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Customs officials have seized 640 gold bars weighing around 64 kg at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Based on secret information, a preventive team of Dhaka Customs...
The ruling Awami League has announced Atiqul Islam and Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh as its candidates for contesting the city mayoral elections of respectively Dhaka North and Dhaka South. The...
Stocks witnessed an upward trend in the early hours of trading on Sunday as bargain hunters were active on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s positive ending, the Dhaka Stock...
The temperature of Panchagarh district plummeted to 4.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday morning, the lowest in the country in this season, throwing the normal life into disarray. The country’s lowest...
Protesters broke into Iraq’s southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice, a security source...
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday (local time) named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a...
Train communications on Chattogram-Dhaka and Chattogram-Sylhet routes resumed on Sunday morning after a suspension of seven hours following the derailment of an intercity train in Cumilla's Brahmanpara upazila. The locomotive...
Prices of onion and some vegetables witnessed a hike on Saturday which traders attributed to the ongoing cold wave with heavy fog that hampered the supply of these produces. Prices...
The long-awaited Employment Injury Insurance (EII) Scheme is set to launch in a limited scale in the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector by June next year, sources said. The purpose...
The government's trading arm TCB might land in trouble with the onion in its stock as the new harvest and imports have sapped the demand in the local market. The...
The 2019 has been rather a bumpy year for people seeking overseas employment when deportation from destination countries picked up speed. The outgoing year has not witnessed the opening of...
Women are frequently seen behind the wheels of heavy trucks and buses in the developed countries. These inter-state vehicles cover hundreds of miles on a single assignment. The spectacle is...
What is alarming for Bangladesh is that with the world's highest density of population, the country is fast losing its arable land due to growing industrialisation and rapid encroachment of...
The essential commodity market continues to be somewhat unstable though the prices of onion have lately come down, to some extent, at the retail level. The import of substantial quantity...
As we prepare to bid farewell to 2019, we must take a clearsighted look at the global situation and the new challenges we face. Our world is undergoing a shift....
Over the last 25 years, the relative growth rates of the world's major economies have changed dramatically. Six developing countries in particular - China, South Korea, India, Poland, Indonesia, and...
Intelligentsia, economists included, have a sort of love-hate relationship with economic growth. They love it because growth means increasing volume of goods and services that help to uplift standard of...
Chattogram sea port has made it to the list of ‘Three millionaire ports’ in the world. Chattogram Port has achieved this glory by handling three million containers this year. There...
Representation of Member of Parliaments (MPs) under 30 years of age at national elections is at a meagre 0.29 per cent, the lowest among the South Asian countries, according to...
A teenage boy was killed as fire broke out at a bakery in Khulna city’s Dalmil intersection area early Saturday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Mynul Haque, 15,...
The country’s top business leaders have said the central bank should ensure strict monitoring for proper implementation of 9 per cent interest rate in providing industrial loans from January 1...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the upcoming elections to the two city corporations of Dhaka will be free, fair and acceptable. “The elections will be...
A member of the rescue team that saved 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in Thailand last year has died from an infection he picked up...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has sounded a note of warning that no musical events will be allowed under the open sky on the occasion of the 31st night celebration....
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the release of detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is possible only through the judicial process. “Actually, they (BNP) are showing disrespect towards the...
The BNP has nominated Ishraque Hossain and Tabith Awal to run for mayor in the elections to the Dhaka city corporations. Ishraque will gun for DSCC mayor’s post and Tabith...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujon) General Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar is not the right person to comment on electronic voting machines (EVMs)....
Among many others, Abdul Mannan, 48, of Mollapara village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi has become self-reliant through sheep farming. With his curiosity Mannan had procured two sheep from one...
Another case was filed against Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) vice president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur under the Digital Security Act. Arnab Hore, publication secretary of Dhaka University’s (DU)...
At least 76 people, including many students, were reportedly killed in a truck bomb explosion at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning. It was one...
At least 134 journalists fell victim to harassment across the country in the first eleven of current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of them,...
Bangladesh has been able to “successfully internationalise” the Rohingya issue in the outgoing year and will keep focusing on having a sustainable solution to the problem capitalising on the mounting...
A housewife was slaughtered allegedly by her husband at Dorja Purura village in Saltha upazila of Faridpur district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Shilpi Begum, 22, wife...
Vegetable farming is creating employment opportunity for previously unemployed youths in Brahmanbaria, changing the scenario in rural areas. Mohiuddin Miah of Mohammadpur village at Ramrail union in Sadar upazila is...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the main challenge of the party is to institutionalise democracy and fulfill the pledges made during the polls. “Now the main challenge...
Bangladesh was declared as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Youth Capital for 2020. The decision was taken by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) Executive Board in its capacity...
The 33rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) was held today (Saturday) at the Board Room of BCI, Dilkusa C/A, Dhaka. President of BCI Anwar-ul Alam...
Raushon Ershad and GM Quader have been elected respectively chief patron and chairman of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), the main opposition in parliament, at the party's ninth council for the...
Two people have been killed and one injured in a fire in an elevator at Russia’s Novatek northern oil and gas field, news agencies reported on Saturday citing emergency ministry...
An explosion at a busy checkpoint in Somalia's capital killed at least 13 people and injured dozens on Saturday, a local resident and a Reuters witness said, amid persistent insecurity...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has recently opened an Agent Banking outlet at Jahidpur of Chatak in Sunamganj. M Khorshed Anowar, Head of Retail and SME Banking of EBL inaugurated the...
Tourism is booming in the Philippines with more than eight million visitors coming in 2019, the government said on Saturday. "Breaking the eight-million mark is another milestone to celebrate, as...
Urging the travellers, especially the very important persons (VIPs), of the country to follow the security measures at the airports, prime minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that anyone flouting the...
A man has been killed in an alleged shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Badda’s Satarkul area of Dhaka. The incident took place in the area early on...
Three people -- Bangladesh Bank Joint Director Saifuzzaman Mintu and his two daughters -- have died after a lorry crushed their car on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway. Mintu, 50, was travelling...
The Detective Branch (DB) of police has rejected claims that they picked up five youths on early Thursday from Jashore. The young men are – Sohan Hossain, son of Saheb...
The lowest temperature of the day was recorded at 7.2 degree Celsius in Dinajpur district on Saturday. Tofazzal Hossain, an official of Dinajpur’s regional weather office, said that the temperature...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the construction work of Tk 213.0 billion ‘Third Terminal’ of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) to significantly increase passenger and cargo capacity. The Prime...
Bangladesh began 2019 with things looking up on the economic front coupled with political stability after vote, but concerns have blunted it at the end of the year. The pace...
Spotify Technology SA said on Friday it would pause selling political advertisements on its music streaming platform in early 2020. The world’s most popular paid music streaming service, with nearly...
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