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Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal late last week disclosed that asset management companies (AMCs) would be established soon with the objective of recovering non-performing loans (NPLs) of the banks. The...
Bringing educational institutions under the internet coverage is no longer a lofty ambition even for a country like Bangladesh. The telecommunications and information technology minister has been on record saying...
Dhaka clinched the second spot among the cities that has the most polluted air, according to an index. The capital had a score of 208 at 8:47pm in Air...
NAOGAON, Mar 17: Students of Mirzapur KC High School under Badalgachi upazila of the district are attending classes under the open sky due to shortage of classrooms. The regular academic...
An all-time record production of maize is likely in five districts in the Rangpur agriculture region where the farmers exceeded its fixed farming target by 11.12 per cent during this...
BOGURA, Mar 17: Lentil growers in the district are delighted as they have achieved a bumper production this season. A good number of farmers said they started harvesting the crop...
Election to 116 upazila parishads will be held on Monday in the second phase of the local body polls. The voting will kick off at 8:00am and continue till 4:00pm...
Police recovered the body of a 2-and-half-month old baby boy who was kidnapped for ransom on March 11, from inside a toilet of a fish enclosure at Bisharighat village in...
Police in separate drives detained six alleged robbers and four hijackers while they were taking preparations for their ill attempts in Gazipur early Sunday. Officer-in-Charge of Bason Police Station Md...
DUCSU VP-elect Nurul Haq Nur has demanded re-election to all the posts of Dhaka University Central Students' Union and its hall unions, bringing allegations of vote fraud and irregularities. He...
For the first two decades of its independence Bangladesh continued with the Pakistan period strategy of economic development. It was the dominant strategy of development of the developing world for...
Human Rights Education (HRE) is generally understood to be a learning process that assists in building up the required knowledge, values, and proficiency pertaining to human rights. This is undertaken...
Having access to financial services helps drive economic development. People can escape poverty through financial services that will help them to invest properly in their health, education, and businesses. Financial...
A great opportunity has come before the nation in the form of an agricultural system from the south-central coastal districts of the country. This opportunity should be explored and materialised...
Dr Rajan Karmakar, son-in-law of Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, has died reportedly under mysterious circumstances. Dr Rajan, 39, an assistant professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department under Dentistry...
Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a...
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd has planned to replace its dilapidated gas pipelines in the city with new ones as well as to introduce smart prepaid metres for...
The newly-elected Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam has urged the city dwellers to abstain from littering and keep the city clean of their own volition. He came...
As many as 13 people were lynched across the country in the first two months of this calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. The highest...
New Zealand's police on Sunday closed an airport in the city of Dunedin in the south-eastern part of the country after reports of a suspicious package. Local police have confirmed...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launched the Traffic Week on Sunday aimed at ensuring discipline in streets and creating awareness among city dwellers for a better vehicular management. DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman...
Gareth Bale and Isco scored against Celta Vigo on Saturday to give coach Zinedine Zidane a winning start on his return to Real Madrid. Isco, out of favour under previous...
Circular bus services will be introduced within April next in Motijheel, Dhanmondi and Uttara areas to ease the city's traffic situation. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia came up...
Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base overnight, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, two local councillors in the area...
Eating mushrooms more than twice a week could prevent memory and language problems occurring in the over-60s, research from Singapore suggests. A unique antioxidant present in mushrooms could have a...
Ruling Awami League’s research wing Centre for Research and Information (CRI) has celebrated the 100th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Children’s Day amid...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday warned that their party will not accept any gas price hike as it will only inflict sufferings on people. "Our position...
Four people have died and 10 others were injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, where separatist...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest campaign, 'Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm a watchman too)', on Sunday found expression in social media titles. This morning, the Prime Minister led the way,...
Bangladesh’s only female Nilgai, which was rescued from Ranisankail upazila of Thakurgaon district last year, died at Ramsagar National Park here on Saturday evening. Abdus Salam Tuhin, a caretaker of...
The man charged over Friday's twin mosque attacks in the New Zealand city of Christchurch is believed to have acted alone, police say. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her firm commitment to give a ‘bright future’ to the children by building Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous one freeing from hunger, poverty...
Love Island star Mike Thalassitis has died aged 26, his management has confirmed. The 26-year-old reality television star and former footballer was reportedly found dead in Essex on Friday. He...
Data from the cockpit voice recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France’s air accident investigation agency said on Saturday (local time). The French...
The Bangladeshi death toll in the New Zealand mosque attacks has so far reached four, says State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam. He feared that the count might...
A man has been killed and another injured after an alleged shootout with Dhaka police in Mohammadpur’s Bosila in the early hours of Sunday. Police claim the victims were hijackers....
Two workers have died in a crane accident at the under-construction Rampal power plant in Bagerhat on Saturday. The deceased were Nasir Hossain, 27, son of Ansar Ali from Kalinagar...
Wolverhampton Wanderers reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1998 by beating last year’s runners-up Manchester United 2-1 with a clinical second-half display in an intense atmosphere...
China’s anti-corruption watchdog said it would prosecute Nur Bekri, one of the highest-ranking ethnic Uighur officials in the country, over allegations of graft during to his time as governor of...
Two people sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a multi-storey house in Dhaka's Banani area on Sunday. The injured - Sagar, 25, and Himel, 19 -...
Huawei, a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices, recently announced its procurement results for 2018 in Bangladesh. The amount of full procurement here is USD 29.3M where...
Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has announced fiscal 2019 Q3 results. Total revenues were $9.6 billion, down 1% in USD and up 3% in constant currency compared to Q3 last year....
Prime Bank Cricket Tournament-2019 ended recently at Lalmatia Housing Society School & College, Dhaka. Managing Director & CEO of Prime Bank Rahel Ahmed was present as the chief guest. Additional...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Gopalganj’s Tungipara this morning paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of...
Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the incident. "In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5...
A clash between two rival sides of the Awami League has left at least two of the party activists dead and 30 others injured in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila. The incident...
Search engine giant Google has created a special Doodle, celebrating National Children's Day and the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Doodle 'Children's Day...
Bangladesh's cricket team arrived in Dhaka after narrowly avoiding being involved in the worst mass shooting in New Zealand. They reached Dhaka at 10:40pm on Saturday, a day after a...
A US Navy veteran has been sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian prison, his family’s lawyer said, after he was arrested last July while visiting an Iranian woman in...
Flash floods in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua have killed at least 50 people and badly injured dozens of others and damaged a small plane at the region’s main airport,...
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