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Mr. M. Abul Kalam Mazumdar FCMA has been elected President of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) for the year 2019. The Council of...
Alphabet Inc’s Google will ban political advertising on its platform before the Canadian federal election, after the country introduced stringent transparency rules. The Bill C-76, which was passed in December,...
The board of directors of NCC Bank Limited has decided, in principle, to issue non-convertible subordinated bonds worth Tk 7.0 billion, said an official disclosure on Tuesday. The bank will...
The condition of ailing minister Obaidul Quader has improved as a medical team of Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore examined him on Tuesday morning, said an official in Dhaka. After...
Noted Indian author Arundhati Roy’s talk scheduled to be held at the Krishibid Institute Auditorium in city on Tuesday (today), was cancelled after Dhaka Metropolitan Police withdrew its permission for...
Police in a special anti-narcotic drive arrested 42 people from different areas of nine upazilas in Bagerhat on Monday night. Pankaj Chandra Roy, superintendent of police of the district, said...
The government has drafted a law to regulate Hajj and Umrah-operating agencies in the country. The religious ministry, which has been running Hajj activities under a policy for 47 years,...
The prices of most of the shares on both the bourses witnessed an upward trend in early trading Tuesday as investors are showing their buying appetite on sector-wise shares. Following...
The board of directors of Linde Bangladesh has recommended 375 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of dividend will come during...
The board of directors of Paramount Insurance Company Limited has recommended 5.0 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2018. The final approval of dividend will...
Republican and Democratic US senators said on Monday they were frustrated with the Trump administration’s failure to provide more information about the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi and...
Two Bangladeshi nationals, who went to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, were killed in a road accident at Wadi-e-Jinn in Madina on Monday. The deceased have been identified as Joynal...
In a serious blow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a second member of his cabinet resigned on Monday, saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt...
Lawyers for former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn say he has been granted bail by a Tokyo court, Japanese media reports. The shock decision would see the auto executive released after...
Bangladesh is planning to establish an international South-South Centre in Dhaka as part of its plan to project itself as an emerging leader in the Global South. The country is...
Runner Automobiles will allocate 13.93 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants as the company's IPO lottery draw was held on Monday. The initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw was...
The Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) has recently been awarded certification for quality management from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), an official said. The 'ISO 9001:2015' certification will help...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR), from now on, will offer monetary benefits to the investors and businesses on the basis of their economic contribution and payback plan, officials said....
At least eight people, including fire fighters, were injured trying to extinguish a fire at a thread warehouse on Monday night. The fire broke out on the ground floor of...
The US intends to terminate India's preferential trade treatment under a scheme which allows certain products from the country to enter the US duty-free. President Donald Trump said India has...
The government has decided to collect 15 per cent value added tax (VAT) from the advertisements on internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The authorities have not been collecting any...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has sought increased costs and time extension for building the Kalshi flyover and its adjacent road widening work after the change in design, officials said...
Net foreign investments in Dhaka bourse soared more than 84 per cent month-on-month in February as overseas investors continued to put fresh funds after the national elections. Net foreign fund...
Bangladesh economy is likely to grow at a rate of 7.5 per cent in the ongoing fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has projected afresh. The newly...
It has taken another 80 lives for realisation to dawn that incendiary chemicals cannot legally or illegally be stored in densely populated areas commercial or otherwise. As it turned out...
Villages in Bangladesh were once viewed as epitome of everything pure and genuine. The sylvan charm pervading the rural landscape and its people used to be a favourite subject of...
The contradiction is obvious and the irony reads like a comedy of errors! On one hand, government functionaries had signed up to bilateral or multilateral trade deals aplenty, even went...
Declaring it's "very clear" President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee that would be in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents on Monday...
Oil prices rose on Monday, buoyed by OPEC output cuts and reports that the United States and China are inching closer to a deal on a tariff row that has...
Pakistan resumed flights at more airports but delayed until Tuesday the reopening of its airspace nationwide, aviation authorities said, as tension with India eased after a standoff that brought the...
GOPALGANJ, Mar 04: The farmers of Fukra union under Kasiani upazila in the district are busy harvesting Khesari pulses. Some farmers of the area said Khesari farming is profitable for...
An air ambulance carrying Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has reached Singapore for his advanced medical care. The air ambulance landed at Seletar Airport in the island nation...
A Chattogram court on Monday granted a five-day remand for two suspected gold smugglers in a case filed over the recovery of 600 gold bars from Joralganj in Mirsarai upazila....
The last four decades have seen something of a financial revolution. Advances in computing & telecommunications, financial innovation and liberalisation of capital controls have combined to reduce the costs of...
Headquartered in Dhaka, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectorial, Technical, and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) stands at a crossroads where it can soar irreversibly to put South and Southeast...
A team of Bangladesh Bank officials and lawyers will sit with the Filipino defendants of a case over the central bank cyber-heist to recover the stolen funds. The delegation will...
Five days before US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Hanoi for their second summit, two former Vietnamese ministers of communications were arrested and charged...
The first global Assessment Report titled ‘The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture (2019)’ has been published recently by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)...
A BNP delegation is going to meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday afternoon to discuss party chairperson Khaleda Zia's health condition and her treatment. BNP standing committee members, led...
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday thanked BNP leaders for the courtesy and sympathy as they visited ailing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical...
Flash floods in southern Pakistan and Afghanistan have killed at least 20 people. The unusually heavy rains over the past 10 days have cut off tens of thousands of people....
A total of six Bangladeshis were killed and another sustained injury in incidents of violence along Bangladesh-India border in January 2019, according to a local independent rights body. A total...
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the 'Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan Bill, 2019' to increase the number of its board members to 20 from 10. The approval came at...
The Prodigy front man Keith Flint has died aged 49. Instantly recognisable for his fluorescent spiked hair and incendiary performances, the musician sang lead vocals on both the band's number...
Serie A champion Juventus took a huge step towards retaining the Serie A title by beating second-placed Napoli on Sunday, with both sides reduced to 10 men. Napoli goalkeeper Alex...
The number of registered motorised vehicles in Dhaka stood at 13,692 in January 2019, as per official data. Of them, the mode of vehicles that had the highest number of...
The government has initiated a big move to construct some 340 bridges on the upazila, union and village roads under 61 districts in all the eight divisions across the country...
Two civil aviation security officials and three Ansar personnel, who were all on duty during the attempted hijack of a Biman plane, have been suspended. Moreover, a sergeant of the...
A tribunal in Chuadanga on Monday convicted a man of killing his wife in 2016 and sentenced him to death. The condemned convict was identified as Akash Alias Mithu, 34,...
Renowned Indian cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday afternoon at the Prime Minister’s Office. During the meeting, the cardiologist highly appreciated...
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