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Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government will establish human rights in the country through ensuring the trial of all the incidents of human rights violation. "All we...
A discussion meeting between FBCCI and a New Zealand business delegation will be held on December 11 in Dhaka. FBCCI senior vice president Md Muntakim Ashraf will chair the discussion....
A panel of 53 professional forecasters anticipate that US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth will slow to 1.8 per cent in 2020, according to a new survey from the NABE...
Amari Dhaka is all set to celebrate the Christmas and New Year’s Eve with a host of mouth-watering specialties and special festival getaways and exciting spa gift hampers to reflect...
The Philippines' total external trade in goods in October declined by 6.7 per cent, amounting to 15.89 billion US dollars from the $17.03 billion external trade in the same month...
A three-day international conference on financing for inclusive and sustainable development is going to start in Dhaka today (Tuesday). The International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICC,B) is organising the conference...
Transport operators have suspended bus services in Mymensingh for a second day after a breakdown of talks with the district administration over a demand for the shutdown of BRTC buses....
Indian Army has gifted 10 Mine Detection Dogs (MDDs) to Bangladesh Army as a goodwill gesture, reports UNB. The dogs were handed over at a ceremonial function at Petrapole-Benapole ICP...
Archaeologists in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Monday they had found a jar of rice and unbroken eggs that date back more than 500 years. The jar was discovered from...
A visa regulation introduced by India about a year ago has deeply irked Bangladesh, which the latter's foreign ministry officials see as a discrimination on religious lines. Following the regulation,...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in India on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial bill in parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslim minorities...
A garment worker was killed and ten other pedestrians were injured as a wall of a sweater factory collapsed on them following a blast inside it at Gouripur in Savar’s...
Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years on Monday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 football World Cup, for tampering with...
Senior US and Canadian officials were set to fly to Mexico City on Tuesday to work on the final changes to a languishing North American trade pact that could clear...
Smoke from Australia’s fierce bushfires settled over Sydney in still conditions on Tuesday, setting off fire alarms, and halting ferry services as famous landmarks disappeared behind some of the worst...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday as bargain hunters showed their buying appetite on sector specific issues after sharp correction. Following the last three days’...
Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive" ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr...
South Korean oil and gas firm Posco International has sought a review of the existing 'commercial term' of its contract with Petrobangla to continue hydrocarbon exploration in deep sea block...
Asian equity markets ticked down on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street losses as investors fretted over a December 15 deadline for the next round of US tariffs on Chinese imports to...
The relocation of tanneries from Dhaka city to Savar has hardly yielded any benefit for the sector so far while making almost no contribution to better the environment and ensure...
Stocks plunged further with key index of the prime bourse dipping to 40-month low on Monday, as nervous investors continued their selling spree. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...
The revenue board has opened three more customs ports for import and export of goods from Nepal and Bhutan using Indian territory. The land customs stations (LCs) include Tamabil of...
The Chilean Air Force reported on Monday (local time) the disappearance of one of its cargo planes that was headed to a base in Antarctica with 38 people on board....
The Bangladesh Bank (BB)'s high-powered committee is trying to explore different options to bring down the industrial lending rate to single-digit from the existing level. Different issues including possible impact...
An order for 'Provisional Measures' from the International Court of the Justice (ICJ), that sits this (Tuesday) morning in the Hague, Netherlands to hear a case regarding the Rohingya issue,...
The partial commissioning of the Payra 1,320-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant project in Patuakhali is being delayed due to technical reasons, sources said. The delay is being caused by the...
PABNA, Dec 09: Due to shortage of adequate class rooms, the students of Shalikha Government Primary School under Chatmohar Upazila in Pabna district are attending their classes under the open...
TANGAIL, Dec 09: Early variety of green onion growers of the twelve upazilas of the district are earning a handsome profit by selling their produce, as dry onion price is...
Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque on Monday said the country is doing relatively well in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) because of increased food production, reports UNB. “At the...
Prices of essentials across the country are soaring day by day without any respite for consumers. The abnormal price hike of daily necessaries hits worst the people from the lower...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's presence at the COP25 in Madrid last week finally proved to be quite vital and timely. This year she, like in the previous years, has laid...
That a high percentage of the country's graduates and post-graduates are unemployed was common knowledge but the latest Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) research now comes up with a...
It is not a Guinness Book type of statistic, but pumping up the blood in our victory month doesn't hurt either. Remember how the life of East Pakistan was 24...
The world today is beefing up on cross-fertilisation of technology-uptake and job diversification. And when it comes to labour-intensive industries like the apparel sector, this discussion gets a leapfrog. The...
Police have pressed formal charges against 14 militant suspects in connection with a suicide bomb blast in a hotel in Dhaka’s Panthapath two years ago in what is said to...
When I returned to Bangladesh in the late 1980s after pursuing higher studies in England as a commonwealth scholar, there were no private university in Bangladesh, and only six public...
Bangladesh is endowed with reasonably good solar energy potential, thanks to its geographical location. Of all renewable energy sources, solar is the most dispersed form of energy offering a wide...
An ancient stone tablet dating back 265 years ago was found in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said. Archaeologists believe the stone tablet was erected in the Qing Dynasty...
"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful. "I...
Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, the authorities said on Sunday, further eroding some of the world's strictest social rules as sweeping...
Human Rights Day will be observed in the country like elsewhere in the world, marking the 71th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the United...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) evicted some 200 illegal establishments from the footpaths and roads in the city. A mobile court, led by Sajia Afrin, executive magistrate of the DNCC,...
Daraz Bangladesh has arranged a case study programme, titled Daraz Future Leadership Program-2019 (DFLP), with the participation of 120 contestants from different universities of the country. The e-commerce platform arranged...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided to ban Russia for four years from all major sporting events over doping scandal. It means the Russia flag and anthem will not...
Car registration in the country stood at 15,578 in the first eleven months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 13,941 cars got registration...
Stocks plunged further on Monday as worried investors continued their selling binge on major sectors issues amid growing concern over the country’s overall economic situation. The market opened on downward...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday said commercial courses are turning public universities into business institutions disrupting the campus atmosphere. “Thousands of graduates are being produced every year with these commercial...
Dhaka South Mayor Sayeed Khokon says a decision could be made by March to bring the buses operating in Dhaka under six companies as part of an effort to discipline...
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent US$7,714.19 million remittances in the first five months of the current fiscal 2019-20, which is 22.67 per cent higher than the amount of corresponding period of the...
Expected outcome of some Bangladesh Climate Change Trust (BCCT) projects could not be achieved due to lack of coordination among the authorities or departments concerned, according to a study. As...
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