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Rahgir Al Mahi Shad is standing in the parliamentary by-polls to Rangpur-3 with the ticket of the Jatiya Party his father HM Ershad founded. The seat fell vacant with the...
After constitutional changes in Kashmir, India has now generated more debate and controversy in international relations with its dealing with of Assam. On August 31, India published the final version...
Literacy is a fundamental right of all. It contributes to one's empowerment and development as well as socio-economic advancement of a nation. Since 1967, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...
The 4th South Asia Economic Network Conference on “Subnational Finance and Local Service Delivery” concludes in the capital on Sunday. The programme was organised by South Asia Network on Economic...
Former Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe, who died last week, aged 95, leaves a mixed and divisive legacy. Mugabe - the oldest African leader when he was removed from power in...
Firms do not last without performing, especially during times of market volatility, uncertainty and in rapidly changing business environments. For investors this becomes a key thinking point, since to succeed...
The government has allocated around Taka 4.65 billion for giving loan without interest to the insolvent and disabled people in villages under the Rural Social Service (RSS) programme in the...
Bangladesh's textile industry has attained the 30th position worldwide in terms of trade volume in four decades when the country has become the second largest apparel exporter. Now, the textiles...
Jatiya Party has selected Raushon Ershad as the Leader of the Opposition in parliament keeping the decision to pick its Deputy Leader of the Opposition pending. The decision over the...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and some of the biggest names in journalism and technology have announced plans to help tackle so-called fake news. The new measures include an early...
Experts at a workshop on Sunday underscored the need for developing economic corridor in the country as it is essential for achieving goals, including Vision-2021, Vision-2041 and the Sustainable Development...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the Awami League did not take any decision to dissolve the existing committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). "But, Prime...
The newly elected Director General of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, Qu Dongyu recently concluded a discussion with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus over a social...
The government is set to amend the Companies Act-1994 to allow formation of a company by single person. A new section, ‘One-Person Company’, will be incorporated with the existing law...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a joint land assault exercise featuring multiple military branches near the island of Taiwan, which military experts said on Sunday shows the...
Cox’s Bazar International University has suspended a girl student following media reports identifying her as a Rohingya national. Dr Abul Kashem, Vice Chancellor of the university, confirmed the media about...
In the plant of the world's top auto glass manufacturer Fuyao Group in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, forklifts are busy transporting windshields into standard containers. These windshields,...
The government will impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting Hilsa from Monday, October 9 to 31, to ensure the safe spawning of the popular fish during...
Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh has announced a plan to recognise the outstanding achievements and contributions of ten young persons in the country. The voluntary organisation made the announcement through...
BNP has nominated Rita Rahman, chief of People’s Party of Bangladesh, one of the components of the 20-party alliance, as its candidate to contest the Rangpur-3 by-election. Party's senior joint...
The first-ever liver transplant patient at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has died of dengue, the authority says. Siratul Islam Shuvo, 20, was released from hospital after the...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has found out the exact location of the Chandrayaan-2 lander that had lost communication with the space agency just moments before its scheduled soft...
Stocks ended marginally higher on Sunday as some investors continued to show their appetite on sector-wise shares amid dividend expectation. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE),...
At least 246 people were killed and 97 injured by lightning strikes across the country from February to August 2019, according to a report of a non-government organisations. The report,...
China’s foreign exchange reserves rose unexpectedly in August, even as the yuan posted its biggest monthly drop in 25 years amid escalating trade tensions with the United States. The country’s...
Kwong loves the pure adrenaline rush he gets when he takes his motorcycle out on the weekends to light up his lacklustre life. The 35-year-old lives with his parents in...
One was killed and 29 others were injured as of 10 am after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Weiyuan County of Neijiang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 6:42 am...
A man and a woman died of dengue in the capital and Khulna on Sunday. In Dhaka, Nasima Akter, 48, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:30am, said Inspector...
India has decided to forge a new economic bloc of fast growing South Asian countries excluding Pakistan for deeper cooperation to accelerate economic growth in the sub region. “India is...
Teenager Bianca Andreescu stunned Serena Williams in a gripping US Open final to claim a first Grand Slam title and deny the American a 24th major. Williams, 37, did not...
The government will give primary school pupils money for buying uniforms from the next year, the state minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain has said. "The pupils...
The Jatiya Party has reached a compromise on the leadership tussle between its founder HM Ershad’s brother GM Quader and widow Raushon Ershad that threatened to split the party. The...
A day-long conference of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) for the Branch Managers of Khulna division was held in Khulna on Saturday. The Managing Director of the bank Md. Ali Hossain...
All officials of Bangladesh Industrial Technical Assistance Centre (BITAC), from now on, will enjoy all Employee Banking services including salary disbursement and all retail loan facilities i.e., credit card, home...
Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday in a protest over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the country’s...
A female housemaid allegedly killed herself at Moghi village in Magura Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Sumaiya Khatun Rachana, 14, daughter of Billal Molla of...
Gazipur district administration has formed a five-member committee over an explosion that left at least 17 people injured on the ground floor of a hotel in the city's Boar Bazar...
The board of directors of KDS Accessories Ltd has recommended 10 per cent cash and 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2019, said an...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he cancelled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that killed...
The government is set to take a project involving Tk 500 million for the development of Kaptai Lake, officials said. As part of the move, the Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation...
The securities regulator has compelled many stock brokers to pay back a substantial amount of fund to the designated investors' accounts that they used defying the existing rules. In a...
Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer fields and are building the first mass...
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) started racking up profits again in oil trading on the back of falling international oil prices. The recent fear over the economic fallout from the...
Economists made on Saturday an urgent call for measuring growth with equity as Bangladesh is reaching the danger level of income inequality. Alongside a uniform and quality education system at...
The tax collector and the auditing watchdog are at loggerheads over the authority to audit taxpayers' documents filed in revenue offices. Tax officials said the Office of the Comptroller and...
Most of the Dhaka pedestrians believe that when they step onto zebra crossings, motorised vehicles are bound to lower their speed, thus allowing them to get to the other side...
The third ministerial conference of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) that concluded in the city last week called for sustainable use of the blue economy resources ensuring balanced approach...
The fast increase in the production of exotic fruits and their supply to the urban markets speak of a vital fact --- people in the country are not used to...
The United Nations will be hosting six high-level plenary meetings - unprecedented even by its own standards - on the occasion of the 74th session of the General Assembly in...
Today, September 8, is the International Literacy Day. This year the day is being celebrated worldwide to promote literacy as part of the right to education, as well as a...
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