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The Road Transport and Highways Division (RTHD) has rejected a proposal put forward by India to reduce road transit fees as the rate fixed earlier is lower than the actual...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday his ruling AK Party and its nationalist allies may start work on drafting a new constitution, less than four years after overhauling the...
US President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar following a coup by the country’s military leaders and called for a concerted international response to press them...
Banglalink, one of the leading digital communications service providers in the country, has entered into a strategic partnership with Google to facilitate youth employment in the country. Erik Aas, chief...
While the world was grappling with the pandemic, a Hungarian family of four decided last summer to fulfil their dream: sailing around the globe in a 50-feet boat called “Teatime.”...
A significant number of jobseekers are being trapped by human traffickers every year in the name of labour migration due to lack of livelihood programme at home, experts and activists...
The US economy will grow 4.6 per cent in 2021 after contracting 3.5 per cent in 2020, the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday in a rosier forecast that could...
The US economy will grow 4.6 per cent in 2021 after contracting 3.5 per cent in 2020, the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday in a rosier forecast that could...
A group of Bangladeshi researchers claimed to have discovered a new variant of coronavirus in the country. The new variant, which continues to mutate like influenza virus, has similarities with...
The BRTA fare committee has proposed a fare of Tk 2.20 per kilometre for the company-based bus service that is expected to run on a pilot route soon, sources said....
The government has decided to request five big importers to keep the supply and price of edible oil stable especially during the upcoming Ramadan, officials said. It also decided to...
Net sales of the state-run savings instruments in the first half surpassed the target set for entire fiscal year (FY) 2020-21, according to official statistics. According to the Department of...
The eligible investors (EIs) will have to take part in the initial public offering (IPO) bidding through a committee, which will unbiasedly recommend quantity and price of the shares concerned,...
The National Board of Revenue has waived advance tax (AT) on the import of raw sugar to help stabilise the prices of the essential commodity ahead of Ramadan. From now...
The United Nations fears the coup in Myanmar will worsen the plight of some 600,000 Rohingya Muslims still in the country, a UN spokesman said on Monday as the UN...
Bangladesh is likely to join the successor of BRICS Bank, as finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal sits with the bank's president today (Tuesday), officials said on Monday. They said Mr...
Bangladesh recorded a 34.95 per cent growth of remittance in seven months of the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21) compared to the same period of the last fiscal year. The country...
The ability to copy is a basic attribute of life. As actions, copying and repeating are similar in nature. Copying is to reproduce a thing in space and as such...
Unlike many other corona-hit countries, day-to-day life in Bangladesh is slowly returning to normal. The spectacle is encountered especially in the urban areas, in capital Dhaka in particular. It occurred...
That all the candidates of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination of 2020 would pass was known but how the grade would be decided was the crucial issue. Since the...
Lionel Messi scored his 650th goal for Barcelona with a wonderful free-kick as they beat Athletic Bilbao to move up to second in La Liga. Athletic had a five-man wall,...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ‘made a mockery’ with her comments that a strong opposition in the country is...
About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren't informed that a mistake had been made...
Over the past few years, Bangladesh has progressed a lot in terms of economic and social development. However, graduation from the LDC group will be the most important milestone that...
Plagiarism can lead to devastating consequences. This truth has been manifested anew through the decision of the Dhaka University Syndicate to penalise three teachers of the university on the grave...
Technology is uniquely shaping the life experiences and opinions of the adolescents growing up in this rapidly digitising world. Although the number of internet users in Bangladesh grew rapidly in...
The High Court (HC) will deliver its judgement on February 17 on death reference and jail appeals of the convicts in a case lodged over an attempt to murder Prime...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) called on Monday for Myanmar to pursue "dialogue, reconciliation and the return to normalcy" after the military staged a coup against the government...
The DCCI has said cottage, micro and small enterprises are deprived of loans and facilities under stimulus and other policy supports although 75 per cent Bangladeshi entrepreneurs are from smaller...
Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the largest fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies across the globe, has entered into a manufacturing and supply arrangement with PRAN Group. PRAN has...
Computers are already doing a great job but what if the abilities of computers, especially high-performing computers, got even higher? High-performance computing (HPC) can deliver accurate results of complex calculations...
Health workers in Bangladesh will not be able to leave their workplaces until February 10 as the government is set to roll out its nationwide vaccination campaign, said the Directorate...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has allowed term loan facilities for the cottage, micro and small (CMS) enterprises under the credit guarantee scheme. Earlier, the government has announced Tk 200.0 billion for...
More 20 million people in at least four western districts will benefit from a project designed to improve roads and digital connectivity, the World Bank (WB) said on Monday. It...
A Russian court on Monday fined Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, 20,000 roubles ($265) for taking part in unsanctioned protests on Sunday, the court said....
Forest officers in Bagerhat detained a man with 22 kg venison from Sundarbans Dhashervarani area adjacent to Shoronkhola upazila Sunday night. With this in two separate drives in the last...
Bangladesh Public Service Commission has announced a plan to hold the 43rd BCS preliminary test in eight divisional cities on Aug 6, reports bdnews24.com. The exam will be held in...
Detained leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy party Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the citizens of her country to stage a demonstration against the military coup that took...
Bangladesh has recorded 443 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 535,582. The death toll climbed to 8,137 after 10...
The cold wave sweeping over Bangladesh may continue until tomorrow (Tuesday), according to an official at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist at BMD told The Financial Express...
At least nine were killed after al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early hours of Monday, a police spokesman...
As the military has seized power in Myanmar, Bangladesh has expressed hope that democratic process and constitutional arrangements would be upheld in the neighbouring country. The foreign ministry issued a...
Trade through Benapole port remained suspended for two days from Sunday (January 31) morning as an organisation of West Bengal's Petrapole land port went on a strike. The group-- Jeebon...
When you think of the word ‘competition’, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? You may think of the word optimistically because it reminds you about your...
An inspection report of the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) has identified careless disposal of cigarettes as the third major cause of fire incidents in Bangladesh as it...
DSE mobile app users have to wait for two more weeks to get full trading hours services as the prime bourse extended the maintenance work time frame until February 11....
Myanmar’s powerful military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, is in the spotlight after politicians from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party were detained and the army announced...
As the world begins its slow pivot from managing the COVID-19 crisis to recovery and the reopening of economies, it’s clear that the period of lockdown has had a profound...
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her...
Rohingya refugees condemned the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Myanmar by the military on Monday, a community leader said in Bangladesh, where a number of them live after...
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