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Grameenphone (GP), the country's largest mobile phone operator, has protested the telecom regulator's decision to withhold issuing any kind of approvals, including NOCs (no-objection certificate), to the operator. The GP...
The 18th annual general meeting (AGM) of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited was held at RAOWA Convention Hall-1 in Dhaka on Thursday, with Chairman of the Board of Directors of the...
The World Bank (WB) is likely to provide some US$ 4.5 billion assistance to Bangladesh in next three years, officials said early this week. The Economic Relations Division (ERD) officials...
The ten most traded companies accounted for 29 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with the United Power bagging the top spot of the turnover...
The central bank assured on Thursday non-life insurance companies of providing all sorts of assistance in regard to a recent circular issued by Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA). The...
The ‘Business Leaders’ Carnival’ will be held at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the city on September 14, 2019 (Saturday). The carnival will be jointly arranged by Society...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been trying hard to introduce electronic cash registers, also known as Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs), on a limited scale for quite some time....
That the indigenous varieties of fish are increasingly becoming short in supply is indisputable. Common people experience this on a daily basis when they try to fish from open sources...
Doctors' preference for major cities, particularly Dhaka, in avoidance of service at district and upazila health facilities even by dodging government rules has been a problem for long. In fact,...
The bus carrying dozens of Central Americans from the Texas border arrived in this northern Mexican city late at night and pulled up next to the station, reports AP. Men...
Bashundhara Kings have clinched their maiden Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) title with two matches to go after a one-all draw Mohammedan Sporting Club, reports bdnews24.com. The first-comers faced Mohammedan in...
BOGURA, July 25: Farmers in the district are passing busy time harvesting jute to get ready to cultivate T-Aman on the same land. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension...
Patients infected with dengue continued to get admitted in hospitals on Thursday like other days of the month. July 2019 has already been put on the record of affecting with...
There is reason for pride in how Bangladesh's RMG (ready-made garment) industry plucked the country's economy from out of its agricultural moorings, transformed the country's future and fate, and kept...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated her new British counterpart Boris Johnson and said she is looking forward to working closely with him. In a message, Hasina also expected to...
Now that Boris Johnson has achieved his lifetime ambition to become the United Kingdom's prime minister, the tragicomedy of Brexit is approaching its climax. While the rest of the European...
The recent increase in tourists visiting and discovering newer spots bears signs of better days for domestic tourism. Even a couple of decades ago, tour operators were heard lamenting the...
New orders for key US-made capital goods surged in June, but the jump will probably not change expectations that business investment contracted further in the second quarter and contributed to...
Social scientists, specifically the anthropologists, conduct their research in many ways; but the method most characteristic of the discipline is one of fieldwork based on 'participant observation'. This usually means...
Though a fiction, In a Promised Land is in fact based on the true reflection of third world elites like Professors, Doctors, Engineers and PhDs, and their lives, full of...
Admitting that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lacks capability to some extent, its Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday said it is not possible to fully expose all the corruption allegations for...
The Public Service Commission has published the results of 40th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary exams. A total of 20,277 candidates have passed the tests, according to the results published on...
Sale of advance bus ticket by private operators ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha will begin in the city from Friday morning. The sale of tickets, both online and at counters, will...
A city court on Thursday put five accused on a three-day remand each in a case over lynching of Taslima Begum Renu in the city over child-lifting rumour. Dhaka Metropolitan...
A preparatory meeting was held on Thursday in Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University to observe 52nd convocation of the university, says a press release. Chaired by...
A consortium of three local and foreign companies signed deals with the government entities here on Wednesday to implement the country's biggest 584 megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant at...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday asked the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to inform it about the steps taken to stop taking of excessive fees for dengue tests...
A total of 826 children were raped and abused in the first seven months (from Jan 1 to July 20) across the country, said a new report. Child Rights Advocacy...
A suicide bombing at municipal government headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday killed six people including district commissioners and local government chiefs, the country's information minister said, reports...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said a cabinet committee on the Ninth Wage Board Award for newspaper and news agency journalists and employees has finalised its...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said about "30,000 to 40,000" terrorists who had trained and fought in "some part of Afghanistan or Kashmir" are in his country, reports bdnews24.com....
A Rajshahi court has started the trial of Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi and 103 others in the killing of Bangladesh Chhatra League activist Faruk Hossain nine years ago, reports...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said that the national budget in Bangladesh for the year 2034 will reach around a trillion US dollar, reports UNB. “We’ve given over...
US direct investment abroad dropped at the end of last year while foreign direct investment in the United States increased, according to statistics released by the US Bureau of Economic...
Lead negotiators for China and the United States will meet in Shanghai on Tuesday for two days in the next round of trade talks, China’s commerce ministry confirmed. It would...
Japanese car maker Nissan Motor said it is axing 12,500 jobs and warned a quick turnaround in its performance was not imminent after reporting its quarterly profit was nearly wiped...
Indian shares rose on Thursday after five sessions of losses, buoyed by gains in financial and pharmaceutical stocks. The broader NSE index was up 0.7 per cent at 11,350.55 as...
The board of directors of Delta Life Insurance Company Limited has approved 26 per cent cash dividend for each share of Tk 10 for the year 2018. Chairman of the...
Five children have drowned in Jamalpur while travelling by a boat in a wetland. The incident took place at around 12 noon in Sarishabari Upazila on Thursday, according to Mohabbat...
Dhaka South Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon has said conspirators are spreading rumours about dengue, just the way kidnapping rumours ran rife across the country. The government will tackle the dengue...
Asian shares rallied Thursday after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs, though South Korea’s Kospi declined after North Korea launched two short range missiles into the sea....
The 46th Executive Council Meeting (ECM) and Annual General meeting (AGM) of Federation of Asia Pacific Air Cargo Associations (FAPAA) will be held in Dhaka on Friday. Bangladesh Freight Forwarders...
Facebook said on Thursday it had removed accounts from Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Honduras, in its latest move against “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Facebook said it was taking down the pages, groups,...
Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) on Thursday denounced comments by Priya Saha, one of its organising secretaries. During a meeting with US President Donald Trump, she claimed that 37 million...
Expressing concern over the dengue outbreak and its resultant panic in the country, the High Court has asked the relevant authorities to import effective Aedes mosquito repellents within a week....
Customs officials have recovered seven-and-half kilograms of gold from a passenger car at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport. The gold bars were found in a Regent Airways vehicle on Thursday...
Police arrested five more people from different parts of the capital on Wednesday night in connection with the lynching of a woman in Badda. The arrestees were identified as Sohel...
Three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, as the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff was meeting top...
A group of Bollywood filmmakers, historians, and citizens have written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to stop mob attacks on minority Muslims and others at the bottom...
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working together with the Government of Bangladesh to assist more than 275,000 people affected by flooding in the north-west of the country, activating for...
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