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Bangladesh's media industry has been facing a crisis of declining advertising revenue in recent years and despite certain growth, the digital media outlets, too, suffer for deficiency in their sources...
The inadequacies of the land customs stations (land ports) in facilitating cross-border trade have been a matter of concern for long. Being landlocked from all but the southeast side, Bangladesh's...
The international news is being dominated by the burning of the Amazon rainforest. Although Brazil is more known to and popular with Bangladeshis because of Pele and its football, this...
SYLHET, Aug 27: Launching of a new border haat on Sunamganj district's Dalfabazar border would be delayed as the connecting road is yet to be ready, sources informed. Sources said,...
BOGURA, Aug 27: Many farmers in the district are passing busy time growing early winter vegetables. Early winter cabbage, bean, carrot, cauliflower, spinach, red spinach, water spinach, Malaber spinach and...
The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has received 173 suspected death reports from dengue infections from different hospitals across the country. And, after examining 88 of those...
A chemical warehouse was gutted in a fire at Benapole port on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said the fire originated at Shed-35 of the port around 9am. On information, firefighters rushed...
Bangladesh has so far imported around 7.0 million cubic metres of LNG by 50 vessels from RasGas of Qatar and Oman Trading International (OTI) of Oman to meet domestic natural...
As alluded in my August 21 article "Asymmetric effects of monetary policy", this explains the essential paraphernalia as they relate to business cycle and monetary policy. Financial market experts and...
In 2009 soon after assuming power, the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recognised that the development challenges for the country were many and progress would require a long-term...
Monsoon season is currently wreaking havoc on the more than 911,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from their homeland in Burma (Myanmar) to the ramshackle camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Two years...
China urges the United States to stop malicious hyping and play a positive and constructive role in international and regional affairs, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Geng...
Bangladesh needs to get engaged with three pocket countries of Myanmar -- China, Japan and India -- in a much more “creative way” to find a sustainable solution to Rohingya...
Some 36 multinational and local companies evaded Taka 33.90 billion in Value Added Tax (VAT) in fiscal year 2018-19. Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) of National Board of Revenue (NBR) detected...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was the mastermind behind the murder of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his...
With huge losses of standing crops, riverbank erosion of the Padma River made 100 families homeless in the Harirampur Upazila of Manikganj district this year. Officials of local administration said...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) spotted Aedes larvae in 248 houses and establishments on Tuesday, the third day of its ‘combing operation’ to eliminate the dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Besides, DNCC...
Mohammed Iqbal Hossain and M Nurul Alam were elected new president and secretary general respectively for the board of governors of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Bangladesh (IIAB). Their names...
The Patkelghata Branch of First Security Islami Bank Ltd. started its operation at Patkelghata, Satkhira on August 27. Mr. Syed Waseque Md Ali, Managing Director of the bank, inaugurated the...
Bangladesh on Tuesday signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with Japan to send specified skilled workers to Japan. The MoC was signed by the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry...
Islamic Banks Consultative Forum (IBCF) Research & Training Academy arranged a day-long training programme on “Shariah Governance in Islamic Banking: Global Experience” recently at Bangladesh Association of Banks, Gulshan Dhaka....
To mark this year’s Emirati Women’s Day (August 28), five talented and passionate Emirati first officers at Emirates Airline flew to five continents on the same day—on August 27 (Tuesday),...
Violence is again pushing Hong Kong on the verge of a very dangerous situation as rioters turned anti-government protests into a riot over the weekend. The Hong Kong Police Force,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday gave financial assistance of Taka 1.40 billion to eight organisations. “The Prime Minister handed over cheques for the amount to the authorities concerned of...
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday ordered authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why they shall not be directed to give Tk 10 million to the family...
A total of sixty-four Bangladeshi female workers returned home from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Monday night following alleged abuse by their employers. The female workers had taken shelter...
Modhumoti Bank Limited signed an MoU with May International Trade Services Limited recently at the Bank's Head Office for supply of Credit Report of the customers. In presence of Mr....
A customers get-together-2019 of Standard Bank Limited was held on Tuesday at SBL Northbrook Hall Road Branch in old Dhaka under the Chairmanship of Managing Director & CEO Mr Mamun-...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project for acquiring land to build a sewerage treatment plant in the city’s Uttara area with Taka 13.98...
Ex-secretary Md Sirazul Islam has been appointed as executive chairman of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), effective from September 4. He is replacing Kazi Aminul Islam — the first executive...
Bangladesh's ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan met Friday Brunch quiz winners and dined with them at the Le Méridien Dhaka recently. Every weekend, Le Méridien Dhaka brings a broad spectrum...
Two more people died of dengue in Dhaka and Rangpur districts on Tuesday. In Dhaka, Md Zisan, 18, son of Billal Hossain of Joydebpur upazila in Gazipur, died of the...
Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump said he...
The Indian government will receive a windfall from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the current financial year thanks to a much higher-than-expected dividend, allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
A chemical warehouse was gutted in a fire at Benapole port in Jessore district on Tuesday. Witnesses said the fire originated at Shed-35 of the port around 9:00am. On information,...
Dhaka and Tokyo on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on accepting specified skilled workers by Japan from Bangladesh. The document was signed by the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas...
Country’s largest online marketplace Daraz Bangladesh has launched ‘5th Anniversary Campaign 2019’ for successfully stepping in its fifth year. This online festival, organised for the 3rd time, will run from...
A court in Dhaka today set September 23 to hold hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman...
Awami League on Tuesday paid tributes of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam marking his 43rd death anniversary. The party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader placed a wreath at the poet’s grave...
A young man was killed after a vehicle hit his bicycle in the city’s Wari area early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Tatalu Chandra, 23, of Jatrabari’s Dhalpur area,...
A foreign ministry spokesperson on Monday urged the United States to not misjudge the situation and immediately stop its wrong actions. Spokesperson Geng Shuang made the call in response to...
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested a ‘constable’ for allegedly raping a woman and extorting money and ornaments from her through blackmail. The arrestee is identified...
A war crimes tribunal has sentenced Md Abdus Samad alias Feroz Khan to death for his crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and arson, during the 1971 Liberation War in...
The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted...
Kolkata police's Special Task Force (STF) have arrested Taufeeq Raza alias Ejaz Ahmed, the India head of terror group Jammat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The STF arrested the accused, who was involved...
A mobile court has arrested 26 teenagers and young men from the Dhaka’s Mugda and Manda areas over crimes, including mugging and drug peddling. Twenty-three of them have been sentenced...
A Chinese-born Australian writer held in China since January has been formally arrested on suspicion of espionage, the Australian government said on Tuesday, amid growing tension between Canberra and its...
The floating bodies of two minor cousins were recovered from a pond at Ballavpur village in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj on Tuesday morning, 12 hours after they went missing. The...
Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday as investors found reason to be cautiously optimistic again about the potential for progress in the costly trade war between the US and...
The 43rd death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed today (Tuesday). Nazrul, revered as Bidrohi Kobi (a rebel poet) for his activism for political and social...
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