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Irish retailer-Primark has suspended placing new orders with one supplier ready-made garment (RMG) factory in Bangladesh following alleged termination of workers engaged in recent wage protest. Primark annually sources apparel...
South Korea has assured to extend financial and technical assistance to Bangladesh to set up a ‘Jute Industrial Village’. Korea Textile Machinery Convergence Research Institute (KOTMI) made the proposal at...
The government is contemplating a pricing projection of natural gas over the next five to 10 years to help businesses chalk up their future investment. "This projection will help investors...
The Planning Commission (PC) is going to be tough on the public agencies which revise their development projects repeatedly. Planning Minister MA Mannan warned on Tuesday the public agencies which...
The number of railway passengers leaving the city almost doubles during the Eid vacation, but that has little impact on the overall annual income of the Bangladesh Railway (BR), people...
As the prospect of inking a deal on the Teesta River water sharing looks bleak, Bangladesh is now concentrating more on reaching a deal on sharing of water of six...
The dengue outbreak has turned so severe across the country that almost 100 people are getting infected with the deadly virus in each hour, official sources said on Tuesday. Such...
Veteran Indian politician Sushma Swaraj, who most recently served as minister of external affairs, passed away on Tuesday, following a cardiac arrest. Swaraj, 67, a senior leader of the ruling...
The whole country has been overwhelmed by the outbreak of dengue fever that has claimed at least 18 lives. About 25,000 people have so far been infected with the mosquito-borne...
It is fashionable for many in the country to contemplate on tapping into China's share in global apparel export. However, when we speak of taking a portion-a small one-from China's...
The news that Japan's business presence in Bangladesh would increase in the coming years is welcome from various perspectives. It came out after a meeting of the two countries' foreign...
Upsets bookended the Rogers Cup on Monday with Ukrainian teen Dayana Yastremska beating British 13th seed Johanna Konta 6-3 6-2 early on in Toronto before Maria Sharapova fell 4-6 6-3...
What if Bangladesh's financial sector had an access to information and data on its clients? Lending and deposit taking institutions would then systematically understand how clients behave at every financial...
The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the chief election commissioner (CEC) and other election commissioners (ECs) to step down for alleged involvement in fund irregularities. The anti-corruption watchdog came...
The Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. The Morrison family confirmed "with profound sadness" that Morrison had died "following a short illness". The...
Inequality is the leading political and economic issue of the current era, yet debates about it have long suffered from a degree of imprecision. For example, the standard measure of...
In a recent research paper, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has highlighted the harmful impacts of falling corporate tax rates. In particular, this phenomenon since the early 1980s has been...
There is no respite from the deadly fever dengue as the disease is taking its toll almost everyday in the city or districts. Virtually it is spreading in an epidemic...
MAGURA, Aug 06: Bumper production and high market price have brought smile to the faces of chilli growers in the district. Farmers' sources said green chilli harvest going on in...
The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No 3 as the well-marked low over the Northwest Bay and...
Bangladesh signed a nuclear fuel supply agreement with Russia on Tuesday for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project. As the implementing agency of the RNPP project, Bangladesh Atomic Energy...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has decided to set up ‘citizen’s review commission’ on banking in view of what it said the “deteriorating health” of the banking sector and the...
The government has set the prices of rawhide and skin of sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, leaving the rates unchanged. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi announced the prices on Tuesday after...
The US Treasury Department on Monday designated China a currency manipulator in response to the drop in the renminbi's value to under 7 per US dollar. It's ridiculous that the...
The old gas pipelines in the capital will be replaced, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday. “We’re planning to replace the existing pipelines...
Authorities at Harbour City in Hong Kong have failed to respond to three inquiries regarding what protective measures will be put in place after violent opposition protesters twice removed the...
A committee of experts in China has approved a design for high-speed trains that could run at a speed of 400 kilometers an hour, which will be in service before...
Washington's plans to contain China's economy would end in failure and the price to be paid by the US will far exceed its imagination as it provokes a massive trade...
Since the beginning of July, South Korea has played almost all of its cards to deal with Japan's export controls. Seoul reported Tokyo at a WTO meeting for tightening export...
The daily trade turnover of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed Tk 5.0 billion-mark on Tuesday again as investors put fresh stakes on stocks amid post-Eid expectation. Turnover, a crucial indicator...
A total of 17,338 dengue patients, who were admitted to different hospitals across the country, returned home after recovering, from the first day of January, 2019 till date. According to...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) has recently opened its first Banking Booth at Kalir Bazar, Cumilla. Tarek Reaz Khan, Deputy Managing Director of MTB, inaugurated the new Banking Booth along...
The government has decided to set up 50 new intensive care units or ICUs at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to cope with the rush of dengue patients. The Directorate General...
Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd opened 172nd branch at Jamgora, Ashulia of Dhaka on Tuesday. Chairman of Executive Committee of the Bank Alhajj Hafez Md. Enayet Ullah inaugurated the new branch...
The 282nd meeting of the Board of Directors of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) was held at its Corporate Head Office Board Room recently. The meeting was presided over by...
Jamuna Bank Foundation organised a four-day dengue eradication program in different places in Dhaka city recently. Chairman, Jamuna Bank Foundation, & Chairman, Executive Committee of the Board of Jamuna Bank...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited inaugurated its Agent Banking Outlet in Srimantapur of Sadar Dakkhin Upazila, Cumilla recently. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director & CEO of the Bank, inaugurated...
Rahmatullah Bashar is beaming. He looks around his tea shop, his eyes dancing from person to person, taking in the throbbing crowd. His eyes grow misty, and he says that...
There are two big challenges in the way of Bangladesh’s development. The main one is to maintain the economic growth continuously. Another challenge is related to eradicating inequality. If the...
The disciplinary board of Dhaka University has suspended its 69 students on charges of their involvement in the admission test forgery. The body took the decision at a meeting with...
A Mexican man who threw himself in front of his wife to shield her from bullets in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, died on Monday (local time), officials...
A Chapainawabganj court on Tuesday sentenced three people to life imprisonment in a case filed over the recovery of 22 firearms and 136 bullets in Chapainawanj municipality area in 2016....
The High Court (HC) has directed law enforcers not to harass four BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for six weeks in a case filed for...
The US non-manufacturing sector in July expanded at the slowest pace in nearly three years, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has said. The non-manufacturing index (NMI), which gauges the...
China has issued a strong warning to Hong Kong's protesters, saying their attempts "to play with fire will only backfire". A spokesman for China's top policy office in Hong Kong...
Bangladeshi expatriates sent home 1.56 billion US dollars in July, the first month of the current 2019-20 fiscal year, a central bank official has said. This amount is up by...
Three more deaths were reported from three separate districts on Tuesday as the entire country remains in the grip of dengue fever. At Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Monwara...
Envoy Textiles Limited (ETL) has recently inaugurated ‘Tree Plantation Campaign 2019’ in its Factory in Bhaluka, Mymensingh. ETL distributed ten thousand wood, fruit and medicinal plants among the students of...
At least six people, including two children, have died and 11 injured in a fire that broke out at a residential building in southeast Delhi late last night. The blaze...
China threatened countermeasures on Tuesday if the United States deploys intermediate-range, ground-based missiles in Asia and warned US allies of repercussions if they allow such weapons on their territory. US...
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