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Only 37 buying houses have been registered with the Department of Textile (DoT) within the official deadline that ended in July last, officials said. The Ministry of Textiles and Jute...
French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was...
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling Oklahoma's opioid addiction crisis, a judge in the US state has ruled. The company said immediately after...
India's central goverment has offered the country's federal government a payout of 24.5 billion US dollars that include $17.1 billion of surplus and $7.4 billion of excess contingency provision lying...
Two workers were killed as a covered van crashed into a three- wheeler at Baroipara on Chandra-Nabinagar highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were...
At least four children drowned in Sadar and Sreepur upazilas of Magura district on Monday. Akayeed, 2, son of Enamul Haque of Gangnia village in Sadar upazila, met the watery...
Top 10 traded companies captured 28.38 per cent of the turnover featured by the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Monday. Of the top turnover leaders, Beacon Pharmaceuticals featured a turnover...
The country's telecom regulator has moved to formulate a unified guideline for the country's mobile operators instead of separate licences for 2G, 3G and 4G services. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory...
Sunday's showdown by nearly 0.2 million Rohingya at the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar has caught government high-ups off guard. The Foreign Ministry has already communicated with the Home Ministry...
A probe body of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has recommended taking punitive action against 53 travel agents of 12 countries for the cancellation of a significant number of air tickets. It...
Bangladesh now considers exporting power to neighbouring India to utilise the unused electricity. The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) of the two countries discussed the issue Monday to strengthen bilateral electricity...
A survey by the BRAC Migration Programme has recently found that the incidence of questionable deaths of female migrant workers has been rising in the recent years. Between 2016 and...
Both large and low-intensity floods have two stages. At the onset of the calamity, the victims in the rural areas are made to flee their flooded homesteads. They helplessly watch...
Even a cursory look at Dhaka roads choked with cars is certain to belie the fact that the country does not have one single automobile manufacturing plant. Roads congested with...
BOGURA, Aug 26: Some 115 major roads in the district have severely been damaged by the recent flood, causing untold sufferings to the locals. Sources at the Local Government Engineering...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 26: Officials of the Department of Health have started collecting samples of Aedes mosquito larvae for the second time in Rajshahi. Dr Gopendranath Acharya, director of Department of...
GOPALGANJ, Aug 26: A good number of peasants in the remote villages under Gopalganj Sadar upazila have been making a good profit by cultivating wax gourd. They are satisfied over...
Tencent Holdings unveiled on Monday a version of its popular social media app WeChat tailor-made for drivers with state-backed Chinese carmaker China Chang'an Automobile Group, marking a further foray into...
US President Donald Trump said it was realistic to think that a meeting with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani could happen in the coming weeks, according to Reuters. "I have a...
Niall Ferguson is no stranger to the study of history, given his eye-catching books on Empire (2003), Colossus (2004), and Civilization (2011), among so many others. Though he joins the...
With a steady but high economic growth alongside other South Asia economies, Bangladesh is now undergoing a demographic transition. Its demographic structure is in such a stage when birth rate...
The tax-to-GDP ratio is a ratio of an economy's tax revenue relative to its gross domestic product (GDP) or the market value of goods and services a country produces. The...
Decision-making based on evidence rather than superstition was a driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, and the collection of statistics has, accordingly, become a hallmark of the modern age. In...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), in separate drives on Monday, found Aedes larvae in 298 houses and establishments during their second day of its ‘10-day combing operation’. Apart from this,...
The leaders of the group of seven nations (G7) have agreed to a deal to provide an immediate $20.0m fund in emergency help to stop the Amazon forest fires, a...
Growing climate change vulnerability especially rising temperature is adversely affecting the sustainability of Bangladesh’s construction and building industry, said experts. The observations came at a dialogue titled "Environmental Sustainability and...
A draft law, which was approved by the cabinet in principle on Monday, has proposed $160,000 as compensation for the death of a passenger in plane accident. In case of...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has re-fixed the prices of commemorative gold coins for International Mother Language Day. From now, a 22-carat gold commemorative coin, each weighing 10-gram, will cost Tk 50,000...
The cabinet has approved a draft law that proposes harsher punishment for giving false information while seeking loan from the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC). The draft of “The...
Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management will hold a roundtable discussion on “Interest Rate and Expansion of Bank Credit” at the BIBM Auditorium on Tuesday. S. M. Moniruzzaman, Chairman, BIBM Executive...
The total number of mobile phone subscribers in the country has reached 161.772 million till July of this year, according to telephone regulator officials. Among them, the subscribers of Grameen...
This past weekend, Hong Kong saw another violent demonstration. Black-clad extremist thugs hurled Molotov cocktails at the police, smashed police cars and even laid siege to a group of officers,...
China on Monday announced a master plan for six new pilot free trade zones (FTZs) in a strategic move to press ahead with reform and opening up in the new...
DSE arranged a doa mahfil and discussion meeting on Monday to pay homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his 44th death anniversary. DSE chairman Prof Abul...
Singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya feels that Ranu Mondal, who became an Internet sensation after a video of her singing the evergreen Lata Mangeshkar hit, Ek Pyaar Ka Nagma Hai, went viral,...
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday said their party has formed the nomination board before the announcement of schedule for the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency as the seat is...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government has no diplomatic success in resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis and repatriating the displaced Myanmar nationals to...
Around 5,562 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals and clinics across the country. Among them, 3,081 patients are taking treatment in Dhaka division and 2,481 are hospitalised outside...
The High Court on Monday asked the authorities concerned to inform it about steps taken against those involved in the incidents of recent mob beating. It issued a rule seeking...
Experts have put thrust on ensuring a comprehensive "greening" of Bangladesh's building sector to work together to support the integration and mainstreaming of green building concept. They were speaking in...
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) organized a workshop on integrity in Chattogram recently as part of implementing “National Integrity Strategy”. Mr. Abu Farah Md. Naser, Executive Director of Chattogram Office,...
Mercantile Bank Limited recently signed an agreement with Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) regarding collection of monthly bill payment of BREB through ‘MYCash’, mobile financial services of the bank. The...
US President Donald Trump on Monday offered an olive branch to China after days of intense feuding over trade and opened the door to diplomacy on Iran, easing tension on...
Three activists of the Prasit Bikash Khisha-led United People’s Democratic Front or UPDF have been killed in a ‘shootout’ with the army in Khagrachhari, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations...
Two youths went missing as a trawler capsized at Puranbazar near the confluence of the Meghna and Dakatia Rivers in Chandpur on Sunday night. The missing youths were identified as...
The war crimes tribunal has fixed Tuesday to deliver its verdict in the case against Md Abdus Samad, alias Feroz Khan, of Rajshahi over his alleged crimes against humanity during...
A delegation of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) called on Mr M Anis Ud Dowla, Chairman of ACI Group at his office recently. ICMAB president...
For the first time in the country, a government hospital conducted an invasive cardiac surgery on Sunday. A team of 10 doctors headed by Dr Ashraful Hoque Siam at the...
Nearly 100 companies have relocated from Britain to the Netherlands or set up offices there to be within the European Union due to the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the...
Palestinian authority on Sunday slammed the United States for removing the name of Palestine from its list of countries and states. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency, said...
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