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Mosques during the Islamic period were established with phenomenal stylistic approaches. Eventually the medieval mosque of Bengal shifted the meaning of religious spatial quality starting from socio-political situation to socio-cultural...
The Rapid Action Battalion has seized a large sum of counterfeit currencies from a house in Dhanmondi. The elite force raided the third floor of the house at road No....
E-commerce involves buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium. Broadly, e-commerce is classified into four categories: business to business or B2B (Cisco),...
I met Justice Murshed in his twilight years when he had become frail and ailing, yet one could notice his greatness and the respect he commanded. Having been introduced by...
As nature's fury wreaked havoc across Australia, reducing to ashes all that came in its way - people, flora, fauna, picturesque historic towns and villages once popular with local and...
Bangladeshi products drew attention among the visitors at ‘Heimtextil Frankfurt’, a four-day trade show, started from January 7 in Germany. The Bangladeshi exhibitors said they got good responses from the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the government wants to move ahead with the torch of victory that has been given by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
Bus registration in the country witnessed a significant rise in 2019 compared to that of 2018. A total of 3,606 buses were registered in 2019 while the number was 2,755...
Incidents of political violence in the country witnessed a drastic fall in 2019 compared to that of 2018, according to a report of a local rights and legal aid body....
China is capable of maintaining steady economic growth in the year to come and beyond, buoyed by multiple driving forces, despite mounting downward pressure, economists have said. "The gross domestic...
A fire has erupted at a garment factory in Gazipur city, according to bdnews24.com. The fire broke out on the fourth and fifth floors of Islam Garments in the city's...
Iran has again rejected suggestions that one of its missiles brought down a Ukrainian passenger jet near the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday. Its civil aviation chief said on Friday he...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the nationwide countdown to the birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Friday. A gala ceremony was held...
The World Bank has projected 7.2 per cent GDP growth for Bangladesh in the current fiscal year, FY 2019-20, while 7.3 per cent in the following fiscal year. Bangladesh, the...
Foreign investors purchased more than 10 billion US dollars of South Korean stocks and bonds last year, central bank data showed Friday. Foreign capital of $10.16 billion flowed into the...
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States dropped last week, according to a report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. The number of...
Fifty dengue patients, including 43 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country. Six new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am in...
Police on Friday recovered the body of a college student from a paddy field in Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira district three days after she had gone missing. The deceased was...
Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,863 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Friday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...
US president Donald Trump, who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on January 15, said on Thursday the agreement could be signed...
The Election Commission (EC) on Friday allocated symbols among the mayoral candidates of the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections scheduled to be...
Two devotees died at the Ijtema venue in Tongi area of Gazipur district on Thursday night and early Friday. The deceased were identified as Khoka Mila, 60, of Kazipur upazila...
It is “highly likely” that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board, US, Canadian and British officials declared...
India’s Supreme Court said on Friday that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional in a rebuke for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The government...
Australian cricketer Shane Warne's baggy green cap has made more than 1 million Australian dollars ($685,000) at auction to aid those affected by wild fires across the country. When bidding...
The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will be observed across Bangladesh on Saturday, aiming to feed Vitamin A plus capsules to 21 million (2.10 crore) children aged between six to...
The Indian rupee will extend its two-year-long weakening streak this year, dragged down by an ongoing economic slump that has defied easing measures from policymakers, as well as by bets...
A Chinese province has said just 17 people, out of its population of more than 80 million, are living in poverty. Jiangsu province said only a handful of people lived...
Mozammel Hossain, a lawmaker from Bagerhat-4 and a former state minister, has died at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 80. He passed away at 12:40am on Friday...
The US House of Representatives has approved a largely symbolic resolution seeking to limit President Donald Trump's ability to make war on Iran. The measure passed the Democratic-run chamber 224-194,...
BGMEA has proposed to form a special taskforce mainly to ensure proper inter-ministerial coordination for timely implementation of measures required for protecting the interest of the sector and its gradual...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the Homecoming Day of the great leader. The premier...
The government has started building 54 temporary godowns at Shyampur in the city at a cost of around Tk 800 million. Once constructed, the inventories will store chemical products while...
The core index of Dhaka bourse on Thursday settled below 4200 points after losing 262 points in five sessions in a row amid investors' panic sales executed throughout the week....
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has temporarily suspended issuing utilisation declaration (UD) certificates to 84 non-compliant factories, said industry insiders. The apex apparel trade-body took the decision...
European Parliament in collaboration with the embassy of Bangladesh in Brussels has organised a dialogue on the apparel industry. The dialogue on 'EU-Bangladesh Apparel Trade: Time for A Reality Check,"...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has cancelled all the orders and circulars for transfer, posting and promotion of nearly 350 officials of the customs, VAT and income tax wings....
The first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, began on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi after Fazr prayers on Friday. The...
The government has asked the central bank and Department of National Savings to step up efforts to draw investments by overseas Bangladeshis into foreign currency bonds. The non-resident Bangladeshis, or...
Membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has boosted the GDP of Bangladesh by $1759.73 million in 25 years, according to a study conducted by a global think-tank. The country...
More than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers were sent back from abroad last year due to a host of reasons such as overstay and scarce jobs. Of the total, some 62,000 workers...
MYMENSINGH, Jan 09: Sweetmeat 'Monda' has an interesting history. Descendants say, about two centuries ago Gopal Pal dreamt that a sage was ordering him to make sweetmeat. The next day,...
Thousands of camels in South Australia will be shot dead from helicopters as a result of extreme heat and drought, reports BBC. A five-day cull started on Wednesday, as Aboriginal...
Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos scored directly from a corner as his side booked their place in the final of the revamped Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia by outclassing...
The content of a report published recently by the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the food ministry is enough to arouse both frustration and hope as far as...
At a time when the economic growth the world over has been forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October at 3.0 per cent -the lowest since 2008-9, Bangladesh...
Setting up of the $10 million export fund, announced last week, for four prospective export products is a particularly laudable initiative because as a departure from fiscal benefits often dished...
US President Donald Trump's order to assassinate Iran's General Qassem Suleimani while on an official mission to Iraq was widely hailed in Trump's jingoistic Republican Party. Government-sanctioned murders of foreign...
Capitalism is at bay. At least Branko Milanovic, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, thinks so. In the first Foreign Affairs issue of 2020, he captures and articulates...
Bangabandhu is, in fact, a namesake of Bangladesh. He created the concept Bangladesh for which millions shed blood in 1971. He was a born leader who could inspire his fellow...
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