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Celebrated Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was once invited to a lunch by his friend. The friend took him around beautifully groomed garden full of fruits, flowers, vegetables and spices including...
The two-day conference of the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) jointly organised by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the CACCI...
The economics of climate change involves two types of costs which may be considered as two sides of the same coin. First is the economic loss incurred by countries individually...
London Bridge has been cordoned off by police, with a BBC journalist reporting hearing gunfire. BBC reporter John McManus said he saw a group of men involved in a fight...
Development activities of Bangladesh have gained tremendous momentum in the last decade. The indicators of an exceptionally strong development record have inspired the country to aim even higher. The country...
A longstanding proposal for a regional nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East - one of the world's most conflict-ridden regions – has been kicked around the corridors of UN...
At least 12 members of Sitakunda Upazila Awami League unit were injured in a clash during its triennial conference on Friday. Firoz Alam Molla, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said...
On Bangla calendar, Agrahayan was never very chilly but the first footfalls of the winter could easily be heard at this time. That the planet is getting warmer is quite...
Recently the prices of onion hit Tk 220 per kg in the kitchen market of Dhaka city as India banned onion export in last September. With the price of onion,...
The nation remembers every year a great leader whose demise cut short a continuous flow of significant contribution to the political, social and cultural life, particularly progress and advancement of...
The water transport workers have enforced a country-wide strike to press home for an 11-point charter of demand, including appointment letter and food allowance, from 12:01am on Saturday. The strike...
Unai Emery was fired by Arsenal on Friday, 18 months after succeeding Arsene Wenger as manager of the Premier League club. The north London team lost to Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1...
Sudan has repealed a restrictive public order law that controlled how women acted and dressed in public. On Twitter, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok paid tribute to women "who have endured...
Australia's first underwater hotel is set to open on the Great Barrier Reef in the coming days, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in one of the world's most spectacular natural...
Daimler on Friday announced to cut thousands of jobs across the globe by the end of 2022 after reaching an agreement on its plans with labour unions. It marks the...
Over 0.1 million dengue-infected people received treatment at different hospitals across the country since January this year, said the Directorate General of Health Services in a regular update. Meanwhile, 73...
India will lend Sri Lanka $400 million for infrastructure projects, the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday after talks with the island nation’s new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa aimed...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ from Zafarpur Government Primary School premises in Chuadanga sadar upazila early Friday. The arrestees...
Police arrested three leaders of BNP including its Training Affairs Secretary ABM Mosharraf Hossain, from the Jatiya Press Club premises in the city on Friday. They were shown arrested in...
Bangladesh Pavilion at the International Arts and Crafts (INAC) Expo in Nigeria has been awarded as the ‘Best Designed Pavilion’ sharing the recognition with China and India. Bangladesh High Commission...
A pair of boots thought to belong to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is expected to fetch up to 80,000 euros ($88,176) at a sale in Paris’ Drouot auctioneers on Friday....
A world-renowned American free solo climber has died attempting to descend the side of a cliff face. Brad Gobright, 31, fell around 300 meters (1,000 ft) to his death in...
Japan’s industrial output slipped at the fastest pace since early last year in October, exposing widening cracks in the economy which faces a decline in domestic and foreign demand. Factory...
China’s Ministry of Transport said car-pooling services have to limit the daily number of rides drivers can offer through apps such as Didi Chuxing’s Hitch, which began trial operations this...
British consumer confidence remained stuck at its joint-lowest level since 2013 in November as uncertainty around the Dec. 12 election and Brexit weighed on households, a survey showed on Friday....
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has provided a grant of 4.2 million US dollars to Jordan to help ease its financial burden of hosting refugees. Under the deal signed...
Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 45 protesters on Thursday after demonstrators stormed and torched an Iranian consulate overnight, in what could mark a turning point in the uprising...
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Thursday that the country has so far lost 25 billion US dollars as result of hosting a big number of Syrian refugees. "The support...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has died at the age of 101, NHK television said on Friday, after a career during which he hobnobbed on the world stage with...
Police arrested an 'Indian national' along with two gold bars in City Gate area of Chattogram on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Ranjit Acharya, 52. Acting on a tip...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is due to leave Dhaka on Sunday morning to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid, Spain. The Conference will...
Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law on Thursday to dissolve the former ruling party and repealed a public order law used to regulate women’s behaviour under ex-president Omar al-Bashir, the...
The lottery draw for the allotment of initial public offering (IPO) of ADN Telecom Ltd., which raised a fund of Tk 570 million through book-building method, was held on Thursday....
Ten most traded companies grabbed more than 23 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with Fortune Shoes making it to the top of the...
Rights groups and political parties strongly protested on Thursday electricity tariff hike proposals and criticised installation of 'more than required' expensive oil-fired power plants. They also opposed continuation of the...
Bangladesh may be able to attract new investments worth over US$ 20 billion in different sectors of the country. The member countries of the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce...
About 0.1 million businesses have taken 13-digit Business Identification Numbers (BINs) until Thursday through obtaining fresh one or updating their existing VAT registration number. The deadline for obtaining and updating...
President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America’s longest war....
The World Bank (WB) has made a set of recommendations, including setting up an Affordable Housing Commission, to make housing finance more available to people. Its other suggestions include setting...
Analysts on Thursday laid emphasis on strict evaluation of the financial reports of the companies by a third-party to shield the financial market from vulnerabilities. They suggested the government assign...
The provisions shortfall against classified loans in the country's banking system swelled by nearly 23 per cent or Tk 15.15 billion during the first nine months of the calendar year....
Most of the key kitchen commodities, including onion, fish, flour, garlic, sugar and cardamom, witnessed a further price hike at retail outlets last week. Vegetable prices showed a mixed trend....
That antibiotics have been increasingly becoming ineffective against microbial infections is an old story. But what is more worrying is that problem has turned serious lately and it could be...
The High Court quite rightly came hard upon the National Board of Revenue for non-compliance with its earlier order to set up devices for detection of chemicals in imported fruits...
It does not take a transport specialist's insight to find out why the newly introduced transport law failed to see the least success after more than three weeks of its...
BOGURA, Nov 28: Bumper sugarcane production as well as fair market price have brought smile on the faces of farmers in the district this season. According to the Department of...
Professor Dr Gowher Rizvi on Thursday said workers should be equal partners and they must be given equitable share of the wealth they create. The International Relation Affairs Adviser to...
Wall Street hedge funds and lawyers have turned an arcane procedure of international treaties into a money machine, at the cost of the world's poorest people. The latest shakedown is...
With the Indian economic growth-rate now predicted to slip to 6.6 per cent over the next five years, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) finding raises questions if how such a...
There are many types of Bangladeshi Bengalee immigrants in the USA, the UK, Australia or Italy. Some of them are the descendants of parents who migrated to these foreign developed...
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