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The ruling Awami League has paid profound respect to the memory of former President M Zillur Rahman marking his sixth death anniversary. Leaders of the party paid homage by placing...
Holi, a Hindu religious festival of colours, will be celebrated on Thursday across the country with due religious fervour and much enthusiasm. The festival signifies the victory of good over...
Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Wednesday said they planned to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and compact cars for each other to better compete with fast-changing technologies in...
A Dhaka court put the driver of Suprobhat Paribahan that crushed Bangladesh University of Professionals student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury to death, on seven-day remand. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Debdas Chandra Adhikari...
The government is chalking out the country's biggest-ever nationwide programme to celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday...
Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and also General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Obaidul Quader underwent a successful bypass surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr...
A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants in Ashulia's Jamgora area on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mamun Hossain, 22, son of Mozammel Hossain of Pirojpur...
A court in Mymensing on Wednesday sentenced four people to death for killing two siblings in Tarakanda upazila of the district in 2001. The condemned convicted are: Liakat Ali, 55,...
A Dhaka court has handed death penalty to 15 people for their roles in the murder of Nazrul Islam, a clothing trader in Dohar in a conflict over land a...
Three members of a family sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at their house in city's Mirpur-13 area early Wednesday. The victims are Md Hannan, 35, his wife...
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) plummeted to nearly three months low on Wednesday as risk-averse investors went on selling binge on sector-specific issues. DSEX, the prime...
The High Court (HC) has ordered Suprovat Paribahan to pay Tk 1.0 million to the family of BUP student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury who was killed in a road crash in...
Eleven Arab states, including the UAE, on Tuesday set up the first Arab space organisation, whose first project will be developing a satellite to monitor environmental and climate changes. Sheikh...
Police arrested a teen identified as for allegedly helping plan the school attack in Sao Paulo on March 13 that left 10 dead, the local police has said. The 17-year-old...
Bangladesh Chhatra League's district unit general secretary of Satkhira was accused of mugging and extortion by a local leader of ruling Awami League's municipal unit on Tuesday night. Aminur Rahman,...
The High Court has imposed a ban on making films and dramas on Jaha Alam, who spent three years in jail in place of the real accused in two dozen...
A fire broke out at a warehouse of Singer in Pahartoli thana in Chattogram district on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 5:45am and spread rapidly, said Jashim Uddin,...
Students demanding safer roads have given the government 48 hours to concede their demands. The agitated students ignored Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and city police chief...
Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment business, putting ‘Cinderella,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Dr. Strange’ under one corporate roof. The deal is likely to shake...
The number of people killed after a powerful cyclone and flooding hit Mozambique has risen to above 200, President Filipe Nyusi said on Tuesday (local time) after a cabinet meeting...
Indian were largely unchanged on Wednesday as investors looked for further cues before taking bets, with gains in IT and financials countering losses in consumer and energy scrips. The broader...
The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before...
Gulshan North Club Limited has recently mandated IDLC Finance Limited as their Corporate Advisor and Arranger for raising BDT 150 million through sale of its permanent and lifetime memberships. A...
The Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has organised the ‘Inter School & College Table Tenis (TT) Tournament 2019’ on its campus at Bashundhara area of the capital. The four-day tournament ended...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday, Sky cited an unidentified senior government source as saying....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $14.2 million loan to support the expansion plans of Sylvan Agriculture Limited (SAL), a PRAN-RFL Group company, to enhance inclusiveness in...
A case has been filed in connection with the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, 20, in a road accident at Pragati Sarani in Dhaka....
Australia cut its annual intake of immigrants by nearly 15 per cent on Wednesday, and barred some new arrivals from living in its largest cities for three years, in a...
Boeing Co’s commercial airplane division, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while...
ACI Agribusiness, Bangladesh’s largest integrator of agricultural inputs is attending the ongoing 15th BASIS SOFTEXPO 2019, the largest private sector exposition aimed at showcasing IT and ITES products and services...
A schoolgirl lost a leg in a road crash at Navaron area in Jashore’s Benapole on Wednesday. Sixth graders Nipa, Rina and Saleha were injured after a pick-up van of...
Asian share markets are mostly lower after a lackluster day of trading on Wall Street. Mixed signals on the progress of China-US trade talks also revived caution in Chinese markets....
A train hit a motorbike at Bhennabari level crossing in Gopalganj Sadar upazila in the early hours of Wednesday, leaving the biker and two other pillion riders dead on the...
The government is set to conduct a survey next month to assess the latest status of the country's manufacturing industry. The survey on manufacturing industry 2018 will focus on the...
Bangladesh's capital has been ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday. Dhaka had a score of 179 at 10:50am, indicating that the air quality was unhealthy. A...
The lack of experts and inadequate information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure are key barriers to implementing e-government programmes, an official survey has revealed. Other factors include poor campaign on...
France has reduced its economic growth target for this year to 1.4 per cent from 1.7 per cent after the "Yellow Vest" protest movement severely impacted the country's economy. "What's...
Protesters have blocked the streets near Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka for the second day on Wednesday after the death of a student in a road accident. A bus operated...
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) demolished 200 illegal establishments during an eviction drive in Savar’s Aminbazar and Gabtoli area on Tuesday. Officials of BIWTA later said one-and-half-month will...
The securities regulator has decided to bring some changes to book-building method to make it more transparent and ensure 'fair' price of IPO (initial public offering) shares. The Bangladesh Securities...
The government has constituted a seven-member committee to investigate the incident in which gunmen in Rangamati’s Baghaichhari shot dead seven people, including election officials. Chattogram Divisional Commissioner's Office formed the...
British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company (BATBC) dominated the prime bourse turnover chart Tuesday while top ten-traded companies captured 35 per cent transactions. Market analysts said investors were active on BATBC...
Three government agencies are generating three separate figures of the country's demand for salt, encouraging unscrupulous traders to import the essential item illegally and depriving the local salt farmers of...
The government revised the Annual Development Programme (ADP) on Tuesday, trimming the fund allocation by 4.62 per cent to Tk 1.65 trillion. In the revised ADP, the transport sector has...
The bodies of two victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery...
More than 50 per cent of the garment factories inspected by Accord still lack adequate fire detection and alarm system - one of the major life-threatening safety concerns, according to...
Education, infrastructure development and planned urbanisation of villages will receive priority of the government in the budget for the next fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, Finance Minister A H M Mustafa...
The government's protracted 'indifference' and propensity to look for 'ad-hoc' solution to the country's energy crisis have been delaying the domestic hydrocarbon (HC) exploration, energy experts said. The country passed...
The new VAT law that is almost certain to be introduced in the next budget can be viewed as a revenue bonus provided some of the abominable aspects were reviewed...
Bonded warehousing facility offered by the government to exporting firms, particularly to garment exporters, has often been termed a happy hunting ground for errant players. Although there are apparently stringent...
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