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Sales of state-owned pasteurised milk brand Milk Vita will resume as the Supreme Court has put on hold a High Court order for eight weeks. But restrictions on the distribution...
A move is underway to set up a state-of-the-art export-oriented furniture factory in the country with Saudi investment, officials said. The factory will be set up at Kalurghat in Chattogram...
Minibus registration in the country stood at 365 in the first six months of the current year, according to the official data. Of the total, some 82 minibuses got registered...
A total of 30 prisoners died in different jails across the country during January to June period of this year, according to an independent rights body. Among them, 20 were...
A tyrannosaurid footprint was found by paleontologists in East China's Jiangxi Province, marking the first of its kind to be found in Asia. The discovery is of great significance to...
Puro Food Limited, a concern of Eon Group of Industries, has inaugurated the first outlet of its Puro Pastry & Bakery at the Golden Age Tower of Gulshan Avenue in...
Stocks finished higher on Monday as some investors were active in the market ahead of monetary policy statement. Market analysts said some institutional investors continued buying shares head of monetary...
Myanmar is ready to welcome the Rohingyas and now they themselves have to take the decision whether they will go back or not, said the Myanmar foreign secretary U Myint...
Japan has lowered its target for economic growth forecast for this year largely due to weaker exports, in a sign the protracted US-China trade war is taking a bigger toll...
Four people were killed and 21 others injured as a bus overturned at Vatiapara intersection in Kashiani upazila on Dhaka-Khulna highway on Monday. The identities of the deceased could not...
The High Court today asked the government to monitor the hospitals to make it sure that they do not charge extra to test for dengue fever. The bench of Justice...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalised on Sunday after suffering an acute allergic reaction which one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an...
Asian shares slipped on Monday as markets anxiously counted down to a likely cut in US interest rates this week with much riding on whether or not the Federal Reserve...
Bangladesh on Monday handed over a fresh list of 25000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification before their repatriation to their place of origin in Rakhine State. Bangladesh has so far...
Bangladesh Railway today began selling advance train tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha from five different places in Dhaka city. Both online and offline or traditional sales began on the same day....
Brazilian police said on Sunday (local time) they arrested one person and are seeking an arrest warrant for another in connection with the theft of a gold shipment at São...
The board of directors of The City Bank Limited has decided to raise Tk 4.0 billion through issuance of perpetual bonds, said an official disclosure on Monday. The City Bank...
Stocks witnessed modest gain in early trading on Monday, after passing a flat session in the previous day, as some investors were active on sector specific issues. Following the previous...
Jahangirnagar University (JU) students brought out a silent procession on the JU campus on Saturday, demanding steps for preventing dengue. On Sunday morning, students gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar...
At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the...
The beheaded body of an unidentified young girl was recovered from Fuljor river in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj district on Sunday. Pabitra Kumar, Sub Inspector of Raiganj Police Station, said...
Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Baharchhara Uttar Shilkhani on Marine Drive road in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar...
At least three people were killed and several injured in a shooting at a food festival, an annual three-day event south of San Jose in California, on Sunday. Police and...
The board of directors of Progressive Life Insurance has recommended 'no' dividend for two consecutive years - one ending on December 31, 2013 and the other on December 31, 2014....
Ten most traded companies accounted for 28 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Sunday, with the United Power Generation and Distribution Company Ltd. securing the...
The country's premier bourse has finally given the go-ahead to enlist the much-anticipated Coppertech Industries. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) sent a letter to the company on Sunday, approving its...
Floodwaters have continued to recede across the country for the past three days, but inundation has yet dealt Aman farming a severe blow in 25 districts. Seedbed damage, delay in...
Blood banks are finding it difficult to meet the fast-growing demand for platelets as the number of dengue patients across the country has reached record-high, people at hospitals and storage...
Within a short span of their launch in Dhaka city, short-distance circular bus services in Dhanmondi and Uttara neighbourhoods have turned into long-haul services for not wooing adequate passengers. For...
US and Chinese trade negotiators shift to Shanghai this week for their first in-person talks since a G20 truce last month, a change of scenery for two sides struggling to...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked customs houses to speed up customs formalities and release of imported goods -- especially key essential commodities -- on priority basis to...
Businesses are facing difficulties to get registered with the VAT net after technical glitch in the server even as the July 31 deadline looms. A number of businessmen have complained...
The central bank is set to unveil its first half-yearly (H1) monetary policy for the current fiscal year, 2019-20, on Wednesday, with the policy rates likely to remain unchanged. The...
As the third Bangladeshi batsman after Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan, wicketkeeper cum right handed batsman Mushfiqur Rahim completed 6000 runs in ODIs. He needed just eight runs in...
The mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is unwilling to call the prevalence of dengue as an epidemic. He would rather wait for official confirmation by various competent authorities...
It is a piece of good news for the banks that savers have again started coming back to their fold. The return means a lot to the banks which are...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has reasons to be worried by the country's declining position in the World Bank Group's 'Ease of Doing Business (EODB) Index'. As an investment...
SIRAJGANJ, July 28: Flooding has brought several thousand people to their knee in Bogura and Sirajganj districts with fresh swelling of the mighty Jamuna and Bengali rivers in recent days. ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in trouble. United Nations officials are concerned and say so publicly. Secretary-General António Guterres joined in raising an alarm in mid-July when he introduced...
With the main European Union (EU) institutions preparing for a change of leadership this autumn, now is a good time to reflect on the EU's priorities for the coming years....
"Shall we all just kill ourselves?" It was an odd title for a comedy night, but British stand-up Carl Donnelly turned out to have chosen an environmental theme with impeccable...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will bring its mosquito-controlling and cleaning workers under the GPS tracking system to strengthen monitoring of their activities, said Mayor Atiqul Islam on Sunday. "With...
The Government of Bangladesh has recently approved a plan that calls for a secure, safe, resilient and prosperous Bangladesh. An adaptive delta management (ADM) practice is said to be the...
United Nations former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was realistic in his comment during the recently concluded Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) two-day international conference held in Dhaka. He pointed out...
In a drive in the city on Sunday, the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) seized TK 8.0 million from the house of Deputy Inspector General of Prisons of Sylhet Partha Gopal...
Gareth Bale's move to China is off after Real Madrid cancelled the deal, with the Wales winger now set to stay at the Spanish club. Bale, 30, had been expected...
At least 127 women were sexually harassed and eight committed suicide in the first six months of the calendar year, according to a local independent rights body. The Ain o...
The authorities and businesses connected to Benapole port believe they will struggle to achieve their revenue target of Tk 60.28 billion for fiscal 2019-20 without developing its infrastructure as soon...
The Bangladesh Bank will unveil its monetary policy statement (MPS) for the first half of the current fiscal year (2019-20) on Wednesday. “BB Governor Fazle Kabir will unveil the MPS...
The government has drafted a master plan to modernise the postal system aiming to improve the services and give a boost to revenue collection, reports UNB. Although the department has...
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