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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said the world has become a global village and for economic development, every nation needs connectivity. She said China, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar already signed...
Isn't it time to seriously examine the link between the returns from the country's industrial sector and the huge sums of money dished out every year in the form of...
In recent decades, illicit drug abuse has become a recurrent phenomenon of many countries of the world with massive socio-economic and human consequences. In May of last year, Bangladesh started...
Inequality in the current global economic system is inevitable. As in the advanced economies, wealth inequality in the developing world, too, remains a difficult policy issue. In Bangladesh, the share...
The independence of the Subcontinent from the British Raj, by partition, as India and Pakistan in 1947 brought about a radical change in the outlook of the people, as well...
The elections in 107 upazilas of 16 districts will be held on Sunday. The fourth phase of the fifth Upazila Parishad elections under five divisions will take place from 8:00am...
SYLHET, Mar 30: Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called upon journalists to monitor and report the development activities all over the country so that things could be implemented on...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor indicated that a satellite fire station near the Babubazar bridge can be established for taking rapid action against fire. The mayor came up with...
MAGURA, Mar 30: Farmers in the district have achieved a success in producing BARI-4 onion seeds. Regional Spice Research Center, Magura, official sources said they are happy over the bumper...
RANGPUR, Mar 30 (BSS): Pumpkin cultivation on char lands has improved agro-economy in char areas of Rangpur agriculture region bringing fortune to over 42,000 have-not group of landless char families...
Some 28.5 per cent people in the country’s haor areas are unemployed, a study has found. Excessive fishing and lack of crop rotation are harming the ecosystem of haor areas,...
The country's plastic product manufacturers and exporters have suggested the government to raise all kinds of taxes and duties on import of finished plastic goods. Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers &...
Over 300,000 youths both boys and girls will get jobs within next couple of years in 28 hi-tech parks now being constructed outside the capital. Posts, Telecommunications and Information and...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under new pressure after his former justice minister released documents relating to a major corruption scandal. Jody Wilson-Raybould says government officials tried to persuade...
A schoolboy and a woman were killed in a lighting strike at Bothor village in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna on Saturday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Shanto, 12, son...
Facebook has promised to explore restrictions on live-streaming, two weeks after it was used during gun attacks on two mosques in New Zealand. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the...
Pope Francis reached Morocco on Saturday to start a two-day trip centred on inter-faith relations. The Alitalia plane carrying the pope, his entourage and journalists arrived at the Moroccan capital’s...
At least four people were killed and two others injured as a bus collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw on Begumganj-Maijdi road at Dorbeshpur in Noakhali on Saturday. The deceased were...
BNP's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government has failed to modernise the fire service and civil defence with modern life-saving equipment. The BNP leader...
Around 66 per cent buildings in Dhaka and its adjoining areas under the jurisdiction of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) have been constructed in an unplanned way, said Housing and Public...
The 'First National Industrial Fair-2019' will start on Sunday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city. Industries Ministry has organised the event aimed at promoting local industrial entrepreneurs' products...
Education Minister Dipu Moni has assured Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinees that questions will not be leaked this time. "Fraudsters spread rumours to swindle people. Don't pay attention...
Rajuk, the capital’s development authority, formed a committee on Saturday to investigate last week’s fire at Banani’s FR Tower that killed 25 people. The six-member committee will be led by...
Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday directed the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence to ascertain whether the recent incidents of fire were acts of sabotage. His...
Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at...
The government will strictly implement its decision to stop the airing of Bangladeshi advertisements on down-linked foreign television channels from April 1. Information Minister Hasan Mahmud gave the information at...
The fire that broke out Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan area on Saturday has gutted all of the 211 shops in the market. Zaman Prodhan, vice-president...
Business groups in Britain have said they are 'devastated' after UK parliament's latest rejection of the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal plan. They urged lawmakers and the government to find a...
A case has started over a deadly fire at a high-rise in Dhaka's Banani that claimed 26 lives and injured over 70 others on Thursday, the city police say. The...
Central African nation Burundi has banned the BBC and indefinitely suspended Voice of America, moves that campaigners and the international broadcasters described as a blow to press freedom. The country’s...
A photo story about a Bangladeshi who has been working in Malaysia for 27 years at a great personal sacrifice away from his family has gone viral, drawing huge reactions...
State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has expressed his hope that the waterways around the capital city will get back its lost beauty within next 10 years. The junior...
Another victim of the fire at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani has succumbed to his injuries, raising the death toll from the inferno to 26. The fire broke out at the...
Prominent Singer Khurshid Alam, 75, was injured when a truck hit his private car on Dhaka-Rangpur highway at Jhupgari area in Bogura district early Saturday. He is now undergoing treatment...
Roger Federer cruised into his fifth Miami Open final with an impressive 6-2 6-4 victory against Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov on Friday. Federer was dominant in service and broke the...
The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department says none of their previous recommendations to protect from any fire was implemented by the DNCC market authorities. The recommendations were made...
Four members of a family have suffered burn injuries after a mosquito coil led to a fire at their home in Gazipur city’s Chakrabarty area. The fire broke out at...
The New Delhi-based Indian School of Business & Finance (ISBF) took London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) curricula based training workshops to vernacular medium students in Dinajpur, a...
Heavy rains caused flash floods in western Afghanistan that killed at least 17 people, destroying homes and sweeping through makeshift shelters that housed displaced families, a government official said on...
A suspected drug trader was killed in a so-called gunfight with police in Habirchhora hilly area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Saturday. The deceased has been identified as...
Bikroy.com, the largest marketplace of Bangladesh, has launched exciting “Boishakhi Deals 1426 Powered By Minister” on the occasion of the upcoming Bangla New Year for its customers. Under this offer,...
Honda Motor Co said on Friday it had confirmed a 16th US death has been tied to a faulty Takata airbag inflator. The Japanese automaker said that after a joint...
The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department (BFSCDD) says they had to struggle a bit longer to douse the fire at the kitchen market of Dhaka North City Corporation...
A day-long training on "IT Security & LAN Management for LAN Managers" was held at NCC Bank Training Institute recently. Khondoker Nayeemul Kabir, Deputy Managing Director of NCC Bank, inaugurated...
NRB Commercial Bank Ltd recently received Relationship Award-2018 from Caixa Bank, the largest retail bank of Spain. Mr. Angel Gil Gutierrez, Head of Asia Pacific & GCC for FI of...
Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on...
The Awami League has decided to hold its next national council in October, three years after the incumbent central committee was formed. The party’s presidium took the decision in a...
Vietnam reaped roughly 7.3 billion US dollars from exporting garments and textiles in the first quarter of this year, up 13.3 per cent on-year, according to the country's Ministry of...
Bangladesh topped the list of deaths in major "structure fire" incidents in the world in the last one decade since 2010, according to Wikipedia. A structure fire is a blaze...
President Donald Trump threatened on Friday (local time) to close the US border with Mexico next week, potentially disrupting millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade,...
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