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People will have to accept gas price hike for the sake of the country's economic progress as the government has to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) at a higher cost,...
Five days of heavy rains and winds have destroyed Rohingya camps in the district displacing over 2,700, damaging over 3,400 houses and leaving two people dead, said IOM on Monday....
The Appellate Division on Monday upheld the bail granted by the High Court (HC) to former Awami League MP from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a case filed...
An easy-bike driver and a cyclist were killed after being hit by a truck on Khulna-Mawa highway at Bishwa Road intersection in Fakirhat upazila in Bagerhat on Monday. The deceased...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson on Monday said freedom of expression and the media are essential qualities of any functioning democracy. "As Bangladesh continues its journey of...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to launch a ‘mobile app’ for increasing the number of taxpayers and preventing tax evasion. “We will make web-based software and a...
The government plans to set up an automatic assembling plant by 2022 to produce cars aiming to meet its local demand. Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun gave the information...
The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 17. Inter-education board coordination subcommittee chief Prof Md Ziaul Haque gave the...
A minor boy and a woman were killed and three others injured on Monday in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall for the last couple of days at Kalabagan in...
Dutch Queen Maxima arrives in Dhaka on Tuesday on a four-day official visit to see various development activities on the ground. Queen Máxima has served as the UN Secretary-General's Special...
Mr Tarique Afzal has recently been appointed as the president and managing director of AB Bank. Prior to the appointment, he served as the acting president and managing director of...
A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Kiranganj border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj early Monday. The deceased was identified as Dulal,...
The Supreme Court on Monday extended for two months its stay on a High Court order that halted a central bank circular providing loan defaulters with privileges. That means, the...
Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique has officially left the Jatiya Oikya Front, an election-time opposition alliance. “The alliance has turned into an almost non-existent entity within a...
A large number of rickshaw-pullers have blocked Dhaka roads, demanding the city authorities reverse a ban on rickshaw movement on three important roads in the capital. The protesters have occupied...
Merina Shoeb, wife of Kazi Shoeb Rashid, the eldest son of Jatiya Party Presidium member Kazi Feroz Rashid, has been admitted to hospital after being shot. She was shot in...
Some unidentified miscreants stabbed a ninth grader to death in Tongi BSCIC industrial area in Gazipur on early Monday. The deceased was identified as Shuvo Ahmed, 15, son of Md...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her only job is to make Bangladesh a sustainable country and give its people a better life. “I lost all my family members except...
Deutsche Bank AG eliminated whole teams at its Asian operations on Monday, as the German lender began axing 18,000 jobs globally in one of the biggest overhauls at an investment...
US President Donald Trump has criticised the UK ambassador who said in leaked emails that his administration was "inept". Mr Trump said: "The ambassador has not served the UK well,...
Crude prices were little changed on Monday as traders weighed geopolitical risks against the impact of the Sino-US trade war on the global economy, although last week’s better-than-expected US jobs...
BRAC Bank Limited has come forward to provide scholarships to the meritorious students of Dhaka University's Business Studies Faculty as part of its corporate social responsibility. The scholarship has been...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government has taken various steps to ensure a vibrant capital market that will supplement its efforts to make Bangladesh a developed country...
Development activities in the public sector are being hampered due to non-effectiveness of the government's order to merge administration and economic cadres of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS), insiders opined...
Actor Cameron Boyce, best known for his role as the teenage son of Cruella de Vil in the Disney Channel franchise "Descendants," has died. He was 20 years old. Boyce,...
There were no reports on Monday of major damage in Indonesia from a weekend earthquake of magnitude 6.9 off the northeastern coast of the island of Sulawesi, and authorities lifted...
Asian shares tumbled Monday after relatively strong US employment data tempered hopes the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong all declined, reports...
Britain’s detention of an Iranian tanker last week was a threatening and incorrect action, Iran’s Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television....
A youth was killed as a bus hit a motorbike at Signboard on Dhaka-Narayanganj road in Narayanganj on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Noor Mohammad Russel, 20, son...
Greece's opposition conservatives returned to power with a landslide victory in snap elections on Sunday, and Prime Minister-elect Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he had a clear mandate for change, pledging more...
The move to ramp up natural gas output from local gas fields is going to face a setback as the Socar, a foreign oil company, has intended to leave midway...
At least 27 people died and around 15 injured when a passenger bus carrying them fell into a drain in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday morning, confirmed...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association's (BGMEA) move to collect information on foreign nationals working in the country's ready-made garment (RMG) sector has got poor response from its member...
Two listed companies have recommended dividends ranging from 5.0 per cent to 12 per cent in last week for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The companies are Prime...
Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus made one goal, scored another and was sent off in the second half as they beat Peru 3-1 on Sunday to win the Copa America for the...
Malaysia may start manpower recruitment from Bangladesh in August, said Foreign Minister (FM) Dr A K Abdul Momen after a meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah on Sunday. Talking...
As the government spending is growing, failure in meeting the revenue targets could put Bangladesh into a debt trap, economists warned on Sunday. To avoid such unpleasant macroeconomic situation, the...
The Asia Pacific Group (APG) on money laundering has assured Bangladesh of ratcheting up pressure on the Philippines to return the heisted reserve money, officials said. The Group said had...
Bangladesh National Cricket team returned home on Sunday afternoon after their poor show in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup in England and Wales, reports UNB. The Tigers landed at...
RAJSHAHI, July 07: Farmers in Godagari upazila of the district are growing brinjal by covering the soil with polythene sheets with a view to saving the plants from being damaged...
A pictorial report carried on railway tracks and bridges in a leading Bangla contemporary on July 6 last is a powerful testament to the awful state of maintenance of the...
'Employers find graduates unappealing' screamed the headline of the front-page lead story of this paper's July 06 issue. What the news report in question highlighted was the large gap between...
With the onset of the monsoon, the now-perennial scourge of water-logging has begun staging a comeback. Earlier, the disruptive monsoon fallout would remain limited to the capital Dhaka before spreading...
BOGURA, July 07: More than 500 families of Manik Dair and Pakiria area under Sariakandi upazila of the district have been rendered homeless by the erosion of the river Jamuna...
Many areas of Dhaka will be without gas service from 10am to 8pm on Monday as the concerning authority will replace the gas lines, according to official. Titas Gas Transmission...
[The first of two-part article titled "Driving efficiency in supply chain and logistics through blockchain"] In 2016, Amazon became the fastest company to achieve the $136 billion revenue milestone....
With its graduation from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group, Bangladesh is set to arrive at an important juncture of economic growth. Now the country requires right policies and timely...
There is a general consensus after the 2019 EU elections held at the end of May that certain power blocs have lost their grip on the EU Parliament. Analysts have...
Thanks to the efforts of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the recent G20 summit in Osaka avoided the worst possible outcomes. That counts as a victory in the age of...
Grameenphone has described the telecom regulator’s move to reduce its internet bandwidth capacity as 'inappropriate' and 'illegal'. The largest telecom operator of the country also called for a 'constructive arbitration'...
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