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Myanmar’s neighbours pressed its ruling military on Tuesday to release ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and cease what Singapore called the disastrous use of lethal force against opponents of...
The government will relocate a group of 1,703 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char on Wednesday, according to a UNB report. Buses carrying the latest batch of Rohingya people left Ukhiya...
মহামারীর মধ্যে দারিদ্র্য বিমোচনের সঙ্গে সংশ্লিষ্ট প্রকল্পে অগ্রাধিকার দিয়ে চলতি অর্থবছরের সংশোধিত বার্ষিক উন্নয়ন কর্মসূচি (এডিপি) অনুমোদন দিয়েছে জাতীয় অর্থনৈতিক পরিষদ-এনইসি। মঙ্গলবার প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সভাপতিত্বে এনইসি সভায় ১ লাখ...
India is ready to offer incentives to ensure Tesla Inc’s cost of production would be less than in China if the carmaker commits to making its electric vehicles in the...
An international media rights group has filed a complaint with German prosecutors against Saudi Arabia's crown prince and four other top officials accusing them of crimes against humanity over allegations...
সুইজারল্যান্ডের কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংক সুইস ন্যাশনাল ব্যাংক (এসএনবি) ২০২০ সালের জুন মাসে যে বার্ষিক প্রতিবেদন প্রকাশ করেছে, তাতে দেখা যাচ্ছে, ২০১৯ সালে সেখানকার ব্যাংকগুলোতে বাংলাদেশিদের জমা রাখা অর্থের পরিমাণ ৫ হাজার...
Tens of thousands of people rounded up by Syrian authorities during a decade of conflict are missing, with many tortured, raped or killed, amounting to war crimes and crimes against...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has inaugurated its first Women and Girls Safe Space (WGSS) with aim to mitigate and reduce the risks of Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Cox’s...
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka has announced that the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, India is offering scholarship to eligible Bangladeshi nationals for Master of Science in Forestry and allied...
The National Economic Council (NEC) on Tuesday approved Tk 1.98 trillion (197,643 crore) revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year, downsizing the original ADP size of Tk...
Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) plans to launch National Equipment Identification Registrar (NEIR) on July 1 to block unauthorised mobile phone handsets. BTRC Chairman Shyam Sunder Sikder they will...
Police members of Spain are investigating the role of foreign citizens in riots over the jailing of a Spanish rapper that have rocked Barcelona for the past two weeks, a...
Britain’s Prince Philip was receiving treatment and undergoing heart tests on Tuesday, two weeks after the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth was admitted to hospital in London as a precaution...
Stocks soared Tuesday with the key index of the major bourse crossing the 5,500-mark after a week, as optimistic investors continued their appetite on sector-wise stocks. The market opened on...
The number of voters in Bangladesh has increased to 111.7 million after the addition of nearly 1.9 million newcomers and the exclusion of the dead. The Election Commission released an...
Bangladesh has recorded 515 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections to 547,316. The death toll climbed to 8,423 after seven fatalities were...
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first...
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has publicly accused his colleague Mahbub Talukder of “doing everything possible to demean, defame and undermine” the Election Commission. Talukder, an election commissioner, has...
The cut-off price of shares of Baraka Patenga Power has been fixed at Tk 32 each through electronic bidding by eligible investors. The bidding – a requirement for going public...
বাংলাদেশের হস্তশিল্প খাতের অগ্রগতি নিয়ে হতাশা প্রকাশ করেছেন সংশ্লিষ্টরা। তাদের মতে, নীতিমালাগত ত্রুটির কারণে দেশের হস্তশিল্প ক্ষেত্র একটি লাভজনক খাতে পরিণত হতে পারেনি। হস্তশিল্প বাণিজ্যের নেতৃত্ব প্রদানকারী শীর্ষস্থানীয় নেতারা দ্য...
‘No’ is perhaps the most important, and certainly the most powerful, word in any language. But there are a few things we simply cannot say no to, and sale is...
Myanmar police fired stun grenades to disperse protesters in the city of Yangon on Tuesday, witnesses said, as foreign ministers of neighbouring countries were due to hold talks with the...
Stocks opened on an upbeat note on Tuesday as optimistic investors are showing their appetite on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s positive ending, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and...
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for...
২০২৬ সাল নাগাদ বিশ্ব দরবারে উন্নয়নশীল দেশ হিসেবে বাংলাদেশের উত্তরণ ঘটার ফলে অর্থনীতিতে বিরূপ প্রভাব পড়তে পারে, কেননা ব্যবসা-বাণিজ্য ক্ষেত্রে বাংলাদেশ এখনো অনেকটা পিছিয়ে রয়েছে। স্বল্পোন্নত দেশ বা এলডিসি পরবর্তীকালে...
Prince Harry, who shocked Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties, told US interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had worried about history repeating...
Drama ‘Nomadland’ and satire ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ on Sunday won movie honours at the Golden Globes in a mostly virtual bicoastal ceremony that was marked by impassioned calls for more...
A US national security commission has recommended Congress tighten up “choke points” on chipmaking technology to prevent China from overtaking the United States in semiconductors in the coming years. The...
The new chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) urged its member states on Monday to work with pharmaceutical companies to license more COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in developing countries in...
AstraZeneca sold its stake in rival COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna for roughly $1 billion over the course of last year as the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker cashed in on the meteoric rise...
French luxury group Kering has taken a 5 per cent stake in Vestiaire Collective, a leading platform for second-hand clothes and handbags, betting that the booming resale market will help...
The US Senate will start debating President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday after Democrats backed down from an...
ব্যস্ত এই জীবনে শেষ কবে ফিরে গিয়েছিলেন শৈশবের স্মৃতিতে? নগর সভ্যতার যান্ত্রিক এ জীবনে হঠাৎই মনে পড়া ছেলেবেলার কোনো স্মৃতি এনে দিতে পারে শান্তির কিছু মুহূর্ত। শৈশব মানেই স্বতঃস্ফূর্ত আবেগ।...
Despite the US economy’s near miss with a depression last year and an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has brought travel to a virtual halt, Jeff Hurst, the chief executive of...
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) recovered a total of 52 acres of its land by evicting more than 14,000 people in Laldiarchar area of Patenga in the port city on Monday....
SYLHET: Road and bridges are there, but boats are the only option during the monsoon. The road couldn't be used during the dry season while the people have to drive...
The country's inward remittance stood at an estimated 16.69-billion dollars in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-2021. The amount was 33.51 per cent higher than...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has made a move to reshuffle and revitalize its vigilant system on the chartered accountant firms to make them more compliant and...
The government has recognised Hazi Kaus Mia, a chewing tobacco (zarda) manufacturer, as the best individual taxpayer of the Mujib Year for his continuous payment of high amount of tax....
The revenue board has allowed businesses to adjust their stockpiled deposits worth Tk 25 billion at field-level VAT offices at a threefold higher rate to facilitate them. From now on,...
The Ministry of Food has proposed cutting the import duty on rice further by 10 per cent to 15 per cent with a view to encouraging traders to import the...
The capital base of the country's banks improved marginally in 2020 mainly due to the 'decline' in the volume of their non-performing loans (NPLs), officials said. The capital-to-risk weighted-asset ratio...
To overcome the challenges and smooth transition of Bangladesh until 2026, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) on Monday suggested the government to sign FTA, PTA with potential countries...
A Chittagong court has sentenced a driver and supervisor of Shyamoli Paribahan to 10 years and the helper to five years in prison respectively for transporting yaba in Chittagong. In...
A recent study based on a survey conducted by a legal aid and pro-rights body, 'Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK), says that 64 per cent of the children it surveyed...
A year and an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has brought travel to a virtual halt, Jeff Hurst, the chief executive of vacation rental firm VRBO, sees a boom on the...
Despite the successive governments' pinning high hopes on earning foreign exchange from jute exports, the optimism continues to peter off. Following impressive harvests after investing large volumes of capital, they...
If road accidents are an endemic problem in this country, at times their surge and fatalities become nightmarish. Right now roads and highways all across the country are experiencing one...
As much as 58.67 per cent of voters have turned out in the fifth phase of the mayoral polls to the local government bodies, down from 65.33 per cent in...
A French court found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in prison, a stunning...
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