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South Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors will together invest $300 million in Indian ride-hailing platform Ola, playing catch-up in the global race to invest in mobility firms. The...
The Bangladesh leg of the Standard Chartered Belt and Road Relay was held recently. The Relay is the first-ever global running event spanning the Belt and Road Initiative, with the...
Most Southeast Asian stock markets were subdued in thin trading on Tuesday as investors remained on sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve policy meeting. The Federal Reserve is likely...
A clash between two factions of Awami League left at least two people dead and 15 others injured at Mirzarchar union in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi on Tuesday morning. The...
Netflix, the world’s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple’s upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has said. “We prefer to...
The health ministry is yet to recognise the importance of sleep in human life despite the fact that sleep disorders may cause serious health problems including hypertension, diabetes, brain stroke...
The board of directors of National Housing Finance and Investment Limited has recommended 10 per cent cash and 10 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31,...
The prime index of the main bourse—DSEX—fell below 5,600-mark in early trading on Tuesday as most of the investors are selling shares amid low confidence to the market. Following the...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for global restrictions on social media following the Christchurch mosque attacks. Facebook and other firms have been criticised for failing to block a...
Bilaichhari Upazila Awami League President Suresh Kanti Tanchangya was shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Farua in the upazila on Tuesday morning. The incident took place around 9:30 am,...
The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president said on Monday, putting the potential death toll greatly more than...
Asian shares were mixed in muted trading Tuesday as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve meeting later in the week. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.3 per cent to 21,528.23...
Foreign Minister (FM) Dr A K Abdul Momen has categorically rejected the US Human Rights (HR) Report, saying the report is not objective, and in many cases it is more...
ASA, a non-government organisation (NGO), has paid an amount of Tk 12.2 million in value added tax (VAT) on Monday, following a demand notice of the VAT authority, said a...
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei led the pack with Asia accounting for more than half of the international patent applications at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last year, WIPO said...
Brac Bank dominated the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) turnover chart on Monday while top ten-traded companies grabbed 41 per cent transactions. Market operators said investors showed their buying appetite on...
Bangladesh's apparel exports to the United States grew by 6.65 per cent to US$ 5.40 billion in 2018 compared to that of 2017. The country fetched $ 5.06 billion in...
Democratic congressional leaders have asked the FBI to investigate the founder of a Florida massage parlour chain who is an alleged acquaintance of President Donald Trump, according to a letter...
Dutch police arrested a Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday. Police said the suspect,...
Students in their hundreds have blocked the road in front of the Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka city protesting against the death of a fellow of them from Bangladesh University...
Bangladesh needs to boost its allocation in education and health sector, otherwise the country may face disparity in these areas in the near future, experts warned at a meeting on...
Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal said the government would encourage banks to offer simple interest loans instead of compound interest ones from the next financial year (FY). "Simple...
Shah Husain Imam, former Associate Editor of The Daily Star, has joined The Financial Express as its Editor. He succeeds late iconic business journalist Moazzem Hossain who passed away on...
Social Compliance is concerned with how a business treats its employees with regards to health, safety, wages and benefits. It is a continuing process in which parties look for better...
The bond between the greater nature and humans, formed after the complete evolution of Homo Sapiens, seems to be fast becoming fragile. It has lasted for a considerably longer period,...
That the demand for celebratory flowers continues to rise by the year could be seen during some special annual occasions. Apart from the religious festivals, they generate high demand during...
The contribution of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to the economy is well known. According to Bangladesh Bank, SMEs account for about 45 per cent of manufacturing value addition, about...
Nowadays, one struggles to think of any jobs that will still be available for our children when they grow up. Panicked parents are increasingly trying to anticipate the next big...
The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could reach 1,000, President Filipe Nyusi has said. It made landfall close to the port city of Beira on Thursday with winds...
Three people were killed following a shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the city's mayor says. Nine others were injured in the incident, which police...
GOPALGANJ, Mar 18: Farmers of Gopalganj Sadar are expecting a plentiful production of SL-8H, a Boro variety, this season. According to Sadar upazila agriculture office sources, a total of 21,600...
MAGURA, Mar 18: Large-scale flowering of the trees this season is indicating a bumper mango yield in the district. A good number of farmers said they expect that mango production...
SYLHET, Mar 18 (UNB): Suitable land and buoyant yield, coupled with increasing demand, are encouraging more farmers in the region to start sunflower cultivation. The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI),...
Both yield and market price have made the potato growers happy in Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract during the current harvesting season, reports BSS. Talking to the news...
Unidentified gunmen in Rangamati have shot dead at least seven people, including polling officials and security personnel, after the end of phase-2 Upazila election voting boycotted by an organisation of...
Domestic revenue mobilisation (DRM) has gained increasing prominence in recent policy discourse in Bangladesh due to several factors, including potential benefits of taxation for development and equity, gaining freedom from...
When "Christchurch" gets mentioned now, it is not for a cricket test match score, or its recent earthquake recovery. "Muslim invasion," "white supremacy," "terrorism," and "dark days" instantly dominate the...
Newly-inducted teachers of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) visited the head office of Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) at Uttara area in Dhaka on Monday. Director General of BNCC Brig....
A Kishoreganj court on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment and two people to six months in prison over the miscarriage of a woman following torture on her. The...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Monday launched eviction drive aiming to demolish illegal establishments and solve severe water-logging problems in the capital. A team, led by Executive Magistrate Mohammad...
Five election officials, including a presiding officer, were reportedly shot dead by miscreants in Bagaichhari upazila of Rangamati on Monday evening. The victims were returning to upazila town after the...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday said five Bangladesh nationals died in Friday's terror attacks in New Zealand mosques. The identified victims are former Prof of Agronomy, Bangladesh...
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has said trade conflicts are damaging the global economy and Europe must speak with united voice to maximise its bargaining power. He came up with...
Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar has said the election commission needs more power to ensure greater participation of all parties and boost voter turnout in the polls. “If the EC is...
Any decision regarding the increase of train fares is yet to be taken, said Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujon on Monday. The minister said it to journalists at the contract...
Bangladesh is planning to start the distribution of digital passports, also known as e-passports, as early as June this year to ease immigration activities. The e-passport has an embedded electronic...
Stocks of food grain at public warehouses are more than 1.56 million tonnes as of March 13 this year. The Ministry of Food revealed the data recently. Of the total...
China’s foreign exchange regulator on Monday published rules aimed at facilitating cross-border capital flows for multinational corporations operating in the country. The rules simplify the registration process for multinational firms...
Several people were injured as a man has opened fire in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, police in the Netherlands said. An air ambulance was dispatched to...
Police arrested a 50-year-old man at Rayermahal Paschimpara in Khulna on Sunday night reportedly for raping a young girl. Abdul Hasan Gazi was picked up after a case was filed...
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