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The Bangladesh Bank (BB) committee has submitted its report to the BB governor, mentioning some challenges for bringing down interest rates on both lending and deposit to the single digit...
Discussants at a dialogue held in Dhaka on Tuesday suggested the government not judging the country's macroeconomic scenario only by the growth rate but also by the generation of new...
Proposals to invest in ailing Malaysia Airlines include one from Air France-KLM which wants as much as 49 per cent while Japan Airlines is looking at a 25 per cent...
FARIDPUR, Jan 21: Construction of Jasim Uddin Museum was completed in 2013 at a cost of Tk 130 million. Later, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the museum on March 29,...
According to a report published in this paper on Saturday the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has taken steps to increase the number of its online services to 19 from...
At least 56 journalists killed in 2019 and most of them were killed outside zones of conflict, a United Nations spokesperson said Monday. The number dropped by nearly half from...
Stock market should be freed from day-traders who always consider this market as a place which makes one rich overnight. This wrong concept should be removed from the retail investors....
The digital revolution arrived late at the heart of ministries of foreign affairs across the Western world. Ministries latched on to social media around the time of Tahrir Square and...
Be it an ordinary person or an organiser of socio-economic development, he, while doing many good jobs, fails to be in command for some fatal mistakes. He often wonders why...
New York State in the United States will observe Bangladeshi Immigrant Day again this year on September 25 (Saturday), which marks Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s speech...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to Awami League (AL) lawmaker and former state minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadique by placing wreaths separately...
Plastic industry, unlike most other industries, invites arguments both for and against the basic premise -- its presence as an evil or a blessing. The negative attitude is largely because...
Mainly elderly people complain that most of the vegetables and fish varieties they buy from the market do not taste like before. Production of hybrid crops and excessive use of...
Four people were killed and two others injured in a triangular collision among a microbus, an auto-rickshaw and a motorbike at Hazratpur in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital,...
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak handed over the ASOCIO ICT Education Award to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the cabinet meeting on Monday. The...
The High Court (HC) has ordered authorities concerned to freeze bank accounts and to seize passports of 20 persons, including former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance...
The country’s physicians are awaiting donors to begin country's first-ever kidney transplant from the brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant. “We are ready to go for the...
More than 6.60 million trained workers got employments abroad in the last one decade, from 2009 to 2019, and they remitted around $153.13 billion during the period. Expatriates’ Welfare and...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) this year will celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence through various...
France has offered to suspend down payments on a digital services tax on big internet companies due in April as part of an effort to resolve a dispute with Washington...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP is enjoying an extra advantage in the campaign for the upcoming elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations as law...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 205.26 billion project to set up some 329 technical school and colleges at upazila level in...
Various cold-related diseases affected 5,853 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room...
A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Mominpara border in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Hasan Ali, 25,...
Greta Thunberg, who has inspired a new generation of activists to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, urged world leaders to listen to young people on Tuesday....
Mexico suffered its worst year for homicides in 2019, with a record 34,582 victims, official data showed on Monday, underscoring the challenge President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces while waging...
Staff of Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) donated 1,000 pieces of blankets to Md Shafiqul Islam, Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) for distribution among the cold-hit people of Chuadanga. Ali Reza...
The Padma Bank recently handed over a cheque of group insurance to the nominee of its staff Md. Asif Mahabub Sowan who died during his service. Mr. M Ahsan...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday took the charges into cognisance against 25 in the case over the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad. Dhaka...
The 50th Foundation Course for newly-recruited probationary officers of First Security Islami Bank Limited was inaugurated on Tuesday at FSIBL Training Institute. Syed Waseque Md. Ali, Managing Director, First Security...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut global growth projections on Monday, citing negative surprises in a few emerging markets, notably in India, and increased social unrest. However, the IMF also...
BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls mayoral candidate Tabith Awal came under attack during election campaign in the city’s Gabtoli area on Monday. Witnesses said when Tabith and his...
A fire in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City killed five early Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported. The fire broke out in a house located in a small alley of...
The Election Commission (EC) has imposed restrictions on the movement of vehicles during the upcoming Dhaka city corporation elections on Feb 1. No motorcycles will be permitted in electoral areas...
Awami League lawmaker and former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadique passed away in Dhaka city on Tuesday. She was 78. Sadique was born in Keshabpur upazila’s Bhogoti...
The Chinese official investigating a pneumonia outbreak stemming from a new coronavirus said the disease can spread from person to person but can be halted with increased vigilance, as authorities...
Facebook will hire 1,000 people in London this year in roles such as product development and safety as it continues to grow its biggest engineering centre outside the United States...
An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims...
A rape suspect has died in a so-called shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in Khilkhet area of Dhaka city. The incident took place in Dhanadhin Barua area at 2:15...
The authorities have put the airports on alert to prevent deadly coronavirus from spreading in Bangladesh by screening travellers from China where the number of patients has more than tripled...
Uber has sold its food delivery service in India to local rival Zomato, the firms have announced. Uber will get a 9.99 per cent stake in the Indian start-up, helping...
Beacon Pharmaceuticals on Monday topped the scrip-wise turnover chart riding on investors' increased participation in main board and the transactions executed in block board. On the day, the company featured...
The government has asked the central bank to immediately instruct all commercial banks for taking all necessary measures to facilitate quick imports of some 17 essential commodities by traders, officials...
The government is finally set to launch e-passports tomorrow (Wednesday), through issuing the first passport to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Earlier the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) missed...
The printers in the capital are making a brisk business in the recent days following increased demand for printed materials, like - posters and leaflets, to be used for electioneering...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to cut duty-free benefit on import of 21 types of power plant equipments, categorising them 'locally available and consumable products.' The decision...
State-owned enterprises (SoEs), which will deposit their funds in private commercial banks (PCBs) and financial institutions (FIs), will get interest at 6.0 per cent rate, and at 5.5 per cent...
US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering...
Merchant bankers on Monday called for increased fund support and quality public offerings to help restore stability in the country's capital market. To attract good and sound companies to the...
The government has alerted its ministries and divisions to avoid spending beyond the original budget allocations as resource mobilisation becomes slower. The push comes at the meetings on budget revision...
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