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The government has moved to set up three utility-scale wind power plants as part of its efforts to enhance electricity generation from renewable energy sources, officials said. The grid-connected wind...
Non-payment of wages, arrears and other financial benefits before Eid may cause labour unrest at around hundred apparel units in and around Dhaka city, officials said. Citing a government intelligence...
The heat wave, which has swept many places in the country over the past few days, may persist, the Met Office said. In its 24-hour forecast, the Office said hot...
The country's foreign exchange reserves have come under pressure after higher external payments against import of oil and construction materials for mega projects. The reserves shrank on Wednesday after a...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to receive a record high fund allocation in the next development budget as the quality of its service has been on the decline, insiders said...
Every year, days or weeks before and during the holy month of Ramadan, there is a big increase in prices of different food items. This year is no exception. Consumers...
IDLC Finance Ltd. will provide loan to the customers of Easy Build, a retail chain of building materials of RFL Group, for constructing their houses and purchasing building materials, says...
Bangladesh's incredible economic growth performance is well known. Annual growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at constant 2005 prices increased from 2.96 per cent in 1997 to...
A United Nations-sponsored study published earlier this week in Paris by the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) revealed that one million species faced extinction due to...
Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen on Friday denied the Bangladeshi citizenship of Shamima, an Islamic States (IS) recruit, as she was not born in Bangladesh. “Shamima Begum and...
On May 07, journalists from across the world expressed their satisfaction on social media platforms following the release of two Reuters' journalists, who were jailed in Myanmar for 500 days....
The sanctions imposed on Iran by US President Donald Trump have begun to bite the country's economy hard. Inflation, seemingly defeated by President Hassan Rouhani, has returned with a vengeance,...
From the first week of April, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has been in the headlines of local dailies as its major index (DSEX) continued to decline. According to the dailies,...
Dozens of migrants are thought to have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. At least 50 people died in the incident, with 16...
The historic former Nara Prison, the oldest in Japan and declared a cultural asset, is set to reopen in 2021 as a luxury hotel in a project seeking to change...
The government has set revenue collection target at Tk 3.97 trillion for 2019-20 fiscal year to reduce dependency on foreign aid and grants. According to UNB, the new revenue target...
India's richest man Mukesh Ambani has bought the iconic British toy retailer Hamleys for an undisclosed sum. Reliance Brands Limited, which is owned by Mr Ambani, said it had signed...
A joke got currency for a while in this capital city. The joke was that if the Dhakaites ate something really unadulterated, it upset their stomachs. Why? Their stomachs have...
French Naval officer and ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997) once said, “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” Still...
Tagore has been an inescapable reality for all 250 million Bengali speaking people around the world. He is widely revered all over Bangladesh and in India. He commands a towering...
The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday urged his party colleagues not to get confused with the government's 'propaganda' against their party. "The world is changing fast while...
Truck registration across the country stood at 2,391 in first three months of the current calendar year, according to official data. Of them, some 1,716 trucks are based in Dhaka,...
Two men were killed and three injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj Sadar upazila on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain, 32, the helper of a...
Four foreign hostages were freed by French forces in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the French government says. Two of those released are French, while the other two...
Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad (BHBCOP) on Friday expressed deep concern over the increased violence and oppression of minorities in the last four months after the national election. The BHBCOP, a...
British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Friday he is optimistic that the United States and China would step back from a trade war that would have a 'very serious'...
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is in 'absolutely no rush' to finalise a trade agreement with China as US negotiators from both countries prepared to continue talks...
James Bond co-writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge has said she will help to make the female characters in the new James Bond movie "feel like real people". The Fleabag and Killing Eve...
The US has more than doubled tariffs on $200 billion (£153.7b) worth of Chinese products, in a sharp escalation of the countries' damaging trade war. Tariffs on affected Chinese goods...
Syrian activists and state media say rebel groups are fighting back, trying to retake territory lost to government forces this week in their stronghold in the country's northwest. Syria state...
Britain will eventually leave the European Union and agree a free-trade deal with the bloc, according to the vast majority of economists polled by Reuters who were, however, split on...
Actor and 'Nirapad Sarak Chai' (Nischa) founder Ilias Kanchan on Friday said that steps should be taken to cut road accidents by half within the next year. He said that...
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has left for Yangon to bring back passengers and crew members injured in last week's crash landing. The flight left Dhaka around 3:30pm...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is facing a shortage of planes following the accident involving one of its aircraft at Myanmar’s Yangon Airport on Wednesday. The incident has triggered a crisis on...
A statue of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the mould of the Statue of Liberty in the US will be constructed to commemorate his birth centenary,...
Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024. The unmanned, reusable Blue...
France will not tolerate repeated extensions of the Brexit deadline, a French presidential adviser said on Friday, expressing hope that European elections in Britain would jolt its political parties into...
A suspected member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir was arrested from Charail area of Keraniganj on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Riaz Uddin Sepai, 35, a member of Dhaka...
Facebook Inc quickly rejected a call from co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday to split the world’s largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the US Justice Department to...
A US air strike killed 13 Islamic State fighters in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, the US military said, days after another strike killed three. The US military has...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit off the coast of southern Japan on Friday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of...
Two Venezuelan lawmakers sought refuge at foreign embassies in Caracas on Thursday, as the government of President Nicolas Maduro cracked down on allies of opposition leader Juan Guaido who supported...
Former Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain has been suspended for his negligent handling of the case over the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was burnt by assailants in...
US President Donald Trump’s tariff increase to 25 per cent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, and Beijing said it would strike back, ratcheting up...
Bank Asia recently organised a day-long workshop on Islamic Banking in its Corporate Office for Dhaka based 50 Heads of Branches. Rumee A Hossain, Chairman of Board’s Executive Committee chaired...
The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5.0 percentage points to 45 per cent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen said on Friday that China has stepped up its efforts to infiltrate and gain influence in Taiwan and she asked national security agencies to counter Beijing’s...
The United States has seized a North Korean cargo ship, the Wise Honest, accusing it of violating international sanctions, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The justice department said the ship...
Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison, despite refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks. Manning, 31, was held for 62 days after a Virginia...
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