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Expressing his hope to ensure discipline in roads and highways through enforcing the Road Transport Act, 2018, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said development has no meaning...
Police have been granted 10 days to grill DSCC Ward Councillor Moinul Hoque Monju in two separate cases involving illegal arms and drugs. His driver ‘Sajjad’ has also been remanded...
Nestle Switzerland on Friday expressed interest to provide technical assistance to Bangladesh Standards & Testing Institution (BSTI) to improve its food testing capacities and ensure food quality, reports UNB. Bernie...
Schools in the Indian capital will be shut until Nov 5, the city government said on Friday, as residents breathed the season's worst air for a third straight day, reports...
The abundance of hilsa in coastal rivers has triggered a drop in the prices of the popular fish in Dhaka after the government lifted a fishing ban during its breeding...
Tannery Village, the second of its kind in the country, will be set up in Mirsarai Economic Zone (MEZ) in Chattogram in the near future. MEZ has awarded allocation of...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started a fresh tax survey to identify 1.2 million new tax payers in the country. Different tax zones across the country are conducting...
Lawyers of convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam have met the Jamaat-e-Islami leader in prison after the apex court upheld his death sentence for crimes against humanity in Rangpur during...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced the largest capital increase in its history, with 125 per cent increase from $93 billion to $208 billion. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina gave...
The 100-day countdown to the celebrations of the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will begin on December 8. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested five suspected robbers from Kalindi area in Keraniganj early Friday. The arrestees were identified as Manik, 30, shamim, 23,...
Some 215 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Seventy two of them were hospitalised in Dhaka, the...
The local administration imposed section 144 in Kamarkhara union of Tongibari upazila as two factions of Awami League called meetings at the same venue on Friday. Hasina Akter, Upazila Nirbahi...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has set out to identify Bangladeshi nationals who gambled in Singaporean casinos during the last five years. The national anti-graft agency wrote to its Singapore equivalent...
Some 307 fishermen were awarded different terms of jail in Manikganj district during the 22-ban on transporting, catching and hoarding mother hilsa across the country that ended on Thursday. During...
Ford Motor plans to close an engine plant in Romeo, Michigan, as part of a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union for a new four-year contract, a source...
The National Youth Day is being observed across the country in a befitting manner on Friday. The theme of the day this year is ‘Skilled youth building the country, Bangabandhu’s...
Rail links between Dhaka and Mymensingh have been restored nine hours after the derailment of a train. Services resumed around 7 am on Friday after workers completed the repair work...
Senior government officials in multiple US-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook’s WhatsApp to take over users’ phones, according to people familiar with the...
State-run Petrobangla has reminded Australian oil and gas exploration company Santos and its joint venture (JV) partner Singapore's KrisEnergy to carry out its mandatory drilling programme as part of its...
Bangladesh came out on top of the league of recipients of loans from Japan in the Japanese fiscal year (JFY) 2018, thanks to significant progress in the JICA-funded projects here....
Dhaka will seek more financial support from the World Bank as a high-level delegation of the global lender arrives in the city today (Friday) on a five-day visit, officials said...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has requested India to change the guideline of Line of Credit (LoC) to overcome problems it is facing in implementing the Indian government-funded projects, sources said. The...
Prices of onion, garlic and vegetables increased further last week augmenting woes of the consumers, especially the commoners. Hilsa was selling in the city at exorbitant prices yesterday, the day...
Bangladesh General Insurance Company (BGIC), the trustee of both DBH 1st Mutual Fund and the Green Delta Mutual Fund, has sought approval from the securities regulator to change the asset...
The securities regulator has asked the country's premier bourse to take an initiative for repaying the dues of the clients of Shah Mohammad Sagir & Company by selling its brokerage...
Ten most traded companies accounted for over 26 per cent of transactions on the prime bourse on Thursday, with the National Tubes making it to the top of the turnover...
A deeply divided US House of Representatives took a major step on Thursday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public,...
Indian authorities have identified few 'discrepancies' in the process of exporting readymade garments (RMG) from Bangladesh to India under the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) deal, officials said. They...
The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has stepped in to facilitate quick import of onion, as the Indian government allowed export of the spice from Karnataka on Monday. After receiving a...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will boost its aid commitment to Bangladesh this year, prodded by its growth potential while helping the country reach its next stage, its senior executive...
The insurance regulator is making one of its biggest changes in the existing selling system of insurance products aiming to deepen penetration of the same. The system called bancassurance is...
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The measure detailed how the inquiry will move into a...
The country's economy is growing a healthy rate. Inflation continues to be moderate and within the targeted level. Stock market, however, is an aberration and a constant source of embarrassment...
The two-year ban on Bangladesh ace cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, one year of which to be suspended depending on his conduct during the first half of the term, has dealt...
The government reportedly is at the final stage of formulating the country's first ever SME (Small and medium enterprise) policy. No doubt an inspiring move, it might still cause a...
BOGURA, Oct 31: Due to absence of a concrete bridge over the Bau river, thousands of people including students of Satani Government Khaduli Primary School at Mothurapur union under Dhunot...
Rabindranath Tagore's Amol in his play titled 'Dakghor' waits for a letter from the king with least signs of fatigue. Amol fantasises about being free of his confinement in his...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has indicated that Dhaka would host the next summit of the D-8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, in 2020. The Prime Minister gave...
In the January 1954 issue of The Atlantic, John F. Kennedy, then the junior US senator from Massachusetts, argued that the ongoing migration of industries from New England to the...
Spouse and disabled children, if there is any, of retired public servants will get pension after their death even if the retirees had drawn the full money, the government has...
Grameenphone has got two more weeks to inform the apex court how much money it can pay at present from total Tk 125.80 billion dues as claimed by Bangladesh Telecommunication...
Just the metamorphosis of the term "burned out" tells us how rapidly and irrevocably society has changed over the past generation. From being a reference to "life-management" to becoming an...
A three-day international tradeshow titled 'Leathertech Bangladesh-2019 kicked off on Thursday aiming to bring global technology at doorstep of the country's leather industry. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi inaugurated the event...
The government will formally introduce electronic passport (e-passport) on November 28 this year, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday. While briefing reporters at his office on his...
Dhaka North City Corporation’s (DNCC) mobile courts evicted some 450 illegal establishments in the city and also fined Tk 300,000 on Thursday. A mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Mir...
A research team, led by Bangladeshi origin US scientist Dr Rushdy Ahmad, has figured out a new easy and quick way to detect tuberculosis (TB). “The fast, ultrasensitive, multiplexed blood-based...
The government has extended 13-digit online VAT registration deadline till November 30, 2019 says a National Board of Revenue (NBR) statement. National Board of Revenue (NBR) took the decision based...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to seize over Tk 3.0 billion worth of assets belonging to the BNP chairperson's former adviser Mohammad Mosaddek Ali Falu in a case involving...
Apple's official online store in Alibaba's Tmall has released details of its promotion for the upcoming Double 11 shopping festival with discounts and more payment choices. Experts said it's a...
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