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Russia and Ukraine have completed a long-awaited exchange of prisoners. Those freed include 24 Ukrainian sailors and - controversially - a "person of interest" over the downing of flight MH17...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has called on city planners to carry out a feasibility study to introduce electric buses in Dhaka. The DSCC mayor made the...
Globalisation is a phenomenon that has been accelerating since the early 1990s, but the term is so complex, it defies any simple definition. Yet globalisation is commonly understood as a...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday suggested that the Bangladesh government should end restrictions on Rohingyas’ freedom of movement and access to the internet and online communications. “Government restrictions have...
The Fourth South Asia Economic Network Conference started at BRAC Centre Inn in the capital on Saturday. South Asian Network for Economic Modelling (SANEM), South Asia Economic Policy Network and...
Voice of Business, an organisation of Dhaka University's Business Studies faculty, arranged a seminar recently to provide a guideline to the participants about making career at Bangladesh Bank. The specialised...
Salman Khan says it has taken him nearly 30 years to get the fans’ love and respect and now he would work hard to live up to their expectations. Speaking...
Police have pressed charges against three suspected operatives of the banned militant outfit Neo-JMB (B) with ties to the deaths of four people during an anti-terror operation in Sylhet in...
A total 103 of 110 youth and teenagers have been released a day after their arrest in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel for allegedly harassing people by making obscene remarks and gestures. “Seven...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia has promised to wipe out all types of gangs in a bid to curb crimes in the capital, reports bdnews24.com. "Whether it's a...
A total of 287 deals worth about US$26 billion (185.42 billion yuan) have been signed so far at the fourth China-Arab States Expo in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region....
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said more than 150 rebel candidates of Awami League in the last upazila election and their patrons will get show-cause notice from Sunday....
Five people, including two women, have collected the nomination forms of BNP to contest the upcoming by-election to Rangpur-3 seat with its ticket. They are BNP Rangpur city unit late...
Leaders of Bangladesh Dairy Farmers’ Association (BDFA) have strongly opposed the government’s move to import beef for protecting the local beef farmers. “Local farmers as well as the whole industry...
Facebook is under investigation in the US to determine whether it has "stifled competition and put users at risk". The new action was announced by New York state Attorney General...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged agricultural colleges to strengthen moral education and talent cultivation to promote the country's agricultural development. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel began on Friday her official visit to China. It's a big event for China-German relations. Merkel, who had visited China as German chancellor 11 times before...
The low over coastal Odisha and its adjoining areas now lies over the North Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coast and its adjoining areas. Under its influence steep pressure gradient persists over...
Bangladesh is set to sew the world’s largest T-Shirt to break the Guinness record, marking the centenary founding anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters...
A schoolgirl died of dengue on Friday night while the government confirmed hospitalisation of 607 new dengue patients across the country in 24 hours till Saturday morning. The deceased was...
New Zealand wholesale trade sales rose in the June 2019 quarter driven by fruit exports, the county's statistics department Stats NZ said on Friday. The sales value for wholesale trade...
‘Bagda’ shrimp farmers in Bagerhat district are counting huge losses due to the decline in production caused by virus attack and drastic fall in its prices. Local farmers said a...
Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The...
China's central bank announced on Friday to cut the cash that lenders must hold as reserves, releasing about 900 billion yuan (127.12 billion US dollars) of long-term liquidity to bolster...
British MPs, including Tories expelled from the party, are preparing legal action in case the PM refuses to seek a delay to Brexit. A bill requiring Boris Johnson to ask...
Asgar Ali Hospital signed a corporate agreement with Sunlife Insurance Company Ltd recently. Under the agreement, all the employees and policyholders of Sunlife Insurance Company Ltd will get corporate benefits...
NRB Bank Limited arranged a Foundation Training Course for newly-joined Management Trainee Officers of the Bank at the Bank’s Learning & Development Center, Dhaka recently. Mr. Md. Mehmood Husain, Managing...
Modhumoti Bank Limited donated Tk. 10.00 (Ten) Lac to “Baitul Aman Jame Masjid”, Tk. 5.00 (Five) Lac to “Dinwali Madrasah Complex” and Tk. 4.00 (Four) Lac to “Nirala Koboristan Jame...
An official of Pran-RFL company was stabbed dead allegedly by muggers at Tongi College Gate in Gazipur on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Kamrul Islam, zonal manager RFL...
A consultation workshop on “Northeast Bangladesh Economic Corridor Development” will be held in Dhaka on Sunday. Mr. A H M Mustafa Kamal, Finance Minister and Mr. Muhammad Abdul Mannan,...
Customers of Dhaka Power Distributor Company (DPDC) will be able to pay electricity bill through bKash, from now on. bKash will facilitate 1.2 million prepaid and postpaid subscribers of DPDC,...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will hold an international conference on 'Belt and Road Initiative : Positioning Bangladesh within comparative perspective' on Sunday. Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, MP, Industries...
Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square...
Dhaka is the largest among 64 source districts in terms of sending female workers abroad followed by Manikganj and Narayanganj, according to the manpower bureau data. Some 89,880 women went...
A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls. Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday. "The...
Brazil doesn’t have the funding to hire more permanent environmental enforcement agents in the wake of surging Amazon fires but will contract local environmental police on a short-term basis, Environment...
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Friday the United States wants “near term” results from US-China trade talks in September and October but cautioned that the trade conflict...
With a series of negative factors at play, worried investors continued to dump shares to ward off further losses, pushing the benchmark equities index lower for the second consecutive week...
Traders are charging exorbitant prices for some fruits to cash in on the demand from dengue patients in the wake of the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease across the country....
From now on, loan applications of the country's micro borrowers will be examined by the Microfinance Credit Information Bureau (MF-CIB), according to the entity's draft guideline. The MF-CIB may also...
India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon on Saturday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, in a setback to...
Motorised vehicle owners in the capital fall prey to illegal payment of at least Tk 0.13 million a day while clearing fines for traffic rule violations, owners and drivers alleged....
Neighbouring India wants to inspect Bangladeshi factories before it imports goods under a regional free trade deal in what local exporters see it as a non-tariff barrier. With Bangladesh's exports...
The cost of the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Project (MRT line-6) is likely to go up by Tk 15.09 billion to Tk 234.94 billion, as its implementing agency has recently...
Banking is one of the most sensitive businesses in the world the core value of which is the trust of the customers. People repose trust in terms of money. Therefore,...
Muzaffar Ahmed, former president of the National Awami Party (NAP), had an extraordinary political career. Following post-graduation degree in Economics from the Dhaka University he began his career as an...
Rohingya refugees are from Myanmar and now living at two officially registered refugee camps in Bangladesh. For decades, the Rohingya have experienced ethnic and religious persecution in Myanmar. The majority...
On arrival at Kanyakumari we took full rest for the day. After the hectic journey, this was overdue. Our plan is to spend a few days here. So, we could...
Is the habit of reading books gradually declining in the country? The answer is simply 'yes'. It also needs an elaboration which means identifying the reasons behind decline in the...
Strong political leadership of the incumbent prime minister together with relative socio-political calm has helped Bangladesh achieve a decade-long average economic growth rate of 7.0 per cent. The country has...
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