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The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) seeks to incentivise jute goods exporters operating at export processing zones (EPZs) to encourage export trade, officials said. To ensure fair treatment of...
The government is set to buy six more ocean-going ships from China to expand the fleet of state-run Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, officials said. The purchase is intended to meet the...
The production in the decades-old Chhatak Cement Factory Limited has been falling for years, hurting the financial health of the state-owned firm, officials said. Established during the British rule in...
Despite increased onion output locally, importers and allied traders are swallowing all benefits depriving consumers and farmers alike, said market observers. Domestic yield has registered a 40-per cent rise in...
It was during the time of Lord William Bentinck as a governor general that English was first introduced in this sub-continent. The proposal had then met with strong opposition from...
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) decided in 1979 to establish the 27th September as World Tourism Day (WTD) and subsequently it started just in 1980. Since its beginning...
September 17 was the Education Day which reminds us of the eventful activism of students backed by a cross-section of people with the participation of the common masses in 1962...
The full-day package tour arranged by the Vivekananda Kendra could not be more cherishing. Although Kerala is our destination, we begin from a temple called Suchindram Thanumalayan. Like most temples,...
As a lot of development has already taken place in the country bringing many changes in society. Disappointingly quite a good number of the changes is negative. Growing insensitivity is...
Kerina Tull, of the University of Leeds Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, deals with changing food system in a regime of rapid urbanization. It is a part of...
It is disheartening to see that the Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) established way back in 2006 by an Act of Parliament is still not in a position to deliver the...
Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Safiqul Alam Firoz was arrested from the city’s Kalabagan area on Friday afternoon. Aziz Uddin, general member of the club, said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday reached Abu Dhabi on her way to New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines that...
At the beginning of classes every autumn, I tease my students with the following question: Is it better to be poor in a rich country or rich in a poor...
After World War II, Asia emerged from years of conflict and centuries of colonialism. The United States quickly became the main guarantor of regional security, signing bilateral defense treaties and...
Despite its promise retail banking has fallen short of its full potential in Bangladesh. Talking to bankers one gets the impression they are resting on their laurels. The fact remains...
Investors and economic observers have begun to ask the same question that I posed in an article published 18 years ago: "Who lost Argentina?" In late 2001, the country was...
During the current decade Bangladesh has grown on average at about 6.6 per cent per annum. In the last three years growth has accelerated to above 7.0 per cent and...
Hundreds of students marched Dhaka streets on Friday with demand of taking effective measures to check global climate change and its impacts on world. Marking the global climate week, students...
Bangladesh is among the countries that showed “substantial progress” in reducing child or maternal mortality, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Besides Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Morocco, Mongolia,...
Tunisia’s Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow in a 2011 uprising triggered the “Arab Spring” revolutions, died in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, days after a free presidential vote...
The board of directors of The IBN Sina Pharmaceuticals Industry Ltd has recommended 30 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019. The AGM will be...
More than one in five babies, totalling to over 29 million, were born in conflict-affected areas last year, said UNICEF on Friday. “Every parent should be able to cherish their...
2,439 buses were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in the first eight months of the current calendar year. Of them, 2,052 buses were registered in Dhaka, according to...
The board of directors of Eastern Housing Ltd has recommended 20 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, officials said. The AGM will be held...
The board of directors of Apex Footwear Limited has recommended 55 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, said an official disclosure. The final approval...
At least 76 journalists were harassed across country in the first eight months this year, according to a report by an independent legal aid and rights body. Among them, eleven...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is preparing for a raid on Kalabagan Krira Chakra club at Dhanmondi in Dhaka after finding illegal casinos at two other clubs. A RAB team...
Ethical hackers are getting the chance to see if they can crack the security on an orbiting US Defense Department satellite, reports BBC citing Wired. Vetted experts will tackle the...
A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on...
A Zimbabwean doctor whose alleged abduction led to days of protests has been freed, activists announced on Friday, as the government asserted he had simply been missing. The disappearance had...
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan on Friday, becoming the second country to do so this week and strengthening Beijing's hand. Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Jubo League leader Golam Kibriya Shamim alias GK Shamim with illegal firearms and a huge amount of money in the city’s Niketan...
Jubo League, the youth front of the ruling Awami League (AL), has expelled its leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, two days after his arrest over illegal casino business inside a club...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left for New York on Friday to attend the 74th UN General Assembly where she may place new proposals to find a solution to the protracted...
Chinese scientists have set up the country's first cold region breeding station for sea rice in the northeast province of Heilongjiang. The breeding station was established in Tieli, a city...
China's telecom giant Huawei unveiled its Mate 30 Series, the world's first second generation 5G smartphone on Thursday. According to Huawei, the new generation smartphone, which is equipped with all...
Awami League General Secretary Obidul Quader has said the drive against corruption and irregularities will be conducted across the country. “Everywhere in the country where there’re irregularities and grafts, drives...
A total of 508 new dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Friday morning. Of the new patients, 165 were hospitalised in Dhaka while 343 in...
The Rapid Action Battalion has raided a business owned by Jubo League leader Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim, two days after the arrest of Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, another leader...
China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun said Thursday that China has to vote against a Security Council draft resolution on Syria as the text missed the essence...
Google will make an additional investment of €3 billion ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centres, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland. The...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Bangladesh is considered especially vulnerable to climate change with one-third of its population at risk of displacement because of rising sea levels. According to...
Thousands of children in Dhaka today (Friday) joined a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action to guard against climate change ahead a UN summit in New York. Gathering at...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted further slowdown in the global economy this year and in 2020, citing escalating trade tension and high policy uncertainty. Updating...
A Bangladeshi youth was beaten to death allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Khathaldangi border in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district early Friday. The deceased has...
Four bodies were found floating in the Baral River in Sluice Gate area in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi district on Friday. Samit Kumar Kundu, officer-in-charge of Charghat Police Station, said...
India’s government on Friday slashed corporate taxes in a surprise $20.5 billion break aimed at reviving private investment, seeking to lift growth from a six-year low that has sapped jobs...
One person was killed and five others were wounded on Thursday in a shooting on the streets of Washington, DC, not far from the White House, police said. Police have...
Britain finally put some documents on the table on Thursday to break an impasse in its Brexit talks with the EU, but the bloc is worried that London is banking...
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