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NRB Bank Limited celebrated the Bank’s 6th anniversary in a function held at Bank’s Corporate Head Office, Dhaka on Monday. Mr. Md. Mehmood Hussain, Managing Director & CEO of NRB...
As many as 2,065 new dengue patients have been hospitalised in the 24 hours to Monday morning in Bangladesh, breaking all previous records for a single day in the country’s...
Stocks slipped into the red on Monday amid volatile trading as investors were mostly followed cautious stance ahead of nine-day Eid holidays. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwest of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga, the United States Geological Survey said on Monday, Reuters reported. There were no immediate reports...
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has distributed 1250 pieces of mosquito nets among the slum dwellers in Kalyanpur area of Dhaka city. During the existing crisis of deadly dengue disease, since...
World's leading sanitary ware manufacturer TOTO, along with its sole distributor in Bangladesh Tilottoma Bangla Group, launched a new showroom in the capital recently. Japan Ambassador Hireyasu Izumi on Sunday...
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on all parties in the eastern Mediterranean to cooperate with Turkey to solve problems in the area. Turkey has sent two drilling ships to...
Repairs of all the damaged roads across the country will be done three days before the Eid-ul-Azha, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today. If needs be, the...
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Esquire Electronics Limited at the bank’s Corporate Head Office. Under the agreement, all credit card holders of the...
Taiwan’s exports likely rose 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, logging a second straight month of growth, according to the median forecast of 15 analysts polled by...
Lawyers for murder suspect Aysha Siddika Minny, the wife of slain Barguna youth Refat Shorif, have filed a petition with the High Court seeking bail. The petition was submitted to...
A 13-year-old boy and a pregnant woman have died of dengue while undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka. They were Hasan, 13, from Bhola district and Sharmin Akhter, 24,...
Four members of a family, including two children, sustained burn injuries as an air conditioner caught fire in a house at Kathalbagan area in Dhaka city early Monday. The injured...
HSBC ousted Chief Executive Officer John Flint after just 18 months in that role, in a surprise move that the lender’s chairman said was necessary to accelerate progress of its...
Subaru reported a 48 per cent increase in first-quarter operating profit on Monday as global sales grew, led by demand for the Ascent and Forester SUVs in the United States....
India’s Hindu nationalist-led government introduced a measure in parliament on Monday to revoke the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, the most far-reaching move on the disputed Himalayan region...
BRAC Bank’s credit and debit cardholders are set to enjoy special privileges from Amarroom.com. All the cardholders of the bank will get 12 per cent discount on booking domestic air...
Three people, including an accused in a gang-rape case, were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in Mymensingh and Habiganj districts on Monday. In Mymensingh, an alleged drug trader and an accused...
For the second year, Bangladeshi nationals have been overtaken by Indians as the largest expat community in Oman. In 2018 there were 640,575 Bangladeshi nationals living and working in the...
Police arrested a woman with 1000 Yaba tablets, four bottles of phensedyl at Kukna village in Magura sadar upazila on Sunday night. The arrestee is Mita Begum, 26, of the...
The Trustee Committees of CAPM IBBL Islamic Mutual Fund and CAPM BDBL Mutual Fund 01 have declared 8.0 per cent and 5.0 per cent cash dividend respectively. CAPMIBBLMF: The Trustee...
The tenure of EBL First Mutual Fund, a closed-end mutual fund, has been extended 10 more years until August 18, 2029, said an official disclosure on Monday. Closed-end mutual funds...
Stocks witnessed mixed trend in early trading on Monday as investors were active both sides of trading fence ahead of Eid festival. However, the Coppertech Industries made a flying trade...
Sales of refrigerators have gone up ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of Muslims. Electronic goods market observers have attributed the upward trend in fridge sales to the...
United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could...
The government's revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell 13 per cent year-on-year in July this year on the back of falling trade volume and value. Market analysts...
The cost of conducting a feasibility study for establishing rail corridor with Payra port through Barishal has been increased significantly due to delay in starting the study work. Sources said...
A multiple-car crash set off an explosion that ignited a fire at Egypt's main cancer hospital and caused 19 deaths, the government said. The health ministry said 30 others were...
Despite guarantees of normal bus fares for different routes during Eid-ul-Azha festival, private bus operators were found charging much higher for advance tickets. Prices of tickets for normal coaches have...
The government is contemplating to approach the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the imposition of anti-dumping duty (ADD) on Bangladeshi jute goods by India, according...
The government, without fixing any timeframe, called on factory owners to pay monthly wage and festival allowance to workers properly before the Eid-ul-Azha holiday starts in phases. The call came...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit New Delhi in the first week of next October to attend the India Economic Summit, slated for October 03-04. According to a primary schedule,...
The disputed region of Kashmir was thrown into further turmoil in the early hours of Monday as regional leaders said they feared being arrested and Indian officials imposed restrictions in...
Cashing in on the dengue outbreak, a section of dishonest traders are reportedly selling mosquito control products in the capital at abnormally high prices. Many city dwellers have alleged that...
Farm mechanisation, which has gained momentum over the years, is helping the agriculture sector raise productivity. The gradual adoption of mechanisation has resulted in increased "cropping intensity" making Bangladesh one...
SYLHET, Aug 04: Although the upazila heath complex at Nabiganj in Habiganj district was upgraded into a 50-bed one long ago, yet the government-run hospital lacks minimum number of physicians...
With dengue capturing the national attention, floods have been relegated to the back burner. A phenomenon blighting mostly the capital city -although lately its outbreak is reported from all 64...
When poverty has been constantly declining at a decent rate in the country for about three decades, Ukhia and Teknaf, two upazilas of Cox's Bazar district, are now experiencing an...
The government has resolved to stop smuggling of cows into Bangladesh ahead of the coming Eid-ul-Azha in order to ensure fair price for local cattle farm owners. But the print...
Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and ‘Brother Number Two’ of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of some 2 million people, died on...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) has opened its seventh Agent Banking outlet at Boro Bazar of Khulna. M. Khorshed Anowar, EBL Head of Retail and SME Banking inaugurated the outlet recently....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has so far cleared 75 urgent files digitally from London. The prime minister went to London on July 19 to attend Bangladeshi envoys’ conference and other...
Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited has opened its 234th Agent Outlet at Mogla Bazar, Dokkin Surma Upazila of Sylhet recently. Director of AIBL Capital Market Services Ltd. Mohammed Fazlur Rahman inaugurated...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Daulatpur Branch has been inaugurated in new address at Century Plaza, Upper Jessore Road, Daulatpur, Khulna recently. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director & CEO of...
The government has allocated 1,617.795 metric tonnes of rice under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme for 1,07853 poor and distressed families in Manikganj. This programme was taken by government...
The Bangladesh Bank will issue a circular immediately asking the scheduled banks to ensure single-digit interest rates on both lending and deposit. Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal made...
Regulatory reporting requirements have changed remarkably since the most recent financial crisis of 2008-09. The new regulatory compliance and reporting requirements cover a variety of reports of banking organisations as...
At the very outset, we should have a look at what is happening in the dairy sector across the world. It is very heartening to note that the Bangladesh government...
A student of Eden Mohila College has died at a Dhaka hospital in the latest fatality from dengue amid an outbreak that has spread across Bangladesh. The 20-year-old woman, identified...
Boris Johnson has stepped into the smaller shoes of Theresa May on July 24. The new Conservative leader assumed the office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK)...
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