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Police nabbed 26 gamblers and recovered Yaba tablets from their possession in the last 19 days of the current month in Sylhet district. Jedan Al Musa, additional deputy commissioner, Sylhet...
Police arrested a young man along with 1,200 contraband Yaba pills from Belal Bazar area in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Friday. The arrestee is Rubel Islam, 29, son...
Police arrested a teenage boy after the body of a schoolgirl, who remained missing for four days, was recovered from his house in Goalpara area of Thakurgaon district town on...
Khulna University (KU) has taken all necessary preparations to hold its 6th convocation on Sunday. A 22-member sub-committee of teachers and staff was formed to hold the convocation smoothly and...
Police have recovered the throat-slit body of a human hauler driver from Harishpur in Salikha upazila of Magura district. The deceased was identified as Antar, 26, human hauler driver, son...
A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants in Bezpara Graveyard area of Jashore district town on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Romzan Ali, son of Badshah...
A man has been killed and his daughter critically injured after being run over by a bus in Satmile Gohata area on Jashore-Jhenaidah road in Sadar upazila of Jashore district....
A college student has been allegedly raped at Bagachra of Sharsha upazila of Jashore district after being led on with the lure of marriage. Locals and police informed that the...
Indian shares opened at record highs on Friday, driven by gains in state-run banks, as investors cheered a central bank decision to conduct a special open market operation to bring...
A cold wave that has gripped the north-western part of the country is set to persist for two more days, according to the Meteorological Department. The northern wind has caused...
The process to float tender to appoint a new operators for General Cargo Berth (GCB) of the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) is being delayed due to two cases filed before...
Three people died of injuries sustained in intensifying protests against a new citizenship law in India on Thursday with thousands taking to the streets nationwide in defiance of temporary bans...
Prices of onion and vegetables witnessed decline but loose edible oil and sugar became costlier last week compounding sufferings of the consumers. Newly-harvested seed onion (known as murikata) was sold...
The government has drafted rules (industry registration) 2019 for the textile and clothing sector, aiming to ease the registration process and bring the industries under the sponsoring authority's regulation, officials...
The securities regulator now can change the asset manager of two closed-end mutual funds (MFs) as the Supreme Court (SC) has stayed the status quo which barred the regulator from...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 27 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with Genex Infosys Ltd. dominating the turnover chart. Market analysts said investors...
MI Cement Factory Ltd., popularly known as Crown Cement, has approved 10 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year ended on June 30, 2019. The approval came...
Drastic drop in mercury across the country, including the capital, prompted people to rush for buying warm clothes on Thursday, raising their sales manifold. Sales of warm clothes, including blanket,...
US Democrats on Thursday pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on...
State-run Petrobangla has planned to give South Korean oil and gas firm Posco International six more months to carry out its mandatory contractual obligation for hydrocarbon exploration in deep sea...
The government will have to spend extra Tk 4.39 billion funds for paying interest against loan as well as consultancy and other fees following delay in implementing a power plant...
Bangladesh Awami League, the party which waged the Bengali nationalist movement nearly seven decades ago and subsequently steered the country’s 1971 Liberation War, is set to stage its 21st National...
Scope abounds for a whacking $10-billion investment in nine projects under public-private partnership (PPP) with the government-to-government (G2G) arrangement. The PPP Authority (PPPA) has so far signed memorandum of understanding...
Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal came down heavily on the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) for deplorable condition of road networks, and warned the agency of reviewing its...
Airbus (AIR.PA) is on course to end 2019 with a rise in its order backlog after netting more sales than deliveries across its major products, a senior executive said on...
KHULNA, Dec 19: With the beginning of Bangla month of Poush, Khulna district is suddenly facing bone shaking cold. In the southwestern part of the country, cold wave and dense...
GOPALGANJ, Dec 19: Grassroot farmers of Sadar upazila in the district are delighted over the present market price of tomato. According to Gopalganj Sadar Upazila Agriculture Office sources, a total...
SYLHET, Dec 19: Construction of most of the structures for Boro crop protection could not be started in Sylhet region although it was reset for December 17 by the Water...
The ability to learn is the most marked trait of human beings. Learning is a process - a journey. It actually takes place throughout our life, in different ways and...
A lot of people born and brought up in the Bangladesh city suburbs or erstwhile sub-divisional (now district) towns find their roots inextricably dug in there. They may have been...
Amidst all the indices plunging unabatedly and the daily turnover reaching its lowest level in six months, a move is on to inject yet another large sum of money in...
On the face of it, the 1.3 percentage point drop of poverty from 21.8 per cent in the financial year (FY) 2017-18 to 20.5 per cent in 2018-19 may be...
The message that a 2010-study findings on trans fat intake leave for the nation is quite chilling. Of the findings, the most alarming is the death of 8,000 people on...
At a time when Asia accounts for more than two-thirds of global industrial intellectual property (IP) protections, Bangladesh lags far behind. Position of the country did not change noticeably in...
If the year 2019 looked like having resolved all the problematic inheritances of 2018, one might be in for a rude shock. Breakthroughs made in key areas still look flimsy,...
A Pakistan special court issued a bizarre but apparently symbolic order for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, saying his corpse should be dragged to parliament and hang for...
Human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) has asked the government to ensure BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s medical treatment in line with the UN rules on treatment of prisoners. The BNP...
The government is mulling over a plan to form committees at the local levels for the review of the retracted list of the wartime collaborators of the Pakistani forces, according...
The number of covered van registration in the country stood at 2,817 in the first eleven months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total,...
At least 88 women were tortured to death for dowry in the first eleven months of the calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. The Ain...
Another victim of a deadly fire at a plastics factory in Keraniganj has succumbed to his injuries, raising the death toll to 21. The victim, identified as Mofizul Islam, 45,...
The leaders of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Kalyan Front (BHBCKF) on Thursday expressed concern over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)-2019 of India. “As the act has been formulated based on...
Telenor Group, owner of Grameenphone (GP), has sent a legal notice to President Abdul Hamid seeking arbitration over a Tk 125.8 billion payment dispute. “The notice was sent through a...
Stocks backed to the green on Thursday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as bargain hunters showed their buying appetite on large-cap shares. Analysts said the market edged up as the...
Hit by US sanctions that make it difficult to get Western insurers from covering Iranian exports, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday proposed setting up a transport insurance mechanism exclusively...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the insurance coverage system for Bangladeshi migrant workers with benefits in cases of their death or disability. She opened the insurance schemes at a...
A legal notice has been sent calling upon the liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque to offer an unconditional apology to the nation within 24 hours for including the...
China and the United States are in touch over the signing of their Phase 1 trade deal, China’s commerce ministry said, which will see lower US tariffs on Chinese goods...
A man was killed after being run over by a bus in city’s Asad Gate area on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Ashrafuddin Dewan, 60, a resident of...
The cold wave conditions that have begun in parts of the country for the last few days may continue for next 72 hours with a slight fall in the night...
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