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India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed to 2.0 per cent of gross domestic product in the June quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020 from 2.3 per cent in...
Two minor girls, who went missing on Monday evening, were found dead in a pond of Purbo Uchna village in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat district on Tuesday. The deceased were...
The Padma River continued to swell in Natore after India opened all the 119 gates of Farakka barrage to ensure speedy discharge of the Ganges water following flood in Patna...
With the goal of crafting a platform to help fresh-graduates find exposure to lucrative internships and job placements, the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Career Club has organised a job...
Harvest Agro Industries Ltd has decided to increase its equity investment in Domino’s Pizza through its associate company -- Golden Harvest QSR Ltd. The Golden Harvest QSR Ltd will invest...
The government today (Tuesday) morning sent a total of 10 teams, each led by a joint secretary, to as many districts for monitoring the supply, price, and stock of the...
SEOUL,Oct 01: Samsung C&T, a construction unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, secured an order worth $630 million to build a combined cycle power plant in Meghnaghat, Bangladesh. Construction will...
A fire broke out in Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. The flame burned down Saudi Arabian Airlines’ office, but no casualties were reported. The blaze originated from...
Fundraising through initial public offerings (IPOs) remained sluggish as only seven companies raised Tk 4.95 billion, including premium, through IPOs in January-September period of this year. The nine-month figure is...
Robi, a multinational telecom operator, is likely to be listed on the stock exchanges within the shortest possible time frame, BSEC Chairman Prof M Khairul Hossain said on Monday. "The...
The prices of onion shot up by Tk 35-Tk 50 per kilogram in the retail market on Monday. Market observers described the hike 'artificial'. They said big traders including importers...
The National Board of Revenue has requested the central bank to ask banks not to open letters of credit in favour of any importers who skipped updating business identity. Importers...
The number of Americans who believe President Donald Trump should be impeached rose by 8 percentage points over the past week as more people learned about allegations that Trump pressured...
China is holding a grand celebration, followed by a military parade and mass pageantry at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing today (Tuesday) on its National Day, marking the 70th founding anniversary...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina today (Tuesday) returned home from New York wrapping up her eight-day visit to the USA when she joined the 74th session of the United Nations General...
India has raised objections to Article 2 of the draft of the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) proposed by Bangladesh in the working group meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative...
Private credit growth decelerated further in August as some banks had to prepare for complying with the central bank's revised advance-deposit ratio rules. Lower import growth also pushed down the...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 1945, the United Nations was born in response to the call of the times....
Huge protest demonstrations by younger generation around the world on 20 September and holding of Youth climate summit followed by international conference on climate change by the United Nations on...
The murky background and the realities which have produced the two firebrand and earth-shaking teenage girls are different from each other. One of them is Greta Thunberg, who has recently...
Record paddy -- Boro and Aman -- yields should have been an occasion for unalloyed celebration but it isn't quite so. While it brings a measure of joy no doubt,...
SYLHET, Sept 30: Dwellers in the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) area have been suffering much due to inadequate supply of pure drinking water as the authority concerned supply 45 million...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 30: With the water levels of the rivers Padma, Mahananda, Pagla and Punarbhaba rising in Chapainawabganj and Natore districts, over 10,570 hectares of cropland have gone under water....
RAJSHAHI, Sept 30: Nearly 1,800 families of 15 char villages under Bagha upazila remained marooned for the last one week. Till Saturday afternoon, no relief materials have been distributed among...
NETRAKONA, Sept 30: The slow progress in the repair work of Mymensingh Road's Netrakona section has increased sufferings of the locals. A good number of locals said they are dissatisfied...
When a country has more than a hundred universities, how those universities anchor their vision upon their declared missions gives us an idea of the future mileage of that country....
When the Youth Climate Summit concluded on September 21, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres predicted that if governments still lack the political will to make peace with nature, "there is huge hope...
Pakistan’s government on Monday summoned India’s top diplomat in the country over accusations of deadly shelling by India in its portion of the disputed region of Kashmir, as tensions run...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) continued its eviction drive against illegal establishments in the city on Monday. Officials of the DNCC conducted drives at the city’s Karwan Bazar, Farmgate,...
The final report of the Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking was formally released at an important UN event in New York on September 27, said a...
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in Bangladesh recently organised an Economic and Trade Outlook event for its valued clients and regulators, according to a press release....
Vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) Prof Khondoker Nasiruddin has finally resigned from his post. He submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Education on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left New York for Dhaka, ending her-eight day official visit to the Unites States. A flight of the Etihad Airways carrying the prime minister and...
Speakers at a workshop have said a proper and transparent VAT collection system is important for development of a country. The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) organised the...
Legal action will be taken against those who will try to create any artificial crisis by stockpiling onion, said Commerce Secretary Md Zafar Uddin. The official informed that , state-owned...
China’s top trade negotiator will lead an upcoming 13th round of talks aimed at resolving a trade war with the United States, a senior Chinese official said. Vice Premier Liu...
A tribunal will deliver its verdict in a case filed over the much-talked-about murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on October 24. Feni's Women and Children’s Repression Prevention...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan insisted on Monday that Turkey will keep pushing for the truth behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year,...
The government will spend Tk 980 million for building 45 terminal pontoons to facilitate the passengers at different river ports in the country, officials said. Under the move, the Bangladesh...
Heavy rains have killed at least 113 people in India’s Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said on Monday, as flood waters swamped a major...
Gas-rich Brunei is interested to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Bangladesh amid the country's mounting natural gas demand. Brunei's High Commissioner to Bangladesh Haji Haris Othman has expressed the...
Stocks slipped into the red on Monday, snapping a two-day winning streak, as risk-averse investors went on selling binge on large-cap shares. The market opened on positive negative note and...
Package tour visitors to Macao dropped by 18.8 per cent year-on-year to 635,000 in August 2019, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistics department said on Monday. The latest report from...
As producer of a long-running television show that spotlights the problems faced by Indians working in the Gulf, Rafeek Ravunther is used to hearing their heart-rending stories of exploitation. But...
Emirates will be operating daily A380 flight to Cairo International Airport from October 2, 2019, making it the first scheduled commercial airline to operate an A380 flight into Egypt. The...
Country’s largest online marketplace Daraz Bangladesh, for the first time, recently launched a fan meet campaign in the country. Organised by 'Daraz Fan Club', the main aim of the event...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon Myanmar to take action to ensure the Rohingyas’ safety and security and live-up to previous agreements made with Bangladesh over the return of the...
Onion prices have shot up by Tk 40-50 a kg at retail overnight as the spice sold at Tk 100-130 a kg in different areas of Dhaka city on Monday...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested two people from a bus along with 50 wild birds at Kotwali Police Station area in Jashore district on Sunday night. The arrestees are...
Police arrested a primary school teacher and another man along with 303 bottles of phensidyl in Jhatkathi area of Sadar upazila of Pirojpur district early Monday. The arrestees are-- assistant...
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