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Kawsar Habib, 32, has brought economic emancipation in his life through strawberry farming which has also enhanced his level of confidence to a greater extent. Habib, a resident of Kalupur...
Pakistani police say troops deployed in the disputed region of Kashmir continued trading fire with India overnight, forcing villagers living near the contested frontier to move to safer places even...
The Election Commission is not responsible for the low voter turnout in elections to Dhaka city corporations, says Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda. “The EC does not bring voters...
The number of fire incidents continued to rise across the country over the last two decades, causing extensive damage to properties and claiming many lives. According to the official data,...
Visiting Bangladesh failed to post a handsome total on the scoreboard despite Tamim Iqbal's fine century in the first innings of the first Test of three-match series against New Zealand...
Thousands of travellers were left scrambling on Thursday when Thai Airways International cancelled more than a dozen flights to and from Europe after Pakistan closed its airspace amid rising tensions...
Dhaka North City Corporation has witnessed a low turnout in the early hours of the mayoral by-election, which polling officials attributed to rains that have been going on for the...
Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will back another EU referendum after his alternative Brexit plan was again defeated in the Commons. But the Labour leader said he will also continue to...
Police recovered the bodies of a couple from their residence at Thana Para in Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Shoilen Debnath and his wife Reba...
The trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will remain closed today (Thursday) due to the City Corporation Election. “As the government has declared on Thursday...
Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) Director General (DG) Shah Alamgir passed away at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Thursday. He was 62. The distinguished journalist breathed his...
Omera Gas One Ltd.(OGL), with a view to promote extensive use of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) as fuel for vehicles and boost up LPG (Auto Gas ) users in Bangladesh,...
GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh's incurred a huge loss in the year ended on December 31, 2018 because of the closure of its pharmaceuticals unit in the country. The British drug-maker's earnings per...
Awami League candidate Atiqul Islam has called on all the voters to come to polling stations ignoring the rains and exercise their franchise in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)...
Majority of the 5,457 factories and establishments located in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area have been in operation without having prior approval, officials said. Ministry of labour and employment...
BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging applications that had been developed by the former smartphone maker. The...
A clinical Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-0 away in an intense Copa del Rey semi-final, second leg on Wednesday as a Luis Suarez double helped them secure a 4-1 aggregate...
India has put its Border Security Force (BSF) on alert at the Bangladesh border as tension is roiling in the region due to an ongoing India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir. The...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge amount of medicines worth Tk 0.7 million from Sadipur bordering area in Benapole early Thursday. Tipped off, a team of BGB-49 conducted...
An under-construction grid substation caught fire in Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday night. Ataur Rahman, duty office at the Fire Service Central Control Room, said the...
Another 16-kilometre metro rail corridor from Gabtoli to Borpa of Narayanganj has been proposed at an estimated cost of $3.06 billion. The Mass Rapid Transit Line-05 South (MRT5-S) will get...
A total of fifteen banks failed to keep the requisite provisions against their loans, particularly the classified ones, in the last calendar year (2018). The 15 banks, out of 58,...
A fire which broke out at a slum in Dhaka's Bhashantek area early Thursday has been doused. No causality was reported till filling of this UNB report around 8:30am, said...
The securities regulator has reinforced its action against stock brokers who have mishandled investors' funds, a senior official has said. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) got tough as...
Voters are heading to the polling stations on Thursday morning to elect the mayor of Dhaka North and councillors of 49 wards in both areas of the bifurcated city corporation...
The animation industry in Bangladesh is in its infancy. With only a few players in the market there has been little to no impact in the growth of animation industry....
Since its initiation in 1972, the Ekushey Book Fair has come a long way towards becoming one of the most successful annual occurrences. This year, it has had the highest...
Pursuing an MBA after engineering has become a trend for more than a few decades not only in Bangladesh, but throughout the world. Globally, about one-third of the CEOs of...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump met in Vietnam on Wednesday for a second summit that the United States hopes will persuade North Korea to...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda today said that the Election Commission (EC) has completed all kinds of preparation to hold a free, fair and credible by-election to Dhaka...
The monetary policy statement (MPS) recently issued by Bangladesh Bank has evoked an interesting discourse between the central bank authority and business leaders. In a dialogue organised by Dhaka Chamber...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country will be compelled to respond if India violates sovereignty of Pakistan. In his address to nation on Wednesday, Imran Khan also...
BOGURA, Feb 27: Bitter gourd farmers in the district are happy over the fair market prices. A good number of grassroots growers said the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) supplied...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 27 (BSS): Poultry scientists and researchers at a discussion here have called for promoting bio-security measures in poultry farming for producing safe poultry meat. They also mentioned substantial...
Respectable investors aren't supposed to say, "This time is different." But, given the market gyrations in recent months, they would do well to keep an eye on what really is...
RANGPUR, Feb 27: The peanut cultivators in the district are optimistic about an abundant production of the crop during the current season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur official...
GAZIPUR, Feb 27 (UNB): The 23km Chilai river, flowing through the northern parts of the district, has become toxic with poisonous industrial and construction wastes, and encroachments. "Many locals once...
An eminent World Bank economist says a parliament that follows the principles of ethics is critical for the growth of an ethical banking system in a country. Only an ethical...
The World Economic Forum (WEF), holding its annual summit of leaders across the board of professions, emerged in the early seventies of last century. It positioned itself at the right...
The viva-voce for bank official post (cash) of three banks scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday) will be held on April 16. The exams have been deferred due to Dhaka North City...
One month after Juan Guaidó, the speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly, said he was assuming the powers of the Venezuelan presidency, currently held by Nicolás Maduro, the country's political crisis...
Awareness could go a long way towards fighting and preventing diabetes. Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases, clinically known as Diabetes mellitus (DM). Anyone who has high blood sugar...
Cloud computing was popularised in 2006 by Amazon and Google. But the concept was introduced as early as 1996. Over the decades, cloud computing has been adopted into 90 per...
The government has decided to relocate the chemical warehouses from Old Dhaka to the capital’s Kadamtali and Gazipur's Tongi area. In the aftermath of the devastating fire in Chawkbazar that...
A woman and her sister-in-law died from electrocution at Dakhshin Chambol village of Banshkhali upazila in Chattogram on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Rezia Begum, 40, wife of...
Italy is facing excessive economic imbalances and the policies of its government are making matters worse, posing a threat to other euro zone countries, the European Commission said on Wednesday....
President M Abdul Hamid urged the Public Service Commission (PSC) to work sincerely so that qualified candidates can get jobs. Abdul Hamid made the call when a 15-member PSC delegation,...
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi on Wednesday for their second summit, with the US president rejecting any suggestion he was walking...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will rehabilitate the drug dealers on their surrenders. “Many drug peddlers are being surrendered due to (nationwide) massive awareness campaign… Financial...
Facebook authorities have pledged to follow the legal framework and culture of Bangladesh in publishing contents. They came up with the promise during a meeting with Tele Communication and ICT...
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