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The International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICCB) is going to organise a three-day conference on financing for inclusive and sustainable development in Dhaka from Tuesday. The event, titled 'Asia-Pacific Conference...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government is thinking about introducing a virtual court in the country. Speaking at the National Judicial Conference-2019, she said it will reduce...
Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides had said that the country's economic growth is expected to slow down to 2.9 per cent in 2020 from 3.2 per cent this year. Presenting...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained twelve Bangladeshis on Saturday from Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah district shortly after returning to Bangladesh from India without valid documents. In a media statement,...
The White House said on Friday it would refuse to take part in hearings in the US House of Representatives set for next week that will consider what articles of...
US President Donald Trump has delayed plans to legally designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. Mr Trump had vowed to label the gangs as terrorists after the killing last...
Canada's jobless rate rose to 5.9 per cent in November from 5.5 per cent in October, Statistics Canada has said. According to the statistics report, published on Friday, the country’s...
A climate law to ensure that Denmark achieves the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70 per cent in 2030 was passed in parliament on late Friday evening. The...
The revenue of China's ready-made garment (RMG) industry was lower in the first 10 months of the current year, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). From January...
Police have recovered the body of a retired scientist from his house in Moulovipara area in Rajshahi district. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hai, 65, a retired scientist of...
India's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has proactively recalled 63,493 certain petrol Smart Hybrid (SHVS) variants of Ciaz, Ertiga and XL6 vehicles, the company said in a statement to the...
Mabia Akhter Simanto has won gold in the women's 76kg weightlifting competition at the South Asian Games in Nepal. Mabia lifted a total of 185kg to deliver Bangladesh's fifth gold...
Canadian high commissioner in Dhaka Benoit Préfontaine on Saturday said there are many areas where Canada will continue to energetically work with Bangladesh -- bilaterally, regionally and internationally -- as...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday hoped that judges, being accountable to the country, its people and the Constitution, will help ensure the rule of law and justice. "I don’t...
Pathao Limited became the first major ride-sharing company to receive the license (enlistment certificate) from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), the road transport regulatory agency of the government of Bangladesh....
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), a state owned company of China, celebrated the International Volunteers’ Day with the students of Mogadia Union Govt Primary School at Mirsarai of Chattogram...
Popular beverage brand PRAN UP has introduced a campaign titled `Utshobe Ayojone’ with a view to making wedding ceremony more colorful. The campaign began on December 5 and will...
When they left the country for Algeria a few months back with dreams of changing their fate, they all were ecstatic. Now they feel trapped and are living in inhuman...
Seventeen Bangladeshi fishermen who were detained by Myanmar Navy as they entered its water territory after their boat went of order were sent back on Friday night. They were handed...
A collision between two launches on the Meghna River has left one passenger dead and 15 others injured. The accident, involving Chandpur-bound MV Bogdadia-13 and Dhaka-bound MV Manik-4, took place...
Police recovered bodies of three members of a family from the Banaripara upazila of Barishal on Saturday. Zafor Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Banaripara Police Station, said they recovered the body of...
A fire that broke out at the Petrobangla building in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar on Saturday morning was put out after about half an hour. Ershad Liton, duty of Fire Service,...
Stocks backed into the red in outgoing week that ended on Thursday, after a single-week break, amid concern over the country's overall economy. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Ltd dominated the Dhaka bourse's turnover chart for the second consecutive week that ended on Thursday. Ten most traded companies accounted for one-fifth transactions on the Dhaka Stock...
Children, left behind by women migrant workers, lack family care, exposing them to different types of vulnerability including abuse. In absence of mothers, they are forced to take on an...
A 23-year-old rape victim died in a hospital in the Indian capital two days after she was set on fire by a gang of men, including her alleged rapist, Reuters...
US President Donald Trump on Friday called for the World Bank to stop loaning money to China, one day after the institution adopted a lending plan to Beijing over Washington’s...
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), a major shareholder of publicly listed Miracle Industries Limited, has raised questions over authenticity of the company's financial filing, officials said. Contradicting the facts in...
A 20-year global moratorium on imposing tariffs on digital trade could end next week if India or South Africa makes good on threats, according to trade officials and documents, potentially...
E-banking has a positive and significant impact on the performance of the country's commercial banks in terms of net interest margin (NIM), return on assets (ROA) and return on equity...
The budget deficit during the July-September period last increased by nearly 200 per cent compared with the corresponding three months in 2018, as gains in tax receipts were offset by...
The Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) has proposed to undertake a Tk 61 billion project for road maintenance despite separate allocations in the revenue budget for the same purpose,...
Country's privately-owned power plants, especially the oil-fired ones, received a staggering Tk 89.29 billion in 'capacity payments' from the government in fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. The plants got the fund...
The way most people move, talk and react nowadays is a clear sign of rising incivility in society. Though sounds harsh and cynic, it is difficult to ignore the reality....
In the early 1980s, a famous TV serial titled "The Young and the Restless" used to steal our time from taking meal. It was, in short, about the lust for...
The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)-sponsored two day conference that ended in the capital city last Monday came up with a host of basic issues that may be considered...
Often innovation is considered as spontaneous sparks in creative minds generating great ideas. Ideas could be for introducing new products, or improved versions of existing products. But the journey of...
The recently published Bangladesh Bank's (BB) quarterly report reveals that country's NPL (Non-Performing Loan) has increased by TK 39 billion or 3.0 per cent over the previous quarter i.e., total...
Corruption is a common problem across the world. Prevalence and magnitude of corruption greatly varies from country to country. In general, it has been found that high-income countries have lesser...
Two people including a suspected shooter were left dead at Naval Air Station Pensacola, a US Navy base in Florida, while others were taken to hospitals with injuries during an...
Schooling tiny tots is not only challenging but for many parents highly traumatic. Here is an education system under which a most critical point arrives at the time of admission...
The avowed official efforts to address corruption have neither resulted in improvement in the governance situation, nor contributed to brightening the country's international image, suggest different local indicators and global...
What is marketing? Commodity-based economic activities are widely dependent on marketing system. In this connection we should be clear about marketing and its perspectives. There are many definitions of marketing...
TITAS will suspend gas supply to Farmgate, Shukrabad and Parliament areas in Dhaka for five hours on Saturday for renovation works. There will be no gas also in Razabazar, Monipuripara...
The Thai authorities have detained the wife and children of a top commander of Arakan Army, an insurgent group who are fighting for greater autonomy in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Thai...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has drawn flaks for asking married female job applicants to mention their husband’s permanent address as their own in a circular. The central bank’s human resource...
Saudi Arabia and Russia won backing for deeper output cuts from OPEC and allied oil producers on Friday as they look to head off global oversupply in 2020 and sustain...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Friday caught a Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) official red-handed while bribe of Tk 100,000 million. The detainee, HM Rashed Sarker, a licence inspector...
Students of Dhaka's Stamford University have launched a protest seeking justice over the alleged murder of fellow student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa. On Friday, more than 50 students formed a human...
State-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has raised a record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) in its initial public offering in Riyadh. The share sale was the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's...
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