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GENEVA, Sept 10: Nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year -- more than those killed by war and homicide or breast cancer, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging...
Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has showcased its 30W wireless fast charging technology that it calls Mi Charge Turbo, which aims to charge a 4,000mAh battery from 0 to 50 per...
BENGALURU, Sept 10: India has located the spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon but has not been able to establish communication with it yet, the Indian Space...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Monday announced a 13-member T20 squad for first two matches of the upcoming Tri-nation T20 series also involving Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, reports UNB. In the...
Bangladesh Women’s Juniors Hockey team suffered a 0-3 goals defeat against hosts Singapore in their opening match of the six-nation Women’s Juniors (U-21) AHF Cup Hockey Qualifiers in the city-state...
Geneva: India and Pakistan are set to battle it out over Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session on Tuesday, reports www.firstpost.com. Both the countries have...
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China's online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world's biggest e-commerce company Tuesday at a time when its fast-changing industry...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10: Bangladeshi nationals were allegedly being worked and traded between firms in slave-like conditions that violated Malaysian labour laws, according to a news report today published on...
Nigeria will evacuate hundreds of its citizens from South Africa following a string of xenophobic attacks, a government official told CNN on Monday. Flights carrying the returnees will start leaving...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal's Prime Minister K.P.Sharma Oli will jointly inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhgunj cross border petroleum products pipeline through video conference Tuesday. This is the first transnational petroleum...
Hundreds of Australians have fled their homes in the eastern states as 140 fires ravaged parts of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), officials said on Tuesday. Strong winds have...
Two children were killed and six other people injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Teknaf municipality area in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and that he had no problem with such an encounter. "It could happen. It...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today joined the leaders from the Global Commission on Adaptation urging the governments and businesses to take urgent action to innovate and advance climate adaptation solutions...
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: India will restore 26 million hectares of most degraded and vulnerable land by 2030 by adopting a landscape restoration approach. “This will be focused on restoring...
North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its...
Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, global health experts have said, reports Reuters. In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists said a future free of malaria - one...
Holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), is being observed in the country on Tuesday with due religious fervour and solemnity. On this day in the Hijri...
WASHINGTON, Sept 10: US President Donald Trump proclaimed talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders dead on Monday, while the general in charge said the U.S. military is likely to ramp up...
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has dropped a lawsuit against the US government after Washington released telecommunications equipment it had seized on suspicion of violations of export controls, according to...
Ten most-traded companies captured more than 35 per cent transactions on the prime bourse Monday. National Tubes topped the chart for the second straight session on the day. Market analysts...
The share price of Stylecraft Ltd soared more than 86 per cent in seven weeks as its share surged further by 1.0 per cent on Monday without having any undisclosed...
Finney a Switzerland based Sirin Lab’s smartphone will be launched in Bangladesh market in October. The approval was already received by Sirin Lab in the month of August from the...
Stocks slipped into the red on Monday, snapping a two-day gaining streak, as cautious investors went on selling binge on major sectors' shares. Meanwhile, trading and official activities on the...
The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) invited on Monday a visiting delegation of Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in the country's agro-processing sector for mutual benefits of the two...
Bangladeshi expatriates are now in dire straits while many others remain stranded in South Africa following an anti-immigrant movement there, said officials and migrants. Talking to the FE over phone,...
KUALA LUMPUR , Sept 09: Malaysia’s Axiata Group is discussing deals with other parties and considering an initial public offering of its tower business, executives said after announcing the collapse...
The central bank has enhanced the ceiling for outward remittances in case of IT expenses through digital wallet to US$500 from the earlier $300 to support freelancers, officials said. "We've...
Healthcare service providers are set to come under the scanners of the tax authority for checking tax evasion through verification of their deposit of tax at source to the public...
The government is mulling over forming a special fund worth Tk 50 billion to help develop the shipbuilding industry in the country, officials said. Arranging bank loans at 4.0 per...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday insisted the autonomous public agencies cannot utilise their funds according to their wish as they are not the government. "[But] they are utilising...
With a huge exclusive economic zone in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has the opportunities to explore untapped resources like oil & gas and fisheries, and use the potential of...
Sand lifting from the river Turag on the outskirts of Dhaka has long been known as a blight afflicting large swathes of land. Massive dredgers and hundreds of labourers are...
At a seminar titled 'Income and resources disparity in Bangladesh, economists have sounded the alarm bell ringing over the rising income inequality. The main argument put forward is on the...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that road-construction cost in Bangladesh is higher than that of India and China due to the difference in soil conditions. The...
John Bercow, Speaker in Britain’s House of Commons, announced on Monday that he would be standing down from the role. Bercow has helped bend parliamentary rules to give lawmakers opposed...
SIRAJGANJ, Sept 09: Due to recent erosion by the Jamuna river, over 125- km long village and town protection embankment in Gaibandha, Bogura and Sirajganj district has been damaged, causing...
RANGPUR, Sept 09: Cultivation of Aman paddy and different varieties of vegetables is seriously being hindered in Rangpur agriculture region this year as a drought like situation has been prevailing...
SYLHET, Sept 09: Some large development schemes have been going on in the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) area for the last several months. These include road widening, recovering canals and...
Forest fires, droughts and other forms of land degradation cost the global economy as much as 15 trillion dollars every year and are deepening the climate change crisis, a top...
One particular mix of the current global political economy demands far greater policy-making attention than it has received, particularly since it predicts a sunnier forecast than the gathering clouds we...
Rafael Nadal won his 19th Grand Slam title after holding off Russian Daniil Medvedev's exhilarating fightback in one of the greatest US Open finals. Spain's Nadal, 33, won 7-5 6-3...
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the 10th meeting of the central committee for deepening overall reform Monday. Xi,...
What on earth is the US competing for with China? Why does the US concern itself with China's development? We may find answers through the development of internet technology. The...
Real Estate online marketplace, bproperty.com, held a knowledge sharing session on Monday with the members of Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF). 71 renowned journalists attended the conference held at the ERF...
When the US Federal Reserve Chairman talks, central bankers and financial market watchers around the world listen -- be he/she the former chair or the current chair. This week they...
Nobel Laureate Paul Romer has popularised the idea that economic outputs are a function of ideas and objects. Objects comprise of raw material, labour, energy, land etc. Ideas form the...
Afghanistan have overcome the elements to seal an emphatic 224-run win against Bangladesh in the one-off Test match in Chattogram. As rain threatened to wash out the final day, the...
A day-long training on “Islamic Agent Banking Operations” for agents, customer service officers (CSOs), Group Leaders (GLs) and Assistant Relationship Officers (AROs) of Bank Asia Ltd. was held recently at...
The University of Development Alternative (UODA) has announced special scholarship for female students with an aim to ensure quality education for every citizen of the country. As per the announcement,...
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