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Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday made it clear that existing laws will be enforced so that none can harm the capital market by spreading rumours. "Now rumours are...
Iranian major-general Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, was killed early on Friday in a US air strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon said. Top...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has made a candid admission that he fails to understand the reasons for the country's stock market behaving differently in an otherwise buoyant economy. The...
With pictures of little angelic faces -- mostly of girls and all smiles -- splashing the front pages of newspapers on the first day of the year 2020, the nation...
The Readymade Garments (RMG) sector has come to news with some mixed signals. A report in the Financial Express on the first day of the year told a lot about...
WhatsOn, an international media network, is set to honour talented and upcoming artists of the country, in different categories, on Friday (January 3, 2020). Sam Alim, managing director of WhatsOn...
Review of economic events and outcome of the same for Bangladesh economy during 2019 can be made systematically, beginning from the global through macro to micro economics contexts. The following...
If the year 2019 was so filled with trials and tribulations, one must bear in mind it belongs to a rough historical passage. It is not just the 2008-11 'Great...
Three more cold waves are expected to sweep over the country in January, according to a weather forecast. A severe cold wave is forecast to strike next week, followed by...
The education system that we see in today's Bangladesh is basically inherited from British-India. Expansion of education among the mass people started during that period. However, Bangladesh's independence of 1971...
'The medium is the message', said British-Canadian media expert Marshall McLuhan almost a century ago. With the publication of his ground-breaking book 'Gutenberg Galaxy' in the beginning of the 1960s,...
Bangladesh is making every diplomatic effort to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, which has “not denied charges of mass killing” in the world court, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen...
Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,440 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Thursday. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control...
Some 22, including 17 in the capital, are receiving treatment at hospitals across the country for dengue. Of them, 17 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered investigation into irregularities in using modern equipment procured for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital...
Australia's PM Scott Morrison had to cut short a visit to a town ravaged by fire after angry locals heckled him over the government's response. Locals said he had done...
About 1,000 people were arrested last year (2019) for illegal border crossings from India to Bangladesh, with 445 of them returning home in November and December. The returnees are all...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud on Thursday warned of departmental actions against the newly-appointed employees of the commission if they are involved in any immoral activities and harass anyone...
The conviction rate in graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) stands at 62.61 per cent in the first 10 months of 2019. Some 2,828 graft cases were under...
Prolonged Rohingya crisis will affect economic interests of China and Japan in Myanmar, observed Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday. “China and Japan intend to do business in...
China has approved the first domestically produced vaccine against the cancerogenic human papillomavirus (HPV), according to the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). The domestically made vaccine is designed for use...
A total of 317 people have been reportedly killed and 3,160 others injured due to road accidents during New Year festival in Thailand, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation...
The Election Commission on Thursday declared valid 13 mayoral candidates, out of 14, for contesting the elections to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) slated...
Singapore’s economy expanded at its slowest pace in a decade last year as its manufacturing sector contracted, preliminary data showed on Thursday. The export-oriented economy has been hit hard by...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered investigation into irregularities in using modern equipment procured for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital...
Bangladesh has denied requesting India seeking a written assurance that the latter will not send Muslim migrants across the border after the enactment of a controversial citizenship act. The Citizenship...
Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said 90 per cent people of Bangladesh do not want BNP to run the country again. “The percentage will increase,”...
Taiwan’s top military official was among eight people killed on Thursday after the helicopter carrying them made a forced landing in a mountainous area near the capital Taipei, the defence...
The waste treatment plant at Jhumjhumpur area in Jashore Sadar municipality, first of its kind in Bangladesh, is producing five tonnes of fertiliser every day. The waste treatment plant has...
A conglomerate run by Asia's richest man has started a service that aims to compete with Amazon in India. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries said it had been inviting people to...
Six aspirants out of seven vying for the post of mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have been declared valid by the Election Commission. The panel, however, cancelled the...
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Thursday after flash floods and landslides in the area killed up to 21 people, with more heavy rain...
China has temporarily blocked planned cross-border listings between the Shanghai and London stock exchanges because of political tensions with Britain, five sources told Reuters. Suspending the Shanghai-London Stock Connect scheme...
Israeli agricultural damages totalled 265 million new shekels (about 77 million US dollars) in 2019, according to a government report published Wednesday. The average annual damage over the last 5...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman has issued a royal decree that approves the country's general budget for the fiscal year 2020. According to a statement of the Omani Ministry...
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the US Embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened...
About 50 workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore fell sick on Thursday as their fast-unto-death rolled into the fifth day. “Eleven of them were admitted to...
Dhaka was ranked 11th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday morning. The capital of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 169 at 8:18am. The air quality was...
Three people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Lakshmipur Highway near Polly Bidyut area on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Khorshed Alam, 35, son...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the second day of the New Year, as optimistic investors are showing their appetite on sector-wise issues. Following the...
Trading of the shares of ADN Telecom Ltd will commence on Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange on January 6 (Monday) under 'N' category, officials said. The DSE trading...
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has decided to seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution over corruption charges. The move would likely delay a trial until after fresh elections next March....
A young man died after the compressor of an air-conditioner (AC) exploded at a house in capital’s Aftabnagar area on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Shapnil Ahmed Piash,...
Share transactions through DSE-Mobile app continued to rise as the number of active users of this digital application rose 30 per cent in the just concluded calendar year compared to...
Advocate Fazilatunnesa Bappy, a former Awami League (AL) MP from the reserved seat, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka on Thursday morning. She was 49. Bappy was undergoing treatment...
The system loss of the government’s largest gas transmission and distribution company, Titas, has increased five times to around Tk 7.7 billion in the 2018-19 fiscal year. The “acceptable” system...
Foreign aid commitment to Bangladesh dropped by 47 per cent to US$2.6 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal year compared to that of the same period...
Banks are fast expanding into rural areas to bring the yet unbanked people under financial inclusion to help economy grow, people in the banking system said. According to the data...
The government has decided to establish a 'revenue think-tank' to support its proposed medium-term revenue strategy (MTRS), aimed at increasing the tax-GDP ratio. The country's tax-GDP ratio -- around 10...
Three people were killed when a bus hit a private car on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway at Joarianala in Ramu upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Jan-e Alam,...
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