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Bangladesh can become more prosperous more quickly if more women get work with higher-quality and higher-paid jobs, says a new World Bank report. The report, Voices to Choices: Bangladesh’s Journey...
A Dhaka court has sentenced three Myanmar nationals, who were arrested with explosives on a footpath in Azimpur area in Dhaka over four years ago, to 10 years' imprisonment. The...
A police constable, missing since Saturday’s clash with fishermen in the Meghna River, was found dead on Sunday morning. Mosharraf Hossain’s body was retrieved from the river in Hizla upazila....
Stocks slipped back into the red on Sunday amid lack of investors’ confidence to the ongoing bearish market. Market analysts said the anxious investors continued their selling binge amid dearth...
Crimes and negative incidents against children increased considerably in 2018 as 271 children were killed after they became victims of rape, rape attempts, murder, sexual and physical abuse in the...
A 19-year-old was arrested on Sunday for kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Nakla upazila of Sherpur. The arrestee Sohel Miah is the son of Md Abdul Jalil Miah...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a 24-hour-long anti-narcotics drive, ended at 6:00am on Saturday, arrested 89 drug suspects from different areas of the capital city for selling and consuming illegal drugs....
Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Saturday realised Tk 2.9 million in fines from traffic offenders in the city. Besides, a total of 6,068 cases were also...
Russian President Vladimir Putin should not expect many Ukrainians to take up his offer of a Russian passport, Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while offering Ukrainian citizenship to Russians. Putin...
Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked authorities concerned to dispose of the cases involving rapes and arson causing deaths to expose the culprits to stern punitive actions in soonest possible...
The Gono Forum has served a show-cause notice on its presidium member Mokobbir Khan seeking an explanation on his decision to take oath as an MP. He has been given...
A Brazilian model participating in Sao Paulo’s Fashion Week has died after getting sick and falling on the catwalk. A statement from organisers said Tales Soares took ill Saturday while...
Chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has expressed profound concern over a huge backlog of cases pending with the apex court, which is now around 5,25,000. "The backlog of cases has...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has declared 21 directors each from association group and chamber group uncontested for 2019-20 term. The apex trade body also...
The prime minister's advisor on the private sector, industry and investment and lawmaker Salman F Rahman has put the stress on restructuring and revitalising of the capital market. "Restructuring and...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, trailing in opinion polls ahead of a May 18 election, on Sunday campaigned on the hot-button issue of immigration, promising to cut annual migrant numbers...
FICCI- Foreign Investor’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry celebrated its 55th anniversary in Bangladesh through a gala night at a city hotel on Saturday. In its journey of over 55...
The board of directors of Bata Shoe Company (Bangladesh) Ltd has recommended 105 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. Earlier, the company had...
A team of delegates, lead by Tan Sri Dato Professor Joseph Adaikalam, Executive Chairman of Binary University of Malaysia recently visited Canadian University of Bangladesh. The Executive Chairman of Canadian...
Police have arrested a Bangladeshi without a valid visa from Poḷonnaruwa, the main town of Polonnaruwa district in Sri Lanka's North Central Province. Named as Mohamed Saybul Islam, he has...
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses witnessed a downward trend in early trading on Sunday as cautious investors continued their selling binge. Following the previous week’s...
A gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue in the US crowded with Sabbath worshippers on Saturday and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four suspected drug traders, including a woman, along with some 0.2 million Yaba tablets, from Teknaf and Cox's Bazar sadar upazilas on Saturday...
A college student apparently killed himself at his aunt's house in Baklia area of Chattogram on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Minhazul Karim, 19, son of Rezaul Karim,...
Islamic State claimed on Saturday that three of its members clashed with Sri Lankan police for several hours before detonating their explosive vests on them in the east coast city...
At least five people have been killed in a collision between a bus and an autorickshaw in Chandpur. The incident occurred in the district’s Shahrasti area at around 10:00am on...
The board of directors of Northern General Insurance Company Ltd has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of the...
The board of directors of Sonar Bangla Insurance Company has recommended 6.0 per cent cash and 6.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The...
The export of agricultural products increased substantially so far in the current fiscal year (FY 2018-19), amid a great leap in shipments of processed food items. In the first nine...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) started on Saturday selling of essential commodities in the capital ahead of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. Several designated dealers of TCB were...
The board of directors of Agrani Insurance Company Ltd has recommended 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of the dividend...
Barcelona underlined their hegemony of Spanish football by clinching the La Liga title with three games to spare after Lionel Messi came off the bench to fire them to a...
A deep depression over the Indian Ocean and adjoining South Bay of Bengal has turned into a tropical cyclone named ‘Fani’. Situated about 2,000 kilometres from Bangladesh coasts on Saturday evening,...
Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday outlawed two Islamist groups suspected to be behind the suicide bombings on churches and hotels while the wife and child of the suspected ringleader were...
Global apparel buyers' business practices, including low purchase price and shorter lead time, fuel labour abuses in manufacturing countries like Bangladesh, revealed a recent report of Human Rights Watch (HRW)....
Bangladesh Bridges Authority (BBA) has sought Tk 53.70 billion funds in the upcoming budget for the Padma bridge project, much lower than what the government has allocated for the current...
The number of motorbikes plying the roads continues to skyrocket, taking 65 per cent share of the total registered motor vehicles in the country. During the years since 2011, the...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to have access to income tax returns, bankers' books and other documents submitted to the revenue authority so that it can investigate corruption....
A number of sub-projects funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to improve water and sanitation facilities, disaster risk management, energy supplies and the road network at the Rohingya camps...
President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama...
The thought of travelling along the Nawabpur Road through Bangshal to go to Banglabazar would once shudder many. A rickshaw trip or walking by the footpath amid crowds and stifling...
The prevalence of Jaundice (from Hepatitis E virus) may lead to an alarming level unless safe drinking water is ensured for all. Leading hepatologists of the country came up with...
Visible actions on unbridled sale of antibiotics have been long overdue. But the relevant government agency -- the Drug Administration (DA) -- preferred to remain indifferent to this major public...
BNP on Saturday expelled Zahidur Rahman for taking oath as an MP violating party principles, according to bdnews24.com. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir confirmed the expulsion of Zahidur on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Saturday evening Briefing media after the meeting, Principal Information Officer Joynal Abedin said that the...
Describing militancy, terrorism, corruption and narcotics as wounds of society, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought combined efforts to fight against these menaces. “Militancy, terrorism, corruption and drugs are...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) and GuarantCo, UK, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) are going to organise an international conference titled “Local Capital Market Infrastructure...
As a developing economy Bangladesh has encouraged to develop its banking industry to promote economic growth. Over the last three decades or so the country has seen spectacular expansion of...
Banking sector is considered to be the heart of a healthy economy. This is especially true for a developing country like Bangladesh. Since independence, this sector has kept the wheel...
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