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India’s financial system remains stable even after economic growth plummeted to a six-year low, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday. “Reviving the twin engines of consumption and...
The losing streak continued for the fourth straight weeks on the bourses that ended Thursday as worried investors continued their selling binge on large-cap issues. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index...
A resolution on ‘Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar’ has been adopted at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly with an overwhelming...
The flow of inward remittance is set to jump more than 18 per cent or US$2.80 billion in the outgoing calendar year 2019 as the government has provided incentive to...
Nearly 31,000 companies have remained traceless for more than 15 years after they registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC), official data showed. According to the...
The lack of investment and infrastructure support disrupts the growth momentum of the light engineering sector, which has the potential to have a market size of US$ 12 billion by...
The incumbent government has approved a staggering 450 road development projects at Tk 5.80 trillion in the past 10 and a half years, officials said. But experts say this massive...
Tax authority is set to make installation of e-tracking technology mandatory for containers with export-import goods, officials said. To ensure cargo security and tax evasion, the National Board of Revenue...
The slow revenue mobilisation has started impacting the national budget execution process, prompting the authorities to delay reviewing the fiscal blueprint. Officials at the finance division of the Ministry of...
Some of the inter-city trains from Dhaka to different big cities and the other way round are mostly run in a jam-packed condition especially in the first and last week...
It has long been argued by critics that social enterprises are exploiters, owners of which pay less than poor craftsmen or milk producers and women deserve but pocket hefty profits...
Strangely there is no reliable information on the number of foreign nationals residing and working in Bangladesh -- with or without work permit. The issue has surfaced time and again...
Oil prices rose on Friday, hitting three-month highs, as upbeat economic data from China and the United States indicated an end to the trade war between Washington and Beijing has...
Even after a few deaths from stone thrown at running trains, the peril shows no sign of coming to an end. It is hard to believe that any adult person...
With only weeks to go before Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker hits the big screen, fans may now be contemplating what the latest edition to this...
Bangladesh is in great trouble with the unskilled labor force employed in many countries for long. The employers are now sending the unskilled labor force back to Bangladesh. So, more...
Humans born with weak health grow in the course of time. The humans learn from society, the attitude of other humans and books. Some are growing with authentic knowledge and...
BNP on Friday finalised Engineer Ishraque Hossain as its mayoral candidate for the upcoming election to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) while the party will pick its candidate for the...
Newly-formed Anti-Terrorism Students Unity on Friday demanded resignation of the Dhaka University (DU) proctor following the attack on DUSU Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur. Twelve student organisations jointly announced the platform...
When I decided to become a US citizen in 1990s, it was a deliberate decision to spend my life fighting for preserving and deepening democratic freedoms at a place where...
Although the origin of evidential procedures can be traced from the period of ancient Hindu to ancient Muslim and British India, it was not codified into a piece of legislation...
Agriculture has played a critical role in Bangladesh's development and growth. It has been the backbone of the economy even before the country was born. Although it accounts for 16...
As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed collects this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, his country is at a crossroads. In one direction lies a democratic transition, via a successful...
The government will use a mobile application – billed as ‘Krishoker App’ – to collect food grain directly from farmers across the country, said Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on...
French union activists disrupted two of the country’s eight oil refineries Friday as part of nationwide strikes against a higher retirement age that have lasted for 23 days, the longest...
Benapole Customs House has failed to achieve its revenue collection target between July and November, collection only half of its initial target. Uttam Chakma, assistant commissioner of the Customs House,...
The body of a man was recovered on Friday morning, five hours after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal. At least 10 people are believed to be...
The Jatiya Party is set to appoint Raushon Ershad to a newly-created post, chief patron, in the party's first council after the death of its founder HM Ershad. Raushon, currently...
The construction works of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) will begin on Saturday on Saturday, said State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali....
Bangladesh and Vietnam want to work closely to double the bilateral trade volume from around $1.0 billion to $2.0 billion by 2021. The two countries held the second meeting of...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that no controversial candidates will get the ruling party’s nomination in the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka...
A Turkish court on Friday convicted six journalists and one other employee of an independent newspaper of aiding the network of a US-based cleric who is accused of masterminding the...
Russia has confirmed that it will file an appeal petition challenging a four-year Olympic ban imposed against the country by the World Anti-Doping Agency for manipulating doping data. The Russian...
At least two people were killed and 20 others injured in a road accident in Kamaliarchar area of Kishoreganj district on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Faizul Islam...
Helicopter cash, climate crises, smart cities and the space economy — investors have all those possibilities ahead as they enter the third decade of the 21st century. They go into...
Indian authorities stepped up security in major cities on Friday and suspended mobile data services in some places in an effort to maintain order ahead of protests planned against a...
Further rains are likely today in different parts of the country already reeling under a cold wave, said a meteorologist of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) this morning The rains...
The government has taken move to set mandatory standards for imports of solar power equipment with an aim to further expansion of the local industry with quality products. Currently the...
Six leaders of the banned militant outfit ‘Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh’ (Huji) have been arrested in the city’s Badda area. An official of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime branch of Dhaka Metropolitan...
Awami League MP Dr M Yunus Ali Sarker died at a hospital in the capital city on Friday. He was 66. Dr M Yunus, elected MP from Gaibandha-3 constituency, left...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained three people from a bordering area in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah district early Friday while they were entering the country from India illegally....
A fire has burnt down about 100 shanties at a slum in Mirpur area of Dhaka city. The fire broke out at the slum in Kalshi's Baunia Badh around 1:00am...
The country's mobile operators lost an estimated 0.5-million internet users in November alone, thanks to the telecoms regulator's restrictions on network expansion, industry insiders said. The number of cellular data...
The 18th annual general meeting (AGM) of Unique Hotel & Resorts Limited was held at Gulshan Club Limited in the city on Thursday, says a statement. Chairperson of the Board...
In a pink-walled room of a government office at the foot of the Himalayas, Indian women spend their days cancelling the passports of runaway husbands. Midday on a Monday, the...
The 13th annual general meeting (AGM) of GPH Ispat Ltd. was held at City Convention Hall in Chattogram on Thursday, with its Chairman Md Alamgir Kabir in the chair. The...
Daffodil Computers generated the highest turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, as the ten most traded companies accounted for 23 per cent of transactions. On Tuesday, the...
A Bek Air plane with 93 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off, killing at least...
Edible oil prices increased notably last week affecting the consumers further. But onion prices declined while fish, indigenous and sonali (Pakistani) chicken, farm egg prices rose during the period. Both...
Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the...
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