The students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have announced to return to classes as the authorities met their demands, including the expulsion of 26 students over the...
More than 500 Syrian refugees returned on Tuesday to their homeland from Lebanon, the National News Agency reported. Syrian refugees from different areas in Lebanon, including Burj Hammoud, Tripoli, Bekaa,...
US House Democrats on Tuesday released a draft report summarizing their findings from an ongoing impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump. The impeachment inquiry, initiated by House Speaker Nancy...
A Bangladeshi expatriate photographer has turned himself into a snake farmer. And his farm has now a wide variety of snakes. Abdur Razzak Biswas during his staying in Saudi Arabia...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday underscored the need for ensuring sector-wise and demand-based financing for those countries which are lagging behind in the economic and social sectors. “We’ll...
Germany’s VDA automobile association said on Wednesday that it excepted global car sales to fall by 5 per cent this year, the steepest drop since the world financial crisis a...
NATO leaders gathered at a golf resort near London on Wednesday for a summit acrimonious even by the standards of the Trump era, aiming to tackle disagreements over spending, future...
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to replace its three contingents consisting of 320 members at United Nations Peacekeeping Mission deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). As a part...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charges against former chief justice SK Sinha in a case that involves Tk 40 million in suspicious loans from The Farmers Bank. The case...
President Md Abdul Hamid has urged the country's business leaders to create new entrepreneurs and explore new business areas for the sake of the country's economy and the people. Terming...
There is nothing serious in Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi’s resignation remark which he made amid criticisms for the soaring onion prices, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on...
Stocks posted a marginal gain on Wednesday after volatile trading as late hours selling spree wiped out most of the early gains. The market opened on upward note and the...
Seventy five new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday. Thirty seven of them were hospitalised in Dhaka,...
Speakers at a roundtable have called on the government to adopt blockchain technology in every sector in collaboration with all stakeholders in order to ensure transparent and efficient services. Though...
Police on Wednesday arrested a man in connection with the murder of an elderly woman and her housemaid in Mirpur area in Dhaka. Police are interrogating the arrestee— Sohel, the...
The government has reduced the price of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertiliser to Tk 16 per kg from Tk 25 for famers. For dealers the price has been reduced to Tk...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) has recently signed an agreement with Sea Kitchens Bangladesh Limited at a simple ceremony held at MTB Centre, the bank’s Corporate Head Office, Gulshan 1,...
Six people including the head of a Japanese NGO were killed on Wednesday after unknown gunmen attacked their vehicle in Jalalabad, the capital city of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, officials...
US President Donald Trump’s comments that a trade agreement with China may have to wait until late 2020 and a House of Representatives bill targeting camps for Muslims in Xinjiang...
The Afghan government's National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved 35 contracts worth 46 million US dollars, the Presidential Palace said on Wednesday. The NPC presided by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani...
South Korea's biggest carmaker Hyundai Motor said Wednesday that it will invest around 51 billion US dollars in future mobility devices and services by 2025 as part of efforts to...
Prime Bank organized an Annual Risk Conference based on a theme “Managing Operational Risk in Bank” at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro Auditorium, Dhaka recently. Director and Member of the Board’s Risk...
A leader of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead by some miscreants at Egoijjachhara in Naniarchar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shubho Chakma Greek, 40,...
The death toll from a typhoon that hit provinces south of the Philippine capital rose to 10, disaster agencies said on Wednesday, pointing to precautions and compulsory evacuations as key...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad formally launched on Wednesday preparations to host next year’s APEC summit, recalling with pride how his country hosted the event more than 20 years ago,...
Mr. Md. Sirajul Hoque, Deputy Managing Director of Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) inaugurated an ATM Booth at Adabor, Dhaka recently. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Managing Director of Biopharma Limited, Mr....
Police have recovered the bodies of an elderly woman and a young housemaid in a home in Dhaka. They went to the House No. 9 on Road No. 2 of...
Twenty-three people were killed and more than 130 injured when a fire broke out after a gas tanker exploded while unloading at a ceramics factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum...
The number of people at risk of being forced from their homes by river flooding could surge to as many as 50 million a year by the end of the...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour trading on Wednesday as investors are showing their appetite on sector-wise large-cap issues. Following the previous two days’ downturn, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
A South Korean court on Wednesday upheld a record $873 million fine against US chip giant Qualcomm for unfair business practices related to patent licensing and modem chip sales, rejecting...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home early from Madrid, wrapping up her visit to Spain after attending the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25). A VVIP...
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to counter what it calls the "arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment" of Uighur Muslims in China. The bill calls for "targeted...
The securities regulator has approved the rules for alternative trading board keeping the scope of transaction of all type of non-listed securities. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) approved...
Ten most traded companies accounted for more than 27 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday. LafargeHolcim Bangladesh topped the list. Market analysts said investors continued...
The commerce ministry on Tuesday sent four teams to seven districts of the country to monitor the price of onion, its stock, supply and production there, officials said. The districts...
Bangladesh is ill-prepared in minimising the use of Trans Fatty Acid (TFA) in various food items as well as meeting the World Health Organisation's (WHO) target of bringing it down...
The four-day public hearing ended on Tuesday with a call from rights groups, business bodies and political parties not to raise power tariff for consumers. They demanded formation of a...
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will replace Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet, extending a long retreat from public roles and active management by Page and Sergey Brin at...
The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has alerted the authorities concerned to the malicious rumours of a crisis of the key agro-input this Boro season. It has rather assured them...
The cost of building the third terminal at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) is going to be swelled by 57 per cent even before the start of its construction,...
The Philippines has declined Bangladesh's claim for the 20 million US dollars the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) was fined for its negligence in the $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist....
The entrepreneurs have made fresh investment to set up 58 new garment factories since January to October this year while 60 units faced shutdown, according to BGMEA information. Industry insiders...
The central bank has started working on bringing down the industrial lending rate to a single-digit aiming to spur the country's overall economic growth through job creation and increased investment....
Today, Bangladesh is the 44th nation worldwide, and the 12th in Asia, among 61 globally connected countries. Dhaka maintains 75 posts including 57 embassies and high commissions, 16 consulates/consulates-general and...
The worsening air quality of Dhaka that has placed it at the bottom of all global cities, according to the latest air quality index, did not surprise many, especially the...
Of the several objectives a host country has behind arranging an exposition of international order, the principal ones are expansion of business overseas and at the same time taking a...
Police have recovered the bodies of an elderly woman and a teenaged housemaid in a home in Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com. They went to the house number 9 on road number...
At least 432 people, including 67 women and 72 children, were killed and 882 others injured in 386 road, railway and shipping accidents across the country in November, says Shipping...
CUMILLA, Dec 03: The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has set up 320 disaster tolerant houses for the homeless in the district. Cumilla district Relief and Resettlement Office sources...
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