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Some 239 children were killed between January and July of the current calendar year, according to a report by local independent rights and legal aid body. Of them, 25 children...
China will take market-oriented reform measures to meaningfully reduce real interest rates and ease financing difficulties, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Friday. The...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has named Russell Domingo, a former coach of South Africa, as the head coach of the national team. BCB President Nazmul Hassan announced the decision at...
Outbreak of severe foot and mouth disease (FMD) of cattle across the country has been severely causing immense economic loss to the farmers as it is increasing drastically year-on-year basis,...
Car registrations in the country stood at 9,929 in the first seven months of the current calendar year, according to an official data. Of the total, 8,875 cars got registration...
Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said the government is determined to track down the alleged syndicate that is 'playing games' with the price of rawhides and skins of animals sacrificed...
Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association (BHSMA) on Saturday announced to keep the rawhide sales suspended until its meeting with the commerce ministry scheduled to be held at 3:00 pm...
Underscoring the importance of public awareness against mosquito breeding, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Saturday said Integrated Vector Management (IVM) is necessary to combat the dengue...
Four members of a family sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out in a house at Kathoa of Salna area in Gazipur city on Saturday. The injured are Yakub...
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday began restoring landline phone services after a nearly two-week unprecedented security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to downgrade the majority-Muslim region’s autonomy....
A second year student of a government college in Magura died of dengue at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Sumon Bashar Raj, 18,...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has recently signed an agreement with International University of Scholars (IUS) at EBL head office in the capital. Under the agreement, students of IUS will be...
A Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim was killed and several injured on Saturday when a bus crashed due to a tyre burst in Saudi Arabia. The incident occurred 100 km away from...
Heavy monsoon rain inundated most parts of the city on Saturday, inflicting immense sufferings on the city dwellers. Bangladesh Meteorological Department recorded 114 millimeters rain in six hours till 9...
On way to Ooty, lovingly called the Queen of the South. A cradle of Nature's bounties, Ooty is blessed with an eternal spring season. The highest temperature usually persists on...
Once upon a time women were regarded as only housewives globally. Even the graduate women were forced to stay inside the four walls of their dwellings. Their keen interest to...
Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. The...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday endorsed a benchmark interest rate cut in a bid to stimulate the economy. In his daily press conference, the president said cutting...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with his family members on the dark night of 15 August 1975. A pall of gloom overpowers the Bangali nation as the month...
Recent decades have brought significant progress toward a more just and equal world in areas such as poverty reduction, immunisation, and life expectancy. But in some areas, change has been...
Disney's live-action remake of the animated film Mulan is facing calls for a boycott, after its star voiced support for Hong Kong's police force. Chinese actress Liu Yifei, a naturalised...
Two suspected robbers were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Sondaha Kanelpara village in Santhia upazila of Pabna district early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Shaheen alias Holka Shaheen,...
La Liga champions Barcelona fell to their first opening day defeat of the season in 11 years when they were beaten 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao thanks to a sensational late...
The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1...
Trading and official activities on both the bourses of the country will resume tomorrow (Sunday) after a nine-day Eid-ul-Azha holiday, officials said. Trading hours on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited witnessed a consistent growth in revenue and profitability, registering a net profit growth of 16.84 per cent for the year ended on March 31, 2019. The...
At least Tk 4.95 billion (495 crore) of six state-owned banks (SoBs) remained stuck against 157,273 cases filed to recover the money from farm loan borrowers, statistics show. Between January...
The number of clinically diagnosed cases of mosquito-borne dengue infection reaches 50,000 this year on Friday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). In the last 24 hours...
Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) has set a target to install 10 million smart pre-paid meter by 2025 to facilitate its clients for paying hassle-free monthly power bills, official said....
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is likely to face a major challenge in building a circular rail route around Dhaka city due to 'conflict' with a number of transport projects, sources said....
Four people were killed and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi in the early hours...
All the 59 commercial banks are likely to be allowed to handle "challan" that serves as the biggest instrument of submitting money to the public exchequer. The Finance Division, which...
Tanners are set to start purchasing salted rawhide from hide and skin merchants from today (Saturday), said industry insiders. General Secretary of Bangladesh Tanners' Association (BTA) Shakawat Ullah told the...
Among the four mobile operators in Bangladesh, state-owned Teletalk is the smallest. With less than 3 per cent market share, Teletalk has an insignificant role to play in shaping the...
There is a growing tendency of ignoring hygiene in this country. From hotels and restaurants to bus terminals and train stations, from households to hospitals and work places - a...
Land is the most important asset or factor of production in Bangladesh, particularly in rural areas. In fact, land is the only source of agricultural production; other inputs are complimentary...
Journey by of over 40 million people to and from various parts of the country, a death toll of 35 over the 12 days prior to and after the Eid...
At this very juncture the size and complexity of international business is required to be comprehensively weighed. International business, in the true sense of the term, is totally different from...
Bangladesh Bank (BB), on July 31, announced a shift from monetary aggregate targeting (M2) to interest rate targeting (IRT) in the conduct of its monetary policy. The new policy will...
A massive fire broke out at a slum in Mirpur-7 on Friday evening, according to UNB and several local television channels. Ershad Hossain, duty officer at the Fire Service and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the debt of Bangabandhu’s blood will have to be repaid through materialising his dream to build a poverty– and hunger-free 'Golden Bangladesh'. "The...
A total of 1,719 people infected with dengue were admitted to hospitals across the country in the past 24 hours till 8am on Friday, according to government data. Of the...
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Friday said rawhide export should continue to protect the interests of the poor and orphans. “Those who want to do leather business must do...
The UN on Friday called for urgent investment to provide educational opportunities to the Rohingya children in and around the vast camps in south-eastern regions of Bangladesh. The United Nations...
Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, the...
Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, MP of Narail-2 constituency, has inaugurated a health care centre named ‘Narail Express Health Care Centre’ in Narail district town. The healthcare centre was...
Eminent author Rizia Rahman has died in a Dhaka hospital at the age of 80.The Ekushey Padak-winning novelist passed away while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Apollo...
At least four people of a family were killed and three others injured after a car collided with a bus in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh on Friday. The incident took...
Bangladeshi rice traders demanded cash incentives for rice exports as the country has been unable to secure any deals since a long-standing ban was lifted in May, reports Reuters. “At...
The European Central Bank (ECB) shut down one of its websites on Thursday after it was hacked and infected with malicious software. The lender said no market-sensitive data had been...
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