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At least 90 per cent workers of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector will receive their wages through the digital payment system by the next 2021, as part of government's move...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will undertake projects to develop tennis courts at school, college and university levels to popularise tennis alongside cricket and football. “We’re...
A strike by transport workers to demand amendments to the new road transport law has crippled the movement of buses, trucks and lorries in many parts of Bangladesh, much to...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 54 Bangladeshis, including women and children, and a trafficker while they were illegally returning to the country from India on Wednesday morning. They hail...
The Emirates team in Bangladesh trumped strong competition from the airline’s global network to win the prestigious Chairman’s Award for Sales Excellence. After tough preliminary rounds that were shortlisted to...
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday condemned China’s treatment of a former employee of Britain’s Hong Kong consulate who told a newspaper Chinese secret police beat him as they...
Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, the distinguished fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), on Wednesday said Bangladesh has to play a leading role in international negotiations for sustainable development. "Bangladesh is...
Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Wednesday warned against increasing rice prices, saying the country has an adequate stockpile of food grain. “There’s no reason to hike the prices. Stern...
Bangladesh has said it believes reconciliation can be a critical enabler for resolving the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, the brunt of which they are bearing. Referring to various successful models of...
Heat and winds are threatening to widen Australia's bushfire crisis, with three states warned to expect their worst conditions of the season so far. Soaring temperatures in South Australia prompted...
Mercantile Bank recently organized a training course titled “Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing against Terrorism” in Chattogram. Zonal Heads of Cumilla, Noakhali & Chattogram along with Head of...
Southeast Bank Limited has been awarded as the country’s 7th highest Income Tax Payer in the Banking Category for the assessment year 2018-2019. A H M Mustafa Kamal FCA,...
NRB Bank Limited has recently launched a new service for corporate banking in Bangladesh. In association with SSL Wireless, ‘Straight Banking’ service will make customer banking services simpler...
The government said the recently signed Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Japan on recruiting ‘Specified Skilled Workers’ will help the island nation receive more skilled workforce from Bangladesh benefiting both...
A female patient undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) reportedly took her own life by jumping off the hospital building early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Jesmine...
Tottenham Hotspur sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday (UK local time), six months after he led the club to the Champions League final and after five years in charge, saying...
Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly Mustafa Sentop said Turkey would remain beside Bangladesh in resolving this problem. He said this while Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal made a courtesy...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in various sectors in Bangladesh. The Finance Minister called for the investment at the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint...
Two United States service members were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US military said in a statement. “The cause of the crash is under investigation,...
Commuters in different parts of Dhaka are facing extreme difficulties in reaching their destinations today (Wednesday) as majority of the transport owners suspended bus services protesting the enforcement of the...
Train movement on Chattogram-Dohazari route remained suspended for five hours after the engine of a train caught fire at Kanchanagar Saiadabad in Chandanaish upazila on Wednesday night. Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury,...
The first consignment of onion by air is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) from Egypt in Dhaka at midnight. Commerce minister Tipu Munshi informed this to the...
India may keep a ban on onion exports until February because domestic prices have risen after the harvest of summer-sown crops, which were expected to augment supplies, was delayed and...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) hired more than 58 per cent of the total outbound workers from Bangladesh in October this year despite continuous deportation of workers from the...
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will import around 1.06 million tonnes of refined fuel oil during a period from January to June (H1) in 2020. The purchase from open market...
Fraudsters have stolen Tk 0.9 million (900,000) from three ATMs of Pubali Bank in Chattogram and Cumilla. The stolen money was not slashed from any customer’s account as the fraudsters...
A drug suspect has died in a so-called shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka city. The incident occurred at a RAB checkpost in front of...
A police constable was killed and three others injured in a road crash on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Suaganj in Cumilla Sadar Dakshin upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday night completing her four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the Dubai Airshow 2019. An Emirates flight carrying...
Standard Bank will raise a capital worth Tk 5.0 billion through issuance of perpetual bond as additional tier-I capital. The company's board of director has taken the decision of raising...
The increase in issuance of T-bonds and T-bills propelled their yield curves upward in last fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) statistics. Yield curve has direct...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) collected Tk 3.57 billion in tax on Tuesday, the sixth day of the countrywide Income Tax Fair (ITF) 2019, according to a statement. The...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has proposed that the government set a cash transaction limit of Tk 10,000 in a bid to curb corruption through unrecorded transactions. The government might also...
The central bank has slashed interest rates on loans under the Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme by 1.0 percentage point to facilitate exporters. As per the revised policy, exporters will...
The imbroglio over enforcement of the newly-enacted transport law continued on Tuesday as passenger vehicles stayed off roads in many parts of the country. Added to the imbroglio was the...
Prices of onion will go down significantly soon and will be stable within a week, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Tuesday. At present, newly harvested local onion has started...
Salt prices suddenly soared both in wholesale and retail markets across the country on Tuesday, according to traders and consumers. Prices of different brands of packaged salt were selling at...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has awarded BRAC Bank Limited with Tax Card on being the 5th highest tax payer in banking sector category, said a statement. This is...
The United States on Monday effectively backed Israel's right to build Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank (WB) by abandoning its four-decade-old position that they were "inconsistent with international...
Argentina's Lionel Messi scored an added-time penalty to salvage a 2-2 draw with Uruguay as they twice came from behind in an entertaining friendly match in Israel on Monday, reports...
GOPALGANJ, Nov 19: Farmers of Gopalganj Sadar upazila have started harvesting T-Aman paddy this season. Farmer Amirul Sheikh of Nilokhi village of Durgapur union said he cultivated Aman paddy on...
The number of foreigners working in Bangladesh or how much money they send back home has not yet been confirmed by any authority in Bangladesh. Only unofficial reports say at...
Recent news stories on imported meat, particularly beef, has sparked a strong reaction among many who consider the country self sufficient in beef production and hence instead of importing --...
A recent report relating to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism reveals a scam in the land acquisition for Cox's Bazar airport expansion. It cannot but worry people interested...
Once, hundreds of miles of power distribution line got installed in the country without adding a single megawatt of additional electricity. Now, there is more electricity than the gridline can...
On December 19, 2018, peaceful protests erupted spontaneously in cities across Sudan. Just four months later, the brave demonstrators succeeded in ousting the despotic regime of Omar al-Bashir, who had...
At the dawn of the 21st century, we are caught in the dichotomy between the disastrous and benign effects of artificially intelligent machines-robots. One group has been raising the alarm...
In just under a month, countries around the world will gather for UNFCCC COP 25 (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 25). The hashtag for this...
The High Court has confirmed a trial court verdict sentencing BNP leader Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin to 13 years in jail in a case over his having illegal assets. Nasir’s...
Expired medicines, worth over Tk 340 million, were destroyed in the last two months while over Tk 10 million was realised as fine by mobile courts for storing expired and...
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