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Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it will shut down a CPU research division at one of its US facilities, a move that analysts said dimmed prospects for the tech giant’s...
Football legend Diego Maradona moved to play down fresh concerns about his health on Monday, insisting that he is well and relishing his role as head coach of Argentine club...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to keep the official interest rate on hold at 0.75 per cent following a monthly board meeting on Tuesday. The country's interest rate...
Forest Department officials detained 60 suspected deer poachers while entering the Sundarbans with hunting equipment in three trawlers in Joymoni area of Chandpai Range early Tuesday. Tipped off that a...
The United States has formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change...
The board of directors of Padma Oil Company has recommended 130 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. The...
The sister of former Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been captured in northern Syria, Turkish officials say. The 65-year-old, named as Rasmiya Awad, was detained in...
The board of directors of Eastern Lubricant Ltd has recommended 100 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. The...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early trading on Tuesday as some investors are showing their buying appetite on sector-wise shares. Following the previous day’s correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
The body of BNP leader and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka is expected to arrive in Dhaka from the USA on Thursday morning. A flight...
Earnings of most of the listed non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) plunged in the first nine months of the year due mainly to huge provisioning against default loans and losses from...
China is pushing US President Donald Trump to remove more tariffs imposed in September as part of a “phase one” US-China trade deal, people familiar with the negotiations said on...
A woman died of dengue at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sabita, 40, wife of Haradhan of Keshabpur upazila in Jashore. Dr Shoilendranath...
South Korean businesses have expressed the interest to establish an industrial park in Bangladesh's Economic Zone (EZ) to set up factories for manufacturing apparel, leather products and ornaments. A developer...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to start installation of Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) from next month (December) to ensure proper VAT collection from business outlets. In the...
Despite the government's vigilance and assurance of ample import, prices of onion increased again on Monday after a slight decline in last two days. Onions of local varieties were traded...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that he could not compromise the interests of farmers and workers at home by joining a China-led regional trade pact after it...
The inflow of remittances crossed US$6.0 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY) as the government started providing incentive to the beneficiaries against inward remittance....
The retail level electricity distributors have sought a fresh hike in electricity price for almost all types of consumers from January 2020. State-run electricity distribution companies submitted the tariff hike...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the disease of the people of old age, generally witnessed after 60-65 years of age. Gradual deficit in memory, thinking process, language skills, and carrying out...
The scenario at Kolkata's Sealdah rail station in the mornings and afternoons on working days has been offering the similar picture for over 70 years: thousands of passengers, both male...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government's resolve to change the living standard of rural people for the better. Earlier she and a few of her cabinet colleagues have...
Even as the global economy keeps shrinking this year, key political leaders stubbornly refuse to gulp and take one step back so we can all move forward next time. Even...
The Digital Revolution, including technologies such as artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, virtual reality, and the Internet of Things, has received renewed attention for its entirely new and enhanced capacities. Digital technologies...
[The concluding part of a four-part series on Sustainability in banking] As in most developing countries, policy makers and banks in Bangladesh are pursuing sustainable banking activities. However, social and...
Gold prices were steady on Monday as the dollar eased on soft manufacturing survey, while signs of a US-China trade deal stoked risk appetite, capping gains for the safe-haven bullion,...
Sporadic hiccups of de-dollarisation moves by Chinese yuan and the euro notwithstanding, the US dollar has been enjoying the envious status of the world's most predominant reserve currency for decades....
SYLHET, Nov 04: In commemoration of 100 years of the visit of great poet Rabindranath Tagore to Sylhet, a three-day colourful programme has been taken up in the north-eastern city....
JOYPURHAT, Nov 04: More than 40-year-old concrete bridge over the Shiholy canal in the Durgapur area under Kalai upazila of the district has turned into a death trap due to...
Authorities are preparing to lay the tracks for metro rail link from Uttara to Agargaon at the end of November. A sample train will be set up in metro rail...
The World Bank (WB) on Monday praised the progress of digitisation in the country. Their appreciations came during a meeting with State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak at the...
The contribution of women’s unaccounted household works needs to be incorporated in the gross domestic product (GDP), said experts. The view came up at a programme on Monday at...
Highly lauding efficiency of Bangladeshi pilots, State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali has urged pilots to identify different challenges in improving flight safety standards in order...
Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) filed 1,239 cases against vehicles, and realised around Tk 2.67 million as fine for violating traffic rules during drives in October 2019....
The Cabinet has approved the draft of the “National Human Resource Development Fund Usage Policy-2019” aimed at creating skilled manpower to accelerate the booming economy and meet the growing demand...
Some 340,432 motorcycles were registered in the first ten months of calendar year across the country, according to an official data. Of the total, 84,746 motorcycles were registered in Dhaka,...
Stocks slipped back to the red on Monday, after a single-day break as risk-averse investors went on selling binge on sector-wise stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
As north India battles severe levels of pollution, authorities have deployed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to save the iconic 17th-century marble mausoleum. The air purifier van deployed...
Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people. The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can't to try...
The mid-November cancellation of the APEC summit in Chile, where China and the US were widely expected to sign an interim trade agreement, has ignited speculations about a new location...
There is no “promise fatigue” about China’s efforts to open its economy to foreign businesses, the government said on Monday on the eve of week-long import fair, after the European...
Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman took over the office as the Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) on Monday. President Md Abdul Hamid, chancellor of the universities, appointed Akhtaruzzaman for the...
A total of 174 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Monday. Fifty-four of them were hospitalised in Dhaka,...
A leading Chinese association for science has reaffirmed support for the science fiction sector, China Daily reported Monday. It quoted Huai Jinpeng, a top official of the China Association for...
Cargo import through Benapole land port has remained suspended for a third straight day due to a technical glitch on the server connected to the printer at Petrapole port in...
Sadeque Hossain Khoka, former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman, died on Monday in the USA. Khoka, also a former minister, breathed his last at Memorial Sloan...
One person died and at least 14 were injured on Monday in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, two Indian officials told Reuters. Nine people were...
Traffic sergeants will face action on complaints that they have tried to take advantage of the new the Road Transport Act, 2018, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam said on...
An Indian man took a call in the middle of the night and that angered his wife so much that she allegedly murdered him. The incident occurred in the couple’s...
The High Court on Monday granted a six-month interim bail to former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The bench...
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