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Voting at seven centres – six in Kurigram and one in Sirajganj – has been suspended over allegations of rigging, ballot paper snatching and other irregularities during the first of...
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has finalised its report on probe into the alleged crimes against humanity committed by five Mymensingh war crimes accused. The five...
The board of directors of SK Trims & Industries has decided to invest Tk 35 million in two unlisted companies, said an official disclosure on Sunday. As per the board...
Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, a local official said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large...
Rescue workers have recovered the body of another victim of the boat capsize on the Buriganga River in Dhaka’s Sadarghat, raising the death toll from the accident to six. The...
Malaysia has deported six Egyptians and a Tunisian suspected of being linked to Islamist militant groups abroad, despite protests from human rights groups. The suspects include five people who allegedly...
Prison authorities say that incarcerated BNP chief Khaleda Zia has refused to go to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital for treatment despite their preparations to receive her. Dhaka...
The VFS Thread Dyeing has informed that it utilised 100 per cent of its IPO fund and successfully implemented the set-up of new machinery. Last year, the company raised a...
Two more women from the UK who are being held in Syrian camps with their young children have been stripped of their citizenship, a report says. It comes after the...
Lionel Messi created a goal and scored another as Barcelona came from behind to beat struggling Rayo Vallecano 3-1 at home on Saturday and stay seven points clear at the...
Police in a drive arrested five suspected drug traders along with drugs from Savar municipality in the early hours of Sunday. The arrestees are Harun, 28, Mehedi Hasan, 20, Sagor,...
The prices of most of the shares on both the bourses witnessed a positive trend in early trading on Sunday as investors were showing their buying appetite on sector-wise shares....
R Kelly has been released from jail in Chicago after the $161,000 (£122,000) he owed in child support was paid. The Cook County sheriff's office said the money was paid...
Nicaragua’s government said on Saturday it would release prisoners rounded up in months of protests and implement electoral reforms, as talks continue with the opposition to end the country’s worst...
Ailing Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is now talking normally to the family members and physicians as his condition has improved gradually. There is a possibility to shift...
More than two dozen people were injured and at least 10 were taken to a hospital after a Turkish Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on its approach to New York’s...
Authorities have closed a polling centre in Sirajganj's Sadar Upazila over irregularities on the night before the first phase of voting in the upazila elections. A presiding officer and two...
Tunisia’s health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned on Saturday after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP said. The health ministry...
BBS Cables witnessed a steady growth in revenue earning, net profit and earnings per share in last five consecutive years through 'effective cost management. For the year ended on June...
Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta on Saturday, the country’s civil aviation agency has said. The Special Administrative Unit of Civil...
Poultry industry leaders on Saturday expressed the hope that the country would be able to export poultry products by 2024, especially to the Middle East, a big market for halal...
The import of mango has declined gradually in recent years, thanks to a sustained rise in local production of the delicious tropical fruit. This trend in mango imports has thus...
A weak regulatory framework and poor corruption prevention measures are undermining Bangladesh's potential as a big logistics market, says a new global report. At the same time, factors such as...
Marginal taxpayers are set to get a maximum refund of Tk 25,000 directly from the taxmen in case they pay in excess of the payable amount. The move came after...
Around 220,766 new BO accounts were opened in the past seven months as investors were more confident in pouring funds into the primary market rather than the secondary one. Market...
Voting in the election to 78 Upazila Parishads has started in the first of five phases. Started at 8:00am, it will continue till 4:00pm without any break. The size of...
The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has added 600 more Indian air-conditioned (AC), non-AC and double-decker buses and 500 trucks to its fleet. The state transport entity got the commuter...
Bangladesh National Football team maintained their winning record against Cambodia, beating them by 1-0 goal in a FIFA International Friendly at the national stadium in Phnom Penh on Saturday, reports...
Dhaka Government New Market was once among the city's must-see tourist attractions. A satisfying tour of the city would remain incomplete without visits to Lalbagh Fort, Meer Jumla's cannon at...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has prepared a roadmap outlining a strategy for enhancing the country's leather sector exports. Submitted to the government recently, the roadmap sets a vision of...
More than a fortnight has elapsed since a devastating fire took 71 lives in the older part of Dhaka. Upon taking an in-depth look at the calamity's aftermath, people come...
Initially, London's goal was to wheel and deal the best possible deal with Brussels. That became more difficult after mid-January when the House of Commons rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's...
Every year millions of fish migrate to their native habitat. Migration is a peculiar kind of population dispersion among fishes. Migrations involve the fish moving from one part of a...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir has said all banks have been instructed to provide at least 20 per cent of their total loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The...
At least 15 shops were burned down and 15 people sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a market in Moiddhya Baburhat in Chandpur sadar upazila on...
I arrived in Vancouver in mid-autumn last year after a 14-hour non-stop flight. It was my first visit to the city. It did not take much time to pass through...
The economics profession took a beating after most of its leading practitioners failed to predict the 2008 global financial crisis, and it has been struggling to recover ever since. Not...
Gono Forum president Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that democracy was buried in the country by holding a 'tainted and so-called' national election on December 30. Speaking at a...
A fire that broke out at 'Anarkali Super Market' in the city's Mouchak area on Saturday afternoon was brought under control after 30 minutes of frantic effort. The fire originated...
A Rajshahi mobile court on Saturday sentenced 11 Awami League men, including a municipality mayor, to five-day imprisonment each for violating electoral code of conduct in Durgapur upazila of the...
The government will ensure fair prices of goods after ensuring competition in the market, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said Saturday, according to UNB. "We need to ensure tough implementation of...
Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen has said the concerned ministries and institutions should provide necessary skill training to the workforce intending to go abroad for giving a boost...
A total of 17,208 employees of different offices under the Land Ministry submitted their wealth statements as per the instruction of the land minister. Out of 17,576, some 368 employees...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has urged BNP to join the local government elections without making the Election Commission (EC) and the elections questionable. “I think that the countrymen can...
At least seven people died and nine others were injured in separate road accidents in Barishal, Dinajpur, Narail and Bogura on Saturday. In Bogura, a car collided head-on with an...
Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim is hopeful of making the Purbachal housing project liveable by December of this year through ensuring all public services. “Various obstacles delayed...
The 4th edition of Women Leadership Summit promoting women empowerment and aspiring for gender-balanced future was held in the city on Saturday. With the theme 'creative leadership through diversity', Women...
Werner Borchert grinds out a cigarette with his leather boot, zips up his down jacket and unlocks a rusty door with a sign reading "Do not enter." He's entering anyway....
A total of 185,286 women, subjected to physical and mental tortures, have received legal help through toll-free national helpline ‘16430’ since launching of the service in 2016. Revealing the data...
Satellite images of a facility near Pyongyang suggest that North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite. The increase in activity is around a site known...
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