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The central bank has announced a fresh policy for providing temporary liquidity support to the scheduled banks for boosting their investment in the country's ailing capital market. Under the new...
The ongoing raids on sporting clubs illegally operating casinos, dens of extortionists and tender manipulators are likely to produce a mixed feeling of surprise and nausea among most people. Surprise,...
The onion prices have gone through the roof. The pungent tuber has become 40 per cent costlier in past seven days and nearly 70 per cent over a period of...
The Prime Minister's emphasis on ensuring security of the whole metro rail project, now under way, could not have been timelier. The would-be travellers of the elevated railway can now...
Instability and the search for peace in Afghanistan continue to attract attention of international geo-strategists. Anxiety has grown over the last year because of terrorist attacks carried out at regular...
In an alarming imbalance struggling families in rural Bangladesh spend almost US$2.0 billion a year on preventing climate-related disasters or repairing damage caused by climate change ? far more than...
The Supreme Court Special Committee for Judicial Reforms has laid out a set of guidelines for judicial officials on using social media. They have been asked to shun social media...
Bangladesh Bank has banned the use of any ticket or coupon which looks like a bank note. From now on, note-like ticket or coupon is not allowed for any purpose...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued a directive asking the seller organisations to pay VAT in case of selling products and services online, reports BSS. The revenue board...
The government has appointed former secretary Nasima Begum as the chief of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The law ministry issued the circular on her appointment on Sunday, reports bdnews24.com....
The past decades have witnessed positive and stable development in comprehensive China-UK relations despite some twists and turns. The UK is now at the crossroads of Brexit. What will be...
Populism, we may say, springs from activities where policies of a government are driven by popular public demand ignoring rules, regulations or any resultant negative impact in future. From economic...
Game of Thrones will have one final chance to achieve Emmy glory later as television's best and brightest prepare for this year's US awards ceremony. The fantasy epic, which came...
The total number of mobile phone subscribers stood at 162.583 million till August, as per data by telephone regulators. Among them, Grameen Phone Ltd (GP) has the highest 75.619 million...
The World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer, and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Road Safety, Jean Todt are scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh...
Stocks rebounded strongly on Sunday as all three indices soared by more than 1.0 per cent each, powered by investors’ buying spree on large-cap stocks. Stockbrokers said the market registered...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday highlighted the negative impact of climate change on world peace. At a ceremony to mark World Peace Day, Guterres said, "We know that peace...
ISHO, a new age furniture company, puts thrust on affordability and desirability of new generation buyers. Rayana Hossain, Founder, ISHO says "At ISHO we strive to make furniture efficient and...
JCI Bangladesh recognised ten youths of Bangladesh for their contribution to society through a an event titled “Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) 2019” held at a hotel recently in Dhaka....
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed upholding the system of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and improving the CPPCC work of political consultation, democratic oversight, and participation...
The number of truck registration in the country stood at 6,177 alone between January and August 2019, according to an official data. Of the total, 4627 trucks were registered in...
Police have conducted raids on four sporting clubs in the latest episode of the crackdown on illegal gambling establishments in Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com. Law enforcers combed the Arambagh Krira Sangha,...
The United Kingdom will give an additional 87 million pounds for sustaining the Rohingya operation in Cox's Bazar, lifting their contribution to a total of 226 million pounds since the...
The ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route resumed on Sunday after eight hours of suspension due to poor navigability. BIWTA Assistant General Manager Nasir Uddin Chowdhury said the services were restored...
Public subscription of state-run Ashuganj Power Station Company Ltd will open tomorrow (Monday), aiming to raise Tk 1.0 billion. The initial public offering (IPO) subscription will stay open for both...
The Dhaka North City Corporation or DNCC has launched an eviction drive in the capital to clear footpaths of illegal occupation. The crackdown led by DNCC's Executive Magistrate Sajed Anwar...
A Dhaka court has sentenced five members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Majahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 12 years in jail in the case over the simultaneous bomb blasts throughout the...
Bangladesh internet users increased by 1.96 million in August - the highest in a single month recorded in recent years. Of them, 1.959 million were from mobile telecoms operators and...
A total of 430 new dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Sunday morning, indicating a slight improvement of the situation. Of them, 132...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Abu Dhabi on Sunday for New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly after making a stopover in the UAE. She departed from Abu...
Pakistani police say a bus has rammed into a hill after its brakes failed on a mountainous road, killing 22 passengers and injuring 15 in the country’s northwest. Officer Abdul...
Japanese automaker Toyota will recall 357 imported Lexus cars in China due to defective airbags, according to China's market regulator. The recall, starting from Oct 11, was filed by Toyota...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and an aftershock only slightly weaker shook the Albanian port town of Durres on Saturday (local time), rocking buildings there and in...
Let’s Furnish, the first-ever rental furniture platform in Bangladesh has signed an agreement with Shohoz Truck - a wing of the country’s largest online destination Shohoz. The agreement was signed...
Chattogram city dwellers from now on will be paying all City Corporation fees online through BRAC Bank Limited. Through state-of-the-art Digital Banking platform, Agent Banking channel and Branch...
JMI Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd has recommended 30 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, said an official disclosure on Sunday. The final approval...
Almost 90 big companies in sectors from food to cement to telecommunications are pledging to slash their greenhouse gas emissions in a new campaign to steer multi-nationals towards a low-carbon...
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) home loan clients will now enjoy special privileges while purchasing Bravat and Nanogress products. An agreement in this regard has been signed by M Khorshed Anowar,...
Police in South Carolina were hunting for suspects on Saturday (US local time) after at least one person opened fire before dawn at a crowded bar in the city of...
An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania. Steven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the...
The UN has welcomed a proposal from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels to end all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace initiative. A statement said the proposal could...
Stocks witnessed an upward trend in early hour of trading on Sunday as investors showed their appetite on large-cap shares. Grameenphone led the rising index rise, followed by Square Pharma,...
Poor navigability forced the suspension of ferry services on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route on early Sunday. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended the services at around 3:00am as it became...
Beacon Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies, has displayed a steady growth for last five years in its financial indicators, including net profits. The company's earnings per share (EPS),...
A Rohingya couple was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Leda Rohingya camp hilly area in Cox's Bazar on early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Din Mohammad,...
The Ministry of Commerce has sought a comprehensive proposal from traders' groups for establishing cold storage facilities to help ensure the quality of rawhide and skins, officials said. To this...
The government has taken a move to bring some labour-intensive informal sectors under regulations thereby fixing minimum wages for the workers in those sectors to ensure their lawful rights. To...
The central bank has prepared the draft of a first-ever law designed to prevent production, supply and use of counterfeit currency. The draft proposes the maximum life-time imprisonment for the...
A fresh tariff hike by private container depots in Chattogram has irked the users of the facility. The shipping companies, freight forwarders and consignees are the key users of services...
Shakib Al Hasan has helped Bangladesh break a streak of four losses in T20s against Afghanistan with a 4-wicket victory in the final league match of the tri-nation series in...
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