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A Chinese court sentenced the scientist who created the world’s first ‘gene-edited’ babies to three years in prison on Monday, according to the official Xinhua news agency, on charges of...
An ATM booth has been installed in port city’s Khulshi area from which people will be able to collect fresh water from January 1 by punching in their prepaid cards....
The Housing and Public Works Ministry handed over the Asian Townscape Awards (ATA) to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. At the beginning of the regular Cabinet meeting, Housing Minister...
The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are taking all-out preparations ahead of its third convocation scheduled for January 08. Its first convocation was held on April 29,...
Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director and CEO of Eastern Bank Limited (EBL), has been elected as the chairman of Association of Bankers, Bangladesh Limited (ABB) for the next two-year term...
Sue Lyon, who at age 14 played the title character in director Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film ‘Lolita’, has died. Lyon’s longtime friend Phil Syracopoulos told The New York Times she...
A robbery suspect has died in a gunfight with police in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali. The incident took place in Chhotodholi village of Muchapur Union at 5:00am on Monday, said...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called at a ruling party meeting for “positive and offensive measures” to ensure security ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclearisation...
Workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore continued their fast-unto-death for the second consecutive day on Monday. They are trying to force the government to accept their...
The world’s most trusted language test, IELTS, will continue to be accepted for UK visas that require applicants to demonstrate their English, the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) announced this...
Panchagarh’s Tentulia continued to shiver in bone-chilling cold as the area’s temperature plummeted to 5 degrees Celsius on Monday morning. “It was recorded at 9:00am,” Md Rasheduzzaman of the Bangladesh...
The board of directors of Rupali Bank Ltd has decided to raise fund against issuance of coupon bearing non-convertible perpetual bond of Tk 10 billion through private placement. The state-run...
Public debt increased slightly in the last financial year (FY) due to the rise in fiscal deficit crossing the benchmark 5.0 per cent. In a recent publication, the International Monetary...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Monday, the last trading session of 2019, as bargain hunters were active on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s positive...
A gunman opened fire in a church in Texas, fatally shooting two parishioners before being killed by an armed member of the congregation. The gunman stood up from a pew...
A rare fishing cat, locally known as ‘mechho bagh’, was trapped and captured at Shialjuri village of Sadar upazila of Magura district on Sunday night. Police rescued the cat from...
The results of Primary Education Completion (PEC), its equivalent Ebtedayee, and Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations are scheduled to be published on Tuesday. The results...
The government has decided to take measures to curb contamination of lead in turmeric, officials concerned said. To this end, they said, the commerce ministry will take necessary steps to...
US officials said on Sunday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that “additional actions” may still be taken in the...
More than double this year's allocated funds have been sought for a single project in the middle of this fiscal to open the country's first expressway on Mujib Year. Road...
The overseas jobs for Bangladeshi workers would fall by 10 per cent at the end of 2019 compared to that of the previous year as estimated by a new study....
The slowdown in its external trade might hurt the country's pace of economic growth in the current fiscal year. But a robust growth of workers' remittance is likely to act...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited, in collaboration with Mastercard, announced the launch of 'Bangla QR', an interoperable Quick Response (QR) code-based payment acceptance solution. Making its debut in the country, Bangla...
GOALUNDA, Dec 29 (UNB): An unanticipated dry-season bank erosion by the Padma River is wreaking havoc with the inhabitants of two unions here, taking away over 100 bighas of arable...
NAOGAON, Dec 29: Construction of a new floor on the roof of a single-storey 22-year-old Hamidpur Jigatla Multipurpose High School building under Mahadebpur upazila of the district is going apace...
So long the popular belief was that air pollution adversely affects physical health but now a study finds strong correlation between toxic air and depression. Researchers at the University College...
The remittance inflow remains to be one of the few silver linings in an otherwise not-so-buoyant economy at the moment. The remittance earnings, according to a report published in The...
An unremitting drive to free the river banks of grabbers is underway across the country. Demolition of illegal structures and eviction go on. Given the brisk pace at which this...
At the very outset let us appreciate Sri Lanka's vision for the agriculture sector: "An agriculture sector contributing to regionally equitable economic growth, rural livelihood improvement, and food security through...
China emerged as a regional power after Mao Zedong emerged victorious in 1949. The new China moved forward with its socialist system. The continuous progress of China on the world...
There is no denying that private investment is imperative for long-term economic growth and development of a country. Bangladesh's economy is growing rapidly and developing gradually over the years, thanks...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud on Sunday said the commission received around 4.0 million calls of allegations in its hotline service “106” and through other means in the past...
A missile fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group struck a military parade in Yemen's southern separatist-held town of al-Dhalea, killing at least five people and injuring others, Yemen's Security Belt...
Some 38 people were killed and 2,457 injured in 193 incidents of political violence in the first eleven months of current calendar year, according to a local independent rights body....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the Armed Forces of Bangladesh will be built as the most modern one equipped with ICT knowledge. "This is an ICT era. Keeping...
The election commission has prepared at least 30,000 electronic voting machines for the elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations. The commission is fully prepared to use EVMs in...
BNP started 2019 with a bad note - a drubbing in the national election. Now Khaleda Zia’s party is going to step into the new year without showing any sign...
A Saudi Arabian court sentenced on Sunday a man accused of stabbing three performers at a live show in the capital Riyadh in November to death, state television said. Another...
A rhino thought to be the oldest in the world has died in Tanzania, aged 57. Fausta, an eastern black rhino, was first sighted in the Ngorongoro crater in 1965,...
"Ip Man 4," the latest installment in the Chinese martial arts film franchise "Ip Man" based on the life of a legendary Wing Chun master, led the Chinese mainland box...
Around 50 per cent physical infrastructure development works of the under-construction Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib High-tech Park in Rajshahi has already been completed creating a high hope among all concerned in...
Stocks extended the gaining spell for the second day in a row on Sunday as bargain hunters continued to show their buying appetite on sector specific issues. The investors were...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested five suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ from Labanchora area of Khulna early Sunday. The arrestees are Elias Kanchan Ripon, 37,...
Some 74 patients, including 59 in the capital, are being treated at hospitals across the country for dengue. Five dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am...
At least 50 people have died in Bangladesh from November 1 to December 28 due to cold-related diseases as cold weather continues to sweep across the country. The country’s lowest...
A crude bomb went off in front of BNP’s central office at Naya Paltan in the capital on Sunday. Officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station Abu Bakkar Siddique said the incident...
India’s tourism industry has been hit by a wave of violent anti-government protests against a new citizenship law that have rocked several cities this month, with at least seven countries...
The board of directors of Social Islami Bank Ltd (SIBL) has decided to raise Tk 5.0 billion through issuance of Mudaraba Perpetual Bonds, said an official disclosure on Sunday. The...
Bangladesh will take back only those who may have recently gone to India, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has said. " Those who have been living in India for 30...
Three crude bomb exploded near Dhaka University’s Madhu’s Canteen following a similar explosion three days before. The bombs were detonated in succession after 9:45am on Sunday, New Market Police Outpost...
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