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The teachers and employees under non-Monthly Pay Order (MPO) scheme has suspended movement on Sunday afternoon for a month upon assurance from the government of meeting their demand for MPO...
The number of road accidents and deaths has increased over the past four years, according to the statistics from police, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and the Accident Research Institute (ARI)...
Rescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off the west coast of Norway. The Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal...
A Dhaka court on Sunday set April 29 to submit reports on probe in four cases filed over violence that took place during the quota reform movement on April, 2018,...
State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on Sunday said the government is trying to complete the pre-arrival immigration process of the Hajj pilgrims in the country instead of...
Airport authorities detained an Awami League (AL) leader along with 44 rounds of undeclared bullets from the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday. ABM Majharul Enam,...
The Mass Killing Day will be observed across the country on Monday, marking the widespread massacre by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25,...
Visiting UN Under-Secretary General and Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng on Sunday said the United Nations will raise the 1971 issue of Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in...
A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) interrogated the parents, relatives and neighbours of Polash Ahmed, who allegedly tried to hijack a plane, in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj....
Around 154 minibuses were registered in the country in January and February 2019, according to an official data. A total of 436 minibuses were registered alone in 2018, according to...
Noted singer Shahnaz Rahmatullah was laid to eternal rest at Banani Military Graveyard in the city on Sunday. Before the burial, her namaz-e-janaza was held at the 'Park Mosque' at...
Mozambique has recorded more deaths from a cyclone and floods around southern Africa, a government minister said on Sunday, with hundreds left in camps after homes were destroyed. Cyclone Idai...
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) tumbled to three months low level on Sunday as worried investors continued their selling binge on financial stocks. DSEX, the prime...
Thousands gathered in New Zealand’s cities on Sunday to protest racism and remember the 50 Muslims killed by a gunman in Christchurch and as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a...
A total of 82,500 students have got scholarships in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) Examinations held in 2018. State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain came up...
American singer Barbra Streisand has apologised after she was criticised for sympathising with Michael Jackson over child abuse accusations against him. Streisand told The Times newspaper that she believed the...
China’s economy may face a more challenging environment this year but the government is nevertheless confident of achieving its key 2019 targets, Vice Premier Han Zheng said on Sunday. Han,...
The United Nations is making plans to help Bangladesh relocate thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island off its coast, documents seen by Reuters show, a move opposed by...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Colombia in the Andes on Saturday (local time) but it was deep, the US Geological Survey has said. The quake struck 32 miles (51.5...
Turkey-based Arcelik, a home appliance manufacturing group, is set to acquire 57 per cent stake of Singer Bangladesh from Netherlands-based Retail Holdings group for $75 million. Arcelik and Retail Holdings...
A 65-year-old man was killed while 15 others injured in a road accident on C&B road in Ashulia in Savar on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Abdul Mannan,...
Uber, the world’s largest on-demand ride-sharing company, has launched its ‘Driver Safety Toolkit’ - a comprehensive set of in-app safety features for driver partners - in Bangladesh today (Sunday). With...
Bangladesh budget will likely cross the Tk 5.0 trillion-plus mark in fiscal year 2019-20, up by over 11 per cent from that of the last fiscal. The budget totalling Tk...
Customs officials detained a Chinese national along with 48 gold bars from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday morning. The arrestee Ruan Jinfeng, 43, landed at the airport from Dubai...
Spain captain Sergio Ramos scored another “Panenka” penalty to give his side a 2-1 home win over Norway on Saturday in their opening Euro 2020 qualifier but it was a...
Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, is continuing its global growth momentum with the recent opening of its first restaurant...
The Election Commission has suspended voting at the Katiadi upazila following allegations of huge irregularities during the third phase of upazila elections. Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Shafiqul Islam and...
Gunmen killed at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali on Saturday, a local mayor said, the deadliest such attack of recent times in a region reeling from worsening ethnic...
Thai voters went to the polls on Sunday in a long-delayed election following a 2014 coup, in a race that pits a military junta chief seeking to retain power against...
Southeast Bank Foundation accorded reception to the selected Higher Secondary meritorious students coming from the financially disadvantaged families for the disbursement of scholarships at the Officers’ Club Dhaka. Mr. Alamgir...
Mexican police and federal officials on Saturday detained 107 Central American migrants seeking to enter the United States in the border city of Reynosa, the government of the northeastern state...
A police constable and a man sustained bullet injuries as Awami League men allegedly attacked and opened fire at a polling station in Chandanaish upazila on Sunday morning. The injured...
Sheikh Fazle Fahim, the Panel Leader from 'Shommilito Bebshai Porishod', in the upcoming elections of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has vowed to make the country's...
The government's official factory inspections are largely concentrated in readymade garment (RMG) factories, with less importance attached to other industries' safety and compliance, a labour ministry report reveals. As a...
At least 40 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Raiganj Bazar in Cumilla in the early hours of Sunday. Alamgir Hossain, senior assistant station manager of...
The World Bank has suggested that the revenue board move away from the conventional way of reconciling taxpayers' audit and adopt investigative and analytical approach to get better results. The...
Two men have been killed after a motorcycle veered out of control and crashed into a tree in Tangail’s Basail. The accident occurred in the upazila’s Taltala area on the...
Speakers have demanded effective tax measures in the upcoming budget leading to a rise in prices of all tobacco products. It is necessary for safeguarding the youth, the poor and...
The authorities of Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) have suspended all classes and examinations for Sunday following the death of one of their students in a road accident. Faisal Khalilur Rahman,...
Around 18 shops and structures have burnt down in a fire at Shahid Nagar in Old Dhaka. No injuries or casualties were reported in the incident though a person fell...
The country's overall natural gas supply crossed the 3,200 million cubic feet mark a day (mmcf), boosted by the imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The lone operational floating, storage,...
Voting in the third phase elections to 117 upazila parishads in different districts began on Sunday morning. The balloting that began at 8:00am will continue till 4:00pm without any break....
The government has agreed, in principle, to offer seven deals to Russian oil giant Gazprom for energy exploration in both offshore and onshore blocks. These include exploration work in the...
One of the most revered singers of Bangladesh, Shahnaz Rahmatullah has died at the age of 67. She breather her last at her residence in Baridhara around 11:30pm on Saturday,...
Those who would in the past travel regularly by train are used to the spectacle: A woman or a girl all of a sudden turning the panel of her unfurled...
Land is undeniably the foundation of the country's economic development, and it is directly linked to the gross domestic product (GDP). It is the basis upon which all economic activities...
A few years since the government had slapped an annual ban on netting hilsa fishlings, the measure seems far from being in force meaningfully. However, the bans have resulted in...
Acting General Secretary of Awami League (AL) Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Saturday said BNP would face extinction like Jamaat as the party is doing ill politics. “They (BNP) have no future...
Swastika Gargi Chakraborty will represent Bangladesh for the first time in Mid-Level (Class V-VIII) section in the Global Classroom International Model United Nations Program (GCIMUN) to be held at United...
Assistant High Commissioner of India in Chattogram Anindya Banerjee on Saturday said around 1.45 million Bangladeshi nationals visited India in 2018 on tourism, medical and business purposes. At a press...
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