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Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army...
The death of Fazilatun Nasa Bappy has triggered fresh fears over swine flu in Bangladesh, but experts have urged the people to follow health safety rules instead of panicking. Bappy,...
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka was ranked 13th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday morning. It had an AQI score of 172 at 8:43am. The air quality was classified...
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is celebrating its 72nd founding anniversary today (Saturday). The ruling Awami League-affiliated student wing was founded by Bangladesh’s independence hero Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on January...
Bushfires were burning dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fueled by soaring temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property. Authorities...
The Trump administration on Friday justified its killing of a top Iranian general as an act of self-defence, trying to deflect accusations that it violated international law and concerns raised...
The Bangladesh Embassy in Baghdad has requested Bangladeshi expatriates in Iraq to stay alert and maintain caution considering the current security situation in the Middle-Eastern country. In a statement on...
Dense fog disrupted smooth ferry operations on the key Patutia-Daulatdia route on early Saturday. The authorities suspended ferry services several times between 3:00am and 7:00am due to poor visibility, said...
The government is desperate to run a temporary chemical warehouse at Shyampur before the first anniversary of the tragic Chawkbazar fire that took 70 lives in 2019. According to officials,...
Private credit growth is unlikely to pick up in the near future as most of the banks are reluctant to provide fresh loans after the move to enforce a single-digit...
Onion market has become volatile again as prices of the key spice increased by 77-80 per cent in a single day. Retailers and consumers see no signs of easing the...
The Dhaka Inland Container Depot (ICD), the biggest container terminal in the country, has recorded container traffic of over 95,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2019, which is an all-time...
Considered a safer mode of transport, women usually prefer travelling on trains. But the Bangladesh Railway is yet to ensure adequate safety, security and comfort for the majority of female...
The widely held view is that institutional credit is likely to reach first to the larger farmers. The poorer ones starve despite their dire needs for the adoption of input-intensive...
Isn't it thoroughly incongruous that the country's regulating body in charge of food safety, the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA), considers hygiene instead of food safety their foremost priority? A...
Almost all people have their special fond wishes for the New Year. Even a child treasures in his/her small bosom a dream to be realised -one that eluded him or...
As our previous generations used to say, you should always eat food that is available in the season. The changing of the seasons provides us with the unique opportunity to...
Over the past 48 years since independence, Bangladesh has made significant progress across the socio-economic spectra. The GDP has grown many times and the economy has transformed from an agrarian...
Globally, some economies like China, Russia, Japan and country groups like the European Union (EU) or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) etc., are continuing with their efforts for...
In recent times, game theory implications of different issues have been coming up in the news quite frequently. Starting from Brexit to Rohingya issue, it seems like everyone is turning...
Disparity with respect to district GDP or the share of the individual district in the country's GDP (gross domestic product) may largely be attributed to the size of the district....
Shariah Governance (SG) outlines how Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) follow the Shariah principles in conducting their business functions. In global practices, there are two types of SG system -- centralised...
Hong Kong's retail sales continued to drop in November of 2019 as social unrest dampened consumption sentiment. The value of total retail sales in November was provisionally estimated at 30...
Bangladesh’s economy will outshine the economy of Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore with its presence as the 30th largest economy in the world by 2024, says a new report. The...
The price of oil surged Friday as global investors were gripped with uncertainty over the potential repercussions after the United States killed Iran's top general. News that Gen. Qassem Soleimani,...
The Australian navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast. Throughout Friday, landing vessels took people to...
The first death anniversary of Awami League's former general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam observed on Friday. Marking the day, Awami League paid homage to Syed Ashraf by placing wreaths on...
A military transport plane crashed on Thursday after taking off from an airport in Sudan's West Darfur, killing 18 people on board, according to the military. The Antonov 12 plane...
Iran’s supreme leader appointed the deputy commander of the Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, as the replacement for Qassem Soleimani, the former head of the elite force who was...
The death toll in Jakarta and surrounding areas in Indonesia rose to 43 as of Friday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said, while tens of thousands of people have been...
Iran promised harsh revenge after a US air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds force and architect of its growing military influence in...
Britain’s energy regulator said on Friday it had fined electricity suppliers 10.5 million pounds ($13.77 million) for the Aug. 9 blackout in the country that affected one million customers and...
Asian shares fell on Friday, erasing early gains, while oil prices spiked after US air strikes in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander, heightening geopolitical tensions. Iranian major-general Qassem Soleimani,...
Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,732 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Friday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...
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...
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said at least 3,916 babies were born in Uganda on New Year's Day. The east African country's newborns accounted for approximately 1.0 per cent...
The US State Department announced on Thursday that it has imposed sanctions on Cuban Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Leopoldo Cintra Frias. The department claimed in a statement that...
Before bringing down the lending rates to single digit, the growth of credit flow to the private sector has dropped below 10 per cent, which analysts have called “worrying” for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said a government having a well-organised party behind can develop a country fast. "A government can work successfully when there’ll be a well-organised party...
Residents in Dhaka as those elsewhere in the country woke up to cloudy skies and chilly drizzles on Friday morning as forecast by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. The weather office...
Jute mills workers called off their ongoing fast-unto-death programme on Thursday night after the government assured them of paying the dues within the next 15 days through pay slips as...
Dhaka has seen a slight improvement in the Air Quality Index (AQI) after rain in winter on Friday morning. The city ranked 36th in AQI with a score of 122...
The government on Thursday directed the Bangladesh missions abroad to gear up efforts for ensuring duty-free access of the country's products to the global market in the post-LDC period. In...
Four people were killed as a sand-laden cargo vessel, waiting for repair work near a dockyard, sank along with them in the Burigranga River in Dhaka's Keraniganj early Friday. The...
The government has decided to import 0.2 million tonnes of onion ahead of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday. Of the amount, the...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 29 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with Khulna Power Company Ltd. (KPCL) generating the highest turnover. Market...
Chairperson of Anlima Yarn Dyeing Limited Hubbun Nahar Hoque (2nd from left) presiding over the 24th annual general meeting (AGM) of the company on its factory premises at Karnapara in...
Prices of onion, sugar, chicken and fish rose further last week increasing sufferings of the consumers who have been hit-hard by a series of hikes recently in costs of many...
BTRC chairman Jahurul Haque said on Thursday spectrum fees for mobile operators are high but they cannot cut the charge now against the telcos' demand for a reduction. "Operators have...
The power unit with a capacity of 660 megawatts at Payra is expected to be commissioned later this month in what will be the country's largest electricity plant. But the...
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