese mainland hit 811 by end of Feb 8, the National Health Commission said on Sunday morning, surpassing that of the SARS...
The construction of metrorail line 6 could be delayed further as the state-run transit agency has proposed refunding 40 per cent of its annual allocations, people familiar with the development...
The World Bank is unlikely to release the remaining 40 per cent of the NBR's struggling online VAT project. Of the $60 million pledged fund, the multilateral lending agency has...
As Dhaka gets busier and continues to be filled with newer workplaces and businesses, commuters keep rising. The phenomenon has characterised the capital for over four decades. In the past,...
Modern civilisation has set a trap for itself, as ever more complex technologies are deployed at an accelerating rate. Every second, billions of devices, protocols, ideas, traditions, and people interact...
All the numbers that the latest study report of the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) mentioned about foreign nationals working in Bangladesh, legally or illegally, are worrying. The presence of so...
Violent knife crime is making the headlines in the United Kingdom. It seems in recent times that not a day passes without there being some reference in the media to...
The world's young activists, numbering over 3.8 billion, are on the war path. The rising new socialist movements-which included "Black Lives Matter," "Occupy Wall Street" "Un-Occupy Palestine" and "the #Me...
Synchronised global slowdown as indicated in the World Economic Outlook published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October last year, now appears to be even getting worse. At the...
Experts at a conference on Saturday stressed the need for creating public awareness over donation of kidney and other organs as 54 kidney patients die on average every day just...
The failure to arrange a flight has forced the government to scrap its plans to bring back 171 Bangladeshis from the locked-down cities in China amid a deadly coronavirus outbreak. ...
BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on February 15, demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a...
Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman on Saturday said there is no option but to create skilled manpower in Bangladesh to face the 4th Industrial Revolution...
A Thai soldier killed at least 10 people in a shooting rampage on Saturday in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima in the north east of Thailand and remains at large,...
Thailand's public health ministry reported seven new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, including three Thais and four Chinese. The new cases brought the total reported in the country to...
Bangladesh participated at Sourcing at Magic with 30 other countries for products branding and further export growth in US market. 20 apparel companies from Bangladesh participated in the fair--held from...
Screening of passengers of all flights started at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) as coronavirus cases were detected in more than two dozens of countries including China. “Passengers from different...
No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Saturday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. According to the daily update from DGHS,...
Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed 864 cases against vehicles and realised over Tk 1.925 million in fines for violating traffic rules in January 2020. The BRTA...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion-2 (RAB-2) in separate drives on Saturday arrested four more people from the city’s different areas over the attack on journalist Mustafizur Rahman Sumon during the...
A ban on crab exports to China amid a deadly coronavirus has left farmers reeling in Bagerhat. The suspension came into effect on Jan 23 -- the peak season for...
A teenage girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Choto Nawbhanga village in Mohammadpur upazila of in Magura on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Anna Khatun, 17,...
At least four people were killed and 22 others injured in a road accident on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram Highway in Baniarchhora area under Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday night....
Country’s nominal wage rate index (WRI) increased by 6.56 per cent in January this year over the same period of last year, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). It...
When worries over the coronavirus shook US stocks out of a period of quiet trading last week, investors wondered if the outbreak was the “Black Swan” event that would trigger...
Voting began for a crucial state election in India’s capital on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party trying to regain power after a 22-year gap and major...
The second day of BASIS SoftExpo 2020, South Asia’s largest ICT Expo has ended with eventful exhibition of products and services, conferences, insightful sessions, and key industry leaders’ Meet-up. Among...
Prime Bank and Clean Fuel filling Station Ltd signed an agreement at Prime Bank Head office recently. Under the agreement, Prime Bank’s Credit Cardholders will enjoy 0% interest on EMI...
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