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The IPO subscription of Ring Shine Textiles Limited is set to begin August 25, aiming to raise a capital worth Tk 1.50 billion from the capital market. The company’s initial...
Indian authorities said on Wednesday they have recovered the body of coffee baron V G Siddhartha from a river in southern India, after his disappearance on Monday sparked speculation he...
Ataul Hakim, a former president of Chattogram Union of Journalists (CUJ), died at a hospital in Chattogram city on Tuesday. He was 69. The senior journalist breathed his last around...
Hundreds of people surrounded a police station in Hong Kong on Tuesday chanting “free the martyrs” after 44 activists were charged with rioting following weekend clashes between protesters and police...
Stocks witnessed modest gain in early trading on Wednesday as most of the investors followed cautious stance amid ongoing earnings declaration season coupled with monetary policy statement (MPS). The Bangladesh...
A sub-inspector of police’s special branch (SB) died on early Wednesday in Dhaka after suffering from dengue. The victim was identified as Kohinoor Akter. Sources at Malibagh SB office, where...
The board of directors of Rupali Life insurance has recommended 12 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018, according to an official disclosure on Wednesday....
An Afghan official says a roadside bomb explosion hit a passenger bus in western Farha province, killing at least 18 people including women and children. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the...
Japan has proposed to play a role as mediator in Tokyo taking Bangladesh and Myanmar onboard to find a peaceful solution to Rohingya crisis ensuring their safe return to their...
The government has asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) to provide it with the lists of abandoned commercial properties located in their respective districts. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) at a...
Trading of the shares of Coppertech Industries will commence on the bourses on Monday (August 5) under 'N' category, officials said. The Coppertceh, which received regulatory approval from the Bangladesh...
A cattle-laden truck overturned on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in the early hours of Wednesday, killing three people and six cows. Police identified the deceased as Anwar Hossain, Samiul Islam and...
Policy makers and experts have emphasised ensuring human dignity for all through expediting financial inclusion initiatives, saying that development without human dignity as the quintessential purpose is not a worthy...
Overcrowded hospitals in the capital are struggling to provide healthcare services as the number of dengue patients keeps rising fast, physicians and officials said. As the dengue situation is deteriorating,...
An inter-ministerial meeting made on Tuesday an 11-point recommendation to bring milk production and supply chain under constant surveillance in order to ensure product quality. Steps must be taken to...
About 130 factories except those located in the Dhaka metropolis did not pay any wage for the month of June until Tuesday, according to official data. Out of the 130...
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles early on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, only days after it launched two similar missiles intended to pressure South Korea and the...
Prices of per unit apparel items exported from Bangladesh to its single largest destination — the USA — have increased by 25.6 per cent in the first five months of...
A World Bank (WB) team is coming to Bangladesh next week to apprise the country of its various loan options, as the country graduated to the lower-middle-income country status few...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has sought a number of fiscal concessions, including tax waivers, to help develop the country's moribund bond market, officials said. The commission has...
Kamran T. Rahman has been re-elected President of Bangladesh Employers' Federation (BEF) for the two-year term, 2019-2021. Mr. Kamran T. Rahman is a leading entrepreneur in the jute and tea...
The Senate failed Monday in a bid to override a trio of vetoes issued by President Donald Trump, allowing the administration to move forward with plans to sell billions of...
MANIKGANJ, July 30 (BSS): Mankiganj cattle rearers were asked not to use any steroid or hormone tablet for fattening their animals for upcoming Eid-ul-Azha market. Acting district livestock officer Dr...
NAOGAON, July 30: Famers in the district are passing busy time transplanting Aman paddy seedlings. According to the officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), over 16,7456 hectares of...
Blooming Sun School and Rising Sun High School jointly held a rally on the schools premises at Khilkhet in the city on Tuesday to create public awareness about dengue and...
The plight of the workers going abroad for jobs cannot stop making news again and again. Their difficulty starts from home and continues till they return, and including their stay...
Surplus production of manufacturing products may often be a cause for concern, particularly when channels for absorbing the surplus are hard to find. This unwittingly appears to be the case...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said reading out the announcement of independence is not the proclamation of independence. The Minister said the debate about the proclamation of independence started...
Of late, there are good signs that diplomatic backchannels are working to effectuate a resolution to the Rohingya crisis. Foreign Minister, Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen described the recent visit of...
A healthy workplace is a prerequisite for health and wellbeing of employees. Public health strategies place increasing emphasis on opportunities to promote healthy behaviours within the workplace setting. Productivity at...
During the hectic negotiations with European Community (EC), the predecessor to European Union (EU), Great Britain struggled hard to convince the European leaders, particularly De Gaulle, about the genuineness of...
The geopolitical significance of key digital technologies now takes centre stage in a new global conflict between the US and China. The dispute over the Chinese technology group Huawei exemplifies...
Akij Food and Beverage Ltd and Pran Dairy Ltd have secured an order from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to resume production, distribution and sales of their milk...
Dengue has spread to nine more districts, leaving only five of the 64 in Bangladesh out of the disease’s reach as the number of patients continues to rise, reports bdnews24.com....
Agriculture Minister Dr. Abdur Razzaque on Tuesday said the government took various initiatives to improve the living standard of farmers. “The government has emphasised three issues – cutting production cost...
The US Commerce Department said consumer spending - more than two-thirds of economic activity - rose 0.3 per cent in June when a fall in car sales was offset by...
A 70-year-old man was jailed for seven years in Sirajganj on Tuesday for rape attempt on his five-year-old granddaughter. Abdus Sattar, the convict, is a resident of Kobdas Para area...
A calligraphy artist in North China, who says he never took a day off for eight years, has finally completed a 3-kilometre-long series of scrolls that have been declared the...
Bangladesh and Germany on Tuesday signed two bilateral agreements on development cooperation with German assistance worth 200 million Euro (approximately Tk 18.47 billion) for various development projects. Of the total...
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has cancelled leave all of its officials due to ongoing flood and outbreak of dengue. “According to the decision of a meeting that...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the he government and Dhaka city corporations to inform it how long time it will take to import effective insecticide to kill mosquitoes. Justice...
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking an order on the authorities to pay Tk 30 million in compensation to the family of a school student...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen not to pay heed to the rumours and hand over the rumour-mongers to the police. “Please don’t pay heed to the rumours...
The government has decided to keep all Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations open for 24 hours from August 1. “The gas refuelling activities of the CNG stations will remain open...
Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is leading the project, which...
The government at all levels, development partners, law enforcement agencies, civil society members, private sector and other relevant actors must make concerted efforts to raise awareness of modern slavery and...
Stocks slipped into the red on Tuesday as investors were mostly on selling spree amid lower than expected earnings of some companies. Market analysts said most of the investors remained...
The British pound tumbled on Tuesday as investors bet Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit brinkmanship with the European Union could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the...
A complaint has been filed against the Dhanmondi branch of Ibn Sina Hospital over a ‘faulty’ platelet test. Advocate Md Ramjan Ali Sarkar lodged the complaint with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate...
Four people have died of mosquito-borne dengue in Dhaka and Barishal today (Tuesday). Of them, two died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and as many at Sher-e-Bangla Medical...
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