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A driving licence will be mandatory to buy a motorcycle from September this year. The government took the decision in a bid to curb road accidents, according to a notice...
Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, the first session of the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, as investors mostly on selling binge on major sectors’ shares. Parliament passed the tax measures for the...
India have won the toss and asked Bangladesh to bowl first at the Edgbaston in Birmingham today. With Pakistan and England breathing heavily on their neck, nothing other than a...
The Italian cabinet has agreed to reduce the country's budget deficit target by 0.3 per cent in 2019 to avoid European Union (EU) disciplinary action. The measure was seen as...
US online retail giant Amazon said on Tuesday it will create 1,800 permanent contract positions this year in France, its largest European market after Britain and Germany, although furniture retailer...
Nikkei Asian Review in a news article said that the new Value Added Tax (VAT) system in Bangladesh has confused both the consumers and businesses. Titled ‘Bangladesh's VAT rollout confuses...
A union parishad member was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Hamid Member alias Dakat...
Bangladesh Television (BTV) is likely to start airing its programmes in India “very soon” through DTH platforms of Doordarshan. A three-member technical team of BTV arrived in India on Monday...
President Donald Trump said on Monday that trade talks with China were under way and any deal would need to be somewhat tilted in favour of the United States. Trump...
The Annual Performance Agreement (APA) 2019-20 between Financial Institutions Division of Ministry of Finance and Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) was signed recently. Senior Secretary of Financial Institutions Division Mr....
Facebook evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday (local time) after a package at the social media company’s...
BRAC Bank Limited and Guardian Life Insurance Limited have signed an agreement for online payment gateway. The agreement will enable Guardian Life Insurance customers to pay policy fees online...
The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal No 3 as squally weather is likely to affect those, North...
Southeast Asian stocks were subdued on Tuesday, as worries over weakening manufacturing activity and slowing economic growth hit risk appetite and dimmed enthusiasm around the Sino-US trade truce. However, Singapore...
A Dhaka court has sent suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman to jail today (Tuesday) in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Judge of KM...
Most Asian stock markets rose Tuesday after Wall Street's benchmark hit a new high following the latest truce in the costly US-Chinese trade war. Tokyo and Sydney rose, while Shanghai...
BRAC Bank Limited and Mohammad & Sons, a new venture of Meghna Group, have entered into a partnership agreement. Mohammad and Sons is one of the watch boutiques...
Twenty-nine Bangladeshi workers returned home willingly from volatile Libya on Tuesday. A Turkish Airlines flight carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:20am, said programme head of Brac...
Despite being in a hard-pressed situation, Bangladesh remain confident to keep their World Cup alive as they take on sub-continent rivals India in their penultimate match of the group phase...
The ninth wage board award for journalists and employees of newspapers and news agencies will be announced this month, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said. He said,...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has launched EMV Chip Card. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director & CEO of the bank, inaugurated the card as the chief guest at Islami Bank...
An Azerbaijan firm has planned to terminate its contract with Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) halfway through, making its drilling works at three gas fields uncertain. The...
Police recovered the throat-slit body of a young man from Kerinagar village of Mohammadpur upazila of Magura on Tuesday morning. The identity of the deceased, aged around 30, could not...
The ACME Laboratories Limited has declared the commencement of commercial production of its state of the art steroid, hormone facility at Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka district. The company noted that...
Stocks witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the first session of the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, as investors mostly followed cautious. Parliament passed the tax measures...
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in China. More than 1,800 leaders including heads of state and government,...
Only a small number of companies are moving supply chains out of China, a commerce ministry official said on Tuesday, amid signs that some firms are shifting production to other...
Monsoon rains caused wall collapses that killed 27 people in India on Tuesday, as a second day of bad weather disrupted rail and air traffic in the financial capital Mumbai,...
Iran announced on Monday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, drawing a warning from US President Donald Trump that Tehran...
The second phase work of virtual One-Stop Service (OSS) under the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) is scheduled to be completed by September, officials said. After that, investors from home...
Officials say a bus carrying a group of retirees has overturned on a foggy road in northern Argentina, killing at least 13 passengers and leaving 40 injured. La Madrid town...
Stocks posted a slight gain in the first half of the 2019 despite the year started with shining streak amidst post-election buoyancy. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty (SD) on import of raw materials for producing sanitary napkin and diaper in a bid...
Rights shares subscription of IPDC Finance Ltd is set to begin July 10, aiming to raise Tk 1.41 billion through rights issuance. Rights subscription of the non-bank financial institution will...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in China on a five-day official visit -- her first to the Asian superpower after forming government for a third straight term. A VVIP...
Officials of Bangladesh and India will sit tomorrow (Wednesday) in Dhaka to review the progress of projects taken up under the three Indian lines of credit (LoCs), officials said on...
Operating profits of the country's private commercial banks (PCBs) showed an upturn in the first six months (H1) of this calendar year (2019) although the volume of classified loans in...
Prime accused of the Rifat Sharif murder case Sabbir Ahmed alias Nayon Bond was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Barguna sadar upazila early Tuesday. A team of...
Iron is used abundantly in the real estate, construction, various industries and other sectors of the economy. There is a growing demand for it. Because of this reason and the...
Against the backdrop of vanishing forests in the county, the increasing rush of tree lovers to various tree fairs seems amazing. A recent spectacular tree-related event in the capital witnessed...
At the ninth Social Business Day held in Bangkok on June 29, a pioneer of social business Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has called for harnessing the power of creativity...
The high-profile annual summit of Group of 20 (G20) nations was hosted by Japan - the third largest economy of the world for the first time from June 28 to...
History did not come to an "end," as Francis Fukuyama grandiloquently predicted in the early 1990s, because of the dramatic collapse of Soviet communism, and with it, the most savoury...
There are two basic organs in the management of listed companies, namely board of directors and members. The board is responsible to perform its fiduciary duties within the ambit of...
Child rape across the country rose alarmingly by 41 per cent in the first six months of the current calendar year, compared to that of the corresponding period in 2018,...
The condition of ailing Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, has deteriorated further and has been placed on life support. Health...
SYLHET, July 01: Emergency protection and reconstruction works on the flood control embankments and structures in different districts of Sylhet division are going on. The Water Development Board (WDB) has...
An illustration, prepared by Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder, of US President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral Wednesday. Two days later, Michael...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary affairs ministry on Monday handed over keys of a total 109 vehicles to its officials including additional district judges and session judges. A total of 62...
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