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Russian authorities have sued five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests. Twitter, Google, Facebook each have three cases against...
The road transport and bridges ministry has applied for a two-year extension to complete the Padma Bridge project due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Bridges Division, under...
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a bus driver and his assistant for shoving a speech-impaired woman off a vehicle in Dhaka’s Keraniganj after she “failed to pay the fare”....
Stocks slipped into the red on Tuesday, snapping a three-day winning streak, as risk-averse investors opted for booking profits on quick-gaining stocks. The market moved between positive and negative several...
বাংলাদেশে ডাক্তার কিংবা ইঞ্জিনিয়ার হওয়াকে বেশ সম্মানজনক বলে ধরা হলেও এসব বিষয় থেকে পাস করা অনেক শিক্ষার্থী এখন পেশা হিসেবে বেছে নিয়েছেন বিভিন্ন বিসিএস ক্যাডারের পদ । তাদের মধ্যে অনেকে...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have opened a bridge over the river Feni, a step in strengthening connectivity with India’s northeastern region. The bridge, known...
Former US first lady Michelle Obama will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with eight other women including former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, soccer icon Mia...
During the early sixth century, the youngest Gupta prince invented an eight by eight ‘Ashtapada’ board game for setting a scenario of how his brother had been killed in the...
Bangladesh has recorded 912 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 552,087. The death toll climbed to 8,489 after 13 fatalities were...
The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry said on Monday after volunteers searched the rubble...
Imagine being a visually-impaired person in Bangladesh and getting discriminated in every walk of life. Even getting a chance to study in Dhaka University, arguably the best university of your...
বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকের (বিবি) তথ্য অনুযায়ী, গত ২৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি পর্যন্ত কুটির, ক্ষুদ্র ও মাঝারি শিল্পে খাতে প্রণোদনা প্যাকেজের ২০ হাজার কোটি টাকার ৫.৭ শতাংশ পেয়েছেন নারী উদ্যোক্তারা। নারী উদ্যোক্তাদের লক্ষ্যমাত্রার চেয়ে...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur in different regions of the country today (Tuesday) and it may continue until Wednesday, according to...
The women in Bangladesh are still kept away from a decision-making role at different levels, speakers have said at a seminar. They came up with the remark at the seminar...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently organised a two-day conference on suicide prevention in Cox's Bazar to raise awareness and build the capacity of mental health in Bangladesh. IOM,...
Bangladesh would like to see OIC as a strengthened and competent organisation to address the issues of Muslim Ummah, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Shahriar Alam. The minister...
The board of directors of Golden Harvest Agro Industries, a listed company in the stock market, has decided to invest in the fast-growing E-commerce sector. Under the E-commerce sector business,...
Some 17.1 million Americans watched Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell television interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, broadcaster CBS said on Monday. CBS said Sunday’s two-hour interview, in which Harry...
Stocks witnessed a downward trend in early trading on Tuesday as risk-averse investors opted for booking profits on the quick-gaining stocks. However, Lub-rref (Bangladesh), a local lubricant producer, made a...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is expanding her partnership with Apple Inc to produce dramas, children’s series, animation and documentaries that will air on the tech giant’s streaming service,...
Hundreds of young Myanmar protesters who had been trapped by security forces in a district of Yangon overnight have been able to get out, activists said on Tuesday, after calls...
Panasonic Corp will buy US supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for 700 billion yen ($6.45 billion), in the Japanese electronics firm’s biggest acquisition since 2011, the Nikkei reported on Monday....
Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly...
Thais flocked to a cannabis exhibition as interest and demand in the plant surges after the government unlocked hemp use in food and cosmetics in the latest move to promote...
Christian Dior gave Little Red Riding Hood an edgy makeover for its latest collection on Monday, as it filled the runway with hooded capes and recreated a moonlit scene under...
Shares of Tesla Inc closed lower for a fifth consecutive session on Monday, caught in a tech-led selloff that has wiped more than $277 billion off the company’s market value...
Behind Tayyibe Demirel’s olive groves in southwest Turkey lies a vast, grey expanse, stripped bare by a coal mine eating into the rolling hillside. On the horizon, heavy smoke billows...
CHANDPUR: Though the potato farmers in the district are expecting a bumper yield of potato this year, they are afraid of getting it's real price in the haats and bazaars...
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Monday that President Joe Biden’s administration was monitoring efforts tied to Russia’s intelligence services aimed at undermining the Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc...
A three-day virtual exposition of textile fabrics will begin on March 22, aiming to create a matchmaking platform for the local and international traders, thus helping boost the country's economy....
Lub-rref (Bangladesh), a local lubricant producer, posted higher profits for the July-December period of 2020 just before its debut on the stock market. Lub-rref logged profits of Tk 86.61 million...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has now decided to initiate legal proceedings against field-level VAT officials if they are found involved in tampering with the data of Electronic Fiscal...
The securities regulator has asked the merchant bankers to play a proactive role to ensure listing of more companies with good fundamentals to enhance depth of the country's capital market....
Indian ONGC Videsh Ltd has floated tender to pick contractors to do the drilling of two exploratory wells in two separate offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal. The oil-gas...
The spectrum auction of the telecoms regulator has broken all previous records as two leading market players stayed in the bid until 81st round for a block. The Bangladesh Telecommunication...
Health experts on Monday predicted a mild resurgence of Covid-19 infection in the country during the upcoming summer. The rate of infection has been rising for the last couple of...
Bangladesh's proposals have received a lukewarm response from the Indian side at the bilateral meeting on trade issues held in Dhaka on Monday. Dhaka could not derive any concrete result...
To commemorate International Women’s Day 2021, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are organising a number of events, including dialogue, and TV talk show...
Kazi Shafiul Karim, former general manager of Marubeni Corporation Dhaka Office, passed away on Saturday (March 06, 2021) due to Covid-19 complications. He was laid to rest at his family...
March 6 marks the National Jute Day. But does this day have any real significance now? All the 25 loss-making state-run jute mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJ...
The message is clear. The teachers and guardians across the world cannot afford to see another phase of school students' prolonged absence from in-school classes. Nor can they remain satisfied...
If the year 2020 will go down in history as the darkest year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, some of the worst threats the humankind encountered at the same time...
The High Court has called for immediate steps to stop the publication of pictures, names, addresses, educational institutions, workplaces and any other detail relevant to the identity of women and...
The US Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a chance to review the scope of a legal defense called qualified immunity that increasingly has been used to shield police accused of...
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said Monday, with both having only mild symptoms of the illness. In a statement,...
Child soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges ruled on Monday, in their highest...
Many workers deemed essential during the pandemic-such as those in eldercare, supermarkets, and distribution warehouses-are unable to make ends meet even in good times. And during the Covid-19 crisis the...
The High Court (HC) has ordered a judicial inquiry to determine who the true culprit is between two men sharing the same first name of Manik in a narcotics-related case...
Based on three primary eligibility criteria involving income per capita, human assets, and economic and environmental vulnerability, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy has recommended Bangladesh's graduation from Least...
Humanity has never been so comprehensively recorded. Smartwatches capture our pulse in real time for a distant artificial intelligence (AI) to ponder the risks of heart disease. Bluetooth and Global...
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