Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has given instructions to take action against those who attacked DUCSU vice president Nurul Haque Nur and his supporters on Monday, Awami League general secretary Obaidul...
Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited has sponsored Tk 5.0 lac to Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) for constructing a new motorcylce stand on its premises. Managing Director and CEO of the Bank...
Khalaf Hosan Al-Otaibi, Deputy Chairman of the Jeddah Chamber, inaugurated a pavilion of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited in Jeddah International Trade Fair 2019 at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Mohammad Abul...
Bangladesh has urged Russia to use its influence on Myanmar and put pressure so that Naypyidaw takes back its people currently living in Cox’s Bazar camps. "We know the Russian...
NCC Bank Ltd has formally opened its 121st Branch at Mohammadpur of Dhaka. Chairman of the Bank Md. Nurun Newaz Salim formally inaugurated the branch as the chief guest on...
Mexico’s ambassador to Argentina resigned on Sunday (local time) citing health problems following new allegations of shoplifting after video from late October showed the diplomat attempting to steal a $10...
Speakers at a seminar in Dhaka called for taking action against unscrupulous middlemen and recruiting agencies to check abuse and harassment of migrant workers. They also stressed the need for...
A young woman from Dhaka has died in Cox’s Bazar during a trip with friends one of whom has been arrested by police. The deceased, Swarna Rashid, 21, lived in...
A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Goni Miar Doroja area of Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali district on Monday. The deceased was identified as...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Monday as cautious investors continued their selling binge on sector-wise issues. Following the previous day’s decline, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The temperature is beginning to rise in Dhaka with the sun peeking out through the fog and clouds after five consecutive days of biting cold spell. The country’s lowest temperature...
The White House on Sunday signalled comfort with plans by Senate Republicans to avoid new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, while a top Democrat seized on a newly...
The board of directors of Genex Infosys has approved an agreement with Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd, to be called ‘Agreement for Mobile Device Business.’ The company has signed the agreement...
At least 16 Honduran inmates were killed during a fight between armed gangs of prisoners on Sunday, officials said, the second outbreak of violence to hit Honduras’ beleaguered jails in...
The securities regulator on Sunday gave approval to change the asset manager of two closed-end mutual funds as demanded by more than two-third unit holders. The mutual funds are DBH...
Khulna Power Company Ltd dominated the Dhaka Stock Exchange's transaction chart on Sunday while ten most traded companies accounted for 27 per cent transactions. Market analysts said investors showed their...
Real Madrid hit the woodwork three times but could only draw 0-0 at home to Athletic Bilbao in a frustrating final game of 2019 which meant they slipped two points...
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 300 treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party,...
Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak has visited in hospital DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and his followers, who were injured in attacks on the Dhaka University campus. The...
A petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday, seeking its directives to issue a suo moto rule to probe alleged irregularities in appointing 1,173 employees to Basic Bank...
Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) has opposed a government move to raise power tariff from January 01, terming it 'unlawful and against consumers'. It said Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC)...
The world has changed in terms of both growth and international cooperation. The objective of development has also changed largely. So, it is time to accommodate changes for a better...
The country's private jute millers have sought exemption of source tax on cash subsidy and Advance Income Tax (AIT). In a recent letter to the Ministry of Textiles and Jute...
The government has reduced the rate of advance income tax (AIT) on import of cement raw materials to 3.0 per cent from 5.0 per cent. National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) is more concerned with food hygiene and not with food safety, with senseless adulteration reaching an alarming level. Any hotel, restaurant or bakery can...
At least nine people, including four women and three children, died in Delhi in a fire that broke out in a residential building early on Monday, confirmed an official in...
The government has taken an action plan against the outbreak of dengue fever for next year, aiming to reduce the number of deaths caused by the aedes mosquito-borne viral infection....
Chittagong port, the prime sea port of the country, has handled three million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) for the first time in a calendar year. The port set the...
French firm Technip, which is keen to clinch the contract for building the country's second crude oil refinery, has revised down the estimated cost of its construction to US$ 2.23...
The winter has finally made its presence felt -and felt quite unerringly. Unannounced has it caught the city dwellers, many of whom complained of total absence of wintry symptom till...
The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of decades, feats of innovation re-engineer society, diffuse across countries and regions, and fundamentally alter every facet of life. Politicians, slow...
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's sudden death leaves the nation and a host of people abroad both saddened and shocked, for he was not known to have suffered from many physical...
Abed has left. But it is not possible to bid farewell to him. He remains with us as our companion forever. Since the Liberation War he is in the very...
When the death of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was announced on Friday night, a deep note was struck in our lives which must have resounded in the minds of those...
State-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will sell onion at Tk 35 per kilogramme from Monday. TCB spokesman Humayun Kabir on Sunday said they decided to reduce the price after...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a decisive majority, on the back of a big swing from Labour to the Conservatives in Leave-voting Britain. Out of 650 seats, The...
Bangladesh Bank has constituted a high-powered seven-member committee, headed by its Deputy Governor to prepare a report on probable strategies and action plan to bring country's lending rate to single...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said the government is taking all-out efforts to bring back two fugitive killers of Bangabandhu to home in the Bangabandhu centenary year...
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday urged teachers not to compromise on their ideals, and devote themselves more to acquiring knowledge and disseminating those among their students, reports UNB. "When teachers...
The tourism industry in India's northeastern state Assam is taking a hit right now as violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests by various oraganisations against the controversial act continue. According...
World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) organised 23rd International Conference for SMEs (ICSME) on “Achieving inclusive and sustainable goal through SME 4.0 by promoting SMEs” on December 17...
The China-US phase-one economic and trade deal is a concrete step toward de-escalating bilateral tensions, experts have said. "We see the phase-one agreement as modest, but for now, it ends...
Continued violent activities targeting shops and passersby have disrupted business order and led to job losses, threatening the livelihood of numerous families in Hong Kong, the financial chief said on...
The government has set Dec 24, 26 and 28 for about 200 expelled students to retake the Primary Education Completion (PEC) and Ebtedayee exams in line with a High Court...
The Election Commission (EC) has fixed January 30 for the elections of Dhaka’s north and south city corporations. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda announced the election schedule at...
Stocks slipped back into the red on Sunday, after a single-day break, as worried investors went selling on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE),...
Fifth brand new Dreamliner Boeing 787-9 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines named as ‘Sonar Tori’ has arrived in Dhaka. The aircraft landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 6:10 pm...
Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur came under an attack reportedly by some activists of Muktijoddha Mancha on Dhaka University (DU) campus on Sunday. Witnesses said...
The government has taken an initiative to recruit 10,000 physicians aiming to ensure healthcare services for the people. The information was disclosed at the fifth meeting of the Parliamentary Standing...
The BBC is considering restricting its journalists’ use of Twitter, following the waves of online criticism it received from internet users over its coverage during the election campaign in UK,...
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