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Small businesses that were enjoying package VAT (value-added tax) system until June 30 are in confusion over the provision of the new VAT law on exemption ceiling. As per the...
Bazal Ahmed has been elected vice chairman of the United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) at the 439th board meeting of the bank. He is also a member of the executive...
RAJSHAHI, July 16: Pleasure trips by boats in the Padma river surrounding the city protection embankment is turning risky and dangerous as neither the boatmen nor the riders are conscious...
The woman nominated to head the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has pledged to launch a "green deal for Europe", in a bid for MEPs' support, reports BBC. Mrs...
The No.11 point of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes it incumbent that necessary initiatives should be taken and challenges must be overcome for ensuring sustainable cities and communities by...
Increase in export of agricultural produces and products -- primary and processed - in the just concluded fiscal year is an accomplishment that the country's agro-product exporters have reasons to...
Dengue's seasonal visitation in the capital has now become axiomatic ever since its first appearance here in 1999. Although the first cases of dengue fever were detected in Chattogram in...
Aysha Siddika Minni was arrested on Tuesday over the killing of her husband Rifat Sharif. Police super of Barugna Maruf Hossain announced this in the evening, hours after taking in...
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Tuesday claimed to have found excessive amount of lead in pasteurised milk produced by 11 licensed companies. It filed a report to the...
All the speculations surrounding Mashrafe Mortaza's international career were laid to rest as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) named him in the squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. The...
Lionel Messi should apologise for his harsh comments at the Copa América in order to avoid a sanction, an Argentine member of sport's highest court said on Monday, reports AP....
On 17 June, a Facebook white paper proposed a new global digital currency it plans to launch in the first half of 2020. The Libra will be managed by a...
It is more than 500 years since Sir Thomas More found inspiration for the "Kingdom of Utopia" while strolling the streets of Antwerp. So, when I travelled there from Dubai...
Six years after introducing diesel electric multiple unit or DEMU trains, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected a proposal to buy any more of them, saying they are unfit for...
Baby foods are high in sugar and inappropriately marked as suitably for infants under the age of six months, according to recent studies. Two new studies by WHO/Europe also...
The growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Bangladesh by about 68 per cent ($ 3.6 billion) in 2018 compared with 2017 is an outstanding performance of the country. But...
Six people drowned in Ulipur and Roumari upazilas of Kurigram district on Tuesday as the Brahmaputra and Dharla rivers continue to flow above the danger level, leaving thousands of people...
A leather industrial estate is going be set up in Rajshahi soon, official concerned in the government decided in a meeting held over the issue. Chairman of Bangladesh Small and...
Large parts of Mirpur will have to make do without gas on Wednesday as Titas will halt supplies due to transfer of pipelines. In a notice on Tuesday, the state...
More than 820 million people are suffering from hunger across the world, a UN report has said. Besides, the income inequality has been increasing the likelihood of severe food insecurity,...
The names of seven personalities who will receive 'Shilpakala Padak 2018' for their contributions to their respective fields were announced Tuesday. They are - Gouro Gopal Haldar (vocal), Sunil Chandra...
A Khulna court has sentenced five people to death for gang-raping and murdering former Exim Bank official Parvin Sultana before killing her father Ilyas Chowdhury in 2015. Judge Md Mohiduzzaman...
Computer pioneer Fernando Corbato, who first used passwords to protect user accounts, has died aged 93. Dr Corbato introduced the basic security measure while developing methods that let more people...
Jatiya Party Chairman and ex-president Hussain Muhammad Ershad was finally laid to eternal rest on Tuesday at Polli Nibash in his hometown Rangpur, according to UNB. The former military strongman...
At least 53 women were tortured to death for dowry alone in the first six months of the calendar year, according to a local legal aid and rights body. The...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Tuesday said the price of onion will come down by the end of July. "Price of a number of essential commodities including onion, ginger and...
The number of covered van registration in the country stood at 1,758 in the first six months of the current calendar year alone, according to an official data. Of the...
A delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived here on Tuesday morning on a weeklong visit to talk to government senior officials and representatives of international organisations over the...
In a dramatic turn of events, the Jatiya Party has confirmed that its chairman HM Ershad will be laid to rest in his hometown Rangpur amid an outcry at the...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler with 2007 pieces of yaba tablets from Terorashia area under Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila this afternoon. Sources at RAB-5 said,...
A Khulna tribunal on Tuesday convicted five people and sentenced them to death for killing a female private bank official after gang-rape and her father in 2015. The convicts are...
Stocks returned to the green on Tuesday, spanning a seven-day losing streak, as investors rushed to take positions in low-priced securities. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved eight projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 51.42 billion. Among the nine projects, the ECNEC approved Tk 26.06...
A writ was filed with the High Court seeking a directive to provide proper security to judges and courtrooms across the country. Advocate Ishrat Hasan, a Supreme Court lawyer and...
Antibiotics must not be sold and administered to cattle without prescriptions from veterinarians, the High Court has ordered. The bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam...
A four-storey building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, trapping dozens in the rubble, with at least four people confirmed dead, a fire department official said. It...
A case has been lodged in Cumilla over the killing of an accused by another accused in a courtroom during hearing on Monday. Assistant sub-inspector Firoz of Bangara Police Station,...
Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder today asked all deputy commissioners to intensify their efforts to procure paddy directly from farmers to ensure a fair price for their produce. "We purchased...
The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on Wednesday. "The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations will...
China’s Huawei Technologies said it would invest $3.1 billion in Italy over the next three years, as the Chinese telecoms giant called on Rome to ensure the “transparent, efficient and...
Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday. Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy...
As NASA scrambles to meet US President Donald Trump’s mandate to return humans to the moon by 2024, two longtime heads of NASA’s human exploration wing were demoted Wednesday in...
Two suspected drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with police in Rajshahi and Narayanganj districts early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Alamin, son of Mohonlal of Harpur under...
Indian shares ticked higher in volatile trade on Tuesday in broad-based gains, while losses in IT stocks limited the upside. The broader NSE index was up 0.37 per cent at...
Asian shares were little changed and mixed in quiet trading Tuesday amid a lack of fresh market-moving news as investors looked ahead to earnings season. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost...
Acting Jatiya Party President GM Quader has confirmed that his brother Hussain Muhammad Ershad will be laid to rest at the army graveyard in Dhaka, following his last funeral prayer...
Police have taken Aysha Siddika Minni to the police super’s office for interrogation over the gruesome murder of her husband Rifat Sharif who was hacked to death in front of...
Stocks witnessed volatile trading after 90 minutes of trading on Tuesday as investors were active both sides of trading fence after dipping 30 months low in the previous day. Following...
The approach road of a bridge has caved in in Matlab North upazila of Chandpur just six and half months after it was opened to traffic. A large portion of...
Pakistan’s airspace has been reopened to civil aviation with immediate effect, its aviation authority said on Tuesday, following months of restrictions imposed in the wake of a standoff with neighbouring...
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