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South Korea’s exports contracted less in April than in the previous month, but the fifth straight of month of shrinkage, while the memory chip shipments down 13.5 per cent. April...
The Taliban say a fresh round of talks with US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is to start in Qatar, where the religious movement maintains a political office. Khalilzad is trying...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Coast Guards have recovered narcotics worth over $24 million during an operation near Jiwani town of Balochistan province, officials said. Safeer Mehdi, a spokesperson of the Pakistan...
After UK and Canada, India and Bangladesh had also banned Peace TV which has often been used by ISIS recruiters for indoctrination and brainwashing. For inciting religious intolerance and violent...
NEW DELHI: An Indian Hindu nationalist group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Wednesday for a ban on veils after Sri Lanka prohibited the garments worn by...
Coppertech Industries will allocate 20 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants as the company's IPO lottery draw was held on Tuesday. The lottery draw was held at 10:30am at...
Jahangirnagar University (JU) went on a 41-day vacation on Wednesday for Ramadan, Shab-e-Qadar, Bouddha Purnima and Eid-ul-Fitr. All classes and examinations will remain suspended till June 10, but the administrative...
Next to a marble pulpit inside a Catholic church, a young Muslim girl chases around with other children. The church has become a home for her and nearly 1,000 others...
Days after a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that killed over 250 people, the Islamic State affiliate group has issued a direct threat to carry...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has turned down a fresh plea for exempting Japanese companies from tax and value-added tax (VAT), sources said. The firms cannot be tax-exempt if...
At least 16 paramilitary troops were killed in a powerful landmine blast on Wednesday in Maharashtra, a state spanning west-central India. According to Hidustan Times, the explosion occurred this afternoon...
Bangladesh has flagged local warning signal 4 for maritime ports raising it from the distant warning signal No. 2, as Cyclone Fani tracking over the Bay of Bengal has turned...
Police have recovered the bodies of two female domestic workers from the rooftop of a building at Uttara in Dhaka. They are believed to have died after falling off a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for London on Wednesday morning on an official visit to the United Kingdom (UK). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime...
All trucks and covered vans will be restricted from boarding ferries across the country for three days either side of Eid-ul-Fitr, making an exception for essential products. State Minister...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament Tuesday punitive action would be taken if anyone tries to play game with the share market as turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
A gunman reported to have been a student opened fire in a building at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding four others,...
Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally took up his post on Wednesday a day after the abdication of his father, saying he felt a "sense of solemnity" but pledging to work as...
A leader of the banned Sarbahara Party has died in a gunfight in Bogura, police say. The incident took place at around 1:00pm on Wednesday near Boalkandi Bridge on Sherpur-to-Dhunat...
A former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been found guilty of murdering an unarmed Australian woman. Mohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol...
Islamic State remains a potent threat around the world despite reduced capabilities, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday, adding its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had made his...
The historic May Day is being observed in the country as elsewhere across the world with due respect through various programmes. The day is being observed across the globe since...
The findings of researches on the banking sector are sometimes dissimilar with real-life experience, said Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) executive committee chairman SM Moniruzzaman on Tuesday. "We get...
Interest rate spread in the country's banking sector remained unchanged in March as the commercial banks increased their interest rates equally on both deposit and lending, officials said. The weighted...
Flurries of recent activities surrounding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Beijing and elsewhere in China demonstrate that some positive changes in the economies and lifestyles in Asia and...
The FBCCI proposed tax-exempt earning limit to be set at Tk 350,000, up by 40 per cent from the existing threshold considering higher cost of living and fast erosion of...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director and CEO AM Mosaddique Ahmed has been relieved of his duties a month before the extension of his contract was to end. Biman board of...
The Financial Express (FE) celebrated its 25th founding anniversary on Tuesday with a vow to attain newer milestones along its onward march and transcend tomorrow. To mark the auspicious silver...
Bangladesh's population size is about 160.41 million. The median age of Bangladeshi population is 26, which means the country's population is dominated by young people. It is high time to...
The state trading body the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has started selling essentials from the third week of April-a long-practised exercise meant to 'stabilise market prices' ahead of the...
In the chronicle of labour movement, the Haymarket affairs of the first few heady days of May 1886 in Chicago have the pre-eminence unrivalled by any subsequent workers' demonstration. It...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start its Hajj service this year operating 189 flights, including 157 dedicated ones, from July 4. A total of 127,198 pilgrims from Bangladesh are slated to...
At the invitation of Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with eight of her cabinet ministers and a delegation of business leaders, officially visited...
Across the world, May 01 is observed as 'International Workers day'. It has different names in different countries. In USA, it is widely known as Labour Day. In other countries,...
That the global economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), is fuelled by trade has been part of the conventional wisdom among policy makers across the spectrum of...
Recently, President Duterte slammed Canada for sending waste to the Philippines. Yet, the challenge is huge. Exported pollution from advanced economies penalises the rest of the world and distorts climate...
The board of directors of IFIC Bank has recommended 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of the dividend will come...
Veteran actor ATM Shamsuzzaman, who underwent a gallbladder surgery at Asgar Ali Hospital in the city on April 27, has been put on life support at the hospital. The Ekushey...
The Bogura-6 constituency, from where BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was elected in the December-30 general election, has been declared vacant as Fakhrul failed to take oath within...
Bangladesh have confirmed their place in the Bangamata U19 Women’s International Gold Cup with an emphatic 3-0 win over Mongolia. Monika Chakma, Marzia Akhter and Tohura Khatun struck in the...
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) will not accept any new initial public offering (IPO) proposal until it amends public issue rules. The stock market regulator took the decision at...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesdy said currently there are a total of 188,724 police personnel in Bangladesh, of which 175,333 are male and 13,391 female. He said this while...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed troops early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for...
Commerce Secretary Md. Mofizul Islam said the stock of every essential food items are in plenty and warned specialised business associations to keep prices stable during Ramadan or face actions....
Summit Group's LNG terminal started operation on Monday night, said its officials on Tuesday. The Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) which is known as LNG terminal arrived in the...
Mastercard Inc reported a 26.7 per cent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, as a strong US job market and a boom in online shopping boosted transaction volumes on the...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided to change the design of the Bangladesh World Cup team’s jersey amid huge criticism from fans on social media, according to a report on...
A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei, whose gender was not specified, is the second Canadian to be sentenced...
Paris St-Germain (PSG) boss Thomas Tuchel has criticised Neymar over the Brazilian's altercation with a fan after the club's French Cup final defeat by Rennes. PSG, who had been 2-0...
India’s government has asked Rahul Gandhi, the president of the main opposition Congress party, to respond to a complaint by a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party accusing him...
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