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The export of jute and jute-made goods saw a healthy growth of 21.55 percent in the first half (July-December) period of the current fiscal year (FY20) fetching $511.73 million higher...
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has recently asked 921 multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Bangladesh to submit detailed information about their business profiles and related activities to scrutinise their international...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Saturday said members of parliament (MPs) neither can take part in electioneering nor act as election coordinators in the upcoming polls to...
2020 is the year of Bangabandhu. A year to be celebrated, cherished, and remembered by all. Millions of words have been committed to paper here and overseas, transmitted across the...
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance on Saturday demanded that the City Corporation (Election Code of Conduct) Rules 2016 be amended to pave the way for MPs to join electioneering for...
The reports on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam’s 'supposed' visit to India to attend a conference in New Delhi are misleading, the government has said. The foreign...
The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign is underway across the country on Saturday, aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to 2.10 crore children aged between six to 59 months,...
Tender plants of maize are growing superbly now predicting bumper production of the cereal crop in Rangpur agriculture region where farmers continuing sowing its seeds during this Rabi season. After...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will start for Abu Dhabi tomorrow (Sunday) on a three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend “Abu Dhabi Sustainable Week”, “Zayed Sustainable...
Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,233 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Saturday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...
A female garment worker was killed after 'being raped' on a running bus in Dhamrai upazila sometime of Friday night. Police recovered the body of Mamata Begum, 19, daughter of...
Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed has said lawmakers can extend all kinds of support to their party-backed candidates other than asking for votes during their campaigns for the Dhaka...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday urged the teachers of public universities to uphold the dignity of their profession without being attracted to any kind of greed or lure. "You could...
China will accelerate building a medical insurance system that covers its entire population through a new round of medical insurance reform. The reform will optimise the current basic medical insurance...
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan can expect less intense local media scrutiny than they have faced in Britain should they move to Canada, experts said on Friday, though international...
A North Korean official on Saturday said that the US and South Korea are dreaming if they think that President Donald Trump’s sending a birthday message would get leader Kim...
An activist of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political group, was shot dead by unidentified miscreants at Moratila in Panchhari upazila on Friday night. The...
The foggy weather that started on Saturday morning is likely to continue for two or three more days across the country, said Met office. “The overcast condition may continue for...
Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) cardholders will now enjoy exclusive privilege on airfares while travelling on Turkish Airlines to 27 destinations across USA, Canada and Europe. EBL Head of Retail SME...
The Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has urged the UN Security Council to bring an end to crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes....
Three more devotees died due to old age complications and severe cold at the Ijtema venue in Tongi area of Gazipur district on Friday night and early Saturday. The deceased...
Ten Bangladeshis have sustained injuries as a car carrying them crashed into a vehicle following a high-speed chase by police in Greece. They were among 13 migrants who had crossed...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death Oman’s ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. Sultan Qaboos, the longest-serving ruler of the Arab...
Mercedes-Benz will build smart-branded electric cars with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in the Chinese city of Xian from a base with annual capacity of around 150,000 vehicles, a senior official...
At least thirteen people were killed, including a senior police officer, and 20 others injured in a blast at a mosque in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Friday. Police said...
Iran “deeply regrets” the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner earlier this week, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said in a tweet on Saturday. Armed Forces’ internal investigation has concluded...
Dhaka ranked third worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. The capital city of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 207 at 8:51 am. The air was...
The United States has imposed more sanctions on Iran in retaliation for its missile attack on US forces in Iraq this week. The US on Friday also vowed to tighten...
Two young men, including a police constable, were killed as a covered van hit their motorbike in Fauzdarhat area of Sitakundu upazila in Chattogram on Saturday morning. The deceased were...
Oman’s ailing Sultan Qaboos bin Said, one of the Middle East’s longest serving rulers who maintained the country’s neutrality in regional struggles, died on Friday and the Gulf state’s high...
Akij Food & Beverage Ltd. (AFBL) has installed a most advanced production line in its factory recently with an investment of around Tk 3.0 billion to produce soft drinks in...
Local mobile apps have failed to fully penetrate the market for a lack of both big investment and quality Internet service, experts and industry insiders said. Digitisation of data and...
Five large-cap companies having notable impact on index movement lost prices up to 11.34 per cent per share in last week. During the week, the DSEX, the broad index of...
Dhaka bourse closed the week with the highest single week fall in core index since 2013 following investors' panic sales executed in all sessions amid lack of confidence. The core...
A move to raise the level of platforms of all rail stations to train floor height is likely to slow down most development projects of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) and...
The noise pollution situation has worsened in the Secretariat area of the Dhaka city even after it was declared 'a no-horn zone', reveals a study. The sound level in the...
Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that...
Bangladesh's passport has made slight improvement, but shared ranking with countries like Iran, Congo and Eretria. The country improved its ranking by a notch to 98 in the 2020 Henley...
The government has moved to bring all public and private buildings under the mandatory insurance coverage to reduce the losses caused by disasters, officials said. A pilot project will be...
As part of chasing Chinese money, Bangladesh now eyes fresh funds from the Asian giant for implementing six new key projects. The projects involving several billions of dollars are seen...
The government's deficit financing grew by 130 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal year compared to that of the same period of last fiscal, driven...
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 10: Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress in the shipbuilding sector, brightening the image of the country as a shipbuilding nation in the world, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said...
A platform is an integral part of a rail station. It is a solid ground infrastructure alongside a railway track and provides convenient access to and exit from trains. Generally,...
A research by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn, reveals interesting insights into the changing agriculture and small farms throughout the world. It sheds light...
The Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB)'s proposal to set up a separate ministry, or a division under the Commerce Ministry, to safeguard the interest of the consumer is interesting and...
Structural transformation generally refers to the reallocation of economic activity across the broad sectors -- agriculture, manufacturing and services. However, reallocation can take place within sectors and across sub-sectors within...
Bangladesh Bank last year raised maximum cap on home loan from TK 12 million to TK 20 million. In response to a proposal submitted by the Association of Bankers, the...
Protests were massive and loud on Dhaka university campus. Yet it must be admitted that the national revulsion and outrage at sexual violence perpetrated on a DU student fell far...
Following India's ban on onion export aimed at controlling its own domestic market, the onion prices rose dramatically in Bangladesh in late 2019. A number of factors have contributed to...
Bangladesh is ranked 114th out of 128 countries in the 2019 World Energy Trilemma Index by the World Energy Council. Conceptually, 'energy trilemma' involves the complex tradeoffs among three core...
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