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Michael Jackson’s story is headed for Hollywood from the producer who helped make hit film ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ industry media reported on Friday. Deadline, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter said producer...
A boat capsized off the coast of Morocco’s port of Tan Tan, 856 km (537 miles), south of capital Rabat, leaving two fishermen dead while at least nine others were...
Police have recovered two hanging bodies from Pallabi and Darussalam areas in Dhaka. The dead have been identified as Bilkis Akhter, 26, a garment factory worker, and 'Raju', 30, who...
The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran’s information minister for his role in “widescale internet censorship,” a reference to a five-day-long nationwide shutdown meant to help stifle protests against...
A recent WHO study found that Bangladeshi boys, aged between 11 and 17 years, made improvement in their daily activities. It noted that countries showing the most improvement in activity...
Australia on Saturday said it would provide a loan of $300 million as direct budget assistance for the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and aid its economic reforms...
At least 12 people, including one child and five women, died and 10 others injured in a road mishap in Rajasthan state of India on Saturday, a local police officer...
China's top securities watchdog has approved the initial public offering (IPO) applications of two companies. The two companies, Chengdu Gas Group Co, Ltd. and Streamax Technology Co, Ltd., and their...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the ICC judges feared that Myanmar may have ‘state policy’ to attack its minority Rohingya population in Rakhine. “The Judges accepted...
Amazon.com Inc has filed a lawsuit in a federal US court contesting the US Defense Department’s decision last month to award a Pentagon cloud computing contract worth up to $10...
More than 80 robbers are scheduled to lay down their arms today (Saturday) at Kalarmarchara Government Primary School in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar. Iqbal Hossain, the Additional Superintendent of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home from Kolkata on Friday night, wrapping up her short visit to Kolkata to inaugurate the historic day-night Test match between Bangladesh and India....
US President Donald Trump on Friday accused a witness in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry of lying and offered an explanation for his controversial use of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani...
The share of bank loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) has been on the rise for the straight eighth year, as the banks are required to meet their farm loan target....
The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC) collected over Tk 4.03 billion in non-tax revenue in fiscal year (FY) 2018-19, an increase of nearly 70 per cent over...
The number of overseas healthcare travellers to Malaysia has nearly doubled from the level recorded during the period from 2011 to 2018. A top Malaysian official attributed this to the...
Dhaka bourse closed the week almost flat following the mixed performance of the major sectors. In last week, many investors re-balanced their portfolios following the quarterly disclosures of the listed...
Sonadia Island, a nine-square kilometre small island in the Bay of Bengal, is likely to lose its 'virginity' as the authorities concerned are building an eco-tourism park there, according to...
Top 10 traded stocks captured 23.54 per cent of the total turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in last week. The premier bourse DSE posted a total turnover of...
Despite enormous potential of tourism in Bangladesh, the sector is facing different challenges like inadequate infrastructure, high cost of doing business and lack of branding, according to a study. Other...
Prices of onion stayed at their previous highs on Friday despite the arrival of imported spice in the market, according to traders and consumers. Visiting city kitchen markets, this correspondent...
The crisis-hit shrimp industry, which has seen a gradual fall in exports over the last five years, is now looking for a breakthrough by introducing a new variety called vannamei...
India is pushing for finalising the standard operating procedure (SOP) of using the Chattogram and Mongla seaports for sending goods to its north-eastern states, officials have said. The big neighbour...
Transport workers have yet to make any decision on their next course of action as they are still bargaining with the government to meet their demands, insiders said on Friday....
The country's budget deficit widened to over Tk 1.1 trillion in the past fiscal year, highest in more than a decade. The imbalance stood at 5.1 per cent of the...
Anguish and pain of a large number of people due to unexpected and undesirable trouble is growing day by day in this country. While trouble or danger is part of...
R. Osmani, an eminent Professor of Development Economics at Ulster University, UK, published an interesting and insightful paper about changing social norms and the culture of repayment of credit in...
Last Tuesday was marked by people lining in front of retail shops and squabbling for a grain of salt with the essential item selling at double its normal price without...
India took charge of the second Test of the series straightway at the packed Eden Gardens on Friday after bowling out Bangladesh for 106 in 30.3 overs on the first...
Prices of onion soared again on Friday, fuelled by higher demands and a supply crunch as the imported bulb are yet to hit the markets. Bangladesh has been struggling to...
Chief Minister of India's West Bengal State Mamata Banarjee has said there is a huge demand of bicycles in her state and Bangladesh can utilise the opportunity of exporting the...
Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon arrived in Dhaka on Friday night on a brief visit, the second visit to Bangladesh this year, after leaving the United Nations. He will...
Although the focus of regulation on shadow banking activities emerged in the wake of its alleged role in the recent global crisis, shadow banking system is not a new development....
To be president in a country like Bolivia might be like a precarious act performed by a tightrope-dancer between "the Devil and the deep blue sea". After 23 years as...
The 49-year old Bangladesh economy has got two malignant tumors growing to engulf its successes as an economic hub in south Asia -- one in the area of border trade...
The Australian state of New South Wales was gasping under the worst levels of air pollution ever recorded on Friday as smoke from widespread bushfires caused a spike in hospital...
Police have detained a man for forcibly shaving his wife’s head in Bogura’s Nandigram Upazila following an altercation over a broken jar of pickles. The detention of ‘Morshedul’, a resident...
The plenary of the second committee of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted Bangladesh’s resolution entitled “Natural Plant Fibres and Sustainable Development” by consensus....
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the problems created in the transport sector due to strike were already resolved as all types of vehicles are moving normally...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Justin Pierre James Trudeau on his assumption of office as Canadian Prime Minister for the second time. “We believe that the people of your...
A student of Government Titumir College and part-time jobholder, Limon used to stay at a traditional mess in the city’s Kazipara area as he didn’t find any better accommodation elsewhere...
The number of truck registration in the country stood at 7,365 in the first ten months of the current calendar year, according to official data. Of the total, 5,558 trucks...
62 people were killed by mob beatings across the country from January to October 2019, according to a report by an independent rights and legal aid body. The highest number...
Oxford Dictionaries, part of Oxford University Press, has declared "climate emergency" the word of the year for 2019. According to Oxford Corpus, a database containing hundreds of millions of words...
Stating that the current government is worse than previous autocratic regimes, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said they are working to unite people to ‘restore democracy’...
Police blamed reckless driving for the fatal accident in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj district on Friday which has so far claimed nine lives. The victims are – Abdur Rashid, 60,...
Over 80 robbers are scheduled to surrender and lay down their arms at Kalarmarchara Government Primary School in Maheshkhali upazila on Saturday. Additional superintendent of Cox’s Bazar Police Iqbal Hossain, said...
Russia has passed a law banning the sale of certain devices that are not pre-installed with Russian software. The law will come into force in July 2020 and cover smartphones,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to press on with the development of a nuclear-powered rocket believed to have been at the centre of a deadly accident. Five engineers and...
South Korea has halted a complaint against Japan at the World Trade Organisation, Japan’s trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama said on Friday, and the two countries agreed to begin talks on...
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