President Xi Jinping has highlighted the necessity for a cyberspace environment that is safe and manageable as well as open and innovative. Efforts should be made to raise people's sense...
The number of people participating in radical protests in Hong Kong has significantly dropped. However, few violent protesters still act rampantly. Because Hong Kong is at the crossroads of worsening...
Awami League candidate Rezaul Karim Razu has withdrawn his candidature from the by-polls to the Rangpur-3 seat, which fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad. Razu,...
The Bangladesh archery team returned home on Monday afternoon after taking part in the Asia Cup Archery: Stage 3 that concluded recently in Philippines. State Minister for Youth and Sports...
Saudi Arabia's state-owned company Aramco is the world's biggest oil producer, generating 10 per cent of the world's oil, but it is also one of the world's most profitable businesses....
Police recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two youths from Kata Pahar and Kabita Chattar areas in in Cox’s Bazar on Monday. One of the deceased was identified as Rifat (25),...
An eight-month-old child died of dengue at Khulna Medical College and Hospital while 619 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Monday...
India’s top court has asked the federal government of the country to restore normal life in Kashmir as soon as possible, as a partial shutdown of the disputed region entered...
More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into...
Volkswagen has agreed to pay up to 127 million Australian dollars ($87 million) to settle an Australian class action stemming from the 2015 diesel emissions scandal, the German automaker and...
Stocks edged up marginally on Monday amid cautious trading as some institutional investors came forward to support the market. Meanwhile, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal held a meeting with the...
BNP on Monday demanded the government sack Jahangirnagar University (JU) Vice Chancellor Farzana Islam immediately for reportedly bribing Chhatra League leaders. “There’s an interesting news item that the offence of...
A young man was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Pathania Goda in Chandgaon area in Chattogram city on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ziad, 23,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the authorities to form a separate police unit for the safety of the ongoing Dhaka metrorail project. The directive came from a meeting on...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said legal action will be taken against those who have breached party discipline. “Not only organisational action but administrative and legal actions...
SystemEye Technologies Limited has announced to give brand new laptop in exchange of any old working or nonworking laptop or desktop. Anyone can get brand new laptop with any configuration...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced a ban on all flavoured e-cigarettes besides tobacco and menthol in response to a recent nationwide spate of sometimes deadly lung illnesses...
Dhaka WASA has awarded Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) as the recognition of one of the highest bill collecting banks. LGRD minister Md Tazul Islam handed over the certificate and crest...
The United States has issued satellite images and cited intelligence to back its claim that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies involvement in Saturday's air attacks,...
Paperfly, a new generation tech based smart logistics service provider, has launched a feature to solve a critical problem for the e-commerce sector of the country. ‘Return’ has been a...
A woman and her minor daughter were killed when a train hit a van on an unauthorised level crossing at Belaichandi in Syedpur upazila of Nilphamari district on Monday. The...
Iran said on Monday there would be no meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the United Nations, Iranian state television reported, after the...
RANGPUR: While a peasant being oppressed by the British rulers for his aversion to planting a single sapling of indigo was a scene of bygone era, farmers of Rangpur are...
China's logistics business continued to expand in August, but the expansion rate was lower than the previous month, according to a recent survey. The logistics performance index for August came...
The Director General (DG) of Indian Coast Guard Krishnaswamy Natarajan arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit. The Director General is accompanied by two delegation members, says a media...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited US President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources....
At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to...
Bangladesh have included two new faces — Mohammed Naim Sheikh, Aminul Islam Biplob — in their T20 squad for the ongoing tri-nation series. Rubel Hossain and Shafiul Islam and Nazmul...
Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there. A flight of Saudi Airlines SV-804 carrying the Bangladeshi workers landed...
The UK is not prepared to postpone Brexit beyond the current 31 October deadline, Boris Johnson is to tell European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at talks on Monday. The lunchtime...
Stocks witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Monday as some optimistic investors showed their appetite on sector-wise shares. Following the previous day’s modest gain, the Dhaka Stock...
Islami Bank Bangladesh and Mutual Trust Bank have decided to issue bonds worth of total Tk 21 billion subject to approval of the regulatory authorities, according to official disclosures on...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal sits with stakeholders today (Monday) to exchange views on the 'development' of the capital market. Top officials from Bank and Financial Institutions Division, Bangladesh Bank,...
A small plane crashed near the southwestern Colombian city of Popayan on Sunday (local time), killing seven of the nine passengers aboard, the city’s mayor and the country’s civil aviation...
Speakers at a programme on Sunday suggested applying state-of-the-art financial technology (fintech) to help protect financial transactions from possible cyber attacks. They also stressed the need for greater interaction among...
Experts at a seminar have called for making the health insurance mandatory in the country, saying that voluntary micro health insurance scheme has been proved ineffective in Asian countries. They...
The Communicable Disease Control (CDC) unit of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will launch a countrywide survey by the end of this month to indentify different species of mosquitoes...
Tea smuggling through border has constituted a potential threat to the business of local manufacturers, industry insiders said. The smuggling of various items, such as tea, has increased in volume...
Oil prices retreated on Monday after hitting their highest since May at the open, on fears over supply disruptions following an attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities on Saturday that...
Chairperson of the country's Competition Commission Abdur Rouf said on Sunday the practice of competition will help raise gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.0-3.0 per cent a year. In theory,...
The overall average price of commodities in China shrank by 2.0 per cent in August from the previous month and by 6 per cent from the same period last year,...
Bangladesh have conceded a 25-run defeat to Afghanistan in the third T20 of the tri-nation series after losing a one-off Test match, reports bdnews24.com. Mujeeb Ur Rahman’s 4-wicket haul helped...
That one person dies from suicide every 40 seconds somewhere on this planet is alarming. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is disappointed that the governments the world over are not...
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, reportedly, would soon wind up its Bangladesh operations. It has already informed the state-owned Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) about its decision. The BCIC owns nearly...
The University of Development Alternative (UODA) arranged a seminar on “Job Stress and Safety Working Conditions on Organisational Productivity” at its auditorium in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka recently. Professor Dr....
The securities regulator that did see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil of the country's stock market until recently has found 10 investors' involvement in manipulation of...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the non-listed insurance companies will have to enter the capital market by December this year to further strengthen the bourses and the economy....
In the FY2019/20 budget speech, the Minister of Finance announced the introduction of a new VAT Law effective from July 01, 2019. The Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act...
Argentina's politically intractable foreign-debt crisis serves as a powerful reminder that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) still has no answer for dealing with the volatility of international capital flows to...
Some 183,000 families have improved their condition from ultra-poor status with support of a project conducted by Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). The information came at a paper presentation programme...
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