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The death toll in five days of clashes between Iraqi police and protesters rose to over 100 on Sunday and the government struggled to appease public anger over corruption and...
The picture of a college professor delivering a three-hour lecture in a class with the baby of her student strapped to her back became viral last week. It surely was...
A team from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) late last week reportedly conducted a drive in the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division (ME&FWD) of the Ministry of Health and Family...
The demolition campaign now being conducted by the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) rather sternly has raised hopes for ridding the metropolis of illegal structures. The latter have been a...
Mahmudul Hasan Joy smashed a scintillating 103 runs off 95 balls as Bangladesh Under-19 team secured the five-match one-day series against New Zealand counterpart with eight-wicket victory in the third...
Iran will not succumb to US pressure and will use every possible way to export its oil, Iranian Oil Ministry's website SHANA quoted Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been awarded the prestigious "Champion for Skills Development for Young People" by the UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) during the current United Nations General Assembly...
Trade facilitation (TF) is important because it can bring down trade transaction cost, clearing goods for import and export and reducing time for the entire process. Unfortunately, trade transaction cost...
In the nineteenth century, the world was Europeanised. In the twentieth century, it was Americanised. Now, it is being Asianised - and much faster than you may think. Asia's rise...
The real (inflation-adjusted) yield on ten-year US treasuries is currently zero, and has been extremely low for most of the past eight years. Outside of the United States, meanwhile, 40...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP is gradually losing its popularity and existence as they always react negatively to any initiative taken by the government. The...
Accusing the government of violating the constitution by signing ‘anti-state’ bilateral documents with India, BNP's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday demanded the annulment of the deals...
Selling price of the newly harvested jute in the village-markets and other growth centres is now on the upward trend making the farmers happy everywhere in Rajshahi region. According to...
A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has sentenced two expelled Jubo League leaders --- Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and Enamul Hoque Arman --- to six months in...
Around 99 per cent people of the country are satisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as her government is running the country for the third consecutive term,...
Six people, including four of a family, were killed by lightning in Chandpur and Magura districts on Sunday. In Chandpur, four members of a family, including two children, were killed...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that Bangladesh is now glittering in the international index of trade and commerce as the country had been on the peak of successes...
Jubo League expelled Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat and Vice President Enamul Hoque Arman following their arrests in Cumilla over alleged links to the illegal casino business...
Leaders of Indian National Congress on Sunday met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi. Congress President Sonia Gandhi Sonia, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia's daughter Priyanka...
UNICEF and the European Union (EU) launched a peace-building programme for 20,500 adolescents and youth from Bangladeshi and Rohingya communities aimed at strengthening social cohesion in Cox’s Bazar. The first...
Sexual violence against children witnessed an alarming rise in the first nine months of current calendar year, according to a report by children rights body. The report, prepared by the...
One of the key issues of the 21st century is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a force for good or the ruin of humanity. With AI at the center of...
Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of...
Japanese car sales in South Korea fell again last month, as a trade row between the two countries continues to simmer. Toyota sales slumped 62 per cent in September from...
The Taliban met with a US envoy in the Pakistani capital, a Taliban official said Saturday, the first such encounter since President Donald Trump announced a month ago that a...
French and German attempts to end the conflict in east Ukraine risk increasing tensions that were already rising in the European Union over how to handle Russia and which could...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has signed a deal with Bdjobs for the benefits of the bank's customers. Under the deal, the EBL cardholders will enjoy a 25 per cent exclusive...
A development project proposal on setting up Chattogram Medical University was rife with mistakes and inconsistencies. The minutes of a meeting of the Planning Commission held on September 2 suggest...
Ten people went missing when a passenger boat sank in the Teesta River in Burirhat area under Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila on Sunday noon. Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Rashedul Haque said...
Iran will use every possible way to export its oil, Iranian Oil Ministry’s website SHANA quoted Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Sunday, adding that exporting crude was the...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is conducting a raid on Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat's office in Dhaka's Kakrail. An executive magistrate of the elite police unit is leading the drive...
A Dhaka court has deferred the verdict in the murder case of Willes Little Flower School student Suraiya Akter Risha after police failed to produce the accused. Metropolitan Sessions Court...
Dhaka University (DU) and Hyderabad University, India have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement was signed by Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman and Indian High...
A passenger boat believed to be carrying up to 40 passengers sank in the Teesta River in Burirhat area under Rajarhat upazila on Sunday morning. The boat, bound for Sitabkhan...
Portugal’s centre-left Socialists are expected to retain power and win more parliament seats in general elections on Sunday, after four years of economic growth, but still fall short of an...
China's infrastructure investment rose 4.2 per cent year on year in the first eight months of 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The growth rate was 0.4...
An official of a readymade garment factory was killed after a covered van hit a private car on Baipail-Abdullahpur road in Moragang area of Ashulia on Sunday. The deceased was...
Hong Kong’s rail operator reopened part of its metro system on Sunday after an unprecedented shutdown, but kept many typically busy stations closed, as the Chinese-ruled city braces for large...
Southeast Bank Limited (SEBL) and Millennium Information Solution Limited (MISL) recently signed a Software License Agreement for implementing ‘Tahqiq’, a Risk-Based Internal Audit System (RBIAS), developed by MISL. The signing...
Six elephants have fallen to their deaths in Thailand while trying to save each other from a notorious waterfall. Officials said the incident occurred after a baby elephant slipped over...
The country's largest telecom operator Grameenphone has replied to a BTRC show cause notice, terming it "unfounded". On September 04, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) served the notice on...
The United Nations has called for an end to the "senseless loss of life" in Iraq as the death toll from anti-government protests nears 100. Demonstrators say they are taking...
Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea’s top negotiator said late on Saturday, dashing prospects for an end to months of...
Experts at a programme on Saturday said that absence of state intervention and deficit of good governance in the housing market have contributed to making housing unaffordable in Dhaka although...
The country's readymade garment (RMG) export to the US during first eight months of 2019 registered 11.81 per cent growth to $4.08 billion compared to that of 2018, according to...
Omera Petroleum Ltd. (OPL), a leading operator in the country's LPG sector, has moved to raise capital through IPO (initial public offering) under the book building method. The company will...
Car purchase under development projects has emerged as one of the areas where irregularities are rampant, with the vehicles being used indiscriminately and improperly, officials said. The implementing agencies neither...
The revenue board is going to procure some 14 new scanners at an estimated cost of Tk 5.0 billion to check duty evasion through under-invoicing and misdeclaration. Only four scanners...
The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat, who went into hiding amid allegations of running illegal casinos in the capital. He was apprehended...
The announcement to export 500 tonnes of the delicious hilsa to Bengalee-dominated West Bengal state of India delights people willing to see Dhaka and Kolkata come closer. The formal announcement...
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