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Four-day international conference titled 'DaffodilIMUN-2020' (Daffodil International Model United Nations-2020) ended on January 05, 2020, at Shawdhinata Milonayoton of Daffodil International University (DIU) at Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka. Professor Dr Farhana...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that there were no American casualties in the Iranian strikes on military bases housing US troops in Iraq and that Tehran appeared to...
Turkey and Russia on Wednesday called on all parties in Libya to stop hostilities and declare a ceasefire at midnight on January 12. The two countries made the statement after...
SYLHET, Jan 08: The Sylhet Central Truck Terminal, set up by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), is yet to be made operative and it remained free of trucks as the...
BOGURA, Jan 08 (UNB): Dozens of illegal brick kilns, set up on arable land near schools and colleges, have formed a powerful clique who are removing the fertile topsoil for...
Teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) on Wednesday demanded that capital punishment be given to the rapist of a student of the university as demonstrations on the campus continued...
Former Finance Minister AMA Muhith, while speaking at a two-day research almanac organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka, has applauded the studies and research pursued...
There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that this decade will be the last window for humanity to change the current global trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions so that the...
"Fire bullets at the traitors of the country," chanted mobs of Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, supporters wrapped in Indian flags in Delhi last week. It's been less than a...
Banning single-use plastic products is highly challenging, no doubt but the challenge has to be accepted in the interest of survival of human beings and other creatures either on land...
Corruption is otherwise eating into the vitals of the country. Despite so many measures taken by the government, it continues to hold back the country's progress. In recent days, new...
It was a bolt out of the blue to learn the sudden demise of artist Kalidas Karmakar in Dhaka on October 18, 2019, at the age of 73. The internationally...
More than 40 million tourists from home and abroad visited southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region in 2019, up 19 per cent year on year, according to local authorities. In 2019,...
In the early hours of Wednesday local time, Iran launched two rounds of missile attacks at military bases in Iraq housing US troops. According to Tehran, the attacks were in...
The High Court has imposed a bar on keeping any public servant as officer on special duty (OSD) for more than 150 days. The bench of Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury...
The government is devising a `Made in Bangladesh Strategy’ for the ICT sector for creating large-scale jobs and opening up a window of opportunities to enter the job market by...
Austria's new coalition government was sworn in by President Alexander Van der Bellen at the presidential residence of Hofburg Palace on Tuesday. The new government is the first conservative-green coalition...
A total of individuals or organisations will be honoured with Bangabandhu Jatiya Krishi Puroshkar-1424, (Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-1424), the highest state recognition in the agriculture sector. Of them, five will...
Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to stop terrorist activities and preventing illicit human and drug trafficking, especially Yaba in the border areas. Director General of Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB)...
President M Abdul Hamid on Wednesday offered ‘ziarat’ at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) and Hazrat Shah Paran (RA) in Sylhet. The President, who earlier arrived in Sylhet on...
Japan has the most powerful passport in the world, according to a new index, reports The Inpedendent. The country has scored the number one position in the ranking for the...
Several major airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned US carriers from the area following an...
The Pentagon confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) that Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq. "At approximately 5:30pm (EST) on January 7,...
Jatiya Oikyafront on Wednesday extended its support to BNP’s two mayoral candidates in the upcoming elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations billed for January 30. The senior leaders...
Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,852 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Wednesday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...
Saudi Arabia has deported another 132 Bangladeshi workers, including five women, on Tuesday night. Two flights of Saudi Airlines - SV 804 and SV 802 - landed at Hazrat Shahjalal...
Dhaka ranked fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning. The overpopulated megacity’s air quality was classified as unhealthy as it had an AQI score of 185...
The full text of the High Court verdict in the sensational Pilkhana BDR mutiny murder case was released on Wednesday. The 29,059-page text of the verdict, the longest in Bangladesh’s...
The overall tax burden in Italy dipped slightly over the first nine months of last year compared to the same period in 2018, according to Italy's National Institute of Statistics....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put utmost importance to ensuring cybersecurity and urged all to crosscheck any information before sharing on social media in the interest of the country and...
Country’s bilateral trade deficit with the rest of the world increased slightly in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY20), according to the provisional statistics of the...
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued emergency restrictions for the Gulf airspace, as Washington-Tehran tensions are escalating. The FAA said in a statement that it has issued notices...
Iranian state television said on Wednesday that at least 80 “American terrorists” were killed in attacks involving 15 missiles Tehran launched on US targets in Iraq, adding that none of...
Walton Hi-Tech Industries will raise a capital worth Tk 1.0 billion under book building method to expand business and repay bank loans. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on...
A rapid fall in share prices has wiped out around Tk 710 billion in market capital from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in a year. Its main index, DSEX, shed...
All readymade garment (RMG) exporters will receive 1.0 per cent cash incentive on freight on board (FoB) with effect from July 01, 2019. To this end, Bangladesh Bank issued a...
A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, the country’s state television and Ukraine’s leaders said....
The man who raped a Dhaka University (DU) student in Kurmitola is a serial rapist and a mugger, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said. “Majnu (the arrestee) choked the victim...
The government agencies' execution of projects in the first half of this fiscal is poor as they spent only 26 per cent of the annual development programme (ADP). They utilised...
Iran launched a missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday in retaliation for the US drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing has...
The average inflation rate has increased by 0.04 percentage points for the 12 months in the just-concluded year 2019 to 5.59 per cent due to some volatility in commodity markets...
At least five large commercial banks paid less in corporate tax in the last fiscal year than that of the previous year, thus, adding to the woes of the National...
Transition never ends in social life and the 'End of History' proclamation by a Westerner is just lost in itself! The same applies to modern-day journalism when some pundits, overwhelmed...
The country's light engineering industry, despite its mostly informal and unregulated scope and pattern of work, is often recognised as a potential driver of economic activities that not only helps...
That Dhaka city has long turned into a veritable concrete jungle is a common complaint. But how grave the matter today stands has been brought to the fore by a...
Union Bank Ltd handed over a cheque for Tk 10 million to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as donation to Bangabandhu Memorial Trust at Gonobhaban in Dhaka as a part of...
Sylhet Thunder completed their Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) campaign on a frustrating note losing to Cumilla Warriors by five wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the city on...
Jamuna Bank Foundation organized a seminar on banking services and the importance of CSR activities at the Rose View Hotel, Sylhet recently. Engr. Md. Atiqur Rahman, Chairman, Jamuna Bank Limited,...
JOYPURHAT, Jan 07: Farmers in the northern districts are worried as bone chilling cold is affecting Boro seedbeds this season. Meanwhile, seedbeds have been infected with various plant diseases across...
Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed 750 cases against vehicles and realised over Tk 1.13 million in fines for violating traffic rules during drives in December 2019....
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