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The Trump administration is set to issue a two-week extension of a license allowing US companies to continue doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources familiar with...
South Korean oil and gas firm Posco International has intended to relinquish deep sea block DS-12, dealing a blow to the country's quest for discovering new hydrocarbon reserves. Posco has...
The central bank has scaled up its foreign currency support to the commercial banks to help settle their import payment obligations, particularly for oil, officials said. The Bangladesh Bank, or...
Some large importers of the country have been engaged in the battle against the runaway onion price as the fight has taken to the air route. For the first time...
Winter is approaching fast and so the season of celebration. Wedding party is the biggest family and social festival to take place during the winter in this country. Other social...
Bangladesh celebrates its self-sufficiency in food grain production. This owes to a noticeable transformation in the seasonal land utilisation pattern. The aus season – spanning from March to August –...
A World Bank report titled 'Moving Forward: Connectivity and Logistics to Sustain Bangladesh's Success' released last Wednesday underlined some factors standing in the way of accelerating the pace of Bangladesh's...
President M Abdul Hamid returned home on Friday evening wrapping up his four-day official visit to Nepal. A regular aircraft (flight no BG 0070) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited carrying...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Dubai on Saturday on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes....
Bangladesh aspires to become an upper middle-income country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2041. Upon attaining low middle-income country status, by exploiting labour and raw material, should Bangladesh...
Retirement decision falls in the study of behavioural economics, which like behavioural finance, combines "insights about psychology, economics and people's judgment and decision-making to generate a more accurate understanding of...
Many have argued that in order for Bangladesh's recent phenomenal growth to be sustainable, the process of development has to be inclusive. And inclusive development implies that everyone in a...
Climate change and development are closely inter-related. Developing countries, particularly low-income countries, are at the greatest risk of climatic hazards for their development gaps and reliance on climate sensitive natural...
The week long 'Development Fair 2019’, where the exhibitors are selling and showcasing products like jute goods, agricultural products, food products, and so on, attracted a huge crowd on Friday....
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said the most urgent task for Hong Kong at present is to bring violence and chaos to an end and restore order. Xi came up...
A rickshaw puller set an example of honesty by returning Tk 2.0 million to its owner after finding it in Satmatha area Bogura town on Friday. Fertiliser trader Rajib Prosad...
Big shipments of onion will arrive in the country within a short time by cargo aircraft and ships to ensure sufficient supply in local market amid the skyrocketing price hike...
Major trade partners are seeking compensation from the United Kingdom and the European Union over Brexit uncertainty that has disrupted pre-Christmas trade. Some 15 countries — including Australia and the...
Mayank Agarwal smashed his second double-ton in just seven Tests he played and helped India extend the lead to 343 at the end of day-2 of Indore Test against Bangladesh...
Saudi Arabia has sent back 87 more Bangladeshis on Thursday night and Friday, taking the number of deportees to 1,647 in the last two weeks. A Saudi Airlines flight carrying...
As winter sets in, the quality of air in Dhaka poses major health risks to citizens with pollution reaching severe levels. The prevalence of particulate matter in the air has...
One of India's biggest telecoms firms, Vodafone India, has posted record second quarter losses of $7.0 billion (510.0 billion rupees) further exacerbating fears about the state of the industry. Economist...
China had a total of 10,249 star-rated hotels, including 843 five-star hotels, at the end of 2018, according to a report released by the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism....
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. started listing on the main board of Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday. The e-commerce giant will issue 12.5 million new shares at...
The government is going to launch piloting of the online food procurement system on Wednesday (November 20) to ensure officially fixed price for growers and to eliminate middlemen. Official piloting...
The cyclone Bulbul that wreaked havoc in the country’s coastal districts in the early hours of Sunday damaged 4,589 trees, including Sundari, in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest...
A total of 97 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Thirty-four of them were hospitalised in Dhaka,...
Sri Lanka's Prosperity Index (PI) saw a 42 per cent rise from 2017 to 2018, local media reports quoting the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) said on Friday. The...
About 250,000 customers of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) are languishing without electricity, five days after a powerful cyclone lashed the country's southern coast. According to the BREB, it...
A resolution on situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the Unites Nations (UN). The resolution received 140 votes in its...
The United States and China are getting close to a trade agreement, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Thursday, citing what he called very constructive talks with Beijing...
Chinese stocks closed lower Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.64 percent, at 2,891.34 points, Xinhua reports. The Shenzhen Component Index closed 1.01 per cent lower at 9,647.99...
Indian refiners have resumed buying Malaysian palm oil after a near one-month suspension linked to a political row as Kuala Lumpur began offering a $5.0 a ton discount over supplies...
Indian captain Virat Kohli endured a rare fate in Tests as he was removed by Abu Jayed Rahi for a duck in the first session of Indore Test. However, India...
Narcotics and contraband items worth over Tk 27.40 million were seized during 8,523 drives conducted by various agencies in the district during the month of October. The information was revealed...
Twelve years ago, another much stronger cyclone, 'Sidr', took a similar path to ‘Bulbul’ that ripped through the coastal districts, including Bagerhat. On November 15, 2007, the super cyclone left...
Israel will follow suit if Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip stop cross-border attacks, an Israeli official said on Thursday, denying that Israel had changed open-fire policy as demanded by...
A mobile court in Chandpur on Thursday fined four grocery shop owners Tk 14000 for selling onion at higher price in Shahrasti upazila of the district. A mobile court led...
The government is all set to conduct a study on the fixing of rawhide prices and the skin buy-and-sale process to ensure rational rates during Eid-ul-Azha. The mechanism is aimed...
Police say they have cracked the Sagira Morshed Salam murder case, three decades after the incident on Bailey Road in Dhaka. The law enforcement arrested Hasan Ali Chowdhury, 70, the...
The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) has sent a distress signal to the government, seeking immediate sanction of Tk 12.70 billion to save the state-owned sugar mills. The...
Wata Chemicals, a listed company in the pharmaceuticals & chemicals sector, posted the highest EPS (earnings per share) growth among its local peers in fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. The company's...
Ten most traded companies accounted for nearly 27 per cent of transactions on the prime bourse on Thursday, with Renata generating the highest turnover. Market analysts said investors were active...
The 35th annual general meeting (AGM) of The IBN SINA Pharmaceutical Industry Ltd was held at Emmanuelle's Convention Centre in the city on Thursday, said a statement. Shah Abdul Hannan,...
The government has adopted a new strategy to combat trade-based money laundering and illicit financial outflow from the country with the incorporation of a few stringent provisions into it, officials...
The influx of Bangladeshi workers from Saudi Arabia continued unabated following raids by the Arab country against irregular foreign workers, sources said. According to the welfare desk at the Hazrat...
The price of the local variety of onion went through the roof as it hit Tk 200 a kg at the retail level on Thursday. Even the previous day the...
Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal has promised to reduce tax rates using all economic matrixes. The government will assess as to what extent it can reduce the tax...
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday President Donald Trump already has admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of a Democratic-led inquiry, accusing him...
The central bank has asked four state-owned commercial banks, or SoCBs, to gear up the recovery drive, keeping in mind top 20 defaulters. The instruction was given at a meeting...
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