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Bangladesh will seek expeditious global efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State as Rohingya issue will come up during the 74th session of the UN...
Israel’s election remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with television stations carrying unofficial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz....
Canada ended the fiscal year 2018-2019 with a deficit of 14 billion Canadian dollars (10.6 billion US dollars) on March 31, said the Finance Department Tuesday. In fiscal year 2017-2018,...
A Rajshahi tribunal on Wednesday sentenced three people to death for killing a woman and her son in Bagmara upazila. Four others were given life imprisonment for their role in...
About 160 Bangladeshi workers sent back home from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers, said they had been forced to return despite having valid documents....
The BSEC has initiated a move to set up a chemical warehouse at Tongi area of Gazipur district, aiming to ensure the relocation of chemical warehouses from Old Dhaka within...
Bangladesh’s capital was ranked seventh worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning. Dhaka had a score of 144 at 11:35am, indicating that the quality was unhealthy. The...
US President Donald Trump has said that he will meet both Indian and Pakistani leaders in the next few days while claiming that “a lot of progress is being made”...
Mexican authorities said on Tuesday they had found 29 bodies, packed in more than a hundred plastic bags, dumped in a clandestine grave in the violent western state of Jalisco....
The board of directors of Mercantile Bank Ltd has approved a proposal to establish an Islamic Banking Window. The decision was taken at a meeting of board of directors of...
Stocks witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday as some investors showed their appetite on sector-wise shares. Following the previous day’s correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
Two members of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) (MN Larma faction) were shot dead by unidentified miscreants at Nobochharai in Baghaichhari upazila early on Wednesday. The deceased were identified...
Two people were killed when a motorbike skidded off the road on Patuakhali-Kuakata Highway at Basak Bazar in sadar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Kashem, 26, of...
Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi has said Rohingya issue is not an isolated phenomenon, rather deeply related with growing nationalistic political trend and the world must find a...
A senior US official on Tuesday (local time) called for a UN Security Council response to the attacks on Saudi oil facilities that the United States blames on Iran, but...
A UN human rights expert has implored Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to ‘feel with her heart before it is too late’, saying that even if Rohingyas wished...
Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd (BSRML) is set to merge with BSRM Steel Mills Ltd under the provision of section 228 and 229 of the Companies Act 1994. The merger...
Ten most-traded companies captured more than 32 per cent transactions on the prime bourse on Tuesday, with the National Tubes generating the highest turnover. National Tubes also dominated the day's...
Global social audit firms have been protecting the profit and reputation of brands, but failing to protect the garment workers' safety and improving working condition in the supply chain, according...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday they would bring necessary changes in the existing laws to prevent possible buildup of bad loans in the state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs)....
The central bank has backtracked from its previous decision of slashing the banks' advance-deposit ratio (ADR) in order to help them invest more for achieving expected economic growth by the...
India’s foreign minister said that the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan belongs to India and that he expected New Delhi to gain physical control over it one day, as...
China has turned down a proposal to fund the Barishal-Patuakhali-Kuakata four-lane project on the grounds that it will no more consider any new venture under the government-to-government cooperation. It has...
As Bangladesh is poised to gain the status of developing country, it is set to face newer challenges due to loss of certain facilities in its international trade by then....
Bangladesh is now on its way to graduate from the group of least developing countries (LDCs). Over the last decade, there has been considerable improvement in the overall socio-economic sectors...
Bangladesh is set to hold trilateral talks with China and Myanmar over the ongoing Rohingya crisis during the UN General Assembly in New York this month, reports bdnews24.com. The foreign...
A group of UAE business firms' intention to set up five economic zones in the country augurs well for the investment portfolio scenario in the country. The good news, carried...
The country's local government institutions (LGIs) meant to be crucial for decentralising the diverse array of development activities are no more than titular bodies with very little to share with...
The people have reasons to be enthusiastic as the Finance Minister said early this month that Bangladesh recorded the highest growth in gross domestic product (GDP) across the world in...
As students of Economics and Commerce Faculty during 1980s, most of us had to come across the important monetary principle: "Bad money drives good money out of circulation". Now this...
The railway authority has initiated a three-day eviction drive at the Shahjahanpur railway colony on Tuesday in order to free the country’s railway areas from illegal occupation. The railway officials...
Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) will sign an agreement with Joint Venture (JV) firm-Hifab Oy (Finland) and ECBL for consultancy services of a project ‘Expansion and Strengthening of Power...
The onion price will come down to a tolerable level soon as the government is strictly monitoring the price after its sharp rise in last three days in the city...
Effective implementation of Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy 2015 through a law is essential to meet the government’s target of eliminating all forms of child labour by 2025 and...
Suddenly letting go off the motorcycle handle bars and standing on top of it while driving or bumping brakes and elevating the back part of the bike off the ground...
At least 63 women were tortured to death for dowry alone in the first eight months of the calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. The...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested non-resident High Commissioner of New Zealand to Bangladesh Joanna Mary Kempkers for the country’s support to put pressure on Myanmar so that...
Saudi Arabia's oil facilities were attacked by drones on Saturday. According to The Economist, Saudi Arabia's oil output was cut in half because of the attacks. Yemen's Houthi rebels have...
The body of an unidentified teenage boy was recovered from the Buriganga River at Pagla in Keraniganj on Tuesday morning. Shah Zaman, officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station, said they...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated 'Rajhangsa', the 4th Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The PM formally commissioned the newly-procured state-of-the-art aircraft of the national flag carrier by cutting a...
A Dhaka court has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit its probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist on October 20. Dhaka Metropolitan...
Saudi Arabia said on Monday that the attack on its oil facilities was carried out with Iranian weapons, according to a preliminary investigation, but stopped short of directly blaming regional...
Montu Ali, 56, a silk farmer, is now happy with his family members over cocoon production and its market price this season after a long gap. A resident of Zadunagar...
The government is going to 100-bed full-fledged cancer treatment centres in the eight divisional medical college hospitals to ensure medical treatment for the marginal groups. The Executive Committee of the...
Forest Department arrested two alleged smugglers along with a gecko from the Sundarbans under Sharankhola upazila here on Monday night, reports UNB. The arrestees are M Khalil Kazi, 40, son...
An explosion near an election rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people and injured 31 others, a health official said, but Ghani was unhurt according to an...
Astronomers at West Virginia University in the United States have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, which packs 2.17 times the mass of the sun into a sphere...
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo is stepping up development of 5G handsets by rolling out two smartphones capable of operating on the superfast wireless technology in less than one month. The...
China and Russia on Monday pledged to bolster relations and further develop their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua and Russian Deputy...
Stocks ended lower on Tuesday, a day after the finance minister holding a marathon meeting with the capital market stakeholders to revive the investors’ confidence. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal...
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