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Our CorrespondentsMAGURA, July 06: Recent rainfall has come as a boon for the jute growers in the district.A good number of jute growers said a drought-like situation was prevailing in...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, July 06: At the end of Bangla month 'Ashar', there is an abundant supply of mango in the markets of the district. The supply of quality mangoes including...
China's macroeconomy is at a critical stage as internal economic problems have emerged in the last two years. When we attempted to define the "new normal" of China's economy and...
The G20 Summit has become an annual event since 1999 following the Asian Financial crisis but has taken a more pivotal importance since 2008 in the wake of the GFC...
China has conveyed Bangladesh that the strategic partnership of cooperation between the two countries will be 'helpful in a big way' towards the prosperity and stability in Asia and beyond....
Agriculture Minister Dr. Abdur Razzaque has said the government is very much concerned about declining prices of paddy and has given special consideration to overcome the problem as early as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a five-day official visit to China from July 02-06 during which she attended the Summer Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Dalian. During...
A Barguna court on Saturday placed two accused in the Rifat Sharif killing case on a five-day remand for interrogation over the gruesome murder. Those remanded are Tiktak Hridoy and...
The Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) plans to construct houses in the khas lands (government owned fallow lands) by using modern technology for the middle and lower income groups...
Bangladesh Rickshaw and Van Owners' Federation on Saturday gave ultimatum to concerned authorities to uplift ban on rickshaws on three major roads by July 10. If their demands are not...
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam has urged people to accept 'temporary sufferings' over a ban on rickshaws on three key streets, assuring the citizens of arranging alternatives. There...
The government is determined to protect the rivers from encroachment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday. He was speaking at a rally in Kamrangirchar while launching 12 master plans...
Police arrested two members of a fraud gang who took money from people with false assurance of recruitment as police constables. Superintendent of Gazipur Police Shamsunnahar confirmed the matter at...
At least 126 people were killed by lightning strikes across Bangladesh in the last two months of the current calendar year, according to data compiled by a non-government organisation. 'Save...
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled parts of Southern California, the biggest tremor to strike in 20 years. It struck at the shallow depth of 0.9km (0.6 miles) and its...
Amid the government’s efforts to send back the displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar, some NGOs are reportedly trying to build new makeshift camps for them destroying hills and...
BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that the ruling Awami League has been letting loose anarchy across Bangladesh. “The law and order has collapsed. People are being hacked every...
Two people were killed and three other injured as a mini truck hit another one in Kashemmor area in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj district on Saturday morning. The identities of...
A college teacher was killed after being run over by a truck in Patkelghata on Satkhira-Khulna Highway on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Jahanara Khatun, 38, wife of...
Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day visit to discuss wide-ranging bilateral, regional and international issues including Rohingya issue. The Malaysian Foreign Minister, who...
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has said Bangladesh would concentrate on tackling challenges of commercial laws, trade arbitration and agreement. He also suggested that judges and lawyers should have good...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached home today (Saturday) wrapping up her five-day bilateral official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang. A VVIP fight...
Britain's overwhelming favourite to be the next prime minister, Boris Johnson, has singled out Bangladeshis, Jewish refugees from Tsarist Russia, and Huguenots from France for shaping the British culture. These...
Police have recovered the body of a seven-year-old girl, who went missing on Friday evening, from an empty flat at Bonogram area of Wari in Old Dhaka. The girl was...
Consumer electronics and home appliances retailer Singer has launched a special campaign titled ‘SINGER Eid Fridge Fever’ on the occasion of upcoming Eid ul Adha. Customers across the country will...
First Security Islami Bank Limited has handed over scholarship cheques to meritorious and financially challenged students of Faculty of Business Studies of Dhaka University. Prof. Dr. Akhtaruzzaman, Vice-Chancellor, Dhaka University...
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rangs Electronics Limited (Sony Rangs) recently at Bank’s Corporate Head Office. In presence of the Managing Director & CEO...
Mymensingh Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized Business Development Conference on Friday at Brac Learning Center in Mymensingh. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director and CEO of the bank,...
ACI Motors, a subsidiary of ACI Limited is venturing into the world of musical solution for the first time in the company’s history. As the sole distributor of musical goods...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate the bodyguard and the driver of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman over bribery allegation on Sunday. Bodyguard Hridoy Hasan and...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition is on track to win a solid majority in a July 21 upper house election, and his dream of revising the pacifist constitution could...
Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, was finalized by a Seattle-area judge on Friday, paving the way for her to receive $38.3...
Turkey on Saturday fired its central bank governor and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on the official gazette showed. Murat Cetinkaya, who had been...
Many government agencies are busy constructing luxury, multi-storied office buildings with billions of taka from the development budget overlooking the priority needs, analysts said on Friday. Development experts and officials...
Global stocks were lower on Friday after strong US jobs report and weak economic data in Germany. The US jobs report that tempered expectations of an aggressive interest rate cut...
Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups agreed provisionally on Friday to share power for three years, bringing thousands onto the streets to hail a...
The government is scrutinising the merit of filing petition against the imposition of anti-dumping duty (ADD) on some products by four countries with the dispute settlement body of World Trade...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief the media on Monday about the outcomes of her five-day official visit to China. The press conference will be held at the PM's official...
Bond yields rose and stocks mostly bounced back from an early slide to finish with modest losses Friday, a downbeat end on Wall Street to an otherwise milestone-setting week for...
Stocks slipped back into the red in the outgoing week that ended on Thursday as tax review measures failed to jack investors' confidence up. Although the government brought some changes...
Sea Pearl Beach Resort & Spa Ltd is set to make its share trading debut on Tuesday (July 09) on the bourses under 'N' category, officials said. Sea Pearl Beach...
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza singled out batsman Shakib Al Hasan for praise after the side’s final match at the Cricket World Cup on Friday, a 94-run loss to Pakistan at...
A traffic police was killed as a truck hit him at Jatrabari intersection in the city on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Assistant Sub-inspector Mohammad Khairul, 32. Dhaka...
Dengue outbreak in Dhaka city has taken a serious turn this year as the number of victims was five times higher in June compared with the same period last year....
All existing VAT-registered businesses will have to provide some additional information this month as per new VAT Act-2012 to keep their nine-digit Business Identification Number (BIN) active. Businesses will have...
Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that Myanmar has a “political will” over Rohingya repatriation as he held a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK...
Teenage fast bowler Shaheen Afridi took six cheap wickets as Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 94 runs at Lord’s on Friday, clocking up their fourth World Cup win in a row...
Rising non-performing loans (NPLs) and tight liquidity condition on the domestic front alongside external challenges are likely to pose downside risk to growth momentum, the central bank has said. The...
Before 2016, commuting was almost a nightmare in Dhaka. Getting on a public bus or other transports during peak hours was near to impossible. Chances of finding a CNG-driven scooter...
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