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China suspended the planned additional tariffs on some US products to be implemented at 12:01 p.m. on December 15 (Beijing Time), the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council said...
Experts at a discussion on Sunday blamed excessive intake of artificial trans-fats for increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2-diabetes, saying it is highly dangerous to human...
A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, causing a three-story building to collapse and prompting people to rush out of shopping malls, houses and other buildings in panic,...
Another jute mill worker, who fell sick during a fast-unto death progrmame of jute mill workers and then joined work on Saturday after recovery, died at Khulna Medical College Hospital...
Greta Thunberg has apologised for saying world leaders should be "put against the wall" in a speech. The teenage climate activist made the comment while addressing a Fridays For Future...
Qatar is open to accepting all currencies for trade though the dollar will still dominate, finance minister Ali al-Emadi told a conference in Doha on Saturday. The comment at the...
Six people were detained by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members from Sastar Bazar area in Maheshpur upazila on Sunday morning for illegally entering Bangladesh from India. A media release signed...
China has suspended additional tariffs on some US goods that were meant to be implemented on December 15, the State Council’s customs tariff commission said on Sunday, after the world’s...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said India is not pushing anybody into Bangladesh. He also said the government will send them back if anybody other than Bangladeshis...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the government wants to develop a professional and well-trained armed force for Bangladesh to keep pace with the constantly-changing world. “We’re well aware...
BRAC Bank Limited has conducted an awareness drive across the bank to reiterate its commitment towards strict compliance of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC). BRAC...
CFA Society Bangladesh, the local member society of the CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals that sets the highest standards of ethics, education, and professional excellence, held its...
Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute is going to take punitive action against 16 students over throwing its principal into a pond on the campus. The decision was taken at a meeting of...
The admission test for first year students under 2019-20 session of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur will be held on December 18 and the first year classes will begin on January...
Young singer and music director Prithwi Raj has passed away. He was 34. Prithwi went to his Dhanmondi studio around 10pm on Saturday, said family sources. Finding no response from...
Pathao, the market leader in ride-sharing, food-delivery and e-commerce logistics, and SureCash, the leading digital payments provider, are reported to be in advanced merger discussions to create the largest digital...
In the first phase, the government on Sunday published a list of 10,789 Razakars who collaborated with the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Liberation in 1971. Liberation war...
Two more victims of the Keraniganj plastic factory fire succumbed to their injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Sunday, taking the death toll from...
At least 14 passengers were killed while around 16 others injured in a bus crash at Sindhupalchowk district in central Nepal on Sunday morning, authorities confirmed. Ganesh Khanal, spokesperson at...
The outbreak of dengue fever that started in the middle of the year continues with new patients being admitted to hospitals in parts of Bangladesh. The disease may become a...
Stocks posted a marginal gain in the early hour of trading on Sunday as investors remained cautious amid growing concern over the country’s macroeconomic situation. Following the last week’s slump,...
A cargo vessel capsized in the Kirtankhola River near the Barishal river port in Sadar upazila on Saturday night after a collision with a launch. Azmal Huda Mithu Sarker, an...
Argentina’s new government has hiked export levies on soy, wheat and corn, according to an official decree on Saturday, hitting farmers in the grains exporting nation to raise revenue needed...
Most public universities in the country are planning to stop fresh enrolment in their evening courses in compliance with the directive of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in this regard....
Boiler safety inspection in the country's readymade garment (RMG) factories would start in the middle of next year under the supervision of brands, trade unions and manufacturers, sources said. Earlier,...
Prime minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver a stunning victory for...
The listed top pharmaceutical companies have continued their upward trend in generating profits amid increased demand of drugs due to growing illnesses among teeming millions caused by various diseases, experts...
Nearly 39000 undocumented Bangladeshi workers returned home from Malaysia until December 12 last under the 'Back for Good' (B4G) programme of that country. The 'voluntary' programme started on August 01...
A Vietnamese firm that has been assigned to automate the VAT administration is set to miss the deadline because of its incapacity and the required back-up administrative reform. About Tk...
The state-run energy explorer has prepared an operating procedure from hydrocarbon exploration to production aiming to develop a new methodology for striking fossil fuel. The procedure details the required job...
It was announced a little over a week ago that Dhaka's main roads will be drenched with water at a certain time every day. The objective was to fight the...
While launching the Asia-Pacific Conference on financing inclusive and sustainable development in Dhaka last week, President Abdul Hamid said the main challenge for Bangladesh as well as other developing countries...
There has been a lot of hullabaloo over lowering of lending rate to single digit for quite some time. When the country's apex trade body had made a demand for...
The planned visit of Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives) of the Netherlands has been cancelled. Suu Kyi was supposed to visit...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all, particularly the young generation, to stay alert about traitors and killers so that they cannot play with the fate of Bangladesh anymore...
"Climate Change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years….which could lead to the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world," said famous naturalist...
Global debt continues to grow steeply with no end in sight now hitting a record high in the first half of this year. According to the Institute of International Finance...
Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Thursday (December 12, 2019) Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar,...
An effective method to enhance regional cooperation in the region could be the creation of regional fund or regional bank to finance aid projects, crisis prevention and also to provide...
Cambridge International has conferred an impressive 82 Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards on Bangladesh students, says a press release. The global awards celebrate the highest performing students from over 40 countries...
At least 17 local sports journalists, who are covering the ongoing Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), and eight support staff have fallen sick after taking food provided by the Bangladesh...
Singapore’s government invoked a fake news law on Saturday to order an opposition party to publish corrections on two social media posts and an article on its website about local...
Immigration activities through Tamabil customs station which came to a halt on Friday resumed on Saturday noon after about 30 hours. Bangladeshi passport passengers started entering India through Tamabil border...
The annual Central Economic Work Conference wrapped up on Thursday. Going through a statement released after the meeting, one would be deeply impressed with the central government's objective judgement on...
Jatiya Press Club on Saturday opened a special corner on 1971 Liberation War coinciding with the Martyred Intellectuals Day and Victory Day celebrations drawing war veterans, editors and senior journalists....
City Bank and American Express have celebrated 10 years of togetherness in Bangladesh. Officials of both companies unveiled new initiatives at the ten year celebration ceremony at Radisson Blu Dhaka...
Workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore on Saturday postponed their ongoing unto-death hunger strike for three days upon assurance of fulfilling their demands. “The unto-death fast...
3,210 buses were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in the first eleven months of current calendar year. Of them, 2,681 buses were registered in Dhaka during January to...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) was unable to move with the trial of 518 high-profile graft cases, thanks to stay orders by the High Court (HC) until October this year. The...
An autopsy on Stamford University student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa, who was found dead on a Dhaka street, did not find any evidence of rape on her body, according to Sohel...
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