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The third edition of ‘Nutrition Olympiad’ will be held in Dhaka city on Saturday aiming to promote healthy diet and nutrition in the country. The day-long programme at the Bangabandhu...
An Indian court on Wednesday lifted its ban on Chinese social media video-sharing app TikTok on the condition that the platform popular with teenagers would not be used to host...
Eleven workers were killed and two seriously injured on Thursday when an elevator at a construction site in northern China fell due to snapped cable, state media reported. The Voice...
The board of directors of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited has recommended 15 per cent cash and 2.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The...
BNP's Zahidur Rahman Zahid, the MP-elect for Thakurgaon-3, has taken oath amid tough warnings from the party high-ups. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at a ceremony at 12...
Southeast Asian shares declined on Thursday, Indonesian shares fell following disappointing corporate results while the Jakarta stock index led declines in the region. Singapore stocks edged lower from a more...
Manchester City took a big step towards retaining the Premier League title with a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday sending them back to the top...
The board of directors of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited has recommended 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval will come during...
Sri Lankan security officials ordered a lockdown at the central bank on Thursday due to a bomb scare, two bank officials told Reuters news agency, as the street outside the...
The board of directors of Phoenix Insurance Company Limited has recommended 12 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of the dividend...
The prices of most of the shares on bourses witnessed upward trend in early trading on Thursday as some investors are showing their buying appetite. After DSE index hitting four-month...
The board of directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of the dividend...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday launched the first-ever non-stop intercity train service, 'Bonolota Express', on Dhaka-Rajshahi route fulfilling the long-cherished demand of the people of Rajshahi region. She opened...
Sri Lanka has banned drones and unmanned aircraft as authorities continue controlled detonations of suspicious items four days after a series of suicide bombing attacks killed more than 350 people...
Transport workers went on an indefinite strike in eights districts of Rangpur division on Thursday morning, demanding justice for their fellow who was beaten dead allegedly by Detective Branch (DB)...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld its earlier verdict which declared the Modhumoti Model Town housing project in Savar’s Amin Bazaar illegal. A seven-member bench headed by...
Peru will sign a memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in coming days, China’s ambassador said on Wednesday, despite recent warnings from the United States...
Asian shares were mixed Thursday after US stocks closed lower, giving back some of its gains a day after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls from Kiev for more international...
An explosion occurred in a town east of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on Thursday but there were no casualties, a police spokesman said. Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said police were...
A Tokyo court has granted former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn bail set at 500 million yen ($4.5m; £3.5m), paving the way for his release from custody. He faces four charges...
Four brick kiln workers were killed and two others injured when a wood-laden truck ploughed into a house at Islampur in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram early Thursday. The identities of...
The planned route expansion of Biman Bangladesh Airlines is facing setback due to some factors including apathy of the authority concerned and failure to lease aircraft timely. Other reasons behind...
The proposal regarding issuance of a substantial amount of shares to a foreign investment fund by Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) is yet to get regulatory approval though the bank sought...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said the country's leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone has no alternative to paying Tk 125.79 billion (12,579 crore) dues unearthed through an audit, reports BSS....
Details began to emerge in Sri Lanka on Wednesday of a band of nine, well-educated Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, from well-to-do families who slaughtered 359 people in Easter...
Sri Lanka has admitted a "major intelligence lapse" before the Easter Sunday bomb attacks which killed 359 people and wounded more than 500. An Indian intelligence warning from the beginning...
The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) has stepped into 132nd year today (Thursday). The authority has chalked out a programme this year to celebrate its 132 years of forming a trust...
The country's steel manufacturers on Wednesday urged the government not to increase the gas price, saying that the proposed hike would make steel products costlier. They also called for restricting...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is planning to set up a Cash Management Cell (CMC) under its Debt Management Department (DMD) to meet instant liquidity requirement of banks, officials said. The...
The much-vaunted Padma Bridge project is once again fated to miss its construction deadline. The Chinese firm, China Major Bridge Engineering (CMBE), was given until December 2019 to complete the...
The government is set to fix GDP (gross domestic product) growth target for the next fiscal year at 8.2 per cent, officials said. The total size of the budget for...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said uninterrupted electricity supply will be ensured across the country during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. “We are...
Awami League Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, who was killed in the Sri Lanka series blasts on Easter Sunday, was laid to rest at Banani graveyard...
As part of the course curriculum, most universities have a minimum of 15 to 20 per cent of the marks allocated for assignments, term papers and such. These assignments judge...
Hult Prize is to generate startup ideas by young people to sustainably solve the world's most critical social challenges. It is not only a business competition but also a platform...
Young Economists' Forum (YEF) of North South University commenced its journey in 1998 to infuse all the outstanding ideas in the minds of young economists and build a platform to...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has opposed a recent statement of Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) over implementation of wage structure for readymade garment workers. The association claimed...
On April 21, a series of bombs - some detonated by suicide bombers - went off in three Catholic churches, three hotels and at two other sites in Sri Lanka,...
Like other developing countries, Bangladesh faces the challenge of developing a productive knowledge base, primarily in the technology stack that can drive the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) while leveraging innovation...
Numbers surround the world. We might not notice it spontaneously, but the patterns emerging every day in our lives are constantly telling us stories about the universe. To understand these...
In the past 25 years, the global trend has been moving towards flexible exchange rate regimes. Yet, roughly half the economies of the world still maintain fixed or managed floating...
The United Nations, as in so many other areas, gives lip service in support of Indigenous issues while lacking the political will and enforcement power over individual member states to...
Britain's finance minister Philip Hammond began the search for a new governor of the Bank of England on Wednesday, seeking someone to help steer the world's fifth-biggest economy, and its...
RANGPUR, Apr 24: The pointed gourd (potol) cultivators across the district are jubilant as they are making a good profit from its sale in markets during this current season. According...
JOYPURHAT, Apr 24: More than 400 people in the district are leading their lives making bamboo products. Craftsman Amulya of Panchbibi upazila said, "It is our ancestral profession. We are...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume Dhaka-Delhi direct flights on May 13, with three flights a week initially. To mark the occasion, the national flag carrier has announced 15 per cent...
A day-long international conference titled "Sustainable Blue Economy for the Development of Bangladesh" was held on Wednesday at Dhaka University (DU) Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban auditorium in the...
Transport workers in Chattogram district started a 24-hour strike from 6:00pm on Wednesday, demanding justice for their fellow who was beaten dead allegedly by Detective Branch (DB) police. A regional...
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das made a courtesy call on President Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon. During the meeting, President Hamid said...
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