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Stocks extended their losing streak for the tenth straight week that ended on Thursday, as worried investors keep dumping financial shares. Market analysts said the ongoing pessimism coupled with worries...
At least five people of a bus were killed and 15 others injured as their bus overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Jummar Ghar area in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha in...
Financial experts have called on the investors to make prudent investment decisions for the sake of their investments and the capital market as well. "No one can protect investors unless...
The ten most-traded firms captured nearly 37 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) last week that ended on Thursday, with the United Power Generation & Distribution...
Sales at the city's fashion houses have gained momentum ahead of Pahela Baishakh, the largest cultural festival in the country. Considering shoppers' choices, outlets have already put a wide range...
The United Kingdom (UK) has sought fair treatment, in terms of taxation, for its investors in Bangladesh, officials said. It assured Bangladesh of duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access of its...
Members of the garment entrepreneurs' body BGMEA have started voting to elect their new leadership. Started at the BGMEA Bhaban in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar at 8:00am on Saturday, it will...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is interested to know about the latest situation of the country's foreign trade, monetary issues and banking sector through assessing its macro-economic performance. As...
A temporary warehouse is being built at Shyampur in the city to store highly flammable chemicals by September this year . The combustibles will remain there until the 'chemical village'...
Bangladesh needs to reduce its over dependency on the banking sector for long-term financing, experts opined at a seminar in the capital on Friday. Instead, they called for developing a...
Bangladesh has not only failed to improve its position in the 'ease of doing business' index, it has rather slipped by 111 notches in the past 13 years. The country's...
David Malpass, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the World Bank, won unanimous approval from the institution’s executive board on Friday, continuing the 73-year tradition of an American running...
Global trade growth is expected to be lower in 2019 than that in 2018 because of the on going trade spat between China and the United States. The World Trade...
The G20 Leaders' Summit in London on April 2, 2009, is widely regarded as one of the best examples of global cooperation in a generation. Meeting as a group for...
At present, megaprojects are emerging as vital drivers of economic growth in Bangladesh. Megaprojects are also becoming more popular because of their ability to attract political and public attention due...
Afghanistan Cricket Board removed on Friday Asghar Afghan as captain just over a month before the World Cup, reports ANI. Afghanistan have instead appointed three different captains across formats, with...
Rescuing the state-owned sugar mills from what many think inevitable collapse has, so far, remained a matter of discussion only. Loss making sugar mills have been a burden for the...
Bangladesh grew at an average annual rate of 6.2 per cent – indeed an exhilarating rate in the annals of her history – for a decade or so. Then the...
One of the recent initiatives that warrants heightened attention and importance is China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the proposal to build the Silk...
The national budget for fiscal year 2019-20 (FY20) is likely to be placed in parliament in the second week of June this year. It will be the 48th national budget...
Many people living in large urban centres such as slums lack access to improved water, sanitation, security of tenure, durability of housing, and sufficient living area. This lack of access...
China's lengthy approval process for genetically modified crops remains a sticking point in talks to end the trade war between China and the United States, according to two sources with...
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra became the latest member of India's storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to enter politics in January, but the boost she brings the opposition campaign may not turn the tide...
A motorcyclist schoolboy and the pillion rider, a college student, have died after the driver lost control of the two-wheeler on Khilgaon flyover in Dhaka. The accident occurred around 3pm...
Various types of jute products received positive response from local and international customers on the sixth day of the 1st National Industrial Fair-2019 on Friday. The fair began in the...
Britain's Royal Botanical Garden, Kew-famed Robert Louis Proudlock would not have been amused had he known the botanical anarchy in Ramna Park he designed. A landscape designer, he designed Ramna...
There is no denying the fact that the State of Israel is the only country in the periphery of the Middle East having democratically elected government since its inception in...
Information related to household finances in Bangladesh is currently collected through the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES). The HIES is a repeated cross-sectional household survey that is conducted in...
The Awami League has nominated Ekramul Hoque Titu as its mayor candidate in the first ever elections to Mymensingh City Corporation. Titu, who was elected mayor in the last polls...
If you want to live, happily and peacefully "love yourself". Love can make a difference. "Whom do you love and respect? Why do you do it?" When you get the...
Bangladesh's biggest robotics event, Robolution-2019 competition, was held at Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) at Mirpur Cantonment in the city on Friday. This is the fourth competition arranged...
The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his wife MacKenzie have agreed a record-breaking divorce settlement of at least $35 billion. Ms Bezos keeps a 4.0 per cent...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday sharply criticised the USA for issuing an alert on Bangladesh without citing any reason or giving any explanation. "I saw the USA issued a...
A Dhaka court has granted police three days to grill the owner of the Suprobhat Private Limited bus that killed a university student last month, triggering protests. Metropolitan Magistrate Baki...
A primary school headmaster in Dagonbhuiyan Upazila of Feni district is facing charges of sexually abusing a minor after reportedly impregnating a 12-year-old girl. Abdul Karim, the headmaster of Khushipur...
Canadian foreign minister said on Friday it was likely that foreign actors would meddle in her country’s October elections and her British counterpart said a deterrent to stop countries like...
BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday said their party is getting ready to wage a movement together with people to free their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail,...
South Korea has declared a national emergency in response to one of the largest wildfires on record. At least one person has died and more than 4,000 people have been...
A symposium on fake news, hate speech and its consequences will be held at Cosmos Centre in the city on Saturday morning. Cosmos Foundation, the philanthropic concern of Bangladeshi conglomerate...
Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the US from Mexico unless the Mexicans do...
A non-stop intercity train is likely to be running on Rajshahi-Dhaka route to meet up the long-cherished demands of people from mid of this month. The 932 seated ultramodern and...
Myanmar military is again carrying out attacks against its own civilians in Rakhine, said the United Nations on Friday. The UN also said they are "deeply disturbed" by the intensification...
European Union authorities say that German automakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen colluded to limit the development of emissions-cleaning technology in cars. The EU antitrust regulator said Friday that after an...
Four people were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison by a Serbian court on Friday over the killing in 1999 of opposition journalist and newspaper publisher Slavko Curuvija,...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to request a further delay to Brexit until 30 June. The UK is currently due to leave the EU...
Algeria’s intelligence chief, Athmane Tartag, has been removed from his post, Reuters reported on Friday citing private Ennahar television station. Tartag, a retired army general, was an ally of President...
Awami League leader Obaidul Quader has been discharged from Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital after a month of treatment. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Director Prof Abu Naser Rizvi, who has...
The High Court witnessed a record number of death references, including those unresolved in past years, in 2018. The number of death references stood at 711 last year, which is...
Alphabet's Google said on Thursday (local time) it was dissolving a council it had formed a week earlier to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The...
The house price in United Kingdom (UK) rose slightly more quickly in the first three months of 2019 in annual terms but growth is likely remain subdued, given Brexit uncertainty...
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