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Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday nominated a five-member panel of chairmen for the Special Session, the 10th session of the 11th parliament. The panel members are ABul Kalam...
After nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House. It was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place...
The Dhaka University (DU) authorities have taken a preliminary decision to cancel the undergraduate admission tests of ‘D' and ‘F' units under faculties of social sciencesand fine arts respectively, from...
Global coronavirus infections exceeded 50 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, with a second wave of the virus in the past 30 days accounting for a quarter of...
US President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to work more closely with US allies in confronting China on trade and is seen as unlikely to roll back his predecessor's tariffs on...
The High Court on Sunday, for the first time ever, handed down a landmark judgement in a narcotics revision case by giving an opportunity of probation to a convict. On...
Four Indian army soldiers and three militants were killed in Kashmir on Sunday, an Indian Defence Ministry spokesperson said, in the bloodiest gunbattle in the disputed region since April this...
The ministry of religious affairs on Sunday ordered everyone to strictly maintain the guideline of wearing a face mask at places of worship, including mosques. The order came in a...
Bangladesh expects that the Biden Administration will strengthen Bangladesh-US relations on core issues considering Bangladesh as a very powerful country geopolitically. "We hope the US (under the new leadership) will...
Indians burst firecrackers on Sunday and offered prayers of gratitude over the election of Kamala Harris as the next US vice president, declaring it a proud moment for Indian-Americans. Harris,...
Over the past decades, Bangladesh has surmounted expectations by transforming it into one of the largest apparel exporters in the world. Given the large-scale manufacturing capacity, the country is one...
“God Bless You Donald and Melania” read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the US election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, anti-Trump graffiti adorned walls. Perhaps nowhere outside...
President Donald Trump lost. But Trumpism did not. It won in the parts of the country and with the voters whom Trump catered to over four years, constantly jabbing the...
Bangladesh has recorded 18 more fatalities and 1,474 new cases of the novel coronavirus in last 24 hours. The death toll climbed to 6,067 while the tally of infections reached...
Stocks slipped back into the red on Sunday, after a single-day break as risk-averse investors went on late hours selling binge on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the key index of the...
The next US administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trump’s mistakes, Iranian state media quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Sunday after Democrat Joe Biden...
The cut-off price of shares of Index Agro Industries has been fixed at Tk 62 each through electronic bidding by eligible investors. The eligible investors took part in the price...
Junior Chamber International (JCI), a non-profit international non-governmental organisation, Dhaka South has organised the 2020 General Assembly (GA) at a city hotel in Dhaka. The organization, comprising young icons aged...
Current global uncertainty and anxiety amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic could risk another world war, the head of Britain’s armed forces has warned. In an interview...
Ene Dao, an on-demand online delivery service, has started its journey to meet the entire household requirements. The start-up has been formed by few young entrepreneurs with an aim to...
A special session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin at 6pm today on the occasion of the Mujib Barsha, BSS reports. President Abdul Hamid called the session exercising...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) a three-dimensional force after the induction of two helicopters, Bir Shreshtha Nur Mohammad and Bir Shreshtha Abdur Rouf, into it....
Students in their hundreds from public and private medical colleges have blocked the Shahbagh traffic intersection in Dhaka city, demanding resumption of their classes online immediately. They started the blockade...
Irfan Selim, the suspended Dhaka South City Corporation councillor, and his bodyguard Md Zahid have been put on five-day remand in two cases. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Kaisarul Islam gave...
Myanmar voted on Sunday in an election seen as a referendum on a fledgling democratic government whose reputation collapsed overseas amid allegations of genocide but which remains popular at home....
Democrat Joe Biden captured the US presidency on Saturday as voters narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trump’s tumultuous leadership and embraced Biden’s promise to fight the coronavirus pandemic and fix...
Hundreds of people from five villages have been suffering as a concrete bridge remains without approach roads in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj for two years. According to locals, the concrete...
Popular television actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba, who has been infected with Covid-19, showed signs of improvement on Saturday. Apurba posted a video on his official Facebook account on Saturday night,...
Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in downtown Phoenix on Saturday to contest Joe Biden’s election as US president, charging the media with conspiring to steal the election...
The board of directors of state-run Power Grid Company of Bangladesh has recommended a 20 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2020. The final approval...
Stocks witnessed positive trend in early trading on Sunday as bargain hunters remained active on sector-wise issues based on corporate declarations. Following the previous week’s upward trend, the Dhaka Stock...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated US president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris, reports UNB. Biden, 77, beat Donald Trump in a heated election held last week to become...
Most of the listed banks witnessed rise in EPS (earnings per share) for July-September, 2020 compared to same period of the previous year. Officials said the banks' EPS rose following...
Bangladesh has initiated to increase the production of bio-fortified crops aiming to reduce nutrient deficiencies of the people. Industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun told a virtual global summit on...
The government's indecision over the mode of selecting contractor is delaying the construction of the proposed 3.0 million tonne capacity refinery in Chattogram. State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, or BPC, could not...
Value Added tax (VAT) regime in Bangladesh has no route for the foreign companies without physical presence, causing difficulties for such firms to comply with the law, a global streaming...
Bangladesh has recently sought financial support from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for procuring coronavirus vaccine soon after it is developed, officials said on Saturday. The government has estimated...
President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” America in his first speech after prevailing on Saturday in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede....
Kamala Harris made history on Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them...
US President Donald Trump has said his campaign would begin challenging US election results in court next week. “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as...
Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican incumbent Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic...
The progress made in the disbursement of the stimulus packages that the government had announced to provide relief to various Covid-hit sectors, barring a few exceptions, has been well below...
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden edged ever closer Saturday to a victory over President Donald Trump as the long, exacting work of counting votes extended into the fourth day...
Children around the world irrespective of nationalities and social classes are found to be fond of animals at zoos. Whenever an opportunity arrives, they keep pestering their parents to take...
After the liberation of the country, when some infrastructural development took place and a number of major projects in the communication sector were implemented, overseas investors began to come in...
The rise of the gini-coefficient, a measure of income inequality, in Bangladesh over the years indicates that the income inequality is worsening. Income inequality and poverty are directly interrelated, as...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP’s politics is on life support now as the party is facing an existential crisis after failing in the national election. He...
BNP has observed ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ on Saturday remembering ‘civil-military uprising’ on November 17 in 1975. Leaders and activists of the party and different associate bodies placed wreaths...
In two years, the city's increasing demand for electricity could be met by the waste it generates. Yes, a waste-to-energy project has been finalised by the government to generate electricity...
An official of the Federal Election Commission of the United States has said the commission did not find any evidence of fraud in the presidential election of this year. "State...
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