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Currently almost 8.50 per cent of the world population is over the age of 65 years. This figure is projected to increase to about 17.0 per cent by 2050. Older...
Losing arable land in a land-scarce country is no doubt worrying. Still more worrying is the lack of information as to the pace at which arable lands are lost. Conflicting,...
The Prime Minister's call last week in New Delhi urging international businesses to invest in potential non-conventional areas in Bangladesh is worth introspection and follow-up by all concerned. While the...
Now that the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China are over, it is time to direct attention back to the Sino-American trade...
Collection of incremental taxes becomes a big challenge for the country's tax authority. In the past fiscal year (FY19), collection of tax revenue by the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
A food festival ‘Street Food Market’ is being held at Gulshan area of Dhaka. The festival is being held from October 08 to 12 at ‘The Eatery’ at Four Points...
Vice-Chancellor of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Dr Saiful Islam on Tuesday evening assured the protesting students that their all the demands will be fulfilled. He came...
A total of 29 Bangladeshis were killed in incidents of violence along the country's borders from January to September 2019, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o...
A group of BUET students have taken position outside the vice-chancellor’s office demonstrating for a seven-point charter of demand, including justice for Abrar Fahad murder. They have also locked the...
Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social...
Chinese people spent more than ever during the weeklong National Day holidays at home and abroad, showing that consumption power in the world's second-largest consumer market still has great potential....
The number of car registration in the country stood at 12,545 in the first nine months of the current calendar year. Of the total, 11,279 cars got registration in Dhaka...
Turkey will not bow to threats over its Syria plans, the Turkish vice president said on Tuesday in an apparent response to US President Donald Trump’s warning to Ankara the...
At the invitation of the US side, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will lead a Chinese delegation to visit Washington for a new round of the China-US high-level economic and...
Tourists tour Xihu Park in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Oct. 7, 2019. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), Chinese tourists made 782 million visits to recreational...
The Nobel Prize in Physics of this year has been jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their work in furthering our understanding of the universe....
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed 10 expelled leaders and activists of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on a five-day remand each in...
Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday did not rule out asking Beijing for help, as the Asian financial hub struggles to deal with months of often violent anti-government...
A Brexit deal is essentially impossible as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson that to do one Northern Ireland must stay in the European Union’s...
Ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route resumed on Tuesday morning after 12 hours of suspension due to strong current in the Padma River. Nasir Ahmed Chowdhury, general manager of Bangladesh Inland...
Paleontologists announced Tuesday in Beijing they had discovered a group of 100-million-year-old fossils of dinosaur footprints in east China's Zhejiang Province. Over 20 footprints, ranging from 22.7 cm to 82...
President M Abdul Hamid today urged all to come forward to make the government’s ongoing drive successful to eliminate militancy, narcotics, extortion, gambling and corruption from the country as he...
City Bank and Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Ltd (KGDCL) have recently signed an agreement. Under the agreement, City Bank will provide automated collection solution to KGDCL through selected branches and...
Another woman died of mosquito-borne disease dengue at Faridpur Medical College Hospital early Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Manju Rani, 55, wife of Haripada Kumar of Basantapur village...
Asian shares inched up on Tuesday, with Chinese shares making decent gains after a week-long holiday, though investors remained cautious over US-China trade talks after President Donald Trump said a...
Three people, including a woman, have been killed and 15 others injured after a bus slammed into a roadside tree in Faridpur. The incident took place on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway...
Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, the expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president who grabbed the headlines for his links to illegal casinos, has been shifted to hospital from jail as he was...
A fire broke out in a garbage dump near BNP's central office in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan, causing panic among the leaders. Smoke from the fire began to spread out of the...
Bangladesh’s continuous efforts to improve infrastructural facilities and the ease of doing business will encourage Japanese companies to invest in Bangladesh in a bigger way, says a top Japanese business...
BUET student Abrar Fahad, who was beaten to death allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of the university unit, was buried at his village at Raidanga village in Kumarkhali...
Samsung Electronics, South Korea's tech behemoth, posted the better-than-expected third-quarter operating profit, a regulatory filing showed Tuesday. The preliminary figure for operating profit was 7.7 trillion won (6.4 billion US...
Demonstrations by students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) demanding justice for the killing of their fellow Abrar Fahad rolled today (Tuesday) into the second day. Starting their...
President Donald Trump on Monday launched a harsh attack on NATO ally Turkey, threatening to destroy its economy if Ankara takes a planned military strike in Syria too far, even...
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it had so far arrested 276 people taking part in demonstrations organised by the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion. Thousands of climate-change protesters...
India will lift a travel advisory on the disputed region of Kashmir on Thursday, authorities said, two months after the government launched a security crackdown before removing the state’s special...
South Korean oil and gas firm Posco Daewoo Corporation is looking for partner to undertake a drilling programme in deep-sea block DS-12 to delineate new hydrocarbon reserves. Daewoo has already...
Prospects for progress in US-China trade talks dimmed on Monday after Washington blacklisted Chinese companies over Beijing’s treatment of predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities, and President Donald Trump said a quick...
The Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has expelled the general secretary and 10 other members of its BUET chapter over their alleged links to the murder of Abrar Fahad, a student...
The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese organisations for their alleged involvement in abuses against ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province. The organisations are now on the so-called Entity List, which...
The overseas jobs declined by more than 15 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of the current calendar year than that of the corresponding period of previous year, according...
The exchange rate of local currency depreciated further against the US dollar on Monday mainly due to higher demand for the greenback for settling the import bills. The Bangladesh Taka...
The government is going to amend the company and bankruptcy laws to facilitate the best investment environment for business, an aide to the Prime Minister said on Monday. Private industry...
A case has been started against 19 people over the murder of Abrar Fahad, a student of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET. Abrar's father Barkatullah started...
Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan, chairman of the Facilities Management Committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), is likely to lose his BCB post, reports UNB. "The board president (Nazmul Hasan) cleared it...
BOGURA, Oct 07: The Sujaitpur-Baluahat connecting bridge over the Goborchapa Canal under Sonatola upazila in the district has collapsed following recent flood. During a recent visit to the area this...
CUMILLA, Oct 07: The Department of Archeology has planned to set up nine more museums in the district. The launch of the museums will create a new horizon in the...
COX'S BAZAR, Sept 07: Speakers at a seminar on Monday said tourist town Cox's Bazar will be developed into a well-planned modern city. To reach this goal Cox's Bazar Development...
A decline in home-ownership from 31.9 per cent to 18.5 per cent between mid-90's and 2011 in the capital city exposes not only the weakness of housing policy but also...
Like in the previous years, the capital was caught in the web of the water-logging scourge once again on October 1. It followed a bout of one-and-half-hour downpour. Invariably, on...
Most of the young people of the current generation in Bangladesh want to make a secure career and accordingly, they are showing little interest in becoming entrepreneurs. The country's gross...
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