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Some 151 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Saturday. O them, 57 were hospitalised in Dhaka, the Directorate...
Police recovered the throat-slit body of a housewife from Birampur village at Sadar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Chantara Begum, 42, wife of Khalil...
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has agreed to announce the initial public offering of state oil giant Aramco, five sources familiar with the matter said.. The world’s top...
Hoping that there will be no question paper leak during this year’s JSC and equivalent examinations, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Saturday said the gangs who spread question leak...
The US government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1.0 billion acquisition of US social media app Musical.ly, according to three people familiar...
Pakistan’s powerful military said it supported the country’s elected government and the constitution, as tens of thousands of opposition protesters gathered in the capital demanding that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s...
Amid the severe air pollution in Delhi, which plummeted to hazardous level and led to public-health emergency, Bangladesh will start their India tour by taking on the hosts in the...
More than 100 migrant workers from India’s Kashmir will be moved after a spate of killings by suspected separatist militants underlined the threat to outsiders in the restive region. Senior...
The wife of a police constable, found hanging at her father’s home on September 9 in Baraigram upazila of Natore district, died at a hospital on early Saturday. The deceased...
By making use of the helpline numbers, many under-aged girls have saved themselves from the curse of child marriage in parts of Bangladesh. The minimum legal age for marriage is...
China's non-financial investment in countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) stood at 10.04 billion US dollars in the first three quarters, down 6.9 per cent year on year, according...
Police detained three people over the murder of two women in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka city on Friday night. The detainees are – electrician Belayet, security guard Nuruzzaman, and Bacchu...
Police on Saturday arrested Jamaat-e-Islami’s Bakalia Thana unit chief Abul Monsur, reports UNB. He was wanted in “five to six cases filed over sabotage”, according to police. Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge...
EBL VISA Infinite, Signature, Platinum and Mastercard World, Titanium cardholders will get special discount of up to Taka 0.1 million (1 lac) while purchasing selected brand new Toyota vehicles from...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said societies as a whole pay a price when journalists are targeted. Almost 90 per cent of those responsible for the killing of 1,109 journalists...
Developing the soft skills is urgently needed to be a successful entrepreneur. "Focusing on your communication skills -- from reading body language to summing up your value in a few...
At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said. The attack is one of...
India’s factory activity growth hit a two-year low in October as new orders and output rose at a slower pace, dragging business confidence to its weakest since early 2017, a...
The ‘Ninth Bangladesh Book Fair-2019’ began at Mohar Kunja in Kolkata on Friday. Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau, and Bangladesh Gyan and Srijonshil Publishers Association...
Four people were shot dead at a crowded Halloween costume party at a house in Orinda in Northern California in the US, the county sheriff’s office said on Friday. The...
Bangladesh will invite more Vietnamese investment during the Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting to be held in Hanoi next month. The Vietnamese government sent a letter to the ministry of...
Stocks suffered losses in the outgoing week that ended on Thursday as nervous investors dumped their holdings amid 'poor' dividend declarations. Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of the...
The United States and China on Friday said they made progress in talks aimed at defusing a nearly 16-month-long trade war that has harmed the global economy, and US officials...
The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations began across the country on Saturday morning. This year, 2,670,333 students from 29,677 educational institutions are participating in the...
The board of directors of 22 more listed companies have declared 'no' dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019 in the outgoing week. Ninety three more companies recommended...
The Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) was shut down for an indefinite period on Saturday after a clash between two groups of students over a football match. “The...
The Bangladesh Blade Factory Limited (BBFL), owing to gross mismatch between its income and expenditure, has become a burden for the state-run Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC), officials said....
Many cattle farmers, especially marginal and poor ones, across the country have started reaping benefits of a cattle insurance scheme based on digital health tracking system. Phoenix Insurance and shurjoMukhi...
The prices of onion increased further by Tk 5.0-Tk 10 to Tk 155 per kilogramme on the retail market of the city on Friday. The current onion prices hit an...
The government is set to borrow a net Tk 55 billion from the country's banking system for the month of November to partly meet its budget deficit, officials said. The...
The state-run Bangladesh Railway (BR) has drawn up a massive plan to convert major routes into double tracks for faster intercity communications, officials said. In the first phase, they said,...
The country's off-docks handled a lower number of outbound containers in October. This indicates that the export earnings might have missed the target set for the month. The Chattogram-based 18...
The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC) that solely authorises the formation of a company or a firm is yet to make any major progress in its automation...
Notwithstanding the status of the capital city of the fastest growing economy, Dhaka presents a fleet of buses that is looked down upon as one the worst in the world....
Under the headline "No more a basket Case", Sadanand Dhume, a columnist of the Wall Street Journal, once wrote: "… Nearly 40 years ago, only the most reckless optimist would...
As things could not have been anticipated in a worse manner, Bangladesh's cricketing virtuoso Sakib Al Hasan has faced the strike of the cudgel of the cricket lords. The sole...
The contribution of sustainable action goes beyond growth, and for banks it drives beyond profitability. Alongside targeting profitability, through sustainable banking activities a bank aims at addressing qualities of profitability...
Since General Motor's demonstration of hydrogen-powered automobile in 1966, hydrogen has remained as the energy for the future. Instead of revolutionising the auto industry, the first hydrogen car found its...
In view of the long term challenges presented by climate change and natural hazards, the government has formulated a long-term Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP 2100) with the vision of...
The outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2012 and brutal response of the Assad regime resulted in large-scale displacement of populations. About 3.6 million people crossed the border and...
Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and a housemaid with throats slashed at the former’s Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka. The incident occurred at house No. 21 on road...
Dubai recently launched ‘Virtual Ifta’, said to be the world’s first service using artificial intelligence (AI) to issue fatwas or Islamic rulings on religious matters. Instead of an Islamic scholar...
One of the phenomenal changes has happened in sartorial preference of the Bangladesh people, particularly the younger generation. Youths and teenagers except only those madrasha-going students wear trousers, shirts or...
Parents are the first teachers of kids. They are heroes and mentors to them. Kids learn everything from their parents. They learn by observing their parents, even when those aren't...
Along with the teaching experience in a prominent middle school in the US, I have also gathered some wonderful teaching strategies through visiting a few schools and two universities. Especially,...
Our country is going through a devastating time. Women, men and children are killed brutally, girls fall victim to rape, eve teasing, sexual harassment by relatives, neighbours and others unknown...
Delhi's air pollution has left several Bangladesh players with sore throats and itchy eyes but coach Russell Domingo dismissed any health concerns and said they were focused on giving a...
Drive around the streets of Kuwait and you won't see these women. They are behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being...
Thailand launched an 'anti-fake news' centre on Friday, the Southeast Asian country’s latest effort to exert government control over a sweeping range of online content. The move came as Thailand...
Investigators are working to submit charge sheet in murder case of BUET student Abrar Fahad within this week, Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said...
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