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A lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir has cost its economy more than 2.4 billion US dollar since the government stripped it of its special status, Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed two ministries to correct the erroneous list of wartime collaborators after verifications. The instruction came following criticism about the list recently released by the...
The High Court has ordered the government to allow the students expelled from Primary Education Completion exams to retake tests by Dec 28 and publish results by Dec 31. It...
Archaeologists have discovered two royal tombs in Greece containing jewellery and artefacts dating back more than 3,000 years. The finds include a gold ring depicting bulls flanked by sheaves of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government has undertaken the “Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Vision 2041” to develop the BGB as a world standard border force. “Our government...
Jordan has said that the European Parliament approved with a vast majority to grant Jordan a soft loan of 500 million euros (557 million US dollars) with a low-interest rate....
Eight students of the Khulna University for Science and Technology (KUET) were suspended and six others were fined for breaching discipline. Besides, the university also issued warnings to 13 others....
Cuba's gross domestic product (GDP) will see a slight 0.5-per cent expansion in 2019, the country's Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said has on. Speaking to legislatures, Gil said the country's...
India’s top court on Wednesday refused to stall the implementation of a new law that lays out a path for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries for Indian citizenship, despite...
Indian shares extended gains to scale record levels early on Wednesday, as a weaker rupee boosted IT stocks and on optimism that the initial Sino-US trade pact will allay one...
China's central bank pumped 200 billion yuan (about 28.57 billion US dollars) into the financial system Wednesday, after a suspension of reverse repos that lasted for 20 straight trading days....
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a man while he was entering the country illegally from Lebutala Royel Mastar Ghat in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah early Wednesday. A patrol team...
Tea growers in Panchagarh district expect the highest-ever tea production of 10.0 million kilograms (10,000 tonnes) this year against last year's 8.10 million kg, thanks to favourable weather conditions. Alongside...
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has adjusted its daily reference exchange rate between Vietnamese dong and US dollar down by 4 Vietnamese dong to 23,158 Vietnamese dong per US...
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi to pay 3.3 million yen ($30,375) in damages to journalist Shiori Ito in a civil lawsuit over her allegations he...
Google has reached a settlement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on Wednesday, agreeing to hand over 481.5 million Australian dollars (329.6 million US dollars) following a decade-long legal battle....
A minor girl, who had been missing since Monday night, is suspected to have been raped and murdered at Kuttapara village in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Tuesday. The...
Uber Eats, one of the world's largest food delivery platforms, has launched a first-of-its-kind, no-cost insurance programme in partnership with Pioneer Insurance Company Ltd to make delivering a safer experience for...
A schoolgirl was killed and four others were injured after a truck hit an auto-rickshaw at Joyhari area in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur district on Tuesday night. The deceased was...
Two suspects have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the killing of a Chinese man in the Banani area of Dhaka city. The identities of the arrestees could not...
The board of directors of Bata Shoe Company Limited has declared 125 per cent interim cash dividend, said an official disclosure on Wednesday. The multinational shoe maker declared this dividend...
Stocks witnessed downturn with key index dropped below the 4,400-mark in early hours of trading on Wednesday as panic-driven investors continued their selling binge. Following the previous two days’ slump,...
Senior journalist Azad Hossain Sumon died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka city on Monday night. He was the crime chief of Bangladesher Khobor and also served as...
Twelve inmates were killed and about a dozen more were wounded in a gunfight Tuesday inside a prison in the capital, Panamanian authorities said. The shooting occurred in a cell...
As many as 32 leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have lost their posts in the central committee over allegations such as marriage, infiltration and drugs abuse. Al-Nahean Khan Joy...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reacted with defiance to widespread protests against a new citizenship law. The law offers citizenship to non-Muslims from three nearby countries. The government says...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 26 per cent transactions of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday. Ring Shine Textiles topped the chart. Market analysts said investors continued their...
The government has declared potato a 'non-notified' farm produce aiming to ease import process of developed seeds to boost exports of the tuber crop, said officials. The decision was taken...
The country has planned to explore new markets for creating job opportunities for the workers. To this effect, the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) will send official...
The High Court (HC) issued a rule on Tuesday, asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why the sections concerned of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Rules that...
The country's ready-made garment (RMG) export to major non-traditional markets witnessed a negative growth of 6.61 per cent during the first five months of current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, according...
The European Union (EU) has set Bangladesh a tight time limit to address longstanding issues concerning human rights and good governance in factories. The political and economic bloc of Europe...
BOGURA, Dec 17: Carrot growers in the district are happy over the present market price of their produce. A good number of farmers have attained financial solvency by growing carrot...
A popular discourse in the academic circle until the 1990s was self-reliance and no political party irrespective of its ideology could reject its appeal as aid dependence was considered a...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), believed to be the main driving force of the economy in most countries, are not currently well poised to deliver in many regions. Bangladesh, no...
The government has in the recent years come down hard on the conventional brick kilns. These gaseous smoke-emitting kilns now dot the country, their venues ranging from otherwise clean-air rural...
Business confidence indicator can provide information of future business development, based on opinion surveys. Several countries are using business confidence surveys (BCS) to monitor output growth and to anticipate turning...
Vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur came under an attack on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Tuesday reportedly by Muktijoddha Mancha activists. The attack...
Researchers working at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), the oldest economic research and think-tank in Bangladesh, have recently completed an analysis of a government programme titled, `Strengthening Women's...
On the most important issue in the United Kingdom's modern history - whether to leave the European Union (EU) or remain - the UK's electoral system produced an absurd result....
By any measure this has been a devastating year: fires across the Amazon, the Arctic and beyond; floods and drought in Africa; rising temperatures, carbon emissions and sea levels; accelerating...
The government has taken an initiative to set up new shrimp hatcheries in the country in the wake of the farmers' demand for sufficient supply of healthy and virus-free shrimp...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the conspiracies of the anti-liberation forces to foil independence and to turn Bangladesh into a failed state will never be successful. “The collaborators of...
The Prime Minister’s Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin Bir Bikram has died during treatment in Singapore. He was 59. Zainul breathed his last at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md. Atiqul Islam on Tuesday warned of action against traders, businessmen and polluters, who are non-compliant in line with the environment law and polluting...
The government has decided to amend the recently released list of collaborators, who helped the Pakistan occupation forces during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. The Ministry of Liberation...
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Tuesday said fine will be realised through conducting mobile court from Wednesday for honking horns in the surrounding areas of...
Freedom fighter advocate Tapan Kumar Chakraborty, who found his name on the recently-published list of Razakars, on Tuesday said it would have been better for him to die than seeing...
The poverty rate in Bangladesh came down to 20.5 per cent in the fiscal 2018-19. The figure was 21.8 at the end of 2017-18 fiscal year. Planning Minister MA Mannan...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday cleared nine projects involving Tk 32.27 billion. The approval came from the ECNEC meeting held at NEC Conference room...
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