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With only two days left for Eid-ul-Azha, thousands of holidaymakers moved out of the capital for their ancestral homes on Friday to celebrate the festival facing long tailbacks on highways...
After Chinese mainland film authorities barred its films, actors and filmmakers from attending the 56th Golden Horse Film Festival that will be held in November in the island of Taiwan,...
China's foreign trade of goods rose 4.2 per cent year on year in the first seven months of this year to 17.41 trillion yuan (about 2.49 trillion U.S. dollars), customs...
Chinese tech firm Huawei released its much-anticipated self-developed operating system (OS) HarmonyOS on Friday amid the company's US ban and an escalation of trade tensions. A Huawei executive said this...
China's consumer prices stayed elevated in July, fueled by higher fruit and pork prices, while factory price inflation dropped year on year, showing that overall inflationary pressures remain under control....
IPDC Finance Limited will sponsor the BASIS National ICT Awards ceremony 2019. An agreement between BASIS and IPDC Finance was signed recently in this regard. BASIS President Syed Almas Kabir,...
Rail services between Dhaka and the northern region have resumed after three and a half hours. Rail link was snapped after a train got derailed in Tangail. A coach of...
Robi and ICMAB have signed a MoU with a view to collaborate for enhancing the knowledge and skills of ICMAB’s students in the latest digital technologies. Under the agreement, Robi...
Shokalia is all set to host the largest congregation during this Eid-ul-Azha scheduled to be celebrated on Monday. Kishoreganj Deputy Commissioner Sarwar Murshed Chowdhury, also president of Sholakia Eidgah Maidan...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited inaugurated its Agent Banking outlet in Nurnagar Bazar of Shyamnagar Upazila, Satkhira recently. S M Jaglul Hayder, Member of the Parliament, Satkhira-4 inaugurated the outlet as...
The 36th Annual General Meeting of National Bank Limited was held recently at Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka. Zainul Haque Sikder, chairman of the Bank, presided over the meeting....
Facebook is reportedly in talks with news publishers to offer “millions of dollars” for the rights to publish their material on its site. The move follows years of criticism over...
Railway communication between Dhaka and the northern region has been suspended after a compartment of the Khulna-bound Sundarban Express went off the track in Tangail. The coach derailed west of...
Ferry services at Paturia Ferry Terminal have seen a huge pressure of mainly Dhaka-leaving vehicles and people ahead of Eid-ul-Azha but there is no such pressure on the other side...
Demonstrators have gathered at Hong Kong's airport, marking the start of three days of unauthorised rallies in the Chinese territory. Activists dressed in black sat in the arrivals hall waving...
A minor boy and a man died from dengue in Dhaka and Barishal districts on Friday amid the aggressive outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh. In Dhaka, Mehraz Hasan,...
The Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payraave been advised to lower signal as squally weather is unlikely over the maritime ports, north bay and adjoining coastal areas...
Japanese government data is showing Japan’s economy grew at a better-than-expected 1.8 per cent seasonally adjusted annualised rate during the April-June quarter on healthy consumer spending and capital investment. The...
Dhaka-Tangail highway has witnessed a tailback of up to 70 kilometres since early today disrupting Eid holidaymakers' home journey. Extending to the Bangabandhu Bridge from Chandra intersection in Gazipur since...
Cambodia and Sri Lanka signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on Thursday to boost bilateral relations in politics, trade and investment, a Cambodian senior official said. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech...
A minor boy died after being diagnosed with dengue at the United Hospital in the capital on Friday. Mehraz Hasan, 8, breathed his last around 8:59 am at the hospital,...
Apple is offering cyber security researchers up to $1 million to detect flaws in iPhones, the largest reward offered by a company to defend against hackers, at a time of...
Malaysia filed criminal charges against 17 current and former directors at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs Group Inc over the multi-billion dollar corruption probe at state fund 1MDB, the attorney general...
More than 500,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar were jointly registered by the Bangladesh authorities and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has said. For most of these Rohingyas, it is the first...
Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside...
A series of explosions rocked an ammunition depot in Turkey’s Hatay province, near the Syrian border, early on Friday and nearby homes were evacuated but there were no reports of...
The forest department has issued a red alert in the Sundarbans ahead of Eid-ul-Azha to protect the wildlife of the world heritage site. Leave of all the officials and employees...
Traders have started selling slaughtering equipments in the city markets ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, with almost unchanged the prices than that of the previous year. Traders expected the sales...
The recent escalation in the US-China trade war has brought forward the next US recession, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters who now expect the Federal Reserve...
China’s weather bureau issued a red alert early on Friday as super typhoon Lekima approached Zhejiang province on the eastern coast, after forcing flight cancellations in Taiwan and shutting markets...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 28 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with the United Power Generation & Distribution Company grabbing the top...
Vehicles were seen moving slowly on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway on Friday morning as a large number of vehicles left Dhaka for various destination of the country ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Police said...
Coca-Cola has planned to invest US$ 200 million in Bangladesh in the next five years. Of the total amount, the multinational soft drinks manufacturing company will invest $ 50 million...
Most of the 3,846 readymade garment (RMG) factories -- located in Ashulia, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Chattogram, Mymensingh and Khulna areas that are under the purview of the Industrial Police (IP) --...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) demanded the authorities lower bank interest rate with easy access to finance to help achieve the $54 billion export target...
The government will launch a fresh bidding round for hydrocarbon exploration in both onshore and offshore blocks within next one year to delineate new discoveries and ramp up output at...
India and Bangladesh have agreed to form a new joint study group to assess the impact of the Ganges Barrage. Bangladesh plans to build the barrage. India has no objection...
TANGAIL, Aug 08: A dengue-affected patient died at Kumodini Hospital under Mirzapur upazila in the district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Arif Hossaon Kajal (28), son of...
GOPALGANJ, Aug 08: Jute growers in the district are passing busy time harvesting their produce. Sources said newly-harvested jute has started appearing in the local markets and growers are expecting...
SYLHET, Aug 08: most of the farmers in Sylhet division have been engaged in the cultivation of Transplanted Aman paddy in a bid to yield highest after the recent floods,...
Over the next few years, the world is expected to have the largest youth population. And these young people will be the main driving force for sustainable development of their...
Alien spotters may have been inspired lately by the words of NASA scientist Kevin Hand in 2014 --- "We are not alone in the universe." He predicted the assumption would...
Amidst all attention now drawn to an unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever across the country, the loss and sufferings caused to an estimated 0.65 million farmers in 31 districts by...
In the first six months of the year, as many as 205 children have been murdered in the country. This provides a highly disturbing picture because it comes to 34...
It is no doubt surprising that while imported food products in most countries these days are subjected to rigorous testing, particularly chemical testing, Bangladesh is far from instituting a testing...
People, in their thousands, started leaving the capital on Thursday for their ancestral homes braving the bad weather to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha with their near and dear ones. As Thursday...
US envoy applauded the passage of the 2018-2022 National Action Plan of Bangladesh emphasising prosecution, protection, and prevention in combating human trafficking. The US Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has decided to strip Kashmir of its special status - which granted considerable autonomy to the disputed Muslim-majority territory - and split it into...
Date: July 31, 2019 • Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Venue: Purbani International Hotel, 1 Dilkusha, Dhaka Chief Guest: Mr. M A Mannan, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of...
Like the well-known "east-west" parable, the rich is rich, the poor is poor, and the twain shall never meet. Tanzil Shafique illustrates that pointedly through a discussion of Dhaka's 200,000-strong...
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