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After weeks of confusions and uncertainties, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have finally reached an agreement about the Bangladesh cricket team’s upcoming tour of Pakistan. As...
In developing an industrial strategy we often face conflicting situations. Some of them like production growth versus environmental impact, automation versus employment are highly complicated issues to deal with. The...
Are you running a business as a single owner? Or are you running a partnership business? And your organisation has a small number of staff and most of them are...
"Unprecedented." "Hell on Earth." "Catastrophic." In Australia, these terms are being used to describe 17.9 million acres of burned land so far. While fires of this magnitude are certainly unprecedented,...
Not different from other developing economies, international trade transactions of Bangladesh heavily depend on US Dollar as the key mode of receiving and making payments. The country's cross border transactions...
That Dhaka city dwellers are gripped by a severe degree of noise pollution did not need any study to tell them. However, a recent joint study by Stamford University (SU)...
Bangladeshi and Indian state-run radios on Tuesday launched a broadcast exchange programme enabling audiences to listen to Bangladesh Betar and Akashvani radio in both the countries. Information Minister Dr. Hasan...
The past year experienced a rough patch for overseas jobseekers with job markets either shrinking or getting largely shut in some countries. This was accompanied with problems like harassment of...
'How monotonous could living be with only one object in daily life' sounds like a hypothetical question. But that is precisely the case when men and women remain obsessed with...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal placed a bill in the parliament on Tuesday to bring the surplus money of different autonomous, semi-autonomous and statutory agencies and non-financial corporations to the...
Britain’s 24 million adult gamblers will not be able to use credit cards in gambling as the country plans to enact a new rule to ban using credit cards to...
A total of 1,123 new cadets graduated from a commando school and joined the Afghan national army, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. "Up to 1,123 commando forces...
Around 43 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics across the country. Among them, 38 patients are taking treatment in Dhaka division and 5 are hospitalised outside...
Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen won by a landslide in the island's regional leadership elections, and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took more than half of the "legislative" seats. We...
The National University (NU) authorities have rescheduled the examinations of Honors 4th (Special) BA/BSS/BBA/BSC – of 2018 due to unavoidable circumstances, said a NU press release. The examinations will start...
Country's mobile network operator Robi has paid the first instalment of the Tk 1.38 billion fixed by the High Court as settlement for the disputed audit demand by the Bangladesh...
Dhaka ranked second worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Tuesday morning. It had an AQI score of 287 around 8:34am. The air was classified as ‘very unhealthy’. Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar...
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) filed 7,270 cases and arrested 7,270 people until June 2019 in connection with the drug-related crimes. The DNC launched drives regularly across the country...
Increased private sector credit flow will ensure more investment and economic growth, said the newly elected Board of Directors of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) on Tuesday. They...
Germany’s highest court is considering imposing stricter limits on the activities of the country’s foreign intelligence agency. The Federal Constitutional Court was due Tuesday to hear a lawsuit brought by...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule upon the respondents to explain in four weeks as to why the final result of the assistant teacher recruitment process of the...
The High Court on Tuesday rejected summarily a writ petition that sought change in the election schedule of two city corporations of Dhaka as the ‘Saraswati Puja’ will be observed...
Indian palm oil importers have effectively stopped all purchases from top supplier Malaysia after the government privately urged them to boycott its product following a diplomatic spat, industry and government...
At least 57 people were killed and others were missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In neighbouring India, at...
The discipline council of Dhaka University on Tuesday recommended the expulsion of 63 students who were found to have enrolled at the university through fraud during the academic years from...
As many as 1,554 fire incidents took place in November 2019 causing extensive damage to properties across the country, according to a report of Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defence....
Republican members of the US Senate, poised to begin an impeachment trial against president Donald Trump in the coming days, voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt to dismiss the...
Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday, the TASS news agency cited the Russian...
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital resumed on Tuesday morning after six hours of disruption caused by thick fog. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines took...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has recently opened an Agent Banking Outlet at Panchgoan Bazar of Bijoynagar in Brahmanbaria District. M Khorshed Anowar, Head of Retail and SME Banking of Eastern...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed Bangladeshi envoys to work for expanding export to import-dependent Middle East countries alongside attracting investment to Bangladesh. “In the case of investment and export,...
The Queen has agreed a "period of transition" in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will spend time in Canada and the UK. She said she was "entirely supportive"...
Customs officials recovered eight gold bars weighing 0.933kg from a passenger’s stomach at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Monday night. Tipped off, members of National Security Intelligence (NSI)...
Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport was disrupted due to thick fog on Tuesday morning. Flight operation on domestic and international routes remained suspended since 3:30am, Beni Madhab Biswas,...
Calling India's controversial new citizenship law 'sad', Microsoft boss Satya Nadella said he would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant succeed in the country's technology industry. The India-born executive's comments...
India has been, allegedly, pressing Bangladesh to allow its companies to participate in international tenders, floated by the latter, without meeting the criteria set in the Public Procurement Rules 2008....
The US Treasury Department on Monday dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator days before top officials of the world’s two largest economies were due to sign a...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered duty-free benefit on import of spare parts by the factories located inside the Economic Zones (EZs) of the country. The customs wing...
Bangladesh sent the highest number of 399,000 workers to Saudi Arabia in 2019 amid continued deportation of migrants. That figure accounts for 57 per cent of a total of 700,159...
Barcelona have sacked coach Ernesto Valverde and named former Real Betis coach Quique Setien as his replacement, the club said in a statement on Monday. “FC Barcelona and Quique Setien...
The government in collaboration with two foreign companies will build a modern ship-building yard in southern Patuakhali, an official said. The state-of-the-art ship building yard along with backward linkage industry...
The Supreme Court has thrown out Jatiya Party leader and former state minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser’s challenge against his death sentence by a war crimes tribunal. A four-member Appellate Division...
The World Bank, or WB, is likely to provide US$4.50 billion in loans to Bangladesh over the next three-years, officials said on Monday, the same level as the current portfolio....
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) data shows that the number of patients with drug addiction problems has gone up alarmingly in recent times. As many as 114 patients were...
The plan for cutting the Dhaka-Chattogram railway travel time down to 1-2 hours has been heard a couple of times in the past. Those promises were made during the tenures...
Of the total transport-sector casualties in 2019 -8,543 dead and 14,318 injured--the major share obviously goes to road accidents. In 5,516 road accidents, 7,855 people were killed and 13,330 injured....
Awami League (AL) candidate Moslem Uddin Ahmed has won the by-elections to Chattogram-8 parliamentary constituency amid a low turnout of voters. He took the seat by a huge margin, bagging...
A hurricane innings of 34 runs off 14 balls by captain Mahmudullah Riyad enabled Chattogram Challengers to stay in the title race of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) eliminating...
How does climate change, an often intangible condition, affect lives of people who are not part of the consumption or production cycle contributing to rise in global temperatures? Human development...
Klaus Schwab helped initiate the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from 1971. Two years later he presented a 'Davos Manifesto' about capitalism that he is now, in January...
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