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Users of Pathao now can make their payments through EBL SKYPAY Payment Gateway using any Visa or Mastercard. An agreement in this regard was signed by M Khorshed Anowar, Head...
South Korea’s LG Display on Tuesday announced a voluntary redundancy programme for its domestic production line employees amid mounting financial losses. News of the possible job cuts came a day...
The High Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Fouzia Rezwan - the newly appointed principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College to join her post. Without imposing any restriction on...
Veteran cricket coach Nazmul Abedeen Fahim resigned from his post at Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) citing personal reason. Nazmul joined BCB in October 2005. Since the last 14 years, he...
A total of 615 new patients with mosquito-borne disease dengue were admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday. Of them, 198 were...
Philippine police say at least 15 villagers were killed and several others injured when the truck they were riding in lost control and fell off a cliff in a remote...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved eight projects involving Tk 89.68 billion. The approval came from the Ecnec meeting held at the NEC conference room...
The UN Network on Migration has reiterated its call to end the detention of children for immigration purposes in every region of the world. Detention of children for immigration purposes,...
Forest Department arrested two alleged smugglers along with a gecko from the Sundarbans under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat on Monday night. The arrestees are M Khalil Kazi, 40, son of...
Takehiko Nakao announced his resignation on Tuesday as the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), effective Jan. 16, 2020. Nakao assumed office as the bank's president on April 28,...
The government has planned to create a sanctuary for elephants and tigers called 'Bangabandhu Conservation Corridor' in Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT). The forest department is carrying out a feasibility study...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday Washington had struck trade agreements with Tokyo that could be implemented without congressional approval, but stopped short of assuring Japan that new tariffs...
The total number of international accolades conferred on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has increased to 37 as she received ‘Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Awards-2019’ on Monday. Chief Adviser of...
An Indonesian engineer was electrocuted while working at a power station of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified...
The board of directors of Runner Automobiles Ltd has recommended 10 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019. The final...
Two motorcyclists and an NGO worker have been killed in road accidents in Gazipur and Panchagarh districts. In Gazipur, a bus crashed into a motorcycle in Sreepur upazila on Monday...
The board of directors of BSRM Steels Ltd has recommended 25 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019. The final approval the of dividend will...
Train communications of Mymensingh with other parts of the country remained suspended since Tuesday morning following the derailment of a train in Sadar upazila. A bogie of Dewanganj-bound Teesta Express...
The board of directors of Bangladesh Steel Re-rolling Mills Ltd (BSRML) has recommended 25 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019. The final approval the...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday as optimistic investors showed their appetite on sector-wise shares. Following the previous day’s modest gain, the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
When more than 730,000 Rohingya fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017, Bangladeshi journalist Sharif Azad was sympathetic to the plight of his fellow Muslims, survivors of a military-led crackdown...
A young man who found a wallet containing €2,000 (£1770; $2200) in cash on the street in Rome refused a reward after returning it to its owner. Mossan Rasal, a...
An attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities was a reciprocal measure by “Yemeni people” to assaults on this country, said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday, hours after a...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war,...
The government will import 1.4 million metric tonnes of refined petroleum for a six-month period (July-Dec) of the current year from seven state-owned companies of six countries through negotiations. The...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday directed the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) to investigate the import of substandard buses from India and take actions...
Credit flowing to new small entrepreneurs fell significantly in the first-half of the year as risk-averse bankers were unwilling to offer such loans. The total lending to the fresh small...
A video of Aysha Siddika Minny taking her blood-soaked husband Refat Shorif to a hospital on a rickshaw has surfaced on social media, months after footage of the grisly attack...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will seek to persuade Britain’s top court this week that his decision to suspend parliament until shortly before the date for Brexit was not...
The share prices of three low-cap companies - National Tubes, Khulna Printing & Packaging and Gemeni Sea Food- are soaring without having any price sensitive information. Within one week, share...
Ten most-traded companies captured nearly 36 per cent transactions on the prime bourse on Monday. Monno Jute Stafflers generated the highest turnover. The Monno Jute's share price also soared 50...
Three people, including a staff of the Chattogram election office, were held in the port city on Monday night for allegedly helping Rohingyas in acquiring National Identity Cards (NIDs) of...
Prices of onion increased further by Tk 5.0 a kilogramme in the city's retail markets on Monday. The key spice was traded between Tk 65 and Tk 75 per kg...
The tax collector has moved to remove the complexities over issuing the VAT registration after it found 80 per cent of the businesses have not updated their identification yet. Some...
The government has recently decided to transfer idle money of state entities to the public exchequer with the aim to stop misuse of public money. In defending the action, the...
In a country blanketed by pervasive culture of obscurantism, adult women in villages coming out of home was once an absurd proposition. In recent years, the spectacle has changed almost...
Compared to the previous year, Dhaka University's global ranking doesn't draw a blank this time around but that brings a little solace to be sure. Last year the prestigious Times...
Bangladesh and Sweden have agreed to work together to upgrade their cooperation to a ‘broader relationship’, the foreign ministry said. Ways and means to that effect was “extensively discussed” on...
Bangladesh may soon find itself tossing and turning between two key questions: 'What are we', that is, identifying what the country sees itself as; and 'What do we do with...
UN human rights experts on Monday urged the government to look into the alleged killing of Rohingya refugees at their camps in Cox’s Bazar. The experts also expressed their deep...
The government has appointed Dr Jafar Uddin as the secretary of commerce ministry. Jafar, who was serving as the youth and sports secretary before new appointment, will replace Md Mofizul...
Bangladeshi businessmen often face short-term cash crisis before and after producing certain goods, especially until the payment for sales and exports is made. There are mechanisms to resolve the problem...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) identified Aedes mosquito larvae in 26 more houses and establishments as it continued the final phase of its combing operation for the second consecutive...
IMPLICATIONS OF THE MODIFIED/ AMENDED VAT ACT 2012: What is understood according to the VAT law details provided is that only taxpayers paying 15 per cent VAT rate are eligible...
If there was any doubt that farmers in Bangladesh are the most indifferently served groups of producers in the country, the record of rock-bottom price during the three seasons of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award-2019, introduced in the memory of eminent scientist and former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Chief Adviser...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start open market sales of onions in a subsidised price from Tuesday in the capital for enabling the consumers to heave a sigh...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has assured that the government will ensure good governance in the capital market. “Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) is looking into whatever happened in...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday urged the United Kingdom (UK) to continue supporting Bangladesh in international forum especially in the United Nations (UN) for creating pressure on...
As many as 132 women were killed by their husbands in the first eight months of the current calendar year, according to a local independent rights and legal aid body....
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