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The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has decided to sell all train tickets to general passengers, withdrawing its previous blocking system which was mainly practised at Dhaka and Chattogram stations for influential...
The central bank on Thursday further extended foreign exchange support to banks by selling US dollars to keep the market stable, officials said. As part of the move, the Bangladesh...
NETRAKONA, Dec 26: A 400-foot bridge on the Maizpara-Jayanagar road under Kalmakanda upazila in the district has been lying unused due to lack of approach roads. Sources said the bridge...
SYLHET, Dec 26: A government-run health facility for female and children has been lying almost unused for over the last five years as no physician has yet been posted there....
OUR CORRESPONDENTs NAOGAON, Dec 26: Peasants in Manda upazila of the district are showing interest in mustard cultivation, disheartened by the lower prices of the other crops like paddy, wheat,...
Oil rose further above $67 a barrel to its highest in over three months on Thursday, buoyed by a report showing lower US crude inventories, by hopes of an end...
The purpose of creating a human-milk bank is to assist critical neonates. Mothers' milk pack is for supporting kids who are in critical care and can't drink and digest regular...
Whatever may be the equation between time and space, one thing is certain that the former is relative and the shape and size of the latter are debatable. For finite...
The Financial Express carried two items on environmental issues last Wednesday, one being the governmental move for ensuring clean air for Dhaka, albeit under court orders, and another on mitigating...
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." So said abolitionist Wendell Phillips in 1852, and so believed constitutionalist Thomas Jefferson in the 1770s. Does the argument hold water in a...
The government has revoked the rules on expelling students from Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee exams. The amendment was announced on Thursday following a rule issued by the High...
The dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now technically dysfunctional. On December 10 this year, the tenure of three of the two judges of the appellate...
There are a few typical scenarios found in rural Bangladesh in the period starting from December up to February. Lots of them have nearly vanished. Still a number of the...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed among Toma Properties, Akhtar Furnishers, Elite Paint, Samsung, Mantissa Design & Consultant, Toma LPG Gas Company and IPDC Finance, aimed at offering special...
A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist has started a case against DUCSU Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and his associates in the Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Council on charges...
Uncovered trucks hauling construction materials overnight in and around Dhaka are posing a significant health risk as the dust from the vehicles adds to the already polluted air of the...
A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held tomorrow (Friday) to review the information on the appearance of the new moon of the month of Jamadi-ul-Awal of...
China is expected to add about 8,000 km of railways this year, with its investment in fixed assets in the transport sector estimated at over 3.2 trillion yuan (about 457.5...
Harvest of transplanted (T) Aman paddy, a high valued crop, has been completed in all the seven upazilas in Gaibandha during the current season. Office sources said Department of Agriculture...
The Los Angeles Times recently published a lengthy investigative report revealing that the US conducted several nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. The damage inflicted on...
A high-speed railway opened on Thursday threading Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, Jinggangshan, the "cradle of the Chinese revolution," and China's rare earth base of Ganzhou. The high-speed...
A minor girl and a mentally-retarded youth, who suffered burn injuries in separate incidents of fire in Sundarganj and Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH)...
Stocks rebounded on Thursday, after hitting 42-month low in the previous day, as bargain hunters showed their buying appetite on sector-wise shares. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock,...
A legal notice has been served to the government and Dhaka University (DU) authorities demanding adequate security for DUCSU vice president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur. Appropriate legal proceedings will be...
A live crude bomb was recovered from near Madhur Canteen on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday. Students spotted the bomb lying near the canteen around 11:20am and informed the...
A Dhaka Court on Thursday deferred the charge hearing to April 4, 2020 of a defamation case filed against former Advisor to the Caretaker Government Barrister Mainul Hosein for hurling...
Ed Sheeran has announced he is to take a break from work and social media "until it's time to come back". The chart-topping singer said he would "take a breather...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said Election Commissioner (EC) Mahbub Talukdar should quit his post before delivering the kind of speech he did recently. EC Mahbub on Wednesday...
The growing cooperation between China and the United States will benefit not only the two countries but the rest of the world, said a leading think tank based in San...
One of a kind debate tournament "IBA Legacies 2019"presented by Guardian Life Insurance Limited recently took place with team IBA DU 2 comprising of Taosif Amin Khan and Saad Ashraf...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said it is everyone's expectation that newly-commissioned officers of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) will stand beside people selflessly and serve the country. "You’ll remain...
Communities across Asia commemorated the 0.23 million (230,000) victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of one of the world’s most deadly disasters. On the morning...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a paddy field at Rajiura in Habiganj Sadar upazila early Thursday. On information, police recovered the body around 1:30am, said Md...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage,...
The prime bourse will launch one new index named--CNI-DSE Select Index (CDSET) as part of technical collaboration plan between DSE and strategic partner. The index is designed and developed by...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday as bargain hunters were active on sector-wise issues. After hitting fresh 42-month, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the...
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has said she is "disturbed" by her party's stance before President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Mr Trump was this month impeached by the Democrat-run House for...
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, was again ranked the worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday morning. Dhaka had a score of 348 at 8:00am, which means the...
Seven people died and 64 were rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The agency said the...
The temperature plummeted further to 5.7˚C in Tetulia upazila of Panchagarh on Thursday morning. “This is the lowest recorded temperature so far this year,” said Arif Hossain, a meteorologist of...
A typhoon that struck the central Philippines over Christmas has killed at least 13 people, disaster agency officials said on Thursday. Typhoon Phanfone hit the Philippines late on Tuesday with...
The total premium income of private sector life insurance companies increased from Tk. 77,318 million in 2017 to Tk. 84,758 million in 2018. The total assets of the private sector...
The share price of three listed companies hit the rock-bottom following investors' less interest to take part in transactions mainly because of their non-performing status. The companies whose share prices...
A distinct lack of skilled human resources and a long-term plan, and limited country branding pose a challenge to the potential business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in Bangladesh. Introducing a...
The construction of Dhaka bypass expressway begins today (Thursday) a year after the signing with a Chinese concessionaire. The expressway will be built by China-led joint-venture under the Public Private...
The country's textile and clothing exporters are allegedly facing delays in releasing the imported raw materials from the Chattogram Customs House (CCH) by up to 46 days on different excuses....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to help Bangladesh ease transborder and regional trade through facilitating infrastructural development and regulatory reforms, officials have said. Under the South Asia Sub-regional...
Low-cap companies have dominated the initial public offerings, or IPOs, in the outgoing year in what was a bearish market. A total of eight firms raised Tk 5.52 billion combined,...
Dispute over advance income tax (AIT) on drilling equipment and demurrage payment has been causing a delay in initiating the drilling of an exploratory well in a shallow sea block....
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday expressed its support to Ethiopia's ongoing economic reform initiative that aimed to eliminate macroeconomic imbalances and lay the foundation for sustainable and inclusive...
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