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Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly gang-raping a mother of two in Doalia village of Begumganj upazila in Noakhali on Thursday night. Police named the arrestees as Saiful...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the much-awaited Second Meghna Bridge and the Second Gumti Bridge on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway on Saturday. “The Prime Minister will open the bridges through...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) will establish an Economic Institute for policy planning and designs. Jacobs & Cordova, the global authority on policy planning and...
Shopping malls and markets across the city on Friday witnessed a huge rush of shoppers as the largest religious festival of the Muslims, the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, is approaching nearer. Eid...
China’s Huawei, hit by crippling US sanctions, could see shipments decline by as much as a quarter this year and faces the possibility that its smartphones will disappear from international...
Police here on Thursday night arrested two people along with a SUV and 400 pieces of Yaba tablets from Khilgaon area in the city. The arrestees were identified as Nur...
At least 64 women were sexually harassed across the country alone in the first four months of the current calendar year, as per data by a local legal aid and...
Panchagarh Express, a direct train service on Panchagarh-Dhaka route, will begin its maiden journey on Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the train through a videoconference on...
More than 242,000 students who passed the school-leaving SCC and equivalent exams are yet to apply for college admission, according to the education board. Officials believe most of these students...
Social media giant Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by...
A total of 11,464 auto-rickshaws were registered with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) across the country in the first four months of the current calendar year. Of them, 5,667 were...
Complaints about poor service quality against ridesharing companies are piling up because of mismanagement and abrasive manner of drivers, users and experts say. It is in stark contrast to the...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government is showing an inhuman attitude towards Khaleda by depriving her of legal rights. "The government is prolonging Khaleda...
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday she would step down on June 7, succumbing to calls in her governing Conservative Party to make way for a new leader...
Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader hopes that all the outstanding issues between Bangladesh and India, including the Teesta river water-sharing, will be resolved during the new government of...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 29 members of a gang from Kalaroa upazila headquarters in Satkhira on Friday morning for their suspected involvement in leaking question paper of...
Two people were hacked to death by some muggers at Majhikanda in Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka early Friday. The deceased were identified as Zahid, 40 and his friend Kamal, 50...
Three more Bangladeshis have returned home after surviving a boat capsize in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia. A flight of Turkish Airlines carrying them aboard landed at...
Trading and official activities on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will remain closed for nine days from May 31 to June 8 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. The decision came from...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Iran as early as mid-June, NHK national television said on Friday, as international concern grows about rising tension between Iran and the...
The US Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday (local time), saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with...
Any lesser mortal in Bangladesh might have been censured for being absent for the team's World Cup photo shoot but such is the stature Shakib Al Hasan enjoys that the...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to hold a public hearing on June 12 to know about users' experience and complaints as well as quality of telecom services....
Police arrested a woman along with a gold bar, weighing one kg, from Pather bazar in Khulna city on Thursday. The arrestee is Kulsum Begum, 40, wife of Abu Taher...
A suspected drug trader was killed in a 'gunfight' with police near Gumti River protection dam in Cumilla Sadar upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Jakir Hossain alias...
Bangladesh head to the cricket World Cup to change perceptions about their potential to compete despite having consistently punched above their weight in recent 50-over tournaments. The Tigers registered their...
China’s commerce ministry said on Friday that more efforts should be made to achieve the goal of stabilising trade while improving its quality, adding that the trade environment is growing...
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a $16 billion farm aid package to offset losses from a 10-month trade war with China. The administration said payment rates to farmers would...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on Friday to form a new cabinet to tackle a stuttering economy and other challenges facing his second term after winning a...
High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Thursday on a mission to carry the first batch of five dozen small satellites into low-Earth...
Southeast Asian stock markets declined on Friday as the trade war between the United States and China snowballed into a deeper strategic issue, while Indonesia was on track to snap...
Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday as worries that the standoff between the US and China over trade might expand put investors in a selling mood. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei...
All the usual suspects have gathered for the World Cup at the home of cricket, and yet something is missing. The rest of the world. When the first ball is...
The country's premier bourse has decide to seek an opinion from the securities regulator on the next course of action regarding the listing of Coppertech Industries Ltd. mired in 'controversies'...
The Sea Pearl Beach Resort & Spa Ltd held its initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw on Thursday to allocate 15 million shares among general investors. The lottery draw was...
Ten most-traded companies accounted for 26 per cent transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with Prime Finance & Investment, a 'Z' category company, making it to the...
Return on investment (ROI) in Bangladesh is much higher than its neighbouring countries, Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen told a delegation of the Hong Kong-based Chinese Manufacturers' Association...
The utilisation of trade preferences by the least developed countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, in exporting agriculture products to the developed nation is much lower than that of non-farm goods. For...
Police in a drive arrested 54 Rohingya people from Kazir Dewri area in the port city early Friday. Being tipped off that some Rohingya people were roaming in the city,...
Poultry bird meat, fish and garlic became costlier last week raising sufferings of the consumers, especially the commoners, already battered with an upward trend in prices of commodities for the...
Bangladesh is set to sign a maiden deal with an Indonesian company next month to import coal for generating electricity in the 1320-megawatt (MW) coal-fired thermal power plant at Payra...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored a dramatic election victory on Thursday, putting his Hindu nationalist party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies and...
Tax collection target is likely to be set at Tk 3.25 trillion for the upcoming fiscal year with 16 per cent growth over the revised goal of FY 2018-19. At...
The ICC World Cup 2019 is just five-day away and the teams will be playing their warm-up matches before hitting the field to play for the mega title. Before the...
The US military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, angering China at a time of tense relations...
The ongoing anti-adulteration drive is undoubtedly the toughest among similar actions conducted in the recent past. The relevant government organisations appear to be more active than before during this holy...
One of the great success stories of Bangladesh is its transition from a food-deficit land to a self-sufficient one. The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has worked wonder in inspiring...
The conflicting scenario of good harvest and bad price is, as though, an essential appendage to the country's agriculture sector. It is difficult to say when the farmers last smiled...
A training workshop on gender inequality, women and children repression and early marriage began at BRAC regional office in Joypurhat on Thursday. The workshop has been arranged under BRAC Gender...
Developed countries and multinational entities have long been accused of indulging in unfair and distorted trade practices. Oxfam International along with its 13 affiliates initiated the campaign 'Make Trade Fair'...
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