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The top court has ordered Swajan Paribahan to pay Tk 1 million in compensation to the family of accident victim Rajib Hassan within a month. A four-member Appellate Division bench...
The government will finalise a list of 300 products tomorrow (Monday) for seeking duty-free market access to Indonesia under a proposed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), officials said. Under the move,...
Local spinners and cotton importers have urged the government to withdraw the age-old provision of conducting fumigation in importing raw cotton from the US to save time and money. Bangladesh...
The waiver of Value Added Tax (VAT) for international oil companies on local production and supply of gas no longer exists in the new law, although their contract has such...
Most of the listed multinational companies (MNCs) lost share prices ranging between 1.0 per cent and 5.4 per cent in last week amid the price correction witnessed by most of...
The view of purely village-made handicraft being sold by vendors coming from areas as far as southwestern or northern districts has long become common in Dhaka. These hawkers walking along...
Although stock market is gaining much popularity in Bangladesh, bond market remains conspicuously unattractive. Very recently, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has sought a number of fiscal concessions...
That the country has slipped two more steps in this year's Global Competitiveness Index would surely add to the citizens' frustration. Last year, it had descended one step in contrast...
Bangladeshi exporters receive export payments from local banks in Taka. Banks receive from importers' banks payment in such foreign currencies which have value of store and can be used as...
It couldn't have been scripted better. Turkey's assault on hapless Syrians to create a buffer zone for apparent Syrian refugees that it has had to endure with met with no...
Last month, the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia's first floating nuclear power plant, arrived in the remote town of Pevek in the country's Siberian Arctic region. Russian state-run nuclear energy company Rosatom...
A ‘Krishi Utshab’ was launched in Khulna and Jashore recently, aimed at addressing the growing needs and challenges that farmers facing. NeoSTAR Innovation in association with Solidaridad Network, Unilever Bangladesh,...
In early 2018, Bangladesh fulfilled all the three eligibility criteria for graduation from the list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) of the United Nations. The Committee for Development Policy (CDP)...
The Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo opened a helpline to provide assistance to Bangladesh expatriates in Japan as Typhoon Hagibis made a landfall on Izu Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo. All Bangladesh...
Creating more business and jobs through fast-growing, innovative firms is one of the key objectives of the developing world today. It is necessary to support innovation in existing companies and...
Four people were killed and three others injured in an early Saturday morning shooting in Brooklyn, police said. Authorities responded to a call about shots fired just before 7in the...
Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States is finally embracing public banking. In the summer of 1989, political theorist Francis Fukuyama famously suggested that American-style...
The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Saturday sealed off the two rooms and an office that were used by BUET unit BCL leaders. Officials, led...
Zdenek Ondrasek came off the bench on his international debut to earn the Czech Republic a 2-1 win at home to England, denying the Three Lions qualification for Euro 2020....
President M Abdul Hamid has asked all concerned to implement development projects maintaining quality and standard. The head of the State came up with the statement while witnessing the progress...
Learning to speak Mandarin has changed the life of Hiral Sangani, a 27-year-old Indian woman. Her proficiency in the Chinese language landed her a job in the Air China Mumbai...
India said on Saturday it would partially restore mobile phone services in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after it imposed a communications clampdown in the Himalayan region before...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed here Friday to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations to achieve joint development and prosperity. Xi and Modi...
Two US astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on...
Anik Sarkar, remanded for his alleged involvement in the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad, has given a confessional statement to court. Anik, a student of mechanical engineering in BUET...
Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Nepal will be a historic one that will lift Nepal-China ties to a new level, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli said here...
Speakers at a roundtable have urged the government to take swift measures to reform the banking sector and set up a dedicated commission to this end. Noted economist Prof Dr...
Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Saturday said university authorities will decide whether they will permit organisational student politics on their campuses or not. “It’s up to them,” she while...
A Dhaka court has granted a seven-day remand to interrogate Dhaka North City Corporation's Ward Councillor Habibur Rahman Mizan in a case lodged over Money-Laundering Prevention Act. Investigation officer and...
2,633 buses were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in the first nine months ofcurrent calendar year. Of them, 2,215 buses were registered in Dhaka during January to September...
At least 70 women were tortured to death for dowry alone in the first nine months of current calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. The...
Facebook Inc’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency, called Libra, suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc quit the group behind...
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have declared a temporary pause to the ongoing protests on the campus during the university's admission tests on October 13 and...
Canada’s opposition Conservatives on Friday promised to balance the budget in five years without slashing government jobs if they win an election this month, but the ruling Liberals insisted the...
Students of BUET resumed demonstrations on Saturday with a 5-point demand including issuance of a notice banning organisational student politics on the campus. The students started demonstrations near the central...
The first year honours admission test results of Dhaka University (DU) ‘Kha’ unit under the academic session of 2019-2020 will be published on Sunday. DU vice-chancellor professor Md Akhtaruzzaman will...
Bangladesh has tabled a draft resolution titled ‘Use of Natural Fibres such as Jute and Sisal’ at the United Nations in New York City for its consideration during the 74th...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government wants to maintain academic atmosphere in all the educational institutions of the country and will not tolerate any act of unjust...
Police have arrested another accused in the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad in Uttara. Moaz Abu Horaira was apprehended in Uttara's sector No...
The history of development of psychiatry in Bangladesh has been grossly under-addressed. Here, the author intends to sum up the available milestones of development of mental health services in Bangladesh....
With the country's population rising, the government must devise ways and means to increase fish production through the best use of existing natural water resources, especially major rivers and their...
One man died and more than a million in Japan were advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on Saturday, bringing with it the...
In the 21st century the style patterns of the design business command the world more than at any other point of time and control the manner in which individuals dress...
The Bangalee Hindus' greatest annual festival Durga Puja spanning over long five days came to an end on Tuesday last. It surely is a religious festival as puja (worship) is...
A mobile court has jailed eight fishermen for catching Hilsa from the Jamuna River defying a government ban at Alekdia Char area in Shibaloy upazila of Manikganj district. Shibaloy upazila...
For the first time in Bangladesh, Microsoft Envision Forum will take place on October 16, 2019 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka. The inaugural full-day conference is part of a...
K-pop superstars BTS have become the first foreign artists to play a solo stadium show in Saudi Arabia. The boy band performed in front of a sell-out crowd at King...
Apple shares are currently trading above the $234 mark on the intraday market, setting a new all-time high for the company. As noted by CNBC, the stock's previous all-time high...
A co-ordination meeting between bank management, zonal managers and branch managers of Rangpur Division of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) was held recently. Md. Idris, Managing Director of RAKUB spoke on...
Expelled Jubo League Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Samrat is being taken to Keraniganj central jail on Saturday after his discharge from the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases. Jailer...
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