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Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujon), a civil rights body, on Saturday urged the Election Commission (EC) to arrange “free, neutral and peaceful” Dhaka city polls. The election of Dhaka south and...
Three members of a family have been killed after a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw in Barguna’s Amtoli Upazila. Four others were injured in the accident which...
The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, a...
M. Amzad Hossain, Chairman of South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited inaugurated Annual Branch Managers’ Conference 2020 as the chief guest at FARS Hotel & Resorts in the...
A woman who suffered severe burns in a fire that broke out at a slum in Mirpur’s Chalantika on Friday died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday morning....
NRB Commercial Bank Limited formally launched its sub-branch banking services at Hasan Market, Khalifa Potty, Shibchar Bazar, Shibchar Madaripur on Saturday. Chief Whip of Jatia Sangsad Mr. Nur-E-Alam Chowdhury MP...
Bangladesh should step up its diplomatic efforts to reap the dividend from the verdict of top UN court, foreign relations analysts say. While the order by the International Court of...
Omar Farooque, Managing Director of Union Bank Limited, inaugurated the Annual Business Conference-2020 as the chief guest at Sayeman Beach Resort in Cox’s Bazar on Friday. Adviser of the Bank...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive arrested a suspected drug dealer with 1.8kg heroin from Thakur Joubon area in Godagari upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The 16-year-old...
Shanghai has shut down all cinemas during the Lunar New Year holidays, which last until Jan 30, the Liberation Daily said on its online channel. A virus outbreak in China...
Dhaka ranked fourth worst city in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 247 at 08:19am. The air was classified...
AB Bank Limited has organised a golf tournament titled ‘AB Bank 29th President Cup Golf Tournament’ at the Bhatiary Golf & Country Club in Chattogram. Almost 201 golfers took part...
Some 234,503 beneficiary owners' (BO) accounts were closed in last 12 months since January 23, 2019 due to non-payment of maintenance fees, regulatory move and depressed capital market outlook. The...
Stocks rebounded strongly in the outgoing week, snapping a two-week losing streak amid growing investors' confidence in the market. Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
The death of a minor boy suffering from cold-related diarrhoea came in from Kurigram as a cold wave, sweeping over Bangladesh’s northern region, intensified. Nine-month-old Atikul, son of Hasan Ali,...
Asian Paints Limited wants to raise its stake in Bangladesh's growing paint market on the back of the demand for quality materials. To this end, Bangladesh wing of the multinational...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited dominated the Dhaka Stock Exchange's turnover chart last week that ended on Thursday. Ten most traded companies accounted for nearly 30 per cent transactions on the prime...
Two foreign banks agreed to provide financing for modernisation of state-owned sugar mills. The high-ups of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) and the Exim Bank of Thailand (EBT)...
Different ministries and agencies are piling pressure on Planning Commission (PC) for enlistment of new unapproved projects in the upcoming revised annual development programme (RADP). Officials said the PC is...
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people and collapsing buildings in affected towns near the centre of the tremor, which was strong enough to...
India has turned down a Bangladesh's request to withdraw anti-dumping duty imposed on the exports of Bangladesh's jute goods, hydrogen peroxide, and fishing net. The giant neighbour made the refusal...
The official death toll from the coronavirus in China jumped on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier, as local media reported a doctor on the frontline of the...
State-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation, or BCIC, has unearthed major irregularities involving Tk 1.30 billion in a fertiliser project completed in recent years. The Shahjalal fertiliser project valued at Tk...
The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has been losing around 50,000 clients of its landline phone every year since the fiscal year 2011-12. The number of landphone connection has...
Lofty promises offered by the mayoral candidates in the upcoming city corporations polls, scheduled to be held on February 01 this year, clearly acknowledge that Dhaka and its inhabitants are...
Of late, health and nutrition status of populations, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh seem to attract a lot of attention. International research funds are flowing to that direction. After...
The High Court Division has finally issued a verdict declaring placement of the services of civil servants as Officers on Special Duty (OSD) illegal beyond the permissible 150 days period....
A group of hanumans (long tailed langurs) -- sounds like humans and certainly humanoid in traits -- arrives at a police station in Jessore. A baby monkey was hurt as...
Sunamganj, a district located in far north-eastern region of the country, is a culmination of vast geographic diversity. The district sits along the base of Meghalaya hills and itself embodies...
If you ask a credulous student about the elaboration of ICC, he or she would definitely reply it stands for International Cricket Conference (instead of Council), similarly International Development Association...
The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological, environmental, geopolitical, and socio-economic transformations of the past...
For the first time, the world's elites meeting this year at Davos have listed environmental issues as their top concerns about the next decade. The WEF's annual Global Risks Report...
Financial system of Bangladesh is mainly bank-based and private commercial banks have been playing a pivotal role in this area. In the 80's, denationalisation of banks was a major leap...
Iran charges Brussels for serving US interests in the Middle East. The accusations are the net effect of Europe's failure to protect the nuclear deal, amid Trump's auto tariff threat....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked Awami League (AL) leaders and activists to follow Bangabandhu's ideology properly to build a developed and prosperous Bangladesh free of hunger and poverty....
The office of ward number 56 independent councillor aspirant was vandalised and torched, allegedly by Awami League-backed candidate in Borogram area in Kamrangirchar on Friday afternoon. Saidur Rahman Ratan, Kamrangirchar...
A crafty half century by veteran batsman Shoaib Malik has steered Pakistan to a comfortable 5-wicket victory against Bangladesh in the T20 series opener in Lahore on Friday. Chasing a...
American teenager Coco Gauff stunned defending champion Naomi Osaka in straight sets on Friday to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open. The 15-year-old excelled at the Rod Laver...
Awami League mayor candidate for the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Friday said there will be no waterlogging in the capital if he is...
The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has destroyed four poppy fields in Bandarban's Ruma Upazila.RAB recovered around 60kg of poppy nectar from the four fields, said Moshiur. Later, the elite...
Bangladesh have set Pakistan a target of 142 on the heels of Mohammad Naim's 43 in the T20 series opener in Lahore on Friday. Opting to bat first, the Tigers...
US health scientists said in an essay Thursday that a candidate vaccine for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) could be ready for early-stage human testing in three months. In an essay...
The fire that broke out at a slum at Chalantika in the city’s Mirpur area was doused on Friday. Anwar Hossain, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence,...
The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilising machinery to get it ready by early next week, state...
Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry is aiming to attract four million tourists in 2020, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has told local media. The minister said they have fixed a target of...
Singapore’s manufacturing output declined 1.4 per cent year on year in 2019, said the Economic Development Board on Friday. Last December, the country's factory output declined 0.7 per cent year...
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States rose last week, according to a report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. The number of...
US President Donald Trump has said that he would unveil the long-awaited Middle East peace plan before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington on next Tuesday. Speaking to...
A fire that broke out at ‘Parabat Express’ train in Brahmanbaria district was doused within half an hour on Friday, officials said. Brahmanbaria Railways Station sources said they found fume...
A man has been beaten to death by an angry mob on suspicion of theft in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore district. The incident took place in the upazila's Shubharara Mathparha...
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