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Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc is taking to the air in New York City where users with a little cash to spare will soon be able to book helicopter flights...
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year old Swedish climate activist, could not expose the charlatanism of seasoned or fluke leaders more emphatically at the special United Nations climate summit in New York....
Water-logging has been a seasonally persistent problem for the capital city and the port city. But of late the problem has rendered the two cities virtually dysfunctional even with moderate...
Happiness is defined by people in different ways. In the view of a philosophical school, happiness doesn't have to be related to accumulated wealth. It's a certain condition of the...
In an era of rapid digitisation, young children nowadays are spending more time than ever before on digital devices. Their reading is no longer limited to physical books and other...
With significant increase in international trade in recent decades, fiscal measures draw attention of many stakeholders. The government changes tax rates almost every year through passage of the Finance Bill...
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to hike its prices for all crude grades it sells to Asia in November after an attack on its oil facilities led to...
The recent crackdown on illegal casinos in the city exposed the perception that huge sums of cash are available with a number of people. Instead of keeping the money in...
How the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is interpreted makes a huge difference in what we do, how we project ourselves, and why, over our life-span, we...
An employee armed with a knife attacked officers inside Paris police headquarters Thursday, killing at least four before he was fatally shot, a French police union official said, reports AP....
Nearly 11 million people have participated in a NASA public event, through which they can send their names, stenciled on chips, to Mars along with NASA's Mars 2020 rover. The...
The government will soon release the report of a probe body on two foreign fishing vessels, said State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru to Thursday....
In celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, 1.4 billion Chinese have found relief provided by the central government as it continues to steer the country in...
Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity on Thursday demanded withdrawal of recently increased toll and tax on the country’s water routes. The consumers’ rights body in a media statement protested the hike...
At least one person has died in an accident during a change of a train’s engine in Rangpur’s Kaunia Railway Juncture. Several others were injured in the incident which occurred...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged global investors, particularly the Indian entrepreneurs, to invest in non-conventional potential areas. “It’s time for global investors, particularly the Indian entrepreneurs, to invest...
Bangladesh is considering imposing a ban on the production, import and sale of electronic cigarettes and all vaping tobaccos to prevent health consequences. Secretary for health education to the Ministry...
Daraz Fan Club arranged ‘fan meet’ at Dinajpur Food Dream Palace in Dinajpur on Thursday. The buyers of Daraj met the high officials of the popular e-commerce organisation of the...
Some 307,656 motorcycles were registered in the first nine months of the current calendar year across the country, according to official data. Of the total, 76,104 motorcycles were registered in...
Police have arrested the ‘top leader’ of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh or HuJi-B along with two others in the capital. Md Atiqullah alias Zulfikar, 49, who...
After high-profile flops, Microsoft is getting back into smartphones with a dual-screen Android device that won’t be out for another year. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo as part of a...
Stocks witnessed another flat session on Thursday amid choppy trading as investors were mostly cautious amid ongoing volatile market trend. The market opened on positive note and the key index...
The United States on Wednesday said it would slap 10 per cent tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25 per cent duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies, and...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s last ditch Brexit proposal “can’t fly” because it an unworkable move backwards that leaves Britain and the European Union far apart, a senior European Union official...
A total of 361 people were hospitalised across the country with dengue in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Thursday. Of them, 100 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka...
Eighteen chars in three unions of Lalpur upazila of Natore were submerged as Padma River continued to swell, causing immense sufferings to the residents of the areas. Farmers in the...
World food prices were stable in September with a fall in sugar prices offset by climbs for vegetable oils and meat, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The...
Citi was named Best Bank Overall for Advising Chinese Institutions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Asiamoney’s New Silk Road finance awards -- beating out local banks and...
Turkish authorities have fined Facebook Inc 1.6 million lira ($282,000) for violation of data protection laws which affected nearly 300,000 people, the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) said on Thursday....
A man with alleged links to a series of crimes has been killed in a so-called shootout with police in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district. Saddam Hossain, 28, described as...
A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), officer has died in Kakrail intersection in Dhaka after a truck ploughed into his motorcycle from behind. The accident occurred at 11:30 pm on Wednesday,...
A day after a call by the party MPs to the Prime Minister for taking steps for releasing their chairperson on bail, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on...
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies said it has launched an app to connect workers with businesses needing to fill available shifts. The app, called Uber Works, has started operating in Chicago,...
A Dhaka court has put Salim Prodhan and two others on four-day remand in a drug-related case. The other two are – Roman and Akteruzzaman, reports UNB. Investigation officer Inspector...
World Health Organization (WHO) has listed mosquitoes as among the top threats to public health, especially in developing nations, as each year, millions of people die as a result of...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited inaugurated its Rural Development Scheme (Small Investment) Campaign with the slogan “Expansion of Small Investment, Development of Rural Bangladesh”. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director &...
Six people were killed when typhoon Mitag passed through the country on Thursday, South Korea’s government said. Mitag, the 18th typhoon this year, brought heavy rains in southern parts of...
Saima Wazed Hossain has been named among the 100 ‘Innovative Women Leaders in Global Mental Health’ by ‘Five on Friday’ publication blog of Columbia University’s Global Mental Health Programmes. The...
A World War Two-era B-17 bomber trying to make an emergency landing at an airport near Hartford, Connecticut in the US, crashed and burned on Wednesday, killing seven people on...
The global automotive industry could miss 700 billion euros in sales (765 billion US dollars) over the next seven years due to trade war started by the U.S. government, according...
From Kathmandu to Colombo, it’s a kitchen nightmare: Onion prices have gone crazy. That’s because India, the world’s biggest seller of the Asian diet staple, has banned exports after extended...
A red carpet was rolled out as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi on Thursday morning on a four-day official visit to attend the India Economic Summit of...
GE Power (NYSE: GE) has announced that MYTILINEOS S.A., a leading Greek industrial company, has ordered a GE 9HA.02 gas turbine to be the heart of one of the largest...
The closing ceremony of the 48th Foundation Course of Trainee Junior Officers of First Security Islami Bank Limited was held recently at FSIBL Training Institute. Mr. Abdul Aziz, Additional Managing...
The global automotive industry could miss 700 billion euros in sales (765 billion US dollars) over the next seven years due to trade war started by the US government, according...
Eight warehouses of jhut (waste fabric from woven and knit garments) were gutted in a fire at Ambag in Konabari area of Gazipur district on early Thursday. Mirajul Islam, an...
Luis Suarez scored two classy goals to inspire Barcelona to a 2-1 comeback win over Inter Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday and inflict a first defeat on Antonio...
New car sales in Australia fell for the 18th consecutive month in September, suggesting back-to-back interest rate cuts in June and July had failed to lift consumer spending as banks...
A two-day India Economic Summit-2019 began in New Delhi on Thursday under the theme “Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World”. The World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership...
The Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia will see 27 students on average fight for each seat in this year’s entry tests for the 2019-20 academic session. Altogether, 61,942 candidates are...
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