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Usually, the lies of politicians and senior government officials are annoying, and give us the feeling that they consider us to be dumb. But in one known area, the public's...
Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been roped in by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), his old team, for the upcoming season of Indian Premier League (IPL). Auction for the new...
Economic transitions rarely take place at any particular point. One exception to the rule, however, is August 15, 1975. It was a turning point for the Bangladesh economy. Since then...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Thursday launched different mobile court drives in the city to ensure writing signboards and nameplates in the Bangla language. A total of five mobile courts,...
Speakers at a webinar have suggested the authorities concerned to put stress on creating more overseas employment opportunities for women as job scope in readymade garment sector declined at this...
The High Court on Thursday summoned Grameen Telecom Chairman Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and another person for not complying with its order over reinstating 38 terminated employees of the...
Indonesia's capital Jakarta is threatening residents with fines of up to 5 million rupiah ($356.89) for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, an unusually stiff penalty aimed at ensuring compliance with a new...
A Dhaka court has acquitted Erfan Selim, son of Dhaka 7 MP Haji Selim, in an arms case. Dhaka Special Tribunal No. 1 Judge KM Imrul Qayes issued an order...
Protesters demonstrated across Myanmar again on Thursday to denounce the Feb 1 military coup and arrest of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and police forcefully dispersed crowds, using water...
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (local time) slammed the "wildly uneven and unfair" distribution of coronavirus vaccines and said that only 10 countries have administered 75 per cent...
Students of Barishal University continued protests for the second consecutive day on Thursday to press home their six-point demand, reports UNB. The students took position in front of the academic...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to curb food adulteration in Bangladesh with an iron hand alongside creating awareness among businesspeople against such offences. The prime...
A Dhaka South City Corporation worker has died after being hit by a microbus in Dhaka's Kakrail, reports bdnews24.com. The incident took place around 1:30 am on Wednesday. The dead...
The online application for students intending to enroll at Dhaka University for the 2020-21 academic session will continue from March 8 to March 31. The decision was taken at a...
Bangladesh has recorded 391 new cases of the coronavirus in a day, taking the tally of infections to 542,268. The death toll climbed to 8,329 after 15 fatalities from COVID-19...
Stocks extended the losing streak for the third straight session on Thursday amid persistently lacklustre trade. The market swung between negative and positive several times during the trading session as...
Seiko Hashimoto appeared in seven Olympics — four Winter Olympics and three Summer Olympics. According to historian Dr Bill Mallon, her seven appearances is the most by any “multi-season” athlete...
খাদ্যে ভেজালের বিরুদ্ধে সচেতনা সৃষ্টির পাশপাশি যারা এ কাজ করছেন, তাদের কঠোর হাতে দমনের নির্দেশনা দিয়েছেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। বৃহস্পতিবার সকালে গণভবন থেকে ভিডিও কনফারেন্সিংয়ের মাধ্যমে ‘জাতীয় নিরাপদ খাদ্য দিবস-২০২১’...
নিউ জিল্যান্ড সফরের আগে করোনাভাইরাসের টিকা নিলেন বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ক্রিকেট দলের কয়েকজন খেলোয়াড়। বৃহস্পতিবার সকালে ঢাকার কুর্মিটোলা জেনারেল হাসপাতালে গিয়ে টিকা নেওয়ার পর বাংলাদেশের ওয়ানডে অধিনায়ক তামিম ইকবাল বললেন, অনেকেই...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) has placed a total of 25 recommendations before the Ministry of Industries for the government to consider those while drafting the Industrial Policy...
Bitcoin surged to yet another record high on Wednesday, a day after the virtual currency vaulted to the $50,000 hurdle, even as analysts warned against the sustainability of such prices...
Technology is not infallible. It does not matter how much is spent on smartphones; they are bound to function erratically after a certain period of usage. It is a quite...
Tesla has reduced the price of its cheaper variants of the Model 3 sedan and the Model Y sports utility vehicle (SUV), while raising prices for their performance variants, the...
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel Ltd said on Wednesday it will buy US private equity firm Warburg Pincus’ 20 per cent stake in its direct-to-home television arm for 31.26 billion...
Even women who make it to the top ranks of US corporations face a persistent pay gap compared with men in leadership roles, a new study of corporate filings found....
Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook pages on Thursday after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute...
Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday he will engage with the new US Trade Representative’s office on a trade deal after a previous attempt to seal a limited...
Naomi Osaka ended Serena Williams’ bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title in a storm of power hitting on Thursday, humbling the American great 6-3 6-4 to reach her...
eGeneration, one of the leading IT consulting and software solution companies in Bangladesh, will make its share trading debut on February 23 (Tuesday) under the “N” category, officials said. The...
Iran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog it plans to install more of its advanced IR-2m centrifuges at an underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, a report by the agency...
London-listed online trading platform Plus500 plans to venture into North America after a surge in profits for 2020 as company benefited from a boom in small-time traders making big bets...
Ugandan military and police officers beat and seriously injured journalists on Wednesday as they covered the delivery of a petition about human rights violations to a United Nations office, a...
The board of directors of BD Finance has recommended 6.0 per cent cash and 6.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2020. The final approval...
Texas officials warned of “disasters within the disaster” of historic cold weather that left millions without heat for a third day on Wednesday, telling residents to prepare for energy to...
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Myanmar on Wednesday, rejecting the army’s assertion that the public supported its overthrow of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and saying they...
The latest in a series of mystery monoliths to capture the imagination of science-fiction fans around the world met a fiery end in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday...
Unidentified gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Wednesday and kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, the...
Stocks witnessed marginal fall in the early trading on Thursday as investors continued their sell-offs on sector-wise issues amid persistent lacklustre trading. Following the previous day’s marginal fall, the Dhaka...
Roberto Manuel wore two shirts, three jackets and four pairs of pants to brace himself for subzero temperatures in Matamoros, the Mexican city opposite Texas, where he lives in a...
The board of directors of IDLC Finance has recommended a 35 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2020. The final approval of dividend will come...
It was early 2019, and senior Amazon.com Inc executive Jay Carney was preparing for an important meeting. The former press secretary to US President Barack Obama, Carney was scheduled to...
The board of directors of IPDC Finance has recommended 12 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2020. The final approval of dividend will come during...
The Nasdaq closed lower while the S&P 500 was little changed on Wednesday as investors rotated out of technology shares and concerns about inflation added some pressure on stocks. The...
The government on Wednesday launched the disbursement of cash incentives to the fisheries and livestock sector farmers who had incurred financial losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Over 0.48 million...
Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) and Bangladesh Land Developers Association (BLDA) Wednesday demanded that the building heights should be fixed by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB),...
Commercial disputes need to be settled within the shortest possible time for an enabling business environment in Bangladesh, speakers told a webinar. It is also essential to improve the country's...
Swiss prosecutors have appealed against court verdicts clearing former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke of bribery and Qatari sports and broadcasting executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi of offering him incentives in a...
Lub-rref (Bangladesh), a local lubricant producer, is set to hold initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw on February 23 to allocate 45.24 million ordinary shares. The IPO subscription of Lub-rref...
The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency, affecting companies from banks...
The government will open the Uttara-Agargaon section of the metro rail line-06 to the public on December 16. The inauguration has been timed to coincide with the golden jubilee of...
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