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At least 32 people were killed and thirteen others injured in Uttar Pradesh of India due to lightning on Sunday, said officials. The victims included seven each in Kanpur and...
Britain was weighing its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis on Sunday, with few good options apparent as a recording emerged showing that the Iranian military defied a British...
The posts of managing directors (MDs) at both the stock exchanges of the country have remained vacant due to delay in completing the appointment process. Presently, two senior officials are...
Fortune Shoes Ltd. has signed an agreement with New York-based Steve Madden for export of shoes worth US$ 4.0 million (Tk 340 million) which is scheduled to be shipped by...
Ten most traded companies accounted for one-fourth transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), with the Fortune Shoes bagging the top spot on the turnover chart for the third straight...
Sixty-four people died in the past eleven days because of floods nationwide and thousands are at risk amid a dearth of food and water, official sources said. Floodwaters in the...
Bangladesh has become the top destination for scrapped ships in the world with bringing the highest number of such vessels in the first half of the current year, according to...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has made VAT registration mandatory for businesses of some 174 categories, irrespective of their annual business turnover as specified in the VAT and Supplementary...
Country's top bankers Sunday proposed amending the existing loan write-off policy so that they could rid themselves of bad loans that, according to them, were not recoverable, officials said. Under...
That a woman feeds a baby animal is a rare event, rarer still is the practice of feeding a fawn along her own baby. If the pictures of women from...
A couple of vital data --- the number of foreign workers in Bangladesh and the amount of money they remit to their home countries annually --- continues to elude the...
Adulteration of food items with unhygienic substances in this country has finally degraded into the mixing of edibles with things harmful to humans. They include toxic and purely hazardous objects....
RANGPUR, July 21: The cattle rearers in different areas under Rangpur division are apprehensive about making expected profit this year from the sale of sacrificial animals due to the ongoing...
GOPALGANJ, July 21: Sugarcane cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers of Kasiani upazila in the district. According to the Kasiani upazila agriculture office sources, about 200 hectares of land...
According to the latest labour force survey, at least 4.31 per cent population of Bangladesh are currently unemployed. Such unemployment is challenging our economic growth and sustainability of economic development...
When the United Nations General Assembly met in 2007 to vote on North Korea's human rights record, only 10 of the 56 African countries voted with the US-led western coalition....
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday said irregularities in fisheries and livestock sectors must be strictly prevented to continue the trend of development of these sectors. "Any irregularity in fisheries and...
One needs to re-visit the G-20 Summit, an annual meeting of leaders from the countries with the largest and fastest-growing economies that was convened in Osaka, Japan in June. This...
The uncertainty over the repatriation of about 1.2 million Rohingya refugees to their homes in Myanmar is costing Bangladesh dearly. The two districts of Cox's Bazar and Bandarban that have...
Shopping malls and super shops across the country cannot operate without Value Added Tax (VAT) registration, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) through a Supplementary Revenue Order (SRO) said on...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested 14 members of a teenagers gang named 'First Hitter Boss' or "FHB" from the city's Uttara on Saturday night. The arrestees are Bishu Chandra...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) earned Tk 24.13 billion in the last two fiscal years by disposing of some 345 revenue-related cases through the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system....
The government has finalised two master plans to free rivers in the capital and port city from grabbers and pollutions. Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found involvement of 23 people in the alleged embezzlement of about 144,000 tonnes of coal worth over Tk 2.43 billion from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company...
Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman was shown arrested in a case over bribing an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Dhaka Senior Special Judge AKM Emrul...
A court in Barguna on Sunday rejected the bail petition of Aysha Siddika Minni, wife of Rifat Sharif, in a case over the killing of her husband in the town....
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) held a day-long conference on the Fourth Industrial Revolution on its campus recently. The programme titled ‘Social Science in the 21st Century: Survival Strategy for...
Marvel has announced a bumper crop of 10 new superhero movies at Comic Con. Marvel studios president Kevin Feige, flanked by dozens of Hollywood stars, revealed the post-Avengers roster of...
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) SDG Centre hosted its first workshop on “Three Pillars of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” on July 20, 2019 at SANEM office, Dhaka. The...
Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Sunday said the US Embassy in Dhaka is the one that had an "ulterior motive" mentioning that they picked Priya Saha...
Some 1,000 firefighters are working to contain wildfires in central Portugal that have already injured eight firefighters and 12 civilians, authorities said Sunday. Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency said the fires...
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that ruling Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997. "Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997,...
Priya Saha has stood by her remarks on the alleged persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh to US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House. In a YouTube...
Two sedition cases filed against Priya Saha, who raised allegations of minority torture in Bangladesh during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, were dismissed hours after the cases were...
Power supply to Shahajala International Airport restored after seven hours of disruption on Sunday afternoon following a power-line disconnection in the morning. Power outage and disruption in water supply hit...
Stocks witnessed the biggest single-day fall in 17 months on Sunday as worried investors continued their selling spree, feraing further fall. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, settled at...
ICC Commercial Crime Services and ICC Bangladesh have jointly organised the 14th International Financial Crime Forum 2019, with the theme 'The Changing Face of Financial Crime', in Kuala Lumpur recently....
Bangladesh should immediately enact the Right to Food Act and implement it in order to ensure adequate amount of food and nutrition for the poor and extremely poor people in...
Energypac, a power engineering company, has signed an agreement with eGeneration Limited, an IT consulting and software solutions company, for SAP ERP solutions. SAP is especially well-known for its Enterprise...
A sudden power cut has 'partially' hit the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city since this morning. With this, the airport went without water and air-conditioning, leaving travellers inside...
The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) today launched a campaign to destroy the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquito responsible for dengue. DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon inaugurated the drive in front...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Priyabala Saha, who complained of minority oppression in Bangladesh to US President Donald Trump, should be given a chance a...
Jatiya Party, the official opposition in parliament, has said that it ‘does not agree’ with the controversial remarks made by Priya Saha to US president Donald Trump about the alleged...
Two sedition cases have been filed against Priya Saha, a leader of a minority group, for maligning Bangladesh's image by making false complaints to US President Donald Trump. Supreme Court...
The national road developer has decided to construct four rest houses for bus and truck drivers on highways to help ensure road safety. Officials said on Saturday the proposed resting...
A group of Dhaka University (DU) students on Sunday locked the gates of administrative and academic buildings demanding an end to the university's affiliation with seven colleges. The main gates...
British Airways and Lufthansa abruptly suspended flights to Cairo from Saturday over security concerns, but gave no details about what may have prompted the move. "We constantly review our security...
About a million people are stranded as the overall flood has situation remained unchanged for the last 12 days. Although the water level of major rivers has fallen, the sufferings...
Stocks witnessed a sharp decline in early hour of trading on Sunday as investors mostly remained on selling spree, fearing further fall. Following the previous week’s downturn, the Dhaka Stock...
For the first time in the country's history, fishermen in haor areas will be able to sell their fishes directly to the consumers in the capital. Both fishermen and consumers...
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