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Ismail B Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident in Lebanon, was supposed to move to and enrol at Harvard on Tuesday. But his visa was canceled, and he was then deported...
The government of Bangladesh on Thursday signed a $185 million financing agreement with the World Bank to add about 310MW renewable energy generation capacity, which will contribute to reliable, affordable...
Production at Karnaphuli Paper Mills which remained suspended since August 4 following suspension of gas supply resumed on Thursday. KPM started producing papers since Thursday morning when gas supply to...
The 12-year-old girl Nupur returned home on Thursday after a successful minimally invasive cardiac surgery at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), the first of its kind at any...
A half day long Review Workshop was held at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) on Thursday at its auditorium. Md. Nazimuddin, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank and Director...
India's two main ports said on Thursday they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater attacks on...
Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan Rabab Fatima said the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) signed recently with Tokyo on accepting and sending Bangladeshi ‘Specified Skilled Workers’ (SSW) to Japan was a significant...
A small television shop in Kwun Tong of China's Hong Kong has few customers, but the news programmes on the screens kept attracting the attention of passersby. A few elderly...
A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a prominent filmmaker to one year in prison with hard labour for Facebook posts that criticised the military. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was...
The portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman must be preserved and displayed at all courtrooms across the country in next two months, the High Court ordered...
Malaysia's producer price index (PPI) for local production dropped 2.2 per cent year-on-year in July as most sectors posted negative growths, official data showed Thursday. Malaysian Statistics Department said in...
The High Court today granted permanent bail for Ayesha Siddika Minni, who has been arrested in the sensational case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna....
Dhaka has improved as the least safe city in the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Safe Cities Index (SCI). This year it climbed to the fifth position...
Kolkata Police have arrested four people, including two Bangladeshi nationals, for allegedly transporting stolen cell phones from Gujarat to the city and selling them off at various electronic markets in...
A high power Bangladesh delegation led by Architect Yeafesh Osman, Minister for Science and Technology, recently visited the Volgodonsk Branch of JSC AEM-technology in Russia. Main purpose of the visit...
Bangladesh has set up a $400 million joint venture with a Chinese company to build renewable energy projects to provide a total 500 megawatts of power by 2023, a government...
The construction work of the Padma Bridge will be completed within the next year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said Thursday. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate it...
Malaysia’s Axiata Group Bhd on Thursday said its planned merger with Norwegian telecoms peer Telenor ASA is on track, after local media reported the deal may have hit a snag....
The Indonesian government is not abandoning Jakarta after announcing plans to move the country’s capital, its planning minister said, pledging to spend $40 billion to save the slowly sinking city...
Two people have died after a bus ploughed into two parked buses from behind in Dhaka’s Ashulia. The incident occurred in front of Kabirpur Betar Centre on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway...
A mover driver died at a hospital on Wednesday night hours after he was shot at a business establishment on Fouzdarhat Link Road in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram. The deceased...
A 12-year-old girl died of mosquito-borne disease dengue at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Manisha Akter, 12, daughter of Makbul Hossain of Dinajpur...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received treatment like a general patient from the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital at Agargaon in the capital today (Thursday). “The prime minister went...
Three suspected criminals were killed in separate gunfights in Gazipur, Cumilla and Chattogram districts on Thursday. In Cumilla, Detective Branch (DB) police said the gunfight took place at Gumti Beribadh...
Rising fears about the health of the global economy have prompted talk of recession, spreading anxiety about jobs and growth. The US-China trade war is casting a shadow over the...
The British prime minister's decision to suspend parliament has prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit. It sparked protests across the country, a legal challenge...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 30.5 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Wednesday, with the United Power Generation & Distribution Company generating the highest...
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday the United States will have to observe the 2015 nuclear deal if it wants to meet for talks and that Washington...
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday the compound interest rate of bank loans is not feasible in modern times. He said the borrowers do not want to pay...
Facebook Inc acknowledged a flaw in its Messenger Kids app, weeks after two US senators raised privacy concerns about the application, and said that it spoke to the US Federal...
The government will take necessary steps next year to ensure fair prices of rawhide of the sacrificial animals across the country. "Rawhide prices of sacrificial animals were fixed at a...
Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association has written to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) seeking a hike in bus fares. Prices of materials like tyre and tube have gone up,...
The telecom regulator has started the process of scrapping the licences of the country's two biggest telecom operators -- Grameenphone and Robi -- allegedly for not paying dues to the...
Making choices during undergraduate years for a student is never easy. The undergraduate stage is the step right before entering the professional field. Hard-work, dedication and consistency-- these three components...
As Maria types away on her laptop, she sighs heavily. While she had thought she would be working as an accountant at a large corporation, here she is writing a...
These days there is a new restaurant on every other corner of the street, and the culture has become as such that everyone goes out multiple times a week to...
Bangladesh all-rounder Farhad Reza on Wednesday said the good quality of fitness is the key to playing longer in professional cricket, reports UNB. He is currently busy with the fitness...
World Confederation of Business (WORLDCOB), a US-based international organisation, has handed over the BIZZ AWARD-2019 to Dhaka Mercantile Co-operative Bank Ltd. (DMCB). BIZZ AWARD is an international awards programme which...
A forgery crisis is quietly roiling the world's gold industry, reports Reuters. Gold bars fraudulently stamped with the logos of major refineries are being inserted into the global market to...
SIRAJGANJ, Aug 28: Jute growers in the district are worried over the present market price. A good number of growers said they got good price of their produce last year,...
The National Board of Revenue in a submission to the High Court (HC) has informed that testing units for chemical test of imported fruits have been set up at all...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) started functioning on September 01, 2016 amid much publicity by replacing two defunct statutory bodies, namely the Board of Investment (BoI) and the Privatisation...
The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) industrial park is finally taking shape nearly a decade after the scheme was taken up to facilitate a steady supply of raw materials of drugs...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday denied bail to suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Judge of the...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has approved an order from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend country's parliament from the second week in September until 14 October - just 17...
The US-China trade war has flared up in less than two weeks of President Trump's announcement to delay a set of new tariffs worth US$160 billion on Chinese imports until...
The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought....
Export is becoming competitive day by day. Financing has been identified as one of the main drawbacks of the export sector. Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) has tried to take...
Trade has assisted in lifting millions of people out of poverty. As such trade can also act as a driver in terms of poverty reduction for women and lead to...
Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo announced his plan on August 26, 2019 to relocate the country's capital city from Jakarta, home to more than 10 million residents, to a new location...
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