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At least five people were killed and 23 others were injured in a head-on-collision between a bus and a truck at Konabari in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj district on Tuesday....
The arrest on drug trafficking charges of Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen and wife of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, follows a telenovela-style life that straddled...
French electronic music band Daft Punk have announced they are splitting up, industry title Variety quoted their publicist as saying on Monday, ending a 28-year collaboration that spawned dance hits...
Speakers at an online discussion in Cox's Bazar have called on international agencies, including the UN, to facilitate Bangla as the official language for the humanitarian and development interventions in...
Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Monday in his long quest to conceal details of his finances as the US Supreme Court paved the way for a New York...
Stocks opened marginally lower in early trading on Tuesday as investors continued their sell-offs on sector-wise issues amid persistently lackluster trade. However, debutant eGeneration Ltd, which recently raised Tk 150...
The European Union will call on financial leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies this week to keep pumping money into the global economy as long as is needed for...
It is premature to write off big cities such as London which will bounce back strongly as the pandemic wanes, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday after unveiling...
Spotify said on Monday it would nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more...
Two US lawmakers on Monday sent letters to a dozen cable, satellite and streaming video companies urging them to address their “disseminating misinformation to millions” of users from some channels....
Bangladesh is still one of the least prepared countries for e-commerce, to be more precise, online shopping, according to UNCTAD's Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2020. The country’s global ranking in...
Millennium Management’s Israel Englander earned $3.8 billion last year, landing him the biggest payday of any hedge fund manager in 2020, showed data from Institutional Investor. Englander more than doubled...
Bangladesh Business Research and Development Council (BBRDC), an organisation with a focus on trade and business research, officially started its journey in Chattogram city on Monday. Some young researchers and...
Information Technology zone of the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in Chattogram has received the status of a private hi-tech park, which will be established on 100 acres of land....
A second shipment of 2 million doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus has reached Bangladesh. A SpiceJet flight from Mumbai arrived with the vaccine at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport...
Foreign investors have evinced interest to invest in the country's large projects including power plants. Their interest came following the securities regulator's presentation recently made at its road show held...
Azerbaijan's state-run oil and gas company Socar AQS lodged a lawsuit against Bapex in international court over the long-pending dispute over payment regarding drilling of onshore gas-wells. Socar recently filed...
There is an urgent need for the formation of an 'agricultural produce commission' for the greater interests of the country's agricultural sector. The proposed commission would bargain with the government...
Experts have suggested that Bangladesh sign the Singapore convention on mediation to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI) as investors often seek amicable methods of commercial dispute resolution. Signing the convention...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has formed a four-member team to enquire allegations of trade-based money laundering worth over Tk 640 billion. "The commission has received allegations of money laundering under...
The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) has asked all banks and financial institutions to furnish information about the accounts of former Bangladesh Bank (BB) deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, incumbent executive...
The rush for getting Covid-19 jabs has put the state-run Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in difficulty in issuing vaccine schedules, officials have admitted. Wait of the people for...
Gaining weight has become a major health concern for people of all ages and the problem is also affecting Bangladeshis. Despite certain awareness about keeping ones weight under control, weight...
The government announcement to open the 11.73 kilometre (km) segment of the eagerly awaited metro rail (MRT-6) on the Uttara-Agargaon route on the coming December 16 is filled with great...
The incident of killing an adolescent boy in the city by 8-10 members of a group can be passed off by many as an instance of mindless brutality. But it...
The students of Dhaka University have demanded that the authorities reopen halls of residence within Mar 01, despite the government's decision to resume classes in May. They gave the university...
A group of students seeking admission under the 2020-21 academic session have staged a demonstration demanding reinstatement of the previous Grade Point Average (GPA) system for Dhaka University's intake test....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the struggle for freedom had started through the Language Movement while it completed its journey with the attainment of independence when the nation...
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday alleged that the government has ‘ruined’ the spirit of Amar Ekushey just ‘to stay in power by force’. “On the eve of...
The wonders of science do not cease. Nasa has just had its Perseverance rover land on Mars. When you sit back and reflect on it, you cannot but think back...
Any discussion on the Group of 20, otherwise known as G20 needs elaboration about its history. It began in 1975 when France took the initiative of broadening the base after...
Amnesty International has urged South Asian countries to take measures to rescue a group of Rohingya refugees and at least three Bangladeshi nationals, who are stranded on a boat in...
The country’s top e-commerce company Evaly has sponsored the Bangladesh team for the forthcoming New Zealand tour, says a press release. At the same time, eFood, a subsidiary of Evaly,...
The state of recovery of the manufacturing and services sectors in view of the Covid-19 pandemic may be judged by assessing the nature of changes in business activities against pre-pandemic...
Showers of jet engine parts over residential areas on both sides of the Atlantic have caught regulators’ attention and prompted the suspension of some older Boeing planes from service. The...
Italy’s ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, his bodyguard and a driver from the World Food Programme were killed on Monday when their convoy was attacked in the east of...
Scotland’s vaccination drive appears to be markedly reducing the risk of hospitalisation for COVID-19, suggesting that both the Pfizer-BioNtech and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots are highly effective in preventing severe infections, preliminary...
Education Minister Dipu Moni has said the government is considering relaxing the age limit for the applicants Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations. The minister came up with the development during...
GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi on Monday said they had started a new clinical trial of their protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, reviving their efforts against the pandemic after a setback in December...
The US has more incidents of extra-judicial killing than Bangladesh, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. The minister, who starts for Washington on Monday night to meet the new...
কুয়েতের আদালতে নৈতিক স্খলনজনিত ফৌজদারি অপরাধে দণ্ডিত হওয়ায় লক্ষ্মীপুরের এমপি কাজী শহিদ ইসলাম পাপুলের সংসদ সদস্য পদ বাতিল করেছে সংসদ সচিবালয়। রায় ঘোষণার দিন থেকে তার আসনটি শূন্য ঘোষণা করে...
The government has so far distributed incentives worth Tk 3.72 billion among 5.7 farmers across the country under its programme to cope with the corona pandemic and spells of floods....
Kazi Shahid Islam alias Papul has lost his membership in the parliament in light of his conviction for money laundering and human trafficking in Kuwait. Parliament Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan...
The Italian ambassador to Congo and an Italian carabineri police officer were killed Monday while traveling in Congo in a UN convoy, the Foreign Ministry said. In a brief statement,...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Singapore and Romania will recruit a total of 12,000 workers from Bangladesh soon. The minister gave the information while talking to the journalists...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its implementing partner Prottyashi inaugurated a new training and production centre for host communities in Cox’s Bazar district, with support from the government...
The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of "Bangladesh Patent Bill, 2021", aiming to make the century-old patent law a more time-befitting one. The approval came from the weekly cabinet...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday urged the other countries and human rights bodies to come forward to share the burden of Rohingyas, saying that Bangladesh has done...
Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and other big companies launch multiple smartphones every year with huge potentials and variety of price points. And in their lineup, there’s always that flagship phone with...
The daily trade turnover on the prime bourse fell below Tk 5.0 billion-mark on Monday, hitting a seven-month low, as most investors were reluctant to make fresh investment in stocks....
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