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Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has warned against spreading rumours, saying the government is investigating whether the recent incidents are part of an attempt to destabilise the country. "Our...
River transportation services have come to a halt as workers went on an indefinite strike, demanding appointment letters, allowances, and an end to extortion. According to a bdnews24 report, water...
Police found some of the arrestees in lynching cases in parts of Bangladesh having links to the ‘anti-government’ force, said Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary. “A vested quarter...
Boris Johnson will take office on Wednesday as British prime minister and will unveil the names of the team he has tasked with delivering Brexit by the end of October,...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller attended a daylong series of programes at the American Center on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing. In his...
Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been banned for one game and fined $1,500 after being sent off against Chile in the Copa America third-place playoff and levelling accusations of “corruption”...
Egypt’s economic growth is expected to slow to 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal year that began this month, below the government’s target, and 5.8 per cent the following...
China’s defence ministry warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was a move toward Taiwan’s independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing...
Coca-Cola has reported its fiscal second quarter earnings and revenue, both of which beat expectations. The US beverage giant's adjusted earnings per share in the second quarter (Q2) is 63...
A local leader of the ruling Awami League was hacked to death by miscreants at Hasnapara in Lama upazila of Bandarban district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as...
Police recovered the beheaded body of a madrasa student from Koyradanga village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified Abir Hossain, 11, a class-II student...
Nissan Motor Co Ltd plans to expand job cuts to over 10,000 to help turn around its business, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday, showing...
Uttara Bank’s earnings per share (EPS) soared 85 per cent in January-June period of 2019 compared to the same period in the previous year. In six months for January-June 2019,...
The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce today (Wednesday) that Facebook has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay $5 billion, two...
The earnings per share (EPS) of Heidelberg Cement Bangladesh Limited has turned negative in April-June quarter due to higher cost of goods sold and lower financial income. The cement manufacturer’s...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early trading on Wednesday, after sharp gain in the previous day, as investors mostly followed cautious stance. The prime index of the major bourse soared...
Police have arrested a teenager, suspected to have been involved in the lynching of a woman in Badda, in Bhulta area of Narayanganj district on Tuesday night. Police identified the...
Myanmar has made “minimal” preparations for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees sheltering in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to an Australian think-tank, despite the country saying it...
Crop insurance in haor (wetland) area might begin this fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, under a public-private partnership (PPP) mechanism, said people familiar with this development on Tuesday. In June, the...
The law enforcers have recovered a bomb from in front of a police box at Paltan intersection in Dhaka. Bomb scare also gripped Khamarbari area when a similar object was...
Asian stock markets rose Wednesday following a report US and Chinese trade envoys will meet for talks next week. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney all advanced. The...
A Rohingya man and a suspected drug peddler were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on early...
Two people were killed and two others injured when a motorcycle hit a covered van at Sholosohor over Akteruzzaman flyover in Chattogram city on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified...
A female primary school teacher was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Gopinathpur in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore district on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Latifa Helen...
The manufacturers of pharmaceutical products and suppliers of petroleum products have to pay VAT at 2.4 per cent and 2.0 per cent respectively following introduction of a VAT-inclusive calculation method...
Two people were killed and five others injured in a road crash at Bhuterbazar in Kapasia upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Manik Mia, 30, son of Shahjahan,...
The stock market regulator has asked its department concerned to take stern action against two brokerage firms for mismatch between inflow and outflow of their clients' funds deposited in the...
Ten most traded companies accounted for 23 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), with the Fortune Shoes making it to top of the chart for the fifth...
Bangladesh has slipped one point to the sixth position as a sourcing destination for US-based apparel and fashion companies in 2019 despite the fact that the majority of buyers surveyed...
The central bank set an agriculture credit target of Tk 241.24 billion for the banks to disburse during the current fiscal year (FY) of 2020. The amount has been estimated...
The authorities concerned have permanently shut one of the country's biggest urea fertiliser plants at Ghorasal in Narsingdi district putting an end to the production at five-decade-old factory, officials said....
The central bank has asked some 20 banks to boost their investments in stocks to help revamp the country's ailing capital market. The banks have the scope for investing more...
A 21-member committee of BCS Administration Forum has been formed with Dhananjay Kumar Das, deputy secretary of public security division of Home Ministry and Md Shahidul Islam, deputy commissioner of...
Capitalism as an engine of economic growth faces, of late, criticisms as global inequality is on the rise. The acting International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief David Lipton said on July...
For quite sometime, conventional brick making is held responsible for a host of accompanying perils. It is not just the environmentalists who are raising their voice against unabated expansion of...
The initiative taken by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) to construct four rest houses for highway drivers is most welcome. Usually transport operators are projected in a bad light...
The local jewellers have increased the prices of platinum and three categories of gold equally. The prices have been increased by Tk 100 on each gram of 23 carat of...
The health department has recorded more than 5,500 dengue cases in July, the highest number for a month in the history of this mosquito-borne viral disease in Bangladesh, according to...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a newly built submarine and ordered officials to further bolster the country's military capabilities, state media reported on Tuesday, as the North...
Access to financial services has emerged as a legitimate tool for development in countries like Bangladesh. The provision of financial services refers to adequate access to prudent financial services including...
The investment target set for fiscal year 2019 under the '7th Five Year plan (2016-2020)' is 32.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). Of this, 25.1 per cent is...
I was watching a speech by Professor Zafar Iqbal at a university campus(posted on You Tube). Soon after his speech ended, I saw a student approaching the Professor who asked...
We see many challenges that affect children around the world. Child marriage, corporal punishment, voting ages, air pollution, teachers going on strike… It's been great to speak and have world...
Oil edged further above $63 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by rising tensions in the Middle East after Iran's seizure of a British tanker last week, although signs of faltering...
Jatiya Party Senior Co-Chairman Raushon Ershad has refused to accept GM Quader as chairman of the party following the death of founder HM Ershad. Ershad named his brother Quader acting...
Fishermen in Khulna and other southeastern districts are ready to begin fishing amid festivity from Tuesday night after the 65-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal ended on Tuesday....
TANGAIL, July 23: Commercial banana cultivation has made thousands of growers self-reliant across the district. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources said some 6,353 hectares of land have...
MAGURA, July 23: Suraiya, now a four-year- old girl, who had received bullet injury in her mother's womb, is growing up with physical disability and leading a miserable life. During...
A court in Barguna will hear the bail petition of Aysha Siddika Minni on July 30 in a case filed over the killing of her husband Rifat Sharif. District and...
The High Court has issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain within 10 days why the Bangladesh Bank circular providing special privileges to loan defaulters should not be declared...
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