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This paper last Tuesday carried an item that exposed the lack of basic amenities in our tourist spots. A group of tourism observers including foreigners, were taken to various spots...
923 delivery vans were registered in the country from January to July 2019, according to official data. Of the total, 805 delivery vans were registered in Dhaka alone, according to...
Incidents of child rape witnessed an alarming rise in the first eight months of the current calendar year compared to the corresponding period of last year, says a report released...
Offshore banking was allowed in 1985. Bangladesh Bank (BB) announced its policy on setting up offshore business units (OBU) on December 17, 1985. The primary objective of offshore banking was...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has recently sought tax incentives for development of the country's bond market. The stock market regulatory body, according to media reports, has made a...
Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN's governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate...
As many as 793 people, infected with dengue, were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Friday, according to government information. Of the total, 325 were admitted...
Some 40,000 metric tonnes of three types of fertiliser are kept under the open sky in Khulna covered with merely tarpaulin for a year for lack of storage space have...
Lebanon has expressed its interest to strengthen further the trade ties with Bangladesh through signing the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). “We have received a proposal from Lebanon in this regard....
For the 2nd time in public hospitals, the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) conducted a minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) of a patient’s partially blocked blood vessels that transport...
The Awami League is unfazed by the leadership tussle that is consuming the Jatiya Party after the death of HM Ershad, the ruling party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said,...
Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its latest high-end system-on-chip (SoC) 5G chipset, Kirin 990, on Friday in Beijing, which the company calls a new breakthrough amid the ongoing US crackdown....
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has formalised a new law that reduces the resource tax on heavy rare earths from 27 per cent to 20 per cent, a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that his country welcomes Chinese investment and expects more positive outcomes from bilateral cooperation. Putin made the remarks Vladivostok at a meeting with...
A vintage gramophone with a white porcelain horn and antique brass wooden base is the best product that Egyptian girl Maya Yusuf has bought on the e-commerce platform. Her father...
With proper investment, Australia’s technology sector could give the country’s economy a much needed boost, according to a report released on Thursday by economic advisory group AlphaBeta. However, based on...
Australian announced the establishment of a new Perth-based scientific hub that will allow experts from across the Indian Ocean rim to protect the health of ocean carbon ecosystems such as...
The government has undertaken a project involving Taka 26.90 billion to introduce digital system in judiciary, automate administrative system and trial process, establish e-courts and increase ICT knowledge and efficiency...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started the process to procure modern technology-based electronic fiscal devices (EFDs), aiming to check VAT evasion both at the retail and wholesale levels....
Telenor Group and Axiata Group Bhd have mutually agreed to end discussions to merge their Asia operations to gain a bigger foothold in the region’s mobile phone market with potentially...
A rampaging Serena Williams moved to the brink of a record equalling 24th career Grand Slam title on Thursday storming past Elina Svitolina 6-3 6-1 to book her spot in...
The first section of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway - extending from the airport to Banani over a 7.45 km stretch - is poised to open to the public next year,...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted import of all types of chemical fertilisers from paying Advance Tax (AT) to facilitate agriculture production. The importers will enjoy the exemption...
Pakistan will make the fullest possible response to India’s actions in disputed Kashmir and the global community would be responsible for any “catastrophic” aftermath, Imran Khan, the prime minister of...
China and the United States agreed to jointly take concrete actions to create favourable conditions for subsequent consultations, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. This came...
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of...
Foreign minister A K Abdul Momen has emphasised signing a ‘Coastal Shipping Agreement’ for enhancing trade and commerce links between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He came up with the importance...
Three Rohingya youths were arrested along with Bangladeshi passport from Akbar Shah area in the port city on Thursday night. The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Yusuf, 23, Mohamamd Musa,...
Resuming the overnight score 271 for five, Afghanistan ended their first innings at 342 all-out in 117 overs on Friday at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram. This is Afghanistan’s...
Despite their overhead cost increased due to the recent wage hike, Bangladeshi readymade garment (RMG) manufacturers are facing continuous pressure from the global buyers to reduce the products prices further,...
Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader who led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, died aged 95 on Friday, two years after the army brought an ignominious end to almost four decades...
The United States said on Thursday (local time) it was deeply concerned about the Myanmar army’s filing of a lawsuit against a religious leader who told President Donald Trump the...
For over a decade, manufacturer Matsutek plied away at building its business with big Western brands, supplying firms such as Philips and Honeywell with products made in its Chinese factories...
Five thousand sharp weapons were recovered from a godown of a local NGO at Malbhitapara in Ukhiya upaizla of Cox's Bazar district on Thursday night. Tipped off, a team, led...
Bangladesh is likely to seek confirmation of US$ 5.40 billion Chinese loan for 11 priority projects, whose implementation has been delayed for years due to lack of foreign assistance, officials...
Bangladesh's air cargo sector has witnessed a phenomenal growth in international and domestic freight movement over the past 10 years through 2018. It has showed 154 per cent and 479...
The World Bank has agreed to pay Bangladesh as much as it needs to carry out development work provided the projects are for the wellbeing of people, finance minister AHM...
The country's banking sector saw deposits swell in July as savers turn away from putting money into the national savings instruments. The growth in deposits leaped more than 12 per...
The Islamic State group has been reluctant to use humans to carry bombs because of the group's reduced numbers, so it has tried out a new tactic: Bovine suicide bombers,...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in its regular weekly meeting on Tuesday approved a couple of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) projects that aims at prolonging...
On August 26 last, 109 women who went to Saudi Arabia as domestic help returned home. Actually they were compelled to return. In the past eight months about 800 such...
It indeed appears quite innovative to learn that the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) is soon going to launch country-wide entrepreneurship training for potential entrepreneurs under its Entrepreneurship and Skill...
The probe body formed by the government to look into the death of schoolboy Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance after a ferry was reportedly delayed for a joint...
Bangladesh Women's Cricket team have qualified for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia as they reached the final of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifiers, reports...
In this last piece of the digitalisation series, attention turns to Bangladesh. State Minister for Information and Communications Technologies Zunaid Ahmad Palak describes the 10-year Bangladesh drive to digitalise as...
SYLHET, Sept 05: Students of at least 150 schools in Sunamganj suffer extremely every monsoon for the inundation problem. It happened this year too affecting the academic activities and causing...
The photograph of a country boat speeding languidly on a Bangladeshi river printed in a newspaper recently delighted many readers. That was not all. There were other attractions --- the...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 05: Attack of rodents at Aus paddy fields under Mohanpur upazila is causing widespread crop damage. According to sources, Aus paddy will ripen within a couple of weeks....
PABNA, Sept 05: Off-season bean cultivators in Ishwardi upazila of the district are happy over the present market price. They are making a good profit from the produce this season....
Inequality is one of the key challenges of our time. Numerous studies conclude that in 2015 almost half of all household wealth was owned by 1 per cent of the...
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